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Michigan
Remembered Photographs from the Farm Security Administration and the Office of War Information, 1936-1943 Edited by Constance B. Schulz With Introductory Essays by Constance B. Schulz and William H. Mulligan, Jr. |
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. 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. Michigan Remembered will be of interest both to scholars of historical documentary photography and Michigan history, and to those fascinated by historical photographs of years which they, their parents, or their grandparents can still recall. | "Constance B. Schulz studies how photographers of the Farm Security Administration and the Office of War Information dispatched to Michigan between 1936 and 1943 portrayed the state. Her overview narrative places the story in the historic context of Depression-Era Michigan. Her account of how the federal photographers worked tells of the creation of an important historical resource and the purposes it was meant to serve. She selects first-rate Michigan images from the federal files and arranges them chronologically and thematically by geographic and economic regions. The book will fascinate Michiganians and American history enthusiasts."—Kathryn Bishop Eckert, author. | ||||||||||
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Great Lakes Books Series 2001 |
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