FSA Archives

FSA COLLECTION:“Mexican Workers Recruited”(1943)

“Mexican workers recruited and brought to the Arkansas Valley,Colorado,Nebraska and Minnesota by the FSA (Farm Security Administration),MORE

FSA:BEN SHAHN – “We Cater to White Trade Only”,Lancaster,Ohio,August,1938

Sign on restaurant,Lancaster,Ohio.

August,1938

Lancaster is a very prosperous town,the county seat of Fairfield County,which is considered to MORE

NYPL COLLECTION:“Domestic Servants”(1939)

Domestic servants waiting for street car on way early in the morning. Mitchell Street,Atlanta,Georgia,May 1939.

Photographer:Marion Wolcott Post

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FSA:ESTHER BUBLEY – Louisville,Kentucky (1943)

A rest stop for Greyhound bus passengers on the way from Louisville,Kentucky,to Nashville,Tennessee,with separate accommodations for colored passengers.

September,1943

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FSA:ESTHER BUBLEY – Rome,Georgia (1943)

A Greyhound bus trip from Louisville,Kentucky,to Memphis,Tennessee,and the terminals. Sign at bus station. Rome,Georgia.

September,1943

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FSA:SHELDON DICK – Lancaster County,Pennsylvania (1938)

Lancaster County or vicinity,Pennsylvania. Various uncaptioned rural scenes,signs,etc..

May,1938

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FSA:ARTHUR ROTHSTEIN – Kaufman County,Texas (1936)

Stock watering hole almost completely covered by shifting topsoil. Cimarron County,Oklahoma.

April,1936

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FSA:ARTHUR ROTHSTEIN – Kaufman County,Texas (1936)

Plantation owner’s daughter checks weight of cotton. Kaufman County,Texas.

July –August,1936

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FSA:ARTHUR ROTHSTEIN – Saint Louis,Missouri (1936)

A hobo “jungle”along riverfront. Saint Louis,Missouri.

March,1936

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FSA:ARTHUR ROTHSTEIN – Skyline Farms,Alabama (1937)

Farmer after shopping trip. Skyline Farms,Alabama.

February,1937

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FSA:ARTHUR ROTHSTEIN – Cambria,Illinois (1939)

Evangelist preaching sermon. Pentecostal church,Cambria,Illinois.

January,1939

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FSA COLLECTION:Arthur Rothstein – “New Madrid County,Missouri”(1939)

New Madrid spillway where evicted sharecroppers were moved from highway,New Madrid County,Missouri.

January,1939

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ARTHUR ROTHSTEIN:“Knox County,Tennessee”(1942)

Knox County,Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Mrs. Robert Bacon,farm wife,with some of her electric appliances –fan,ironer,radio.

June,1942

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ARTHUR ROTHSTEIN:“Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania”(1938)

Homemade swimming pool for steelworkers’children,Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania.

July,1938

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FSA:ARTHUR ROTHSTEIN – Aliquippa,Pennsylvania (1938)

A group of steelworkers discussing politics,Aliquippa,Pennsylvania.

July,1938

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FSA:ARTHUR ROTHSTEIN – Gees Bend,Alabama,April,1937

Drawing water from well. Gees Bend,Alabama.

April,1937

Gee’s Bend,also known as Boykin,is a very poor tenant community in Alabama,United States MORE

FSA:ARTHUR ROTHSTEIN – Saint Louis,Missouri,March,1936

Children’s playground. Saint Louis,Missouri.

March,1936

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FSA:ARTHUR ROTHSTEIN – Badlands,South Dakota,May,1936

The bleached skull of a steer on the dry sun-baked earth of the South Dakota Badlands.

May,1936

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FSA:ARTHUR ROTHSTEIN – Florence,Alabama,June,1942

Florence,Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Gordon Williams,electrician at Wilson Dam,lives in this demountable prefabricated defense house at Florence,Alabama.

June,1942

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FSA:ARTHUR ROTHSTEIN –New Madrid County,Missouri,January,1939

Evicted sharecroppers along Highway 60,New Madrid County,Missouri.

January,1939

New Madrid County is a county located in the Bootheel of Southeast Missouri in MORE

FSA:ARTHUR ROTHSTEIN –January,1939

Evicted sharecroppers on Highway 60,New Madrid County,Missouri.

January,1939

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FSA:BEN SHAHN –Marysville,Ohio,Summer,1938

Street scene,Marysville,Ohio.

Summer,1938

Marysville was originally part of Northwest Territory,and then became part of the Virginia Military District within that territory,MORE

FSA:BEN SHAHN –October,1935

Medicine show,Huntingdon,Tennessee.

October,1935

BEN SHAHN:“Summer”,(1938)

Circus poster,Circleville,Ohio.

Summer,1938

Circleville,county seat of Pickaway County. Average small Ohio city,depending upon surrounding rich farmlands for its livelihood. Because MORE

CARL MYDANS:“Lewis Hinter and Family”(1936)

Lewis Hinter,Negro client with his family on Lady’s Island off Beaufort,South Carolina.

June-July,1936

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FSA:DOROTHEA LANGE –July,1939

Daughter of Negro sharecropper goes up and down the rows “worming”the tobacco. Wake County,North Carolina.

July,1939

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FSA:DOROTHEA LANGE –November,1936

Children of Oklahoma drought refugee in migratory camp in California.

November,1936

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FSA:DOROTHEA LANGE –February,1939

Colored family from near Houston,Texas. Been in California for two years. Husband came first,later sent for wife and two children,who traveled by MORE

FSA COLLECTION:Dorothea Lange –“Child living in Oklahoma City shacktown”(1936)

Child living in Oklahoma City shacktown.

August,1936

Soon Available as 12″x 12″Museum Quality Matte Print

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RUSSELL LEE:"Pie Town,New Mexico"(1940)

Jim Norris,homesteader,Pie Town,New Mexico. October,1940.

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