United States. Works Progress Administration. Louisiana. miscellaneous files
Scope and Contents
The records include in-coming and out-going correspondence, official reports and proposals, and ephemera. The correspondence related to the WPA's activities at New Orleans Public Library originated with NOPL (primarily letters and reports from City Librarian John Hall Jacobs to WPA officials and others and in-coming correspondence from the WPA to Jacobs); these records actually belong with the records of NOPL but have remained with this collection.
Also included are minutes of the Advisory Committee formed in 1941 to make recommendations about which WPA programs should be continued as part of the war effort or discontinued; the committee also recommended how programs could be modified in order to contribute to national defense.
Dates
- Creation: 1936-1943
Creator
- Works Progress Administration (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Available to registered researchers by appointment.
Requesting Materials
Conditions Governing Use
Reproduction or use of materials is prohibited without the permission of the City Archives & Special Collections. Please review the Archives' Permission to Publish note.
Extent
.5 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
Files are arranged alphabetically by subject and chronologically thereunder.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
This is an artificial collection of materials relating to scattered Works Progress Administration activities in New Orleans. The files were removed from the Louisiana Division's Vertical File and Official Vertical File at some time in the past to form this small collection.
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections Repository
City Archives & Special Collections
219 Loyola Avenue
New Orleans LA 70112
504-596-2610
archivist@nolalibrary.org