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Segregation Photoprints

 Collection
Identifier: MS 042

Scope and Content Note

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.

Dates

  • Creation: 1860-1972

Creator

Access Restrictions

Open for research without restrictions.

Use 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

Historical/Biographical Note

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:

  • FSA-OWI: About the Collection. Library of Congress. [http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fabout.html].

Extent

0.7 Linear Feet (, 1 box)

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

This collection is comprised of black-and-white, 8 x 10" photoprints most presumably ordered from the Library of Congress in 1972. Most of the images are part of the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection and 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 and pre-Civil War and reconstruction images.

Arrangement

Folders are arranged alphabetically by topically.

The files are grouped into 2 series:

Missing Title

  1. Miscellaneous.
  2. FSA-OWI: Depression/WWII Era Images of Segregated Black America

Provenance

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.

Title
Guide to the Segregation Photoprints
Status
Unverified Full Draft
Author
Brian Stevens
Language of description
English
Script of description
Code for undetermined script
Language of description note
Description is in English.
Edition statement
Previously unprocessed.

Repository Details

Part of the Western Connecticut State University Archives and Special Collections Repository

Contact:
Haas Library
181 White St
Danbury 06810 USA US
203.837.8992
203.837.8322 (Fax)