WPA Life Histories from Rhode Island

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These titles are mostly first-person accounts of life in Rhode Island collected during the Great Depression. The WPA project category is LIVING LORE IN NEW ENGLAND.

Subjects include: FOLKLORE, including dialects and dances; and OCCUPATIONS, including the fishing industry, the textile industry, unemployment and French Canadian textile workers.


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