New Deal photographs of West Virginia, 1934-1943 / edited by Betty Rivard ; foreword by Carl Fleischhauer ; introduction by Jerry Bruce Thomas.

1st ed.

Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2012.

231 pages : illustrations ; 21 x 26 cm

Upon entering the White House in 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt faced an ailing economy in the throes of the Great Depression and rushed to transform the country through recovery programs and legislative reform. By 1934, he began to send professional photographers to the state of West Virginia to document living conditions and the effects of his New Deal programs. The photographs from the Farm Security Administration Project not only introduced "America to Americans," exposing a continued need for government intervention, but also captured powerful images of life in rural and small town America.
"New Deal Photographs of West Virginia, 1934-1943 presents images of the state's northern and southern coalfields, the subsistence homestead projects of Arthurdale, Eleanor, and Tygart Valley, and various communities from Charleston to Clarksburg and Parkersburg to Elkins. With over one hundred and fifty images by ten FSA photographers, including Walker Evans, Marion Post Wolcott, Arthur Rothstein, and Ben Shahn, this collection is a remarkable proclamation of hardship, hope, endurance, and, above all, community. These photographs provide a glimpse into the everyday lives of West Virginians during the Great Depression and beyond." -- Book Cover.

9781933202884 (cloth ; alk. paper)
1933202882 (cloth ; alk. paper)

New Deal, 1933-1939 West Virginia Pictorial works.
World War, 1939-1945 West Virginia Pictorial works.
Documentary photography West Virginia.
New Deal Virginie-Occidentale Ouvrages illustrés.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 Virginie-Occidentale Ouvrages illustrés.
Photographie documentaire Virginie-Occidentale.
New Deal, 1933-1939
Documentary photography
Manners and customs
Social conditions
West Virginia Social life and customs 20th century Pictorial works.
West Virginia Social conditions 20th century Pictorial works.
Virginie-Occidentale Mœurs et coutumes 20e siècle Ouvrages illustrés.
Virginie-Occidentale Conditions sociales 20e siècle Ouvrages illustrés.
West Virginia

Illustrated works
Pictorial works
Ouvrages illustrés.

Rivard, Betty.

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 284710
Cote: BIB 223812
Statut: Disponible