Carl Mydans papers circa 1939-2005, undated

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Carl Mydans papers circa 1939-2005, undated

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.mydans

Correspondence, photographs, negatives, audio cassettes, subject files, memorablia, and printed material.

201.0 linear ft. (187 boxes), 1 rolled item

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6349558

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Mydans, Carl

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Carl Mydans was an American photographer who spent most of his career with Life magazine. Some of his most memorable photographs were taken during World War II. Born on May 20, 1907, Mydans studied journalism and photography in Boston in 1930 and spent some time as a writer in New York. He began working for the Farm Security Administration in 1935, where he documented rural and farm life, including migrant farm families, in the South and in New England. In 1936, he was h...