#farmsecurityadministration

[jgrantbrittain]

A couple of years ago or in the future? 📷 @blabacphoto #farmsecurityadministration #happyhalloween https://www.instagram.com/p/CHBezmtluua/?igshid=5i00d7r89yrz

[archivesofamericanart]

Archives Road Trip: Arkansas

The Farm Security Administration, a New Deal program administered by the federal government, hired photographer Dorothea Lange (1895–1965) in the 1930s to document how Americans coped with conditions of the Great Depression. Lange’s now iconic photographs humanized the massive economic crisis. For farmers in Conway, Arkansas, preserved fruits and vegetables could be bartered in the absence of cash. “We put up seventy-five quarts of berries, sixty of beans, sixty of kraut, thirty of grapes and twenty of peaches. I swapped two bushels of grapes and got two bushels of peaches,” noted the owner of these mason jars.

Lange's photograph Fruit jars being sterilized on old lady Graham’s back fence in berry season is currently on view in our exhibition, Off the Beaten Track: A Road Trip through the Archives of American Art, on view through June 3 in our Lawrence A. Fleischman Gallery in Washington, D.C. 

[nyc-urbanism]

Shoe shining in Washington Square Park and other scenes, December 1941. Photographer Edwin Rosskam, Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection. 📷 Prints available upon request, DM us for more info. #washingtonsquarepark #shoeshining #FSA #farmsecurityadministration #wpa #depressionphotography #nyc1941 #nychistory #nycphotographer #urbanism #urbanhistory #nycurbanism (at Washington Square Park)

[dmambell]

#benshahn #farmsecurityadministration #csac #sifest26 (presso SI FEST Savignano Immagini Festival)

[dmambell]

#dorothealange #farmsecurityadministration #csac #sifest26 (presso SI FEST Savignano Immagini Festival)

[artfromthefuture]

Russell Lee: Scrap and salvage depot, Butte, Montana, 1942 by trialsanderrors Via Flickr: Scrap and salvage depot, Butte, Mont. Photograph by Russell Lee on assignment for the Farm Security Administration, October 1942. From the FSA-OWI color collection at the Library of Congress More pictures by Russell Lee | More pictures from the FSA-OWI collection [PD] This picture is in the public domain