Depression-era Prints and Photographs from the WPA and FSA

October 17 through January 17
The New York Public Library
Humanities and Social Sciences Library (Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street)

Available images

Harry Gottlieb, Rock Drillers. Screen print. Print Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs. The New York Public Library. Albert Abramovitz, Wuxtry. [Title of print is taken from the typical newsboy’s cry: Wuxtry! Wuxtry!, or Extra! Extra!] Color woodcut. Print Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs. The New York Public Library.
Leonard Pytlack, Makeup. Color woodcut. Print Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs. The New York Public Library. Mabel Dwight, Summer Night. Lithograph, 1939. Print Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs. The New York Public Library.
Dorothea Lange, Out of rear window tenement dwelling of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Solomon . . . . Silver gelatin print, 1936. Photography Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs. The New York Public Library. Jack Delano, Mrs. Estelle Wilson who owned a one acre place in Learysville, NY. . . . Silver gelatin print, 1941. Photography Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs. The New York Public Library.
   

 

 

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