sian Gulf shipping area; records of the Division of Foreign Charters and Ship Warrants, which include materials about the issuance of ship warrants and the administration of the Ship Warrants Act; and files of Director John W. Mann, relating to the Rates Appeals Committee and the Ship Warrants Subcommittee of the United Maritime Authority Planning Committee. Records of the Office for the Russian Shipping Area, relating to development of Soviet and East European shipping programs, 1941-46. RECORDS OF THE DEPUTY These consist of decisions and memorandums of the Maritime War Emergency Board on maritime labor disputes concerning hazardous duty, 1941-50, and minutes of the Executive Committee of the United Seamen's Service, Inc., created by the WSA to provide merchant marine personnel with recreational, medical, educational, religious, and personal services, 1942-44. RECORDS OF THE MARITIME WAR EMERGENCY BOARD. 194250. 2 lin. in. The Maritime War Emergency Board, which was appointed by the President on December 19, 1941, regulated war risk insurance on maritime personnel, their bonuses for voyages in dangerous areas, their bonuses and wages when their vessels were captured or lost, and their reimbursement for loss of personal effects. The agency was formally abolished September 1, 1950. The records consist of two bound volumes: Maritime War Emergency Board Decisions, Clarifications, and Amendments (Vol. 1) (1942-50), and Maritime War Emergency Board Weekly Bulletins 1-50 (Vol. 2) (1942-45). (These evidently were bound by WSA as consecutive volumes.) Attached to the former are single copies of two publications, Questions and Answers on the Second Seamen's War Risk Policy As Amended (issued by the WSA and the MWEB, n.d.) and Crew War Risk Insurance (World War II and After) (issued by the Maritime Administration, 1957). See Allen M. Ross, comp., Preliminary Inventory of the Records of the War Shipping Administration, PI 30 (1951). SPECIFIC RESTRICTIONS Specified by: Maritime Administration. RECORDS OF THE WORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION (RECORD GROUP 69) The Work Projects Administration (known as the Works Progress Administration until July 1, 1939) was established May 6, 1935, with responsibility for the Government's work-relief program. It succeeded the Federal Emer gency Relief Administration (FERA) and the Civil Works Administration (CWA), both established in 1933. On July 1, 1939, the WPA was made part of the Federal Works Agency (see RG 162) and the National Youth Administ tion was separated from the WPA and placed in the Federal Security Agency (see RG 119). When the WPA was officially abolished June 30, 1943, the Division for Liquidation of the Work Projects Administration was set up in the Federal Works Agency and functioned until June 30, 1944. The WPA operated at four organizational levels-the central administration at Washington, regional offices, State administrations, and district offices. Except for certain federally sponsored projects, State and local governments helped finance and supervise WPA work projects. Because of the close administrative and chronological relationship between the three Federal relief agencies and because of numerous changes in their organization, some of the records described below are interrelated and overlapping. See Edward A. Williams, Federal Aid for Relief (New York, 1939); A. W. MacMahon, J. D. Millett, and Gladys Ogden, The Administration of Federal Work Relief (Chicago, 1941); and Donald S. Howard, The WPA and Federal Relief Policy (New York, 1943). There are 4,637 cubic feet of records. dated between 1933 and 1945 in this record group. CENTRAL FILES OF CWA, FERA, These are organized similarly into "State" and "general subject" series. Administrative reports and correspondence relating to a program within a single State or territory are filed under the name of that State or territory and thereunder according to a subject classification. Correspondence relating to operation of the relief program as a whole or in more than one State is filed by subject in the "general subject" series. CWA central files, 1933-34, include general correspondence concerning appeals for employment, commendations, demolition and housing projects, employment of blacks, program policy, and rules and regulations; and correspondence with various Federal departments, agencies, and private organizations. Correspondence for each State or territory is filed under six general headings. FERA central files, 1933-36, include the "old general subject" series relating to the FERA program, 1933-35; the "new general subject" series (a decimal classification plan adopted in 1935, which included most "old general subject" clas sifications and some additional ones, among them the Florida hurricane disaster of 1935); and some separately filed records relating to the history of the Federal relief program, 1935. Also included is correspondence with State administrators, maintained as a continuous "State" series from March 1933. When the decimal classification scheme was adopted in 1935, most of the earlier records were interfiled with the later classified "State" correspondence. Minutes of State relief agencies and inquir ies concerning chattel mortgages and rural relief, found only in the earlier material, are filed at the end of the classified files for each State or territory. WPA central files, 1935-44, were organized according to a decimal classification plan. Since this same plan was used by the Federal Works Agency Division for the Liquidation of the WPA, its central files constitute part of the WPA central files. These files document all WPA functions and contain material relevant to divisional records. In general, records in the "general subject" series reflect the attitude of the Washington office staff on the type of project or program, while records in the "State" series relate to specific projects. Filed separately are final State reports of the women's, professional, and service projects that were removed from the "State" series; final narrative reports on the operation and accomplishments of the overall WPA program in each State; and a selection from the former "index" to the WPA で central files, 1935-38, consisting of extra copies of letters sent to certain prominent individuals, agencies, and organizations. MICROFILM COPIES OF CENTRAL OFFICE AND STATE FERA, CWA, AND WPA RECORDS. 1933-45. ca. 15,980 rolls. Included are project files, statistical data, financial and accounting records, Presidential letters, and miscellaneous records of various offices and divisions, with card indexes to some project files and miscellaneous indexes to central office and State files. Also included are records relating to the WPA scrap collection program, 1940-43; copyright records of Federal Writers' Project publications, 1935-40, and correspondence concerning royalty payments on the publication A Guide to Alaska, Last American Frontier, 1939-45; records relating to the allocation of WPA works of art, 1937-43; reports on the emergency education program, 1933-37, and the college student aid program, 1934-35; and statistical reports and correspondence on the rural rehabilitation program, 1934-37, and certain rural rehabilitation colonies, 1933-40, including the Matanuska Valley colony in Alaska, 1935-39. RECORDS OF THE FERA The Federal Emergency Relief Act of 1933 attempted to aid cooperatives by authorizing grants to States to facilitate the "barter of goods and services." The records of the Division consist of monthly progress, financial, and field reports; correspondence; and records about cooperatives. This Division maintained all its records apart from the central files. RECORDS OF THE FERA TRANSIENT DIVISION. 1933-36. 27 lin. ft. The Transient Division was established to supervise grants to States for the relief of indigent persons who could not qualify under State laws requiring that only residents could be recipients of relief. Most of the administrative correspondence of the Division was placed in the central files. The separately maintained records consist largely of periodic statistical reports, surveys of camp facilities, and policy records on establishment of work camps and the WPA reorganization of the transient program. RECORDS OF THE FERA Included are administrative records and some research material created in studies of the United States by economic sections under the "four phases of sectional economy-industrial, agricultural, political, and social." RECORDS OF THE FERA WORK These include procedural bulletins for specific work projects and reports and correspondence concerning a rural electrification survey, engineering and construction projects, the drought relief and subsistence garden programs, and the mattress-making project of the Women's Section. RECORDS OF THE FERA AND This program supervised State and local projects for adult education in arts and crafts, vocational training, parent education, and child care; conducted classes in black and workers education and in literacy; assisted in operating nursery and rural schools; and supervised the college student aid program. The records consist of Washington office reports, memorandums, correspondence, and some teaching material. Records of this program after 1939 were incorporated in the WPA central files. RECORDS OF WPA FEDERAL PROJECT NO. 1. 1935-42. 792 lin. ft. The Federal arts program was approved as WPA-sponsored Federal Project No. 1 on September 12, 1935, to provide employment for qualified artists, musicians, actors, and authors on local relief rolls. It superseded all art projects operating under FERA or WPA State administrations and consisted of the Federal Art, Music, Theater, and Writers' Projects, including the Historical Records Survey until October 1936 when the Survey was made. an independent unit. Federal Project No. 1 was terminated June 30, 1939. With the exception of the Federal Theater Project, which was abolished in July 1939, the arts programs continued as State projects. The records of Federal Project No. 1 include statistical summaries of project employment and costs and procedural records as well as records of the following individual projects: (1) The Federal Art Project. 1935-40. Included are correspondence with State and regional offices; field trip reports; periodic progress reports for New York City, New York State, and New Jersey; and miscellaneous records relating to National Art Week, community art centers, and the "Index of American Design." (2) The Federal Music Project. 1935-40. These consist of correspondence; narrative, statistical, and miscellaneous reports on the general program and its sponsorship; and newspaper clippings. (3) The Federal Theater Project. 1935-39. Included are records of Washington and New York City national offices, the National Service Bureau in New York, regional service bureaus, and State offices. They consist of correspondence, including files of the national director; narrative and statistical reports on productions; newspaper clippings, press releases, and other publicity; research material, monographs, and histories of the theater; and playscripts, play catalogs, and produc tion bulletins. (4) The Federal Writers' Project. 1935-44. These consist of Washington office administrative files; field trip reports; editorial correspondence and reports; publication contracts; regional office files from southern California and New England; and a few edited manuscripts, with related research material and correspondence. (5) Records of the Historical Records Survey (HRS). 1935-42. Included are reports from regional and field supervisors, general and editorial correspondence, manuals, and an incomplete set of HRS publications. Most of the records concern the inspection, listing, and inventorying of archival and other materials in libraries, historical societies, city and county offices, churches, and other non-Federal depositories. There are some that concern the Survey of Federal Archives, the American Imprints Inventory, and national defense work undertaken after 1940. OTHER RECORDS OF THE DIVISION OF PROFESSIONAL AND SERVICE PROJECTS. 1935-43. 941 lin. ft. This unit was known successively as the Division of Professional and Service Projects, 1935-41, the Division of Community Service Programs, 1941-42, and the Service Division, 1942-43. Its general function was to supervise federally sponsored "white collar" work relief proj ects. The records consist of narrative reports submitted by State offices, 193539; scrapbooks of "This Work Pays Your Community Week" exhibits submitted by State offices, 1940-41; final reports on national operations and accomplishments of service projects, 1942-43; and records for the following projects: (1) The Survey of Federal Archives. 193543. These comprise reports; copies of a form giving location, volume, title, dates, and other information concerning records surveyed; correspondence; unpublished manuscripts; instructional materials; records of several regional offices; and a set of published inventories. (2) The Research and Records Projects. 1935-42. The work of this unit did not differ greatly from that of the Division of Statistics, but the Research and Records Projects unit was concerned only with sponsored projects rather than with research within or for the WPA. The records consist of project application files, general administrative correspondence, reports and unpublished studies, procedural material, statistical data, and copies of publications and final project reports. In most cases research and unpublished materials assembled by projects were retained by their sponsors. (3) Miscellaneous projects. 1935-43. Included are administrative correspondence and procedural manuals of library service and newspaper-indexing projects; and records of a Library of Congress project to inventory and arrange records of WPA arts projects, the workers service program, and a project to teach Spanish to members of the Army Air Forces. RECORDS OF THE WPA DIVISION OF STATISTICS. 1935-43. 101 lin. ft. This Division-known also as the Division of Social Research; the Division of Research, Statistics, and Finance; and the Division of Research, Records, and Statistics was responsible for assembling and analyzing statistical information for WPA use. The records include general administrative correspondence, statistical tabulations, and materials used at appropriation hearings. RECORDS OF THE WPA NATIONAL RESEARCH PROJECT. 1935-42. 61 lin. ft. The National Research Project on Reemployment and Recent Changes in Industrial Techniques analyzed and augmented existing information with field surveys to determine "the extent of recent changes in industrial techniques and to evaluate the effects of these changes on the volume of employment and unemployment." Most of its records. were turned over to the Bureaus of Labor Statistics and of Agricultural Economics. Included here are reports, memorandums, and correspondence relating to the organization and administration of the project and its relations with other Government agencies and private institutions. RECORDS OF THE WPA DIVISION OF INFORMATION. 1934-42. 381 lin. ft. Included are interoffice memorandums, speeches and publicity material, community improvement appraisal committee reports, correspondence, newspaper and magazine clippings concerning the national WPA program, and radio scripts. There are also records relating to CWA final State reports, FERA expenditures, and CWA and FERA proj ects. RECORDS OF THE WPA DIVISION OF ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION. 1935-44. 72 lin. ft. This Division was responsible for planning and supervising construction projects for highways, airports, dams, and sanitation works. The records consist of central classified files, administrative files, and project files, including those on airways and airports. RECORDS OF THE PUBLIC WORK RESERVE PROJECT. 1941-42. 60 lin. ft. The project secured prospectuses of projects planned by Federal, State, and local agencies for postwar operation and made selective preliminary studies of proposed projects. The records include correspondence, the office file of the consultant on planning, construction project summaries, individual project prospectuses, and code files. There a |