New Deal Photographs Of West Virginia 1934 1943
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Author | : Betty Rivard |
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Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781933202884 |
Upon entering the White House in 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt faced an ailing economy in the throes of the Great Depression and rushed to transform the country through recovery programs and legislative reform. By 1934, he began to send professional photographers to the state of West Virginia to document living conditions and the effects of his New Deal programs. The photographs from the Farm Security Administration Project not only introduced “America to Americans,” exposing a continued need for government intervention, but also captured powerful images of life in rural and small town America.New Deal Photographs of West Virginia, 1934-1943 presents images of the state's northern and southern coalfields, the subsistence homestead projects of Arthurdale, Eleanor, and Tygart Valley, and various communities from Charleston to Clarksburg and Parkersburg to Elkins. With over one hundred and fifty images by ten FSA photographers, including Walker Evans, Marion Post Wolcott, Arthur Rothstein, and Ben Shahn, this collection is a remarkable proclamation of hardship, hope, endurance, and, above all, community. These photographs provide a glimpse into the everyday lives of West Virginians during the Great Depression and beyond.
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Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : West Virginia |
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Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Folk art |
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Author | : Emily Kathryn Morgan |
Publisher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1609389638 |
Imaging Animal Industry focuses on the visual culture of the American meat industry between 1890 and 1960. Drawing on archival collections across the American Midwest, this book relates a history of the meatpacking industry's use of images in the early to mid-twentieth century. In the process, it reveals the key role that images, particularly photographs, have played in assisting with the rise of industrial meat production.
Author | : Jerry Bruce Thomas |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1998-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780813120645 |
The Depression had already begun in West Virginia before the stock market crash of November 1929 and lasted until the coming of war in 1941. In tracing the responses of the people and government of West Virginia during the Depression, historian Jerry Thomas not only deals with politics and institutions but also tells about ordinary people during the worst conditions in the state's history. 18 photos.
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Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Conservation of natural resources |
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Author | : United States. Congress. Senate |
Publisher | : Government Printing Office |
Total Pages | : 760 |
Release | : 1982 |
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Author | : Katherine H. Adams |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2016-01-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1476662975 |
In 1935, the United States Congress began employing large numbers of American artists through the Works Progress Administration--fiction writers, photographers, poster artists, dramatists, painters, sculptors, muralists, wood carvers, composers and choreographers, as well as journalists, historians and researchers. Secretary of Commerce and supervisor of the WPA Harry Hopkins hailed it a "renascence of the arts, if we can call it a rebirth when it has no precedent in our history." Women were eminently involved, creating a wide variety of art and craft, interweaving their own stories with those of other women whose lives might not otherwise have received attention. This book surveys the thousands of women artists who worked for the U.S. government, the historical and social worlds they described and the collaborative depiction of womanhood they created at a pivotal moment in American history.
Author | : Robert L. Reid |
Publisher | : Minnesota Historical Society Press |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0873512480 |
"Picturing Minnesota brings together the best of the images taken in Minnesota from the collection of photographs commissioned by the Farm Security Administration during the depression era and the advent of World War II. Among the photographers represented here are John Vachon, a native of St. Paul, Russell Lee, Jack Delano, Arthur Rothstein and Marion Post Wolcott. Outstanding as photographic works of art, these pictures are unique in their ability to convey the details of life in Minnesota during those years"--Publisher's description from lensculture.com.
Author | : Muriel Rukeyser |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781946684219 |
Written in response to the Hawk's Nest Tunnel disaster of 1931 in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, The Book of the Dead is an important part of West Virginia's cultural heritage and a powerful account of one of the worst industrial catastrophes in American history. The poems collected here investigate the roots of a tragedy that killed hundreds of workers, most of them African American. They are a rare engagement with the overlap between race and environment in Appalachia. Published for the first time alongside photographs by Nancy Naumburg, who accompanied Rukeyser to Gauley Bridge in 1936, this edition of The Book of the Dead includes an introduction by Catherine Venable Moore, whose writing on the topic has been anthologized in Best American Essays.