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Arthurdale Homestead Project (1933-1934)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Arthurdale Homestead Project Miscellaneous Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2178
Scope and Contents Correspondence, business records, press releases, photographs, newspaper clippings, and printed material, regarding the resettlement of unemployed coal miners and their families to Arthurdale, West Virginia. Collection contains the papers of Bushrod Grimes (1888-1957), Project Manager of the Arthurdale Subsistence Homestead Project, 1933-1935, and pertains to the planning and administration of the Project. Correspondents include M.L. Wilson, Guy W. Numbers, Eleanor Roosevelt, Arthur Woods,...
Dates: 1933-1942, 1977-1993

Harry E. and Kathryn Ash Carlson Collection of Arthurdale Photographs and Other Material

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3649
Overview Photographic negatives and prints documenting the facilities, people, and activities at Arthurdale, West Virginia, the first of many New Deal planned communities established under the administration of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Also includes an oral history transcript, blueprints of Arthurdale homes, a scrapbook of photographs, and mounted photographs of Arthurdale facilities and local coal mining. Most or all of the photographs were created by Harry E. Carlson. There is also a...
Dates: 1934-1940; Majority of material found in 1934-1936