SHAHN BEN (1898 1969) Select group of 51 Farm Security Admin

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SHAHN, BEN (1898-1969)
Select group of 51 Farm Security Administration photographs by Shahn, including views from Arkansas, West Virginia, Ohio and New Orleans. Silver prints, each approximately 6 1/2x9 1/2 inches (16.5x24 cm.), all but one with Shahn's credit and each with a caption, date and the Library of Congress's numeric notations, in pencil, in an unknown hand(s), and the Library of Congress hand stamp, on verso. 1935 and 1938; printed circa 1970

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Each print is housed in a sleeve, nearly all with "The Likes of Us" sticker detailing a page number, and all with a second sticker with the Library of Congress number and title. [See: Stuart Cohen, The Likes of Us: Photography and the Farm Security Administration (Godine, 2008).]