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Record Nr.

UNINA9910966030803321

Autore

Watkins Patsy <1948->

Titolo

It's all done gone : Arkansas photographs from the Farm Security Administration collection, 1935-1943 / / Patsy Watkins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Fayetteville : , : The University of Arkansas Press, , 2018

©2018

ISBN

9781610756396

1610756398

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource.)

Disciplina

946.005

Soggetti

Documentary photography

Arkansas Pictorial works

Arkansas Social life and customs Pictorial works

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cotton -- Tenants, Sharecroppers, and Rehabilitation Clients -- Resettlement Farms -- Arkansas African Americans -- Houses --Food -- Children -- The Flood of 1937 -- Small Towns -- Portraits -- Daring to Look at Ourselves.

Sommario/riassunto

In 1935 a fledging government agency embarked on a project to photograph Americans hit hardest by the Great Depression.Over the next eight years, the photographers of the Farm Security Administration captured nearly a quarter-million images of tenant farmers and sharecroppers in the South, migrant workers in California, and laborers in northern.