| LC control no. | n 85337026 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Corporate name heading | Writers' Program (Wash.) |
| Variant(s) | Writers' Program. Washington Washington (State). Writers' Program Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Washington |
| See also | Predecessor: Federal Writers' Project (Wash.) |
| Beginning date | 1939 |
| Ending date | 1941 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Washington (State) |
| Found in | Its Washington, a guide to the Evergreen State, 1972: t.p. (Writers' Program; Washington) LC data base, 2/28/86 (hdg.: Writers' Program. Washington; usage: Writers' Program; Washington) NUCMC data from Univ. Wash. Lib. for Writer's Program (Wash.). Records, 1937-1941 (U.S. Federal Writers Project, Washington [which became Writers' Program, Washington, in 1939, when fed. program was restructured]) Washington, 1941: t.p. (Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Washington) NUCMC data from Univ. Wash. Lib. for Writers' Program (Wash.). Records, 1937-1941 (U.S. Federal Writers Project, Washington; sponsored by Works Progress Adm., ca. 1937-1939, and by state of Wash., ca. 1939-1941 [and from 1939 called Writers' Program]) Archives West (website), viewed Feb. 10, 2023: Federal Writers Project of Washington (State) Records, 1933-1941 (The Federal Writers Project, Washington (State), compiled a quantity of material under the auspices of the Works Progress Administration and used this material to create a volume entitled Washington, A Guide to the Evergreen State (Portland : Binfords & Mort, 1941), a part of the American Guide Series. The material was collected and written between 1933 and 1941.) <https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv04447> HistoryLink.org (website), viewed Feb. 24, 2023: Federal Writers' Program in Washington is terminated after years of controversy on March 7, 1940 (On March 7, 1940, Carl W. Smith, the acting director for the Works Projects Administration (WPA) in Washington state, closes the state's Federal Writers' Program (FWP) after months of controversy centered on the FWP's Seattle office. Smith is barely a month into his job when he decides to terminate the program after internal disputes and credible allegations of Communist influence persuade him that it is politically more trouble than any good it is doing. The state FWP's primary project, Washington: A Guide to the Evergreen State, remains uncompleted, and only the last-minute intervention of the Washington State Historical Society prevents years of research and writing from going to waste.) <https://www.historylink.org/file/21271> HistoryLink.org (website), viewed Feb. 24, 2023: Federal Writers' Program in Washington is terminated after years of controversy on March 7, 1940 (On May 6, 1935, with the country still deeply mired in the Great Depression, the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) launched the Works Progress Administration (WPA), later called the Work Projects Administration. Under the initial leadership of longtime Roosevelt aide Harry Hopkins (1890-1946), its primary goal was to employ millions of the unemployed, mostly unskilled men, on public-works projects. Hopkins, a social worker originally from Iowa, insisted that the WPA reach far beyond public works in the sense of such things as roads and bridges. In August 1935 he unveiled Federal Project Number One (popularly, "Federal One"), four components of which greatly expanded the government's support for the arts -- the Federal Art Project (FAP), Federal Music Project (FMP), Federal Theatre Project (FTP), and Federal Writers' Project (FWP). The exact date is unknown, but sometime soon after Smith had shut down the program, the Washington State Historical Society stepped in to finish the job. In the foreword to the first publication of A Guide to the Evergreen State in 1941, the acting president of the society, O. B. Sperlin, made it clear that the society got involved only reluctantly.) <https://www.historylink.org/file/21271> |
| Associated language | eng |
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