"This Great Nation Will Endure": Photographs of the Great Depression
Exhibition Opens June 16, 2007 at the National Archives Southeast Region
See also our flyer on this exhibit.
Press Release
May 23, 2007
The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum and the National Archives Southeast Region will present a photographic exhibition of over 150 images of America taken between 1935 and 1942 by great photographers of the Farm Security Administration, including Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, Jack Delano, Arthur Rothstein, Gordon Parks, Carl Mydans, Russell Lee, Marion Post Wolcott and John Vachon.
The exhibition was created by the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, New York. The photographs are drawn from the massive Farm Security Administration photography collection at the Library of Congress. Their work includes some of the most familiar and powerful images of the nation to emerge from those difficult years. Many have reached iconic status in American culture.
Opening in the facility's Exhibit Gallery on Saturday, June 16, 2007, "This Great Nation Will Endure" will include FSA photographs from every region of the nation. It will be one of the largest and richest exhibitions of FSA black-and-white photography brought to Georgia.
A soundtrack consisting of FSA audio recordings of folk music sung by migrant workers will fill part of the exhibit space.
A New Deal agency created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the FSA sought to help American farmers and farm laborers who were confronting economic depression and natural disaster, including the ecological disaster known as the Dust Bowl. The agency was connected to the Department of Agriculture, led by Secretary of Agriculture, Henry A. Wallace.
The FSA created a remarkably diverse record of life in America during the 1930s and early 1940s - including images of hardship, endurance, hope, recovery, migration, recreation, and community life.
"This Great Nation Will Endure": Photographs of the Great Depression runs through November 17, 2007. Free tours and lectures will be offered in conjunction with the exhibition. For information about tours or to schedule a group viewing or a tour for students and educators, please contact Mary Evelyn Tomlin, Public Programs Specialist at mary.tomlin@nara.gov or James McSweeney, Regional Administrator, at james.mcsweeney@nara.gov.
Exhibition Location Information:
Tuesday - Saturday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
National Archives Southeast Region
Exhibit Gallery
5780 Jonesboro Road
Jonesboro, GA 30260
770-968-2100
Southeast Region Main Page
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