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An Air-Minded Family

Bargain House

Bea, the Wash Woman

The Boarding House

The Capital City Insurance Company

A Change in Vocation Brings Success

Cindy Wright

Cosmetics and Coal

Cotton and Horseshoes

A Day in a Store

De Troubles I's Seen

The Depression Was a Republican Trick

E.W. Evans

Edward Walcott

Elam Franklin Dempsey

From Around the World to a Georgia Farm

The Family of an Automobile Worker

A Farming Preacher-Prophet

God Helped Us

A Good Investment

Honesty and Fairness to the Bitter End

...Hopes 'At Somebody Will Come Along to Talk to

The House of Flowers

I Ain't No Midwife

I Am Reaping in Tears What I Sowed in Fun

I Been 'Voted to Horses All My Days

I Got a Record

I Is a Baptist

I Manage to Carry On

I Saw the Stars

I Want to Die in Peace

I Wanted to Be a Merchant

I'm Planning to Make a Come-Back

I'se a Fast 'Oman

In Lieu of Something Better

It Wasn't So Easy

Jilson Littlejohn

Life During Confederate Days

Making the Best of It

The Man Who Out-Thought the Other Fellow

Merchandise on the Toboggan

Mildred Lawson

The More Modest Among Us

Mr. Doolittle

Mr. Richards

Mr. Thomas J. Henry

Mr. Trout

Mrs. Brown

Mrs. Janie Bradberry Harris

Mrs. Lelia Bramblett

Mrs. Margaret Davis (Original)

Mrs. Margaret Davis (revised & expanded)

Mrs. Marguerite R. Thomas

Mrs. Sam E. Whelchel

My Ups and Downs

Negro Life on a Farm

New Way Dry Cleaning and Laundry

The Orchid Beauty Shop

The Patent Medicine Vendor

The Poppy Lady

Principal of Grammar School

Recovery

Reminiscence

Reminiscence of a Negro Preacher

Reminiscences and Recollections of Old Savannah

The Successful Farmer

The Sunshine Lady

Unable to Stage a Comeback

The Unwelcome Caller

A Visit to a Flower Shop

A Visit with Aunt Joe

Women and the Changing Times

"These life histories were written by the staff of the Folklore Project of the Federal Writers' Project for the U.S. Works Progress (later Work Projects) Administration (WPA) from 1936-1940. The Library of Congress collection includes 2,900 documents representing the work of over 300 writers from 24 states. Typically 2,000-15,000 words in length, the documents consist of drafts and revisions, varying in form from narrative to dialogue to report to case history. The histories describe the informant's family education, income, occupation, political views, religion and mores, medical needs, diet and miscellaneous observations. Pseudonyms are often substituted for individuals and places named in the narrative texts."

NOTE: The life histories and articles presented here have been read and compared to images of the original pages, and then edited to place them in a more readable form.  Handwritten notes have sometimes been deleted, transcriptions errors have been corrected, and many questionable transcriptions have been clarified. Some misspellings have been left as they were originally typed.

On occasion, at the beginning of an article under the title, I will include a section I've called 'Tom's note:'  These are personal observations that may or may not add value or expand the meaning of the article for you.