The WPA Guide to Missouri
During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writersa Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the countryas shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authorsamany of whom would later become celebrated literary figuresawere commissioned to write these important books. John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ralph Ellison are among the more than 6, 000 writers, editors, historians, and researchers who documented this celebration of local histories. Photographs, drawings, driving tours, detailed descriptions of towns, and rich cultural details exhibit each stateas unique flavor. The WPA Guide to the Show-Me State of Missouri literally shows the reader the virtues of this lovely region, by including vivid pictures of Art Deco skyscrapers in downtown Kansas City, farm scenes, the Ozark Mountains, and the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers. It includes historical essays about the influence of these rivers on the state as well as Missourias important role in the American Civil War.Southside Bus Station, 3200 Troost Ave., for Crown Coach Lines, Southwestern Greyhound Lines, FinleyShotwell Bus Lines. ... Information Service: Chamber of Commerce of Kansas City, Hotel Continental, NW. corner 11th St. and Baltimore anbsp;...
| Title | : | The WPA Guide to Missouri |
| Author | : | Federal Writers' Project |
| Publisher | : | Trinity University Press - 2013-10-31 |
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