Scope and contents The Works Progress Administration American Guide Project contains correspondence to Verne McKinley, Southwest Museum Librarian, regarding the Works Progress Administration American Guide travel handbook project. American Guide Briefs include Why Lincoln Grew a Beard, White Spirituals, Minnehaha, The City That Never Was (regarding Frog Point, North Dakota), Water, The Iron Man, Cloth of Human Hair, and Stolen -- One Washington Monument.

Scope and contents The Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project Papers contains a description of the purposes of the Federal Art Project, a description and title and artist listing for the M.H. De Young Museum Exhibition by California Artists for the Federal Art Project, and a title and artist listing for the Western Women's Club Exhibition of Painting by California Artists.There is also a decoratively painted cardstock with the words "California Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project."