1. The doctor saved his life by dunking him in a tub of iced water.
2. Gordon was born in Kansas.
3. She told him that few blacks went to college because they would just be porters and maids anyways.
4. Gordon was 15 when his mother died.
5. Gordon moved to his sister's house in Minnesota.
6. Gordon never went to college or passed high school, but he received an honorary degree from Princeton University.
7. He walked into a clothes store because he became cocky from his previous photography success and asked if he could take fashion photos. His fashion career was short lived though.
8. A double exposure is a repeated exposure of a photo plate to light which produces ghost images that ruin the original picture.
9. The husband of the woman who told Gordon to go to Chicago.
10. Gordon played the piano.
11. The Farm Security Administration's job was to document the hardships and poverty of farmers and other farm workers in the Great Depression.
12, His first assignment was to put his camera away, go to a nearby store to buy a coat, then go to a fancy restaurant, and finally go watch a movie at a cinema.
13. Ella Watson was the cleaning lady at the Farm Security Administration office who Gordon took pictures of in front of the American flag.
14. Grant Wood was visiting the town of Eldon in Iowa and saw a Gothic style house. He was inspired by Flemish renaissance art.
15. Gordon learned from Stryker not to take pictures that are too provocative or that go against the state.
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