AN INVENTORY OF NEW DEAL PRODUCED WRITINGS

This is a list of New Deal-produced writings, arranged alphabetically by state and by title. Some of these writings went to press and were published—and thus may be available at libraries, or from online sellers, or from online repositories like Hathitrust—and some might only be available at archival institutions, especially the Library of Congress’s Federal Writers’ Project collection.

Periodically, we’ll be adding more items to this list.

The following resources have been utilized to create this inventory:

1. Evanell K. Powell, WPA Writers' Publications: A Complete Bibliographic Checklist and Price Guide of Items, Major and Minor, of the Federal Writers' Project and Program, Palm Beach, FL: 1976.

2. Harvester Microform, in cooperation with the Library of Congress, Archives of the Federal Writers' Project - Series One: Printed and Mimeograph Publications in the Surviving FWP Files, 1933-1943, excluding State Guides, 1987.

3. Federal Works Agency, Work Projects Administration, Catalogue, WPA Writers’ Program Publications, September 1941, , DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1942, available to view at http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015033686711;view=1up;seq=1 (accessed November 11, 2015).

4. U.S. Senate, The American Guide Series, http://www.senate.gov/reference/resources/pdf/WPAStateGuides.pdf, accessed November 11, 2015.

OHIO

WPA Written Work: A Guide to the State University, 1937, 16 pages. (WPA) A Report of Progress. (WPA) Air Raid Warden. (WPA) Ashland’s Eternity Acres, 1942, 95 pages. (WPA) CCC in Ohio, 1937, 14 pages. (WPA) Parks. (WPA) Directory of Social Resources: Columbus and Franklin County, 1942. (WPA) Established Camp Directory, Dayton, OH: The Camp Committee of the Council of Social Agencies, 1938, 46 pages. (WPA) Fairfield County and WPA, District No. 7, 6 pages. (WPA) Gallia County, 6 pages. (WPA) Guide to Morrow County Fair. (WPA) Guide to the Zoo, Wiesen-Hart Press, 1942, 109 pages. (WPA) Guide to the Ohio State Fair, 1937, 6 pages. (WPA) History of the Ordinance of 1787 and the Old , 1937, 95 pages. (WPA) Northwest Territory Celebration Commission, 68 pages. (WPA) Ohio Facts, Events, and Places Tours. May be related to the Ohio Recreational Handbook, see below. (WPA) Ohio State Fair, 1850-1937, 1937, 8 pages. (WPA) Ohio the Northwest Territory. (WPA) Parks of (appears to be a series, or a collection, of articles in a Cleveland parks & recreation magazine), 1940 (perhaps August), 44 pages. (WPA.) Pickaway County, District No. 8, 6 pages. (WPA) Publications of Ohio Writers’ Project. (WPA) Servicemen’s Club, Columbus, 6 pages. (WPA) The Army and Navy Union, USA: A History of the Union and its Auxiliary, 1942, 239 pages. (WPA). The Beautiful River, 1940, 41 pages. (WPA) The National Youth Administration in District No. 11, 6 pages. (WPA) The Story of the WPA in Ohio. (WPA) Today in Southeastern Ohio, 1937, 14 pages. (WPA) Toledo: Some Points of Interest. (WPA) Works Progress Administration in Ohio, may be reports issued in the fall of several years. (WPA)

Other New Deal-Published Writings: Bryan and Williams Country, Gallipolis, OH: Downtown Printing Co., 1941, 117 pages. (WPA, sponsored by the city of Bryan.) Chillicothe and Ross County, 1938, 91 pages. (WPA, sponsored by the Ross County Northwest Territory Committee.) Chillicothe: Ohio’s First Capitol, 1941, 32 pages. (WPA, sponsored by the Chillicothe Civic Association.)

Cincinnati: A Guide to the Queen City and its Neighbors, 570 pages. (WPA, sponsored by the city of Cincinnati.) Cincinnati: Glimpses of its Youth, 1938, 42 pages. (WPA, sponsored by the Cincinnati Public Schools.) Cincinnati: Highlights of a Long Life, 1938, 42 pages. (WPA, sponsored by the Cincinnati Public Schools.) Cincinnati: The Childhood of Our City, 1938, 41 pages. (WPA, sponsored by the Cincinnati Public Schools.) City Hall: The Story of Government in Cincinnati, Columbus, OH: Wiesen-Hart Press, 1940, 64 pages. (WPA, sponsored by the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society and the Hamilton County Good Government League.) Cleveland City Hospital, 1941, 25 pages. (WPA, sponsored by the City Hospital.) Cleveland’s Boystowns, 1940, 30 pages. (WPA, sponsored by the city of Cleveland.) Cudell House: Crafts and Arts Center, 1940, 32 pages. (WPA, sponsored by the Ohio State Archaeological and History Society.) Findlay and Hancock County, 1937, 52 pages. (WPA, sponsored by Findlay College.) Fremont and Sandusky County, 1940, 115 pages. (WPA, sponsored by the city of Fremont.) Gallipolis, Gallipolis, Downtown Printing Co., 1940, 48 pages. (WPA, sponsored by the Gallipolis Sesquicentennial Committee.) Guide to Tuscarawas County, 1940, 119 pages. (WPA, sponsored by the Tuscarawas Chamber of Commerce.) Illustrated Columbus Zoo Book, 1940, 59 pages. (WPA, sponsored by the Columbus Zoological Society.) Introduction to Standard English Braille, 1937, 4 pages. (WPA, sponsored by the Ohio State School for the Blind.) Lake County History, 1940, 100 pages. (WPA, sponsored by the Lake County Centennial Commission.) Lake County Landmarks, 1940, 35 pages. (WPA, sponsored by the Lake County Chapter Western Reserve Historical Society.) Vacationland in Ohio, Sandusky, OH: Stephens Printing Co., 1941, 129 pages. (WPA, sponsored by the city of Sandusky and Ohio Lake Erie Vacational Land, Inc.) Lifting the Veil: Centennial Pageant, 1837-1937, 52 pages. (WPA, sponsored by the Ohio State School for the Blind.) Lima and Allen County, 64 pages. (WPA, sponsored by the Better Business Bureau of Lima.) Marietta, 6 pages. (WPA, sponsored by the Northwest Territory Celebration Commission.) Martins Ferry Sesquicentennial, 1937, 10 pages. (WPA, sponsored by the Martins Ferry Sesquicentennial Committee.) Models for the Blind, 198 pages. (WPA, sponsored by the State School for the Blind.) Nature Trails: Cincinnati Park System, 1941, 66 pages. (WPA, sponsored by the Cincinnati Board of Park Commissioners.) Ohio: A Portrait, Fleming Publishing Co., 64 pages. (WPA, sponsored by the Ohio State Archaeology and Historical Society.) Ohio Recreational Handbook, Northport, NY: Bacon & Wieck, Inc., 1941, 36 pages. (WPA, sponsored by the Conservation Commission.) Ohio’s Capitols, 1936, 12 pages. (WPA, sponsored by the Ohio State Archaeology and Historical Society.) Play Spots, Akron and Summit County, 60 pages. (WPA, sponsored by the Akron Chamber of Commerce, Akron Community Chest, and Akron Department of Recreation.) Recreational Opportunities: Cleveland, 1940, 88 pages. (WPA, sponsored by the Cleveland Division of Recreation.) Springfield and Clark County, Springfield, OH: Springfield Tribune Printing Co., 1941, 136 pages. (WPA, sponsored by the Springfield Chamber of Commerce) Tales of Old Cincinnati, Wisen-Hart Press, 1940, 48 pages. (WPA, sponsored by the Hamilton County Good Government League.) The National Road in Song and Story, Columbus, OH: Stoneman Press, 1940, 48 pages. (WPA, sponsored by the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society.) The Notice, a quarterly catalog of Ohio Writer’s Project publications, 1941. (WPA, sponsored by the Ohio State Archaeology and Historical Society.) The Ohio Guide, : Oxford University Press, 1940, 634 pages. (WPA, sponsored by the Ohio Archaeology and Historical Society.) The Playleader’s Guide, 1940, 224 pages (there is also a 1941 revised edition). (WPA, sponsored by the Cleveland Department of Parks and Public Properties, Division of Recreation.) The Poles in Cleveland, 1940, 164 pages. (WPA, sponsored by the city of Cleveland.) They Built a City: 150 Years of Industrial Cincinnati, 1939, 402 pages. (WPA, sponsored by the mayor of Cincinnati.) Urbana and Champaign County, 147 pages. (WPA, sponsored by the Urbana Lions Club.) Warren and Trumbull County, 1938, 60 pages. (WPA, sponsored by the Western Reserve Historical Celebration Committee.) Westerville, 1941, 120 pages. (WPA, sponsored by the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society.) Zanesville and Muskingum County, 1938, 38 pages. (WPA, sponsored by the Zanesville Chamber of Commerce.)