Series 445: Office Files. 1936-1942.
Work Projects Administration. Historical Records Survey (RG 60)

Series 445: Office Files. 1936-1942.
Work Projects Administration. Historical Records Survey (RG 60)

      Files from the central office administering the statewide Historic Records Survey. Files include bulletins and circulars from the project’s state directors to county supervisors on assignments, style guides, citation examples, and outlines; correspondence detailing how to fill out various data forms and timesheets, plus general worker correspondence; a 1940 manual for conducting the newspaper survey; a manual for conducting the overall historic records survey; reports on project activities (1941), project accomplishments (1938), and the project’s contribution to creating new research tools (1938); similar reports from the Louisiana and Oklahoma historic records surveys; and daily and weekly progress report forms from field workers, 1936-1939 and 1941.