The photographs in this collection, drawn from the most extensive photodocumentary project ever conceived, reflect the wide diversity of what has been called the nation's most representative state. The renowned photographers of Roy Stryker's Farm Security Admin. staff traveled throughout the state, focusing on the people of Illinois at home, at work, & at play. The editors selected 162 photos for this collection from the more than 2,400 taken in Illinois, by such photographers as John Vachon, Russell Lee, Arthur Rothstein, Jack Delano, Dorothea Lange, Esther Bubley, Theodor Jung, Carl Mydans, Ann Rosenor, & Edwin Rosskam.
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Chicago, the nation's second largest city, was a place of "tremendous vital energy that enabled it to grow from an isolated frontier post to a giant metropolis within a century." Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Russell Lee, Jack Delano, John Vachon, Arthur Rothstein, Black Belt, Black Metropolis, World War, Tent City, Roy Stryker, Union Station, Blue Island, Stryker Collection, Ohio River, Prairie State, Textual Records, United States, Easter Sunday, New Deal, New York, Pere Marquette, Resettlement Administration, South Parkway, Staying Alive, Supplementary Reference Files, Twelve Million Black Voices New!
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Chicago, the nation's second largest city, was a place of "tremendous vital energy that enabled it to grow from an isolated frontier post to a giant metropolis within a century." Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Russell Lee, Jack Delano, John Vachon, Arthur Rothstein, Black Belt, Black Metropolis, World War, Tent City, Roy Stryker, Union Station, Blue Island, Stryker Collection, Ohio River, Prairie State, Textual Records, United States, Easter Sunday, New Deal, New York, Pere Marquette, Resettlement Administration, South Parkway, Staying Alive, Supplementary Reference Files, Twelve Million Black Voices New!
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- Native Son by Richard A. Wright in Front Matter, page 95, and page 112
- The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Great Migration by J. Fitzgerald Lee on page 111
- Plain Pictures of Plain Doctoring: Vernacular Expression in New Deal Medicine and Photography by John Stoeckle in Front Matter
- Essays in Illinois History: In Honor of Glenn Huron Seymour by Donald F. Tingley in Front Matter
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