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Migrants getting truck ready to leave Belcross, N.C. for Onley, Va., July 1940.

Women being transported from Memphis, Tennessee to an Arkansas plantation, July 1937.

Florida migrants getting aboard the truck which will take them from Belcross, NC to another job in Onley, VA, July 1940.

Migratory agricultural worker checking out of the Agua Fria migratory labor camp. Arizona

FSA camp for migratory agricultural workers, Farmersville, California. Meeting of the camp council. 1939

Migratory laborers cutting celery, Belle Glade, Florida, January 1941.

Veteran migrant agricultural worker examining contents of his trunk, camped on Arkansas River in Wagoner County, Oklahoma

Veteran migrant agricultural worker with his daughter camped on Arkansas River, Wagon County, Oklahoma

Newly-arrived farm workers talking to the Idaho state employment representative at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) migratory labor camp mobile unit. Wilder, Idaho

Migratory agricultural workers on board the "Princess Anne" going to the Eastern Shore Virginia, July 1940.

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Summary

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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virginia african american agricultural laborers migrant laborers schomburg center for research in black culture photographs and prints division farm security administration collection eastern shore virginia princess anne united states farm security administration sponsor delano jack photographer gelatin silver prints migratory workers board princess anne eastern shore farm security administration great depression photographs great depression ultra high resolution high resolution photography new york public library
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Date

1940 - 1949
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Contributors

United States. Farm Security Administration, Sponsor
Delano, Jack, Photographer
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America, 1930s

Photographs of Farm Security Administration
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Source

New York Public Library
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Link

http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/
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Copyright info

Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication ("CCO 1.0 Dedication")

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Anne (or possibly Janneton) Auretti.

Blacksmith shop, Southern Paper Mill construction shed, Lufkin, Texas

Floor of milking house is swept between each group of cows milked. Large dairy, Tom Green County, Texas

Calipatria, Imperial Valley. Feb. 1939. F.S.A. migratory labor camp (emergency)

Olive pulp under hydraulic pressure for extraction of oil. Lindsay, California

Sheep shearers on ranch in Malheur County, Oregon. The cord around the waist of man on right is used to sew up the sacks which contain wool. These sheep shearers travel in outfit of which man on left is boss, has about twenty members

Negro girls and women employed in a lamp-shade factory

Grading, wrapping and packing pears at Hood River, Oregon. 6,500,000 boxes of freshly packed fruit are shipped from Hood River annually

Migrant oil worker near Odessa, Texas

Rachel D. Moore, home management supervisor, giving demonstration in dusting plants from insects to Caldoria Smith; La Delta Project, Thomastown, La., June 1940.

Abandoned mine showing how prop timber is used to support roofs of tunnels, Scranton, Pa., U.S.A.

Queen Anne. - Public domain portrait print

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virginia african american agricultural laborers migrant laborers schomburg center for research in black culture photographs and prints division farm security administration collection eastern shore virginia princess anne united states farm security administration sponsor delano jack photographer gelatin silver prints migratory workers board princess anne eastern shore farm security administration great depression photographs great depression ultra high resolution high resolution photography new york public library