Howard R. Photographer Hollem

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Death: 1949

Biography:

Howard R. Hollem was an American photographer. He was born in the United States and died in 1949. He was a photographer for the Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information. His Kodachromes of women war workers in the 1940s are particularly well known. He is also known for his photographs of the construction of aircraft during World War II. His work is part of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information (FSA/OWI) Photograph Collection, which consists of about 175,000 black-and-white film negatives, encompassing both negatives that were printed for FSA/OWI use and those that were not printed at the time. The collection also includes photographs acquired from other governmental and nongovernmental sources, including the News Bureau at the Offices of Emergency Management (OEM), various branches of the military, and industrial corporations. The FSA stressed 'rural rehabilitation' efforts to improve the lifestyle of very poor landowning farmers, and a program to purchase submarginal land owned by poor farmers and resettle them in group farms on land more suitable for efficient farming.