Newark, New Jersey: Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration, 1936-40.
Price: $1,250.00
Unbound. A collection of 50 issues. Small quartos. Most are one folio sheet folded to make four pages, but issues are also one, six, or eight pages. Occasionally illustrated. A well-preserved very good set with occasional wear, soil, paperclip rustmarks, or penciled notes, and two with High School library stamps. (The first four issues of the 1937-1938 series were printed on much cheaper paper and are therefore toned with more chipping, but still sound.) The Bulletin Numbers, by Series, are as follows: 1936-1937 Series: Nos. 1, 4-6, 8-9, 11-13, 15-16, 21-29; 1937-1938 Series: Nos. 2-16, 18-19; 1938-1939 Series: Nos. 1-6, 8, 12; 1939-1940 Series: Nos. 7-8; and 1940-1941 Series: Nos. 1-2 and 5. Also included but not counted is a Glossary to "Indian Place Names in New Jersey" (1938-1939 Series, Bulletin 12).
An excellent collection of these brief but informative WPA-published lessons on the history, industry, geography, landmarks, and agriculture of New Jersey, as well as biographies (Walt Whitman, Clara Barton, John Fitch) and more. Apparently published between 1936 and 1942, they were issued as both bulletins (as here) and in six bound volumes. Individual issues are uncommon, even more so a large and well-preserved collection.
Item #603498
![Item #603498 Stories of New Jersey. Prepared for Use in Public Schools by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration [50 Issues]. Irene FUHLBRUEGGE, State Administrator, State Director. William H. J. Ely.](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/603498.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1754672897)
