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Arthur Witman
Arthur Witman (1902–1991) was a news photographer with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and a distinguished spokesperson for his profession. Early career Born in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, Arthur Witman learned photography while serving in the U. S. Army Air Force, 1923–1927. On discharge, he worked five years photographing for Fairchild Aerial surveys in Texas, and teaching in Chanute, Illinois. St. Louis Post-Dispatch photographer In October 1932 he joined the ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'' as a photojournalist covering news and as photographer for the society pages for which he covered such events as the Veiled Prophet Ball and the Municipal Opera. In January 1939 in southern Missouri Witman documented hundreds of sharecroppers and their families who had been evicted from their homes and were camping, with their meagre worldly possessions, in the Missouri Bootheel and along the verges of rural Highway 61 in protest at their desperate plight. Missouri students and activists raised fund ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lebanon County, Pennsylvania
Lebanon County ( Pennsylvania Dutch: Lebanon Kaundi) is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2010 census, the population was 133,568. Its county seat is the city of Lebanon. The county was formed from portions of Dauphin and Lancaster counties in 1813, with minor boundary revisions in 1814 and 1821. Lebanon County comprises the Lebanon, Pennsylvania, metropolitan statistical, which is part of the Harrisburg–York–Lebanon combined statistical area. Lebanon is 72 miles northwest of Philadelphia, which is the nearest major city. Geography According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (0.2%) is water. Most of it is drained by the Swatara Creek into the Susquehanna River while some eastern portions are drained by the Tulpehocken Creek (which originates in the county near Myerstown) eastward into the Schuylkill River. It consists in large part of a valley. Climate The county has a hot-summer humid contine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |