Federal Writers Project. Delaware Records, 1936-1941.

The Federal Writers' Project was established in 1935 and worked in collaboration with state and local governments to employ writers who compiled local histories, oral histories, and ethnographies, as well as demographic, economic, agricultural and geographic information and statistics for all 48 states. The material included in the Federal Writers’ Project. Delaware Records, consists of research, articles, and information compiled by Delaware writers for the guidebook, Delaware: a guide to the first state, originally published in 1938. These materials have been bound together in 48 volumes, each with an individual index.