Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information photos from the 1930s
1,439 photos, in date order; 1,081–1,140 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
Black sharecropper picking cotton, Chatham County, North Carolina, 8a40861
1939-09
Dorothea Lange, Migrant children playing at nursery school, FSA camp, Tulare County, California, 1939
1939-05
Young migrant mother with six weeks old baby, 8b33507
1939-04
Social Justice," founded by Father Coughlin, sold on important street corners and intersections. New York City
1939-07
Dorothea Lange, Homeless mother and child near Brawley, California, 1939
1939-02
Portland Oregon woodpiles on street in August 1939
1939-08
Wheeley'sChurchPersonCountyNC(1939)services over
1939-07
Lighthearted kids in Merrill FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp, Klamath County, Oregon. See general caption 62
1939-10
Sunday Morning Service
1939-02
Dorothea Lange - Migrant Family in Salinas, CA
1939-04
Homeless family of seven, walking the highway from Phoenix, Arizona
1939-02
April. The city of San Francisco, California. Seen from the first street ramp of the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge
1939-04
Texas woman in carrot pullers' camp. Imperial Valley, California. This sunbonnet is typical of women who came from Texas
1939-02
Detail on Kytta farm. Western Washington, Thurston County, Michigan Hill
1939-08
House on a Tobacco Plantation
1939-07
Iron pot for heating water stands out in the yard of Negro tobacco farmer. Person County, North Carolina
1939-07
Thirteen year old daughter of African American sharecropper planting sweet potatoes, 8b33988
1939-07
Mother and baby of family on the road, Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California, 8b34842
1939-09
Refreshment stand on US highway 99 in Oregon ppmsc.00116u
1939-10
Dorothea Lange, Country store on dirt road, Gordonton, North Carolina, 1939
1939-07
Dynamiting stump
1939-10
Granville County tobacco farmers
1939-07
A grandmother washing clothes in California. In a contractor's camp near Westley, California
1939-04
Portland Oregon woodpiles on street in August 1939 image 2
1939-08
A grandmother washing clothes in a migrant camp. Stanislaus County, California
1939-04
Boy Scout troop at Greenhills, Ohio
1939-10
3rd Pearl La Crosse Wisconsin fsa.8a11061
1939
Colored" drinking fountain from mid-20th century with african-american drinking
1939-07
(African American cotton plantation worker, hired as a day l.
1939-10
African American Mother and Child on Bed in their Cabin near Jefferson, Texas
1939-04
Colored" drinking fountain from mid-20th century with african-american drinking (cropped)
1939-07
Housewife reading in living room. Chicot Farms, Arkansas.
1939-01-01
Colored" drinking fountain from mid-20th century with african-american drinking (cropped2)
1939-07
1939 Vermont byRLee USFarmSecurityAdministration LC 8b22964v
1939-10
4th of July celebration, St. Helena Island, S.C.
1939-07
4-H Club girl with calf, Central Iowa 4-H Club fair, Marshalltown, Iowa
1939-09
A former slave displaying a horn used to call slaves
1939-04
A Fourth of July celebration, St. Helena Island, S.C. ( )
1939
A Fourth of July celebration. St. Helena Island, South Carolina, 1939
1939-07-04
A Fourth of July celebration by a group of Negroes, St. Helena Island, S.C.
1939-07
A Fourth of July celebration, St. Helena Island, S.C.
1939-07
A Fourth of July celebration, St. Helena's Island, S.C.
1939-07
A grandmother washing clothes in a migrant camp, Stanislaus County, California, 8b33499
1939-04
A mating operation on a transport plane just before it comes to the pre-assembly line at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas
1939
A Negro church in a corn field, Manning, S.C.
1939-06
A physician cooperating with FSA medical health plan visits the home of a rehabilitation client, Saint Charles County, Missouri, 8b19191
1939-11
A train bringing copper ore out of the mine, Ducktown, Tenn. Fumes from smelting copper for sulfuric acid have destroyed all vegetation and eroded the land
1939-09
A train bringing copper ore out of the mines, Ducktown, Tenn. Fumes from smelting copper for sulfuric acid have destroyed all vegetation and eroded the land
1939-09
A washline, instead of hanging the clothes on a fence or the bushes, in Nolan Pettway's backyard, Gees Bend, Alabama
1939-05
Ada Turner and Evelyn M. Driver Home Management
1939-05
Abandoned brick plant near Muskogee, Oklahoma
1939–1940
Abandoned brick wall with wooden beams of a building, Oklahoma
1939–1940
Abandoned shacks, vicinity of Beaufort, S.C.
1939
African American day laborers standing near and on the back.
1939-10
African Americans fishing in creek near cotton plantations. Belzoni, Mississippi, October 1939
1939-10
African-American woman carrying laundry along roadside between Durham and Mebane NC
1939-11
African American tenant farmer topping tobacco. Person County, North Carolina.
1939-07
Annette del Sur publicizing salvage campaign in yard of Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. ( ) - Flickr - The
1939
Auctioning off the prize baby beeves, Central Iowa 4-H Club fair, Marshalltown, Iowa
1939-09
Backyard of Negro tenant's home, Marcella Plantation, Mileston, Miss. Delta
1939-11