Swiss American Historical Society Review
Abstract
First published in National-Zeitung, on November 11, 1936.
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).
Recommended Citation
Schwarzenbach, Annemarie and Rooney, Padraig , translator
(2024)
"Schwarzenbach’s Dark End of the Street in Washington,"
Swiss American Historical Society Review: Vol. 60:
No.
3, Article 6.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/sahs_review/vol60/iss3/6
