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| Series Number | Project | Series Title | Description | Date Taken | Project Dates | OP # | Negatives | Contact Prints | 8x10 Prints | Digital # |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09.01 | Bookbinding | Achievement Day--Colored Bookbinding Project | Just a few of the 144 workers employed in reconditioning old volumes by the colored section of the WPA Bookbinding Project in the McDonogh High School #24, New Orleans, which recently celebrated "Achievement Day," having cleansed and rebound more than 25,000 books during the last year, 2,880 of them during August. Not even the presence of hundred of visitors during "Achievement Day" caused them to cease work. | 9/2/1938 | 9 | 1 | 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 9 | |||
| 09.02 | Bookbinding | Statewide Bookbinding Project (Colored) | WPA workers at their jobs. | 1/25/1937 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 09.03 | Bookbinding | Statewide Bookbinding Project | Scenes of project activity. (Damaged negatives). | 2/16/1937 | 4 | 4 | ||||
| 09.04 | Bookbinding | Statewide Bookbinding Project | Detail shots. | 8/17/1937 | 14 | 14 | 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 11; 13; 14 | |||
| 09.05 | Bookbinding | Achievement Day--Statewide Bookbinding Project | Achievement Day at Statewide Bookbinding Project, located at Carondelet Streetand Jackson Avenue. | 9/10/1937 | 6 | 6 | 2; 3; 4; 5; 6 | |||
| 09.06 | Bookbinding | Achievement Day--Statewide Bookbinding Project | Achievement Day at Statewide Bookbinding Project, located at Carondelet Streetand Jackson Avenue. | 7/23/1938 | 5 | 5 | 1; 2; 4; 5 | |||
| 09.07 | Bookbinding | Achievement Day--Statewide Bookbinding Project | Achievement Day at Statewide Bookbinding Project, located at Carondelet Streetand Jackson Avenue. | 5/25/1939 | 2 | 2 | 1; 2 | |||
| 09.08 | Bookbinding | New Orleans Public Library | Bookbinding Project at New Orleans Public Library. | 8/19/1938 | 6 | 6 | 2; 4; 6 | |||
| 09.09 | Bookbinding | New Orleans Public Library | Bookbinding Project at New Orleans Public Library. | 3/13/1940 | 6 | 6 | 1; 2; 3; 5 | |||
| 09.10 | Bookbinding | Achievement Day--Civil District Courthouse Bldg. | Achievement Day at the New Orleans Bookbinding Project, Civil District Courthouse Building. | 10/13/1938 | 5 | 5 | 1; 2; 3; 4; 5 | |||
| 09.11 | Bookbinding | Notarial Acts | Legal documents bound by WPA Bookbinding Project. | 10/11/1937 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 09.12 | Bookbinding | Display of Work | Work of the WPA Bookbinding Project on display during "This Work Pays Your Community Week." | 5/24/1940 | 9 | 8 | 1; 2; 4; 5; 7; 9 |
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