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FARM SECURITY ADMINISTRATION PHOTOS


Click to view larger imageFarm Security Administration photos, taken between 1935 and 1941, document life in every part of the U.S. Not only are they extensive photographic records of an entire society, but they are also some of the greatest visual art the world has produced. Many images convey the extreme poverty suffered by rural residents during the years of the Depression and Dust Bowl. Children were often forced to work in the fields beside their parents, a situation forcefully documented in some of the best-known photos.

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Child labor, cranberry-bog, Burlington County, New Jersey

Children of migrant worker, Bridgeton, New Jersey

12 year old girl keeping house

Mississippi family members live on a cotton patch

Child labor in onion field, Rice County, Minnesota

Child in Mississippi Delta

Cotton - Coahoma County, Mississippi

Cotton sharecropper family near Cleveland, Ohio

Evicted sharecroppers along highway number 60

Mexican woman and children going home

Migrant mother and three children

Sharecropper's child suffering from rickets and malnutrition

Young Mexican body cutting spinach, LaPryor, Texas

Child labor in the onion field, Rice County, Minnesota

Migrant Workers Near Manteca, CA 1938

 

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