JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post
In reading Paul Rabinowitz’s American Pulp, How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street (Princeton, 2014) I found several good images of newsstands that form a subcategory at the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division’s collection of Depression-era masterworks in the Farms Security Administration (FSA) effort. I checked out the LC’s FSA holdings online (fantastic) and found some other wonderful examples of exceptional and modest newsstands.
This first, by John Vachon, is particularly powerful:
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There are some other posts on this blog concerning the FSA, including: