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E-Book: Alive with the exuberance, contradictions, and variety of the Golden State, this Depression-era guide to California is more than 700 pages of information that is, as David Kipen writes in his spirited introduction, anecdotal, opinionated, and altogether habit-forming. Describing the history, culture, and roadside
The WPA Guide to California: The Federal Writers' Project Guide to 1930s California Paperback – March 12, 1984. In Part III, back-road tours through California's coastal fishing villages and mountain mining towns still provide a splendid alternative to freeways. San Francisco in
The American Guide Series was a group of books and pamphlets published in 1937–41 under the auspices of the Federal Writers' Project (FWP), a Depression-era works program in the United States. The American Guide Series books were compiled by the FWP, but printed by individual states, and contained detailed
This book written as a Writers' project of the WPA, remains a valuable reference to anyone interested in the state of California. Handsomely illustrated, comprehensive, excellently written. The sub-collection of books from the Federal Writers' Project at the Prelinger Library sub-collection at the Internet Archive is a rich
WPA Guide to California. The Golden State. Federal Writers' Project (contributor). During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers' Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country's shared history and culture. The WPA
California in the 1930s: The WPA Guide to the Golden State [Federal Writers Project o, David Kipen] on Amazon.com. FREE shipping on qualifying offers. Alive with the exuberance, contradictions, and variety of the Golden State, this Depression-era guide to California is more than 700 pages of information that is.
THE FIRST to come were explorers by sea, venturing uneasily northward along the shores in pygmy galleons on the lookout for fabled El Dorado,, a vaguely imagined treasure trove of gold and spices somewhere near the Indies. Finding no riches, they returned disappointed. But the legend of El Dorado lingered, even.
The only 1939 features not replicated as part of this reissued WPA guide to California are the original cover photograph and a full-size fold-out map tucked into a pocket in the back. The first edition's jacket carried a black and white picture of two or three immense redwoods towering well out of frame, dwarfing the couple of
Describing the history, culture, and roadside attractions of the 1930s, the WPA Guide to California features some of the very best anonymous literature of its era, with writing by luminaries such as San Francisco poet Kenneth Rexroth, composer-writer- hobo Harry Partch, and authors Tillie Olsen and Kenneth Patchen.
Title, The WPA Guide to California: The Federal Writers' Project Guide to 1930s California. Authors, California, Federal Writers' Project. Edition, illustrated, reprint. Publisher, Pantheon Books, 1939. ISBN, 0394722906, 9780394722900. Length, 713 pages. Export Citation, BiBTeX EndNote RefMan

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