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Size | 0.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 29 items) |
Abstract | The North Carolina Emergency Relief Administration was a division of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), a New Deal program enacted to alleviate adult unemployment. The collection includes typed analyses, tables, and summaries compiled by North Carolina Emergency Relief Administration statistician Hugh P. Brinton. The compilations include the number of individuals and families receiving assistance in each county, with data concerning gender, race, age, financial history, employment status, and medical care. There are also some loose mimeographed items such as instructions issued to the county offices for the case workers gathering data and sample blank forms used for recording the data. |
Creator | North Carolina Emergency Relief Administration. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, January 2009
This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.
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The North Carolina Emergency Relief Administration was a division of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), a New Deal program enacted to alleviate adult unemployment.
Back to TopThe collection includes typed analyses, tables, and summaries compiled by North Carolina Emergency Relief Administration statistician Hugh P. Brinton. The compilations include the number of individuals and families receiving assistance in each county, with data concerning gender, race, age, financial history, employment status, and medical care. There are also some loose mimeographed items such as instructions issued to the county offices for the case workers gathering data and sample blank forms used for recording the data.
Back to TopFolder 1a |
Original finding aid |
Folder 1 |
Papers |
Folder 2 |
Volume 1: Summaries, April 1934-March 1935 |
Folder 3 |
Volume 2: Analyses and Summaries, June-December 1934 |
Folder 4 |
Volume 3: Analyses and Summaries, January-June 1935 |
Folder 5 |
Volume 4: Analyses and Summaries, July-December 1935 |