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Maryland in Black and White: Documentary Photography from the Great Depression and World War II
Constance B. Schulz
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Description for Maryland in Black and White: Documentary Photography from the Great Depression and World War II
Hardback. These photographs reveal places we know but scarcely recognize and give us another look at the people of "the greatest generation." Num Pages: 192 pages, 101, 101 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFM; 3JJG; 3JJH; AJCR; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 203 x 18. Weight in Grams: 658.
Between 1935 and 1943, the United States government commissioned forty-four photographers to capture American faces, along with living and working conditions, across the country. Nearly 180,000 photographs were taken - 4,000 in Maryland - and they are now preserved in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. Constance B. Schulz presents a selection of these images in Maryland in Black and White. Maryland in the 1930s and early '40s truly represented a microcosm of America, a middle ground where beach and mountain, north and south, urban and rural, black and white, farmer and businessman, rich and poor, ... Read more
Between 1935 and 1943, the United States government commissioned forty-four photographers to capture American faces, along with living and working conditions, across the country. Nearly 180,000 photographs were taken - 4,000 in Maryland - and they are now preserved in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. Constance B. Schulz presents a selection of these images in Maryland in Black and White. Maryland in the 1930s and early '40s truly represented a microcosm of America, a middle ground where beach and mountain, north and south, urban and rural, black and white, farmer and businessman, rich and poor, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421410852
SKU
V9781421410852
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About Constance B. Schulz
Constance B. Schulz is a professor emeritus of history at the University of South Carolina. She is author of Michigan Remembered, 1936-1943: Photographs from the Farm Security Administration and the Office of War Information and coeditor of Witness to the Fifties: The Pittsburgh Photographic Library, 1950-1953.
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