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Digital Case Collections provide online access to historical and rare materials from the physical collections of Kelvin Smith Library, as well as digital archives and collections contributed by faculty members and other Case libraries. Our initial collections include WPA Prints in Special Collections, KSL Digital Books Collection, Classics Slides Collection, and the United Nations Commission of Experts for the Investigation of Atrocities in the Former Yugoslavia Archives.

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Title: Western Reserve Studies Symposium
Creator: Haddad, Gladys
Date: 1986-
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2186/ksl:wrss

Summary: Western Reserve Studies Symposium: A symposium on regional history and culture. Advancing the exploration of the distinctive aspects of Ohio's Western Reserve.

Title: WPA Prints in Special Collections
Creator: Ashdown, Ray Jay; Billmyer, John E.; Brown, Elmer William; Bulone, Angelo; Campbell, Charles; Carambella, Gladys Beidelman; Curry, Noble; Daniels, Mathew D.; Ferench, Anthony T.; Flint, LeRoy William; Fousek, Frank Daniel; Franyin, Michael P.; Grebenak, Louis Arthur; Gross Bettelheim, Jolan; Guilbeau, Honore; Haber, Alice G.; Haber, Joe; Jacobs, Abraham; Kagy, Sheffield; Kepetz, Herman; Korda, Florence; Kubinyi, Kalman; Kucharyson, Paul; Kulhanek, James C.; Lee-Smith, Hughie; Leonard, Grace V.; Mancuso, Antonina; Mendlik, James; Mihalik, Julius C.; Miltenberger, Robert B.; Napoli, James; Osweiczynski, Stanislaus Arturo; Root, Marguerite; Rutka, Dorothy; Sallee, Jr., Charles Louis; Silberger, Manuel G.; Sommer, William; Vander Sluis, George; Zuelch, Clarence Edward
Date: 1935-1939
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2186/ksl:wpaPrints

Summary: During the 1930s, there was catastrophic unemployment in the country. A federal project was put in place in 1935, called "Work Projects Administration" which would utilize the skills of out-of-work employees helping them to earn a small wage to survive. Previous efforts had begun in 1933, to assist unemployed artists under the Public Works of Art Project established by the

Treasury Department. The country was divided into sixteen regions, one of which was the Cleveland region. Two people were instrumental in the success of the Cleveland effort William M. Milliken, Director of the Cleveland Museum of Art and Linda A. Eastman, Director of the Cleveland Public Library. The significant benefit of their collaboration and leadership was a regional approach to art that exemplified and identified the "Cleveland Scene." In 1935, the Works Progress Administration, took over the support of artists on relief and hired hundreds of workers for the Federal Art Project in music, theater, writing and art, the Federal Art Project alone employed 350 Cleveland artists.