Farm Security Administration, Historical Section records, 1935-1944.

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Farm Security Administration, Historical Section records, 1935-1944.

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Correspondence, memoranda, reports, expense and travel vouchers, brochures, and other office files, documenting the section's photographic work; photo captions (7 boxes); reference files, including correspondence, reports, clippings, maps, brochures, and other material relating to particular photo projects; and scrapbooks of newspaper and magazine articles reproducing photos released by the section. Persons represented include Roy E. Stryker (1893-1975), section head.

ca. 15 ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7257742

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United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Section

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Section established 1935 as part of U.S. Resettlement Administration to document its projects and compile a pictorial record of the American scene; transferred to Farm Security Administration, 1937; became Division of Photography in U.S. Office of War Information, Domestic Operations Branch, Bureau of Publications and Graphics, 1942. From the description of Farm Security Administration, Historical Section records, 1935-1944. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 28375128 ...

Stryker, Roy Emerson, 1893-1975

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Director of the Farm Security Administration Historical Section; Washington, D.C. Under Stryker the Photographic project of the FSA documented the drought, poverty and despair of rural and urban America during the Depression. From the description of Oral history interview with Roy Emerson Stryker, 1963-1965 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79221042 Director of the Farm Security Administration Historical Section; Washingt...

United States. Resettlement Administration

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