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Image scanned and/or photographed, then color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
A Farm Security Administration Housing Project Seen From The Acreage Of The Old Homestead Which Will Be Included In The Expanding Home Village Of The Hercules Powder Plant Workers
Image scanned and/or photographed, then color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Image scanned and/or photographed, then color-corrected by Pat Cagney.

A Farm Security Administration Housing Project Seen From The Acreage Of The Old Homestead Which Will Be Included In The Expanding Home Village Of The Hercules Powder Plant Workers

Artist John Collier (American, 1913 - 1992)
CultureAmerican
Date1941
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall, Image: 7 3/8 × 9 3/8 in. (18.7 × 23.8 cm)
Overall, Support: 7 3/16 × 9 7/8 in. (18.3 × 25.1 cm)
Overall, Mat: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
Credit LinePurchase, Horace W. Goldsmith Fund
Object number84.78.125
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. 104.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with digitial camera-2007.
John Collier
1942