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BOX A1-A12 Federal Writers' Project: Administrative File, 1935-1941
BOX A1-A6 Correspondence, 1936-1941
Letters and memoranda exchanged between the national director and state directors of the Writers' Project and occasionally with project heads.
Arranged chronologically.
BOX A1 1936-1938
(5 folders)
1939
Jan. 2-7
BOX A2 Jan. 9-Feb. 11
(5 folders)
BOX A3 Feb.13 -Mar. 25
(5 folders)
BOX A4 Mar. 27-Apr. 25
(5 folders)
BOX A5 Apr. 26-June 8
(7 folders)
BOX A6 June 9-Dec. 31
(8 folders)
1940-1941, undated
BOX A7-A12 General Administrative Records, 1935-1940
Correspondence, assignment logs, form letters lists, log books, manuals, reports, proposals, statements, and personnel records.
Arranged alphabetically by type of material except for the time and leave records of the New York City project that have been filed at the end of the subseries.
BOX A7 Assignment logs
Form letters relating to state seals and flags
List of project directors
List of publications
Logbook, folklore project
Manual and procedural instructions for the American Guide, 1935-1936
(4 folders)
BOX A8 Miscellaneous
Procedural instructions for projects other than the American Guide
BOX A9 Progress reports for American Guide maps
Proposals
Report on Negro project
Statement and memoranda regarding slave narrative project, 1937
Time and leave records, New York, N.Y., office
Rescheduling
General
1938
(2 folders)
BOX A10 1939
Jan.-Mar.
(6 folders)
BOX A11 Apr.-May
(4 folders)
BOX A12 June
(2 folders)
Special projects, 1938-1939
Weekly progress reports, social-ethnic studies, 1940
BOX A13-A580 Federal Writers' Project: American Guide File, 1524-1941
BOX A13-A496 State Guide File, 1524-1941
Correspondence, memoranda, reports, essays, lists, newspaper clippings, statistical material, bibliographies, surveys, biographical studies, reproductions of state seals and flags, transcripts of documents and publications, folklore material, commentaries, press releases, studies, and publications.
Arranged alphabetically by state and thereunder by type of material, subject, or name of locale.
BOX A13 Alabama
Agriculture
Architecture
(2 folders)
Bibliography
Calendar of events
Chronology
Cities and towns
Anniston
Birmingham
Decatur
Gadsden
Huntsville
Jacksonville
Mobile
Architecture
Cuisine
Customs
Essay
Flora
Folklore
History
BOX A14 Houses and historic landmarks
(4 folders)
Hotels
Index
Industry and commerce
Literature
Miscellany
Organizations
Personal memoirs
Points of interest
Sports and recreation
Montgomery
Piedmont
Selma
Tuscaloosa
General
BOX A15 Negro culture
Correspondence, 1937-1940
Counties
Baldwin
Barbour
(2 folders)
Blount
Calhoun
Clark
Cleburne
Colbert
(2 folders)
BOX A16 Covington
Dallas
Dale
DeKalb
Escambia
Etowah
Fayette
Franklin
Hale
Jackson
BOX A17 Jefferson
Lee
Livingston
Lowndes
(3 folders)
Madison
Montgomery
BOX A18 Morgan
Perry
Randolph
Talladega
Tuscaloosa
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