North Dakota: A Guide to the Northern Prairie State

Federal Writers' Project

History

Oxford University Press

Idaho: A Guide in Word and Picture

The life histories of laborers in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia during the Depression center on family life, customs, and institutions

These Are Our Lives (The Norton Library)

W.W.Norton and Company

WPA Guide to Massachusetts

Random House]

The WPA guide to Florida: The Federal Writers' Project guide to 1930s Florida

Pantheon Books

New York panorama: A companion to the WPA guide to New York City : a comprehensive view of the metropolis, presented in a series of articles

This tour guide for time travelers offers New York-lovers and thirties buffs an endlessly fascinating look at life as it was lived in the days when a trolley ride cost five cents, a room at the Plaza hotel was $7.50, Dodger fans flocked to Ebbetts Field, and the new World's Fair was the talk of the town. The New York of 1939 was a city where adventures began "under the clock" at the Biltmore, and the big liners sailed at midnight. The Yankees were on their way to four in a row, and Times Square was truly the crossroads of the world.

WPA GUIDE TO NEW YORK CITY

Travel

United States

Pantheon

Written in 1938, when a thriving voodoo cult could be found in Congo Square and sixty cents bought lunch at Galatoire's, this unique introduction to America's most mythical, mysterious city has never been surpassed.  The New Orleans it describes was still a half-European, half-American mélange, a sultry meeting ground for (in the guide's phrase0 "the imps, the pimps, and the shrimps," with a characteristic "liberal attitude toward human frailties."

WPA GD TO NEW ORLEANS

A view of 1930s Washington includes a history of the capital

THE WPA GUIDE TO WASHINGTON D

Arts & Photography

Architecture

This classic guide features essays on Illinois history and architecture

THE WPA GUIDE TO ILLINOIS

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