"This Great Nation Will Endure": Photographs of the Great Depression

Exhibition Opens February 2, 2007 at Tarrant County College, Northeast Campus

The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives and Records Administration – Southwest Region, and Tarrant County College, Northeast Campus will present a photographic exhibition of over 150 images of America taken between 1935 and 1942 by great photographers of the Farm Security Administration, including Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, Jack Delano, Arthur Rothstein, Gordon Parks, Carl Mydans, Russell Lee, Marion Post Wolcott and John Vachon.

The exhibition was created by the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, New York. The photographs are drawn from the massive Farm Security Administration photography collection at the Library of Congress. Their work includes some of the most familiar and powerful images of the nation to emerge from those difficult years. Many have reached iconic status in American culture.

Opening in the Center Corner Room of the Student Center Building on the Tarrant County College, Northeast Campus, Thursday, February 1, 2007, "This Great Nation Will Endure" will include FSA photographs from every region of the nation. It will be one of the largest and richest exhibitions of FSA black-and-white photography brought to Texas.

A soundtrack consisting of FSA audio recordings of folk music sung by migrant workers will fill part of the exhibit space.

A New Deal agency created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the FSA sought to help American farmers and farm laborers who were confronting economic depression and natural disaster, including the ecological disaster known as the Dust Bowl. The agency was connected to the Department of Agriculture, led by Secretary of Agriculture, Henry A. Wallace.

The FSA created a remarkably diverse record of life in America during the 1930s and early 1940s - including images of hardship, endurance, hope, recovery, migration, recreation, and community life.

"This Great Nation Will Endure": Photographs of the Great Depression runs through March 9, 2007. Free tours and lectures will be offered in conjunction with the exhibition. For information about tours, please contact Mary Burke, Southwest Region Education Specialist at mary.burke@nara.gov or Linda E. Wright, at linda.wright@tccd.edu.

Exhibition Location Information:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, 8:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m.
Thursdays, 8:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m.
Open to the public on Saturday, February 3 and 17, 9:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m.
Other Saturdays, by appointment only

Center Corner Room of the Student Center Building
Tarrant County College, Northeast Campus
828 Harwood Road
Hurst, TX 76054
TCC Student Activities: 817.555.6644
www.tccd.edu

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