Farm Security Administration photographs at the NYPL Picture Collection
Words on Pictures: Romana and the New York Public Library’s Picture Collection . edited by Anthony T. Troncale. New York: Photo | Verso Publications, LLC , 2020. ISBN 978-1-7346409-0-8 (hardcover) Identifiers ISBN 978-1-7346409-1-5 (ebook) Farm Security Administration photographs at the NYPL Picture Collection Almost as soon as the Farm Security Administration photographs were printed in Washington D.C. they were finding their way into the New York Public Library's Picture Collection for circulation, study, and exhibition. Javitz recognized these photographs as extremely useful far beyond their original intent. In her 1941 research paper entitled The Organization of Pictures as Documents for the Carnegie Corporation, Javitz explains: During the past few years photographs were made by the Farm Security Administration to record the plight of the farmers, their struggle against soil erosion and against the results of unscientif...