Farm Security Administration (FSA) selected records and photographs
name: label: Creator
content: United States. Farm Security Administration. Historical Section
label: Names
content: Collier, John, Jr., 1913-1992
label: Names
content: Delano, Jack
label: Names
content: Evans, Walker, 1903-1975
label: Names
content: Lange, Dorothea
label: Names
content: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
label: Names
content: Mydans, Carl
label: Names
content: Rosskam, Edwin, 1903-1985
label: Names
content: Rothstein, Arthur, 1915-1985
label: Names
content: Shahn, Ben, 1898-1969
label: Names
content: Stryker, Roy Emerson, 1893-1975
label: Names
content: Vachon, John, 1914-1975
label: Names
content: Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990
topic: label: Topic
content: Photography -- United States -- Landscape -- Photographs
label: Topic
content: Photography -- United States -- Portraits -- Photographs
label: Topic
content: Architectural photography -- United States -- Photographs
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the public welfare -- Photographs
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
label: Topic
content: New Deal, 1933-1939
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Microfilm and copy prints donated by the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, 1965.
label: Provenance
content: Reel FSA/WDC2: Record Group 96, textual records of the Farmers Home Administration include the records of the FSA, predecessor to the FHA.
creator: label: Creator
content: United States. Farm Security Administration. Historical Section
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Established 1935 in the Resettlement Administration Historical Section's photographic project to document poverty stricken rural America under the direction of Roy E. Stryker. In 1937, Roosevelt established the FSA, and the Resettlement Administration and its programs fell under its auspices. The Historical Section of the Resettlement Administration remained intact under the FSA, and continued its photographic survey and historical documentation under Stryker's direction.
label: Biographical / Historical
content: After 1942, the photographs project was transplanted to the Office War Information, and the emphasis of the project shifted from rural and urban conditions throughout Depression-era U.S. to the domestic impact of the war. In 1946, Congress created the Farmers Home Administration (FHA) which absorbed the FSA and its programs.
function: label: Function
content: Agencies
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Items (Textual records: 2 partial microfilm reels)
label: Extent
content: 218 Items (Photographs)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1935-1942
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.unstfsad
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels FSA/WDC1-FSA/WDC2 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Reel FSA/WDC1 and photographs: Originals in Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C.
label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Reels FSA/WDC2: Originals in the National Archives, Washington, D.C., Record Group 96, Farmers Home Administration records.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Scattered textual records selected from the Farm Security Administration, Historical Section records at the Library of Congress and the Farmers Home Administration records at the National Archives primarily revolving around activities of Roy Stryker. Included are personnel and travel records, typescripts of photograph captions, correspondence, memoranda, files on public relations and exhibits, and printed material.
label: Scope and Contents
content: 218 copy prints of photographs of America taken for the FSA, including landscapes, people, homes and other architecture, rural scenes, urban scenes, workers, products of farm and industry, transportation, entertainment, and the Quarter Circle U Ranch, Birney, Montana. Photographers include: Arthur Rothstein, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, John Collier, Marion Post Wolcott, Jack Delano, Russell Lee, John Vachon, Ben Shahn, Carl Mydans, and Edwin Rosskam.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: Additional FSA-OWI records located at: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division (microfilm available at LC)
label: Related Materials
content: Additional Stryker papers located at: Photographic Archives University of Louisville, Louisville, Ky. 40208