Thomas R. Johnston of Purdue University. Thanks are due to Harcourt, Brace & Company for permission to quote from Smoke and Steel by Carl Sandburg. Acknowledgment is also due to national, regional, and State officials of the Work Projects Administration, who have without exception been most co-operative. Although this book has been a joint responsibility involving many workers, especial mention should be made of Rebecca E. Pitts, Charlotte Davis, Howard G. Underwood, Norbert W. Meyers, W. Clay Stearley, William A. Myers, John F. Kingsbury, Roger A. Hurst, former Assist- ant State Supervisor; and Dickson J. Preston and Ray Thurman, Assist- ant State Supervisors. Final work on the guide was done with the edi- torial co-operation of Stella Bloch Hanau of the WPA Writers' Program. GORDON F. BRIGGS State Supervisor -viii- |