Works Progress Administration handicraft display table, Key West, Florida, July 7, 1936

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Works Progress Administration handicraft display table, Key West, Florida, July 7, 1936

United States. Works Progress Administration

Southern Labor Archives

1936-07-21

Description on reverse: "Here are some of the products being turned out at the handicraft room of the WPA in Key West. At this permanent display table are shown beach hats of palm fronds, knitting bags of coconut fibre, beach sandles of fibre and rope, card cases of coconut fibre, luncheon sets of scrub-palm fronds, and many other equally novel articles." Stetson Kennedy (1916-2011), writer and civil rights activist, collected these photographs during the course of his career fighting for equality throughout the Southern United States.

Local identification number: L1979-37_077

Stetson Kennedy papers, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library

Material culture--Florida

Handicraft--Florida

Handicraft

Kennedy, Stetson

United States. Works Progress Administration

Digital Library of Georgia

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