Bust to Boom
Subtitle: Documentary Photographs of Kansas, 1936-1949
Contributors: Donald Worster (Editor); Constance B. Schulz (Editor)
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: October 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780700607990
Subjects: Local history; Photographs: collections; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Second World War, 1939-1945; Kansas - Local History; Documentary Photo Collections; United States - State & Local - General; Photography; Social conditions; Photo Essays; USA; Subjects & Themes - Travel - U.S./West; Depressions; 1929; Documentary photography; Kansas; Pictorial works; Social life and customs
Description: Constance Schulz has brought together a diverse array of photographs from three extensive documentary projects: the Farm Security Administration, the Office of War Information, and Standard Oil of New Jersey. The result is a unique visual record of American life by photographers Arthur Rothstein, John Vachon, Russell Lee, Marion Post Wolcott, Jack Delano, Edwin and Louise Rosskam, and Charles Rotkin. Collectively, their work has immortalized the faces and emotions of.

FSA-aided farmers and the harsh lives of coal miners, dust bowl debris and tumbleweeds, a failed bank and thriving stockyard, locomotives and Mexican-American railroad workers, oil derricks, wheat country, black cavalry troops, and 4-H Club fairs. In his enlightening introduction, environmental historian Donald Worster provides essential historical context for the images.