FSA-OWI Photos

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1) FSA (Farm Security Administration) client with mules, near Morganza, Louisiana, Lee, Russell, Photographer, 1938, November. LC-USF33-011904-M3

2) Negro farmer, Greene County, Alabama, Delano, Jack, Photographer, 1941, May. LC-USF33-020946-M4

3) Mexican boy with goat, Crystal City, Texas, Lee, Russell, Photographer, 1939, March. LC-USF33-012103-M1

4) Nipomo, Calif. Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged 32, the father is a native Californian. Destitute in a pea pickers camp, because of the failure of the early pea crop. These people had just sold their tent in order to buy food. Most of the 2,500 people in this camp were destitute., Lange, Dorothea, Photographer, 1936, March. LC-USF34-9093-C

5) Painting the American insignia on airplane wings is a job that Mrs. Irma Lee McElroy, a former office worker, does with precision and patriotic zeal, Hollem, Howard R., photographer, 1942 August. LC-USW361-387

6) Bean fields, Seabrook Farm, Bridgeton, N.J., Collier, John, photographer, 1942 June. LC-USF35-555


FSA-OWI B&W Photos