Washington
State Archives
520 Union Avenue SE
P.O. Box 40220
Olympia, Washington 98504-0220
(360) 902-4151
http://www.secstate.wa.gov/archives/
Series
Title: AR3-A-20
State
Archives, WPA Record Survey Collection, 1939-1941
Volume:
2 cubic feet
Description:
Published
inventories of county records as surveyed by the WPA Historical Records
Project between 1939 and 1941. Includes
inventories of Adams, Asotin, Benton, Cowlitz, Garfield, King, Lewis,
Lincoln, Skagit, Snohomish, Spokane, Stevens, and Yakima counties. Also
includes inventories of church records, public vital records and imprints.
Series
Title: AR45-1-6
Conservation
Department, Inventory of Public Land, 1941
Volume:
0.5 cubic feet
Description:
Summaries of
acreage owned by the state and Federal Governments in Washington, arranged
by county. A W.P.A. project
that was never completed.
Series
Title:
AR55
Washington
Emergency Relief Administration
Description:
Records of
the state's program to alleviate the effects of the Great Depression.
Includes compensation records, appropriation ledgers, and correspondence
and subject files. The
Washington Emergency Relief Administration was established by the McDonald
Act of 1933 to provide public relief during the Depression. It was the
first centralized system of public welfare relief in the state. It was
governed by the Emergency Relief Commission, members of which were
appointed by the Governor. The Commission in turn appointed the first and
only director of the Washington Emergency Relief Administration, Mr.
Charles F. Ernst.
The Relief
Administration operated through a system of district directors and county
boards. It administered a number of federally instituted and financed
programs including the Civilian Conservation Corps, the National
Re-employment Service, Surplus Commodity Distribution, Migrant Services,
and Projects of the Civil Works Administration. It operated a Rural
Rehabilitation Division as well as commodity production and work centers.
While the Commission and the Director were responsible to the State
Legislature and the Governor, most of the funds were derived from federal
sources to which federal policies, regulations, and procedures applied.
The Washington Emergency Relief Administration expired on May 7, 1935,
being replaced by the Department of Public Welfare. Rural rehabilitation
and public works programs, previously handled by Washington Emergency
Relief Administration, were taken over by the Federal Resettlement
Administration and the Work Projects Administration in 1935.
Series
Title: AR55-1-1
Washington
Emergency Relief Administration, Director's Files, 1931-1940
Volume:
77.5 cubic feet
Description:
Correspondence,
telegrams, reports, publications, bulletins, memoranda, plans, and
statistics concerning unemployment, self-help, housing, welfare, relief
activities, transients, surplus commodities, subsistence homesteads,
Civilian Conservation Corps camps, irrigation projects, state and federal
programs, legislation, and many other topics concerning the alleviation of
human suffering during the Depression.
Arranged chronologically.
Series
Title: AR55-1-2
Washington
Emergency Relief Administration, Appropriation Ledgers, 1932-1937
Volume:
2
cubic feet (includes 3 vols.)
Description:
A record of
appropriations to finance Washington Emergency Relief Administration
programs.
Series
Title: AR55-1-4
Washington
Emergency Relief Administration, Warrants Record, 1933-1937
Volume:
3
volumes, 18 microfilm reels
Description:
Warrants
issued to finance Washington Emergency Relief Administration projects and
to provide for individual relief. Also
includes three volumes of warrant registers.
Arranged chronologically.
Series
Title: AR55-1-6
Washington
Emergency Relief Administration, Petroglyph Study, 1935-1936
Volume:
0.5
cubic feet
Description:
Correspondence,
drawings and background studies of petroglyphs in central Washington.
Series
Title:
AR55-1-7
Washington
Emergency Relief Administration, Index to Injury Claims, 1934-1935
Volume:
0.3 cubic feet (1 volume)
Description:
An
alphabetical index to claims submitted by workers injured on public works
projects. Shows name, date,
and nature of injury.
Series
Title: AR55-1-8
Washington
Emergency Relief Administration, Division 2 Works Project
Summaries,
1934-1935
Volume:
0.5 cubic feet
Description:
Summaries of
works projects done in Division 2, Washington Emergency Relief
Administration (WPA) in King, Kitsap, Clallam and Jefferson counties. Includes a one to two page description of each project, with
photos, and a narrative summary concerning the impact and results of such
projects.
Series
Title:
AR98-4-2
Public
Assistance Department, Social Security Grants-In-Aid Files, 1935-1938
Volume:
10 cubic feet
Description:
Applications
for funds to build and repair schools, courthouses, recreational
facilities, airports and other public projects. Includes correspondence,
specifications, plans, fiscal records and related documents. Arranged by
project number. Indexed by
project name.
