nbruce writes “The Federal Writers’ Project materials in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division are part of a larger collection titled The U.S. Work Progress Administration Federal Writers’ Project and Historical Records Survey. The holdings from Federal Writers’ Project span the years 1889-1942 and cover a wide range of topics and subprojects. Altogether, the Federal Writers’ holdings number approximately 300,000 items and consist of correspondence, memoranda, field reports, notes, graphs, charts, preliminary and corrected drafts of essays, oral testimony, folklore, miscellaneous administrative and miscellaneous other material.”
Looks like a neat Project and nbruce notes you can do a Search to find materials from and for librarians.
“It was not long before Mamie made the library live because of the intense interest which she took in her work. Her posters were artistic and unusually interesting, and her book reviews were worded in excellent English, showing real thought and much research. While there were a great many books in the library of this school, they had never been organized or classified, and it was entirely through Mamie’s hard work that the library became an outstanding unit of the school.“
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