United States. Works Progress Administration. Arkansas
Organization
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Friends of Lake Wedington Records
Collection
Identifier: MC 1518
Scope and Content Note
This collection contains materials and photographs related to the original WPA construction of Lake Wedington, as well as, the files, records, and photographs of the Friends of Lake Wedington organization from 1988 to 2002.
Dates:
1934-2002
Historical Records Survey
Collection
Identifier: MS H62
Abstract
This collection consists of materials resulting from the Work Progress Administration's Historical Records Survey project in Arkansas.
Dates:
1801-1942
Wilda Plymale Works Progress Administration Scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MC 2556
Content Description
Scrapbook documenting the Works Progress Administration Division of Professional and Service Projects' "This Week Pays Your Community" programming in Arkansas in 1940; the week was designed to highlight the benefits of WPA projects to local communities. The scrapbook includes clippings, photographs, programs, speech transcripts, bookmarks, and county committee reports. The scrapbook was compiled by Wilda Plymale, a stenographer in the Fort Smith WPA office, likely for Eva B. Patterson, the...
Dates:
1940
U. S. Work Projects Administration Arkansas Administrative Files
Collection
Identifier: MS Un3 104
Scope and Contents
Materials pertain to the development, functioning and administration of the several programs of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and the Work Projects Administration in Arkansas, and especially to the formation, operation and affairs of the Arkansas Rural Rehabilitation Corporation's Colonization Project No. 1 (Dyess Rural Rehabilitation Corporation, Dyess Colony, Inc.). Principle correspondents are William R. Dyess (Arkansas State Emergency Relief Administrator...
Dates:
1933-1943