Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information photos from the 1930s
1,439 photos, in date order; 481–540 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
Rex theatre
1937-06
The owner of the Aldridge Plantation with one of the plantation children Leland (vicinity) June 1937
1937-06
Wife of Tenant Farmer
1937-06
Mt. Holly Plantation house, built in 1840, still occupied. Near Foote, Mississippi
1937-06
Woman in pea picker's camp, California, 8b31787
1937-03
Eighteen year-old mother from Oklahoma, now a California migrant, 8b31764a
1937-03
Ex-tenant farmer on relief grant in the Imperial Valley, California, 8b31812
1937-03
Migratory field worker's home on the edge of a pea field, Imperial Valley, California, 8b31858
1937-03
This man was born a slave in Greene County, Georgia, 8b37608
1937-07
Toward Los Angeles, California, 8b31801a
1937-03
Oklahoma drought refugee, California, 8b31740
1937-03
Toward Los Angeles, CA 8b31801u original
1937-03
Union Avenue
1937-06
Laundry facilities in migratory labor camp. Imperial Valley, California, near Calipatria
1937
Car of drought refugee on edge of carrot field in the Coachella Valley, California, 8b31657a
1937
Migratory Mexican field worker's home on the edge of a frozen pea field, Imperial Valley, California, 8b38632
1937-03
Sharecropper boy, Chesnee, South Carolina, 8b32096
1937-06
Flood refugee family in Hall County, near Memphis, Texas, 8b31972
1937-05
Toward Los Angeles, CA 8b31801u edit
1937-03
Ensley, Alabama (February, 1937)
1937-02
Many occupants of the Resettlement Administration homesteads came from homes like those in front of this steel mill, Ensley, Alabama, 8b35704a
1937-02
Broke, baby sick, and car trouble!" - Dorothea Lange's photo of a Missouri family of five in the vicinity of Tracy, California - Original
1937-02
1937 flood Indiana farmhouse
1937-02
1937 flood Shawneetown Illinois refugees
1937-04
A former tenant farmer from Texas now working in California as a pea picker, Nipomo, California, 8b31737
1937-03
A hitchhiking family waiting along the highway in Macon, Georgia, 8b32223
1937-07
A street of tents in the camp for flood refugees at Forrest City, Arkansas, 8b30907
1937-02
Abandoned tenant house on a mechanized plantation of the Mississippi Delta, 8b32027
1937-06
African American workers during the Great Depression in Mississippi
1937
Alabama coal miners, Birmingham, 8a08364a
1937-02
Alley dwellings in Southwest Washington DC - 1937
1937-11
Annie Pettway Lewis Bendolph carrying water in Gee's Bend, Alabama
1937-04
Annie Pettway Lewis Bendolph carrying water in Gee's Bend, Alabama, 8b35937a
1937-04
Back porch on a washday. Gibbs City, Michigan
1937
Baby in front of dresser in John Baker's farm home, Divide County, North Dakota, 8b20147
1937-11
Barn on tenant's farm, Walker County, Alabama, 8b35782
1937-02
Bandstand, Craftsbury, Vermont, 8a08855a
1937-09
Barn on tenant's farm, Walker County, Alabama, 8b35782a
1937-02
Billboard on U.S. Highway 99 in California, 8b31725
1937-03
Broke, baby sick, and car trouble! - Dorothea Langes photo of a Missouri family of five in the vicinity of Tracy, California
1937-02
Car of drought refugee on edge of carrot field in the Coachella Valley, California, 8b31848a
1937
Child musicians, Asheville, North Carolina 1937 crop
1937
Child musicians, Asheville, North Carolina 1937
1937
Children of migrant cotton field workers from Sweetwater, Oklahoma, 8b15324
1937-05
Children of Mexican cotton laborers. Casa Grande, Arizona
1937-05
Coal miners, Birmingham, Alabama, 1937
1937-02
Clothes on the line, Greenbelt, Maryland
1937-11
Clothesline, Winton, Minnesota
1937-08
Corn crib benton 8c51184r
1937
Signs". Crossville, Tennessee.
1937
Signs". Crossville, Tennessee. 1937. Photographer: Ben Shahn, 1898-1969. Nitrate; 35 mm. Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection ( ).
1937
Date palms. Coachella Valley, California
1937-02
Flint Sit-Down Strike meal
1937
Flint Sit-Down Strike National Guard
1937
Flint Sit-Down Strike sleeping
1937
Flint Sit-Down Strike window
1937
Depression migrants CA truck
1937
Descendants of slaves of the Pettway plantation
1937-02
Descendants of former slaves of the Pettway plantation
1937-02
Detail of House in Negro quarter. Rosslyn, Virginia
1937