New York: A Guide To The Empire State: A Guide to the Empire State

During the Great Depression of the 1930s thousands of writers were hired by the Works Project Administration to create hundreds of guidebooks on all of the states in the U.S. These volumes that were produced became known as theAmerican Guide Series. This series has been described as the biggest, fastest and most original research job in the history of the world.No library collection in New York would be complete without a copy of New York: A Guide To The Empire State.