This collection contains twenty-two scrapbooks and one photograph album chronicling the activities of the Works Progress Administration in Arkansas, 1933-1943.
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) Arkansas scrapbooks finding aid is also available in the finding aids section of this site.
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Works Progress Administration scrapbook, 1935
This scrapbook contains newspaper clippings chronicling the activities of the Works Progress Administration in Arkansas. It covers the founding of the WPA and the National Youth Administration and a variety of WPA programs including Sewing Rooms, historical surveys, flood control/ relief, road improvements, park construction, and a number of other construction projects. The scrapbook also covers the topics of wages, administration, politics, and funding and records a number of strikes and work stoppages.
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Agriculture Adjustment Administration scrapbook, 1935
This scrapbook contains newspaper clippings chronicling the activities of the Agriculture Adjustment Administration in Arkansas in the fall of 1935. It describes the implementation of the taxes and subsidies prescribed by the Agricultural Adjustment Act. It also describes the legal and political challenges faced by the AAA, the creation of local 4-H Clubs, and statistics on crop production and prices.
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Civilian Conservation Corps scrapbook, 1933-1935
This scrapbook contains newspaper clippings chronicling the activities of the Civilian Conservation Corps in Arkansas. Topics include fire fighting, the Soil Conservation Service, the National Reemployment Service, Game Preserves, the locations of new CCC camps, State Parks, Forestry,employment statistics, and administrative changes in the CCC.
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Emergency Relief Administration scrapbook, 1934-1935
This scrapbook contains newspaper clippings chronicling the activities of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration in Arkansas. It describes the loans provided by the Rural Relief Administration, the founding of Dyess Colony, importation of Cattle, the end of the Civil Works Administration, various road and building projects, and political debates over FERA's activities.
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Federal Emergency Relief Administration scrapbook, 1934-1935
This scrapbook contains newspaper clippings chronicling the activities of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration in Arkansas. It focuses on the administrative, financial, and political issues surrounding FERA with descriptions of legislative debates over Old Age Pensions and sales taxes, reports on the allocation of funds, and accounts of the conflict between the Arkansas Welfare Boards and Governor Futrell.
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National Recovery Act scrapbook, 1934-1935
This scrapbook contains newspaper clippings chronicling the activities of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration in Arkansas. It consists of "News and Editorial Comment" collected by the Federal Reemployment Service. This news primarily focuses on the implementation of the National Recovery Act and local reactions to its regulations.
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National Recovery Act scrapbook, 1934-1935
This scrapbook contains newspaper clippings chronicling activities related to the National Recovery Act in Arkansas. It covers programs including the Public Works Administration, the Civil Works Administration, the Works Progress Administration, and the Federal Emergency Relief Administration. Topics covered include schools, agricultural colonies, libraries, drought relief, labor protests, and general administrative/ financial issues.
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National Recovery Act scrapbook,1934-1935
This scrapbook contains newspaper clippings about the National Recovery Administration. These clippings from Arkansas newspapers focus on the legal challenges and politics surrounding the NRA on a national level rather than its implementation on a local level. Topics covered include the challenges faced by the NRA in the Supreme Court and arguments for and against the NRA's regulations.
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Public Works Administration scrapbook, 1935
This scrapbook contains newspaper clippings chronicling the activities of the Public Works Administration in Arkansas. These newsclippings detail projects funded and carried out by the PWA. Topics include municipal water systems, flood control, courthouse and jail construction, and road construction. It describes the administrative and legal issues facing these projects.
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Rural Resettlement Administration scrapbook, 1935
This scrapbook contains newspaper clippings chronicling the activities of the Rural Resettlement Administration in Arkansas. It details Dyess and other agricultural colonies, rural electrification, and administrative changes in the RRA.
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School and Reconstruction Finance Corporation scrapbook, 1933-1935
This scrapbook chronicles the activities of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation in Arkansas. Topics include the National Youth Administration, controversy over the 1938 gubenatorial race, and school funding provided by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
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Garden Programs and Surplus Commodities scrapbook, 1933-1935
This scrapbook contains newspaper clippings chronicling publicity on garden programs and surplus commodities throughout Arkansas. Topics include garden plots, canning programs, seed and meat distribution programs, and government programs to buy surplus crops.
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Housing Programs scrapbook, 1934-1936
This scrapbook contains newspaper clippings related to housing programs in Arkansas. Its main topics include the activities of the Federal Housing Authority, anecdotes about houses remodeled or built with federal assistance, and information about the National Housing Act.
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Works Progress Administration scrapbook, 1940
This scrapbook contains newspaper clippings detailing the activities of the Works Progress Administration in Arkansas. Topics covered include Arkansas WPA director Floyd Sharp's response to alleged political corruption in the WPA, overviews of roads and buildings built by the WPA in Arkansas, and the effect of the WPA on literacy in the state.
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Arkansas Information Service scrapbook, 1940
This scrapbook contains newspaper clippings from the Arkansas Information Service. These clippings are overviews of Works Progress Administration activities in several Arkansas counties in 1940. Topics covered inlcude roads, buildings, and the WPA's effect on literacy rates in the state.
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Works Progress Administration scrapbook, Arkansas-Drew Counties, 1938-1941
This scrapbook contains newspaper clippings chronicling the activities of the Works Progress Administration in Arkansas from 1938-1941 alphabetically by county. Topics include WPA construction projects like schools, roads, and airports as well as statewide programs like school lunches, drought relief and educational programs, but the projects vary by county. It also covers administrative changes and legal issues faced by the WPA.
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Works Progress Administration scrapbook, Franklin-Madison Counties, 1938-1941
This scrapbook contains newspaper clippings chronicling the activities of the Works Progress Administration in Arkansas from 1938-1941 alphabetically by county. Topics include WPA construction projects like schools, roads, and airports as well as statewide programs like school lunches, drought relief and educational programs, but the exact projects covered vary by county. It also covers administrative changes and legal issues faced by the WPA.
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Works Progress Administration scrapbook, Marion-Prairie Counties, 1938-1941
This scrapbook contains newspaper clippings chronicling the activities of the Works Progress Administration in Arkansas from 1938-1941 alphabetically by county. Topics include WPA construction projects like schools, roads, and airports as well as statewide programs like school lunches, drought relief and educational programs, but the exact projects covered vary by county. It also covers administrative changes and legal issues faced by the WPA.
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Works Progress Administration scrapbook, Randolph-Yell Counties, 1938-1941
This scrapbook contains newspaper clippings chronicling the activities of the Works Progress Administration in Arkansas from 1938-1941 alphabetically by county. Topics include WPA construction projects like schools, roads, and airports as well as statewide programs like school lunches, drought relief and educational programs, but the exact projects covered vary by county. It also covers administrative changes and legal issues faced by the WPA.
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Works Progress Administration scrapbook, 1941
This scrapbook contains newspaper clippings describing the activities of the Works Progress Administration in Arkansas. It covers topics including the use of WPA workers on farms, Trade Schools, lunch programs, the Arkansas Guide Book, Adams Field, tornado relief efforts, severe flooding along the Arkansas River, and various construction projects.
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Arkansas Works Progress Administration, Women's and Professional Projects photograph album, 1937 and 1941
This item is a photo album chronicling activities related to the Division of Women's and Professional Projects in Arkansas. Topics include library programs, hot meal programs, Health Lunch Project, Home Aid project, historical records survey to inventory civic records, and 1937 flood refugees.
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Works Progress Administration scrapbook, 1942
This scrapbook contains newspaper clippings detailing the activities of the Works Progress Administration in Arkansas. It largely details the impacts that U.S. invovlement in World War II had on WPA projects and programs, but it also describes ongoing WPA programs like scrap drives, library programs, and vocational training schools, as well as bridge and road construction projects. Finally, the scrapbook contains several articles about the 1942 senate race.
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Works Progress Administration scrapbook, 1941-1943
This scrapbook contains photographs and newspaper clippings describing the activities of the Works Progress Administration in Arkansas. It primarily focuses on the end of the WPA, but it also discusses civil defense programs, a nursery program, salvage drives, various construction projects, and Floyd Sharp's activities as the WPA came to an end.