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Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives - About this Collection - Prints & Photographs Online Catalog

Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives - About this Collection - Prints & Photographs Online Catalog
Most images are digitized | All jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress | View All The photographs in the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Photograph Collection form an extensive pictorial record of American life between 1935 and 1944. This U.S. government photography project was headed for most of its existence by Roy E. In total, the black-and-white portion of the collection consists of about 175,000 black-and-white film negatives, encompassing both negatives that were printed for FSA-OWI use and those that were not printed at the time. For a video overview of the collection, see "Documenting America, 1935-1943: The Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Photo Collection." Research Tips Unprinted negatives: You can search for "Untitled" to see images that did not come with a caption card bearing a title and are presumed not to have been printed. Related:  Arts visuels

Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" Photographs in the Farm Security Administration Collection: An Overview The photograph that has become known as "Migrant Mother" is one of a series of photographs that Dorothea Lange made of Florence Owens Thompson and her children in February or March of 1936 in Nipomo, California. Lange was concluding a month's trip photographing migratory farm labor around the state for what was then the Resettlement Administration. In 1960, Lange gave this account of the experience: I saw and approached the hungry and desperate mother, as if drawn by a magnet. I do not remember how I explained my presence or my camera to her, but I do remember she asked me no questions. I made five exposures, working closer and closer from the same direction. The images were made using a Graflex camera. There are no known restrictions on the use of Lange's "Migrant Mother" images. Images in the series are as follows (select the small image to view larger versions through the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog): Contemporary Publications in Which "Migrant Mother" Was Featured: -----.

What Was Jim Crow? Jim Crow was the name of the racial caste system which operated primarily, but not exclusively in southern and border states, between 1877 and the mid-1960s. Jim Crow was more than a series of rigid anti-black laws. It was a way of life. The Jim Crow system was undergirded by the following beliefs or rationalizations: whites were superior to blacks in all important ways, including but not limited to intelligence, morality, and civilized behavior; sexual relations between blacks and whites would produce a mongrel race which would destroy America; treating blacks as equals would encourage interracial sexual unions; any activity which suggested social equality encouraged interracial sexual relations; if necessary, violence must be used to keep blacks at the bottom of the racial hierarchy. A black male could not offer his hand (to shake hands) with a white male because it implied being socially equal. Never assert or even intimate that a white person is lying. Barbers. © Dr. References

Overview - American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940 This collection of life histories consists of approximately 2,900 documents, compiled and transcribed by more than 300 writers from 24 states, working on the Folklore Project of the Federal Writers’ Project, a New Deal jobs program that was part of the U.S. Works Progress (later Work Projects) Administration (WPA) from 1936 to 1940. Typically 2,000-15,000 words in length, the documents vary in form from narratives to dialogues to reports to case histories. About the Federal Writers' Project The Federal Writers' Project materials in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division are part of a larger collection titled The U.S. Well over one-half of the materials in this record group pertain to the American Guide, the sobriquet for the critically acclaimed state guides. The arrangement of the larger collection generally reflects the division of work within the Writers' Project such as material relating to The American Guide, the Folklore Project, Social-ethnic Studies, and Slave Narratives.

Presidents of the United States (POTUS) Links immediately following the image of the American Flag ( ) are links to other POTUS sites. All other links lead to sites elsewhere on the Web. Jump to: Presidential Election Results | Cabinet Members | Notable Events | Internet Biographies | Historical Documents | Media Resources | Other Internet Resources | Points of Interest Father: James Roosevelt Mother: Sara Delano Roosevelt Married: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), on March 17, 1905 Children: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1906-75); James Roosevelt (1907-91); Elliott Roosevelt (1910-90); Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr. (1914-88); John Aspinwall Roosevelt (1916-81) Religion: Episcopalian Education: Graduated from Harvard College (1903); Attended Columbia Law School Occupation: Public official, lawyer Political Party: Democrat Other Government Positions: Member of New York State Legislature, 1911-13 Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1913-20 Governor of New York, 1929-33 Presidential Salary: $75,000/year Vice President: John N. Harry S.

Dorothea Lange - California Museum Dorothea Lange’s photographs have etched the faces of the poor and forgotten into the American memory. Her compassionate images of disadvantaged Native Americans, displaced families of the Great Depression, and interned Japanese Americans during World War II helped develop documentary photography as we know it today. Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1895, she contracted polio at age seven and was left with a lifelong limp. After studying photography as a young woman in New York City, in 1918 she moved to California and opened her own portrait studio in San Francisco. In 1933, Lange and her husband, Paul Taylor, documented the grim exodus of farm families escaping the dust bowl, and her powerful images persuaded many of the need for government programs to aid the dispossessed. Lange died in 1965 but her passion for people and the art of photography left us with era-defining images of 20th century America.

Who Was Jim Crow? The name Jim Crow is often used to describe the segregation laws, rules, and customs which arose after Reconstruction ended in 1877 and continued until the mid-1960s. How did the name become associated with these "Black Codes" which took away many of the rights which had been granted to blacks through the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments? These words are from the song, "Jim Crow," as it appeared in sheet music written by Thomas Dartmouth "Daddy" Rice. Rice, a white man, was one of the first performers to wear blackface makeup -- his skin was darkened with burnt cork. By 1838, the term "Jim Crow" was being used as a collective racial epithet for blacks, not as offensive as nigger, but similar to coon or darkie. The minstrel show was one of the first native forms of American entertainment, and Rice was rightly regarded as the "Father of American minstrelsy." Daddy Rice, the original Jim Crow, became rich and famous because of his skills as a minstrel. © Dr. Bean, A., Hatch, J. Levy, L.

New Deal Network: The Great Depression, the 1930s, and the Roosevelt Administration Tuskegee Airmen Note: This exhibit has been temporarily removed from display. An expanded Tuskegee Airmen exhibit is in the works and will open in February 2015. Reflecting American society and law at the time, the U.S. military remained racially segregated during World War II. Click on the following links to learn more about the Tuskegee Airmen. Political PressureTraining BeginsCharles Alfred "Chief" AndersonDavis Leads the 99th into CombatEscort ExcellenceLegacy of EqualityEdward C. Click here to return to the World War II Gallery.

History in Photos: Dorothea Lange - Japanese Internment A farm mother awaits evacuation bus. Centerville, California, 1942 A farm youngster pictured two days before evacuation of persons of Japanese ancestry from this Santa Clara County farming community. 1942 A mother and daughter, Issei and Nisei, who have been living in this Assembly Center for one month, are seen at the door of their home in the barracks. San Bruno, California, 1942 A young member of an evacuee family awaiting evacuation bus. Hayward, California, 1942 An elementary school with voluntary attendance has been established with volunteer evacuee teachers, most of whom are college graduates. Arranging flowers for altar on last day of services at Japanese Independent Congregational Church, prior to evacuation. Awaiting evacuation bus. Baseball is the most popular recreation at this War Relocation Authority center with 80 teams having been formed throughout the Center. College students of Japanese ancestry who have been evacuated from Sacramento to the Assembly Center. 1942

Remembering Jim Crow : presented by American RadioWorks Bitter Times | Danger, Violence, Exploitation | "Behind the Veil" | Keeping the Past | Resistance | Whites Remember Jim Crow | Communities "Behind the Veil" The writer, scholar and activist, W.E.B. Du Bois described blacks as living "behind the veil" during Jim Crow. The metaphor described a vibrant social and political system developed by African Americans to bear the hardships of segregation and prejudice, behind which they remained largely invisible — and thereby unthreatening — to whites.

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