Study of the Circulo Cubano

Tells the history of Circulo Cubano de Tampa, a club for Cuban immigrants formed in Ybor City in 1899. The club took the name Circulo Cubano in 1902.https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/tampa_wpa/1010/thumbnail.jp

Personal observations of emigration of workers

A report on the problems of the working class in Tampa during the Depression, focusing especially on unemployed cigar workers. Many of the unemployed were leaving Tampa during the Depression to try to find work elsewhere. The report is accompanied by Manuel Marrero\u27s account of people he interviewed and statistics gathered for the report.https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/tampa_wpa/1026/thumbnail.jp

United States Work Projects Administration records,

Series A. includes correspondence, memoranda, speeches, essays, scripts, plays, oral testimony in the form of life histories, folklore material, field reports, notes, transcripts of documents, inventories, lists, statements, instructions, surveys, critical appraisals, administrative records, graphs, drawings, maps, and other records. Subjects include production of American Guide-books which were intended to encourage travel to various states to bolster the economy during the Great Depression, rural and urban folklore, customs of social and ethnic groups, and African Americans both slaves and ex-slaves. Folklorists include Benjamin Albert Botkin and John A. Lomax. Authors include Nelson Algren, Sterling Brown, Jack Conroy, and Richard Wright. Correspondents include Henry Alsberg, Merle Colby, George Cronin, Joseph Gaer, Reed Harris, and Claire Laning.Series B includes correspondence, memoranda, reports, surveys, notes, data sheets, lists, instructional manuals, personnel records, transcripts of documents, newspaper articles, catalog entries, newspaper articles, and index cards. Subjects include church and religious activity in Washington, D.C., boards, commissions, and departments of the nation's capitol, and Mormons in Utah.Series C includes speeches, reports, publications, financial material, personnel forms, procedural and instructional manuals, press releases, newsletters, bulletins, promotional material, statistical data, graphs, illustrations, photographs, and related records. Documents the social welfare programs of the Depression era including the U.S. Federal Emergency Relief Administration, the U.S. Work Projects Administration, and private organizations including American Public Welfare Association, Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, Community Chests and Councils of America, and Family Welfare Association.Series D consists of card files from an indexing project of the slave narratives.Microfilm edition of slave narratives also available in the Library of Congress Microforms Reading Room, no. 974 (E); cataloged in record 83145588.Open to research.Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1941-1987.Gift, Harvester Press Microform Publications Ltd., Brighton, Sussex, England, 1986-1987.Transfer, U.S. Work Projects Administration, 1936-1944.Other gift and transfer, 1981-1998.Some drawings and photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.Some maps transferred to Library of Congress Geography and Map DivisionMusic and some material belonging to the Federal Theater Project transferred to Library of Congress Music Division.The U.S. Works Progress Administration was created in 1935; in 1939 the name was changed to U.S. Work Projects Administration.Federal Writer's Project, directed by Henry Alsberg, was created in 1935 as part of the U.S. Work Progress Administration to provide employment for historians, teachers, writers, librarians, and other white-collar workers. The purpose of the project was to produce a series of sectional guide books under the name American Guide, focusing on the scenic, historical, cultural, and economic resources of the U.S. Eventually new programs were developed and projects begun under the Federal Emergency Relief Administration were absorbed by the Federal Writers' Project. Federal Writers' Project renamed Writers' Program.Collection material in English.Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and on Internet

Instructions for field workers

Guidance on procedures for those working in the field gathering data to be used in the guide to Florida being produced by the Federal Writers\u27 Project.https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/tampa_wpa/1007/thumbnail.jp

Bulletins

A collection typewritten memoranda from the Federal Writers\u27 Project Florida headquarters in Jacksonville. The memos were sent to local supervisors for the project regarding production of a guide to Florida to be published in the WPA\u27s American Guide series. Also included is a safety bulletin detailing the paperwork to be filled out in the event of an accident or injury to workers on the project.https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/tampa_wpa/1000/thumbnail.jp

Ybor City conversation

A discussion of the speech habits of Spanish-speaking and Italian-speaking immigrants to Tampa.https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/tampa_wpa/1028/thumbnail.jp

Centro Español: Life Histories

The first work tells about Centro Español de Tampa. It is in a slightly different format than the work of the same title presented earlier in this digital collection. The other work is a compilation of life histories of ten Ybor City residents. The people interviewed are mostly Cuban immigrants. One person interviewed was born in Italy.https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/tampa_wpa/1031/thumbnail.jp

Study of the Centro Español

Discusses Spanish immigration to Tampa and a club established for immigrants in Ybor CIty, Centro Español de Tampa.https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/tampa_wpa/1024/thumbnail.jp

Covers of WPA books on Tampa

Dust jackets for the books Seeing Tampa : a city guide book and Tampa, Florida. Both books were produced by the Federal Writers\u27 Project in Florida.https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/tampa_wpa/1025/thumbnail.jp

Centro Español: Life Histories

The first work tells about Centro Español de Tampa. It is in a slightly different format than the work of the same title presented earlier in this digital collection. The other work is a compilation of life histories of ten Ybor City residents. The people interviewed are mostly Cuban immigrants. One person interviewed was born in Italy.https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/tampa_wpa/1031/thumbnail.jp