Internet Resources: The FSA

The Farm Security Administration

• LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information. Photographs (Public Domain Series).
• Special Collections in the Library of Congress: Farm Security Administration Collection. (Photographs of American life taken by FSA photographers, 1935-42).
• Selected color images from the Farm Security Administration Collection.
• FSA photographers who worked in color.
• The Black Image in the New Deal: The Politics of FSA Photography by Nicholas Natanson.
• Politics and Culture: New Deals, Old Deals (Chapter 1 of The Black Image in the New Deal).
• Farm Security Administration Photographs of Florida. (book reviews) Augustus Burns. Social Forces, Sept 1995 v74 n1 p342(3) [INFOTRAC Article A17705048].

Roy Stryker

• Bridging the Urban Landscape:Pittsburgh, its bridges and its neighborhoods

The Photographers

John Collier

Jack Delano

• "Family in Pickup"
• "Family Migrating North"
• Chicago: Destination for the Great Migration
• "Nina Violada/violated child: a multimedia exhibit" by Marisol Diaz. (Special Issue: Puerto Rican Women Writers) Consuelo Lopez Springfield. Callaloo, Summer 1994 v17 n3 p791(11) [INFOTRAC Article A16309316].

Walker Evans

• Two photographs
• Selected photographs
• Walker Evans: Message from the Interior
• Urban Desires book review
• "General store interior." Alabama. 1936.
• http://www.visualradio.com/photoarts/banning/gallery/evans.html
• "Scavenging the landscape: Walker Evans and American life." Melissa Rachlef. Afterimage, Jan-Feb 1996 v23 n4 p7(5) [INFOTRAC Article A18339989].
• "Something Permanent." (book reviews) American Heritage, Dec 1994 v45 n8 p126(1) [INFOTRAC Article A15949590].

Dorothea Lange

• Biography
• "Migrant Mother." California. 1936.
• DOROTHEA LANGE: Focus on Richmond
• Between Fences. Exhibit at the National Building Museum.
• Quotations from the Masters
• "Images of the common good." Louis C. Gawthrop. Public Administration Review, Nov-Dec 1993 53 n6 p508-515 [INFOTRAC Article A14643937].
• "Dorothea Lange and visionary change." (photographer's role in changing public perceptions about poverty) Louis C. Gawthrop. Society, July-August 1993 v30 n5 p64(4) [INFOTRAC Article A14069432].

Russell Lee

• "Children Playing in Chicago"
• "Boys in Chicago"
• "Chicago Theatre"
• "Cooperative clothing factory." New Jersey. 1936.
• Chicago: Destination for the Great Migration
• Russell Lee Collection
• Of Earth and Cotton

Edwin Locke

• "On the Food Line"

Carl Mydans

• "CCC boys at work on USDA Agricultural Research Center." Maryland. 1936.
• The Volunteer Fire Brigade Pose for Photograph In Village of Lung Chuan-I, China, 1941
• Mydans remember Mr. Ling

Gordon Parks

• Portrait
• Great Journalists
• Gordon Parks Collection
• Still Photographs from The Learning Tree
• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division
• Red Jackson, Harlem Gang Leader, Harlem, 1948
• Listen to the Gordon Parks story aired on All Things Considered, 17 September 1997 (Requires the free Real Audio Player.)

Edwin Rosskam

• "Chicago Apartment House"

Arthur Rothstein

• "Man and Boy"
• "Plantation Poverty"
• "Wife of Evicted Sharecropper"
• "Dust storm." Oklahoma. 1936.
• Two photographs
• "His strong images pass test of time." Joe Traver. News Photographer, March 1995 v50 n3 p4(2) [INFOTRAC Article A16923497].

Ben Shahn

• "Blind street musician."
• Roosevelt Arts Project
• Of Earth and Cotton
• Ben Shahn. (book reviews) Patrick JB Flynn. The Progressive, Feb 1994 v58 n2 p 38(4) [INFOTRAC Article A14777916].
• "The politics of media: painting and photography in the art of Ben Shahn." Laura Katzman American Art, Wntr 1993 v7 n1 p60(28) [INFOTRAC Article A14060868].

John Vachon

• Between Fences. Exhibit at the National Building Museum.
• Sulfur mining at Hoskins Mound in Freeport, Tx.
• Chicago: Destination for the Great Migration

Marion Post Wolcott

• "What a time she had! (Fifty Years & Counting...)." News Photographer, April 1995 v50 n4 pF2(3) [INFOTRAC Article A16937587].
• "Mom and Kids Pick Cotton"
• Of Earth and Cotton
• Between Fences. Exhibit at the National Building Museum.
• A Spanish muskrat trapper in the doorway of his marsh home. Photograph, 1941.

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