Louise Rosskam's social reform photography is not as well known as other FSA photographer's such as Dorothea Lange, John Vachon, and Berenice Abbott. Working with her husband Edwin, she compiled a significant collection of depression era images. Her commitment to photography as a means to a greater social purpose resulted in many of her works not being attributed to her. She worked for over 30 years in collaboration with her husband Edwin. After the FSA program was shut down she went to work again for Roy Stryker, the former head of the FSA program, who was now heading up a new program for the Standard Oil Company. She went on to work for the Puerto Rico Office of Information and the New Jersey Department of Education.

The Shulman's Market image is one of the more complex FSA images. The unfinished story of the little white girl sitting forlornly while the black mother and child stare, is compelling. Rosskam photographed many store fronts in Washington D.C. as well as farms and small communities.

To see more of the book showing this and other FSA images, click on the book "Bound for Glory: America in Color, 1939-1943" on the left side below

Medium : 1 transparency : color

Created/Published :Between 1941-1942

Creator : Louise Rosskam, photographer, 1910-2003

Part of the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection housed in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress

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Product #: fsac1a34421