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Globe Pequot Press, The. Used - Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.
Plastics: Compiled by Workers of the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by WPA - 1943
by WPA
Plastics: Compiled by Workers of the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
by WPA
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
Chicago: Albert Whitman, 1943. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Signed by Author(s). Small hardcover, 7 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches, 40 pages, 2 color illustrations, numerous black and white illustrations; brown cloth boards with titles and illustration in black, boards clean and bright with a bit of wear at corners and spine ends, previous owner's name at top of front end paper, pages clean and crisp with light age toning, binding sound. The Works Progress Administration (renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration; WPA) was the largest and most ambitious American New Deal agency, employing millions of unemployed people (mostly unskilled men) to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads. In a much smaller but more famous project, Federal Project Number One, the WPA employed musicians, artists, writers, actors and directors in large arts, drama, media, and literacy projects. One of the writing projects of the WPA was the production of dozens of science books for elementary school children, sponsored by the Pennsylvania department of Public Instruction. The covered a vast array of subjects from industry to technology, science and nature.
- Bookseller Crooked House Books & Paper (US)
- Format/Binding Hardcover
- Book Condition Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition No Jacket
- Quantity Available 1
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Albert Whitman
- Place of Publication Chicago
- Date Published 1943
- Keywords CHILDRENS NONFICTION WPA WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION AMERICAN NEW DEAL