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AMERICA
INTHISPROU
i
THE
1935-1943
AS
SEEN
IN
FS
By
Roy
Emerson
S
and
Nancy
Wood
V
N
1HIS
PROUD
LAND
America
1935-43
as
Seen
in
the
FSA
Photographs
b\
Ro\
Emerson
Stryker
and
Nancy
Wood
200
black
and
white
photographs,
by
Dorothea
Lange,
Walker
Evans,
Carl
Mydans,
Marion
Post
Wolcott,
Ben
Shahn,
Arthur
Rothstein,
Jack
Delano,
Russell
Lee,
and
others
During
1935-43
Roy
Emerson
Stryker
headed
the
Historical
Section
of
the
Farm
He
compiled
Security
Administration.
history:
some
270,000
photographs
of
American
life.
He
also
made
history:
as-
sembling
one
of
the
greatest
teams
of
pho-
tographers
ever
known,
and
laving
the
foundation
for
modern
photo-documenta-
tion.
From
his
personal
collection
of
FSA
pictures,
he
has
This
chosen
his
favorites for
hi
Proud
Laud.
Ibis
book
portravs
America
in
the
years
spanning
the
depths
of
the
Depression,
the
effect
of
the
New
Deal,
and
the
shattering
impact
of
the
bombs
at
Pearl
Harbor.
And
yet
you
will
find
in
it
"not
a
single
shot
of
Wall
Street
and
absolutely
no
celebrities."
This
is
a
picture
book
memorializing
com-
mon
ing
in
scenes
and
citizens
in
uncommon
Thanksgiv-
times:
migrants
in
California;
New
England;
a
saloon
in
Montana
which
positively
sells
no
beer
to
Indians;
a
Minnesota
lumberjack
washing
his
feet;
square-dancers
in
New
Mexico;
black
chil-
dren
at
play
in
a
small
southern
town
or
lined
up
for
a
movie
in
Chicago;
a
Ver-
mont
cemetery,
Delaware
front
porch,
Texas
courthouse.
The
basic
fabric
of
life
is
here
the
prosperous
and
the
poor,
the
main
drag
and
the
back
road,
the
bitter
—
and
the
beautiful.
Preceding
the
pictures
are
Stryker's
ac-
count
and
appraisal
of
the
FSA
Collection.
and
self
a
sensitive
desc
ription
of
Strvker
him-
by
his
friend
and
fellow
Westerner,
Nanq
Wood.
centric,
hi
Disdaining
the
grand
and
ignoring
the
ec-
This
Proud
Land
gives
an
au-
thentic
view
of
era.
American
life
in
a
bygone
lustration:
Migrant
Mother,
photo
graphed
by
N
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Calif
on
b
Lange
New
York
Graphic
Soci
Connecticut
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Stryker,
Roy
Emerson
In this
proud
land:
America
1935-1943
as
seen
in
the
FSA
photographs
[by]
Roy
Emerson
Greenwich,
Conn.,
Stryker
and
Nancy
Wood,
N.Y.
Graphic Society
Ltd.
[cl973]
illus.
191p.
,
ir
2.
U.S.
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Soc
U.S.
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Pictorial
works
condit.
-
1918-1945
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Pictorial
works
I.
ty
Administration
U.S.
Farm
Securi
1.
Historical
Sec
Nancy,
2/74
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III.
comp
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Wood,
Title
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THIS
PROUD
LAND

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