Books

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Film / NYA / Photography

Electronic edition of one of the WPA Guides,
this one on the Commonwealth of Virginia:

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/VAGuide/frame.html

This is one element of a much larger project on the 1930s
from the American Studies Programs at The University of
Virginia. Lots of resources for students and teachers.

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/front.html

OKLAHOMA
THEMATIC SURVEY OF NEW DEAL ERA PUBLIC ART IN OKLAHOMA 2003-2004 done by the Department of Geography, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK for the OK State Historic Preservation Office, OK Historical Society 2704 Villa Prom, OK City, OK 73107. Project Personnel Dr. Alyson L. Greiner, Principal Investigator, Dr. Mark A. White, Art Historian. Completed 2004. 170 pp. CD of Images is also available to compliment the survey presentation. Provides minimum-level documentation on 37 properties in OK. All but one contains art that was produced by the New Deal art programs between 1934-43. Also includes mural in Stillwater PO building which was done later. Updates on existing historical register properties were done and others considered.

Picturing Arizona: The Photographic Record of the 1930's. Edited by Katherine G. Morrissey and Kirsten M. Jensen. Univ. of AZ Press, 2005. 247 pp

DVDS

"Celebrating the Antiquities Act",  Speech at 2005 Saving Places Conference, Denver, CO. Colorado Preservation Inc., Recorded by Backcountry Productions, Longmont, CO 80501

"FDR: A Presidency Revealed"- 2 disks  Source unknown

Camp Forgotten: Michigan CCC Camps. Pare Lorentz Film Center at Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library.

Sights and Sounds of the FSA. Pare Lorentz film Center At FDR Presidential Library.

New Deal for Artists. 1979 ROOSEVELT AND THE NEW DEAL WPA PROJECTS 1935-42 B/W/color; in 4 parts, 45 min. each.

Part I The Federal Theater

Part II The Federal Writers Project

Part III The Federal Arts Project

Part IV The Documentary Photography of the Farm Security Administration


Videos

"Teaching with Historic Places" Introductory video on the program provided by the National Register of Historic Places, National Park Services, 2002.