American Decades
Connecticut Clockmaker
Memoir
By: Francis Donovan
Date: January 5, 1939
Source: Donovan, Francis. Connecticut Clockmaker. Living Lore in New England series, Works Progress Administration. Reproduced in American Life Histories: Manuscripts From the Federal Writers' Project, 1936–1940. American Memory digital primary source collection, Library of Congress. Available online at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html; website home page: http://memory.loc.gov (accessed March 11, 2003).
About the Author: Little is known about Francis Donovan, other than his participation in the Federal Writer's Project. An outgrowth of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the Federal Writer's Project was an attempt to shift government subsidy of private labor to utilize skilled professionals. The...
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1900's Lifestyles and Social Trends Primary Sources
- Theodore Roosevelt and Booker T. Washington
- "The Road Problem"
- "What Is a Lynching?"
- "The Niagara Movement"
- Emporia and New York
- The Courtesies
- "The Corner Stone Laid"
- The Chautauqua Movement
- The Anti-Saloon League Year Book
- Ohio Electric Railway "The Way to Go"
- Sears, Roebuck Home Builder's Catalog
- "Seven Years of Child Labor Reform"
- The House on Henry Street
- "Bring Playgrounds to Detroit"
- Connecticut Clockmaker
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
