Roy Emerson Stryker Papers
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Stryker, Roy Emerson, 1893-1975
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content: Roy Emerson Stryker papers [microfilm]
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1932-1963
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.stryroyp, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondence is between Stryker and other administrators of the Farm Security Administration and photographers working in the Historical Section photograph project. Photographers included are John Collier, Jack Delano, Walter Evans, Dorothea Lange, Russel Lee, Edwin Locke, Marion Post, Arthur Rothstein, and John Vachon. Letters discuss specific locations documented, and typically include requests for funds, supplies, and other resources. The letters reflect the close relationship Stryker had with the photographers of the Historical Section. 

Other records of the Farm Security Administration include reports, lists of photographers, financial records, writings, and lectures. Some material dates from the predecessor of the FSA, the Resettlement Agency, and includes material written by R. G. Tugwell.

Additional material includes FSA produced printed material such as pamphlets and brochures describing the project and publications that used FSA photographs. Of note is a copy of Home Town by Sherwood Anderson, Forty Acres and Steel Mules, by Herman Clarence Nixon, and How the Other Half is Housed, by Rupert B. Vance. Exhibition records for The Bitter Years, 1935-1941 include caption drafts, correspondence, and an exhibition catalog.

Also found are manuals and writings concerning documentary photography and the documentation of cultural history, likely used by Stryker to develop the Historical Section photograph project.