In the 1930s and 40s, Roy Stryker, founder of the Farm Security Administration’s photography project, sent boxes of photographic prints to the director of the New York Public Library Picture collection. In the mid 1940s, the Library of Congress Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Photograph Collection was assembled, comprising 175,000 negatives and 1,600 color transparencies. It quickly became the authoritative source for Mr. Stryker’s projects. However nearly 41,000 Roy Stryker prints have remained untouched for decades and now, more than 1,000 of those images are available today on a special NYPL site. Read more about it here!
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| Library of Congress Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Photographic Collection |
The photographs of 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. Stryker, formerly an economics instructor at Columbia University, and employed such photographers as Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Arthur Rothstein, Ben Shahn, Jack Delano, Marion Post Wolcott, Gordon Parks, John Vachon, and Carl Mydans.
