From
Series 3.1: General Subjects,
circa 1934-1943, 1953
Series 3: Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project, 1934-1970 (Boxes 2-14, 18, MMs009; 10.75 linear ft.)
This series documents Cahill's directorship of the WPA FAP from 1935 to 1943 and provides fairly comprehensive coverage of the development, operation, problems and accomplishments of FAP projects at the national and state level. Records include correspondence and memoranda, national and state reports, financial records, meeting minutes, exhibition files, printed material, scrapbooks and photographs and date from 1934 to 1970 with the bulk of the material dating from 1935 to 1943.
The series is arranged into fourteen subseries:
- 3.1: General Subjects, circa 1934-1943, 1953
- 3.2: Artist Files, 1935-1943
- 3.3: Administration of the National WPA/FAP, 1935-1942
- 3.4: Administration of the State WPA/FAP, 1935-1943
- 3.5: Meeting Minutes and Transcripts, 1936-1941
- 3.6: Allocations, 1935-1943, 1970
- 3.7: Community Art Centers, 1934-1946
- 3.8: FAP Divisions, 1935-1940
- 3.9: Index of American Design, 1936-1947
- 3.10: Exhibitions, 1935-1942
- 3.11: Other New Deal Art Projects, 1935-1942
- 3.12: Publicity and Printed Material, 1934-1944, 1961
- 3.13: Scrapbooks, 1936-1939
- 3.14: Photographs, circa 1935-1948
3.1: General Subjects,
circa 1934-1943, 1953
This subseries contains general records of the FAP including correspondence and memoranda, information on administrators, advisory committee records, employment statistics, manuals and reports.
Records relating to administrators include biographical sketches and/or photographs of the following FAP administrators: Donald Bear, Thaddeus Clapp, D. S. Defenbacher, Audrey McMahon, Eric Mose, Concetta Scaravaglione, Alexander Stavenitz, and George Thorp. The records include photos of McMahon, Mose, Scaravaglione, Stavenitz, and Thorp.
Advisory committe records include lists of committee members for the Federal Music Project, the Federal Theatre Project, and the Federal Art Project; correspondence related to the selection of members for the Fine and Applied Arts Committee of the FAP; and information (such as names, addresses and occupations) concerning members of FAP advisory committees organized by state.
General files include reports on various aspects of the FAP and general program operations and accomplishments, program descriptions and summaries, procedural documents and administrative forms. These are followed by lists of FAP projects, a notebook documenting FAP activities in the southern states and a report on the FAP's activities to 1939.
Also found here are records relating to support and criticism of the FAP, the war effort and "negro art" including memoranda, reports, a typescript of a speech by Thomas C. Parker, press releases and printed material.
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| 1105 |
0366-0382 |
Advisory Committees,
circa 1935
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| 1105 |
0383-0408 |
Advisory Committees Correspondence,
1935
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| 1105 |
0409-0414 |
Advisory Committees, Alabama,
circa 1939-1940
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| 1105 |
0415-0431 |
Advisory Committees, California,
circa 1939-1940
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| 1105 |
0432-0434 |
Advisory Committees, Colorado,
circa 1939-1940
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| 1105 |
0435 |
Advisory Committees, Connecticut,
1939-1940
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| 1105 |
0436-0438 |
Advisory Committees, Delaware,
circa 1939-1940
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| 1105 |
0439-0441 |
Advisory Committees, District of Columbia,
circa 1939-1940
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| 1105 |
0442-0444 |
Advisory Committees, Florida,
1939-1940
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| 1105 |
0445-0453 |
Advisory Committees, Illinois,
circa 1939-1940
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| 1105 |
0454-0464 |
Advisory Committees, Iowa,
circa 1939-1940
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| 1105 |
0465-0468 |
Advisory Committees, Louisiana,
circa 1939-1940
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| 1105 |
0469-0471 |
Advisory Committees, Maine,
circa 1939-1940
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| 1105 |
0476-0481 |
Advisory Committees, Maryland,
circa 1939-1940
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| 1105 |
0472-0475 |
Advisory Committees, Massachusetts,
circa 1939-1940
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| 1105 |
0482-0492 |
Advisory Committees, Michigan,
circa 1939-1940
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| 1105 |
0493 |
Advisory Committees, Minnesota,
1939
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| 1105 |
0494 |
Advisory Committees, Missouri,
1939-1940
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| 1105 |
0495 |
Advisory Committees, Montana,
1939
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| 1105 |
0496 |
Advisory Committees, New Hampshire,
1939-1940
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| 1105 |
0497-0499 |
Advisory Committees, New Jersey,
1939-1940
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| 1105 |
0500-0501 |
Advisory Committees, New York,
1939-1940
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| 1105 |
0502 |
Advisory Committees, North Carolina,
1939
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| 1105 |
0503 |
Advisory Committees, Ohio,
1940
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| 1105 |
0504 |
Advisory Committees, Oklahoma,
circa 1939-1940
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| 1105 |
0505-0509 |
Advisory Committees, Oregon,
1939
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| 1105 |
0510-0515 |
Advisory Committees, Pennsylvania,
circa 1939-1940
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| 1105 |
0516-0517 |
Advisory Committees, Rhode Island,
circa 1939-1940
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Frames |
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| NDA 15 |
0399-0400 |
Correspondence and Memoranda,
circa 1935
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| NDA 15 |
0374-0398 |
Correspondence and Memoranda,
1935-1936
(1 of 2)
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| NDA 15 |
0682-0728 |
Correspondence and Memoranda,
1935-1936
(2 of 2)
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| NDA 15 |
0417-0430 |
Correspondence and Memoranda,
1936-1937
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| NDA 15 |
0729-0733 |
Correspondence and Memoranda,
1938
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| NDA 15 |
0431-0479 |
Correspondence and Memoranda,
1938-1939
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| NDA 15 |
0734-0740 |
Correspondence and Memoranda,
1939
(1 of 2)
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| NDA 15 |
0748-0754 |
Correspondence and Memoranda,
1939
(2 of 2)
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| NDA 15 |
0480-0488 |
Correspondence and Memoranda,
1940
(1 of 3)
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| NDA 15 |
0741-0743 |
Correspondence and Memoranda,
1940
(2 of 3)
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| NDA 15 |
0746-0747 |
Correspondence and Memoranda,
1940
(3 of 3)
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| NDA 15 |
0744-0745 |
Correspondence and Memoranda,
1941
(1 of 2)
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| NDA 15 |
0755-0766 |
Correspondence and Memoranda,
1941
(2 of 2)
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| NDA 15 |
0489-0493 |
Correspondence and Memoranda,
1942
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| NDA 15 |
0767-0789 |
Correspondence and Memoranda,
1942-1943
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| NDA 15 |
0798-0803 |
Correspondence and Memoranda,
circa 1943
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| NDA 15 |
0790-0797 |
Correspondence and Memoranda,
1953
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3.2: Artist Files,
1935-1943
This subseries contains records relating to FAP artists. Correspondence is primarily between Cahill and various artists and includes letters of recommendation written by Cahill. General records include a typescript of an interview with Edith Halpert of Downtown Galleries, a document containing case studies on the "Adjustments of Individuals" during FAP work in Michigan; and printed material. A notebook entitled "Artists Whose Loan Assignments Have Been Completed," records "loans" of artists to various states and cities in order to work on FAP projects.
All individual artist files contain a biographical sketch of the artist, unless otherwise noted. Some files also contain photographs of the artist, as indicated.
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Frames |
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| 5287 |
1285-1287 |
Cervantez, Pedro,
undated
(includes photo of Cervantez)
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| 5287 |
1288-1289 |
Curtis, Phillip C.,
undated
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| 5287 |
1290-1292 |
Evergood, Philip,
1939
(includes photo of Evergood)
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| 5287 |
1293-1294 |
Gershoy, Eugenie,
undated
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| 5287 |
1295-1296 |
Gettens, Rutherford J.,
undated
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| 5287 |
1297-1298 |
Gorky, Arshile,
undated
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| 5287 |
1299-1303 |
Gregory, Waylande,
undated
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| 5287 |
1304-1305 |
Guglielmi, Louis,
undated
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| 5287 |
1306-1307 |
Hiler, Hilaire,
undated
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| 5287 |
1308-1309 |
Hord, Donal,
undated
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| 5287 |
1310-1311 |
Hunter, R. Vernon,
undated
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| 5287 |
1312-1313 |
Jacobi, Eli,
undated
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| 5287 |
1314-1315 |
Knaths, Karl,
undated
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| 5287 |
1316-1318 |
Kopman, Benjamin,
undated
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| 5287 |
1319-1322 |
Macdonald-Wright, Stanton,
undated
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| 5287 |
1323-1325 |
Murray, Hester Miller,
undated
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| 5287 |
1326-1329 |
Newell, James Michael,
undated
(includes photo of Newell)
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| 5287 |
1330-1333 |
Olds, Elizabeth,
undated
(includes photo of Olds)
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| 5287 |
1334-1336 |
Palo-Kangas, John,
undated
(includes photo of Palo-Kangas)
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| 5287 |
1337-1338 |
Park, Paul,
undated
(includes photo of Park)
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| 5287 |
1339-1343 |
Quirt, Walter,
undated
(includes phot of Quirt)
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| 5287 |
1344-1345 |
Rourke, Constance,
undated
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| 5287 |
1346-1348 |
Segal, George,
undated
(photo of Segal only; see also Box 18)
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| 5287 |
1349-1351 |
Seltzer, Leo,
undated
(photo of Seltzer only)
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| 5287 |
1352-1357 |
Siporin, Mitchell,
undated
(includes photo of Siporin)
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| 5287 |
1358-1362 |
Sommer, William,
undated
(includes photo of Sommer)
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| 5287 |
1363-1368 |
Speck, Walter E.,
undated
(includes photo of Speck)
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| 5287 |
1369-1372 |
Sutton, Harry H.,
undated
(includes photo of Sutton)
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| 5287 |
1373-1377 |
Trentham Eugene,
undated
(typescript by and photo of Trentham)
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| 5287 |
1378-1382 |
Velonis, Anthony,
undated
(includes photo of Velonis)
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| 5287 |
1383-1386 |
Viviano, Emmanuel,
undated
(includes photo of Viviano)
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| 5287 |
1387-1390 |
Ward, Lynd,
1939
(includes photo of Ward)
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| 5287 |
1391-1395 |
Weisenborn, Rudolph,
undated
(includes photo of Weisenborn)
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| 5287 |
1396-1399 |
White, Francis Robert,
undated
(includes photo of White)
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| 5287 |
1400-1404 |
Wolff, Robert Jay,
undated
(includes photo of Wolff)
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3.3: Administration of the National WPA/FAP,
1935-1942
This subseries includes detailed financial records, memoranda, organizational charts and plans, and reports documenting the administration of the FAP at the national level.
A file relating to the 1939 changeover includes a typescript by George Biddle, Memorandum on a Post-War Reorganization of the Section of Fine Arts and Other Federal Art Projects, and a reprint of Art Under Five Years of Federal Patronage, also by Biddle.
Reports consist pimarily of progress reports provided by Cahill and Thomas C. Parker in addition to several general reports written by Cahill, scattered field trip reports, and miscellanous documents providing general accounts of the activities of the FAP.
General memoranda and program descriptons contain questionnaire results, descriptions of FAP programs, typescripts containing general program descriptions (possibly given as speeches or issued as press releases), and related news clippings.
Summaries of WPA art programs includes five copies of a document, "The WPA Art Program - A Summary," with hand-written notations updating the information in the Summary through 1942.
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Frames |
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| 1106 |
0319-0333 |
Financial Reports, Allotments and Encumberances,
1936-1937
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| 1106 |
0358-0389 |
Financial Reports, Analysis of Expenditures,
1935-1943
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| 1106 |
0390-0394 |
Financial Reports, Financial Summaries,
1936-1939
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| 1106 |
0356-0357 |
Financial Reports, State Directors of Finance and Statistics,
1937
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| 1106 |
0334-0355 |
Financial Reports, Status of Art Project,
1936
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| 1106 |
0001-0112 |
Memoranda, 25% Non-Relief Exemptions,
1935-1936
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3.4: Administration of the State WPA/FAP,
1935-1943
This subseries contains records documenting the adminstration of the FAP at the state level. It includes general correspondence and memoranda regarding state activities as well as reports of state program operations and accomplishments, field trip reports, and newsletters and bulletins from state art centers organized alphabetically by state.
This subseries contains a second set of state studies which, in addition to administrative reports, includes reports representing research and writing conducted as part of the FAP work done at the state level. The second group of reports is also arranged alphabetically by state, and then chronologically, and includes social studies conducted by members of the Federal Writers Program.
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Frames |
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| NDA 15 |
0862-0865 |
Illinois,
1936
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| Reel |
Frames |
(digitized from microfilm)
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| NDA 15 |
0859-0861 |
Iowa,
1936
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| Reel |
Frames |
(digitized from microfilm)
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| NDA 15 |
0539-0557 |
Missouri,
1935
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| Reel |
Frames |
(digitized from microfilm)
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| 5289 |
0364-0372 |
Arizona, The Phoenix Art Center by Morsell,
undated
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| 5289 |
0373-0377 |
California, [Young California Artists] by Morsell for Parnassus,
undated
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| 5289 |
0378-0389 |
California, The Hand-Writing on the Walls by Homer W. Evans,
undated
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| 5289 |
0390-0400 |
California, The Study of Early American Wall Painting in Southern California by Warren W. Lemmon,
undated
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| 5289 |
0401-0402 |
California, Redwood Sculpture on the Federal Art Project,
undated
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| 5289 |
0403-0409 |
California, Children's Art Classes by Vivian Swelander,
undated
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| 5289 |
0410-0413 |
California, An Exhibition for Artists and Layman Behind the Scenes in Making a Mosaic,
undated
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| 5289 |
0414 |
California, An Exhibition That Graphically Demonstrates the Use of Art in Public Buildings,
undated
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| 5289 |
0415-0422 |
California, Aquatic Park Exhibition,
undated
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| 5289 |
0423-0425 |
California, [Beniamino Bufano],
undated
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| 5289 |
0426-0427 |
California, Sculpture Produced on Federal Art Project of the WPA, California,
undated
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| 5289 |
0428-0455 |
California, Southern California Creates,
undated
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| 5289 |
0457-0461 |
California, Federal Art Project, Los Angeles Museum,
1936
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| 5289 |
0462-0465 |
California, [Federal Art Project],
1936
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| 5289 |
0472 |
California, Report from the Northern California Project,
circa 1937
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| 5289 |
0466-0471 |
California, Transcript of Interview Was There A Mission Style of Design? with Frank Freidel and Warren W. Lemmon,
1937
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| 5289 |
0473-0555 |
California, Folk Arts in California From 1769 to 1846 by Marjorie Evelyn De Bord,
1938
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| 5289 |
0556-0557 |
California, Federal Art Project Reviews Accomplishment,
1938
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| 5289 |
0558 |
California, Untitled,
circa 1938
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| 5289 |
0559-0574 |
California, Calfornia's Medical Story in Fresco,
1939
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| 5289 |
0575-0601 |
California, Historical Murals in the Los Angeles County Hall of Records Board of Supervisors Hearing Room,
1939
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| 5289 |
0602-0611 |
California, Southern California Art Project, Los Angeles Museum,
1939
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| 5289 |
0612-0616 |
California, Federal Art Project,
[1940]
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| 5289 |
0617-0629 |
California, Southern California Art Project,
1942
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| 5289 |
0630-0634 |
District of Columbia, The Works Program,
undated
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| 5289 |
0635-0638 |
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