New photography by Ed Pollard captured with a digital camera-2006.

Moving into Newport News Homesteads, Virginia

Artist Arthur Rothstein (American, 1915-1985)

CultureAmerican

Date1937

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsOverall, Image: 6 1/4 × 9 3/8 in. (15.9 × 23.8 cm)
Overall, Paper: 8 × 9 15/16 in. (20.3 × 25.2 cm)
Overall, Mat: 19 7/8 × 16 in. (50.5 × 40.6 cm)

Credit LinePurchase, Horace W. Goldsmith Fund

Object number84.78.26

Not on view

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

Label TextArthur Rothstein American, 1915–1985 Moving into Newport News Homesteads, Virginia, December 1937 Gelatin silver print (photograph), printed 1984 Each of the 158 homes in Aberdeen Gardens included a half-acre lot meant for subsistence gardening. According to the National Register for Historic Places: “Funds also were included for the purchase of 12 cows, 12 mules, a thousand hens, and 25,000 chicks, …apple, peach, and pear trees, and strawberry and blackberry plants.” Chrysler Museum purchase 84.78.26 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. 46.