Research Catalog

Title

• Bearing witness : a photographic chronicle of American life, 1860-1945 / Michael Lesy ; with a preface by Warren I. Susman.

Author

Lesy, Michael, 1945-

Publication

New York : Pantheon Books, c1982.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Susman, Warren, 1927-1985

Description

xx, 171 p. : chiefly ill.; 31 cm.

Summary

Period photographs document American daily life, wartime experiences, disasters, family life, agriculture, and industry, from the Civil War through World War II.

Subject

• 1861-1945
• Photography > United States
• United States > Pictorial works
• United States > Pictorial works. > 1865-1921
• United States > Pictorial works. > 1919-1933
• United States > Pictorial works. > 1933-1945
• United States > Pictorial works. > Civil War, 1861-1865

Genre/Form

• History
• Pictorial works

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Civil War -- The West -- Black life -- City life -- Industry and agriculture -- Child labor and strikes -- The Philippine insurrection -- Ideal and comic types -- Misfortunes -- World War One -- Women after the war -- Farm life -- The depression -- War mobilization -- Workers and citizens -- Romance and family life -- World War Two: Pacific -- World War Two: Europe.

ISBN

• 0394509676
• 0394749421 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^82002297^

OCLC

8221852

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library