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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with digitial camera-2007.
Auto Body Work Plant
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with digitial camera-2007.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with digitial camera-2007.

Auto Body Work Plant

Artist John Collier (American, 1913 - 1992)
CultureAmerican
Date1942
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall, Image: 7 3/8 × 9 3/8 in. (18.7 × 23.8 cm)
Overall, Support: 7 13/16 × 9 13/16 in. (19.8 × 24.9 cm)
Overall, Mat: 19 7/8 × 16 in. (50.5 × 40.6 cm)
Credit LinePurchase, Horace W. Goldsmith Fund
Object number84.78.126
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. 147.