(MISSISSIPPI RIVER) Film stills from the Farm Security Admin

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(MISSISSIPPI RIVER.) Film stills from the Farm Security Administration documentary The River. 33 photographs, all but one of them 8 x 10 inches; 24 of them with inked stamp on verso reading 'Scene from THE RIVER, U.S. Government documentary film produced by the Farm Security Administration,' and one other with a detached caption sheet. With the original Farm Security Administration 'Official Business' envelope. Np, [1938]

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The River was a short film produced in 1938 by the Farm Security Administration to publicize the dangers of erosion and flooding along the Mississippi River. Directed by Pare Lorentz, it remains a classic of New Deal documentary film. Most of the photographs in this lot have been positively identified as stills from the film--images of flooded streets, haunted farmers, and anxious children. Among the five unidentified images is a shot of four photographers in a farm field, one of them apparently being FSA photographer Arthur Rothstein.