1930's Medicine and Health | "Dust"

Essay

By: Hilda Polacheck

Date: 1938

Source: Polacheck, Hilda. "Dust." 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 18, 2003).

About the Author: Born in Poland in 1882, Hilda Polacheck moved to Chicago in 1892 in the neighborhood surrounding the Jane Addams Hull House. There she learned how to write. The author was one of many writers who would probably have been unemployed if President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal had not included the Works Progress Administration Federal Writers' Project.

Introduction

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