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New Deal art programs in New Jersey selected records, 1934-1942

Creator:: Historical Records Survey (U.S.) Search this; Historical Records Survey (U.S.) Search this

Subject:: Public Works of Art Project Search this; United States. Dept. of the Treasury. Section of Painting and Sculpture Search this; United States. Dept. of the Treasury. Section of Fine Arts Search this; Federal Art Project (N.J.) Search this; United States. Works Progress Administration Search this; United States. Federal Civil Works Administration Search this; Historical Records Survey (U.S.). Indian Site Survey Search this; United States. Work Projects Administration Search this; Historical Records Survey (N.J.) Search this; Indian Site Survey (N.J.) Search this

Place:: New Jersey -- Antiquities; New Jersey -- Social conditions; United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945; United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945

Topic:: New Deal, 1933-1939 -- New Jersey Search this; Federal aid to the arts -- New Jersey Search this; Federal aid to public welfare -- New Jersey Search this; Painting, American Search this

Theme:: Government Sponsorship of the Arts Search this; New Deal Search this

Record number:: (DSI-AAA_CollID)9794; (DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)212232; AAA_collcode_histrecs

Names:: Federal Art Project (N.J.) Search this; Historical Records Survey (N.J.) Search this; Historical Records Survey (U.S.). Indian Site Survey Search this; Indian Site Survey (N.J.) Search this; Public Works of Art Project Search this; 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

Place:: New Jersey -- Antiquities; New Jersey -- Social conditions; United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945; United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945

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.

Topic:: New Deal, 1933-1939 -- New Jersey Search this; Federal aid to the arts -- New Jersey Search this; Federal aid to public welfare -- New Jersey Search this; Painting, American Search this