William Gedney Photographs and Writings: Kansas, 1969

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The 50,000 item collection documents Gedney's work from the 1950s to 1989. Subjects include photographs of cross country road trips; rural New York; Manhattan; Brooklyn; rural Kentucky; Hippies in San Francisco; composers; gay rallies and demonstrations; St. Joseph’s School for the Deaf; India; England; Ireland; France; and, a large number of nocturnal pictures.

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Archive of Documentary Arts
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- Social Security Administration (34)
- Norton State Hospital (14)
- Harold Elder (1)
- Kansas (1)

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- 1969 (29)
- 1969 June 3 (5)
- 1969 May (3)
- 1969 May 27 (3)

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In 1969, William Gedney was one of six American photographers chosen to document the work of the Social Security Administration. He was assigned to Hays, Kansas, where he photographed the Social Security offices and Social Security recipients in their homes and on their farms. He also spent time making portraits of patients at the Norton State Hospital.

Two women at Norton State Hospital, Kansas.	Two young men in front of car.	Young man.	Young man with pained expression.
Elderly man with hat speaking to dark-haired woman at desk.	Doctor with shirtless male patient looking over papers. Man is in bed.	Elderly man and woman showing man behind desk a framed document.	Older man wearing a cowboy hat being shown a booklet by man behind a desk.
Man with tie explaining forms to seated woman with small dog in lap.	Seated elderly man listening to man at desk; four elderly people waiting in folding chairs in the background	Boy filling out card as man behind desk waits.	Elderly woman with scarf on head speaking to man behind a desk. Man in background waits in a chair.
Two young women and an older woman watching man behind desk explain a paper.	Elderly woman with hair net and glasses looking at man behind desk, holding a Social Security card.	Younger man with glasses and older man wearing overalls speaking to man behind desk.	Older man in overalls and cap standing with hands on hips in shaded yard.
Older woman seated in shade, holding glasses.	Seated older man with cap, scraping mud off of boot in shade.	Harold Elder.	Man with glasses, hat and overalls with arms folded.
Young man wearing t-shirt.	Young man sitting on bed in front of blank wall.	Young man with scar on face wearing apron working on a bicycle.	Auto show; woman helping elderly man at Social Security office; doctor talking to male patient at Hadley Hospital.
Doctor talking with patient; Gary Hana helping elderly woman and elderly couple at Social Security office.	Gary Hana helping elderly people in Philipsburg Courthouse.	Gary Hana helping the elderly at the Philipsburg Courthouse and talking with co-workers.	Gary Hana helping the elderly at Philipsburg Court House.
Gary Hana helping the elderly at Norton Courthouse.	Gary Hana help the elderly and a woman with a young boy at the Norton Courthouse.	Gary Hana helping the elderly, a woman with a young boy, and three women at the Norton Courthouse.	Gary Hana helping elderly at Norton Courthouse; Hana helping Ms. Clara Burd at her home in Norton; Hana helping Ms. Almena in her home in Norton.

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