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American Journey, An Images of Railroading during the Depression Mark Vandercook
American Journey, An Images of Railroading during the Depression Mark S. Vandercook
An American Journey
Images of Railroading during the Depression
Mark S. Vanderhook
164 pages
Copyright 2000
Contents
PREFACE : ix
INTRODUCTION : 1
PHOTOGRAPHERS : 5
1935 : 13
1936: 19
1937 : 27
1938 : 45
1939 : 73
194O: 135
1941 : 155
APPENDIX : 159
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY : 165
At the height of the Great Depression, the Farm Security Administration (FSA) set out to document, in photographic form, the state of America and its people. The FSA photographers, regarded today to be among the best of the 20th century, amassed a collection of more than 270,000 negatives. "The work of the photographic section of the Farm Security Administration", declares the Encyclopedia of Photography, "stands as the high-water mark of social documentary in this country: Forever frozen in time, these photographs have captured a significant point in American history that will never be forgotten.
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