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The Works Progress Administration, later renamed the Work Projects Administration (WPA), was the largest of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal agencies. Created under the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act, it was meant to bring financial relief to the millions unemployed during the Great Depression. The WPA carried out various public works projects, such as the construction of buildings, bridges, and highways. The first WPA workers were from the Transient Bureau and came to North Carolina's Outer Banks in 1934. Among other projects, they planted stabilizing grasses to create dunes along the ocean front and aided in the construction of the Waterside Theatre, where  The Lost Colony drama is performed each summer. However, one of the WPA's biggest jobs was the construction of a duneline for over 100 miles of North Carolina's Barrier Islands. Lt. Harold L. Graham was an army Finance Officer stationed at WPA Camp Wirth located on the north end of Roanoke Island, North Carolina.

The Works Progress Administration, later renamed the Work Projects Administration (WPA), was the largest of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal agencies. Created under the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act, it was meant to bring financial relief to the millions unemployed during the Great Depression. The WPA carried out various public works projects, such as the construction of buildings, bridges, and highways. The first WPA workers were from the Transient Bureau and came to North Carolina's Outer Banks in 1934. Among other projects, they planted stabilizing grasses to create dunes along the ocean front and aided in the construction of the Waterside Theatre, where  The Lost Colony drama is performed each summer. However, one of the WPA's biggest jobs was the construction of a duneline for over 100 miles of North Carolina's Barrier Islands. Lt. Harold L. Graham was an army Finance Officer stationed at WPA Camp Wirth located on the north end of Roanoke Island, North Carolina.

[Identification of item], 33MSS-104, Lt. Harold L. Graham Papers, Outer Banks History Center, Manteo, N.C., U.S.A.

Donated by Robert Midgette in 2008.

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1. 33BOK-0-2351:  North Carolina WPA: Its Story, Works Projects Administration, 1940

The Lt. Harold L. Graham Papers include correspondence, receipts, financial records, and army training course books. There is also a folder of photographs in poor condition.

This collection is divided into two main series: Financial Records and Army Records.

The Lt. Harold L. Graham Papers include correspondence, receipts, financial records, and army training course books. There is also a folder of photographs in poor condition.