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

Mrs. Bailey Nicholson, Nicholson Hollow, Shenandoah National Park Area, Virginia

Artist Arthur Rothstein (American, 1915-1985)

CultureAmerican

DateOctober 1935

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsOverall: 9 3/8 x 6 3/8 in. (23.8 x 16.2 cm)

InscribedOn back of mount ink stamped: "Please credit F.S.A. Farm Security Administration." "Photo by: Rothstein." At the bottom is written: "Mrs. Nicholson, Blue Ridge Mt., Virginia - 1935"

Credit LineMusuem purchase, in memory of Alice R. and Sol B. Frank, and gift of Patricia L. Raymond, M.D.

Object number99.5

Not on view

DescriptionThis documentary photograph was made during the Depression years.

Label TextArthur Rothstein American (1915-1985) Mrs. Bailey Nicholson, Nicholson Hollow, Shenandoah National Park Area, Virginia, October 1935 Gelatin-silver print Museum purchase, gift of Patricia L. Raymond, M.D., and in memory of Alice R. and Sol B. Frank 99.5 Rothstein began a long and prolific career in photojournalism as the first photographer hired by Roy Stryker to document the effects of the Depression for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Between 1935 and 1940, Rothstein traveled to the South and the West, recording daily life in rural America. During World War II he worked for the U.S. Office of War Information and the Army Signal Corps. In 1946 he became director of photography for Look magazine, and by 1971 held the same position at Parade magazine. This photograph comes from Rothstein's first assignment for the FSA which was to document people who were being relocated from an area that was to become the Shenandoah National Park in Virginia. Edited By: CW Edited Date: 2007 Approved By: ERL Approval Date: 2007Exhibition History"History of Photography," Alice R. and Sol B. Frank Photography Galleries, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va, June 15 - August 22, 1999. "The World of Photography," Alice R. and Sol B. Frank Photo Galleries, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, June 20, 2007 - May 25, 2008 Published ReferencesBrooks Johnson, _Mountaineers to Main Streets: The Old Dominion as seen through the Farm Security Administration Photographs_. Norfolk, VA: Chrysler Museum, 1985, p. 25, ill.