Overview
Collection Information
Size: 9 Microfilm reels
Summary: 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.
Provenance
Papers lent for microfilming 1963-1966 by Roy Stryker.
Language Note
English .
Location of Originals
- Originals in University of Louisville, Ekstrom Library, Special Collections Photographic Archives, Louisville, Ky.
