Holger Cahill papers, 1910-1993, bulk 1910-1960

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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.

Description	Container	Select
Administrators, Lists of, circa 1935-1936	5287 1132-1142	Select: Administrators, Lists of, circa 1935-1936
Administrators, Photographs and Biographical Sketches, circa 1935-1936	5287 1143-1171	Select: Administrators, Photographs and Biographical Sketches, circa 1935-1936
Advisory Committees, circa 1935	1105 0366-0382	Select: Advisory Committees, circa 1935
Advisory Committees Correspondence, 1935	1105 0383-0408	Select: Advisory Committees Correspondence, 1935
Advisory Committees, Alabama, circa 1939-1940	1105 0409-0414	Select: Advisory Committees, Alabama, circa 1939-1940
Advisory Committees, California, circa 1939-1940	1105 0415-0431	Select: Advisory Committees, California, circa 1939-1940
Advisory Committees, Colorado, circa 1939-1940	1105 0432-0434	Select: Advisory Committees, Colorado, circa 1939-1940
Advisory Committees, Connecticut, 1939-1940	1105 435	Select: Advisory Committees, Connecticut, 1939-1940
Advisory Committees, Delaware, circa 1939-1940	1105 0436-0438	Select: Advisory Committees, Delaware, circa 1939-1940
Advisory Committees, District of Columbia, circa 1939-1940	1105 0439-0441	Select: Advisory Committees, District of Columbia, circa 1939-1940
Advisory Committees, Florida, 1939-1940	1105 0442-0444	Select: Advisory Committees, Florida, 1939-1940
Advisory Committees, Illinois, circa 1939-1940	1105 0445-0453	Select: Advisory Committees, Illinois, circa 1939-1940
Advisory Committees, Iowa, circa 1939-1940	1105 0454-0464	Select: Advisory Committees, Iowa, circa 1939-1940
Advisory Committees, Louisiana, circa 1939-1940	1105 0465-0468	Select: Advisory Committees, Louisiana, circa 1939-1940
Advisory Committees, Maine, circa 1939-1940	1105 0469-0471	Select: Advisory Committees, Maine, circa 1939-1940
Advisory Committees, Maryland, circa 1939-1940	1105 0476-0481	Select: Advisory Committees, Maryland, circa 1939-1940
Advisory Committees, Massachusetts, circa 1939-1940	1105 0472-0475	Select: Advisory Committees, Massachusetts, circa 1939-1940
Advisory Committees, Michigan, circa 1939-1940	1105 0482-0492	Select: Advisory Committees, Michigan, circa 1939-1940
Advisory Committees, Minnesota, 1939	1105 493	Select: Advisory Committees, Minnesota, 1939
Advisory Committees, Missouri, 1939-1940	1105 494	Select: Advisory Committees, Missouri, 1939-1940
Advisory Committees, Montana, 1939	1105 495	Select: Advisory Committees, Montana, 1939
Advisory Committees, New Hampshire, 1939-1940	1105 496	Select: Advisory Committees, New Hampshire, 1939-1940
Advisory Committees, New Jersey, 1939-1940	1105 0497-0499	Select: Advisory Committees, New Jersey, 1939-1940
Advisory Committees, New York, 1939-1940	1105 0500-0501	Select: Advisory Committees, New York, 1939-1940
Advisory Committees, North Carolina, 1939	1105 502	Select: Advisory Committees, North Carolina, 1939
Advisory Committees, Ohio, 1940	1105 503	Select: Advisory Committees, Ohio, 1940
Advisory Committees, Oklahoma, circa 1939-1940	1105 504	Select: Advisory Committees, Oklahoma, circa 1939-1940
Advisory Committees, Oregon, 1939	1105 0505-0509	Select: Advisory Committees, Oregon, 1939
Advisory Committees, Pennsylvania, circa 1939-1940	1105 0510-0515	Select: Advisory Committees, Pennsylvania, circa 1939-1940
Advisory Committees, Rhode Island, circa 1939-1940	1105 0516-0517	Select: Advisory Committees, Rhode Island, circa 1939-1940
Correspondence and Memoranda, circa 1935	NDA 15 0399-0400	Select: Correspondence and Memoranda, circa 1935
Correspondence and Memoranda, 1935-1936 (1 of 2)	NDA 15 0374-0398	Select: Correspondence and Memoranda, 1935-1936 (1 of 2)
Correspondence and Memoranda, 1935-1936 (2 of 2)	NDA 15 0682-0728	Select: Correspondence and Memoranda, 1935-1936 (2 of 2)
Correspondence and Memoranda, 1936-1937	NDA 15 0417-0430	Select: Correspondence and Memoranda, 1936-1937
Correspondence and Memoranda, 1938	NDA 15 0729-0733	Select: Correspondence and Memoranda, 1938
Correspondence and Memoranda, 1938-1939	NDA 15 0431-0479	Select: Correspondence and Memoranda, 1938-1939
Correspondence and Memoranda, 1939 (1 of 2)	NDA 15 0734-0740	Select: Correspondence and Memoranda, 1939 (1 of 2)
Correspondence and Memoranda, 1939 (2 of 2)	NDA 15 0748-0754	Select: Correspondence and Memoranda, 1939 (2 of 2)
Correspondence and Memoranda, 1940 (1 of 3)	NDA 15 0480-0488	Select: Correspondence and Memoranda, 1940 (1 of 3)
Correspondence and Memoranda, 1940 (2 of 3)	NDA 15 0741-0743	Select: Correspondence and Memoranda, 1940 (2 of 3)
Correspondence and Memoranda, 1940 (3 of 3)	NDA 15 0746-0747	Select: Correspondence and Memoranda, 1940 (3 of 3)
Correspondence and Memoranda, 1941 (1 of 2)	NDA 15 0744-0745	Select: Correspondence and Memoranda, 1941 (1 of 2)
Correspondence and Memoranda, 1941 (2 of 2)	NDA 15 0755-0766	Select: Correspondence and Memoranda, 1941 (2 of 2)
Correspondence and Memoranda, 1942	NDA 15 0489-0493	Select: Correspondence and Memoranda, 1942
Correspondence and Memoranda, 1942-1943	NDA 15 0767-0789	Select: Correspondence and Memoranda, 1942-1943
Correspondence and Memoranda, circa 1943	NDA 15 0798-0803	Select: Correspondence and Memoranda, circa 1943
Correspondence and Memoranda, 1953	NDA 15 0790-0797	Select: Correspondence and Memoranda, 1953
Draft Operating Manual of Museum Services and Education Aids, circa 1935-1940	1105 0581-0615	Select: Draft Operating Manual of Museum Services and Education Aids, circa 1935-1940
Employment Figures, 1935-1936, undated	1107 0383-0422	Select: Employment Figures, 1935-1936, undated
Employment Figures, January-March 1936	1107 0423-0453	Select: Employment Figures, January-March 1936
Employment Figures, April-December 1936	1107 0454-0480	Select: Employment Figures, April-December 1936
Employment Figures, 1937-1942	1107 0481-0507	Select: Employment Figures, 1937-1942
Employment Figures, 1942	NDA 15 1031-1032	Select: Employment Figures, 1942
General Files, undated (1 of 3)	NDA 15 340	Select: General Files, undated (1 of 3)
General Files, undated (2 of 3)	NDA 15 0558-0559	Select: General Files, undated (2 of 3)
General Files, undated (3 of 3)	NDA 15 0665-0667	Select: General Files, undated (3 of 3)
General Files, circa 1934-1935	5288 0093-0245	Select: General Files, circa 1934-1935
General Files, circa 1935 (1 of 2)	1105 0282-0292	Select: General Files, circa 1935 (1 of 2)
General Files, circa 1935 (2 of 2)	5288 0247-0400	Select: General Files, circa 1935 (2 of 2)
General Files, circa 1936	5288 0401-0574	Select: General Files, circa 1936
General Files, 1936 (1 of 2)	NDA 15 0401-0416	Select: General Files, 1936 (1 of 2)
General Files, 1936 (2 of 2)	NDA 15 0822-0853	Select: General Files, 1936 (2 of 2)
General Files, circa 1937 (1 of 2)	5288 0575-0804	Select: General Files, circa 1937 (1 of 2)
General Files, circa 1937 (2 of 2)	NDA 15 0569-0601	Select: General Files, circa 1937 (2 of 2)
General Files, circa 1938	5288 0805-1117	Select: General Files, circa 1938
General Files, circa 1939	5288 1118-1243	Select: General Files, circa 1939
General Files, 1939 (1 of 2)	NDA 15 0606-0615	Select: General Files, 1939 (1 of 2)
General Files, 1939 (2 of 2)	NDA 15 0873-0889	Select: General Files, 1939 (2 of 2)
General Files, circa 1940	5288 1244-1520	Select: General Files, circa 1940
General Files, 1940	NDA 15 0657-0664	Select: General Files, 1940
General Files, circa 1941	5289 0004-0227	Select: General Files, circa 1941
General Files, circa 1935-1942	1105 0557-0580	Select: General Files, circa 1935-1942
General Files, circa 1942	5289 0229-0260	Select: General Files, circa 1942
General Files, 1942 (1 of 2)	NDA 15 0645-0654	Select: General Files, 1942 (1 of 2)
General Files, 1942 (2 of 2)	1105 0542-0552	Select: General Files, 1942 (2 of 2)
General Files, circa 1942-1943	NDA 15 0890-0977	Select: General Files, circa 1942-1943
General Files, circa 1943	5289 0261-0362	Select: General Files, circa 1943
Lists of Projects, 1942	5287 1120-1128	Select: Lists of Projects, 1942
Miscellaneous Records, 1940-1942	1109 1023-1065	Select: Miscellaneous Records, 1940-1942
Notebook, FAP Region 3, Southern, 1935	5287 1405-1493	Select: Notebook, FAP Region 3, Southern, 1935
Report, National WPA/FAP: Summary and Recommendations for Continuation, 1939	1105 0975-1086	Select: Report, National WPA/FAP: Summary and Recommendations for Continuation, 1939
WPA/FAP and Negro Art, 1938-1943	1105 0616-0635	Select: WPA/FAP and Negro Art, 1938-1943
WPA/FAP, Criticism of, 1936-1943	1105 0636-0645	Select: WPA/FAP, Criticism of, 1936-1943
WPA/FPA, Support of, 1936-1939, undated (1 of 2)	1108 0939-0941	Select: WPA/FPA, Support of, 1936-1939, undated (1 of 2)
WPA/FPA, Support of, 1936-1939, undated (2 of 2)	1105 0646-0666	Select: WPA/FPA, Support of, 1936-1939, undated (2 of 2)
WPA/FPA and War Effort, 1940-1943	1105 0667-0784	Select: WPA/FPA and War Effort, 1940-1943

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