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Key West, Florida

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Author: WPA – Federal Writers Project; American Guide Series

Publisher: Hastings House

Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good

Sponsored by the Florida State Planning Board. Aqua-blue cloth covered boards with stamped titles in white. Map endpages. Illustrated through-out with period b/w photographs. Bindings square and tight. Text clean, with previous owner’s address label stamp on the verso of the front free endpage  on front endpage; offsetting to preliminaries. The Dust jacket presents well, price-clipped, darkened spine; small closed tear on the top rear panel near the spine. 122 pages with index. 8.25 inches tall. Extensive Bibliography. Illustrated with endpage maps; photographs and b/w reproductions of artwork.. Notable for the selection of essays on the ‘contemporary scene’, history, industry and commerce and fishing followed by “Points of Interest’. The appendices include chronology, bibliography, and index.11 of the photographs are by Rothstein of the Farm Security Administration and 10 etchings by F. Townsend Morgan, director of the Key West WPA Community Art Center. During the Great Depression of the 1930s thousands of writers were hired by the Works Project Administration to create hundreds of guidebooks on all of the states in the U.S. These volumes that were produced became known as the American Guide Series. This series has been described as the biggest, fastest and most original research job in the history of the world. Ref: Scharf & Schoyer, 143;  CBH, 9