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Working on the county maps at the colored County Land Use Planning Committee Meeting in the school house in Yanceyville, Caswell County, N.C. William L. Gilmore, teacher in Caswell County Training School, is Secretary of meeting. Oct 1940.

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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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north carolina african american men meetings yanceyville n c land use granville county n c schomburg center for research in black culture photographs and prints division farm security administration collection caswell county county maps county land school house united states farm security administration sponsor wolcott marion post 1910 1990 photographer yanceyville nc granville county nc gelatin silver prints maps land committee house yanceyville caswell william gilmore teacher secretary farm security administration great depression photographs great depression railways railroads ultra high resolution high resolution training school portrait photographs 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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north carolina african american men meetings yanceyville n c land use granville county n c schomburg center for research in black culture photographs and prints division farm security administration collection caswell county county maps county land school house united states farm security administration sponsor wolcott marion post 1910 1990 photographer yanceyville nc granville county nc gelatin silver prints maps land committee house yanceyville caswell william gilmore teacher secretary farm security administration great depression photographs great depression railways railroads ultra high resolution high resolution training school portrait photographs new york public library