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

Identifier

http://dp.la/api/items/f844c77e35e9c2e98c2aa27eff29038a

Title

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

Creator

United States. Works Progress Administration

Date

7/21/36

Description

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.

Subject

Material culture--Florida
Handicraft--Florida
Handicraft
United States. Works Progress Administration

Source

Digital Library of Georgia

Relation

https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do-th:gsu_skennedy_10583

Type

image

References

http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/SKennedy/id/10583

Date

7/21/36

Source

Digital Library of Georgia

Subject

Material culture--Florida
Handicraft--Florida
Handicraft
United States. Works Progress Administration

Citation

United States. Works Progress Administration, “Works Progress Administration handicraft display table, Key West, Florida, July 7, 1936,” Center for Knit and Crochet Digital Repository, accessed August 10, 2026, https://digital.centerforknitandcrochet.org/items/show/15733.

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