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Created in 1941
Object File Reviewed
Checked Piction
TMS done
Exhibitions: Kelly Fearing: The Influence of "The Fort Worth School," 1939-1955 Valley House Gallery Inc. 04/20/1992 to 05/30/1992
1942 WPA Mattres Factory, The Gov will give you a bed----this is a study
mattress making project of the Women's Section, 1934-36
Cotton purchased by the Federal Government to relieve the cotton surplus was, for a time, made into mattresses for distribution to needy families.......Precautions were taken against the entrance of such goods into the commercial market by stamping them as made by the WPA and "not for sale." Mattress-making projects, however, were closed out by the WPA in deference to the objections of private manufacturing interests.(Final Report on the WPA Government)
(Morrison County HIstorical Society, The Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Memorial Museum-Little Falls, MN)
The process of making a mattress involved two to four people working on one mattress per day...In order to get a mattress from the WPA, people had to have an income of less than $2,000 per year and they had to help make a mattress.
Because so many of the Depress-era social programs were connected, the cotton for the mattresses likely came from farmers who couldn't sell it on the regular market. The federal government started agricultural programs during the Depression both to purchase farm goods for use in other relief efforts and to pay farmers not to produce. The farm subsidies of today are a continuation of these programs.
http://archives.nolalibrary.org/~nopl/photos/wpa/wpa27.htm Photos of WPA mattress making, but the website does not look good
https://kellyfearing.com/ did not use as web resource because it is a .com
https://www.nal.usda.gov/exhibits/speccoll/exhibits/show/usda-history-collection/item/1105 a couple of photos of mattress making, not a great web resource
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Fearing, Kelly (American, 1918-2011)
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Depicted location and place of origin: United States (nation): TGN: 7012149
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From 2007: Dallas Museum of Art, gift of Marion and Nash Flores in honor of Mrs. Nancy Harmon and Mrs. Margaret McDermott
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WEB RESOURCES
- Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records~See an example of a handmade WPA mattress from the 1930s from the Arizona Memory Project.
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FUN FACTS
- During the Great Depression of the 1930s, President Franklin Roosevelt created the Works Progress Administration to provide a wide variety of temporary jobs for unemployed Americans. Some of these jobs included building roads, canning food, and making mattresses.
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- During the Great Depression of the 1930s, President Franklin Roosevelt created the Works Progress Administration to provide a wide variety of temporary jobs for unemployed Americans. Some of these jobs included building roads, canning food, and making mattresses.
Archival Resources
Web Resources
- Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records~See an example of a handmade WPA mattress from the 1930s from the Arizona Memory Project.
Notes
Created in 1941
Object File Reviewed
Checked Piction
TMS done
Exhibitions: Kelly Fearing: The Influence of "The Fort Worth School," 1939-1955 Valley House Gallery Inc. 04/20/1992 to 05/30/1992
1942 WPA Mattres Factory, The Gov will give you a bed----this is a study
mattress making project of the Women's Section, 1934-36
Cotton purchased by the Federal Government to relieve the cotton surplus was, for a time, made into mattresses for distribution to needy families.......Precautions were taken against the entrance of such goods into the commercial market by stamping them as made by the WPA and "not for sale." Mattress-making projects, however, were closed out by the WPA in deference to the objections of private manufacturing interests.(Final Report on the WPA Government)
(Morrison County HIstorical Society, The Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Memorial Museum-Little Falls, MN)
The process of making a mattress involved two to four people working on one mattress per day...In order to get a mattress from the WPA, people had to have an income of less than $2,000 per year and they had to help make a mattress.
Because so many of the Depress-era social programs were connected, the cotton for the mattresses likely came from farmers who couldn't sell it on the regular market. The federal government started agricultural programs during the Depression both to purchase farm goods for use in other relief efforts and to pay farmers not to produce. The farm subsidies of today are a continuation of these programs.
http://archives.nolalibrary.org/~nopl/photos/wpa/wpa27.htm Photos of WPA mattress making, but the website does not look good
https://kellyfearing.com/ did not use as web resource because it is a .com
https://www.nal.usda.gov/exhibits/speccoll/exhibits/show/usda-history-collection/item/1105 a couple of photos of mattress making, not a great web resource
Catalogue essays
Artist/designers
Fearing, Kelly (American, 1918-2011)
Cultures
Geography
Depicted location and place of origin: United States (nation): TGN: 7012149
Process/materials
Drawing
Graphite on Paper
Historical periods
Individuals
Subject terms
RELATED OBJECTS
PROVENANCE
From 2007: Dallas Museum of Art, gift of Marion and Nash Flores in honor of Mrs. Nancy Harmon and Mrs. Margaret McDermott
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