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Research materials for California place names, circa 1935-1942.
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Title:
Research materials for California place names, circa 1935-1942Creator/Contributor:
United States, Work Projects Administration (Calif.)Creator/Contributor:
Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration of Northern CaliforniaAbstract:
Roughly sorted preliminary notes, drafts, manuscripts and bibliographies compiled chiefly by the Federal Writers' Project,
Oakland.
Date:
1935 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caUnited States. -- Work Projects Administration (Calif.) -- Archives
Names, Geographical -- California
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Research materials for California place names, BANC MSS C-R 23, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
In English.
Related collection: California place names : a geographical dictionary (BANC MSS C-R 24).
Compiled and written by the Northern California Writers' Project of the Work Projects Administration. Administrators involved
during the project were George Whitmore, Paul C. Johnson, Walter McElroy, William R. Lawson, and Willis G. Foster. Work on
this project led Erwin Gustav Gudde to do further research and in 1949 to publish the book "California Place Names: A Geographical
Dictionary".
Type:
Manuscripts for publication.Physical Description:
print
7 cartons (8.8 linear feet)
Language:
English
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE : Advance notice required for use.