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Handout
Library of Congress

Loc: California Gold: Northern California Folk Music From the Thirties

For Students 9th - 10th
During the 1930s the California Work Projects Administration surveyed traditional musical traditions in Northern California. This is a description and collection of this work.
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Primary
Library of Congress

Loc: Manuscripts From the Federal Writers' Project

For Students 9th - 10th
The Folklore Project of the Federal Writers' Project used personal stories as the basis for anthologies which would form a portrait of various groups of people in America. Click link to manuscripts from the FWP, 1936-1940. You can listen...
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Handout
Ohio History Central

Ohio History Central: Emergency Relief Appropriation Act

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the general outline of the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act and how it was set up to relieve unemployment during the Great Depression.
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Handout
Library of Congress

Loc: California Folk Music From 1930s

For Students 9th - 10th
The Library of Congress provides a collection of 35 hours of folk music recorded during the Depression. The project is unique in that it recorded Slavic, Middle Eastern, European, Spanish and English speaking peoples who lived in...
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Article
Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: Works Progress Administration

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover interesting facts and information about the Works Progress Administration established in April 1935 to provide light construction jobs for millions of unskilled workers.
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Curated OER

The Works Projects Administration in Indiana

For Students 9th - 10th
Although this site concerns itself with the WPA in Indiana, the information provides a good overall look at the Works Progress Administration in the rest of country during the New Deal era.