![]() The photo is found in the middle of the hundreds Vachon took that spring in Dubuque. The other details I had noticed further supported what my eyes were telling me. The resemblance is clear in his physical features and hair. A few photos of Vachon are identified in the collection, including this one, at right. In total, we have found a few dozen out of the over 175,000 photos. ![]() It is not common to find photos of the photographers themselves in the FSA/OWI collection. The photographer was John Vachon, exactly who I thought the photo resembled. /loc.pnp/fsa.8b37548I checked the photographer credited for the rest of the Dubuque photos and my hunch quickly gained traction. One of the untitled photos, seen below, caught my attention for a couple of reasons: As a last step in reviewing these photos, I used this feature to see what other images were possibly taken in Dubuque on the same trip. A feature in the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog allows for browsing neighboring images, which can lead to photos taken at the same time or in the same location. Research in visual materials can include simply looking through potentially related images, recognizing that captions and title information may not always describe everything shown.Īs we have explained in previous Picture This posts, the FSA/OWI collection includes untitled images, which came to us without a caption. Recently, in response to a question seeking a photo of a particular building, I was browsing about 300 photographs of Dubuque, Iowa, from the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information (FSA/OWI) Collection, taken in April 1940. Many entries in the Double Take series, where we look a little closer at images, come out of the steps I take to answer reference questions in my daily work.
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