A Southern Illinois Album: Farm Security Administration Photographs, 1936-1943

by Herbert K. Russell, F. Jack Hurley (Foreword by)

Overview

Featured in this book are more than one hundred photographs from the collection of a quarter of a million taken by FSA photographers between 1935 and 1943.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780809315895
Publisher:	Southern Illinois University Press
Publication date:	02/28/1990
Series:	Shawnee Books Series
Edition description:	1st Edition
Pages:	160
Sales rank:	433,548
Product dimensions:	10.00(w) x 8.88(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Herbert K. Russell is Director of College Relations at John A. Logan College.

Editorial Reviews

An evocative collection of 100 images of farms and farming towns, miners, life in the river towns, recreation, religion, and other dimensions of the Great Depression. The foreword and preface explain the history and context of the photographs and the rationale for their selection and organization. Library of Congress negative numbers are listed. Paper edition (unseen), $17.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

The individual photographs selected by Russell represent the best of the FSA style. Some are evocative, some are in­structive, and all are interesting.”—David B. Danbom, Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society

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