But what always proves to be a fascinating study is the records the WPA kept
during their work. Several years ago, the U.S. Navy went to the National
Archives at Laguna Niguel and found neat little reports of WPA work performed at
U.S. Army, Fort Rosecrans in 1938-1940 with crisp and clear photos of how the
buildings appeared at that time. This led to the discovery that the WPA
created the cobblestone drainage ditches, wall revetments, and other features in
the course of their work. What remains a mystery are the geometric symbols
created in one of those revetments holding up a 15-foot high hill at the back
of an underground artillery bunker. I should think the operational records,
reports, and photos of WPA work at archaeology sites could be just as rich.
Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc.
In a message dated 3/27/2009 7:52:44 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
[log in to unmask] writes:
Before the original question gets lost in the shouting: Jason, the WPA work
was done through a variety of museums and academic institutions across the
country, and the collections have -- for the most part at least -- remained
with those institutions. A decade or so ago when I was working with the U.S.
General Services Administration, a question arose about whether GSA was really
the "owner" of the collections, but as I recall, we concluded that it was a
question to which the answer would be (a) messy and (b) probably not very
relevant to anything, and the sleeping dog was left to lie.
Tom King
In a message dated 3/27/2009 10:45:44 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[log in to unmask] writes:
What an uncalled for and unnecessarily rude response to a sincere inquiry.
If you don't know, then just refrain from answering.
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Jennifer L. Harty, M.A.
Principal Investigator
KL&J-Environmental Group
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Bismarck, ND 58501
701.250.5912 office
701.202.7066 cell
-----Original Message-----
From: [log in to unmask]
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Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 8:21 AM
To: Jason Schmerer; ACRA-L; ARCH-L; HISTARCH
Subject: Re: ACRA-L - WPA Era Artifacts
Jason - Please take an introductory course on North
American Archaeology. You may also want to read the
standard textbooks used in such courses. It is amazing
what you can learn that way.
Tom Padgett
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:45:45 -0400
Jason Schmerer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> This is something that I have been interested in finding
>out and am hoping
> that you all can tell me more about this.
>
> Does anybody now what happened to all the WPA Era
>artifacts?
>
> I am sure that there are still many many MA and PhD
>thesis work that can be
> done with these artifacts in analysis alone. I would be
>happy to get a
> chance to analyze these artifacts, or some of these
>artifacts, for my MA or
> PhD thesis.
>
> Thank you all again.
>
> Jason Schmerer
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