Times of Sorrow & Hope Cmbk: Documenting Everyday Life in Pennsylvania During the Depression and World War II : A Photographic Record - Rilegato

Filippelli, Ronald

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ISBN 10: 0271022523 ISBN 13: 9780271022529

Casa editrice: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, 2003

Riassunto

Between 1935 and 1946 a group of photographers working for the federal government fanned out across the country to record American life in pictures. This massive photographic project, carried out primarily under the auspices of the Farm Security Administration (FSA) and the Office of War Information (OWI) and later preserved at the Library of Congress, was unrivaled in scope: no comparable attempt to document life in this country has ever been made.
The Times of Sorrow and Hope features 150 selected images from the approximately 6,000 Pennsylvania photographs. These images cover themes ranging from coal mining, steelworkers, and women in wartime industries to cities and small towns, farm life, family life, and life among the Amish and Mennonites. The book also includes an essay introducing the FSA's own project, an introduction to the catalog of the entire collection of Pennsylvania photographs, and a historical essay on Pennsylvania during the Great Depression and World War II.

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L'autore:

Allen Cohen is a retired librarian from the University of California, Santa Barbara, a bibliographer, and a film historian whose most recent book is a co-authored work,John Huston: A Guide to References and Resources (1997).

Ronald L. Filippelli is Professor of Labor Studies and Industrial Relations as well as the Associate Dean for Administration and Undergraduate Studies at Penn State. His most recent book is a co-authored work,Cold War in the Working Class: The Rise and Decline of the United Electrical Workers (1995), and he has been a frequent reviewer forThe International Journal of the History of Photography.

Product Description:

This volume provides a comprehensive visual and written record of Pennsylvania history as the state struggled through one of its darkest periods and confronted new economic, political and social challenges.

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• Editore: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0271022523
• ISBN 13: 9780271022529
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 265
• Redattore: Cohen Allen