New Deal art programs in New Jersey selected records
name: label: Creator
content: Historical Records Survey (U.S.)
label: Names
content: Federal Art Project (N.J.)
label: Names
content: Historical Records Survey (N.J.)
label: Names
content: Historical Records Survey (U.S.). Indian Site Survey
label: Names
content: Indian Site Survey (N.J.)
label: Names
content: Public Works of Art Project
label: Names
content: United States. Department of the Treasury. Section of Fine Arts
label: Names
content: United States. Department of the Treasury. Section of Painting and Sculpture
label: Names
content: United States. Federal Civil Works Administration
label: Names
content: United States. Work Projects Administration
label: Names
content: United States. Works Progress Administration
place: label: Place
content: New Jersey -- Antiquities
label: Place
content: New Jersey -- Social conditions
label: Place
content: United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945
label: Place
content: United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945
topic: label: Topic
content: New Deal, 1933-1939 -- New Jersey
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts -- New Jersey
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to public welfare -- New Jersey
label: Topic
content: Painting, American
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent for microfilming 1964 by the New Jersey State Library, Trenton, N.J.
creator: label: Creator
content: Historical Records Survey (U.S.)
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: The New Deal art programs were primarily administered under the Treasury Department and the Works Progress Administration (later the Work Projects Administration) as relief measures for unemployed artists.
label: Biographical / Historical
content: The Historical Records Survey (HRS) had its origins in the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and the Civil Works Administration.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 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 the survey of American portraits in public buildings. The Indian Site Survey was a WPA-New Jersey state-wide project operating under the Division of Professional and Service Projects, and sponsored by the New Jersey State Museum and the Archeaological Society of New Jersey.
function: label: Function
content: Programs (organizations)
label: Function
content: Agencies
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 10 Microfilm reels
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1934-1942
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.histrecs
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 NDA/TN1-NDA/TN10 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 Library, Trenton, N.J. after microfilming.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Approximately half the records relate to the Historical Records Survey's portrait survey, 1940-1941. The remainder are records of the Indian Site Survey, 1936-1942, a WPA program operating under the Division of Professional Service Projects, and to a lesser degree, the Public Works of Art Project, the Treasury Section of Painting and Sculpture, the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project and its predecessor, the Civil Works Administration.