PWAP Region 15 (Calif.) records
name: label: Creator
content: Public Works of Art Project
label: Names
content: United States. Department of the Treasury. Section of Fine Arts
label: Names
content: Bruce, Edward, 1879-1943
label: Names
content: McChesney, Mary Fuller
label: Names
content: Strong, Ray, 1905-2006
place: label: Place
content: United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945 -- California -- San Francisco
label: Place
content: United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945 -- California -- San Francisco
topic: label: Topic
content: New Deal, 1933-1939 -- California -- San Francisco
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts -- California -- San Francisco
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the public welfare -- California -- San Francisco
label: Topic
content: Art and state -- California -- San Francisco
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent for microfilming 1964 by the M.H. De Young Museum.
creator: label: Creator
content: Public Works of Art Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Federally funded art project of the Treasury Department initiated in order to provide jobs for unemployed artists during the Depression. Under the PWAP the country was divided into 16 regions each of which had its own director who answered to the national director in Washington, D.C. The PWAP was succeeded by the Section of Painting and Sculpture, which subsequently became the Section of Fine Arts.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 11 Items ((on partial microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1934-1964
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.publwoca
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel NDA 3(frames 826-832) 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 M.H. De Young Museum after microfilming.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Miscellaneous correspondence of Walter Heil, regional director of PWAP, 1934; form letters from Edward Bruce, national director; and a typescript reminiscence of the PWAP and a letter from Ray Strong addressed to Mary McChesney and dated 1964.[Microfilm title, "Ray Strong"]