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Useful Work for Unskilled Women: A Unique Milwaukee WPA Project
Mary Kellogg Rice
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Description for Useful Work for Unskilled Women: A Unique Milwaukee WPA Project
Paperback. Mary Kellogg Rice describes a unique Milwaukee project in the post-Depression years that trained thousands of unskilled, uneducated women in the production of handicrafts. These articles were displayed in schools, universities, hospitals, and other public institutions around the country. Num Pages: 146 pages, 5 illustrations, 33 colour photographs, 125 b/w photography. BIC Classification: 1KBBNW; 3JJG; JFSJ1; TDP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 241 x 10. Weight in Grams: 676.
Mary Kellogg Rice describes a unique Milwaukee project in the post-Depression years that trained thousands of unskilled, uneducated women in the production of handicrafts. These articles were displayed in schools, universities, hospitals, and other public institutions around the country.
Mary Kellogg Rice describes a unique Milwaukee project in the post-Depression years that trained thousands of unskilled, uneducated women in the production of handicrafts. These articles were displayed in schools, universities, hospitals, and other public institutions around the country.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Milwaukee Co. Historical Society
Condition
New
Number of Pages
146
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780938076186
SKU
V9780938076186
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99-15
About Mary Kellogg Rice
Mary Kellogg Rice assisted in the planning of a 1935 WPA project that gave employment to unskilled women who were receiving public assistance from Milwaukee County. She has also collaborated on another book, The Art of Japanese Resist Dying, published in Japan in 1983.
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It was a case of an idea with conditions favorable to its growth that, like a seed, developed and evolved in ways both planned and unanticipated. - Mary Kellogg Rice