Source Files
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Shahn, Ben, 1898-1969
setName: label: See more items in
content: Ben Shahn papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.81 Linear feet (Boxes 28-30, 35)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1900s-1960s
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.shahben, Series 7
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Files are arranged alphabetically by subject. The bulk of this series has been scanned with the exception of large groups of news clippings.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Source files contain printed material, primarily newspaper clippings, and photographs relating to topics depicted by Shahn in his artwork, including children, dust, farming, houses, mines and miners, slums, war and workers. File titles are those used by Shahn.

Of particular note are the file for "Children" which includes one of the clippings Shahn used as a source for Girl Skipping Rope (1943); scattered photographic prints by FSA and OWI photographers including Shahn and Jack Delano, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Carl Mydans, Marion Post Wolcott, Arthur Rothstein, and John Vachon; files for "Steel Country," which include prints of photographs taken by Shahn on assignment to Ohio as a photographer for the Historical Section of the Resettlement Administration; and a group of photographs of Louis Armstrong's 1956 visit to the Gold Coast.