Photographs of the Historical American Buildings Survey

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Bernstein, Irving. A Caring Society: the New Deal, the Worker and the Great Depression , A History of the American Worker, 1933-1941. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985
Call No.: HD8072 .B365 1985

Bindas, Kenneth J. All of this Music Belongs to the Nation: the WPA's Federal Music Project and American Society. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1995.
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Birds of the World: An Illustrated Natural History prepared by the workers of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration in the City of New York . Chicago: A. Whitman & Co., 1938
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Bold, Christine. The WPA Guides: Mapping America. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1999.
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Bonnifield, Paul. The Dust Bowl: Men, Dirt and Depression. Alberquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1979.
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Web Resources

American Studies at the University of Virginia
America in the 1930's

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American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology

American Studies at the University of Virginia
Part Six. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
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The African-American Mosaic: a Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture

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The Learning Page: Great Depression and World War II, 1929-1945
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America from the Great Depression to World War II, Black-and-White Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935.1945

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Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937-1042

Library of Congress. American Memory Project
California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties, collected by Sidney
Robertson Cowell
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American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940

Library of Congress. Music Division
The New Deal Stage: Selections from the Federal Theatre Project, 1935-1939

Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943

Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
Historic American Buildings/Historic American Engineering Record
(HABS/HAER) Collections

Living SchoolBook
The New Deal Art Project

Long Island University
B. Davis Schwartz Memorial Library
African-Americans in the Visual Arts: A Historical Perspective

National Archives and Records Administration
A New Deal for the Arts

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Records of the Work Projects Administration
[WPA] (Record Group 69), 1922-44 (Bulk 1930-44)

National Gallery of Art
Index of American Design

National New Deal Preservation Association


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