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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Finnegan, Cara A.

Making photography matter : a viewer’s history from the Civil War to the Great Depression /

Cara A. Finnegan.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-252-03926-3 (hardcover : alk. paper) —

ISBN 978-0-252-09731-7 (e-book)

1. Documentary photography—United States—History—20th century. 2. Documentary photography—United States—History—19th century. 3. Photography—Social aspects—United States. I. Title.

TR23.F548 2015

770.9’034—dc23 2014045920