Useful Work for Unskilled Women: A Unique Milwaukee WPA Project

by Mary Kellogg Rice

Overview

Mary Kellogg Rice describes a unique Milwaukee project in the post-Depression years which trained thousands of unskilled, uneducated women in the production of a variety of handicrafts. These articles were displayed in schools, universities, hospitals and other public institutions around the country.

Distributed for the Milwaukee County Historical Society, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780938076186
Publisher:	Milwaukee County Historical Society
Publication date:	01/01/2003
Edition description:	1
Pages:	146
Product dimensions:	9.50(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Mary Kellogg Rice assisted in the planning of a 1935 WPA project that gave employment to unskilled women who were receiving public assistance from Milwaukee County. She has also collaborated on another book, The Art of Japanese Resist Dying, published in Japan in 1983.