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Works Progress Administration
Works Progress Administration (WPA) Transcription of the Anderson County, Tennessee County Court Minutes from 1801 to 1814. Includes names of individuals whose business or appointments came before the court, information…
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Taken from the Works Progress Administration’s (WPA) transcriptions of 1936. This volume contains a well-balanced mixture of Sumner County, Tennessee, records, including family information, bible records, as well as tombstone…
With New Index by Samuel Sistler. Taken from the Works Progress Administration’s (WPA) transcriptions of 1937. The collection of Madison County Tombstone Inscriptions provides the genealogist with some of the…
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Taken from the Works Progress Administration’s transcriptions of 1938. Contains tombstones inscriptions for over 150 Rhea County Cemeteries, including the names and locations of the cemeteries. (1938), 2007, 2012, 8.5…
By: W.P.A. Pub. 1938, Reprinted 2021, 410 pages, Index, ISBN #978-1-63914-021-3.
The Swedish Lutheran Churches at Raccoon and Penns Neck were the two most important Swedish churches in New Jersey…
By: W.P.A., Pub. 1934, Reprinted 2018, 453 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-694-0.
Knox County was created in 1792 from Greene and Hawkins counties, TN. This is another of the MUCH-NEEDED books…
South Carolina Slave Narratives: Large Print
Work Progress Administration
By: Work Progress Administration, Pub. 1938, Reprinted 2016, 164 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-879-X.
Washington County was created in 1777 from part of Wilkes and Burke Counties, North Carolina. It is…
By: Works progress Administration, Pub. 1938, Reprinted 2021, 221 pages, Index, ISBN #978-1-63914-020-6.
This book tells the story of migration of Swedes and Finns in the 17th century from Pennsylvania…
By: W.P.A., Orig. Pub. 1941, reprinted 2019, 152 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #0-89308-972-9.
Obion County was created in 1823 from the Western District. It sits in the north-western corner…
By: WPA, Pub. 1940, reprinted 2121, 442 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-000-8.
The Spanish Land Grants were land claims filed by settlers in Florida after the transfer of the…
By: WPA, Pub. 1940, reprinted 2121, 442 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-001-5.
By: WPA, Pub. 1941, reprinted 2121, 350 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-003-9.
In Four Parts. No. 1, Callender I. Fayssoux Collection Of William Walker Papers; No. 2, Calendar Of The Yucatan Letters; No. 3, Maps In The Frederick L. Hoffman Collection; No…
Florida Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves
This detailed study of the Minorcan community in the United States explores the history and culture of this little-known group. With in-depth interviews and extensive research, this book sheds new…
This book provides a detailed history of Florida's involvement in the Spanish-American War. The book covers the military campaigns fought by Floridians in Cuba and Puerto Rico, as well as…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
By: WPA, Pub. 1940, reprinted 2121, 412 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-002-2.
By: WPA, Pub. 1940, reprinted 2121, 410 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-004-6.
Works Progress Administration (Wpa)
Originally prepared by The Historical Records Survey, Works Progress Administration (WPA), in 1939, this work documents of the Estate Settlements for Washington County, between the years of 1790 and 1841…
Project of the Works Progress Administration
Produced in 1938, under the direction of novelist and historian Lyle Saxon, The Federal Writers’ Project of the Works Progress Administration, this portrait of New Orleans contains recipes, photographs and…
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
This title contains 26 slave detailed and historically rich narratives not orginally circulated or published from the state of Tennessee. The narratives give sensational insight into the everyday lives of…
Mississippi: The WPA Guide to the Magnolia State was part of a nationwide series of guides in the 1930s that created work during the Depression for artists, writers, teachers, librarians…
Federal Writers' Project,Works Progress Administration
American Guide Series. Additional Contributor Is Dorothy Canfield Fisher.
Elizabeth Clemens
In the midst of the Depression, a government agency was created that changed the lives of thousands of Americans. The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was more than a program that…
Works Progress Administration,Federal Writers' Project
This unique and original compilation of Work Progress Administration slave narratives contains 145 slave narratives from the states of Oklahoma and Texas. Slave narratives from Oklahoma are difficult to obtain…
Ma Joe Mitchell,Works Progress Administration
Former Female Slave Narratives & Interviews: From Ex-Slaves in the States of Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. With Photographs
Texas Slave Narratives & Photographs: A Traditional History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Illustrated with Photographs. Part 3 Authored by Works Progress Administration, Compiled…
Works Progress Administration,J Mitchell Ma
This title consists of to complete works. The first materials presented in this original compilation are slave narrative and interviews of former slaves in Kentucky. The second title is a…
Federal Writers' Project
[The book] offer[s] a wealth of information concerning the personal lives of those enslaved in the state of Alabama. This volume contains the personal interviews of 129 former slaves with…
Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration
San Francisco has no single landmark by which the world may identify it. This guide to San Francisco relates the city’s history from the vantage point of the 1930s, describing…
A document of Depression-era Los Angeles, that illuminates a pivotal moment in L A’s history, when writers like Raymond Chandler, Nathanael West, and F Scott Fitzgerald were creating the images…
Reveals both in the opinions it embodies and in the juicy details it records - tidbits such as the bloodiest and most incompetently fought battle of the Mexican-American War, Emma…
Alive with the exuberance, contradictions, and variety of the Golden State, this guide to California includes more than 700 pages of information that is, as the author writes in his…
Federal Writers' Project, Works Progress Administration
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn…
