Federal Writers' Project.
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or records:
Collection
Found in:
Manuscript Division
Ralph Ellison Papers
Identifier: MSS83111
Abstract
African American author and educator. General correspondence, organizational correspondence and reports, family papers, drafts, notes, and production files for novels, essays, poetry, short stories, reviews, and other writings, speeches, lectures, and interviews, reference file, and miscellany documenting Ellison's career and development as a writer. Among the many works represented are Going to the Territory (1985), Invisible...
Dates
1890-2007; Majority of material found within 1930-1994
Collection
Found in:
Music Division
Federal Theatre Project Collection
Identifier: ML31.F44
Abstract
The Federal Theatre Project, created by the U.S. Works Progress Administration in 1935, was designed to conserve and develop the skills of theater workers, re-employ them on public relief, and to bring theater to thousands in the United States who had never before seen live theatrical performances. The collection includes correspondence, memoranda, play and radio scripts, reports, research studies, manuals, publications, bulletins, forms, lists, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, charts,...
Dates
1932-1943; Majority of material found within ( 1935-1939)
Collection
Found in:
Manuscript Division
Katharine Amend Kellock Papers
Identifier: MSS55301
Abstract
Economist and editor. Correspondence, project reports, writings, printed matter, and other papers relating chiefly to Kellock's work with the Federal Writers' Project, the Department of State, and the Department of Agriculture Resettlement Administration.
Dates
1924-1969