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Irwinville Farms, Georgia

1938 May.

Vachon, John, 1914-1975, photographer.

photo information based on neighboring file image

Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)  hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8a03422

Typical farmer group of Prairie City, Missouri, in Mississippi County

1936 Mar

Mydans, Carl, photographer.

Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8a01759

Daughters of a Tygart Valley homesteader.
House and factory in background.
West Virginia

June 1939

John Vachon, photographer

Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection
(Library of Congress)

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8a04289

Drinking fountain on the county courthouse lawn, Halifax, North Carolina

April 1938

John Vachon, photographer

Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection
(Library of Congress)

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c00414

Street scene, Washington, D.C.
November 1937

John Vachon, photographer

Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection
(Library of Congress)

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8a03094

War veteran who sells pencils, Omaha, Nebraska

November 1938

Photographer: John Vachon

Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection
(Library of Congress)

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8a03797

Twelve-year old girl of family of nine living in one-room hut built over the chassis of abandoned Ford truck in open field on U.S. Route 70 between Camden and Bruceton, Tennessee. Near backward Tennessee section. View also shows one of the small boys in family; the girl is dressed in a meal sack

1936 March

photographer: Carl Mydans.

Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection
(Library of Congress)

hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8a01638hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8a01638

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Farmer at the auction. Oskaloosa, Kansas
1938 Oct.

Vachon, John, 1914-1975, photographer.

Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)

hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8a03786

Found in photos of cherry pickers,

Berrien County, Michigan July 1940

John Vachon, 1914-1975, photographer.

Part of Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)

hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8a06841

Farm boy who sells “Grit.” Irwinville Farms, Georgia

1938 May.

Vachon, John, 1914-1975, photographer.

Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)

hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8a03421

day 75

Tommy Murphy, in transit through Omaha, Nebraska

1938 Nov.

Vachon, John, 1914-1975, photographer.

Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)

hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8a03953

day 44

Street scene, Washington, D.C. Proprietor of a tombstone shop

1937 Nov.

Vachon, John, 1914-1975, photographer.

Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)

hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8a03092

day 23

Street scene, Washington, D.C.

1937 Nov.

Vachon, John, 1914-1975, photographer.

photo information based on neighboring file images

Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)

hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8a03093

day 21

Washington, D.C.

(no other information on subject available)

1937 Nov.

Vachon, John, 1914-1975, photographer.

photo information based on neighboring file images

Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)

hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8a02969

day 17

Family living on Natchez Trace Project, near Lexington, Tennessee

1936 June

Mydans, Carl, photographer.

Photo information based on images with neighboring call numbers

Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)

hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8a01538

day 12

Grandson of Negro tenant whose father is in the penitentiary.

Granville County, North Carolina

1939 July.

Photographer: Dorothea Lange

Part of: Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540 USA

hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8b34126

Child of former tenant farmer, now a day laborer.

Ellis County, Texas

1937 June.

Photographer: Dorothea Lange

Part of: Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540 USA

Interestingly, in looking at the eyes of this child, you can see the silouette of photographer Dorothea Lange.

Girls of Lincoln Bench School study their reading lesson.
Near Ontario, Malheur County, Oregon

1939 Oct.

Photographer: Dorothea Lange

Part of: Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540 USA

hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8b35063

Ex-Nebraska farmer now developing farm out of the stumps. Bonner County, Idaho.

1939 Oct.

Photographer: Dorothea Lange

Part of: Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540 USA

hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8b35558

President of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union at Hill House, Mississippi

1936 July.

Photographer: Dorothea Lange

Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540 USA

hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8b29712