US Labor Strikes (Sheldon Dick)

US Labor Strikes - GM Automobiles, Flint, MI, vintage 8 x 10 inch silver print fiber photograph. Image, circa 1937 - photograph printed at a later date. Inscription on verso reads: "Flint, Michigan / Sit down strikers in the Fisher body plant / photo - S. Dick - 1937."

Sheldon Dick (1906–1950), American publisher, literary agent, photographer, and filmmaker. He was a member of a wealthy and well-connected industrialist family, and was able to support himself while funding a series of literary and artistic endeavors. He published a book by poet Edgar Lee Masters, and made a documentary about mining that has been of interest to scholars. Dick is best known for the photographs he took on behalf of the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression, and for the violent circumstances of his death/suicide.

Verso bears credit stampings and filing notations. In very good condition.

Provenance: From the American Heritage Publishing Archives.