United States. Works Progress Administration
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Gay Bolling Shepperson papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS522
Scope and Content
This collection consists of personal and business correspondence; copies and original newspaper and magazine clippings; house blueprints; and a World War II dated events map.
Dates:
1883-1945, undated; Majority of material found within 1933 - 1945
MacDougall Family Papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS228
Scope and Content
The Papers of Robert and Margaret MacDougall consist of correspondence, newspaper clippings and scrapbook pages, and brochures and other printed materials. Many of these papers concern MacDougall’s work as an engineer, work as an administrator of the Works Progress Administration and his activities working with the city of Atlanta, particularly in the development of the expressways through the city and the bond issues to finance the projects. A second portion of these papers concern the...
Dates:
1924-1977
Oakland Cemetery records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS618
Scope and Content
This collection contains burial permits, interment book records, removal lists, and "record of lot owners" books which provide details of persons buried and lot ownership at Oakland Cemetery. Also a part of the collection are sexton and superintendent records of payroll, expense ledgers, annual reports, and correspondence which document the day to day operations of the cemetery. Of special interest are WPA project records that reflect a consolidation of early cemetery records as well as the...
Dates:
1848-2018, undated
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- New Deal, 1933-1939 -- Georgia 1
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