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9780814328200

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

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  • ISBN13:

    9780814328200

  • ISBN10:

    0814328202

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-07-01
  • Publisher: Wayne State Univ Pr
  • Purchase Benefits
List Price: $39.95

Summary

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 wartime 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 impo

Author Biography

Constance B. Schulz is a professor of history and co-director of the Public History Program at the University of South Carolina William H. Mulligan, Jr. is an associate professor of history and director of the Forrest C. Pogue Public History Institute at Murray State University

Table of Contents

Preface 9(4)
Introduction 13(2)
Michigan in the Great Depression: The Dream Lost, The Dream Reclaimed
15(24)
William H. Mulligan, Jr.
Roy Stryker, the Farm Security Administration, and the Office of War Information
39(12)
Constance B. Schulz
MICHIGAN REMEMBERED
Photographs from the Farm Security Administration and the Office of War Information, 1936-1943
The Upper Peninsula, 1937 and 1941
51(30)
Rural Lower Michigan, 1936-42
81(36)
Industrial Michigan, 1939-41
117(14)
The Industrial Southeast Prepares for War, 1941-42
131(26)
The Industrial Southeast at War: Wartime Industry, 1941-43
157(30)
Life on the Michigan Home Front, 1941-43
187(38)
The Photographers 225(10)
Bibliography 235

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