Official Images: New Deal Photography

by Pete Daniel, Merry A. Foresta, Maren Stange, Sally Stein

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Compiles photographs from "five different sources in the New Deal: the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the National Youth Administration (NYA), the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), as well as the Farm Security Administration (FSA)."--Page x.

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A former curator at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History and an award-winning historian of the American South, Pete Daniel was the first full-time public historian to serve as president of the Organization of American Historians. He co-curated Rock 'n' Soul: Social Crossroads and Official Images: New Deal Photography, among several show more other major exhibitions. His books include Lost Revolutions: The South in the 1950s and Dispossession: Discrimination against African American Farmers in the Age of Civil Rights. show less
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Merry Foresta is senior curator of photography at the Smithsonian Institution.
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Nonfiction, Art & Design, History
DDC/MDS
770.973Arts & recreationPhotographyPhotography & Computer / Digital ArtBiography And HistoryNorth AmericaUnited States
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TR820.5 .O33TechnologyPhotographyPhotographyApplied photography

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