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Federal Writers' Project--History, American guide series, United States--Guidebooks.
publication date
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1999
lcc
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E175.4.B65 1999eb
ddc
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917.304/929
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Federal Writers' Project--History, American guide series, United States--Guidebooks.
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The WPA Guides
Mapping America
Christine Bold
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www.upress.state.ms.us
Copyright 1999 by University Press of Mississippi All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bold, Christine, 1955 The WPA guides : mapping America / Christine Bold. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-57806-194-6 (cloth: alk. paper).ISBN 1-57806-195-4 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Federal Writers' ProjectHistory. 2. American guide series. 3. United States Guidebooks. I. Title. E175.4.B65 1999 917.304'929dc21 99-26871 CIP
British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data available
Page v
For Wesley and Lewis
Page vii
Contents
Illustrations
ix
Acknowledgments
xi
Introduction
xiii
1. The Cultural Work of Guidebooks
3
2. The Federal Writers' Project
19
3. Idaho: Vardis Fisher, Local Hero
37
4. Katharine Kellock's Highway Route Series: The View from the Road
64
5. New York City: The View from Rockefeller Center versus the View from the Sidewalk
92
6. North Carolina: Local Knowledge, Local Color
123
7. Missouri: Recovering Voices of Dissent
162
Conclusion: The Afterlife of the Guidebooks
187
Notes
209
Works Cited
225
Index
237
Page ix
Illustrations
Idaho:
1. Idaho's Big Potatoes
2. Hunting Is Good in Idaho
3. Journey's End
4. Lava FlowCraters of the Moon
5. Surf-riding on Lake Coeur d'Alene
6. Jim Marshall of Fort Hall
7. A Monument on Monumental Creek
Highway Route Series:
8. Ben Shahn, Farmer Carrying His Wheat to the Silo, Ohio, July 1938 (Courtesy of the Library of Congress)
9. U.S. 1, Stretch of New Jersey
10. Wedding Cake House, Maine
11. Bayonne Bridge, New Jersey
12. Old Slave Market, Louisville, Georgia
13. A Tangier Island Scooter
14. St. Michaels, Charleston, South Carolina
15. Wetter House (1840), Savannah, Georgia
16. Tenant Cabin, South Carolina
17. Along the Trail
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New York City:
18. Upper Fifth AvenueLuxury Street/An East Side Housewife Chooses Her Lingerie
19. View of Mid-Manhattan from the 67th Floor of Rockefeller Center
20. Rockefeller Center's Sunken PlazaFor Those Who Can Afford It/Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Are Less Expensive in the Pushcart Markets
21. Pretzel Vendor, Union Square
22. Harlem Slum
23. Derelicts (East River Water Front)
24. Hanover Square
North Carolina:
25. Typical Wreck Near Hatteras/Only Negro Coast Guard Crew, Pea Island Station
26. Cherokee Types
27. Negro Field Hand/Negro Field Hand/Cotton Pickers at Work
28. Unloading Cotton at Gin, Smithfield/Power Loom in Cotton Mill
29. Cigarette Machine, Reidsville
30. Weaving on Old-Fashioned Loom, Burgess
Missouri:
31. Sheffield Steel Plant, Kansas City
32. Stump Speaker, A Painting by Bingham/Panel from Missouri Mural, State Capitol, Jefferson City, by Thomas Hart Benton
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