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Washington, City and Capital : Federal Writers' Project, Works Progress Administration ... Washington, 1937. by Federal Writers' Project.(CARDINAL)147265;
Bibliography: pages 1094-1100.
Subjects: Guidebooks.; Suburbs; African Americans;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The WPA guides : mapping America / by Bold, Christine,1955-(CARDINAL)843540;
Includes bibliographical references (225-236) and index.
Subjects: Guidebooks.; Federal Writers' Project; American guide series.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The WPA guide to New York City : the Federal Writers' Project guide to 1930s New York / by Federal Writers' Project.(CARDINAL)147265;
Bibliography: pages 627-635.
Subjects: Guidebooks.;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Savannah; compiled and written by Savannah unit, Federal Writers' Project in Georgia, Works Progress Administration. / by Georgia Writers' Project.(CARDINAL)185097;
Bibliography: pages 196-199."The city: Chronology -- Significant facts -- Contemporary scene -- First Americans and early explorers -- English colonization -- Civil and military devolopment -- Industry -- Transporation -- The old south -- Negro life and history -- Church origins and influences -- Georgia historical society -- Telfair academy -- The stage in early Savannah -- Newspapers -- Styles in building -- Foot tours -- Points of Interest. The vicinity: Points of interest -- Short tours -- Long tours -- Fort Pulaski -- Bonaventure -- Wormsloe -- Bethesda -- Dead towns -- The golden isles -- Trembling earth."
Subjects: Guidebooks.; Suburbs;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Portrait of America : a cultural history of the Federal Writers' Project / by Hirsch, Jerrold,1948-(CARDINAL)140590;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-281) and index.I: Romantic nationalism, cultural pluralism, and the federal writers' project -- 1. Inherited questions -- 2. Visions and constituencies: introducing and writing the American guide series -- 3. A new deal view of American history and art: The federal writer's project guidebook essays -- 4. Picturesque pluralism: the guidebook tours -- II: Modernity, cultural pluralism, and the federal writers' project -- 3. Long live participation!: ethnicity, race, and the federal writer's project -- 6. Before Columbia: the federal writers' project and American oral history research -- 7. The people must be heard: W.T. Couch and the southern life history program -- 8. Toward a marriage of true minds: the federal writers' project and the writing of southern folk history -- III: Denouement -- 9. Conflicting definitions of America: the dies committee and the writers' project -- 10. Reform, culture, and patriotism: the writers' project becomes the writers' program, 1939-1943 -- Have you discovered America?
Subjects: Federal Writers' Project; National characteristics, American.;
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Soul of a people : the WPA Writer's Project uncovers Depression America / by Taylor, David A.,1961-(CARDINAL)283714;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-250) and index.The Writers' Project -- Point of departure : New York -- Chicago and the midwest -- Gathering folklore, from Oklahoma to Harlem -- Rising up in the West : Idaho -- Nailing a freight on the fly : Nebraska -- Poetic land, pugnacious people : California -- Raising the dead in New Orleans -- Cigars and turpentine in Florida -- American and un-American : back around the boroughs -- Converging on Washington -- Traveling beyond.
Subjects: Guidebooks.; Federal Writers' Project; Federal Writers' Project;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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A catalog of New Deal mural projects in Iowa / by DeLong, Lea Rosson.(CARDINAL)171826; Narber, Gregg R.(CARDINAL)170441;
Bibliography : pages 77-78.
Subjects: Catalogs.; Wood, Grant, 1891-1942.; Federal Writers' Project.; Realism in art.; Mural painting and decoration;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Long past slavery : representing race in the Federal Writers' Project / by Stewart, Catherine A.,author.(CARDINAL)348494;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-334) and index.The passing away of the old-time negro: folk culture, Civil War memory, and black authority in the 1930s -- Committing mayhem on the body grammatic: the Federal Writers' Project, the American guide, and representations of black identity -- Out of the mouths of slaves: the Ex-Slave Project and the "Negro question" -- Adventures of a ballad hunter: John Lomax and the pursuit of black folk culture -- The everybody who's nobody: black employees in the Federal Writers' Project -- Conjure queen: Zora Neale Hurston and black folk culture -- Follow me through Florida: Florida's Negro writers' unit, the Ex-Slave Project, and The Florida Negro -- Rewriting the master('s) narrative: signifying in the ex-slave narratives -- Epilogue : Freedom dreams: the last generation.From 1936 to 1939, the New Deal's Federal Writers' Project collected life stories from more than 2,300 former African American slaves. In this examination of the project and its legacy, Catherine A. Stewart shows it was the product of competing visions of the past, as ex-slaves' memories were used to craft arguments for and against full inclusion of African Americans in society.
Subjects: Federal Writers' Project.; African Americans; African Americans; Collective memory; Cultural pluralism;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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A long road home : journeys through America's present in search of America's past. /by Geoffrey O'Gara. by O'Gara, Geoffrey.(CARDINAL)737023;
Subjects: O'Gara, Geoffrey; Federal Writers' Project.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Confessions to Mr. Roosevelt / by Holt, Marilyn J.,author.(CARDINAL)809395;
An aspiring writer becomes involved in the lives of Kansas townsfolk whose stories she was hired to record as part of a New Deal program during the Depression.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Historical fiction.; Federal Writers' Project; Depressions; Rural families; Women authors, American;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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