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Slave narratives [microform] a folk history of slavery in the United States from interviews with former slaves. Type-written records prepared by the Federal writers' project, 1936-1938, assembled by the Library of Congress project, Work projects administration, for the District of Columbia. Sponsored by the Library of Congress. Illustrated with photographs.

Microform

Washington, 1941.

1941

0 resources

The American slave : a composite autobiography / [edited by] George P. Rawick.

Book/text

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Pub. Co., 1972.

1972

60 items

Call number

Sc 326.973-A (American slave)

Item location

Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Call number

*R-USLHG E444 .A45 1972

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Reference Room 121

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Call number

Sc 326.973-A (American slave)

Item location

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South Carolina folktales; stories of animals and supernatural beings, compiled by workers of the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of South Carolina. Columbia, S.C.

Book/text

[New York, AMS Press, 1975]

1973

1 item

Call number

HAER 76-1454

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Land of Nakoda; the story of the Assiniboine Indians. From the tales of the Old Ones told to First Boy (James L. Long), with drawings by Fire Bear (William Standing). Helena, Mont., State Pub. Co., 1942.

Book/text

[New York, AMS Press, 1975]

1975

1 item

Call number

HBC 76-1453

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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The Bohemian Flats. Compiled by the workers of the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Minnesota. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press.

Book/text

[New York, AMS Press, 1973]

1973

1 item

Call number

IEE (Czechs) 76-1658

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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A guide to Alaska, last American frontier / by Merle Colby.

Book/text

St. Clair Shores, Mich. : Scholarly Press, 1976, ©1939.

1976

1 item

Call number

*R-USLHG F904 .F43 1976

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Reference Room 121

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Die Stimme des Negers; befreite Sklaven erzählen [von] B. A. Botkin. Die deutsche Ausg. ist hrsg. und eingeleitet von Kurt Heinrich Hansen. Aus dem Amerikanischen übertragen von Hans Wollschläger.

Book/text

[Hamburg] Nannen [1963]

1963

1 item

Call number

Sc 326.973-F (Federal Writers' Project. Stimme des Negers)

Item location

Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Idaho lore. Caldwell, Idaho, Caxton Printers, 1939.

Book/text

[New York, AMS Press, 1973]

1973

1 item

Call number

HAER 76-678

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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The American guide manual. Federal Writers' Projects, Henry G. Alsberg, director.

Book/text

[Washington] 1935.

1935

1 item

Call number

JFF 73-1035

Item location

Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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A guide to Alaska, last American frontier, by Merle Colby, Federal Writers' Project.

Book/text

New York, Macmillan, 1950, c1939.

1950

1 item

Call number

JFD 80-4343

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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First person America / selected and edited by Ann Banks. 1st ed.

Book/text

New York : Knopf : distributed by Random House, 1980.

1980

1 item

Call number

ILH 81-601

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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The First Franco-Americans : New England life histories from the Federal Writers' Project, 1938-1939 / [edited by] C. Stewart Doty.

Book/text

Orono, Me. : University of Maine at Orono Press, 1985.

1985

1 item

Call number

JAY G-1236

Item location

Offsite

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The WPA guide to Texas : with a new introduction / by Don Graham ;the Federal Writers' Project guide to Texas.

Book/text

Austin, Tex. : Texas Monthly Press, [1986, c1940]

1986

1 item

Call number

ITR 87-1286

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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The American guide series : works by the Federal Writers' Project / [compiled and written by Marc S. Selvaggio].

Book/text

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : Arthur Scharf, Bookseller : Schoyer's Books, [1990]

1990

1 item

Call number

ILH 91-7241

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Zora Neale Hurston portrait collection [graphic].

Picture

<1920?-1950?>

1920

1 item

Available online

NYPL Digital Collections

Call number

Sc Photo Hurston, Zora Neale

Item location

Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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Richard Wright portrait collection [graphic].

Picture

<1940?-1959?>

1940

1 item

Call number

Sc Photo Wright, Richard

Item location

Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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Lay my burden down; a folk history of slavery, edited by B. A. Botkin.

Book/text

Chicago, Ill., University of Chicago Press [1945]

1945

3 items

Call number

Sc 326.973-F (Federal Writers' Project. Lay my burden down.1945)

Item location

Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Call number

SEKK (United States. Works progress administration. Lay my burden down)

Item location

Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Call number

Rare Books 23-113

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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These are our lives : as told by the people and written by members of the Federal Writers' Project on the Works Progress Administration in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia.

Book/text

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1939.

1939

3 items

Call number

Sc 330.973-F (Federal Writers' Project. These are our lives)

Item location

Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Call number

Rare Books 23-207

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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Call number

IT (United States. Works progress administration. North Carolina. These are our lives)

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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The Florida Negro : a Federal Writers' Project legacy / edited, with an introduction by Gary W. McDonogh.

Book/text

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c1993.

1993

1 item

Call number

Sc E 93-207

Item location

Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Washington, city and capital / Federal Writers' Project, Works Progress Administration.

Book/text

Washington, D.C. : United States Government Printing Office, 1937.

1937

5 items

Call number

Sc 917.53-F (Federal Writers' Project. Washington, City and Capital)

Item location

Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Call number

Rare Books 18-4316

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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Call number

Map Div. (United States. Works progress administration. District of Columbia. Washington, City and Capital)

Item location

Offsite

The story of the Negro in Los Angeles County; Compiled by Federal Writers' Project ... under the supervision of Hugh Harlan ...

Book/text

[San Francisco, R. and E Research Associates, 1970]

1970

1 item

Call number

Sc 979.494-V (Vivian, O. Story of the Negro in Los Angeles County)

Item location

Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Slave narratives [microform] : a folk history of slavery in the United States from interviews with former slaves : typewritten records / prepared by the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 : assembled by the Library of Congress Project, Work Projects Administration for the District of Columbia : sponsored by the Library of Congress : illustrated with photographs.

Microform

Washington, 1941.

1941

11 items

Call number

Sc Micro R-6467 r. 11

Item location

Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Call number

Sc Micro R-6467 r. 10

Item location

Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Call number

Sc Micro R-6467 r. 9

Item location

Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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The WPA guide to 1930s Montana / compiled and written by the Federal Writers' Project of the Work Projects Administration for the state of Montana ; with a new foreword by William Kittredge.

Book/text

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [c1994]

1994

1 item

Call number

IWL 95-3565

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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The records of the Swedish Lutheran churches at Raccoon and Penns Neck, 1713-1786 / translated and compiled by the Federal Writers' Project of the Work Progress Administration, state of New Jersey ; with an introduction and notes by Amandus Johnson.

Book/text

Woodbury, N.J. : Gloucester County Historical Society, [1982], c1938.

1982

1 item

Call number

APR (New Jersey) 96-10378

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Mezzanine Room 121

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Our federal government and how it functions; compiled and written by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration.

Book/text

New York, Hastings House [c1939]

1939

3 items

Call number

Rare Books 18-4353

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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Call number

IBM (United States. Works progress administration. District of Columbia. Our federal government and how it functions. 1939)

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Call number

IBM (United States. Works progress administration. District of Columbia. Our federal government and how it functions. 1939)

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Gli Italiani di New York ...

Book/text

New York, Labor press, 1939.

1939

2 items

Call number

Rare Books 23-855

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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Call number

IEE (Italians) (United States. Works progress administration. New York (city). Italiani di New York)

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Lay my burden down; a folk history of slavery, edited by B. A. Botkin.

Book/text

Chicago, Ill., University of Chicago Press [1945]

1945

1 item

Call number

IIR (United States. Works progress administration. Lay my burden down)

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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The Berkshire Hills. Compiled and written by members of the Federal Writersʼ Project of the Works Progress Administration for Massachusetts; sponsored by the Berkshire Hills Conference Inc.

Book/text

New York and London, Funk & Wagnalls company, 1939.

1939

2 items

Call number

Rare Books 23-856

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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Call number

IQH (Berkshire Co.) (United States. Works progress administration. Massachusetts. Berkshire hills)

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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The ocean highway : New Brunswick, New Jersey to Jacksonville, Florida / compiled and written by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration.

Book/text

New York : Modern Age Books, [1938]

1938

2 items

Call number

Rare Books 23-133

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

Not available - Please contact a librarian for assistance.

Call number

ILH (United States. Works progress administration. Ocean highway)

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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U.S. one, Maine to Florida, compiled and written by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration, with 30 photographs. Sponsored by the U.S. no. 1 Highway Association.

Book/text

New York, Modern Age Books, inc. [c1938]

1938

2 items

Call number

Rare Books 23-822

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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Call number

ILH (U.S. Works progress administration. U.S. one, Maine to Florida)

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Our Washington; a comprehensive album of the nation's capital in words and pictures, prepared by the Federal writers' project of the Works progress administration. Sponsored by the Guilds' committee for Federal writers' publications, inc.

Book/text

Chicago, A. C. McClurg & co., 1939.

1939

2 items

Call number

Rare Books 18-4246

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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Call number

ISK (Washington) (United States. Works progress administrations. Our Washington)

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Savannah River plantations / [by] Savannah Writers' Project, Mary Granger, editor.

Book/text

Georgia, Savannah : Georgia Historical Society, 1947.

1947

2 items

Call number

Rare Books 23-216

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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Call number

ITK (Chatham Co.) (United States. Works progress administration. Georgia. Savannah River plantations)

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Entertaining a nation; the career of Long Branch.

Book/text

Long Branch, N.J. 1940.

1940

2 items

Call number

Rare Books 23-859

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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Call number

ISB (Long Branch) (United States. Works progress administration. New Jersey. Entertaining a nation)

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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History of Milwaukee, Oregon / by Charles Oluf Olson.

Book/text

Milwaukee, Or. : Milwaukee Historical Society? 1965.

1965

1 item

Call number

IXK (Milwaukie) (Olson, C. O. History of Milwaukee, Oregon)

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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A guide to Alaska, last American frontier, by Merle Colby, Federal writers' project.

Book/text

New York, Macmillan Co., 1943.

1943

2 items

Call number

IXP (Colby, M. E. Guide to Alaska)

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Call number

*R-USLHG F902.3 .F43 1943

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Reference Room 121

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Montana; a state guide book; compiled and written by the Federal Writers' Project of trhe Work Projects Administration for the state of Montana ... ; sponsored by Department of Agriculture, Labor and Industry, state of Montana.

Book/text

New York, Viking Press, 1939.

1939

4 items

Call number

Rare Books 23-805

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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Call number

IWL 95-5595

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Call number

IWL (U.S. W.P.A. Montana)

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Matawan, 1686-1936 / written and illustrated by workers of the Federal Writers' Projects, State of New Jersey Works Progress Administration.

Book/text

Newark, N.J. : Federal Writers' Projects, 1936

1936

3 items

Call number

IXZ p.v. 286

Item location

Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Call number

Rare Books 23-903

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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Boston looks seaward; the story of the port, 1630-1940, compiled by workers of the Writers' program of the Work Projects Administration in the state of Massachusetts, sponsored by Boston port authority.

Book/text

Boston, B. Humphries, inc., 1941.

1941

2 items

Call number

TLH (United States. Works progress administration, Massachusetts. Boston looks seaward)

Item location

Offsite

Call number

Rare Books 23-860

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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The Havasupai and the Hualapai / Federal Writers' Project.

Book/text

Flagstaff, Ariz. : Arizona State Teachers College, [1940].

1940

1 item

Call number

HBC p.v. 303

Item location

Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Homeless, friendless, and penniless : the WPA interviews with former slaves living in Indiana / [compiled by] Ronald L. Baker.

Book/text

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2000.

2000

2 items

Call number

Sc E 01-79

Item location

Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Call number

IEC 01-3213

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Bearing witness : memories of Arkansas slavery : narratives from the 1930s WPA collections / edited by George E. Lankford.

Book/text

Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2003.

2003

1 item

Call number

Sc E 03-918

Item location

Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Architecture [graphic].

Picture

[192-?]-[197-?]

197

1 item

Call number

Sc Photo Architecture

Item location

Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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Bearing witness : memories of Arkansas slavery : narratives from the 1930s WPA collections / edited by George E. Lankford.

Book/text

Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2006.

2006

1 item

Call number

Sc D 06-1579

Item location

Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Wyoming folklore : reminiscences, folktales, beliefs, customs, and folk speech / collected by the Federal Writers' Project ; edited by James R. Dow, Roger L. Welsch, and Susan D. Dow ; introduction by James R. Dow and Roger L. Welsch.

Book/text

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2010.

2010

1 item

Call number

IWN 10-8305

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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California in the 1930s : the WPA guide to the Golden State / Federal Writers Project of the Works Progess Administration ; introduction by David Kipen.

Book/text

Berkely, CA : University Of California Press, 2013.

2013

1 item

Call number

JFD 13-2944

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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One more river to cross : a verbatim fugue / adapted by Lynn Nottage.

Book/text

New York, NY : Dramatists Play Service Inc. ; [2015]

2015

1 item

Call number

Sc D 15-1441

Item location

Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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