City Kansas Photographer
Photographs from the FSA and OWI
Gordon Parks was born in Kansas in 1912 and spent his youth in Minnesota. During the Depression a variety of jobs, including stints as a musician and as a waiter on passenger trains, took him to various parts of the northern United States. He took up photography during his travels and by 1940 had made his first serious attempts to earn a living from the art as a self-taught fashion photographer in Minneapolis and Chicago. Though he had experienced racial discrimination outside the South, it was in the southern city of Washington, D.C., that Parks "found out what prejudice was really like." In 1942, an opportunity to work for the Farm Security Administration brought the photographer to the nation's capital; Parks later recalled that "discrimination and bigotry were worse there than any place I had yet seen." ... [Read More]
Today in History: January 29
Work Horses Near Junction City, Kansas , John Vachon, photographer, circa 1939-1943. ... Bird's Eye View of the City of Topeka, Kansas , drawn by Albert Ruger, 1869. ... To find more items in American Memory related to this state, search across the collections on Kansas . The search will retrieve many items, including some related to Kansas City, Missouri. To limit the search to Kansas and not Missouri, search across the collections or in any individual American Memory collection using the special command #bandnot (Kansas Missouri) , entered exactly as it is written here. This command instructs the search engine to use the Boolean operators AND NOT to find all items in American Memory with Kansas , but not Missouri in their bibliographic record. Try the search both ways to see the difference. ... [Read More]
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SOS, Missouri - State Archives Photographs
The Summers Collection is an excellent resource for Jefferson City, Missouri, history. Arranged alphabetically by subject, this collection provides imagery of Jefferson City businesses, streets, buildings, people, schools, clubs, churches, institutions, and the State Capitol building. ... This collection contains Massie’s work while employed with Commerce and Industrial Development and his early photography while living in Kansas City, Missouri, in the 1930s. As state photographer, Massie was in charge of developing the visual concepts for Missouri’s regional booklets and tourist advertising. This collection, like the Commerce and Industrial Development Collection, depicts Missouri scenery, industry, agriculture, and recreation, as well as special events such as President Harry Truman’s visit to Westminster in Fulton, Missouri. ... [Read More]
Chicago: Destination for the Great Migration: The African-American Mosaic (Library of Congress Exhibition)
Apartment building in a black section of Chicago, Illinois, April 1941 Russell Lee, Photographer Gelatin-silver print FSA-OWI Collection Prints and Photographs Division (126) ... The Social Base Map of Chicago: Showing Industrial Areas, Parks, Transportation and Language Groups, Illinois, Chicago (city) Ethnography, 1926 University of Chicago Local Community Research Committee Chicago: The University of Chicago, 1926 Map Geography and Map Division (118) ... [Read More]
Photographs from the FSA and OWI
The Omaha in Vachon's photographs is more varied and complex than the one in Leighton's text, but the photographer's broad coverage may in fact have been inspired by the attention the writer paid to the many levels of the city's society. Vachon's survey of architecture, ethnic signs, and downtown street scenes provides a cross section of the city. But Vachon's curiosity about how things look outstripped his intellectual involvement in history and sociology. His images of the ebb and flow of life on disorderly city streets anticipate the postwar generation of "street photographers," whose most famous exponent is Robert Frank. ... [Read More]
City of Wichita - Technical Services-CSI Technical Services Bureau
City of Wichita > City Offices > Police Department > Investigations > Technical Services-CSI > Technical Services Bureau ... There is one Photographer and one Photographer Tech 2. They are responsible for developing all of the rolls of film taken by the police department and printing photographs for the courts. They also develop and print photographs from other agencies. The Photography Section develops approximately 7,000 rolls of film each year. ... [Read More]
NEA: FY 2002 Visual Arts Grants Panelists
Kansas City, MO Creativity, Organizational Capacity ... Kathy Vargas Artist/Photographer San Antonio, TX ... H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute ... [Read More]
Picturing the Century : The Great Depression and the New Deal
By an unknown photographer, New York City, New York, 1939 ... By an unknown Associated Press photographer, July 1932 ... By an unknown photographer, Tennessee, not dated ... [Read More]
City of Wichita - Technical Services-CSI Crime Lab - CSI
City of Wichita > City Offices > Police Department > Investigations > Technical Services-CSI > Crime Lab - CSI ... City of Wichita - Technical Services-CSI Crime Lab - CSI ... © Copyright 2005 City of Wichita / 455 N. Main, Wichita, KS 67202 ... [Read More]
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