Times Of Sorrow And Hope: Documenting Everyday Life In Pennsylvania During...

Between 1935 and 1946 a group of photographers working for the federal government fanned out across the country to record American life and pictures. The massive photographic project carried out primarily under the auspicious of the farm security administration FSA and the office of war information OWI and later preserved at the library of Congress was unrivaled in scope no comparable attempt to document life in this country has ever been made. The times of sorrow and hope features 150 selected images from approximately 6,000 Pennsylvania photographers. These images cover things ranging from coal mining still workers and women and wartime industry to cities and small towns farm Life family Life and life among Amish and Mennonites. The book also includes an essay introducing the fsa's own project and introduction to the catalog of the entire collection of Pennsylvania photographers and historical essay on Pennsylvania during the Great depression and world war II