A REVIEW OF WORK RELIEF ACTIVITIES IN ARKANSAS, APRIL 1st, 1934 to JULY 1st, 1935.

[Little Rock, Ark. Parke-Harper Company, 1935]. Green velvet paper bound pamphlet. 28 cm. 152 pp., including photo illustrations, portraits, maps (1 folded), plans, tables, and diagrams. Arkansas state flag stamped in red on front cover Cover title, in silver: ARKANSAS EMERGENCY RELIEF ADMINISTRATION, April 1, 1934 to April 1, 1935. Edges of covers and spine faded; old tidelines to upper margins of the first few and last few pages, not affecting text. Accompanied by an edition of the newspaper "Arkansas Democrat Gazette," May 5, 2018, printing an article by Bill Bowden entitled "National Register accepts Cash boyhood home, after redo." Singer Johnny Cash's boyhood home was in the Dyess Resettlement Colony built in 1934 as part of a Federal Emergency Relief Administration program. W.R. Dyess, a local businessman, was the program's state administrator. The Dyess agricultural colony was designed to provide families who had lost their farms due to the Depression with a home, 20-40 acres of farmland, and outbuildings to make a fresh start. Item #64148

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