Farm Security Administration Photographs, 1936-1938
Collection Number: 6125 P
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Farm Security Administration Photographs, 1936-1938
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
6125 P
Creator:
United States Farm Security Administration (FSA)
Quanitities:
0.33 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English
In an attempt to combat rural poverty, the United States, as part of the New Deal,
created the Resettlement Administration (RA) in 1935. The RA turned into the Farm
Security Administration (FSA).
The Farm Bureau criticized the FSA and their efforts to improve the lifestyle of
sharecroppers, tenants, very poor landowning farmers, and a program to purchase submarginal
land owned by poor famers and resettle them in group farms on land more suitable for
efficient farming.
The Conservative coalition took control of Congress and it changed the FSA into a
progam to help poor farmers buy land, that program is still in effect and is now called
the Farmers Home Administration.
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INFORMATION FOR USERS
Farm Security Administration Photographs #6125 P. Kheel Center for Labor-Management
Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
Names:
Farm Security Administration
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Migratory Labor Photos, FSA dups
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Scope and Contents
10 photographs
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Box 1 | Folder 2 |
ILR
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Scope and Contents
9 photographs
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