Scope and Content Note

Materials include letters, photographs, videotape, audio cassettes, and interviews. Some interviews for which transcripts exist are not included in audio cassettes.

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...