United States. Work Projects Administration Search this
United States. Works Progress Administration Search this
Extent:
4.4 Linear feet ((on 12 microfilm reels))
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Place:
United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945
United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945
Date:
1935-1942
Scope and Contents:
Records documenting activities of the Survey to inventory portraits in America done before 1860 in the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
Included are research documents; correspondence; interoffice memoranda; survey manuals; press releases; clippings; photographs of works of art; short biographies of sitters and artists; ca. 15,000 of the original survey cards; first drafts of checklists and catalogs; and lists of portraits received too late to be included in the final version of the catalog.
Biographical / Historical:
The Historical Records Survey (HRS) had its origins in the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and the Civil Works Administration. In 1935 it came under the auspices of the Works Progress Administration Federal Writers' Project and eventually was designated as an independent program under Federal Project No. One. The projects, ideally suited for white collar workers, employed individuals to survey, classify and collect historical records. One program of the HRS was to document American portraits (sculpture, prints and paintings) done before 1860.
Provenance:
Lent for microfilming by the Massachusetts State Library, A. Hunter Rineer, State Librarian, Boston, Mass., 1977.
Restrictions:
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
United States. Dept. of the Treasury. Section of Fine Arts Search this
United States. Dept. of the Treasury. Section of Painting and Sculpture Search this
United States. Federal Civil Works Administration Search this
United States. Work Projects Administration Search this
United States. Works Progress Administration Search this
Extent:
10 Microfilm reels
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Microfilm reels
Place:
New Jersey -- Antiquities
New Jersey -- Social conditions
United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945
United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945
Date:
1934-1942
Scope and Contents:
Approximately half the records relate to the Historical Records Survey's portrait survey, 1940-1941. The remainder are records of the Indian Site Survey, 1936-1942, a WPA program operating under the Division of Professional Service Projects, and to a lesser degree, the Public Works of Art Project, the Treasury Section of Painting and Sculpture, the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project and its predecessor, the Civil Works Administration.
Biographical / Historical:
The New Deal art programs were primarily administered under the Treasury Department and the Works Progress Administration (later the Work Projects Administration) as relief measures for unemployed artists.
The Historical Records Survey (HRS) had its origins in the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and the Civil Works Administration. In 1935 it came under the auspices of the Federal Writers' Project and eventually was designated as an independent program under Federal Project No. One. The projects, ideally suited for white collar workers, employed individuals to survey, classify and collect historical records. One program of the HRS was the survey of American portraits in public buildings. The Indian Site Survey was a WPA-New Jersey state-wide project operating under the Division of Professional and Service Projects, and sponsored by the New Jersey State Museum and the Archeaological Society of New Jersey.
Provenance:
Lent for microfilming 1964 by the New Jersey State Library, Trenton, N.J.
Restrictions:
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
Correspondence, reports, lists, memoranda, and data sheets regarding Region 4 (Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia) of the Historical Records Survey.
Arrangement:
Arranged alphabetically by place name.
Biographical / Historical:
Regional editor and supervisor of the Historical Records Survey, Region 4.
Provenance:
The relationship of the donor, David Smily, to Radoff is unclear.
Restrictions:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Microfilmed materials must be consulted on microfilm. Contact Reference Services for more information.
American imprints inventory : The Historical Records Survey, Division of Professional and Service Projects, Work Projects Administration : No. 6. Check list of Kentucky imprints, 1811-1820 ; with notes in supplement to the Check list of 1787-1810 imprints / by Douglas C. McMurtrie ... and Albert H. Allen
Author:
McMurtrie, Douglas C (Douglas Crawford) 1888-1944 Search this
Allen, Albert H (Albert Henry) 1875-1953 Search this
Historical Records Survey (U.S.) American imprints inventory Search this
American imprints inventory : The WPA Historical Records Survey Program, Division of Professional and Service Projects, Work Projects Administration. No. 9, Check list of New Jersey imprints, 1784-1800 / by Lucile M. Morsch
American imprints inventory : the W.P.A. Historical records survey program, Service division. No. 19 - Bibliography of the official publications of Louisiana, 1803-1934 / comp. by Lucy B. Foote
American imprints inventory : the Historical Records Survey, Division of Women's and Professional Projects, Works Progress Administration : No. 5 Check list of Kentucky imprints, 1787-1810 / by Douglas C. McMurtrie ... and Albert H. Allen
Author:
McMurtrie, Douglas C (Douglas Crawford) 1888-1944 Search this
Allen, Albert H (Albert Henry) 1875-1953 Search this
Historical Records Survey (U.S.) American imprints inventory Search this
Bibliography of research projects reports : check list of Historical Records Survey publications / prepared by Sargent B. Child and Dorothy P. Holmes ; assistance in checking and arranging by Cyril E. Paquin
Author:
Child, Sargent B (Sargent Burrage) 1900- Search this
American imprints inventory, compiled by WPA Historical Records Survey Program, Division of Professional and Service Projects, Work Projects Administration. Location symbols for libraries in the United States
American imprints inventory, compiled by WPA Historical records survey program, Division of professional and service projects, Work projects administration. Location symbols for libraries in the United States, additions and corrections, January, 1941
A nationwide inventory of American imprints under WPA auspices; an address at the 1938 conference at Kansas City of the American library association, Section on archives and libraries, by Douglas C. McMurtrie ... with an introductory note by A.F. Kuhlman
Author:
McMurtrie, Douglas C (Douglas Crawford) 1888-1944 Search this
Subject:
Historical Records Survey (U.S.) American imprints inventory Search this
