Roy Emerson Stryker papers

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Roy Emerson Stryker papers

1932-1964

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Papers documenting Stryker's career as the head of the Farm Security Administration's photographic section, including correspondence with John Collier, Jack Delano, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Edwin Locke, Arthur Rothstein, John Vachon, Marion Post Wolcott and others; reports; articles on Stryker and the FSA; publications; speeches; photographs and miscellaneous materials.

9 microfilm reels

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Lee, Russell, 1903-1986

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Russell Lee was born in Ottawa, Illinois on 21 July 1903. His childhood, although of comfortable middle-class rural American heritage, was marred by tragedy. His parents were divorced in 1908, when Lee was five, and his mother was killed in an accident in 1913. Lee was then passed between various relatives and guardians until he returned to Ottawa to be raised by family friends. He became interested in photography in 1931 while married to his first wife, artist Doris Emmrick. She introduced him ...

Vachon, John, 1914-1975

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John Felix Vachon (1914-1975), American photographer, worked for the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression, and then in the early 1970s for the Environmental Protection Agency's Project DOCUMERICA. From the description of Vachon, John, 1914-1975 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10575638 Photographer. From the description of John Vachon papers, 1913-1995 (bulk 1935-1959). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71132921 ...