world war ii. 1930 s, thethe united states experienced an economic depression and an agricultural disaster. the great drought. people were not able to make a living on their farms. moving other places, looking for a new lands to live on. straits.re in dire one of the worst hit areas in the economy with agriculture. a program began under tugwell who was on ee of the advisers to president franklin roosevelt to document the conditions under which people reliving. this is backing we did not have television. we had radio, but a lot of places did not have electricity. so they could not listen to the radio podcast of find out what was going on in other parts of the country. they sent off photographers to take pictures of what was happening and put these pictures into newspapers whenever they could and into magazines, journals, things like that. it was difficult to get newspapers to accept these photographs, because nobody really wanted to face up to what was happening. striker, an e
world war ii, photographers working for the u.s. government were signed to travel the united states and document living and working conditions and later war protection production efforts. in 1939, the photographers began using kodachrome color film. in this second of a two part american artifacts, beverly brannan tells the stories about the collection and photographers. beverly: we are in the center andt of the prints photographs division of the library of congress. the library has a collection of color photographs from the 1930 s and 1940 s. they started as an experiment with color film. kodak was just putting its color film in the market. sent it out to photographers at institutions to give it a try, to see if they could create a market for it. the pictures were free. so they were appealing to newspapers, magazines, publishing agencies, book publishers. i was familiar already with the black and white photographs. farm are about 171,000 security administration and office o
the worst hit areas in the economy was agriculture. a program began by one of advisers to president franklin roosevelt to document the conditions under which people were living. this is back when we did not have television. we had radio, but a lot of places did not have electricity. so they could not listen to the radio podcast of find out what was going on in other parts of the country. they sent off photographers to take pictures of what was happening and put these pictures into newspapers whenever they could and into magazines, journals, things like that. it was difficult to get newspapers to accept these photographs, because nobody really wanted to face up to what was happening. but roy striker, an economist from columbia university, was persistent. he was the head of this project. he went to newspaper offices, contacted newspaper people, magazine people, just really pushed and pushed and pushed to get these pictures published and out to the reading public so they could s
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