Summary Information

Title: Works Progress Administration Cooperative Project files
Inclusive Dates: 1937-1942

Creators:

• United States. Works Progress Administration

• Tereshtenko, V. J. (Valery John), 1901-

Unique Identifier: uac15

Quantity:

• 64.96 cubic feet
• 40 record cartons, 51 card file boxes

Repository:

University of Wisconsin-Madison. University Archives and Records Management

Abstract:

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.

Language: English

Language: Collection is predominantly in English but includes records that are in Swedish, Finnish, Russian, German, Spanish, and Italian.

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-ua-uac15

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