Farm Security Administration photographs

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Farm Security Administration photographs are a renowned body of documentary images from the 1930s and early 1940s that vividly captured the hardships of the Great Depression and rural American life.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf United States government work
documentary photography project
photographic collection
aimedAt building public support for New Deal policies
archiveAt Library of Congress
Prints and Photographs Division
surface form: Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress
commissionedBy Farm Security Administration
United States government
surface form: United States federal government
continuedAs Office of War Information photography project
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
curatedBy Roy Stryker
depicts Dust Bowl migrants
Great Depression
surface form: Great Depression in the United States

New Deal programs
poverty in the United States
rural life in the United States
sharecroppers
tenant farmers
endTime 1944
genre documentary photography
photojournalism
hasPart Office of War Information photographs
hasPhotographer Arthur Rothstein
Ben Shahn
Carl Mydans
Dorothea Lange
Esther Bubley
Gordon Parks
Jack Delano
John Vachon
Marion Post Wolcott
Russell Lee
Walker Evans
inception Resettlement Administration
surface form: Resettlement Administration photography project
influenced American documentary photography
photojournalism in the United States
language English
license public domain
medium black-and-white photography
color photography
notableWork Allie Mae Burroughs portraits
Migrant Mother
numberOfItems over 170000
organizedBy Roy Stryker
partOf Farm Security Administration
startTime 1935
subject child labor and child poverty
economic hardship
farm labor and agricultural work
race relations in the United States
rural housing conditions

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Dorothea Lange knownFor Farm Security Administration photographs
Arthur Rothstein participantIn Farm Security Administration photographs
this entity surface form: Farm Security Administration photography project
Lee Russell notableWork Farm Security Administration photographs
this entity surface form: Farm Security Administration photography
Lee Russell participatedIn Farm Security Administration photographs
this entity surface form: Farm Security Administration photography project
Walker Evans notableWork Farm Security Administration photographs
this entity surface form: FSA sharecropper portraits
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (photographs by Walker Evans) associatedWith Farm Security Administration photographs
this entity surface form: Farm Security Administration photography
Russell Lee notableWork Farm Security Administration photographs
this entity surface form: Farm Security Administration documentary photographs
Russell Lee participatedIn Farm Security Administration photographs
this entity surface form: Farm Security Administration photography project
Russell Lee partOf Farm Security Administration photographs
this entity surface form: Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information photographic collection
Russell Lee hasCollectionIn Farm Security Administration photographs
this entity surface form: Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Photograph Collection at the Library of Congress
Carl Mydans workedOn Farm Security Administration photographs
this entity surface form: Farm Security Administration documentary project
John Ferrell partOf Farm Security Administration photographs
this entity surface form: Farm Security Administration–Office of War Information photographic project
Edwin Rosskam notableWork Farm Security Administration photographs
this entity surface form: Farm Security Administration photography
Paul Carter notableWork Farm Security Administration photographs
this entity surface form: Farm Security Administration documentary photography project
Paul Carter participatedIn Farm Security Administration photographs
this entity surface form: Farm Security Administration documentary project
Theodor Jung notableWork Farm Security Administration photographs
this entity surface form: Farm Security Administration photography
Theodor Jung participatedIn Farm Security Administration photographs
this entity surface form: Farm Security Administration photography project
Theodor Jung partOf Farm Security Administration photographs
this entity surface form: Farm Security Administration–Office of War Information photographic collection
Marion Post Wolcott notableWork Farm Security Administration photographs
this entity surface form: Farm Security Administration photographs of the American South
Marion Post Wolcott describedBySource Farm Security Administration photographs
this entity surface form: Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection
Martha McMillan Roberts partOf Farm Security Administration photographs
this entity surface form: Farm Security Administration photography project
Standard Oil documentary photography project predecessor Farm Security Administration photographs
this entity surface form: Farm Security Administration photography project
Standard Oil documentary photography project inspiredBy Farm Security Administration photographs
this entity surface form: Farm Security Administration photography project
Roy Emerson Stryker partOf Farm Security Administration photographs
this entity surface form: Farm Security Administration documentary photography project
Migrant Mother partOf Farm Security Administration photographs
this entity surface form: Farm Security Administration photography project
Oklahoma dust storm photograph partOf Farm Security Administration photographs
this entity surface form: Farm Security Administration photography project
Great Depression documentation projects hasPart Farm Security Administration photographs
this entity surface form: Farm Security Administration photography project
Great Depression documentation projects hasPart Farm Security Administration photographs
this entity surface form: Farm Security Administration–Office of War Information Collection
Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn knownFor Farm Security Administration photographs
this entity surface form: Farm Security Administration photography
Jacob Ovcharov partOf Farm Security Administration photographs
subject surface form: Jack Delano
this entity surface form: Farm Security Administration photography project