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FSA-OWI Photographs, 1935-1945, includes color photographs
of rural and small-town America and scenes of the World War II mobilization
effort. Many now-famous photographers created these pictures while
employed by a Depression-era government program. Black
and white photographs are another component of this collection.
These online exhibits provide context and additional
information about this collection.
Portrait
Sampler of FSA-OWI Photographers
These historical era(s) are best represented
in the collection, although they may not be all-encompassing.
The Great Depression and World War II, 1929-1945
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collections and exhibits |
These collections and exhibits contain thematically-related
primary and secondary sources. Also browse the Collection
Finder for more related material on the American Memory Web
site.
American
Life Histories, 1936-1940
California
Gold: Folk Music from the Thirties, 1938-1940
Women Come
to the Front: Journalists, Photographers, and Broadcasters During
World War II
Recommended additional sources of information.
Read More About It! - A bibliography
Specific guidance for searching this collection.
Black and white and color images may be searched separately or together.
See the combined search
page for a description of what is searched.
For a list of photography assignments by location, go to FSA
Color Shooting Assignments and OWI
Color Shooting Assignments. These pages provide lists of states
represented in the collection.
Searching by place or topic will be more successful than searching
by a specific date.
For help with search words, go to a FSA-OWI Subject
Index and the Synonym
List.
For help with search strategies, see Finding
Items in American Memory.
No special viewers are needed to see most of the photographs in
this collection. To see high-resolution archival quality images,
you may need a special viewer. For help with viewers, go to American
Memory Viewer Information.
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