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

Text

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

1972

60 items

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FormatTextCall numberSc 326.973-A (American slave) v. 19Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference
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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.

Text

[New York, AMS Press, 1975]

1973-1941

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberHAER 76-1454Item locationSchwarzman 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.

Text

[New York, AMS Press, 1975]

1975-1942

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberHBC 76-1453Item locationSchwarzman 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.

Text

[New York, AMS Press, 1973]

1973-1941

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberIEE (Czechs) 76-1658Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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The Armenians in Massachusetts. Boston, Armenian Historical Society, 1937.

Text

[New York, AMS Press, 1973]

1973-1937

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberIEE (Armenians) 76-1744Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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

Text

[New York, AMS Press, 1973]

1973-1939

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberHAER 76-678Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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

Text

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

1980

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberILH 81-601Item locationSchwarzman 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.

Text

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

1985

1 item

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The WPA guide to America : the best of 1930s America as seen by the Federal Writers' Project: Selections from the American guide series / written and compiled by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration, 1935-1941 ; edited by Bernard A. Weisberger.

Text

New York : Pantheon Books, c1985.

1985

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberILH 86-111Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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The WPA guide to Illinois : the Federal Writers' Project guide to 1930s Illinois / written and compiled by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the state of Illinois ; with a new introduction by Neil Harris and Michael Conzen.

Text

New York : Pantheon Books, c1983.

1983-1939

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberIVE 86-1524Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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

Text

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

1986-1940

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberITR 87-1286Item locationSchwarzman 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].

Text

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

1990

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberILH 91-7241Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Zora Neale Hurston portrait collection [graphic].

Still image

<1920?-1950?>

1920-1950

1 item

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FormatStill imageCall numberSc Photo Hurston, Zora NealeItem locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints
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Richard Wright portrait collection [graphic].

Still image

<1940?-1959?>

1940-1959

1 item

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FormatStill imageCall numberSc Photo Wright, RichardItem locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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

Text

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c1993.

1993

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc E 93-207Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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

Text

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

1937

5 items

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FormatTextCall numberSc 917.53-F (Federal Writers' Project. Washington, City and Capital)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatTextCall numberRare Books 18-4316Item locationSchwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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

Text

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

1970

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc 979.494-V (Vivian, O. Story of the Negro in Los Angeles County)Item locationSchomburg 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.

Text

Washington, 1941.

1941

11 items

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FormatTextCall numberSc Micro R-6467 r. 11Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatTextCall numberSc Micro R-6467 r. 10Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatTextCall numberSc Micro R-6467 r. 9Item locationSchomburg 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.

Text

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [c1994]

1994-1939

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberIWL 95-3565Item locationSchwarzman 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.

Text

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

1982-1938

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberAPR (New Jersey) 96-10378Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Mezzanine 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.

Text

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

1939

2 items

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FormatTextCall numberRare Books 23-856Item locationSchwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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

Text

Georgia, Savannah : Georgia Historical Society, 1947.

1947

2 items

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FormatTextCall numberRare Books 23-216Item locationSchwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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FormatTextCall numberITK (Chatham Co.) (United States. Works progress administration. Georgia. Savannah River plantations)Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Entertaining a nation; the career of Long Branch.

Text

Long Branch, N.J. 1940.

1940

2 items

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FormatTextCall numberRare Books 23-859Item locationSchwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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History of Milwaukee, Oregon / by Charles Oluf Olson.

Text

Milwaukee, Or. : Milwaukee Historical Society? 1965.

1965

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberIXK (Milwaukie) (Olson, C. O. History of Milwaukee, Oregon)Item locationSchwarzman 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.

Text

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

1936

3 items

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FormatTextCall numberIXZ p.v. 286 no. 1-8Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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FormatTextCall numberRare Books 23-903Item locationSchwarzman 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.

Text

Boston, B. Humphries, inc., 1941.

1941

2 items

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FormatTextCall numberTLH (United States. Works progress administration, Massachusetts. Boston looks seaward)Item locationOffsite
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FormatTextCall numberRare Books 23-860Item locationSchwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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The WPA guide to New York City : the Federal Writers' Project guide to 1930s New York : a comprehensive guide to the five boroughs of the metropolis-- Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, and Richmond / prepared by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration in New York City ; with an introduction by William H. Whyte.

Text

New York : New Press, ©1992.

1992

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberDesk-USLHG F128.18 .N375 1992Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Reference Room 121

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

Text

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2000.

2000

2 items

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FormatTextCall numberSc E 01-79Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatTextCall numberIEC 01-3213Item locationSchwarzman 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.

Text

Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2003.

2003

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc E 03-918Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Architecture [graphic].

Still image

[192-?]-[197-?]

197-197

1 item

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FormatStill imageCall numberSc Photo ArchitectureItem locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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

Text

Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2006.

2006

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc D 06-1579Item locationSchomburg 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.

Text

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2010.

2010

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberIWN 10-8305Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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

Text

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

2015-2015

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc D 15-1441Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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New York panorama : essays from the 1930s the Federal Writers' Project.

Text

Mineola, N.Y. : Dover Publications, Inc., 2018.

2018-1938

1 item

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FormatTextCall number*R-USLHG F128.18 .N435 2018Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Reference Room 121

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A guide to Alaska, last American frontier / by Merle Colby, Federal Writers' Project ; John W. Troy, governor of Alaska, sponsor.

Text

New York : Macmillan Company, 1939.

1939

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberRare Books 18-4348Item locationSchwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

Harlem document : photographs, 1932-1940 / Aaron Siskind ; foreword, Gordon Parks ; text from Federal Writers Project edited by Ann Banks.

Text

Providence, R. I. : Matrix, 1981.

1981

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc D 83-34Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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The Intracoastal Waterway : Norfolk to Key West / compiled by Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration.

Text

Washington : United States Government Printing Office, 1937.

1937

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberRare Books 23-200Item locationSchwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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Dutchess county, New York [cartographic material] : map supplement to the Dutchess county guide of the American guide series.

Cartographic

[Philadelphia] William Penn Association of Philadelphia, 1938.

1938

1 item

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FormatCartographicCall numberAA730 N4 F31Item locationOff-site

Boston looks seaward ; the story of the port, 1630-1940.

Text

New York : Library Editions, 1970.

1970-1941

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberF73.63 .W8 1970Item locationOff-site

Seeing St. Augustine / Record Co., 1937.

Text

[New York] : [AMS Press], [1976]

1976-1937

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberF319.S2 F4 1976Item locationOff-site

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

Text

Savannah : Georgia Historical Society, 1947.

1947

1 item

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FormatTextCall number975.6C391 W939Item locationOff-site

The WPA guide to Washington, D.C. : the Federal Writers' Project guide to 1930s Washington / with a new introduction by Roger G. Kennedy ; written and compiled by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the District of Columbia.

Text

New York : Pantheon Books, [1983], ©1983.

1983-1942

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberAA735 W2 1983 W91Item locationOff-site
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The WPA guide to Illinois : the Federal Writers' Project guide to 1930s Illinois / written and compiled by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the state of Illinois ; with a new introduction by Neil Harris and Michael Conzen.

Text

New York : Pantheon Books, [1983], ©1983.

1983-1939

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberAA730 Il6 Il63Item locationOff-site

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