New Deal Photographs of West Virginia, 1934-1943
Betty Rivardis an award-winning fine art landscape photographer (http://www.bettyrivard.com).  She has researched and coordinated three exhibits of FSA photographs of West Virginia and contributed articles about the FSA Project toWonderful West Virginia,Goldenseal,andWest Virginia Southmagazines. She is a Social Worker Emeritus with graduate degrees in education and social work from West Virginia University and a BA in political science from the University of California at Berkeley. She traveled to every county in West Virginia during her 25-year career as a social worker and planner with the state. Jerry Bruce Thomas, Professor Emeritus, Shepherd University, is the author ofAn Appalachian New Deal: West Virginia in the Great DepressionandAn Appalachian Reawakening: West Virginia and the Perils of the New Machine Age. Carl Fleischhaueris a digital preservation specialist at the Library of Congress. He is the coauthor ofDocumenting America, 1935–1943, a book about the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information photographs. In the 1970s, he worked for the public television station based at West Virginia University and contributed to a Library of Congress documentary project about the Hammons family of Marlinton, West Virginia.