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    1. [KYPOWELL-L] Photos in Library of Congress
    2. Jen Bawden
    3. Hi guys, This was passed on to me and there are some great pictures there! Quite a few for Kentucky, but unfortunately, none for our region. Closest they come is Lexington and Breathitt Co. However, I heartily recommend you take a look :) Jen >"The black-and-white photographs of the Farm Security Administration-Office >of War Information Collection are a landmark in >the history of documentary photography. The images show Americans at home, >at work, and at play, with an emphasis on rural >and small-town life and the adverse effects of the Great Depression, the >Dust Bowl, and increasing farm mechanization. Some >of the most famous images portray people who were displaced from farms and >migrated West or to industrial cities in search of >work. In its latter years, the project documented America's mobilization >for World War II. The collection includes about >164,000 black-and-white negatives; this release provides access to nearly >45,000 of these images. The FSA-OWI >photographers also produced about 1600 color photographs. Two illustrated >lists of frequently requested images from the >FSA-OWI Collection, "'Migrant Mother' Photographs" and "Photographs of >Signs Enforcing Racial Discrimination", are also >available from the Prints and Photographs Reading Room. " > >http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fahome.html >

    07/12/1998 07:09:18