Farm Security Administration Archives

Some few of these were making a new beginning and, where they could get some of the better land, were succeeding on a very moderate scale.

They weren’t too beaten down

[The Farm Security Administration] was one of the few places you could go where you felt that your pictures would be used and seen.

I did a series of photos on a Saturday afternoon in a small Tennessee town, of a medicine man. He had a little dummy, ventriloquist dummy.

The AAA was supposed to buy “submarginal” farmlands & resettle farm families on better farms elsewhere. It didn’t work out that way.