Vachon, John 1914-1975 creator mixed material monographic eng 4,000 12 4.6 Correspondence, family papers, lecture notes, writings, financial papers, clippings, printed matter, and other material relating primarily to Vachon's career as a photographer with the U.S. Farm Security Administration, U.S. Office of War Information, Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, and Look magazine. Also documents his student days at Catholic University of America (1935-1936), life in Washington, D.C., (1935-1939), service in the U.S. Army at Camp Blanding, Fla. (1945), and work for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration in Poland (1946). Subjects include the Great Depression, entertainers and authors such as Marilyn Monroe and Tennessee Williams, jazz, movies, politics, poverty, social life and mores in America, and World War II. Includes a transcript of a conversation in 1952 between Roy Emerson Stryker, director of the FSA project, and FSA photographers, including Dorothea Lange, Arthur Rothstein, and Vachon. Correspondents include Vachon's mother Ann O'Hara Vachon and his first wife Millicent Vachon. Open to research. Photographer. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007030 Lange, Dorothea Monroe, Marilyn 1926-1962 Rothstein, Arthur 1915-1985 Stryker, Roy Emerson 1893-1975 Vachon, Ann O'Hara Correspondence Vachon, Millicent Correspondence Williams, Tennessee 1911-1983 United States. Army. United States. Farm Security Administration. United States. Office of War Information. Catholic University of America Students Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. American periodicals New York (State) New York Authors Depressions 1929 United States Entertainers Jazz Motion pictures Photography Poland Photography United States Poverty United States World War, 1939-1945 Camp Blanding (Fla.) United States Economic conditions 20th century United States Politics and government 20th century United States Social conditions 20th century United States Social life and customs 20th century Washington (D.C.) Social life and customs Photographers mm2005085246 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms007030 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms007030.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007030 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007030.3 Open to research. DLC 050830 20260227111730.0 mm2005085246