WPA Records

Scope and content: Series contains a variety of records and notes documenting Works Progress Administration programs in Miami County, Kansas. Some records are lists from the Cliff Stratton Papers, dated 1939, documenting all public improvement projects to date in the state. They state the county of location, work project number, official project number, sponsor (a state agency with direct interest in the project), federal funds allotment, number of workers, and a project description. Other records include WPA Historical Records Survey instructions on identifying, inventorying, and describing records of historical significance, dated February, 7 1940; spiral notebooks containing Historical Records Survey notes created by project workers; and two visitor registers entitle Braille Transcribing from the Kansas City Transcribing Project No. 6865.