FSA COLLECTION: Dorothea Lange – “Coachella Valley, California” (1935)
Date picker’s home. Coachella Valley, California. March, 1935.
Tag Archives: 1930’s
FSA COLLECTION: Dorothea Lange – “Blythe, California” (1936)
Church near Blythe, California.
FSA COLLECTION: Dorothea Lange – “Between Tulare and Fresno” (1939)
Between Tulare and Fresno on U.S. 99. Many auto camps of all kinds are strewn along this highway.
FSA COLLECTION: Russell Lee – “Drinking at the bar” (1938)
Drinking at the bar in Pilottown, Louisiana. 1938
NEW YORK COLLECTION: Berenice Abbott – “Rothman’s Pawn Shop” (1938)
Rothman’s Pawn Shop, 149 Eighth Avenue, Manhattan. (May 18, 1938)
NEW YORK COLLECTION: Berenice Abbott – “McSorley’s Ale House” (1937)
McSorley’s Ale House, 15 East 7th Street, Manhattan. (November 01, 1937)
NEW YORK COLLECTION: Berenice Abbott – “Willow Place” (1936)
Willow Place, nos. 43-49, Brooklyn. (May 14, 1936)
NEW YORK COLLECTION: Berenice Abbott – “Lyrice Theatre” (1936)
Lyric Theatre, Third Avenue between 12th and 13th street, Manhattan. (April 24, 1936)
NEW YORK COLLECTION: Berenice Abbott – “‘El’ station” (1936)
‘El’ station, Sixth and Ninth Avenue Lines: downtown side, 72nd Street and Columbus Avenue, Manhattan. (February 06, 1936)
NEW YORK COLLECTION: Berenice Abbott – “Newsstand, 32nd Street and Third Avenue, Manhattan” (1935)
Newsstand, 32nd Street and Third Avenue, Manhattan. (November 19, 1935)
NEW YORK COLLECTION: Berenice Abbott – “Mulberry and Prince Streets, Manhattan” (1935)
Mulberry and Prince Streets, Manhattan. (October 25, 1935)
FSA COLLECTION: Russell Lee – “Farmer’s wife” (1938)
Farmer’s wife washing clothes, near Morganza, Louisiana. Russell Lee, 1938
FSA COLLECTION: Russell Lee – “Snake Eater” (1938)
Snake eater, sideshow, Donaldsonville, Louisiana.
FSA COLLECTION: Russell Lee – “Raceland, Louisiana” (1938)
Roadhouse, Raceland, Louisiana.
FSA COLLECTION: Ben Shahn – “Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana” (1935)
Children of unemployed trapper, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. 1935 Creole girls, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. 1935
FSA COLLECTION: Russell Lee – “Sideshow Barker” (1938)
Barker at sideshow with performers, state fair, Donaldsonville, Louisiana.
FSA COLLECTION: Marion Post Wolcott – “Shoes of a Tenant Farmer” (1939)
Shoes of a tenant farmer near Columbia, South Carolina.
FSA COLLECTION: Marion Post Wolcott – “Manning, South Carolina” (1939)
One of the children of Pauline Clyburn, rehabilitation borrower. Manning, South Carolina. 1939 One of the children of Pauline Clyburn, rehabilitation borrower. Manning, South Carolina. 1939
FSA COLLECTION: Marion Wolcott Post – “Mohegan, West Virginia” (1938)
Miners’ wives coming home from town with groceries on payday near Mohegan, West Virginia. 1938 Miners starting home after work. Part of coal tipple shown at left. West Virginia. 1938
FSA COLLECTION: Marion Post Wolcott – “Horse Races at Hialeah Park” (1939)
Horse races, Hialeah Park, Miami, Florida. 1939
FSA COLLECTION: Marion Post Wolcott – “Gees Bend, Alabama” (1939)
Old man Moseley, now blind, Gees Bend, Alabama. 1939 Nolan Pettway’s children bringing home wagonload of fertilizer, Gees Bend, Alabama. Gertrude, churning on Isaiah Pettway’s porch, Gees Bend, Alabama. 1939 Jorena Pettway with some of the Gees Bend livestock, Alabama.
FSA COLLECTION: Marion Post Wolcott – “Memphis Juke Joint” (1939)
Drummer in orchestra in Memphis juke joint. Tennessee. 1939
FSA COLLECTION: Marion Post Wolcott – “Marcella Plantation” (1939)
Day laborer picking cotton on Marcella Plantation, Mileston, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi.
FSA COLLECTION: Marion Post Wolcott – “Scotts Run, West Virginia” (1938)
Coal miners. Chaplin, Scotts Run, West Virginia. 1938
FSA COLLECTION: Marion Wolcott Post – “Coal miner’s children and wife” (1938)
Coal miner’s children and wife, Pursglove, West Virginia. 1938
FSA ARCHIVE: Marion Post Wolcott – “Behind the homemade plow” (1939)
Behind the homemade plow in the school garden, Gees Bend, Alabama. 1939
FSA COLLECTION: Marion Post Wolcott – “Aunt Nellie Pettway” (1939)
Aunt Nellie Pettway, carrying wood from yard for fireplace. Gees Bend, Alabama. 1939
FSA COLLECTION: Marion Post Wolcott – “Atlanta Baseball Game” (1939)
Atlanta, Georgia. Watching a baseball game. 1939
FSA COLLECTION: Russell Lee – “Negroes in Market Square” (1939)
Negroes in market square, Waco, Texas. 1939
FSA COLLECTION: Russell Lee – “Negro School” (1938)
Negro school, Destrehan, Louisiana.
FSA COLLECTION: Russell Lee – “Interior of Hamburger Stand” (1939)
Interior of hamburger stand. Waiting for customer, Alpine, Texas. 1939
FSA COLLECTION: Russell Lee – “Game of Coon-Can” (1938)
Game of coon-can in store near Reserve, Louisiana. 1938
FSA COLLECTION: Russell Lee – “Drinking at the Bar” (1938)
Drinking at the bar in Pilottown, Louisiana. 1938
FSA COLLECTION: Russell Lee – “Cotton Picker” (1938)
Daylaborer, cotton picker, Lake Dick Project, Arkansas. 1938.
FSA COLLECTION: Russell Lee – “Booth in Hamburger Stand” (1939)
Booth in hamburger stand, Alpine, Texas. 1939
FSA COLLECTION: Ben Shahn – “Urbana, Ohio” (1938)
Business district of Urbana, Ohio. Ben Shahn, August, 1938. Urbana is a city in and the county seat of Champaign County, Ohio, United States,[3] 47 miles (76 km) west of Columbus. Urbana was laid out in 1805, and for a time in 1812 was the headquarters of the Northwestern army. Urbana was named after the […]
C. HART MERRIAM COLLECTION: California Tribes and Other American Indians – “Tolowa Girl” (1938)
Tolowa girl. Lake Earl, near Cresent City, Calif. C. Hart Merriam Collection of Native American Photographs, ca. 1890-1938 The Bancroft Library. University of California, Berkeley.
C. HART MERRIAM COLLECTION: California Tribes and Other American Indians – “Mrs. Mary James and Granddaughter” (1938)
Mrs. Mary James and granddaughter, Patty Lopez, Smith River, Calif. June 18, 1938 C. Hart Merriam Collection of Native American Photographs, ca. 1890-1938 The Bancroft Library. University of California, Berkeley.
C. HART MERRIAM COLLECTION: California Tribes and Other American Indians – “Mrs. Mary James” (1938)
Mrs. Mary James, Smith River, Calif. – June 18, 1938 C. Hart Merriam Collection of Native American Photographs, ca. 1890-1938 The Bancroft Library. University of California, Berkeley.
FSA COLLECTION: Ben Shahn – “Ohio Sideshow” (1938)
Spectators at sideshow, county fair, central Ohio.
FSA COLLECTION: Marion Post Wolcott – “Marion, Ohio” (1938)
Sign thermometer, Marion, Ohio.
FSA COLLECTION: Ben Shahn – “Buckeye Lake Amusement Park, Near Columbus, Ohio” (1938)
From the caption: “Buckeye Lake is the weekend and summer months resort for all of central Ohio. Its patrons are clerks, Columbus politicians, laborers, businessmen, droves of high school and college students. The rich occupy one side of the lake, the rest rent cottages on the other side. It has an evil reputation and an […]
FSA COLLECTION: Ben Shahn – “Summer in London, Ohio” (1938)
Saturday afternoon in London, Ohio. Summer, 1938.
FSA COLLECTION: Ben Shahn – “Columbus, Ohio” (1938)
Residents of Columbus, Ohio.
FSA COLLECTION: Dorothea Lange – “Memphis, Tennessee” (1938)
In Memphis, Tennessee hundreds of colored laborers congregated near the bridge every morning at daylight in hopes of work chopping cotton on a plantation. They are hauled to and from work on trucks. Reduced cotton acreage has made employment scarce for this class of seasonal labor in all towns. “You can’t live the commonest way […]
FSA COLLECTION: Dorothea Lange – “Clarksdale, Mississippi” (1937)
Feet of Negro cotton hoer near Clarksdale, Mississippi.
FSA COLLECTION: Dorothea Lange – “Orange County, North Carolina” (1939)
Father crippled with rheumatism. When well he works in a chair making factory. Orange County, North Carolina.
FSA COLLECTION: Dorothea Lange – “Between Dallas and Austin” (1936)
Family between Dallas and Austin, Texas. The people have left their home and connections in South Texas, and hope to reach the Arkansas Delta for work in the cotton fields. Penniless people. No food and three gallons of gas in the tank. The father is trying to repair a tire. Three children. Father says, “It’s […]
FSA COLLECTION: Dorothea Lange – “Oklahoma Refugees” (1936)
Drought refugees from Oklahoma camping by the roadside. They hope to work in the cotton fields. The official at the border (California-Arizona) inspection service said that on this day, August 17, 1936, twenty-three car loads and truck loads of migrant families out of the drought counties of Oklahoma and Arkansas had passed throught that station […]
FSA COLLECTION: Dorothea Lange – “Macon County” (1937)
Cotton sharecropper family. Macon County, Georgia.