Wisconsin Federal Art Project records
name: label: Creator
content: Federal Art Project (Wis.)
label: Names
content: Index of American Design
label: Names
content: United States. Work Projects Administration
label: Names
content: United States. Works Progress Administration
label: Names
content: Clark, Margaret D.
label: Names
content: Partridge, Charlotte Russell
place: label: Place
content: United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945 -- Wisconsin
label: Place
content: United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945 -- Wisconsin
topic: label: Topic
content: New Deal, 1933-1939 -- Wisconsin
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts -- Wisconsin
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the public welfare -- Wisconsin
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Microfilm purchased 1985 from the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
creator: label: Creator
content: Federal Art Project (Wis.)
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Federal work relief program for artists during the depression. Charlotte R. Partridge was director of the Layton Art Gallery and the director of the Federal Art Project in Wisconsin as well. Margaret D. Clark succeeded Partridge in 1941. Victor Volk supervised the Index of American Design in Wisconsin from 1938 on.
function: label: Function
content: Programs (organizations)
label: Function
content: Agencies
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 7 Microfilm reels
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1935-1945
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.fedeartp13
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Microfilm reels
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 3572-3578 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals in State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids
content: Finding aid available in Archives of American Art offices, filed under Federal Art Project (Wis.)
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondence, primarily business-related between Charlotte Partridge and Margaret Clark with Washington, D.C. officials, Wisconsin artists and staff members of the project; and two separate alphabetically arranged series of biographical sketches of Wisconsin artists. The first series includes brief typed resumes of the careers of the artists prepared by the FAP staff. The second series consists of biographical records of all those artists that worked for the project prior to 1939.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Also included in the collection is the Wisconsin FAP record cards arranged alphabetically for each art work produced by the project; and Index of American Design photographic negatives of drawings made for the Index, plate lists of the drawings, a record of the artifacts borrowed for copying, and lists and data sheets for the artifacts copied.