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Envelope-to: macdowel@MSU.EDU Subject: WPA Emergency Schools Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 14:56:20 -0500 Thread-Topic: WPA Emergency Schools Thread-Index: AcpF9eiEirKyfBr6RIir5oABil+e8A== From: "Pat " <Pat@ohiohumanities.org> To: <H-QUILTS@H-NET.MSU.EDU> X-LSVline1: Marsha -- X-Virus: None found by Clam AV While conducting research on FDR's New Deal programs in Ohio, we are finding photographs of Emergency Schools, a WPA project to employee teachers on relief and to provide literacy and vocational training for adults. A few of these photos depict quilting classes; in fact, the federal guidelines for adult emergency school classes list sewing and quilting classes as appropriate vocational programs. Has anyone on H-Quilt conducted research into the WPA emergency schools? I am particularly interested to know if anyone has suggested that emergency school training was in some way a catalyst for the quilt revival in the 1930s. Pat Williamsen Director of Development Images of the Great Depression: Picturing the New Deal in Ohio Ohio Humanities Council patw@!ohiohumanities.org www.ohiohumanities.org <http://www.ohiohumanities.org/>
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