Material gathered on the Federal Writers Project San Francisco; as a sample for a project of creative work
Abstract
Consists of a staple-bound volume of short stories and poems by San Francisco writers working under the authority of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Writers' Project in San Francisco, on the American Guide and other publications. The volume was compiled by an editorial board comprised of Lawrence Estavan (chairman), Miriam Allen de Ford, Leon Dorais, Robin Kinkead, Kenneth Rexroth, and Richard Roman, with the intent of promoting "...the establishment of Federal magazines for creative writers in every locality capable of supporting them" (Introduction, p. iii).
Dates
- 1936
Creator
Access
Collection is open for research.
Copyright Statement
From title page: "This volume is a private collection of manuscripts. It is not for sale and its contents are uncopyrighted and therefore to be considered private unpublished works not to be reproduced without permission of the authors except in excerpts by reviewers."
Extent
1 volume ( (110 p.))
Language of Materials
English
Location
Collection is available onsite, as part of the Master's Theses and Small Collections.
- American literature -- California.
- American literature.
- Bode, Norman.
- Creative writing.
- De Ford, Miriam Allen, 1888-1975.
- Dorais, Leon.
- Estavan, Lawrence
- Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration of Northern California
- Hamilton, Ben
- Harrison, Alan.
- Hutchinson, Robert B.
- Kinkead, Rubin.
- Larsson, Raymond Ellsworth, 1901-
- Nelson, Catherine
- Quince, Peter.
- Rexroth, Kenneth
- Romain, Richard.
- Sabsay, Nahum
- Sachs, Ida Faye
- Sawvelle, Dorothea M.
- Talbot, J. Rand
- Van Ghent, Dorothy Bendon
- Warner, W. E.
- Wilhelmson, Carl.
- Wilkins, Margaret.
Creator
- Title
- Description of Material Gathered on the Federal Writers Project San Francisco, 1936
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Labor Archives and Research Center staff.
- Date
- © 1999, revised 2014
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in: English.
Repository Details
Part of the Labor Archives and Research Center Repository
San Francisco State University
J. Paul Leonard Library, Room 460
1630 Holloway Ave
San Francisco 94132-1722 USA
(415) 405-5571
larc@sfsu.edu