Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information photos from the 1930s
1,439 photos, in date order; 1,141–1,200 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
Baby from Mississippi parked in truck at FSA camp, Merrill, Oregon, 8b35579
1939-10
Bean pickers in Oregon
1939-08-01
Belzoni MS fsa.8a41186
1939-10
Belzoni MS fsa.8a41179
1939-10
Ben Turner and family in their wagon with mule team. Flint R.
1939-05
Black man and white man sitting on curb talking, Muskogee, Oklahoma July 1939
1939-07
Boy in corner of shack home near Mays Avenue. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
1939-07
Cabins for Colored
1939-06
Carr Fork Canyon as seen from "G" bridge, Bingham Copper Mine, Utah
1939
Child playing phonograph in cabin home, Transylvania Project, Louisiana, 8b37037
1939-01
Child of white migrant worker ironing in camp near Harlingen, Texas
1939-02
Taking down the washing at evicted sharecroppers' camp. Butler County, Missouri
1939-11
Child looking out of window of tent home near Sallisaw, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, 8b22321
1939-06
Child looking out of window of tent home near Sallisaw, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, 8b22324
1939-06
Child in May's Avenue Camp, Oklahoma, eating an overripe canteloupe found in market, 8b22573
1939-07
Child of white migrant worker in front of trailer home, Weslaco, Texas, 8a24960
1939-01
Children in rocking chair, Louisiana
1939-01
Children asleep on bed during square dance. McIntosh County, Oklahoma, 1939 or 1940
1939–1940
Children asleep on bed during square dance, McIntosh County, Okla.
1939–1940
Children of agricultural day laborer in doorway of home near Tullahassee, Oklahoma, 8b22276
1939-06
Children looking outside of window of shack home. Community camp, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 8b38115
1939-07
Chitterling, fish and sugar cane on street in Negro Section,.
1939-11
Clothes lines and privies. Kempton, West Virginia
1939-05
Clothes hanging on drying tree in backyard, Meriden, Connecticut
1939-10
Clean clothes. Carrier Mills, Illinois
1939-01
Clothes of white tenant farmer drying on the ground, McIntosh County, Oklahoma
1939-06
Clothes of white agricultural day laborer's family drying on the fence, north of Sallisaw, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma
1939-06
Clothes of white agricultural day laborers drying on old fence with broken plow in foreground, north of Sallisaw, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma
1939-06
Company stores and offices and clinic of Delta Pine Company,.
1939-10
Compton, Negro sharecropper and his wife stripping and gradi.
1939-09
Copper mining and sulfuric acid plant, Copperhill, Tenn.
1939-09
Copper mining section between Ducktown and Copperhill, Tennessee. Fumes from smelting copper for sulfuric acid have destroyed all vegetation and eroded the land
1939-09
Copper mining section between Ducktown and Copperhill1a34328v
1939-09
Copperhill TN
1939-09
Corbett Infobox
1939-06
Corbett Infobox (cropped)
1939-06
Cottage Grove House
1939-10
Corn near Muskogee, Oklahoma
1939–1940
Corner of room of living quarters provided for Negro strawberry pickers near Independence, Louisiana, April 1939
1939-04
Corn shucking on Uncle Henry Garrett's place, Negro tenant of Mr. Fred Wilkins. White women don't go to Negro shucking to help with the cooking but white men are fed by Negro women just the same as at other shucking week previous at Mr. Fred Wilkins' home. Tally Ho, Near Stem, Granville County, Nort
1939-11
Corn shucking on Uncle Henry Garrett's place, Negro tenant of Mr. Fred Wilkins. White women don't go to Negro shucking to help with the cooking but whites are fed by Negro women just the same as at other shucking week previous at Mr. Fred Wilkins' home. Tally Ho, near Stem, Granville County, North C
1939-11
Cotton picker, came from Webber Falls, Oklahoma with two grown sons in 1938, Firebaugh, California, 8b32860
1939-02
Cowboy dishing up chili
1939-05
Couples at square dance. McIntosh County, Oklahoma, 1939 or 1940
1939–1940
Couples at square dance, McIntosh County, Oklahoma
1939–1940
Flour mills along the Mississippi River, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1939-09
Crowds of French patriots line the Champs Elysees to view Allied tanks and half tracks pass through the Arc du Triomphe, after Paris was liberated on August 25, 1944
1939
Day laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Miss.
1939-11
Day laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Miss. Delta
1939-11
Daughter of Cube Walker, Negro TP Client Belzoni, Miss. Delt.
1939-11
Daughter of tenant farmer hanging up clothes near Warner, Oklahoma
1939-06
Daughter of migrant auto wrecker doing her lessons on bed in tent home, Corpus Christi, Texas, 8b20945
1939-02
Day laborers picking cotton, near Clarksdale, Miss.
1939-11
Day-laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Miss.
1939-11
De Mores Packing Plant Ruins
1939-06
Delta&PineLandCompany 1939
1939-10
Diner on Route 40 Delaware by Rothstein OWI
1939-04
Domestic servants waiting for street car on way early in the.
1939-05
Dorothea Lange, Farmers who have bought machinery cooperatively, West Carlton, Yamhill County, Oregon, 1939
1939-10
Dorothea Lange, The Arnold children, Michigan Hill, Washington, 1939
1939-08