Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information photos from the 1930s
1,439 photos, in date order; 1–60 on this page. The photos were taken for US government agencies, so they are US government works and not under copyright. About the collection
- 1930s
- 1940s
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
Resettlement Administration; Rural Rehabilitation; "Dave Mayberry"; Iredell Co., N.C.
c. 1933
Labor:Strikes:New York City, New York:union men picketing Macy's FSA photo by Dorothea Lange
c. 1934
Dust storm, New Mexico, 8b27355a
1935-04
Dorothea Lange, Dust storm near Mills, New Mexico, 1935
1935-05
Dispossessed Arkansas farmers. These people are resettling themselves on the dump outside of Bakersfield, California, 8b13825
1935
Filipinos cutting lettuce, Salinas Valley, California, 8e07356
1935-06
Waiting for the semimonthly relief checks at Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California. Typical story: fifteen years ago they owned farms in Oklahoma. Lost them through foreclosure when cotton prices fell after the war. Became tenants and sharecroppers. With the drought and dust they came West, 1934-1
1935-03
Farm Security Administration: Arkansas squatter for three years in California near Bakefield, California: photo by D. Lange
c. 1935
Resettled farm child from Taos Junction to Bosque Farms project, New Mexico, 1935
1935-12
(Scene at Smithland, Kentucky.
1935-10
"Prepare to Meet God" Arrow-Shaped Sign in Cornfield, Williamson, West Virginia
1935-10
Pare Lorentz.
1935–1942
A destitute family, Ozark Mountains area, Arkansas, 8a16384
1935-10
A deputy with a gun on his hip during the September 1935 strike in Morgantown, West Virginia, 8a16611
1935-09
A Mule and a Plow 05986r
1935–1937 · poster
A once proud section, Washington, D.C.
1935-09
A Mule and a Plow 05986r (retouched)
1935–1937 · poster
Adams County IN Court House 1935
1935
Abandoned sugarcane warehouse, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana 1935
1935
Abandoned mansion of the owner of a large sugarcane plantation, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana 1935
1935-09
Alabama miners' houses near Birmingham, Alabama
1935
Arkansas squatter's home, 8a16194a
1935-10
Arkansas sharecropper, 8a16804a
1935-10
Arkansas cotton pickers, 8a16197
1935-10
Barber shop interior, New Orleans, 1935
1935
Bethlehem PA graveyard and steel mill 1935
1935-11
Ben Shahn1
1935-10
Bethel AME Church, Natchez, Mississippi, October 1935 crop
1935-10
Bethel AME Church, Natchez, Mississippi, October 1935
1935-10
Black Fury poster at Dixie Theatre
1935-10 · poster
Blind street musician, West Memphis, Arkansas, Sept. 1935.
1935-09
Blind street musician, West Memphis, Arkansas, 8a16134
1935-10
Casino Cinema New Orleans 1935
1935-10
Casino Cinema New Orleans 1935 - youths outside
1935-10
Casino Cinema New Orleans 1935 - Three Girls
1935-10
Cemetery at Pointe a la Hache, Louisiana, October 1935, by Ben Shahn - crop
1935-10
Cemetery at Pointe a la Hache, Louisiana, October 1935, by Ben Shahn
1935-10
Cheap partly-constructed houses lacking water and sewage, Lockland, Ohio
1935-12
Child of sharecropper, North Carolina, 8a07498a
1935-09
Child of North Carolina sharecropper, 8a07478a
1935-09
Child of North Carolina sharecropper, North Carolina, 8a07482a
1935
Wife and children of a sharecropper in.
c. 1935
Children of destitute Ozark mountaineer, Arkansas, 8a16213a
1935-10
Children of Fortuna family, Hammond, Louisiana, 8a16857
1935-10
Children of miners, Kentucky, 1935.
1935
Children of sharecropper, North Carolina, 8a07476a
1935-09
Children of sharecropper, North Carolina, 8a07484a
1935-09
Children of rehabilitation client, Maria plantation, Arkansas, 8a16282a
1935-10
Circus poster. Alabama
1935-12 · poster
Circus poster, Alabama by Walker Evans
1935-12 · poster
Coca-Cola shack in Alabama by Walker Evans
1935-12
Coal miner's child, Omar, West Virginia, 8a16675
1935-10