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Social Reform
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Jacob Riis Born
Born in Ribe, Denmark to a family of 15 children. -
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Jacob Riis Life
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Lewis Hine Birth
Born in Oshkosh, WI
Studied sociology at University of Chicago, Columbia University, and New York University. -
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Lewis Hine
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Jacob Riis Discovers Flash Photography
Jacob Riis and his photography buddies become one of the first people to use Falsh Photography in the United States. -
Roosevelt and Riis Team
Roosevelt and Riis work together to expose the corrupted police force. -
Dorothea Lange Birth
Born of second generation German immigrants in Hoboken, New Jersey. -
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Dorothea Lange Life
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Hine became the Staff Photographer for Russel Sage Foundation
Here he photographed pictures in the steel making industry and people of Pittsburgh for the influencial sociology study, the Pittsburgh Survey. -
Hine Photographed During WWI for Red Cross
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Hine photographed during WWI for Red Cross
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FSA Formed
Originally named the Resettlement Administration (RA) in 1935 the Farm Security Administration (FSA) was established in 1937 to combat the American rural poverty during the Great Depression. -
Lange awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship for excellence in photography that she later gave up to record the evacuation of Japanese Americans to relocation camps for the WRA (War Relocation Camps). -
FSA Closes and Ends Photography
FSA was closed in 1944 and during it's years of working, had helped 11 photographers and their pictures become famous by photographing pictures of the Great Depression.
