Title Creating a Hoosier self-portrait : the Federal Writers' Project in Indiana, 1935-1942 / George T. Blakey.

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Description	1 online resource (262 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-249) and index.
Contents	The national context -- The Hoosier situation -- The Indiana guide -- Other publications -- Oral history -- Almost finished projects -- Incomplete projects -- Research inventories -- Conclusions and legacy.
Summary	"From 1935 to 1942, the Indiana office of the Federal Writers' Program hired unemployed writers as "field workers" to create a portrait in words of the land, the people, and the culture of the Hoosier state. This book tells the story of the project and its valuable legacy."--Jacket.
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Subject	Federal Writers' Project -- History.
	Federal Writers' Project.
	History.
	Writers' Program (Ind.) -- History.
	Writers' Program (Ind.)
	Indiana -- Historiography.
	Indiana.
	Historiography.
	Indiana -- Guidebooks -- Authorship -- History.
Genre/Form	Guidebooks.
Subject	Authorship.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Blakey, George T. Creating a Hoosier self-portrait. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2005 0253345693 (DLC) 2004019206 (OCoLC)56329394
ISBN	9780253023544 (electronic book)
	0253023548 (electronic book)
	0253345693
	9780253345691