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Gen Ms 07 Farm Security Administration Photographs Finding Aid, Siobain C. Monahan
Gen Ms 07 Farm Security Administration Photographs Finding Aid, Siobain C. Monahan
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Description:
Reproductions from the Library of Congress, Farm Security Administration, Office of War Information Photograph Collection, used in a 1974 exhibition at the University Art Gallery. The photographs are by Jack Delano, John Collier, Edwin Locke, Carl Mydans, Arthur Rothstein, Marion Post Wolcott, Russell Lee, Edwin Rosskam, Fenno Jacobs, Walker Evans, Herbert Mayer, Gordon Parks, and Walter Payton. Places represented include: in Maine, Aroostook County, Ashland, Bath, Boothbay, Caribou, Fort Kent, Fryeburg, Houlton, Lille, New Sweden, Presque Isle, Rockland, Saint David, Soldier Pond, and Van Buren; in Vermont, Bellows Falls, Brattleboro, Bridgewater, Castleton, Essex Junction, Hardwick, Lowell, Manchester, Morrisville, Orange …
Gen Ms 11 Leo Brooks Photographs Finding Aid, Siobain C. Monahan
Gen Ms 11 Leo Brooks Photographs Finding Aid, Siobain C. Monahan
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Description:
Leo Brooks was an artist who was also a linotype operator at the New York Times. He worked in a variety of media, including jewelry and painting. He worked for the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s, making a photographic record of life in the city during the Great Depression. The collection consists of reproductions of photographs taken in New York, in 1932 and 1933. Possibly acquired by the University Art Gallery for an exhibition.
Date Range:
1932-1933
Size of Collection:
4.5 ft.
Gen Ms 06 Ben Shahn Photographs Finding Aid, Siobain C. Monahan
Gen Ms 06 Ben Shahn Photographs Finding Aid, Siobain C. Monahan
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Description:
Ben Shahn was an artist who used photographs primarily as a starting point for paintings. He was employed in the New Deal Resettlement (later Farm Security) Administration as an artist, but also assisted with the photographic projects. The collection consists of reproductions from the Library of Congress, Farm Security Administration, Office of War Information Photograph Collection, used in a 1976 exhibition at the University Art Gallery.
Size of Collection:
4.5 ft.
Gen Ms 05 Walker Evans Photographs Finding Aid, Siobain C. Monahan
Gen Ms 05 Walker Evans Photographs Finding Aid, Siobain C. Monahan
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Description:
Walker Evans was a self-taught photographer who pointed a new direction in American documentary photography in the 1930s. In the mid-1930s, he worked for President Roosevelt’s New Deal Resettlement (later Farm Security) Administration, taking photographs intended to alert America’s increasingly urban society to the plight of the rural poor during the Great Depression. The collection consists of reproductions from the Library of Congress, Farm Security Administration, Office of War Information Photograph Collection, used in a 1978 exhibition at the University Art Gallery.
Size of Collection:
4.5 ft.
Gen Ms 21 Edith Meserve Rice Papers Finding Aid, Daniel Draper
Gen Ms 21 Edith Meserve Rice Papers Finding Aid, Daniel Draper
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Description:
Edith Meserve Rice was a student at Gorham Normal School 1942-1946, and was active in the Alumni Association from the 1970s through the 1990s. The Papers include photographs and other material documenting Rice's life as a student at Gorham Normal School in the early 1940s, as well as alumni news, songs of Gorham Normal School and the State of Maine, and information about Gorham State Teachers College and the University of Southern Maine.
Date Range:
1940s-2002
Size of Collection:
0.5 ft.
Gen Ms 10 Harriet Sweetser Letters, John D. Knowlton
Gen Ms 10 Harriet Sweetser Letters, John D. Knowlton
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Provenance: Donated by Elizabeth Sweetser Baxter in 1999. Ownership & Literary Rights: The Harriet Sweetser Letters are the physical property of the University of Southern Maine Library. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the creator or his legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the Head of Special Collections. Cite as: Harriet Sweetser Letters, Special Collections, University of Southern Maine Libraries. Restrictions on access: This collection is open for research.