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Michigan Remembered : Photographs for the Farm Security Administration and the Office of War Information, 1936-1943

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A photographic history of Michigan during the Great Depression and World War II. In the collections of the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress are more than 1500 photographs of the state of Michigan during the depression and wartime years of the 1930s and 1940s, taken by some of the most talented photographers of that generation. The FSA photographs have become the nation's visual memory of these trying times. Michigan Remembered contains 150 of these images, chosen to represent various geographic areas of Michigan, the economic diversity of the state and its people, and a broad range of subjects ranging from urban and industrial scenes of Detroit and the surrounding areas to images of the Upper Peninsula and rural and community life in the Lower Peninsula. The two introductory essays enhance the story told by the photographs. The first, by William H. Mulligan Jr., recounts the history of Michigan during the momentous events of the depression and war-time years. The second, by Constance B. Schulz, tells the lesser known story of the origins of the FSA in the agricultural program of the New Deal, and explains the importance of Roy E. Stryker as the agency's di

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  • ISBN-13: 9780814328200
  • ISBN-10: 0814328202
  • Publisher: Wayne State University Press
  • Publish Date: July 2001
  • Dimensions: 10.36 x 8.32 x 0.83 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.11 pounds
  • Page Count: 236

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