Roy Emerson Stryker collection
name: label: Creator
content: Stryker, Roy Emerson, 1893-1975
label: Names
content: United States. Farm Security Administration. Historical Section
label: Names
content: Lange, Dorothea
label: Names
content: Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968
label: Names
content: Vachon, John, 1914-1975
place: label: Place
content: United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945
label: Place
content: United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1965 by Roy Stryker.
creator: label: Creator
content: Stryker, Roy Emerson, 1893-1975
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Director of the Farm Security Administration Historical Section; Washington, D.C. Under Stryker the Photographic project of the FSA documented the drought, poverty and despair of rural and urban America during the Depression.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 7 Items
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1932-1964
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.stryroy
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: All items except for Steinbeck publication are available on microfilm reel 3472 and are available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: A letter from Archie Robertson to Stryker about traveling photographic exhibitions; 2 manuscripts on the origins of the FSA and containing biographical information of Stryker, the staff, and photographers on the project; a photograph of a poem, "Merry Christmas to Stryker"; "Stryker's Credo," a statement he made upon leaving the "Jersey Company" (Standard Oil); "The Children of Esso," 1948 by John Vachon, a psalm-like parody about Stryker and his affiliation with Standard Oil; and a copy of "Their Blood is Strong," 1940 by John Steinbeck on migratory agricultural workers in California illustrated with photos by Dorothea Lange for the FSA, signed by Steinbeck.