New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.

Courthouse Square

Artist John Vachon (American, 1914-1975)

CultureAmerican

Date1941

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsOverall, Image: 9 15/16 × 7 1/8 in. (25.2 × 18.1 cm)
Overall, Support: 9 15/16 × 7 15/16 in. (25.2 × 20.2 cm)
Overall, Mat: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)

Credit LinePurchase, Horace W. Goldsmith Fund

Object number84.78.57

On View

Not on view

DescriptionThis is one of a series of 132 FSA photographs of Virginia; all are gelatin silver prints.

ProvenancePurchased prints from Library of Congress (negatives on file at Library of Congress,) 1984.Exhibition History"Mountaineers to Main Streets: The Old Dominion as seen through the Farm Security Administration Photographs," Large Changing Gallery, Chrysler Museum of Art, May 3 - June 16, 1985. Published ReferencesBrooks Johnson. _Mountaineers to Main Streets: The Old Dominion as seen through the Farm Security Administration Photographs_. The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA. 1985: p. 130.