Marion C. Neprud papers, 1914-1966

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Neprud, Marion C., 1897-1965

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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 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.

The processed portion of this collection is summarized above and is described in the register. Additional photographic accessions are described below.

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