Series 428: Office Files. 1937-1943.
Work Projects Administration. (RG 60)

Series 428: Office Files. 1937-1943.
Work Projects Administration. (RG 60)

      Office files from the Professional and Service Projects division of the WPA. Files contain a mix of materials, including a list of personnel assignments and wage rates for the Historical Records Survey and Naturalization Index project (1941); progress reports from various projects at various times, such as the Church Records Inventory (1939-1940, fragmentary), the Historical Records Survey (1941), the Vital Statistics Indexing project (1941); an organization chart for the Professional and Service Projects division; limited correspondence with the Writers' Project; property inventory forms, mostly from the Writer's Project; manuals for different projects, including the Public Records Survey and many of the works published by the Writer's Project; individuals' WPA work cards and WPA wage rates (1938); workers' time sheets, mostly for those working to catalogue the library of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History; and a list of workers by district, possibly for the County Records Inventory. Individuals' files generally contain correspondence, although the file on Gertie Frank contains her research notes from her work on the Writer's Project and the file on Willie C. Scallorn contains both correspondence and 1940 time sheets. Also included is a copy of federal WPA appropriations act for FY 1943. Researchers should note that series 467, Scrapbooks, contains a scrapbook documenting "This Work Pays Your Community Week".

See also:
      Series 467: Scrapbooks. 1934-1941.