Women of New Mexico: Depression Era Images by Marta Weigle (Editor), Dorothea Lange (Photographer), John Collier (Photographer)

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RThis intriguing collection of New Deal photographs and texts documents women's lives in late 1930s and early 1940s New Mexico from the railroad yards at Clovis to the homestead community of Pie Town and from Taos County Hispanic villages to Lea Country ranches. The eighty-six photographs by Farm Security Administration photographers John Collier, Jr., Jack Delano, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, and Arthur Rothstein are complemented by twenty-five excerpts from manuscripts in the WPA New Mexico Federal Writer;s Project files. Woman are portrayed as engaged in activities surrounding the home, water and washing, food and cooking, education and welfare, sewing and weaving, commerce, and celebration and ritual.

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Photograph Captions: The Farm Security Administration (FSA) photographs in the Library of Congress files display a distinct caption format, which has been followed herein. The place and date of the shot precede the identification and commentary, with the photographer's name and the Library of Congress plate number at the end.