Materials in the Collections of the Prints & Photographs
Division
Materials By New Deal Program |Other
Materials From The Period | Exhibitions | Bibliographies
Materials By New Deal Program
Farm Security Administration--Office of War Information
The photographs of the Farm Security
Administration (FSA)-Office of War Information
(OWI), transferred to the Library of
Congress in 1944, form an extensive pictorial
record of American life between 1935
and 1943.
Federal Art Project
The Division's collection of Federal Art Project materials
consists of 908 boldly colored and graphically
diverse original posters produced from 1936 to 1943, as
well as roughly roughly 230 fine prints produced by the
Graphic Art Division of the Federal Art Project.
Federal Writers' Project Slave Narratives
Images associated with the Library's
Federal Writers' Project Slave
Narratives collection may be found in the Prints and
Photographs Division's LOT 13262, Portraits
of African American ex-slaves from the U.S. Works Progress
Administration, Federal Writers' Project slave narratives
collections.
The Historic American Buildings
Survey (HABS) and the Historic American Engineering Record
(HAER) collections
Administered since 1933
through cooperative agreements with the National Park Service,
the Library of Congress, and the private sector, ongoing
programs of the National Park Service have recorded America's
built environment in multiformat surveys comprising more
than 350,000 measured drawings, large-format photographs,
and written histories for more than 35,000 historic structures
and sites dating from pre-Columbian times to the twentieth
century.
Other Materials From The Period
Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
The Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) provides
access through group or item records to more than 50 percent
of the Division's holdings, as well as to some images found
in other units of the Library of Congress. Many of the catalog
records are accompanied by digital images--about one million
digital images in all. Search across the Division's collections
for images of prominent New Deal figures such as Harry Hopkins,
Harold Ickes, Rexford Tugwell, and Eleanor and Franklin D.
Roosevelt. Search the catalog for images of New Deal programs
and activities by name. The list of collections and
image groups below contain materials that may be of particular
interest to researchers of the period. Search individual groups
of images within the catalog for more relevant results.
Ansel
Adams’s Photographs of Japanese-American Internment
at Manzanar
In 1943, Ansel Adams (1902-84), America's best-known photographer, documented
the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California and the Japanese Americans interned
there during World War II. More...
Cartoon Drawings
The Division's Cartoon Drawings filing series offers more
than 9,000 original drawings for editorial cartoons, caricatures,
and comic strips spanning the late 1700s to the present, primarily
from 1880 to 1980. To find cartoons related to President
Roosevelt and the New Deal period, try searching the collection
using terms such as: "New
Deal,""Depressions," "Tennessee
Valley Authority" and on the names of figures such
as "Roosevelt,
Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945,""Hopkins,
Harry," " Ickes,
Harold L. (Harold LeClair), 1874-1952." " Tugwell,
Rexford G. (Rexford Guy), 1891-," etc...
Horydczak Collection
The Theodor Horydczak Collection (about 14,350 photographs
online) documents the architecture and social life of the
Washington metropolitan area in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s,
including exteriors and interiors of commercial, residential,
and government buildings, as well as street scenes and views
of neighborhoods. A number of Washington events and activities,
such as the 1932 Bonus Army encampment, the 1933 World Series,
and World War II preparedness campaigns, are also depicted.
Lomax Collection
The collection includes 400 snapshot photographs made
in the course of sound recording expeditions carried out
by John Avery Lomax, Alan Lomax, and Ruby Terrill Lomax,
between 1934 and ca. 1950 for the Archive of American Folk
Song.
Exhibitions
African-American
Mosaic: WPA
Bound
for Glory: America in Color
The first major exhibition of the little known color
images taken by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office
of War Information.
Bibliographies
The
FSA-OWI Collection -- Selected Bibliography and Related
Web Sites
HABS/HAER: A Selected Bibliography
Posters
from the WPA: A Selected Bibliography
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