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SJ=650275 a particularly writers, civic groups, and editors, in order that they night use ites information and photographs for whatever purpose would benefit theme Ridge es The following genera] biographical data concerning ROSSKAM is translated from this EL MUNDO article - ECWIN and LOUISE ROSSZAM arrived at documentary photography through dissimilar channels = he through painting, she through biologye He studied art in Paris, Munich, and Philadelphia; she sciences in the University of Pennsvivania.e While his pictures were shown in Paris, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh, she gracuated and went to New York in order to study bacteriologye 4 About 1929 the Trocadero and a newspaper syndicate sought him to make a vhotographioc study in Martinique and Tahiti and the Polynesian Islands. ee ee ee een island were not published due to circumstances inadequantely exe plained by the magazine director. Hence their prints are now being forwarded to the Library of Congress. a Abcut 1936 ROSSKAM worked for the Philadelphia “Record” in ke the capacity of photographic editore & At the end of 1937 both came to Puerto Rico for the first ee time, sent by a well known magazine which has capitalized on photo= mes erephs. The thousands of photographs which they took around the an * About 1936 the ROSSKANS carried out a similar photogrepkic Paid project on behalf of another magazine covering the Tennessee Valley a Authority, but this project for reasons also inadequately explained * ae by the magazine directors, was never made public. They thereafter ioe sinned a contract with with)ALLIANCE, a Hew York publication, to do : oe a photographic two-volume job on various studies of the countrye re The first covered San Franciaco, for which WILL OYAN, the oy California novelist wrote an introductions The second cover gf - es Washington, D. C,, and hed an introduction written by ELFANOR” ROOSE- wr VELT, with the collaboration of Mrs. RUBY AJ\BLACK, ex correspondent ral “oF EL MUNDO(\LA DEMOCRACIA, and the United Press of Washington, D, Cy — In the middle of 1959 they were separated in their photo- : erephic work when EDWIN ROSSiAM became @ specialist on Visual Infore mation for the Farm Security Administration, while she worked for warious magazines in Washington, D. C, + Fie a ve a . “of og tt. Rt arm oe | alate ad ag peter Ae tee are even ~ ow