Amateur Photographers, 1942

Children at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) Camelback Farms inspect the photographer's camera, Phoenix, Arizona. Initially created as the Resettlement Administration (RA) in 1935 as part of the New Deal in the United States, the Farm Security Administration (FSA) was an effort during the Depression to combat American rural poverty. The FSA stressed rural rehabilitation efforts to improve the lifestyle of sharecroppers, tenants, very poor landowning farmers, and a program to purchase submarginal land owned by poor farmers and resettle them in group farms on land more suitable for efficient farming. Photographed by Russell Lee, 1942

Picture No

12698735

Media ID

48540617

Size

2985px x 4200px (2.4MB)

Credit

LOC/Science Source/Mary Evans