Sources

 

PRIMARY SOURCES – GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS:

  • Kerr, Florence. Assistant Commissioner. “Letter to Clarence G. Nevins, State Work Projects Administrator. Nov. 7, 1939.” US National Archives, RG 69, Work Projects Administration, Central Files: States 1935-1944.
  • Kerr, Florence. Assistant Commissioner. “Letter to Clarence G. Nevins, State Work Projects Administrator. Nov. 25, 1939.” US National Archives, RG 69, Work Projects Administration, Central Files: States 1935-1944.
  • Kerr, Florence. Assistant Commissioner. “Letter to Clarence G. Nevins, State Work Projects Administrator. Dec. 22, 1939.” US National Archives, RG 69, Work Projects Administration, Central Files: States 1935-1944.
  • Kerr, Florence. Assistant Commissioner. “Letter to Clarence G. Nevins, State Work Projects Administrator. Jan. 11, 1940.” US National Archives, RG 69, Work Projects Administration, Central Files: States 1935-1944.
  • Kerr, Florence. Assistant Commissioner. “Letter to Clarence G. Nevins, State Work Projects Administrator, Jan. 30, 1940.” US National Archives, RG 69, Work Projects Administration, Central Files: States 1935-1944.
  • Parkman, Mary. State Director, Professional & Service Division. “Letter to Florence Kerr. Assistant Commissioner, Work Projects Administration. Nov. 10, 1939.” US National Archives, RG 69, Work Projects Administration, Central Files: States 1935-1944.
  • Parkman, Mary. State Director, Professional & Service Division. “Letter to Florence Kerr. Assistant Commissioner, Work Projects Administration. Jan. 18, 1940.” US National Archives, RG 69, Work Projects Administration, Central Files: States 1935-1944.
  • Work Projects Administration, Kansas. “1939 Catalogue, Museum Project, Kansas.” Kansas Museum Project, Professional and Service Division, Work Projects Administration, 1939. U.S. National Archives, RG 69, Work Projects Administration, State Project Reports and Research Publications 1933 – 1943.
  • Work Projects Administration, Kansas. “Early Indian Life in Kansas: Brief Sketches to Accompany Series of Indian Dioramas.” Kansas Museum Project, Professional and Service Division, Work Projects Administration, 1939. Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library, Topeka Room Collection.
  • Work Projects Administration, Kansas. “Catalog, Visual Aids – – Handicrafts, 1940.” Kansas Museum Project, Professional and Service Division, Work Projects Administration, 1940. Kansas State Historical Society Library.
  • Work Projects Administration, Kansas. “Visual Aides Catalogue, 1941.” Kansas Museum Project, Professional and Service Division, Work Projects Administration, 1941. Kansas State Historical Society Library.
  • Work Projects Administration, Kansas. “Kansas, Service Division, WPA, 1942.” Federal Works Agency, Work Project Administration, Kansas, Service Division, 1942. Kansas State Historical Society Library.

PRIMARY SOURCES – NEWSPAPERS:

  • “Annual School Exhibits to be Shown April 27 – Pupils’ Work and WPA Museum Display Will Feature the High School Open House.” Marysville Advocate, April 21, 1938.
  • “Dioramas Seen in Next Junket: Processes in Making Model Dioramas Will Be Explained by William Campbell,” The Summer Session Kansan, July 19, 1938.
  • “Dioramas on Exhibition Show Early Life Here.” Lawrence Journal-World, Nov. 2, 1939.
  • “Display Dioramas at a WPA Workshop.” Lawrence Journal-World, Aug. 3, 1938.
  • “Museum Display Given to School – Valuable Exhibit of Scenic Paintings and Replicas Given Here.” Marysville Advocate, Feb. 10, 1938.
  • “Plan Open House: Diorama Work Shop of WPA Museum Project Will Display Sculptured Pieces,” Lawrence Journal-World, Aug. 1, 1938.
  • Reddington, Gladys. “At the Museum.” Marysville Advocate, Aug. 23, 1979.
  • “Topeka Schools Have Access to New Visual Education Library,” Topeka Journal, Dec. 3, 1942.
  • “Tours Highlight Postscript Club.” Marysville Advocate, May 27, 1971.
  • Williams, Frances R. “Generally Speaking.” Marysville Advocate, Oct. 20th, 1969.
  • Williams, Frances R. “Generally Speaking.” Marysville Advocate, April 23, 1970.
  • Williams, Frances R. “Generally Speaking.” Marysville Advocate, June 17, 1971.
  • Williams, Frances R. “Generally Speaking.” Marysville Advocate, Sept. 16, 1971.
  • Williams, Frances R. “Generally Speaking.” Marysville Advocate, Aug. 31, 1972.
  • Williams, Frances R. “Generally Speaking.” Marysville Advocate, Sept. 14, 1972.
  • Wilson, Mike. “Public works projects funded paintings, sculptures.” Marysville Advocate, July 3, 1997.
  • “W.P.A. Diorama Display at Haskell.” The Indian Leader, May 24th, 1940.

SECONDARY SOURCES:

  • Bustard, Bruce I. A New Deal for the Arts. Washington, National Archives and Records Administration, 1997.
  • Etienne, Noemie. The Art of the Anthropological Diorama: Franz Boas, Arthur C. Parker, and Constructing Authenticity. Germany, De Gruyter, 2021.
  • Findlay, James A., and Perricone, Lillian. WPA Museum Extension Project, 1935-1943: Government Created Visual Aids for Children from the Collections of the Bienes Museum of the Modern Book. United States, Bienes Museum of the Modern Book, 2009.
  • Grieve, Victoria. The Federal Art Project and the Creation of Middlebrow Culture. United States, University of Illinois Press, 2009.
  • Kennedy, Roger G. When Art Worked. United States, Rizzoli, 2009.
  • McLerran, Jennifer. A New Deal for Native Art: Indian Arts and Federal Policy, 1933-1943. United States, University of Arizona Press, 2022.
  • Musher, Sharon Ann. Democratic Art: The New Deal’s Influence on American Culture. United States, University of Chicago Press, 2015.
  • O’Connor, Francis V., editor. Art for the Millions: Essays from the 1930s by Artists and Administrators of the WPA Federal Art Project. United States, New York Graphic Society, 1973.
  • Rudnick, Allison, et al. Art for the Millions: American Culture and Politics in the 1930s. United States, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2023.

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