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.

Older man wearing a cowboy hat being shown a booklet by man behind a desk.	Harold Elder.	Man at desk across from woman and two daughters; woman and daughter in conversation.	Patients pose for camera at Norton State Hospital.
Workers and patients pose for camera outside of Norton State Hospital; building with a mural on the facade in Norton, Kansas	Two women at Norton State Hospital, Kansas.	Man with glasses, hat and overalls with arms folded.	Mr. and Mrs. Carl Kraus and son on farm; Anton Herl and Leo Rajewski on farm.
Gary Hana in Hays office; Hana with MC Cunningham; Hana with Myrle Walker in museum; man sleeping on bench.	Elderly man and woman showing man behind desk a framed document.	Patients at Norton State Hospital.	Street scenes of Hays; Paul Young visits farm of Harold Kraus; woman outside store in Norton.
Gary Hana helping the elderly, a woman with a young boy, and three women at the Norton Courthouse.	Younger man with glasses and older man wearing overalls speaking to man behind desk.	Barns, young man with pitchfork and older man.	Paul Young visits the farm of R.E. Ekey; Social Security representative visits woman in Norton; street scenes of Hays.
Older man in overalls and cap standing with hands on hips in shaded yard.

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