The images in the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection are among the most famous documentary photographs ever produced. Created by a group of U.S. government photographers, the images show Americans in every part of the nation. In the early years, the project emphasized rural life and the negative impact of the Great Depression, farm mechanization, and the Dust Bowl.

The Library of Congress American Folklife Center, Library of Congress Search by Keywords | Browse by Song Text | Audio Titles | Photographs | Performers/Interviewees Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection is an online presentation of a multi-format ethnographic field collection documenting the everyday life of residents of Farm Security ...

FSA B&W Photos Documenting America P H O T O G R A P H I C S E R I E S Ben Shahn 1 C O T T O N P I C K E R S John Vachon 2 O M A H A Dorothea Lange 3 M I G R A N T W O R K E R S Walker Evans 4 N E W Y O R K C I T Y B L O C K Arthur Rothstein 5 T E N A N T F A R M E R S Arthur Rothstein 6 F S A M I G R A T O R Y L A B O R C A M P Gordon Parks 7 E L L A W A T S O N, U. S. G O V E R N M E N T C H A ...

EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY Documentary Photography and the Great Depression From 1935 to 1943, photographers working for the federal government produced the most enduring images of the Great Depression. Beginning under the auspices of the Resettlement Administration in 1935 and then the Farm Security Administration (FSA) in 1937, a group that over time included about twenty men and women worked ...

The Photographers: Roy E. Stryker (1893-1975) Roy Stryker was born November 5, 1893 in Great Bend, Kansas. He grew up on a farm in Montrose, Colorado where his populist father instilled in him a great respect for the land and the people who worked it. After serving in the infantry in World War I, Stryker went on to study economics at Columbia University. After graduating in 1924, he remained to ...

ROY E. STRYKER COLLECTIONS University of Louisville Special Collections The Roy Stryker Papers Best known as the man who directed the taking of over 150, 000 photographs for the Farm Security Administration during the New Deal era, Roy Stryker (1893-1975) is one of the most prominent figures in the development of American documentary photography. In addition to the Farm Security Administration ...

Home Photo Gallery Classroom Documents PHOTO NOTES Publishing Information The Farm Security Administration Reviewed by Robert Disraeli May 1940 I am not much of an exhibition visitor. Many exhibition pictures are well done technically, but the trite contents and the imitative approaches bore me. A ho-hum is about all one can say after seeing these displays of photographic bromides. They do not ...

Publishing Information You Have Seen Their Pictures by HARTLEY E. HOWE Government photography, focused on the somber side of rural America, has produced some of the most vivid human documents of our times. Here is the story of the photographic section of the Farm Security Administration, told by a writer who knows the men and women behind the cameras. FARM SECURITY ADMINISTRATION PHOTOGRAPHS ...