
FSA COLLECTION: Walker Evans – “Posters near Lynchburg” (1936)
Posters covering a building near Lynchburg to advertise a Downie Bros. circus
Posters covering a building near Lynchburg to advertise a Downie Bros. circus
Negro flood refugee in the Red Cross temporary infirmary of Forrest City, Arkansas. Negro flood refugees in the Red Cross temporary infirmary at Forrest City, Arkansas. Negroes in the lineup for food at mealtime in the camp for flood refugees, Forrest City, Arkansas. Negro girl in the temporary infirmary. Forrest City, Arkansas.
Movie theatre on Saint Charles Street. Liberty Theater, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Minstrel poster. Alabama. 1936
Floyd Burroughs and Tengle children, Hale County, Alabama.
Winston-Salem, North Carolina. A sign on the side of a building advertising groceries and meats. 1935.
Roadside stand near Birmingham, Alabama. 1936.
Grocery store. Greensboro, Alabama. 1936.
Frank Tengle, Bud Fields, and Floyd Burroughs, cotton sharecroppers, Hale County, Alabama. Summer, 1936.
Frame houses. Fredericksburg, Virginia. March, 1936.
Floyd Burroughs and Tengle children, Hale County, Alabama. Summer, 1936.
Entrance to Marianna, Arkansas, during the 1937 flood.
The Church of the Nazarene. Tennessee. 1936.
Negro house in New Orleans. Louisiana. January, 1936. Movie theatre on Saint Charles Street. Liberty Theater, New Orleans, Louisiana.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the FSA and commissioned exceptional photographers such as Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans to chronicle the impact of the Great Depression on the people of America.