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The WPA Handicraft Projects Collection features artifacts from Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Oshkosh, Wisconsin; Des Moines, Iowa; Iron Mountain, Michigan; Orlando, Florida; Tennessee; and Vermont. It includes hand crafted examples of block-printed textiles, books, bookbinding, bookmarks, children's furniture, clothing, crewel embroidery, doll clothing and educational toys.

The WPA Posters contain original posters from the WPA Illinois Art Project, WPA Iowa Recreation Program, WPA for Connecticut, Federal Art Project, Federal Writers' Project of the WPA for the State of Iowa, the Federal Art Project for New York, and Federal Art Project for Minnesota. The posters' topics include public service announcements, art, and World War II.

Includes video and audio recordings of an interview conducted by Beauchamp with Willie Wright, Thelma Edwards, and Wilma Wright Edwards. All three are descendants of Moses and Elizabeth Wright and family of Emmett Till. Interview topics include Moses and Elizabeth Wright; Wright family history; life in Chicago and Argo; life in the Mississippi Delta; and Emmett Till, his murder, and the ensuing trial in Mississippi.

This series contains materials regarding the Writer in Residence Program at the Kerouac House in Orlando. The series includes successful applications to the Writer in Residence Program, journals written by house occupants, articles relating to the program, house restoration information, and materials related to events in the Kerouac House.

The Writer's War Board, organized on December 8, 1941, served as a liaison between the writers of America and govern­ment departments that needed writing jobs done. They formed a committee which produced radio plays, pageants and plays on such subjects as general morale, salvage, rationing, etc.

Series II: Writing and Composition, 1944-1976, Undated, holds materials including her manuscripts "Glamour Birds", "Tar and Snow", "Haunted Trails of Great Smoky Mountains", "A Lamb Named Emmeline", "Secrets of the Everglades", and "Let's Paint Glamour Birds". Series also includes Joy's "Poetry and Prose" and Sheet Music.

This series contains booklets of poetry authored by Dorothea Leona Dubler.

Materials are by Lucy H. Johnson unless otherwise specified.