41,000 historic photos re-emerge at New York Public Library

From the New York Times:
Roy Stryker, founder of the Farm Security Administration’s photography project, was determined to compile a visual encyclopedia of the United States in the 1930s and ’40s and preserve it for future generations.

So, while photographers like Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans and Russell Lee crisscrossed the country, Mr. Stryker was sending boxes of prints to Ramona Javitz, the director of the New York Public Library Picture Collection, to make sure there was a repository other than the National Archives.

But the 41,000 prints that Mr. Stryker had sent to Ms. Javitz languished and were largely forgotten. Read more