num_pages: 228
description: In the late 1930's various New Deal agencies employed hundreds of writers, artists, and photographers to chronicle American life. This book is a collection of the writings and pictures, most previously unpublished, produced under New Deal auspices to document the lives of New Mexicans. In addtion to their historic value, these materials provide vivid, often amusing glimpses of the lives of ordinary and extraordinary people all over the state-homesteaders, villagers, miners, ranchers, merchants, Indians, and cowboys.
language: English
title: New Mexicans in Cameo and Camera: New Deal Documentation of Twentieth-Century Lives
titlecomplete: New Mexicans in Cameo and Camera: New Deal Documentation of Twentieth-Century Lives
publisher: Univ of New Mexico Pr