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Farm Security Administration photograph collection [graphic].
BANC PIC 1942.008--PIC box 1; BANC PIC 1942.008--PIC box 2; BANC PIC 1942.008--PIC box 3; BANC PIC 1942.008--PIC box 4; ...
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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, 1914-1997Creator/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., Region IX.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---United States. -- Farm Security Administration -- Pictorial works
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
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.
NITRATE NEGATIVES: CLOSED TO RESEARCH DUE TO HAZARDOUS MATERIALS RESTRICTIONS.
Preliminary finding aid available in the library.
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.
Type:
graphicPhysical Description:
graphic
photoprint
8 boxes, 3 oversize boxes, and 1 oversize folder (ca. 960 photographic prints) and 71 negatives : gelatin silver prints ;
chiefly 8 x 10 in.
Language:
English
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1942.008--PIC box 1
BANC PIC 1942.008--PIC box 2
BANC PIC 1942.008--PIC box 3
BANC PIC 1942.008--PIC box 4
BANC PIC 1942.008--PIC box 5
BANC PIC 1942.008--PIC box 6
BANC PIC 1942.008--PIC box 7
BANC PIC 1942.008--PIC box 8
BANC PIC 1942.008--A folder
BANC PIC 1942.008--B box 1
BANC PIC 1942.008--B box 2
BANC PIC 1942.008--B box 3
BANC PIC 1942.008--B box 4
BANC PIC 1942.008--FR
BANC PIC 1942.008--NNEG
BANC PIC 1942.008--PIC
Origin:
United StatesCopyright Note:
NITRATE NEGATIVES: CLOSED TO RESEARCH DUE TO HAZARDOUS MATERIALS RESTRICTIONS.