Jack Delano papers
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Collection Overview ...... 1 Administrative Information ...... 1 Scope and Contents...... 1 Biographical / Historical...... 1 Names and Subjects ...... 2 Container Listing ...... Jack Delano papers AAA.delajack
Collection Overview
Repository: Archives of American Art
Title: Jack Delano papers
Identifier: AAA.delajack
Date: 1939-1943
Creator: Delano, Jack
Extent: 75 Items ((on 1 microfilm reel))
Language: English .
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information Lent for microfilming 1965 by Jack Delano. Location of Originals Originals returned to the lender, Jack Delano, after microfilming. Some of the papers were subsequently donated to the Library of Congress; some are on deposit at the Luis Munoz Marin Foundation, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Available Formats 35mm microfilm reel NDA 21 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan. Restrictions The Archives of American Art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
Biographical / Historical
Illustrator, photographer; New York, N.Y. Born 1914. Delano was a photographer for the Farm Security Administration photography project which documented urban and rural America during the Depression.
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, mostly with Roy Stryker, Chief of the Historical Section of the Farm Security Administration. Stryker gives Delano his field assignments as a traveling photographer; discusses FSA policy, photographic techniques; his own philosophy about the work; change in budget and focus because of defense emphases; the war; subjects to photograph; activities of other personnel; and personal matters.
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Names and Subject Terms
This collection is indexed in the online catalog of the Smithsonian Institution under the following terms:
Subjects: Art and state New Deal, 1933-1939 Photography
Names: Stryker, Roy Emerson, 1893-1975 United States. Farm Security Administration. Historical Section
Occupations: Photographers
Places: United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945
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