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.	On August 31, 1939, the Pederal Writers‘ Project became the Viriters‘ Program, and the National Technical Project in Washington was terminated. On October 17, the first Library of Congress Project, under the sponsorship of the Library of Congress, was set up by the Work Projects Athainistration in the District of Colurithia, to continue sorile of the functions of the National Technical Pro~ ject, chiefly those concerned with books of a regional or nation~ wide scope. On February 12, 1940, the project was reorganized along strictly conservation lines, and. on August 16 it was suc. ceeded by the present Library of Congress Project (Official Project No. l65-2—26~‘?, Work Project No. 540).

	The present Library of Congress Project, under the sponsor~ ship of the Library. of Congress, is a unit of the Public Activities Program of the Community Service Programs of the Work Projects Administration for the District of Columbia. According to the Project Proposal (WPA Fonn 301), the purpose of the Project is to “collect, check, edit, index, and otherwise prepare for use 7~PA records, Professional and Service Projects.“

	The writers‘ Unit of the Library of Congress Project process— es material left over from or not needed for publication by the state Writers‘ Projects. On file in the washington office in August, 1939, was a large body of slave narratives, photographs of former slaves, interviews with white infoirnants regarding slaveiy, transcripts of laws, advertisements, records of sale,