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Title : New Deal Photographs of West Virginia, 1934-1943
Category: History
Brand: Rivard, Betty (EDT)/ Fleischhauer, Carl (FRW)/ Thomas, Jerry Bruce (INT)
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Upon entering the White House in 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt faced an ailing economy in the throes of the Great Depression and rushed to transform the country through recovery programs and legislative reform. By 1934, he began to send professional photographers to the state of West Virginia to document living conditions and the effects of his New Deal programs. The photographs from the Farm Security Administration Project not only introduced “America to Americans,” exposing a continued need for government intervention, but also captured powerful images of life in rural and small town America.

New Deal Photographs of West Virginia, 1934-1943 presents images of the state’s northern and southern coalfields, the subsistence homestead projects of Arthurdale, Eleanor, and Tygart Valley, and various communities from Charleston to Clarksburg and Parkersburg to Elkins. With over one hundred and fifty images by ten FSA photographers, including Walker Evans, Marion Post Wolcott, Arthur Rothstein, and Ben Shahn, this collection is a remarkable proclamation of hardship, hope, endurance, and, above all, community. These photographs provide a glimpse into the everyday lives of West Virginians during the Great Depression and beyond.

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Photos Provide New Insight Into Everyday Life in Bygone Era

As a suburban Midwesterner, I discovered a whole new world in this book's striking photos of everyday life in West Virginia during the toughest of times during the '30s and '40s. The thoughtful commentary makes the entire era come alive, and you'll be surprised how many now well-known and distinguished photographers participated in this government-funded project.

Very nice book - well thought out and put together - thought provoking
Disclosure - I was born and raised in the northern coalfields area of West Virginia within less than a decade after the photos in those chapters of the book were taken. Still, it reflects how that area looked during my youth, and how in many respects it looks not much different today. The book features photographs by such (now) well known New Deal era photographers as Ben Shahn, Walker Evans and Marion Post Walcott (among others). The photos are of the exceptional quality you'd expect. Here's what strikes me - how the photographers looked at their subjects then and how a photojournalist might look at them today. In those days, there was grinding poverty, filth and bad health in the coal camps. Yet when you look at the photos, if you did not know that, you might say, "Hey, these folks don't look so bad off. They don't live in mansions, but they're mostly well dressed and mostly look well fed." Not to critize, but the photos look sanitized compared to my perception of the actual...
Life in The WV Coalfields

The book depicted life in WV during those years very well. I grew up in the coal fields in the 40s & 50s and the pictures sure did bring back memories of the way things used to be.