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

Biographical / Historical

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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Conditions Governing Use

This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Preferred Citation

Farm Security Administration Photographs #6125 P. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.

SUBJECTS

Names:
Farm Security Administration

CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Box 1 Folder 1
Migratory Labor Photos, FSA dups
Scope and Contents
10 photographs
Box 1 Folder 2
ILR
Scope and Contents
9 photographs