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From: "Jen Bawden" <>
Subject: [KYJACKSO-L] Photos in Library of Congress
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 20:09:18 -0500

Hi guys,

This was passed on to me and there are some great pictures there! Quite a
few for Kentucky, but unfortunately, none for our region. Closest they come
is Lexington and Breathitt Co. However, I heartily recommend you take a
look :)

Jen

>"The black-and-white photographs of the Farm Security Administration-Office
>of War Information Collection are a landmark in
>the history of documentary photography. The images show Americans at home,
>at work, and at play, with an emphasis on rural
>and small-town life and the adverse effects of the Great Depression, the
>Dust Bowl, and increasing farm mechanization. Some
>of the most famous images portray people who were displaced from farms and
>migrated West or to industrial cities in search of
>work. In its latter years, the project documented America's mobilization
>for World War II. The collection includes about
>164,000 black-and-white negatives; this release provides access to nearly
>45,000 of these images. The FSA-OWI
>photographers also produced about 1600 color photographs. Two illustrated
>lists of frequently requested images from the
>FSA-OWI Collection, "'Migrant Mother' Photographs" and "Photographs of
>Signs Enforcing Racial Discrimination", are also
>available from the Prints and Photographs Reading Room. "
>
>http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fahome.html
>

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