John Vachon papers, 1913-1995 (bulk 1935-1959)
Vachon, John,
1914-1975
mixed material
monographic
eng
4,000
12
4.6
Arranged alphabetically by type of material.
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.
Open to research.
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
Library of Congress Manuscript Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
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http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007030
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