MINNESOTA WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION:

An Inventory of Its Administrative Files at the Minnesota Historical Society

Manuscripts Collection

OVERVIEW


	Creator:	Minnesota Works Progress Administration.
	Title:	Administrative files, Minnesota Works Progress Administration collection.
	Dates:	circa 1932-1942.
	Language:	Materials in English.
	Abstract:	Includes letters, bulletins, speeches, numerous reports, and miscellaneous items.
	Quantity:	8.5 cubic feet (17 boxes).
	Location:	See Detailed Description for shelf locations.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION


Location	Box
BC8.1 .W956	325	General Letters:
			Mimeographed; from Washington Office of the Works Projects Administration to State Work Projects administrators. Most of the letters are signed by Harry L. Hopkins and his assistants transmitting information regarding appointments, management of specific projects, office procedures, personnel policies, and changes in regulations.
			Letters 1-272.
Location	Box
BC8.1 .W956	326		Letters 273-331.


Location	Box
BC8.1 .W956	327	Information Service Letters, 3-164.
			Sent from the Washington office to the state office; include suggestions for projects, directions for execution of projects, and general information on WPA activities.


		Finance Field Letters, 1-122.
			Issued by Minnesota WPA state office to district directors; concern budgeting and financial management.


Location	Box
BC8.1 .W956	328	Administrative Field Bulletins:
			Issued by the state office of the WPA to state and district officers; contain directives on work procedures and administrative details. Most are signed by Victor Christgau, Linus C. Glotzbach, and S.L. Stolte, state WPA administrators.
			Numbers 1-186.
Location	Box
BC8.1 .W956	329		Numbers 186-242.


		Operations Field Letters:
			Issued by state office of the WPA to district directors and other personnel in the field; concern administrative details regarding operations of the offices and management of projects.
			Numbers 1-103.
Location	Box
BC8.1 .W956	330		Numbers 104-201.


		Monthly reports, October 1940-December 1942.
			Signed by Joseph W. Bolla and approved by Kimen Karelis (secretary of Minnesota Soldiers Home Board); list number and sometimes names of WPA workers in Ramsey County.


		Speeches.
			Made by representatives of both national and state offices and other public officials; contain information on the economic situation, work of the WPA and other governmental relief agencies, specific projects of the WPA and national defense. Among the authors are: Mrs. Florence Kerr, assistant commissioner of the WPA; Henry A. Wallace; Perry A. Fellows, chief engineer of the WPA; John M. Carmody, Federal Works Administrator; Colonel F.C. Harrington, Work Projects commissioner; Harry L. Hopkins, administrator of the WPA; Howard O. Hunter, acting commissioner of the WPA; Roy C. Jacobson, acting state commissioner; Victor Christgau, WPA administrator for Minnesota; Linus C. Glotzbach, WPA administrator; Aubrey Williams, executive director, National Youth Administration.


Location	Box
BC8.1 .W956	331	Speeches.


		Reports:
			Reports on projects of the WPA; also includes (box 333) reports on the records surveys undertaken by the Civil Works Administration and the State Emergency Relief Administration and reports on WPA projects carried on in the several departments of the Minnesota Historical Society.
Location	Box
BC8.1 .W956	332		"[Extracts from] A Report of the Minnesota State Board of Control as the State Emergency Relief Administration, September 29, 1932-July 1, 1934.
			"Special Report on the Works Progress Administration Program," September 20, 1937.
			"Report of Work Done in Anoka, Hennepin, Isanti, and Chisago Counties," 1935-1941.
			Progress reports, 1940.
			Progress reports, 1942.
			Reports on the newspaper indexing project.
			"Construction of Comparable Tests in Arithmetic Fundamentals."
			"Progress History of Project No. 7228" [Property Inventory, City of St. Paul].
Location	Box
BC8.1 .W956	333		"Achievements Accomplished in Minneapolis Libraries by WPA."
			"Statement of Accomplishment…Assisting in work in progress, collecting, classifying, tabulating, and analyzing data for the Department of Agriculture, University of Minnesota."
			Reports on the historical records survey conducted by the Minnesota Historical Society.
			Reports on the county archives survey conducted by the Civil Works Administration.
			Reports on the survey of state and county archives conducted by the State Emergency Relief Administration.
			Reports on the Writers Project:
				Final report on Minnesota Writers' Project.
					Available in MHS Library as Achievements of the Minnesota Writers' Project of W.P.A. (F606.01/W95).
			Reports on WPA projects conducted within the Minnesota Historical Society:
				1. "Minnesota Statewide Consolidated Records Project."
Location	Box
BC8.1 .W956	334			2."Bibliography of Publications Resulting from Research Projects at the University of Minnesota," 1935-1941.
				3. "Research Studies at the University of Minnesota under the Supervision of the University Faculty," December 19, 1935-June 30, 1936.
				4. "Technique for a Real Property Survey, Part I Survey procedure."
				5. "Technique for a Real Property Survey, Part II Tabulation Instructions for Dwelling Survey."
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BC8.1 .W956	335			6. "Analytical Studies Pertaining to Fidelity and Surety Insurance for Public Officials, Automobile, and Fire Insurance Rates, and To Compile and Codify Insurance Laws."
				7. "1938-1940 Physical History Study."
				8. "Report Works Progress Administration Project 8177, University Gallery, University of Minnesota," December 5, 1939-December 15, 1940.
				9. "Works Project Administration Project 8770: Report for the Entire period of the project" [University Gallery], December 16, 1940-April 17, 1942.
				10. "Pioneers and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minnesota (formerly known as Layman's Cemetery)."
				11. "Pioneers and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minnesota: Inventory of Records and Maps."
				12. "Report on the Accomplishments of Project Number 7717 (Sex Hormone Studies)."
				13. "Summary Report on Drought Activities," July 21, 1936.
				14. "Extension of Fire Hazard Survey and Related Research and Statistical Work."
				15. "Report of Accomplishment on a Works Progress Administration Project Install a Current Reporting System in the Private Child Caring Institutions and Agencies of Minnesota, by the Children's Bureau of the Board of Control, now known as the Bureau of Child Welfare, Division of Social Welfare, Department of Social Security."
				16. "Supervisor's Report of Study of Juvenile Delinquency in Duluth, Minnesota."
				17. "A Preliminary Report on the Harbor Facilities of the City of Minneapolis in Relation to the Commerce and Industry of this City."
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BC8.1 .W956	336			18. "Progress Report, July 1 to December 3, 1936: Upper River Harbor Study."
				19. "Progress Report for the Period January 1st to June 30th, 1937; Upper Harbor Study, Industrial and Physical."
				20. "A Report on City Planning Surveys, as Sponsored by the City Planning Commission and Approved by the City Council, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Proposed Projects for Continuation of Emergency Work," October 15, 1938.
				21. "Survey of School Absences, Sponsored by Minneapolis Board of Education."
				22. "Report of Accomplishment: A Survey of the Public School Absences for the Second Semester, 1938-1939, and the First Semester, 1939-1940." Sponsored by the Board of Education, 407 City Hall, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
				23. "Project Proposal: Pupil Personnel Study." Sponsored by State Department of Education."
				24. "Pupil Personnel Study of Pupils in Minnesota Public School; Under the Direction of the State Testing Committee of the Minnesota Council of School Executives."
				25. "Study of School Population Trends and School District Areas," Sponsored by the Board of Education, Minneapolis, Minnesota, January 3, 1938.
				26. "Analysis of School Population and Survey of the Shift in School Population," Sponsored by the Board of Education, Minneapolis, Minnesota, August 5, 1939.
				27. "A Study of Student Population in the Public Schools, Duluth, Minnesota," March 6, 1939.
				28. "[Project]. To collect, modernize, and compile pertinent data concerning various phases of the St. Paul Public School System, including teachers' personnel records, testing records, and available textbook reading materials into suitable form for ready analysis, study and planning." Sponsored by the St. Paul Department of Education."
				29. "[Project]. To establish an accurate, permanent, centralized file in administrative office of the St. Paul Department of Education, to be used as a research base and for administrative purposes."
				30. "Report of Accomplishment: Development of New Minneapolis Spelling Scale. Sponsored by Board of Education."
				31. "School Census procedures in Duluth, Minnesota."
				32. "Facilities and Services of the University Testing Bureau."
				33. "Classification of Information in the Statistical Bureau of the State Department of Education. 1936 State Board Test Item Evaluation."
					Report is in ten parts.
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BC8.1 .W956	337			34. "Social Constants for Persons on Public Relief, 1936, Ramsey County, Minnesota."
				35. "1941 Sponsors Supplemental Statement Vocational Guidance Service."
				36. "Conservation of Child Life through the Study of Incipient Heart Conditions and the Maintenance of Convalescent Wards for this Purpose."
				37. "Outline of Main Divisions of Final Report, Saint Paul Traffic Survey."
				38. "Statement of Accomplishments: Traffic Research Project No. 1018." Sponsored by St. Paul City Planning Board."
				39. "[Project]. To revise and complete a card file record of hazards and obstructions to pedestrian traffic including trap doors, areaways, coal holes, light wells, sidewalk lights, gratings, sidewalk elevators and similar hazards…in City of St. Paul…."
				40. "Analysis of Traffic Survey and Cordon Count and Research Work," [Minneapolis].
				41. "Motor Vehicle Inspection Training Project," [Minneapolis], 1938.
				42. "Report on Street Traffic Survey," [Minneapolis].
				43. "A Study Contributory to a Chronological Index of Minneapolis Highway System."
				43a. "Chronological Abstract Index: Elaborating the Physical Evolution of Each Minneapolis Highway, from 1877 to 1940, as Graphically Delineated on 1050 Original Street Opening and Vacation Plats, Now Vertically Filed in the City Engineering Department. Part One: Streets of Alphabetical Denomination."
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BC8.1 .W956	338			44. "Statewide Highway Planning Project…Sub-project--Blanket Station Traffic Count."
				45. "Traffic Survey. Work Done Under SERA. Work Proposed Under WPA. Duluth, Minnesota."
				46. "House Numbers and Street Index Guide…Duluth, Minnesota…."
				47. "Sponsor's Supplemental Statement: Make a Survey and Draw Complete Structural and Mechanical Plans for the Minneapolis City Hall and Hennepin County Courthouse."
				48. "A Survey of City Buildings and Equipment Under the Jurisdiction of the City Council and Maintained by the City Engineering Department," [Minneapolis].
				49. "A Survey of Buildings and Equipment Under the Jurisdiction of the City Council and Maintained by the City Engineering Department," [Minneapolis].
					Progress report and sponsor's supplemental statement.
				50. "[Project] to renovate, modernize, refile and index additional records in the office of the City Engineer…" [Minneapolis].
				51. "[Project] to renovate, trace, file and index records in the Offices of the City Engineer…" [Minneapolis].
				52. "[Project Proposal] Renovate and Repair the Real Estate Record Books of the Hennepin County Auditor for the years 1850 to 1930, Inclusive."
				53. "[Project] To Renovate Accounting Records of Minneapolis City Comptroller."
				54. "Record File of Tax Exempt Property, Assessments, and Bridge Costs," [City Comptroller, Minneapolis].
				55. "Minneapolis Delinquent Realty Tax Survey."
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BC8.1 .W956	339			56. "Minnesota Income Study."
				57. "A Proposed Analysis of the Distribution of Family and Individual Income in Minnesota," [University of Minnesota].
				58."Readers Guide to Periodical Literature on Cooperation," by Theodore Nelson.
				59. "An Analysis of Vital Statistics in Duluth, Minnesota, for the Period 1900-1937."
				60. "[Project to] Prepare a Real Estate Property and Permanent Improvement Record, and Check Old Records of Wardens' Arrests and Law Violations for the Game and Fish Division; Prepare a Permanent Record of Trust Fund Lands for the Division of Lands and Minerals; Prepare a Permanent Record of State-owned Forest Lands and those Other Lands within Boundaries of the State Forest for the Forestry Division; and Sort and Classify the Publicity Data for the Tourist Bureau Division."
				61. "Birth and Death Records…" [Minneapolis].
				62. "Tract Index Project," [Hennepin County].
				63. "Tract Index Project," [Hennepin County].
				64. [Drivers License Project 4125: Accident Study for Minnesota].
				65. "Survey of Divorce Records," [Hennepin County].
				66. "Transcribing and Indexing Permits Filed in the Building Inspector's Office. Project Proposal," [Minneapolis].
				67. "Transcribing and Indexing Building Permits." Progress Report, [Minneapolis].
				68. [Project to index birth certificates, State of Minnesota], 1908-1935.
				69. [Project to assist the Minnesota State Board of Health, Division of Birth and Death Records and Vital Statistics in improving its public health service and its program of dissemination of information].
				70. "Land Utility and Building Trends." Report for the period July-December 1936, [Minneapolis].
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BC8.1 .W956	340			71. "Land Utility and Building Trends." Report for the period January-June 1937, [Minneapolis].
				72. "Major Street Plan Survey." Report for the period January-June 1937, [Minneapolis].
				73. "Blighted Area Survey." Report for July-December 1936, [Minneapolis].
				74. "Blighted Area Survey." Report for January-June 1937, [Minneapolis].
				75. "Land Platting in Duluth, Minnesota," 1856-1939.
				76. "Cass County Medical Survey," June 30, 1936.
				77. "Saint Paul Planning Board Project. Sub-project B. City Planning--General."
				78. "Saint Paul Planning Board Project. Sub-project D-- Land Value Study."
				79. "Saint Paul Planning Board Project. Sub-projects E,F,G. Transportation, Industry Terminals."
				80. "Saint Paul Planning Board Project. Sub-projects H-- Population. I--Assessments. J--Recreation."
				81. "Saint Paul Planning Board Project: Review of Transportation and Industry Survey."
				82. "Saint Paul Planning Board: Block Population, 1930 Census (Census Tracts)."
				83. "To study jobs in industry in order to secure information as a basis for establishing standards of abilities, occupations suitable for handicapped persons, and for the preparation of job specifications in St. Paul and Minneapolis…" Manual of Operations, March 1940.
				84. "To study jobs in industry in order to secure information…" Progress and accomplishment report, May 1, 1939.
				85. To study jobs in industry in order to secure information…" Progress and accomplishment report, September 23, 1941.
				86. [Report on project sponsored by the Minnesota Resources Commission to assemble data on manufacturing and trade].
				87. "Vital Statistics of St. Paul, Minnesota, 1932-1937" [St. Paul City Planning Surveys, WPA, 1938].
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BC8.1 .W956	339			88. "A Zoning Survey: City of St. Paul, Minnesota" [St. Paul. Board of Zoning, September 1, 1936, WPA Project No. 1952 and 4360].


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BC8.1 .W956	341	Administrative letters numbers 1-57, October 1940-December 1942.


		Transmittal letters numbers 3-48, February 1941-November 1942.
			Interfiled with the administrative letters.


		State Administrator's work orders numbers W-301 to W-413, November 1939-September 1942.
			Application of the Schedule of Monthly Earnings to Counties and Metropolitan Districts. State of Minnesota.


		Schedule of Hourly Wage Rates, Hours of Work, and Monthly Earnings, WPA Form 405, September 1938-March 1939.
			Ramsey County. Unskilled workers.


		Schedule of Salaries and Hours of Work for Project Supervisory Employees, WPA Form 420, November 1939-September 1942.


		Number of Person employed on WPA Projects, May 21, 1941-August 11, 1942.


		Monthly statistical reports, October-November 1936.


		Miscellaneous items, November 1935-September 1941.