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Vachon, John,
1914-1975.
John Vachon papers,
1913-1995
(bulk 1935-1959).
4,000
items.
12
containers.
4.6
linear feet.
Arranged alphabetically by type of material.
Open to research.
Correspondence, family papers, lecture notes, writings, financial papers, clippings, printed matter, and other material relating primarily to Vachon's career as a photographer with the U.S. Farm Security Administration, U.S. Office of War Information, Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, and Look magazine. Also documents his student days at Catholic University of America (1935-1936), life in Washington, D.C., (1935-1939), service in the U.S. Army at Camp Blanding, Fla. (1945), and work for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration in Poland (1946). Subjects include the Great Depression, entertainers and authors such as Marilyn Monroe and Tennessee Williams, jazz, movies, politics, poverty, social life and mores in America, and World War II. Includes a transcript of a conversation in 1952 between Roy Emerson Stryker, director of the FSA project, and FSA photographers, including Dorothea Lange, Arthur Rothstein, and Vachon. Correspondents include Vachon's mother Ann O'Hara Vachon and his first wife Millicent Vachon.
Transfer,
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
2005.
Photographer.
Collection material in English.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007030
Lange, Dorothea.
Monroe, Marilyn,
1926-1962.
Rothstein, Arthur,
1915-1985.
Stryker, Roy Emerson,
1893-1975.
Vachon, Ann O'Hara
Correspondence.
Vachon, Millicent
Correspondence.
Williams, Tennessee,
1911-1983.
United States.
Army.
United States.
Farm Security Administration.
United States.
Office of War Information.
Catholic University of America
Students.
Standard Oil Company of New Jersey.
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
Look.
American periodicals
New York (State)
New York.
Authors.
Depressions
1929
United States.
Entertainers.
Jazz.
Motion pictures.
Photography
Poland.
Photography
United States.
Poverty
United States.
World War, 1939-1945.
Camp Blanding (Fla.)
United States
Economic conditions
20th century.
United States
Politics and government
20th century.
United States
Social conditions
20th century.
United States
Social life and customs
20th century.
Washington (D.C.)
Social life and customs.
Photographers.
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Library of Congress
Manuscript Division
Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
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http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.home
Finding aid
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007030
Finding aid (PDF)
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007030.3
MSS.
mss/ead