ResearchBuzz: FirehoseLibrary of Congress: Preserving the 175,000 FSA photographs, one at a time. “Here we are in the digital darkroom of the Prints and Photographs Division, where a 16-year-long effort to digitize in high resolution the 175,000 or so Farm Security Administration photographs of the country in the 1930s and ’40s is coming to an end, perhaps by the end of this year. It’s kind of a big deal.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/06/library-of-congress-preserving-the-175000-fsa-photographs-one-at-a-time/
Dorothea Lange#Calipatria, #ImperialValley, In #FarmSecurityAdministrationFSA) emergency migratory labor camp. Daughter of ex-tenant farmers on thirds and fourths in cotton. Had fifty dollars when set out. Went to Phoenix, picked cotton, pulled bolls made eighty cents a day with two people pulling bolls. Stayed until school closed. Went to Idaho, picked peas until August. Left #McCall with forty dollars "in hand." Went to Cedar City and #Parowan, #Utah, a distance of #700miles. Picked peas through September. Went to #Hollister, #California. Picked peas through October. #LeftHollister for #Calipatria for early peas which froze. Now receiving #FarmSecurityAdministration food grant and waiting for work to begin. "Back in #Oklahoma, we are sinking. You work your head off for a crop and then see it burn up. You live in debts that you can never get out of. This isn't a good life, but I say that it's a better life than it was."
Untitled photo, possibly related to: #TulareCounty. #FarmSecurityAdministrationFSA) camp for migrant agricultural workers. Nursery school, showing migrant children playing. #California
#TulareCounty. #FarmSecurityAdministrationFSA) camp for migrant agricultural workers. Nursery school, showing migrant children playing. #California
Untitled photo, possibly related to: #FarmSecurityAdministrationFSA) cooperative farm, #LakeDick, #Arkansas. All farmers on this project are young #Arkansas farmers selected from all parts of the state
Near #Manteca, #California. November 1938. #FarmSecurityAdministrationFSA) tenant purchase clients, Greeks, from #IsleofCrete, formerly rehabilitation clients. Taken from ditch-bank. Had fifteen cows, now have fifty-five
Young migrant mother with six weeks old baby born in a hospital with aid of #FarmSecurityAdministrationFSA) medical and association for migratory workers. She lives in a labor contractors camp near #Westley, #California. "I try to keep him eatin' and sleepin' regular like I got him out of the hospital."
Young migrant mother with six weeks old baby born in a hospital with aid of #FarmSecurityAdministrationFSA) medical and association for migratory workers. She lives in a labor contractors camp near #Westley, #California. "I try to keep him eatin' and sleepin' regular like I got him out of the hospital."
#TulareCounty, #California. In #FarmSecurityAdministrationFSA) camp for migratory workers. Baby with club feet wearing homemade splints inside shoes
#TulareCounty, #California. In #FarmSecurityAdministrationFSA) camp for migratory agricultural workers. Mother with sick baby awaits arrival of #FSA camp resident nurse