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Summary Information
Works Progress Administration Cooperative Project files 1937-1942
- United States. Works Progress Administration
- Tereshtenko, V. J. (Valery John), 1901-
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- 64.96 cubic feet
- 40 record cartons, 51 card file boxes
The Cooperative Project was started in April of 1937 under the auspices of the WPA Administration for the city of New York. It was initiated by Valery John Tereshtenko, a former assistant professor of Cooperation at the Institute of Agricultural Cooperation in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
A Cooperative Bibliography was produced under the authority of the Works Progress Administration of the U.S. Government during the years 1937-1942, by some 90 professional workers, including 14 translators. It consists of 24,000 items (information recorded on index cards): alphabetically by author, within country, and cross-indexed by subject. Each item is also abstracted in files in the first 40 boxes of the collection. Collection is predominantly in English but includes records that are in Swedish, Finnish, Russian, German, Spanish, and Italian.
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