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The Kansas Emergency Relief Committee was created in July 1932 to obtain and administer federal emergency loans made available to states through Herbert Hoover's Emergency Relief and Construction Act of 1932. President Franklin Roosevelt expanded on this act with the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) in 1933, leading the Kansas committee to change its name to the Kansas Emergency Relief Committee (KERC). Under the direction of Kansas's new governor, Alf Landon, the KERC managed direct and work relief programs in Kansas including emergency education, transient relief, rural rehabilitation, drought relief, and a slew of public works projects including the construction of farm ponds and lakes, and the renovation and construction of public buildings, roads, and quarries. This is a "playground manual outlining a course of instruction and procedure in the organization, management, and conduct of playgrounds to be organized and conducted under the direction of the county relief administration." John Stutz was the executive director of the KERC.
Creator: Kansas Emergency Relief Committee
Date: 1935
Item Number: 226296
Call Number: S.P. 361 K13ebm
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 226296
Built Environment - Function - Recreation and Culture - Outdoor Recreation - Playground
Collections - Library
Date - 1930s - 1935
Government and Politics - State Government - State agencies and programs - Agencies - Kansas Emergency Relief Committee
Home and Family - Daily life - Leisure - Play
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Manual
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Record, Government
People - Children
People - Notable Kansans - Stutz, John Godfrey, 1893-1995
Thematic Time Period - Great Depression and Dust Bowl, 1929 - 1941
Type of Material - Printed materials - Government publications - Manual
Type of Material - Printed materials - Manual
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