Chicago and Downstate
Subtitle: Illinois as Seen by the Farm Security Administration Photographers, 1936-1943 (Visions of Illinois)
Contributors: Robert L Reid (Editor); Larry A Viskochil (Editor)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: June 1, 1989
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780252016356
Subjects: Photographs: collections; Collections Of Photographs; Photography; Photo Essays; General; United States - State & Local - General; Photography / General; Chicago (Ill.); Illinois; Photojournalism; Pictorial works; Social life and customs
First sentence: Chicago, the nation's second largest city, was a place of "tremendous vital energy that enabled it to grow from an isolated frontier post to a giant metropolis within a century."