Abstract
In 1963, the Archives of America Art undertook an ambitious project it called “The New Deal and the Arts,” a systematic collecting and oral history initiative to document the many—and at the time scarcely studied—government art projects of the 1930s and 1940s. Field representatives traveled the country seeking records that had been hastily disposed of or donated to regional repositories. Interviews with men and women who worked on the government arts programs were also an important component. Among the participants were administrators, photographers, and other personnel from the Farm Security Administration’s photographic documentation program, including archivist Paul Vanderbilt. Vanderbilt, hired by Roy Stryker in December 1942, six months after the documentary project transferred to the Office of War Information, played a key role in the history of the FSA by reorganizing the photographic File and related papers.
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