New Deal, 1933-1939
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Arthurdale Homestead Project, Clippings
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1291
Scope and Contents
Clippings related to Arthurdale, Preston County, WV. Includes copies of clippings of article from the Morgantown Dominion News entitled: "Homestead Project Real Aid to Miners, Families" (October 24, 1934), which is a reply to critics of the FDR Administration's relocation project at Arthurdale.
Dates:
1934-1935, 1977
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
Howard B. Allen, Photographs, Films, and Papers on the Arthurdale Project
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1646
Scope and Contents
Photographs, glass plate negatives, motion picture films, and papers of Professor Howard B. Allen of the West Virginia Voc. Ed. Ser. covering the beginning and early development of the Arthurdale resettlement venture. Papers include lists of applicants and methods employed in screening families for the homestead project and essays and other material on local and out of state self-help and rehabilitation operations.
Dates:
1933-1934