{"id":1029,"date":"2015-10-06T17:18:14","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T00:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/?p=1029"},"modified":"2015-10-06T17:18:14","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T00:18:14","slug":"photogrammar-an-historical-treasure-trove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2015\/10\/06\/photogrammar-an-historical-treasure-trove\/","title":{"rendered":"Photogrammar: An historical treasure trove"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3937\" style=\"width: 280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/basil2011.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/10\/buffalocouple.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3937\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3937\" src=\"https:\/\/basil2011.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/10\/buffalocouple.jpg?w=270&#038;resize=270%2C287\" alt=\"&quot;Buffalo, New York. Swingshift workers on the sidelines at the weekly swingshift dance held at the Main-Utica ballroom.&quot;\" width=\"270\" height=\"287\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3937\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Buffalo, New York. Swingshift workers on the sidelines at the weekly swingshift dance held at the Main-Utica ballroom.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This photograph, shot in April 1943 by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/rr\/print\/coll\/womphotoj\/collinsessay.html\">Marjorie Collins<\/a>, is part of a delightful &amp; important project in which more than 100,000 images &#8211; taken from 1935-1944 by photographers working the Farm Security Administration \/ Office of War Information &#8211; have been made available online. The website has an amazing <a href=\"http:\/\/photogrammar.yale.edu\/map\/\">interactive map<\/a> that allows you to search by place *and* time. <a href=\"http:\/\/photogrammar.yale.edu\/about\/fsa_owi\/\">Read more about the largest photographic project every sponsored by the USA federal government.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m charmed by the possibility that some of the young adults in these Buffalo, NY photos became the grandparents of my running, writing, and drinking buddies decades later.<\/p>\n<p>[Note to my colleagues in academia and publishing: According to the Library of Congress, &#8220;Most photographs in this collection are considered to be in the public domain; however, labels on a few images indicate that they may be restricted. Privacy and publicity rights may also apply.&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">cross-posted from <a href=\"http:\/\/basil.ca\">basil.CA<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">h\/t LLBM<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This photograph, shot in April 1943 by Marjorie Collins, is part of a delightful &amp; important project in which more than 100,000 images &#8211; taken from 1935-1944 by photographers working the Farm Security Administration \/ Office of War Information &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2015\/10\/06\/photogrammar-an-historical-treasure-trove\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[25,89,106],"class_list":["post-1029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roberts-posts","tag-copyright","tag-resources-3","tag-visuals"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}