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FSA-OWI Photographs, 1935-1945, includes black and white
photographs of rural and small-town America and scenes of the World
War II mobilization effort. Many now-famous photographers created
these pictures while employed by a Depression-era government program.
Color
photographs are another component of this collection.
These online exhibits provide context and additional
information about this collection.
Documenting
America: Photographers on Assignment
Portrait
Sampler of FSA Photographers
Selected FSA-OWI Images: Popular
Requests and Staff
Selections
These historical era(s) are best represented
in the collection, although they may not be all-encompassing.
The Great Depression and World War II, 1929-1945
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collections and exhibits |
These collections and exhibits contain thematically-related
primary and secondary sources. Also browse the Collection
Finder for more related material on the American Memory Web
site.
American
Life Histories, 1936-1940
California
Gold: Folk Music from the Thirties, 1938-1940
Women Come
to the Front: Journalists, Photographers, and Broadcasters During
World War II
Recommended additional sources of information.
Read More About It! - A bibliography
Specific guidance for searching this collection.
Black and white and color images may be searched separately or together.
See the combined search
page for a description of what is searched.
The black and white images in the collection represent negatives
made into prints as well as "Killed" images, those not selected
for printing. "Killed" images have no captions and therefore cannot
be searched. To see these images, search for your subject. On the
bibliographic page of a captioned image, select "Display Images
with Neighboring Call Numbers" to see related "Killed" images. See
Materials
in the Collection and Access to Them for more information.
The Subject
Index in the black and white images has a state designation
before the subject term. Use this index for examples of subject
terms, then search
by keyword to find all instances in which the term appears. Searching
by place or topic will be more successful than searching by a specific
date.
For a list of photographers, go to Photographers
of the FSA: Selected Portraits.
For help with search words, go to the Synonym
List.
For help with search strategies, see Finding
Items in American Memory.
No special viewers are needed to see most of the photographs in
this collection. To see high-resolution archival quality images,
you may need a special viewer. For help with viewers, go to American
Memory Viewer Information.
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