Previously unprocessed.
Provenance is unknown. The collection was found in storage under the Haas Library in 2007 and had been assembled in 1972. It was either ordered by a faculty member and given to the library or ordered by the library to support a course offered.
Open for research without restrictions.
Permission to publish materials must be obtained in writing from the:
Ruth A. Haas Library
Archives and Special Collections
181 White Street
Danbury, CT 06810
Phone: 203-837-8992
E-mail: stevensb@wcsu.edu
Published citations should take the following form:
Identification of item, date (if known); The Segregation Photoprints; MS 042; box number; folder number;
The Farm Security Administration was an agency created in the New Deal. One of its missions was to photographically document the plight of rural/agrarian America. Similarly, the Office of War Information also had as one of its missions to photographically document life in wartime America. However, OWI's purpose was propagandistic and the FSA's documentary.
Sources:
The collection contains 150, 8 x 10", black and white photoprints. Most of the images are from Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection at the Library of Congress. Images show African Americans in urban and rural settings during the Great Depression and World War II. Many of the images are available digitally from the American Memory collection at the Library of Congress: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fahome.html. The collection also includes some presumably original photography from the 1970s and pre-Civil War and reconstruction images.
Images are arranged generally by subject matter and include captions and LC item numbers. Separtion sheets with captions remain with photos, though, most contain the same information on the back side of the photo. Some other documentation that was found with this collection is included.
Folders are arranged alphabetically by topically.
The files are grouped into 2 series:
Includes: "The Picture of a Negro Worker" [1903, Davidson, E.J.] LC# 54476/23887
"An old time Charleston 'Mommer' and her charge in Charleston, South Carolina" [1899, Tarbell] LC# 54476/26366
"Happy Family" - Harpers Weekly engraving, 1866 LC# 54476/38843
Currier and Ives lithograph "Colored Beauty", 1877 LC# 54476/35745
"Negro Life in the South" Harper's Weekly engraving, 1872 LC# 54476/18096
4 Young Men - entitled "Four of a Kind", 1927 LC# 54476/38197
5 images, white teachers with African American students. Perhaps original photographs.
Incudes photographs by Russel Lee, Marion Post Walcott, Jack Delano, Arthur Siegel