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Bosque Farms Project. Resettled families temporary home. Each settler is alotted a plot of 40 acres.

Southeast Missouri Farms. Old oak felled on the project. This region formerly had great quantities of such timber

Southeast Missouri Farms. Part of attic bedroom, sharecropper's shack. La Forge project, Missouri

Old copy of El Paso Morning Times, about 1914, describing advantages of Elephant Butte Dam project and agricultural possibilities of Las Cruces and Mesilla Valley under irrigation

Remains of sawmill in Fullerton, Louisiana. An abandoned lumber town

The barn of an older settler on established farm. Boundary County, Idaho. General caption 49

The old pump, Laurel Hill cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.

View of Vegetable Garden at Old Town below Stockton Hill. Also showing lands that where flooded in the Storm of 1862.

Josh Taylor, Negro Foreman who has been on place for fifty three years, Knowlton Plantation, Perthshire, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi.

Old slave quarters on one of the plantations which is now part of La Delta Project, Thomastown, La., June 1940.

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Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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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louisiana gardening african american women african american farmers slaves dwellings madison parish la schomburg center for research in black culture photographs and prints division farm security administration collection old slave quarters la delta project united states farm security administration sponsor wolcott marion post 1910 1990 photographer gelatin silver prints old slave quarters plantations part delta project thomastown farm security administration great depression photographs great depression slave quarters black history slavery ultra high resolution high resolution new york public library
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1940
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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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Pier plant. Placing perforated steel reinforcing strips in pier forms. They will project top and bottom. Southeast Missouri Farms Project

Cedar rail fence at Wilson Cedar Forest Project near Lebanon, Tennessee.

A crew of 200 hoers were brought to the Aldridge Plantation to hoe cotton for one dollar a day. Many of these are ex-tenant farmers [Near Leland, Miss.]

Shipping cotton by rail; Cars near vast cotton - growing districts being loaded with bales bound for the great manufacturing centers.

All I wants is ma chickens - Public domain sheet music scan

A plantation scene in South Carolina.

Plantation scene. Folks all home. African Americans, 19th century stereoscope card.

Pine trees almost girdled by boxing on Poinsett, Forest Agricultural Demonstration Project, near Sumter, South Carolina.

Picking cotton. [Woman resting in the field.]

A twenty-acre alfalfa demonstration on J.B. Andrews' farm, Roanoke County, Va. The yield was from four and one half to five tons per acre.

Head quarters of the Christian Commission, Richmond, Va.

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

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louisiana gardening african american women african american farmers slaves dwellings madison parish la schomburg center for research in black culture photographs and prints division farm security administration collection old slave quarters la delta project united states farm security administration sponsor wolcott marion post 1910 1990 photographer gelatin silver prints old slave quarters plantations part delta project thomastown farm security administration great depression photographs great depression slave quarters black history slavery ultra high resolution high resolution new york public library