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Goldberg: Vicki Goldberg, The Power of Photography (New York: Abbeville Press, 1991, expanded and updated 1993), p. 259.
Stryker: Quoted by Nancy Wood in "Portrait of Stryker" in Roy E. Stryker and Nancy Wood, In This Proud Land: America 1935 -1943 as Seen in the FSA Photographs (Greenwich: Conn.: New York Graphic Society, 1973), p. 19.
Szarkowski: John Szarkowski, The Photographer's Eye (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1966), p.70.