Documents

Harrington, Col. Francis) C. (WPA director, 1938-1940), “The Future of the W.P.A.” VQR  v. 91 no. 3 (Summer 2015) [Reprint of article originally published Summer 1940], at: View.

Hearings Before a Special Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, 75th Congress  v. 4, Nov. 19-Dec. 14, 1938 (Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1939).  Testimony of Ellen Woodward, Henry Alsberg, Hallie Flanagan, pp. 2837-2885, at:  View.

Roosevelt, Franklin D., Annual Message to Congress (State of the Union address), Jan. 4, 1935, in Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, v. 4 (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Library, 2005), 15-24, at: View.

Weldon, Casey Bill, “Casey Bill’s New WPA Blues” (1937). [PDF].

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Workers Alliance of Greater New York, Women’s Committee, “Women of New York: WPA Cuts Threaten Your Standard of Living . . Join the Mammoth Demonstration of 10,000 Women at City Hall” (1937) (Broadsides Collection, New York Historical Society Library) [PDF]

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Works Progress Administration, Inventory: An Appraisal of the Results of the Works Progress Administration (June 30, 1938), at: View

Works Progress Administration, Workers’ Handbook (1936), at: View.

WPA Federal Theatre Living Newspaper, One-Third of a Nation: A Living Newspaper About Housing (full script of this April 1938 production by the WPA’s Federal Theatre), at: View   

“WPA Offices Shut in Thirty States,” New York Times (May 2, 1943).

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