Reminiscences of Florence Stewart Kerr, 1974

Biographical Note

WPA Administrator

Scope and Contents

Chicago Midwest Regional Director, Women's and Professional Projects, Works Progress Administration, 1935-38; Washington Assistant Commissioner, Works Progress Administration, 1939; Assistant Commissioner, Federal Works Administration, 1942-45; unskilled women's projects; Arts Project; Harry Hopkins; relationship with Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1939; impressions of many New Deal figures

Subjects

• Government executives--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Kerr, Florence S.--Interviews.
• New Deal, 1933-1939.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Roberts, Charles, interviewer.
• United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
• United States. Federal Works Agency.
• United States. Works Progress Administration.
• Women--Employment.
• Women in the civil service--Interviews.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1976