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Summary Information
Marion C. Neprud Papers 1914-1966
- Neprud, Marion C., 1897-1965
Mss 222
2.0 cubic feet (5 archives boxes)
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Papers of Marion C. Neprud, an administrator of federal public housing projects and a coordinator of public and private programs in community services, adult education, and housing management. The papers include personal and professional correspondence, reports, speeches, minutes, newsletters, press releases, and other materials. They document Neprud's work as state organizer for the League of Women Voters of Ohio; as director of the International Institute of Milwaukee, a housing referral, cultural, and adult education center; and as the administrator for the Farm Security Administration during the Depression of various homestead projects and of a training school for community managers. The correspondence includes letters from Monsignor L.G. Ligutti recording his impressions of social conditions in South America, and from Charl Ormond Williams regarding her travels to Denmark, Greenland, and the Soviet Union. Records concerning formation of the National Association of Community Managers are present as are papers from Neprud's work in New England in 1919 for Community Chautauquas Inc. of New York. English
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mss00222
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