Sep 09, 2014 13:00:00

'Photogrammar' where you can look for as many photos as you like that show the realistic scenery of 170,000 precious 1935 to 1945.

The world around 1940 was just before the end of the first war and the second war after the economic crisis. 'Photogrammar ' allows you to search and browse 170,000 photos of the American landscape of that era.

Photogrammar

https://www.photogrammar.org/maps

Click 'See map' under 'Interactive Map' to see the photos from the map.

You can further enlarge or reduce by clicking the button on the upper left of the screen.

The finely color-coded areas represent individual

counties . The darker the color, the more photos are stored.

Manhattan Island, in the center of New York, has a fairly dark green color, and the number of photographs is outstanding at about 2,700. You can see the stored photos by clicking the part that says 'See 2698 Pictures'.

A list of photos is displayed, and you can go through the pages one after another.

Click the photo for more information

You can see the title of the photo, the name of the cameraman who took the photo, and the data of the time and place of the photo.

For example, you can see that this photo was taken by Dorothea Lange , who is known for his work of vulnerable people who were at the mercy of the Great Depression.

In addition to this, I took pictures of the scenery in New York City ...

You can see children playing along the streets of Bronx in northern New York.

The map can be displayed by county or by cameraman. Click 'Maps' at the top right of the screen and select 'Dots' ...

The point at which the photo was taken has been switched to a color-coded display for each cameraman.

◆ About FSA project
These photos were taken as part of an American national project called the FSA Project. The FSA (Farm Security Administration) and OWI (Office of War Information) at the time were to record the devastation and reconstruction of rural areas, mainly in the southern United States, after the outbreak of the Great Depression in 1929. And it is a project that was carried out to promote the effect of the New Deal policy.

The project has taken 170,000 photographs, and more than 100,000 photographs are still in the Library of Congress. The purpose of the project is to record the tragedy and reconstruction of the rural areas mentioned above, and it is said that it was used as part of propaganda during the two wars, but it is valuable to convey the realistic scenery at that time. It is a collection.