Research Guides: ENGL 363: The Construction of Whiteness in Precarious Times (HC): Primary Sources (Special Collections)

Finding Primary Sources

Many primary sources can be found in Haverford's Quaker & Special Collections which can be searched via Tripod. You can also search Triarte for digital versions of the photographs and other art held in the collections. Art usually has a record in Tripod, as well, but the digital images are only available in Triarte. We encourage you to use the original objects even if a digital version exists.

Walker Evans

Here you will find links to individual photographs, collections of photographs, and books which include photographs by Walker Evans. To see images of some, but not all, of these photographs, you can browse the Evans section on Triarte.

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
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First edition of Evan's collaboration with James Agee, published in 1941.
Railroad photographs
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34 of the 48 photograph which were part of Evans's railroad series.
Message from the Interior
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12 photogravure prints selected from a cross-section of Evan's work.
African Negro Art
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100 photographs taken by Evans of pieces in a groundbreaking exhibit at MOMA (The Museum of Modern Art) in New York City in 1935.
Four photographs
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Photographs taken in the American South.
The Bridge: A Poem
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Paris : New York : Black Sun Press ; 1930.
For sale at the bookshop of Harry F. Marks.
With photographs by Walker Evans.
The Brooklyn Bridge
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New York : Eakins Press Foundation, 1994.
Includes a poem by Hart Crane and nine photographs by Evans.
Alabama Tenant Farmer's Wife
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1936 photograph.
On the first tee of "Old White"
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This and a number of other photographs of golfers and golf courses were published by Fortune Magazine in 1954. A number of these other photos are in the collection, although they are not specifically linked here.
New York City
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Taken around 1928.
Church of the Nazarene, Tennessee
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Taken 1936.
American Photographs
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Published by the Museum of Modern Art in 1938.
Joe's Auto Graveyard
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Pennsylvania, 1935.

Other Depression Era Photographers

Dorothea Lange
Lange was a photographer and photojournalist best known for her work during the Depression with the Farm Security Administration.
Margaret Bourke-White
Bourke-White was an American photographer and photojournalist, and the first woman to be a photographer for Life magazine.
Lewis Hine photographs
Hine was a photographer and sociologist who was instrumental in changing child labor laws in the U.S.
Jack Delano
Delano was a photographer with the Farm Security Administration.
Russell Lee
A photographer and photojournalist who worked for the Farm Security Administration.
Mike Disfarmer
A commercial photographer working in rural Arkansas, Disfarmer photographer many families in the early- and mid-20th centuries.