 | Some 70 years ago, unemployed musicians struggled during the Great Depression to provide themselves and their families with the basics of life. In his enlightenment, then President Franklin Delano Roosevelt established The Works Progress Administration.
This agency employed many kinds of unemployed workers, including artists and musicians. The Library of Congress possesses most of the archives from this period in U.S. History.You may,however, contact the Evanston Symphony Orchestra in order to touch the more than 600 linear feet of scores these musicians actually used to entertain the suffering public with soothing sounds.A Local Link To The Past |