Roy Emerson Stryker papers [microfilm], 1932-1964
Stryker, Roy Emerson,
b. 1893
d. 1975
Director
Washington, D.C.; N.Y.
Collection size: 9 microfilm reels.
Collection Summary: Correspondence, manuscripts, biographical information on Stryker and some of the photographers of the Farm Security Administration, articles, typescripts of speeches and miscellaneous papers relating to Stryker's directorship of the FSA.
Reels NDA 4, NDA 8-9, NDA 24-26, NDA 30-31: Papers documenting Stryker's career as the head of the Farm Security Administration's photographic section, including correspondence with John Collier, Jack Delano, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Edwin Locke, Arthur Rothstein, John Vachon, Marion Post Wolcott and others; reports; articles on Stryker and the FSA; publications; speeches; photographs and miscellaneous materials.
Biographical/Historical Note: Director of the Farm Security Administration Historical Section; Washington, D.C. Under Stryker the Photographic project of the FSA documented the drought, poverty and despair of rural and urban America during the Depression.
Material on reels NDA 4, NDA 8-9, NDA 24-26 and NDA 30-31 lent for microfilming 1963-1966.
