Descriptive Record 
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1930
January-February: Does fieldwork in the Bahamas
In New York City, New Jersey and the South
Collaborates with Langston Hughes on their play Mule-Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life
October: Registers her revue, Cold Keener, and her own version of the Mule Bone story, De Turkey and de Law, a Comedy in Three Acts, for copyright
1931
January: Mule-Bone, by Hurston and Hughes, registered for copyright
July: Registers four sketches, "Forty Yards," "Lawing and Jawing," "Poker!," and "Woofing," for copyright
Attempts at various Broadway productions
1932
Brief New York productions of her play, The Great Day, are a critical success but financial failure.
1933
Revises The Great Day and produces it in Florida venues as From Sun to Sun
1934
May: Novel, Jonah's Gourd Vine, published
1935
Lives and writes in Florida and New York
June:Registers three-act play, Spunk, for copyright
Goes South with Alan Lomax and Mary Barnicle to collect folk music for the Library of Congress
Joins Harlem unit of Federal Theater Project (WPA)
October: Publishes Mules and Men
Portrait of Langston Hughes. Gordon Parks, photographer. 1943. Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection. From the Prints and Photographs Division. Reproduction #: LC-USW3-033841-C DLC
Alan Lomax — Authority on American folk-lore [between 1940 and 1945]. From the Prints and Photographs Division. Reproduction #: LC-USZ62-121915