Federal Writers' Project,Zora Neale Hurston,New York Times Book Fair,NYC
Title: Federal Writers' Project photographs depicting displays and promotional activities for American Guide publications
Related Names:
Federal Writers' Project.
Date Created/Published: 1936-1941, bulk 1937-1939.
13 photomechanical prints : halftone ; images 17 x 13 cm. or smaller, printed on sheets 32 x 48 cm.
Summary: Includes book fairs, window displays, and other exhibitions for Federal Writers' Project book promotions throughout the United States. People viewing exhibits during American Guide Week, 1941; photos of guide books. Also some photomechanical prints of historic sites and views used in the Puerto Rico guide book; landscape views of Idaho; one photo of Zora Neale Hurston looking at a book at the N.Y. Times book fair in New York City, 1937 (LOT 13325-17).
Notes:
Arrangement: Organized by state or subject into thirty-three subdivisions.
LOT title devised by Library staff.
Photographs credited to the Federal Art Project, Photographic Division; the WPA Texas State Division of Public Information; other WPA staff and commercial photographers.
Captions on most images.
Includes one 8x10 in. negative filed under: LC-MISC-14-001.
Transfer; Manuscript Division (U.S. Work Projects Administration records); 1980; (DLC/PP-1984:361).
Forms part of: Records of the U.S. Work Projects Administration.
Subjects:
Federal Writers' Project--Exhibitions & displays--1930-1950.
Federal Writers' Project--Public relations--1930-1950.
Federal Writers' Project--Products--1930-1950.
American guide series--1930-1950.
Book fairs--United States--1930-1950.
Window displays--United States--1930-1950.
Exhibitions--United States--1930-1950.
Gelatin silver prints--1930-1950.
Bookmark /00649982/
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