segregationPhotos Guide to the Segregation Photoprints 1860-1972 MS 042 Processed by Brian Stevens

Previously unprocessed.

Ruth A. Haas Library Special Collections and Archives 181 White Street Danbury, CT 06810 Phone: 203-837-8992 Fax: 203-837-9108 E-mail: stevensb@wcsu.edu

Ruth A. Haas Library

Western Connecticut State University, Publisher Machine-readable finding aid derived from a wcsu eadTemplate6.xls dated: 2008. Machine-readable finding aid created by Brian Stevens. Description is in English. Descriptive Summary Segregation Photoprints1860-1972 MS 042 The language of the materials is English .5 linear feet ( boxes) Western Connecticut State University

Library of Congress. Ruth A. Haas Library 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. 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.

Access Restrictions

Open for research without restrictions.

Use Restrictions

Permission to publish materials must be obtained in writing from the:

Ruth A. Haas Library Special Collections and Archives 181 White Street Danbury, CT 06810 Phone: 203-837-8992 Fax: 203-837-9108 E-mail: stevensb@wcsu.edu

Preferred Citation

Published citations should take the following form: Identification of item, date (if known); The Segregation Photoprints; MS 042; box number; folder number;

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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].

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.

Arrangement

Folders are arranged alphabetically by topically.

The files are grouped into 2 series:

Miscellaneous. FSA-OWI: Depression/WWII Era Images of Segregated Black America Access Points Subject Names: Stryker, Roy Emerson, 1893-1975. Lee, Russell, 1903-1986. Lange, Dorothea. Delano, Jack. Siegel, Arthur S. Walcott, Marion Post. Subject Organizations: United States. Farm Security Administration. United States. Office of War Information. Subject Topics: Children. Small towns--llinois. Blacks -- Segregation. Great Depression. African American -- Poor families. Racism -- United States. Documentary photography--United States. Document Types: Photographs. Container List

[The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.]

Miscellaneous 1 1 Collection documentation 1972 1 2 Slavery and Reconstruction 1866-1927

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# 54476/38843Currier and Ives lithograph "Colored Beauty", 1877 LC# 54476/35745"Negro Life in the South" Harper's Weekly engraving, 1872 LC# 54476/180964 Young Men - entitled "Four of a Kind", 1927 LC# 54476/38197

1 3 1969 Yonkers teachers and students 1969

5 images, white teachers with African American students. Perhaps original photographs.

FSA-OWI - Depression/WWII Era Images of Segregated Black America

Incudes photographs by Russel Lee, Marion Post Walcott, Jack Delano, Arthur Siegel

1 4 Families 1930-1946 1 5 Children 1930-1946 1 6 Children 1930-1946 1 7 Chicago 1940s 1 8 Detroit 1940s 1 9 American South 1930-1946