Series: County Relief Expenditures, 1932-1939
Physical Description: 1.0 cubic foot (3 volumes) 
Scope and Content Note: Records of relief expenditures of county central application bureaus and public welfare departments, showing total costs, purposes, and sources of funds expended. (This was formerly designated with the call number 42/5/33.)

County Relief Costs, 1932-1933
Scope and Content Note: Record of relief costs and RFC grants from October 1, 1932 for each county, showing total costs and breakdown under administration, groceries, clothing, rent, water, fuel, light, transients, and work relief.
Arrangement of the Materials: Alphabetical by county and chronological thereunder.

Direct Relief Expenditures, 1934-1937
Scope and Content Note: Record by counties of expenditures for direct relief, including administration, groceries, shelter, clothing, fuel, utilities, medical care, seed, and feed. Also shows source of funds.
Arrangement of the Materials: Chronological by month and alphabetical by county or relief group thereunder, 1934-1935; alphabetical by county and chronological thereunder, 1936-1937.

County Public Welfare Expenditures, 1936-1939
Scope and Content Note: Record of expenditures of county central application bureaus, 1936-1937, and of county public welfare departments, 1938-1939, showing for each item date, description, fund, folio, and month obligation incurred.
Arrangement of the Materials: Chronological and alphabetical thereunder by county.

Series: Financial Records of Early Relief Agencies, 1932-1935
Physical Description: 0.6 cubic feet (3 volumes) 
Scope and Content Note: Financial records of the Wisconsin Emergency Relief Administration and its predecessors; including the cash book, journal, and other records of receipts and disbursements of the Unemployment Relief Trust Fund, the Bureau of Unemployment Relief, and the Citizens' Committee on Reemployment. Two volumes consist of the original records, which were kept in an informal manner; the third is a summarized rearrangement, to which other material has been added. (This was formerly designated with the call number 42/5/36.)

Cash Book and Journal, 1932-1934
Scope and Content Note: Cash Book, September 1, 1932-July 6, 1933: Voucher and check register and account of Unemployment Relief Trust Fund with banks, showing voucher number, date, check number, account number, bank, debits, credits, source of funds, to whom paid out; General Journal, July 1933-May 1934, showing payee, voucher date paid, percent contribution, account, source of funds, and total; record of available cash by classification, 1932-1933; records of expenditures of administration, Bureau of Unemployment Relief, 1933; Re-employment expenditures, Surplus Commodities, 1933; Drought Relief expenditures, 1933; Educational scholarships, CWA administrative costs, 1933; special and granted, 1933; totals of needy student payrolls, 1933; miscellaneous administrative costs, 1932-1933.

Cash Receipts Summary, 1934-1935
Scope and Content Note: Shows refunds of county payments; cash disbursements, January-June 1934, showing date, payee, credits, and debits.

Rewritten Original Books, 1932-1933
Scope and Content Note: Includes voucher and check register, 1932-1933, incoming cash record, 1932-1933, adjustment of journal entries, 1932-1933, general ledger, 1932-1933, subsidiary ledger, 1932-1933, and reconciliation of books and cash, 1933.

Series: Subsidiary Ledgers, 1934-1939
Physical Description: 2.0 cubic feet (2 records center cartons) 
Scope and Content Note: Ledger records of receipts and disbursements showing debits, credits and balances of subsidiary accounts such as general administration costs, claims, allotments to counties, and reimbursement of counties and local units. (This was formerly designated with the call number 42/5/38.)
Arrangement of the Materials: By type of record and thereunder chronological.

General administration costs, 1935-1939

General administration costs, 1935-1939 (continued)

Accounts payable counties, 1934-1938

Claims, 1935-1936

Audit adjustments and advances accounts receivable; town and county order, 1935-1937

Work relief costs by source of funds, 1935-1936

Series: Statistical Summaries, 1933-1939
Physical Description: 2.6 cubic feet (5 volumes and 1 flat box) 
Scope and Content Note: Copies of summaries of expenditures for direct and work relief, persons employed on Emergency Relief Administration projects, relief case loads, and obligations incurred for relief purposes. Volume 8 is in an envelope. (This was formerly designated with the call number 42/5/39.)

Case Loads and Obligations, 1933-1935
Scope and Content Note: FERA form 10-C, monthly report of cases receiving unemployment relief, showing county, total cases, cases opened, relief load, cases closed, relief load open at end of month, January 1934-April 1935; FERA form 10-A, monthly report of obligations incurred for unemployment relief from public funds by counties, showing county, number of resident families, resident single persons, and transients given relief, number for each kind of relief, totals, and local public funds obligated, July 1933-April 1934.

FERA Financial Summary, 1933-1936
Scope and Content Note: Summary of FERA receipts, disbursements, and commitments: Expenditures, monthly, July 1933-August 1936, showing amount expended for each FERA activity; Grants received for each activity, July 1933-December 1935; Miscellaneous cash receipts showing total activity charged, July 1934-August 1936; Interfund transfers, July 1934-August 1936, showing authority, date, fund debited or credited; FERA fund expenditures each month, July 1933-December 1936; obligations incurred each month, July 1933-December 1935 by each activity or fund.

Drought Relief and Work Relief Expenditures, 1933-1936
Scope and Content Note: Record of drought relief expenditures, September 1933-December 1934, by counties, showing monthly total expenditures and purpose; record of work relief payrolls, January 1935-December 1935 by counties, showing accounts chargeable and sources of funds; record by counties of monthly work relief expenditure, 1934-1936.

County Expenditures, 1934-1935
Scope and Content Note: Statistical summary of expenditures by county for all relief costs, including direct relief, work relief, administrative costs, material costs, and sources of funds.

Weekly Reports, Persons, Hours and Earnings on ERA, 1934 April 5-1936 January 30
Scope and Content Note: Copies of FERA form 190, showing number of relief persons and non-relief persons working on non-administrative projects, hours worked, earnings, and totals of hours and earnings.

Reports to Washington, 1934-1938
Scope and Content Note: Monthly reports of WERA and Wisconsin Public Welfare Department on finances, cases handled, county relief loads, costs, county and State relief programs.

Monthly Statement of Expenditures, 1934 April-1939 October
Scope and Content Note: Monthly report on FERA form 193 from WERA to FERA, showing FERA grants and other income, expenditures, commitments, unexpended balance, and amounts under general relief, transient relief, and total.

Series: Administrative Payrolls, 1934-1939
Physical Description: 5.0 cubic feet (10 volumes) 
Scope and Content Note: Payrolls for state and county administrative personnel of relief agencies and departments, showing names of employees, time worked, rates of pay, and amounts earned. (This was formerly designated with the call number 42/5/43.)

WERA Administrative Payrolls, 1935 January-March
Scope and Content Note: Record of pay of employees in State administration of WERA, showing division, project, pay period, name, sex, occupation, daily hours, total hours, rate, total earnings.

Wisconsin Debt Adjustment and Planning Project Payrolls, 1935 October-1937 April
Scope and Content Note: Employees payroll summaries for State projects on Planning, Farm Debt, Labor Relations Survey, and Rural Electrification Survey.

Transient Bureau Payrolls, 1936-1937
Scope and Content Note: Monthly record by transient camps of the bureau's administrative personnel, showing names of employees, positions, daily hours, total time, rate, and amount paid.

County Administration Payrolls, 1934 November-1935 February
Scope and Content Note: Record of employees in county WERA administration, showing county, disbursing officer, date, employees, occupation, daily time worked, total hours, rate of pay, earnings, total time worked, and total earnings.

County Administration Monthly Payroll Summaries, 1935 March-1936 December
Scope and Content Note: Monthly summary of employees pay record in county administration of relief activities, showing county, month, employee, position, daily time worked, total time, rate of pay, and earnings.

Central Application Bureau and County Public Welfare Department Payrolls, 1936-1939
Scope and Content Note: Monthly summaries of county administrative payrolls, showing county, date, division, names of employees, position, daily hours total time, rate, and amount paid.

Series: Transient Division Summaries, 1933-1939
Physical Description: 2.0 cubic feet (3 volumes and 3 flat boxes) 
Scope and Content Note: Summary records of the financial operations of the transient division, showing grants, receipts, disbursements, commitments, obligations, advances, and costs. (This was formerly designated with the call number 42/5/53.)
Arrangement of the Materials: By type of record.

Funds, Grants and Disbursements, 1933 August-1934 December
Scope and Content Note: Summary records, including: (a) Cash journal, showing grants and reimbursements received, funds to which receipts credited, disbursements, advances to Wisconsin Transient Bureau, and accounts payable; (b) Reported Costs Journal, showing reported costs, by whom reported, obligations against advances, and accounts payable; (c) Record of Costs Monthly by Facilities, showing summary of reported expenditures and obligations by local units and administrative expenses by State administration.
Arrangement of the Materials: Each type of record is chronological.

Obligations and Advances, 1933 September-1935 February
Scope and Content Note: Summary records of obligations and advances for transient relief, including: (a) control accounts ledger, showing FERA and State transient grant receipts and disbursements; (b) subsidiary account ledger, showing obligations incurred for State administrative expense, Wisconsin Transient Bureau, and other transient relief agencies; (c) Record of Wisconsin Transient Bureau refunds and advances reported, showing obligations incurred for purchase of Camp Kentuck, State administrative expenses, transient relief agencies and shelters; (d) Record of Shelter Accounts, showing refunds reported and payments made.
Arrangement of the Materials: By account within each type of record.

Disbursement Summary, 1935
Scope and Content Note: (a) Monthly summaries of commitments, journal entries, county reimbursement, purchase orders, daily vendors, commissaries, food for men, and refunds; (b) Voucher register, showing voucher number, description, date, fund credit, administrative expenses and salaries, and disbursements for work department, relief, institutional case, occupancy and special programs, plant and equipment, and purchases for inventory; (c) Transient commitment and voucher register, showing commitments for payrolls, expenses daily vendors and purchase orders.
Arrangement of the Materials: By camp or shelter within each division.

Allocation and Commitments, 1935 December-1939 December
Scope and Content Note: Summary record of monthly commitments for State administration and transient relief camps, showing amounts allocated to administrative expenses, work relief, institutional care, occupancy cost, special programs, plant and equipment, and purchase for inventory.
Arrangement of the Materials: By office and camp.

Series: State Project Reports and Expenditure Records, 1934-1935
Physical Description: 0.8 cubic feet (4 volumes) 
Scope and Content Note: Lists of state projects, monthly reports of relief persons employed on state projects, and summary records of appropriations and expenditures. (This was formerly designated with the call number 42/5/59.)

Lists and Reports of State Projects
Scope and Content Note: Lists of State projects, showing project number, title, name of supervisor, and statistical and other information; lists of assigned workers on State projects; summary of approved labor costs and travel allowances; and monthly reports of relief persons employed on State projects, showing project number, names, number of persons involved in each relief case, and earnings.

Expenditures and Appropriations, State Projects
Scope and Content Note: Volume divided into three sections; (a) Appropriations, showing date, office number, project number, costs met by WERA, applicant's contribution, total cost, remarks; (b) Payroll summaries, showing for each week project number, amount of payrolls, relief and non-relief, totals, supplemental costs; (c) Expense accounts, showing for each month name, miles traveled, oil and gas, hotel, meals, incidentals, voucher received, check received, auto expense, total expense.

Expenses Other than Labor
Scope and Content Note: Record of expenses other than labor on State projects, showing date project approved, governmental unit, project number, amount of expenses, and total expenses.

Expenses Other than Labor Paid from 200,000 Dollar Grant
Scope and Content Note: Record of expenses paid from 200,000 dollar grant on State projects, showing date project approved, project number, counties in which projects were located, and amounts of expenses; also includes approved estimated cost of labor and materials for airports in Wisconsin that participated in a 63,000 dollar grant, and a copy of a list showing allotment of a 200,000 dollar CWA fund to State projects.

Series: Project Balance Sheets and Reports, 1934-1936
Physical Description: 0.4 cubic feet (2 volumes) 
Scope and Content Note: Balance sheets, reports, and memoranda relating to finances of Wisconsin Emergency Relief Administration active and discontinued projects, giving information about appropriations, expenditures, and status of projects. (This was formerly designated with the call number 42/5/60.)

Balance Sheets, 1934 May-1935 August
Scope and Content Note: Balance sheets for active and discontinued work projects, showing nature of project, date and description of each appropriation and disbursement, amounts appropriated and expended for labor, equipment and other purposes, and balances.
Arrangement of the Materials: By classification.

Project Control Reports and Memoranda, 1935-1936
Scope and Content Note: Copies of reports and memoranda from the Project Control Department, Work Division, WERA including: Weekly Project Fund Records and Report Status, Weekly Status of WERA Accomplishment, Recaps of Weekly Project Status Reports, New Projects approved, weekly work project report, projects not completed, classification of projects, data on active State projects, and telegrams and reports relating to workers and earnings.

Series: WERA Project Registers, 1934-1935
Physical Description: 2.8 cubic feet (14 volumes) 
Scope and Content Note: Registers and summaries of Wisconsin Emergency Relief Administration work projects by location and by classification, showing type of project, date work started, discontinuance, completion, costs, sources of revenue, and accomplishments of completed projects. (This was formerly designated with the call number 42/5/62.)

Record of State-wide WERA Projects
Scope and Content Note: Record showing date of approval, date work started, relief unit, description of project, voucher numbers, wages and salaries, equipment expense, material purchases, other costs, total State, Federal, and local costs.
Arrangement of the Materials: Numerical by project number, and chronological thereunder.

Classified Projects
Scope and Content Note: Record of projects by classification, showing class number, date, whether county or State, serial number, man hours, ERA funds, local contributions, number of men, and completion or date discontinued.
Arrangement of the Materials: By classification number.

County and State Projects
Scope and Content Note: Register of WERA projects by governmental unit, showing county, date, locality, type of project, serial number, man hours, ERA funds, local contributions, number of men, completion or date of termination.
Arrangement of the Materials: Alphabetical by county.

Special Project Register
Scope and Content Note: Record of funds allotted for special State survey and planning projects, showing vouchers, costs and unexpended balances.
Arrangement of the Materials: By project number.

Record of Project Accomplishments
Scope and Content Note: Record showing kind of project, county number, project number, amount of work done, funds from ERA, local funds, and total expenditure.
Arrangement of the Materials: By project classification.

Project Status Record
Scope and Content Note: Record of changes in status of WERA projects, showing classification, dates started and completed, discontinued, resumed or canceled, and remarks.
Arrangement of the Materials: Alphabetical by county.

Completed, Transferred, and Discontinued Work Projects
Scope and Content Note: Copies of FERA form 270, showing county, project number, brief description of status (whether completed, transferred to WPA, or discontinued before completion), total approved estimated cost, analysis of actual cost, and source of funds.
Arrangement of the Materials: Alphabetical by county.