Historical Section (photography unit)

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The Historical Section (photography unit) was a government photography project that documented American rural life and New Deal resettlement efforts during the 1930s, producing many iconic images of the Great Depression.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf documentary photography program
government photography project
country United States
focusesOn farm families
resettlement communities
rural poverty
genre documentary photography
goal document conditions of American rural life
publicize New Deal resettlement programs
hasActivity documentary photography
resettlement documentation
rural documentation
historicalContext Great Depression
New Deal era
language English
locatedIn United States
mainSubject American rural life
Great Depression in the United States
New Deal resettlement efforts
medium photography
notableFor creating widely reproduced documentary photographs of the 1930s United States
operatedBy U.S. federal government
partOf New Deal programs
produced iconic images of the Great Depression
timePeriod 1930s

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Resettlement Administration
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