- City:
- Bayonne, NJ
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Libraries
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Completed:
- 1938
Description
Federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers conducted building repairs at the main public library in Bayonne, New Jersey. Furthermore, WPA workers were employed to re-bind thousands of damaged books at the library. An additional WPA project involved “organizing and operating branch library services.”
Source notes
Financial and Administrative Survey of Bayonne, 1940, Vol. 2.; Table 62 (page 416). Found at the Bayonne Public Library: Reference Room.Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 5, 2015.
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