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Entrance to a movie house, Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee, October 1939.

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Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The FSA (Farm Security Administration) is famous for its well known influential photography program that portrayed the challenges of rural poverty. Creating false perceptions of individuals (A prime example of situational manipulation), photographers were hired to report and document the plight of poor farmers. In 1935–44, eleven photographers would come to work on this project. They were: Arthur Rothstein, Theo Jung, Ben Shahn, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Carl Mydans, Russell Lee, Marion Post Wolcott, Jack Delano, John Vachon, and John Collier. In total, the black-and-white portion of the collection consists of about 175,000 black-and-white film negatives.

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tennessee african americans city town life motion picture theaters beale street memphis tenn motion picture audiences schomburg center for research in black culture photographs and prints division farm security administration collection movie house beale street united states farm security administration sponsor wolcott marion post 1910 1990 photographer city and town life gelatin silver prints entrance movie house beale street memphis farm security administration great depression photographs great depression images black history month black history month ultra high resolution high resolution nypl tennessee history
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1939
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United States. Farm Security Administration, Sponsor
Wolcott, Marion Post (1910-1990), Photographer
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America, 1930s

Photographs of Farm Security Administration
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New York Public Library
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http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/
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Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication ("CCO 1.0 Dedication")

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tennessee african americans city town life motion picture theaters beale street memphis tenn motion picture audiences schomburg center for research in black culture photographs and prints division farm security administration collection movie house beale street united states farm security administration sponsor wolcott marion post 1910 1990 photographer city and town life gelatin silver prints entrance movie house beale street memphis farm security administration great depression photographs great depression images black history month black history month ultra high resolution high resolution nypl tennessee history