Displaying 1 of 1 1941 Format: Book Title: Louisiana, a guide to the state / compiled by workers of the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Louisiana ... sponsored by the Louisiana library commission at Baton Rouge. Publisher, Date: New York : Hastings house, [1941] ©1941 Description: xxx, 746 pages : including illustrations, maps, plates. ; 21 cm. illustration map plate Series: American guide series American guide series. Subjects: Louisiana -- Guidebooks. Other Author: Louisiana State Library. Louisiana Writers' Project. Notes: Maps on lining-papers. The plates are in eight groups each preceded by half-title not included in the paging. First printed in 1941. Includes bibliographical references (pages 704-716). Web Site: Click here to access an electronic version of this title LCCN: 41052389 ISBN: 0403021693 Other Number: 872309 System Availability: 4 # System items in: 4 # Local items: 4 # Local items in: 4 Current Holds: 0 Place Request Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Large Cover Image Summary During the Great Depression of the 1930s thousands of writers were hired by the Works Project Administration to create hundreds of guidebooks on all of the states in the U.S. These volumes that were produced became known as the American Guide Series . This series has been described as the biggest, fastest and most original research job in the history of the world. No library collection in Louisiana would be complete without a copy of Louisiana: A Guide To The State. Librarian's View Syndetics Unbound Displaying 1 of 1
