#resettlement administration

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"City hall and courthouse in Vincennes, Indiana." Photographed 1938 by Arthur Rothstein for the Resettlement Administration.

[vintage-every-day]

Dorothea Lange, Resettlement Administration photographer, in California atop car with her giant camera. February 1936.

[mudwerks]

June 1939. "Tygart Valley Homesteads, near Elkins, West Virginia. Children of homesteaders at play. A subsistence homestead project of the U.S. Resettlement Administration." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon. View full size.

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I’ve been working on a project about the Resettlement Administration and homestead projects across America during the 1930s, and one of the communities I’m studying is the Matanuska Colony in Alaska (which was a fascinating experiment and I encourage y’all to look into it). This morning I found a 1937 WPA film about the town and the closing sequence was, objectively, the cutest end to any motion picture ever. Thank you, Matanuska puppies.

[retropopcult]

"Low-cost housing. Saint Louis, Mo." Photographed April 1936 by Arthur Rothstein for the Resettlement Administration.

[retropopcult]

Dorothea Lange, Resettlement Administration photographer, in California atop car with her giant camera, 1936. 

[mudwerks]

September 1939. "Children who live at Greendale, Wisconsin, a model community planned by the Suburban Division of the U.S. Resettlement Administration." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.

[footnoteinhistory]

“Mike Burgoni's family, homesteaders at Granger, Iowa,” May 1936. Photographed by Carl Mydans for the Resettlement Administration (later the Farm Security Administration). Retrieved from the Library of Congress.