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| Format | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Schwarzenbach, Annemarie |
| Title, Analytic | Schwarzenbach’s Dark End of the Street in Washington |
| Journal Title | Swiss American Historical Society Review |
| Date of Publication | Nov. 2024 |
| Volume ID | 60 |
| Issue ID | 3 |
| Location in Work | 66-75, ill. |
| URL | https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/sahs_review/vol60/iss3/6/ |
| Notes | First published in National-Zeitung, on November 11, 1936. Translated by Padraig Rooney. |
| Abstract | Annemarie Schwarzenbach wrote this piece about Washington, D.C. shortly after her arrival in the city in late August 1936. She stayed on Waterside Drive at the home of Elizabeth Washburn Wright, the widow of Dr. Hamilton Wright, a specialist in tropical medicine but also a government-appointed anti-drug crusader in the battle against Chinese opium. As a morphine addict, Annemarie was hiding in plain sight. In September, with their daughter, Barbara Hamilton Wright (‘Baa’), Annemarie travelled a thousand miles north to Livingston Falls in Maine, homestead of the illustrious Washburn family to which Baa belonged, where early voting was slated for Franklin D. Roosevelt’s election to a second term as President. Baa was part of a team of some thirty photographers under Roy Stryker, in charge of documentary photography at the Resettlement Administration, later renamed the Farm Security Administration (FSA). |
| Call Number | MKI Periodicals |
| MKI Terms | African Americans/ Swiss Americans/ Washington, DC -- History/ Schwarzenbach, Annemarie, 1908-1942/ United States -- Social conditions -- History |