FERA and CWA, 1934

Contains correspondence from the Historic American Buildings Survey, which was sponsored by the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and Civil Works Administration during the Great Depression. All the letters relate to those Depression Era efforts that were aimed at documenting historic buildings, putting drafters back to work, and, perhaps most important, ensuring that America's historic buildings "should not pass into unrecorded oblivion." The correspondence addresses Mrs. Caperton as a Historian which only goes to reflect the astute and respected character she maintained in both her community and at the national level.