- City:
- Millbury, MA
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Libraries
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA), Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)
- Started:
- 1933
Description
Improvements, including building washing and painting, were made to the Millbury, Massachusetts library in 1933 with Federal Emergency Relief Act funds. 282 Millbury locals were given employment in 1933 as a result of the federal E.R.A.
The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) assisted the library (as well as community schools) with a book binding project in 1937.
Source notes
Annual Reports of the Town Officers of the Town of Millbury For the Year Ending December 31st, 1933; page 7. Annual Reports of the Town Officers of the Town of Millbury For the Year Ending December 31st, 1934; page 66. Annual Reports of the Town Officers of the Town of Millbury For the Year Ending December 31st, 1937; page 6.Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on October 11, 2014.
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