Farm Security Administration (Collection) [picture]. 1935-1943.

Lee, Russell, 1903-1986

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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 ...

Lange, Dorothea, 1895-1965

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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...

United States. Office of War Information

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Wood, Nancy V.

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Collier, John, 1913-1992

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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. ...

United States. Farm Security Administration

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The Farm Security Administration (FSA) was established within the United States Department of Agriculture to implement the provisions of the Bankhead-Jones Tenant Act of 1937. The agency also took over certain functions of its predecessor, the Resettlement Administration (RA). The FSA made available and administered long-term loans to tenants and sharecroppers, loaned funds to rural cooperatives, and operated camps for migrant farm workers. The FSA was abolished in 1946; the Farmers Home Adminis...

Rothstein, Arthur, 1915-1985

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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...

Delano, Jack

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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 ...