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Farm Security Administration

Carter, Paul (1)

Front and side view of completed dwelling. Greenbelt, Maryland.
Carter, Paul
n.d.

Delano, Jack (3)

Home of FSA borrower, Greene, Co., GA
Delano, Jack
1941, printed 1978

Preacher & wife over pictures 20 years earlier, GA
Delano, Jack
1941, printed 1978

Sewing tobacco leaves to be hung for drying
Delano, Jack
1941, printed 1990

Evans, Walker (5)

Erosion near Jackson, Mississippi
Evans, Walker
March 1936

Victorian house. Easton, Pennsylvania
Evans, Walker
November 1935

Child's Grave, Hale County, Alabama
Evans, Walker
1936, printed 1971

Miners' Shack, Scott's Run Near Morgantown, West Virginia
Evans, Walker
1935

Kitchen Wall in Bud Field's Home, Hale County, Alabama
Evans, Walker
1936

Lange, Dorothea (19)

Dust bowl refugee in California. "We was starved out and we live on perhaps. We could maybe find a little work if we could afford to roll"
Lange, Dorothea
February 1936

Typical Teutonic farm wife and child of Mills, New Mexico, area. Client for resettlement
Lange, Dorothea
May 1935

Background photograph for Hightstown project. Play street for children. Sixth Street and Avenue C, New York City. The Solomon family who are to be resettled at Hightstown, live in this neighborhood[…]
Lange, Dorothea
June 1936

Texas Tenant Farmers Displaced by Power Farming / Displaced Tenant Farmers Goodlet, Hardeman Co., Texas
Lange, Dorothea
June 1937

Yazoo Delta, Mississippi
Lange, Dorothea
August 1938

Texas tenant farmer in California. Marysville Migrant Camp (R.A)
Lange, Dorothea
August 1935 [SFMOMA]

Grandmother of twenty-two children, from a farm in Oklahoma; eighty years old. Now living in camp on the outskirts of Bakersfield, California. "If you lose your pluck you lose the most there is in you - all you've got to live with"
Lange, Dorothea
November 1936 [LC]

Thirteen Million Unemployed Fill the Cities in the Early Thirties
Lange, Dorothea
1934

Filipinos Cutting Lettuce. Salinas, California
Lange, Dorothea
June 1935 [LOC] August 1938[OMCA]

Imperial Valley, California. Old Mexican laborer saying "I have worked all my life and all I have now is my broken body"
Lange, Dorothea
June 1935 [LOC], 1935 [verso]

Rural Georgia
Lange, Dorothea
1935 [Borhan], 1938 [OMCA]

Toward Los Angeles, California.
Lange, Dorothea
April 1936

Children of Oklahoma drought refugee in migratory camp in California
Lange, Dorothea
November 1936 [LOC]

Turpentine Worker's Family Near Cordele, Alabama
Lange, Dorothea
July 1938

A Sign of the Times—Depression—Mended Stockings, Stenographer, San Francisco
Lange, Dorothea
1934

Unknown
Lange, Dorothea
Unknown

Death in the Doorway. San Joaquin Valley, California
Lange, Dorothea
1938

Unknown
Lange, Dorothea
Unknown

Unknown
Lange, Dorothea
Unknown

Lee, Russell (8)

Lumberjacks using peaveys to remove logs from banks of Little Fork River. Near Littlefork, Minnesota
Lee, Russell
May 1937

Dining nook in the model house at Greendale, Wisconsin
Lee, Russell
1937

Levee worker during the flood, on a raw day with a thirty-mile wind. These men are very cold and almost exhausted from constant work
Lee, Russell
January 1937

A backyard in Maunie, Illinois, after the flood
Lee, Russell
February 1937

A child flood refugee taking a nap. Tent City near Shawneetown, Illinois
Lee, Russell
1937

An organ deposited by the flood on a farm near Mount Vernon, Indiana
Lee, Russell
February 1937

Cupboard in Eldorado, Illinois residence
Lee, Russell
April 1937

Damage done during the 1937 flood near Shawneetown, Illinois
Lee, Russell
April 1937

Locke, Edwin (1)

A boy at mealtime in the camp for white refugees from the flood, Forrest City, Arkansas
Locke, Edwin
n.d.

Mydans, Carl (8)

Pig asleep, Prince George's County, Maryland
Mydans, Carl
August 1935

Slums near the Capitol, Washington, D.C. With the Capitol clearly in view, these houses exist under the most unsanitary conditions; outside privies, no inside water supply and overcrowded conditions
Mydans, Carl
July 1935

Slums. Washington, D.C.
Mydans, Carl
November 1935

Untitled
Mydans, Carl
November 1935

Interior of Mt. Gilead (colored) school on area of Plantation Piedmont agricultural demonstration project. Near Eatonton, Georgia
Mydans, Carl
June-July 1936

View of alley in Northwest Washington, behind North Capitol Street. Blake School in background
Mydans, Carl
November 1935

Typical slum privy. The only available water supply is usually nearby, Washington, D.C.
Mydans, Carl
1935

Untitled
Mydans, Carl
1935

Rothstein, Arthur (8)

Erosion. Stewart County, Georgia
Rothstein, Arthur
1937

Fence almost completely buried under drifts of soil. Near Liberal, Kansas
Rothstein, Arthur
1937

Blackened stumps of trees and ugly snags cover the slopes leading to Mount Hood, Oregon
Rothstein, Arthur
October 1935

Western hospitality. Near Chadron, Nebraska.
Rothstein, Arthur
May 1936

Typical submarginal farm on project near Newport, Washington
Rothstein, Arthur
1935

Farmer of Franklin County, Kansas
Rothstein, Arthur
May 1936

Home of a mountain family who will be resettled on new land. Shenandoah National Park, Virginia
Rothstein, Arthur
October 1935

The Capitol of the United States, Washington, D.C.
Rothstein, Arthur
November 1936

Shahn, Ben (3)

Home of sharecroppers, Arkansas
Shahn, Ben
n.d.

Boone County, Arkansas. The family of a Resettlement Administration client in the doorway of their home
Shahn, Ben
1935

Colored sharecropper family living in Little Rock, Arkansas
Shahn, Ben
n.d.

Unknown (8)

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Unknown
n.d.

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Unknown
n.d.

South Carolina Negro and Crude Ox-Drawn Wagon
Unknown
n.d.

Unknown
Unknown
n.d.

Unknown
Unknown
n.d.

Unknown
Unknown
n.d.

Unknown
Unknown
n.d.

The parents of seven children. Flood refugees in Tent City, camp near Shawneetown, Illinois
Unknown
April 1937

Vachon, John (2)

Greenbelt, Maryland
Vachon, John
n.d.

Greenbelt, Maryland
Vachon, John
n.d.

Wolcott, Marion Post (2)

Alabama, March
Wolcott, Marion Post
1939

Sarasota Trailer Park, guests, Fla., Jan. '41
Wolcott, Marion Post
1941