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 the
American 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 Rhode Island would be complete without a copy of Rhode Island: A Guide To The Smallest State.