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Born out of farmers’ frustration with the New Deal agricultural policy, the Farm Security Administration (FSA) began in 1935 as the Resettlement Administration with the goal of initiating “rural rehabilitation” efforts for farmers impacted by the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. By 1937, the agency transformed into the Farm Security Administration. Within its Information Division, economics professor and Chief of the Historical Section Roy Stryker headed the agency’s documentary photography initiative, capturing the experience of rural life and the working class. With the onset of World War II, the agency again transitioned to the Office of War Information (OWI) in 1942 to photograph military operations and American industry’s transition to wartime production. During its run, the agency employed eleven photographers including Dorothea Lange, Arthur Rothstein, and Marion Post Wolcott. By the time the agency disbanded in 1945, it captured 270,000 photographs, solidifying the initiative as one of the most robust governmental investments in public art.

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Title Artist Medium & Support Creation Date
In Main Street, Cascade   Lee, Russell   Dye transfer print  1941 
Commuters, Lowell, Mass   Delano, Jack   Dye transfer print  1941 
Steel Mills, Midland, PA   Delano, Jack   Dye Transfer Print  1941 
Vegetable workers, migrants, waiting after work to be paid. Near Homestead, Florida   Wolcott, Marion Post   Gelatin silver print on paper  1939 
Migrant agricultural workers waiting in line behind truck in the field, for pay for day’s week. Near Belle Glade, Florida   Wolcott, Marion Post   Gelatin silver print on paper  1939 
Saw mill workers organizing into C.I.O union. Whitwell, Tennessee   Wolcott, Marion Post   Gelatin silver print on paper  c. 1940s 
Haircutting in front of general store, Marcella Plantation. Mileston, Mississippi   Wolcott, Marion Post   Gelatin silver print on paper  1939 
Tenant farmer’s children, the younger one with rickets from malnutrition. Near Wadesboro, North Carolina   Wolcott, Marion Post   Gelatin silver print on paper  1938 
Mosquito Crossing, Near Greensboro, Georgia   Wolcott, Marion Post   Gelatin silver print on paper  1939 
Coal miner’s daughter carrying home can of kerosene to be used in oil lamps. Pursglove, Scott’s Run, West Virginia   Wolcott, Marion Post   Gelatin silver print on paper  1938 
Negro using outside stairway for “colored” to enter movie theatre. Belzoni, Mississippi   Wolcott, Marion Post   Gelatin silver print on paper  1939 
A Negro family on the porch of their home. Natchitoches, Louisiana   Wolcott, Marion Post   Gelatin silver print on paper  1940 
Oldest child of migrant packing-house workers preparing supper. Her parents work during the day and sometimes until 2 a.m. The children are left alone. New Homestead, Florida   Wolcott, Marion Post   Gelatin silver print on paper  1939 
Oregon or bust, Highway 10, Montana, 1936   Rothstein, Arthur   Gelatin silver print on paper  1936, printed later 
Dust Storm, Cimarron County, Oklahoma   Rothstein, Arthur   Gelatin silver print on paper  1936, printed later 
Fort Loudon Dam, Tennessee   Rothstein, Arthur   Gelatin silver print on paper  1942, printed later 
Gee’s Bend, Alabama   Rothstein, Arthur   Gelatin silver print on paper  1937, printed later 
Squatters along highway near Bakersfield, CA. Penniless refugees from the Dust Bowl.   Lange, Dorothea   Photographic materials on paper  1935 
Baptism in Triplett Creek   Wolcott, Marion Post   Silver gelatin print on paper  1940 
Spanish trapper hanging muskrats up to dry their fur before skinning. Stretching and drying the pelt follows this. His camp is in the marshes nearby. Delacroix Island, Saint Bernard Parish, Louisiana   Wolcott, Marion Post   Silver gelatin print on paper  1941 

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