Illustrated by Lange, Shahn, and Others

Rural Youth: Their Situation and Prospects

[Works Progress Administration (WPA)] Melvin, Bruce L. and Elna N. Smith

Publication: Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1938. First Edition.

Notes: A survey and summary of state-level reports on youth unemployment and prospects, with less than optimistic conclusions ("the baffling economic situation" is one heading). (Of course, the solution to widespread unemployment was the coming war).

Research Monograph XV.

xx, 167 pages. Illustrated with half-tone photographs, most uncredited but at least one is by Dorothea Lange and two are by Ben Shahn.

Edition + Condition: First edition (first printing). Very good in gray printed wrappers.

Item No: #365977

Price: $125