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Farm Security Administration photograph collection.
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Title:
Farm Security Administration photograph collectionCreator/Contributor:
United States, Farm Security Administration., creatorCreator/Contributor:
Lange, Dorothea.Creator/Contributor:
Rothstein, Arthur, 1915-1985Creator/Contributor:
Evans, Walker, 1903-1975Creator/Contributor:
Lee, Russell, 1903-1986Creator/Contributor:
Vachon, John, 1914-1975Creator/Contributor:
Delano, Jack.Creator/Contributor:
Winebrenner, Dolph.Creator/Contributor:
Albee, Ernest.Creator/Contributor:
Relander, Click.Creator/Contributor:
Wilson, Monte, photographerCreator/Contributor:
United States, Resettlement Administration.Creator/Contributor:
United States, Farm Security Administration., Regional Office IX (San Francisco)Abstract:
Photographs document depression-era conditions in the American South, Midwest, Southwest, and California, including the impact
of drought and the living conditions of agricultural laborers. Westward migration, migrant living conditions, strikes, FSA
migratory labor camps in Arizona and California, Farm Associations, World War Two defense housing, and Mexican laborers. A
few images of the Japanese American relocation during World War Two are also present.
Date:
1935-1945 (issued)Subject:
n-us---Migrant labor -- United States -- Photographs
Labor camps -- California -- Photographs
Labor camps -- Arizona -- Photographs
Depressions -- 1929 -- United States -- Photographs
Agricultural laborers -- United States -- Photographs
Migration, Internal -- United States -- Photographs
Strikes and lockouts -- Agricultural laborers -- California -- Photographs
Migrant agricultural laborers -- United States -- Photographs
Travailleurs migrants -- États-Unis -- Photographies
Abris pour travailleurs -- Californie -- Photographies
Crises économiques -- 1929 -- États-Unis -- Photographies
Travailleurs agricoles -- États-Unis -- Photographies
Grèves et lock-out -- Travailleurs agricoles -- Californie -- Photographies
Travailleurs agricoles migrants -- États-Unis -- Photographies
Agricultural laborers
Depressions
Labor camps
Migrant agricultural laborers
Migrant labor
Migration, Internal
Strikes and lockouts -- Agricultural laborers
Arizona
California
United States
United States. -- Farm Security Administration -- Pictorial works
United States. -- Farm Security Administration
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
Photographs by FSA photographers including Dorothea Lange, Arthur Rothstein, Walker Evans, Russell Lee, Ernest Albee, John
Vachon, Jack Delano, Dolph Winebrenner, Click Relander, Monte Wilson, and others, including many unidentified. The majority
are by Lange, Rothstein, and Lee, with significant numbers by Albee, Winebrenner, and Relander.
Includes some photographs taken under the auspices of the Resettlement Administration, predecessor to the Farm Security Administration.
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Transferred from: United States, Farm Security Administration, Regional Office IX, San Francisco records (BANC MSS C-R 1).
These records were formerly known by the Bancroft Library title: Farm Security Administration, Regional Office IX, San Francisco
records.
Preliminary finding aid available in the library.
Type:
graphicPhotographs.
Pictorial works.
Physical Description:
photoprint
8 boxes, 3 oversize boxes, and 1 oversize folder (approximately 960 photographic prints) and 71 negatives : gelatin silver
prints ; chiefly 8 x 10 in.
Language:
English
Origin:
United StatesCopyright Note:
NITRATE NEGATIVES: CLOSED TO RESEARCH DUE TO HAZARDOUS MATERIALS RESTRICTIONS.