Historical American Records Survey portrait survey records
name: label: Creator
content: Historical Records Survey (U.S.)
label: Names
content: United States. Work Projects Administration
label: Names
content: United States. Works Progress Administration
place: label: Place
content: United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945
label: Place
content: United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945
topic: label: Topic
content: Portraits, American
label: Topic
content: Portrait painting, American
label: Topic
content: New Deal, 1933-1939
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to public welfare
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent for microfilming by the Massachusetts State Library, A. Hunter Rineer, State Librarian, Boston, Mass., 1977.
creator: label: Creator
content: Historical Records Survey (U.S.)
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: The Historical Records Survey (HRS) had its origins in the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and the Civil Works Administration. In 1935 it came under the auspices of the Works Progress Administration Federal Writers' Project and eventually was designated as an independent program under Federal Project No. One. The projects, ideally suited for white collar workers, employed individuals to survey, classify and collect historical records. One program of the HRS was to document American portraits (sculpture, prints and paintings) done before 1860.
function: label: Function
content: Programs (organizations)
label: Function
content: Agencies
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 4.4 Linear feet ((on 12 microfilm reels))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1935-1942
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.histreco
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 1238-1249 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals returned to the State House, Boston, Mass. after microfilming.
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids
content: Microfilm inventory available at Archives of American Art offices, filed under Historical Records Survey.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Records documenting activities of the Survey to inventory portraits in America done before 1860 in the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Included are research documents; correspondence; interoffice memoranda; survey manuals; press releases; clippings; photographs of works of art; short biographies of sitters and artists; ca. 15,000 of the original survey cards; first drafts of checklists and catalogs; and lists of portraits received too late to be included in the final version of the catalog.