A Guide to Alaska, Last American Frontier - American Guide Series

The Federal Writers' Project (FWP) was a federal government project in the United States created to provide jobs for out-of-work writers and to develop a history and overview of the United States, by state, cities and other jurisdictions. It was launched in 1935 during the Great Depression. It was part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), a New Deal program. It was one of a group of New Deal arts programs known collectively as Federal Project Number One or Federal One. FWP employed thousands of people and produced hundreds of publications, including state guides, city guides, local histories, oral histories, ethnographies, and children's books. In addition to writers, the project provided jobs to unemployed librarians, clerks, researchers, editors, and historians. This copy is good in blue cloth with gilt titles on the spine and front cover. Ex-library, with typical library stamps and labels. The binding is still sound. Moderate wear on the covers, with fraying at the top of the spine. The text is very clean and unmarked, other than the library stamps. It includes the usually absent folding map at the rear. The map has some tears along the fold creases, as is common with folding maps of this vintage. . LB15.…