Farm Security Administration (FSA) selected records and photographs
Related Entities
There are 12 Entities related to this resource.
Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hz25rt (person)
Russell Lee was born in Ottawa, Illinois on 21 July 1903. His childhood, although of comfortable middle-class rural American heritage, was marred by tragedy. His parents were divorced in 1908, when Lee was five, and his mother was killed in an accident in 1913. Lee was then passed between various relatives and guardians until he returned to Ottawa to be raised by family friends. He became interested in photography in 1931 while married to his first wife, artist Doris Emmrick. She introduced him ...
United States. Farm Security Administration. Historical Section
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6q925t1 (corporateBody)
A New Deal agency which operated 1937-1942, formerly the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The Historical Section within the FSA documented agriculture, industry, and social life through photographs. From the guide to the Farm Security Administration Migrant Worker Photographs BENSON-MS FSA MIGRANTS. 23249548., 1937, 1941, (Benson Latin American Collection, The University of Texas at Austin) Established 1935 in the Resettlement Administration Historical S...
Lange, Dorothea, 1895-1965
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tz4744 (person)
Dorothea Lange (1895-1965), American documentary photographer and photojournalist, was born Dorothea Margarette Nutzhorn in Hoboken, New Jersey. She worked for the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression. From the description of Lange, Dorothea, 1895-1965 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10582293 In the spring of 1942, Dorothea Lange was hired by the War Relocation Authority to document the movement of Japanese-Americans during relo...
Collier, John, 1913-1992
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6029qcj (person)
John Collier took these photographs during the period Bernard J. Siegal was doing fieldwork in the Picuris Pueblo, ca. 1950-1965. From the description of Picuris Pueblo, New Mexico : photographs and sound recordings, ca. 1950-1965. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754863679 Photographer, California; Died 1992. From the description of John Collier monologue, 1959. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122515812 John Collier (1913- ) was a photographer. ...
Rosskam, Edwin, 1903-1985
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sf4cz2 (person)
Edwin (1903-1985) and Louis Rosskam (1910-2003) were photographers from Roosevelt, N.J. From the description of Oral history interview with Edwin and Louise Rosskam, 1965 Aug. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80222689 ...
Delano, Jack
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6028rd1 (person)
Photographer, film maker, classical music composer, and book illustrator. Born in 1914 as Jacob Ovcharov in Kiev, Ukraine. Immigrated to the U.S. in 1922. Died in 1997 in Puerto Rico where he had lived since 1946. From the description of Jack Delano papers, 1927-1995 (bulk 1941-1943). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70984202 Jack Delano (1914-1997) was a photographer from Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. From the description of Oral history interview with Jack and Irene ...
Evans, Walker, 1903-1975
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cv4gc3 (person)
Walker Evans (1903-1975) was a photographer. From the description of Oral history interview with Walker Evans, 1971 Oct. 13-Dec. 23 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 495595155 Photographer and professor at Yale; best known for documenting the people and conditions of the southern United States during the Great Depression. From the description of Walker Evans photographs, 1935-1936. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 55636072 P...
Stryker, Roy Emerson, 1893-1975
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ng4x41 (person)
Director of the Farm Security Administration Historical Section; Washington, D.C. Under Stryker the Photographic project of the FSA documented the drought, poverty and despair of rural and urban America during the Depression. From the description of Oral history interview with Roy Emerson Stryker, 1963-1965 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79221042 Director of the Farm Security Administration Historical Section; Washingt...
Shahn, Ben, 1898-1969
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6q240xn (person)
Painter, photographer; Roosevelt, N.J. From the description of Ben Shahn interview, 1964 Apr. 14 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82606033 Artist Ben Shahn was a Russian Jewish immigrant to New York. He apprenticed with a lithographer, studied at several New York colleges, and toured Europe, acquiring the skills to express his artistic ability. He is chiefly remembered as a muralist, painter, photographer, and printmaker, visually chronicling America during ...
Mydans, Carl 1907-
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64n06j8 (person)
Photojournalist for the Farm Security Administration and staff photographer for LIFE magazine. Covered World War II and the Korean War. From the description of Carl Mydans photographs, 1935-1968. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 503571049 Photographer, associated with the Farm Security Administration; b. May 20, 1907, Boston, Mass.; d. August 16, 2004, Larchmont, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Carl Mydans, 1964 Apr. 29. (Un...
Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6db85m5 (person)
Photographer; San Francisco, Calif. From the description of Oral history interview with Marion Post Wolcott, 1965 Jan. 18 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82466275 Photographer. From the description of Papers, 1938-[ongoing]. (University of Arizona). WorldCat record id: 28409252 ...
Rothstein, Arthur, 1915-1985
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cc144v (person)
Photographer. Died 1985. From the description of Arthur Rothstein papers, 1936-2000 (bulk 1952-1985). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70984757 Photographer; New York, N.Y.; d. 1985. From the description of Oral history interview with Arthur Rothstein, 1964 May 25 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81173081 Arthur Rothstein was an American photographer who worked for the federal government during the Great Depression for the Farm Security Ad...
