WPA-Federal Art Project photographs of Pennsylvania coal miners and coal mining communities

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WPA-Federal Art Project photographs of Pennsylvania coal miners and coal mining communities

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Title: WPA-Federal Art Project photographs of Pennsylvania coal miners and coal mining communities / Jack Delano.
Creator(s): Delano, Jack, photographer
Date Created/Published: [1938 or 1939]
Medium: 2 albums (70 gelatin silver developed-out prints) ; 26.7 x 19.7 cm. (album).
Summary: Photographs of bootleg anthracite coal miners and mining communities in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania including the towns of Pottsville, Minersville, Shenandoah, and Mahanoy City. Many photos of miners illegally working inside mines closed during the Depression; views of coal mining and processing facilities; women; children; exterior and interior views of homes; churches; and street scenes.
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-23266 (digital files of original album pages for v.1) LC-DIG-ppmsca-23267 (digital files of original album pages for v. 2)
Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on reproduction.
Access Advisory: Use digital images. Original served only by appointment because material requires special handling. For more information, see: http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/info/617_apptonly.html Original albums served by appointment only.
Call Number: LOT 13323 (H) (USE DIGITAL IMAGES) [P&P]
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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- LOT title devised by Library staff.
- Two handmade spiral bound albums, made by Delano in 1939, inscribed "Photos", of 70 gelatin silver prints with some typed text, caption lists, and collage elements. Enlargements of some prints were exhibited in Philadelphia in 1938.
- Color laser copy reference surrogate filed with finding aids in Prints & Photographs Reading Room.
- Purchase; Pablo Delano; 1996; (DLC/PP-1996:044).
- Photographs taken by Jack Delano for the WPA-Federal Art Project. Delano completed assignment while living with local mining familiy for one month.
- Published in: Photographic memory: the album in the age of photography / Verna Posever Curtis. New York, NY : Aperture Foundation, 2011, p. 156.
- Jack Delano describes assignment and experience in Schuylkill County in his autobiography: Photographic memories / Jack Delano. Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997, p. 23-26.
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Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on reproduction.
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-23266 (digital files of original album pages for v.1) LC-DIG-ppmsca-23267 (digital files of original album pages for v. 2)
Call Number: LOT 13323 (H) (USE DIGITAL IMAGES) [P&P]
Medium: 2 albums (70 gelatin silver developed-out prints) ; 26.7 x 19.7 cm. (album).

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Call Number: LOT 13323 (H) (USE DIGITAL IMAGES) [P&P]
Medium: 2 albums (70 gelatin silver developed-out prints) ; 26.7 x 19.7 cm. (album).
Access Advisory: Use digital images. Original served only by appointment because material requires special handling. For more information, see: http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/info/617_apptonly.html Original albums served by appointment only.

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