Working With History: The Historical Records Survey in Louisiana and the Nation, 1936-1942

by Burl Noggle

First edition. An examination of the Historical Records Survey, which was a federal project under the Works Progress Administration, in which the purpose was to find and salvage, and inventory records throughout the nation, a task that provided jobs for a large number of clerical workers and a few historians. Top corners bumped. ix, ii , 139+ 1 pages. cloth, dust jacket. 8vo..

148 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1981

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[Fredrick Danysh · Rating 3 out of 5]

A historical Records Survey was conducted as part of FDR's New Deal in an effort to put Americans to work during the Great Depression. This book is a result of those efforts in Louisiana from 1936-1942 and looks at the effort.