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(eng) The Federal Writers' Project (later known as the Writers' Program) was a project/program of the Works Progress Administration (later known as the Work Projects Administration, called the WPA for short). The WPA also funded other projects like the Federal Artists' Project. Please do not combine the Federal Writers' Project and the WPA.

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Series

Obras de Federal Writers Project

New Orleans City Guide (1938) 86 copias
The WPA Guide to Minnesota (1938) 70 copias
Maine: A Guide "Down East" (1937) 58 copias
Arizona: A State Guide (1940) 51 copias
Legends of the Mighty Sioux (1941) 50 copias
These Are Our Lives (1939) 47 copias
Oregon, End of the Trail (1940) 40 copias
A South Dakota Guide (1938) 36 copias
Death Valley: A Guide (1939) 33 copias
Utah: A Guide to the State (1941) 33 copias
Monterey Peninsula (1941) 31 copias
Cape Cod Pilot (1937) 30 copias
Montana: A State Guide Book (1939) 26 copias
The Negro in Virginia (1994) 25 copias
Chicago and Suburbs, 1939 (1989) 20 copias
Tennessee Slave Narratives (1941) 20 copias
Birds in Florida (1942) 20 copias
The Ohio Guide (1940) 20 copias
U.S. One: Maine to Florida (1938) 18 copias
Kentucky Slave Narratives (1941) 16 copias
New Castle on the Delaware (1937) 12 copias
The Berkshire Hills (1939) 11 copias
Portland city guide (1940) 10 copias
Mount Hood: A Guide (1940) 10 copias
A Guide to Key West (1941) 9 copias
Arkansas Slave Narratives (2006) 9 copias
Georgia Slave Narratives (2006) 9 copias
Ghost Towns of Colorado (1947) 8 copias
The Italians of New York (1938) 8 copias
Bergen county panorama (1941) 5 copias
Almanac for Thirty-Niners (1938) 5 copias
Florida seafood cookery (2004) 5 copias
Whaling Masters (1938) 4 copias
Port Arthur (1940) 4 copias
Savannah (1972) 4 copias
A trip on many waters (1940) 3 copias
South Carolina Folk Tales (1975) 3 copias
Fairhaven, Massachusetts (1939) 3 copias
Nauvoo guide (1983) 2 copias
Matawan, 1686-1936 (1936) 2 copias
Story of Bees 2 copias
Augusta (1938) 2 copias
Old Princeton's neighbors (1939) 2 copias
Rockford 1 copia
Pennsylvania cavalcade (2016) 1 copia
Galena guide 1 copia
Palmetto Place Names (1941) 1 copia
Nature trails 1 copia
Pennsylvania Cavalcade (1942) 1 copia
The Apache 1 copia
Portage 1 copia
New Orleans City Guide (1938) 1 copia
Whaling Masters (1987) 1 copia
A Bid for Liberty (1937) 1 copia
Death Valley: A Guide (1939) 1 copia
In the Land of Breathitt (1941) 1 copia
Hoosier Tall Stories (1939) 1 copia

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Aviso de desambiguación
The Federal Writers' Project (later known as the Writers' Program) was a project/program of the Works Progress Administration (later known as the Work Projects Administration, called the WPA for short). The WPA also funded other projects like the Federal Artists' Project. Please do not combine the Federal Writers' Project and the WPA.

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Skimmed the first part and glanced at cities, tours and index. Best chapters were history, food and agriculture
 
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ulmannc | otra reseña | Dec 26, 2023 |
If you can understand and read heavy Negro dialect, then you will enjoy this book. It took me a few chapters to get into the groove and read fluidly. I personally believe this to be one of the most important history books of all time. You hear directly from the survivors of slavery, themselves, of where they came from, their experiences as a slave, and what they did following freedom, without the fluff or the lies or the changing of history. This volume consists of interviews of all persons who were brought to Texas as slaves from the east coast in and around 1858, at the cusp of the Civil War. Interviews were performed just in time, as all the ex-slaves were now very old, from about 86 years to over 100 years old.
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2019 52-Bookmark Reading Challenge -
#18/52 - Book about history
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MissysBookshelf | Aug 27, 2023 |
Gumbo Ya-Ya: A Collection of Louisiana Folk Tales by Lyle Saxon, Robert Tallant (1945), 1st edition, hardcover (no jacket), 581 pages.

I was able to find this rare first edition (1945) for my Louisiana book collection for $50 on eBay from the Catholic Charities of NE Kansas in Overland, KS. All proceeds went to charity.

A very unique read! The extended title is a little deceiving. This was mostly centered around Creole folklore and many religious superstitions in, specifically, New Orleans in early 1940’s. But, there were many odd stories presented by way of real life interviews with a few elders of the city of New Orleans describing their memories of certain events that actually took place and some photos included to go along with the stories. Not all of the stories in this book are folklore; some are actually true. You can also Google some of the other people he writes about and actually find old photos of them online. These stories you may never hear or read about anywhere else. It seems they were gathered just in time, as some of the interviewees were in their 80’s and 90’s in the early 1940’s when these interviews were taking place. They would have been born between about 1850 and 1860 and would have seen a lot of changes over their lifetime. If you are Creole, or have Creole blood, you will find this book extremely interesting. Who knows, you might even find your ancestor’s name mentioned. I looked forward to each chapter because it was a completely different story on something that happened in New Orleans. Some stories were very intriguing, while others, I yawned my way through.… (más)
 
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MissysBookshelf | otra reseña | Aug 27, 2023 |
In the 1930s, at the height of the Great Depression, the federal government put thousands of unemployed writers to work in the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Out of their efforts came the American Guide series, the first comprehensive guidebooks to the people, resources, and traditions of each state in the union.

The WPA Guide to Minnesota is a lively and detailed introduction to the state and its people. Much has changed since the book's first publication in 1938 when, as the authors noted, some Minnesotans could "clearly recall . . . the sight of browsing buffalo herds, and the creaking of thong-tied Red River carts." But the book vividly recaptures the era when annual fishing licenses cost fifty cents, farmers ran barn dances for motoring townfolk, Duluth was the headquarters of the Hay Fever Club of America, and the nearly new Foshay Tower loomed on the Minneapolis skyline.

The guide has much more than nostalgia to offer today's readers. Twenty auto tours and six special city tours tell the stories of the state's people and places and offer a fascinating alternative to freeway travel. Essays on major themes such as native peoples, history, arts, transportation, and sports provide an authentic self-portrait of 1930s Minnesota in humorous, loving, and literary prose.
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CalleFriden | Mar 16, 2023 |

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Obras
333
Miembros
5,211
Popularidad
#4,781
Valoración
½ 3.4
Reseñas
52
ISBNs
410
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1

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