Projects. WPA sponsorship for this project ended in 1937. J
Since the project ended prior to the organization of the
final administrative structure of the WPA, its records are l
described as a separate subgroup.
The description "random arrangement" is used for small
series consisting of one docu ent case or less (.1 to .5
cubic feet) where the series had no obvious order, either
alphabetical or chronological.
The history of the physical location of the records
described.in this inventory is not completely known] Accord-
ing to Dr. Jacqueline Bull, former head of the Special
Collections and Archives Department at the University of
Kentucky Margaret 1. King Library, the WPA records were
retrieved in the 1940s from a building in Louisville. From
that time until 1973 the records were stored.in a University
of Kentucky warehouse. Transfer of the records to the State
Archives and Records Center was made in 1973. Work on the
final arrangement and this inventory began in February 1978.
Four cubic feet of State Planning Board Project material
were found in records transferred to the Archives Branch in
1967 by the Franklin County Clerk's Office. The courthouse
was apparently the location of project offices for Franklin
County. These records are described in series 51-55. ‘
Material in the subgroup, Education Project Records
from McCracken County, series 71-78, was obtained from
Southern Illinois University, Special Collections, in October
1978. Prior to acquisition by Southern Illinois University
the records were presumably stored in an abandoned building
in Paducah, Kentucky.
Correspondence files of Harry E. Bullock, Chairman of
the State-Wide Welfare Committee 1931-1932, have been removed
from the WPA records and a separate inventory prepared, as no
connection can be found between Bullock and the WPA.
Copies of records on microfilm, available from the
National Archives, Washington, DC, were obtained by the Archives
Branch in 1978 to supplement the records described in this
inventory and are described in series 65-70.
A considerable quantity of WPA related material can be
found in other Kentucky libraries, and archival and manu-
script repositories. Appendix E shows the general types of
WPA related records housed at the Louisville Free Public
Library; University of Louisville Library; University of
Kentucky Margaret I. King Library, Special Collections and
Archives Department; Kentucky State Library; Filson Club in
Louisville; Kentucky Historical Society; and the University of l
Louisville Archives. In addition to the general records listed