#FarmSecurityAdministration
In #AUGUST 1939
‘#KlickitatCounty, Washington, in August of 1939’
Photograph by #DorotheaLange (1895-1965)
Photography Project, #ResettlementAdministration (from 1937 the #FarmSecurityAdministration)
@livingnewdeal.bsky.social
#photography #photographers #TheNewDeal #electrification #RA #FSA
August 9, 2026 at 12:39 PM
August 30, 2025 at 12:21 PM
July 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
In #FEBRUARY 1936
‘Freight car converted into house in "Little Oklahoma," California’
Photograph by #FarmSecurityAdministration #photographer Dorothea Lange (1895-1965)
February 1936
#TheNewDeal #DorotheaLange #blackandwhitephotography #GreatDepression
February 23, 2026 at 1:36 PM
In #APRIL 1941
‘Upstairs bedroom of family on relief, Chicago, Illinois’ April 1941.
Photograph by #ResettlementAdministration (now #FarmSecurityAdministration) #photographer Russell Lee (1903-1986)
#GreatDepression #blackandwhitephotography #RussellLee
April 28, 2025 at 1:30 PM
In #FEBRUARY 1936
‘Freight car converted into house in "Little Oklahoma," California’
Photograph by #FarmSecurityAdministration #photographer Dorothea Lange (1895-1965)
February 1936
#TheNewDeal #DorotheaLange #blackandwhitephotography #GreatDepression
February 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
In #MARCH 1937
‘Young Oklahoma mother; age 18, penniless, stranded in Imperial Valley, California.’
#RA/#FSA photo. The #ResettlementAdministration is now the #FarmSecurityAdministration. March 1937.
#GreatDepression #migrantworkers #dustbowlrefugees #blackandwhitephotography
March 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
April 28, 2026 at 1:11 PM
In #MAY 1940
‘At the bus station’
Durham, North Carolina, May 1940
Photographer Jack Delano (1914-1997)
#ResettlementAdministration, now #FarmSecurityAdministration photography program.
#JackDelano #Durham #NortheCarolina #blackandwhitephotography
May 23, 2026 at 2:40 PM
In #SEPTEMBER 1938
#ResettlementAdministration – by then #FarmSecurityAdministration - #photographer #MarionPostWolcott (1910-1990) documents #Greenbelt, Maryland, as a now fully operational project - and community
👇🧵
@livingnewdeal.bsky.social
#blackandwhitephotography #TheNewDeal
September 15, 2026 at 7:18 AM
In #MAY 1940
‘At the bus station’
Durham, North Carolina, May 1940
Photographer Jack Delano (1914-1997)
#ResettlementAdministration, now #FarmSecurityAdministration photography program.
#JackDelano #Durham #NortheCarolina #blackandwhitephotography
May 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM
In #SEPTEMBER 1938
#ResettlementAdministration – by then #FarmSecurityAdministration - #photographer #MarionPostWolcott (1910-1990) documents #Greenbelt, Maryland, as a now fully operational project - and community
👇🧵
@livingnewdeal.bsky.social
#blackandwhitephotography #TheNewDeal
September 15, 2025 at 1:12 PM
‘Destitute peapickers in California; a 32-year-old mother of seven children’. #ResettlementAdministration (later #FarmSecurityAdministration) #photographer Dorothea Lange (1895-1965), March 1936
@livingnewdeal.bsky.social
#DorotheaLange #blackandwhitephotography #GreatDepression
October 10, 2025 at 2:34 PM
#OTD in 1940
‘Church in shacktown community. It is used by different sects, including Pentecostal. The curtains are made of flour sacks. . . .’ Near #Modesto, #StanislausCounty, #California, May 10, 1940
#FarmSecurityAdministration #photographer Dorothea Lange (1895-1965).
May 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
In #MARCH 1937
‘Young Oklahoma mother; age 18, penniless, stranded in Imperial Valley, California.’
#RA/#FSA photo. The #ResettlementAdministration is now the #FarmSecurityAdministration. March 1937.
#GreatDepression #migrantworkers #dustbowlrefugees #blackandwhitephotography
March 10, 2026 at 3:21 PM
In #JUNE 1938
‘Part of the daily lineup outside the State Employment Service Office. #Memphis, #Tennessee.’ June 1938. Photograph by the #NewDeal’s #ResettlementAdministration #RA, now #FarmSecurityAdministration #FSA, #photographer #DorotheaLange (1895-1965).
#unemployment
June 7, 2026 at 1:01 PM
In #JUNE 1937
‘Theatre in Leland, Mississippi, in the Delta area’
#ResettlementAdministration, now #FarmSecurityAdministration, #photographer Dorothea Lange (1895-1965). June 1937.
#GreatDepression #TheNewDeal #blackandwhitephotography
#DorotheaLange
June 30, 2025 at 2:21 PM
In #SEPTEMBER 1938
👇🧵
#Photographer #RussellLee (1903-1986) at the #LakeDick Resettlement Community, #Arkansas, for the Photography Project of #ResettlementAdministration (by 1938 the #FarmSecurityAdministration)
This was one of the #RA’s efforts to help ➡️
👉ALT
September 21, 2026 at 7:56 AM
In #AUGUST 1936
‘People living in miserable poverty, #ElmGrove, #OklahomaCounty, #Oklahoma’
#Photographer #DorotheaLange (1895-1965) for the ambitious and prolific Photography Project of the #NewDeal’s #ResettlementAdministration (later #FarmSecurityAdministration), August 1936
August 31, 2025 at 1:59 PM
In #OCTOBER 1940
‘Filling station and garage at Pie Town, New Mexico’ Color transparency by #RussellLee (1903-1986) for the #FarmSecurityAdministration Oct. 1940
#PieTown #NewMexico #homesteading #homesteaders #farming #farmlife #colorphotography #fillingstation #gasstation
October 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
In #MARCH 1937
‘18-year-old mother from Oklahoma now a California migrant’ Farm Security Administration. March 1937. The #ResettlementAdministration is now the #FarmSecurityAdministration. March 1937.
#GreatDepression #migrantworkers #dustbowlrefugees #blackandwhitephotography
March 27, 2026 at 1:15 PM