Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Material gathered on the Federal Writers Project San Francisco; as a sample for a project of creative work
- Dates:
- 1936
- Creators:
- Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration of Northern California.
- 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).
- Extent:
- 1 volume (110 p.)
- Language:
- Publication is in English.
- Preferred citation:
-
Material Gathered on the Federal Writers Project San Francisco, 1987/057, Labor Archives and Research Center, San Francisco State University.
Background
- Physical location:
- Collection is available onsite, as part of the Master's Theses and Small Collections.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Creative writing.
American literature.
American literature--California. - Names:
- Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration of Northern California.
Bode, Norman.
De Ford, Miriam Allen, 1888-1975.
Dorais, Leon.
Estavan, Lawrence.
Harrison, Alan.
Hamilton, Ben.
Hutchinson, Robert B.
Kinkead, Rubin.
Larsson, Raymond Ellsworth, 1901-
Nelson, Catherine.
Quince, Peter.
Rexroth, Kenneth, 1905-1982.
Romain, Richard.
Sabsay, Nahum, 1890-
Sachs, Ida Faye.
Sawvelle, Dorothea M.
Talbot, J. Rand.
Van Ghent, Dorothy Bendon, 1907-
Warner, W. E.
Wilhelmson, Carl.
Wilkins, Margaret.
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- © 1999, revised 2014
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2014-04-18T09:58-0700
Access and use
- Restrictions:
-
Collection is open for research.
- Terms of access:
-
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 It is not for sale and its contents are uncopyrighted and therefore to be considered private unpublished works not to be reproduced without permission of the authors except in excerpts by reviewers."
- Preferred citation:
-
Material Gathered on the Federal Writers Project San Francisco, 1987/057, Labor Archives and Research Center, San Francisco State University.
- Location of this collection:
-
J. Paul Leonard Library, Room 4601630 Holloway AveSan Francisco, CA 94132-1722, US
- Contact:
- (415) 405-5549