FSA/OWI photos
Photographers of the Farm Security Administration and the Office of War Information, among them Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Arthur Rothstein, Russell Lee, Marion Post Wolcott and Jack Delano, documented rural America in the Great Depression and the home front of the Second World War, from 1935 to 1944.
Why they are free to use: The photos were taken for US government agencies, so they are US government works and not under copyright. Each photo's page shows its own licence basis and a credit line.
8,388 photos in the index, by decade:
The 1930s
All 1,439 Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information photos from the 1930s
Boy in overalls and cap 3a36182u
c. 1930
White Angel Breadline, San Francisco, 1932, by Dorothea Lange, 4
1932
White Angel Breadline, San Francisco, 1932, by Dorothea Lange
1932
White Angel Breadline, San Francisco, 1932, by Dorothea Lange, 3
1932
1933 Pixely Cotton Strike
1933
Civilian Conservation Corps at an experimental farm in Beltsville, Maryland
c. 1933
Farm foreclosure sale in Iowa
c. 1933
NAT Boeing 247
c. 1933
The 1940s
All 6,949 Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information photos from the 1940s
Migratory cotton picker with his cotton sack slung over his shoulder, 2
1940-11
Bakersfield on Highway 466. Private auto camp, better than the average. There are a score of private.
1940-04-11
Migratory cotton picker with his cotton sack slung over his shoulder
1940-11
A branch of peaches in an orchard, Delta County, Colo.
1940
Alonzo Dillard Folger
1940-10
(African American cotton plantation workers, hired as day la.
1940-08
At Bayou Bourbeau plantation, a cooperative, vicinity of. *African-American children sitting on the porch of a house (1940).
1940-08
1940 “QUICK LUNCH” - Colored Door with a Coca-Cola sign - (cropped)
1940-05
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