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George Mason University

History Matters: Every Picture Tells a Story

For Students 9th - 10th
The Farm Security Administration sent photographers out to document how the Great Depression was impacting farmers across the United States. Walker Evans, one of those photographers, spent a summer in Alabama in 1936 documenting the...
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Wessels Living History Farm

Living History Farm: Farming in the 1930s: Fsa Photographers

For Students 9th - 10th
What a fabulous resource documenting the lives of farmers across the country during the Great Depression. Talented photographers, working for the Farm Security Administration, were sent out to take pictures, which were then published in...
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Library of Congress

Loc: The Farm Security Administration

For Students 9th - 10th
Roy E. Stryker sent out photographers, employed by the Farm Security Administration, to take pictures of American life, primarily rural, between 1935 and 1944. Find hundreds of these photographs on this Library of Congress site.
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Other

New Deal Narratives: History of the Farm Security Administration

For Students 9th - 10th
Part of a larger narrative about the New Deal. This is a brief history of the Farm Security Administration. An important part of the role of the FSA was photographic documentation of farming in the 1930s and 1940s.
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Wessels Living History Farm

Living History Farm: Farming in the 1930s: The Fsa, Farm Security Administration

For Students 9th - 10th
Find photographs, brief videos, and commentary about what loans from the Farm Security Administration meant to poor farmers during the Great Depression.
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Oklahoma State University

Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture: Farm Security Administration

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of the ambitious goals of the Farm Security Administration as part of the New Deal. Find out the many ways the FSA wanted to help farmers help themselves. Because this article is from the Oklahoma Historical Society, special...
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Yale University

Yale: Photogrammar: Map

For Students 9th - 10th
From 1935-1944, the Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information undertook the largest photography project ever sponsored by the federal government. Photogrammar is a web-based platform for organizing, searching, and...