The Farm Security Administration was a United States New Deal agency part of the Department of Agriculture created in 1937 to combat rural poverty during the Great Depression. It succeeded the Resettl
Walker Evans portrait of Allie Mae Burroughs (1936) taken for the Resettlement Administration
Arthur Rothstein's Farmer and Sons Walking in the Face of a Dust Storm, a Resettlement Administration photograph taken in Cimarron County, Oklahoma, in April 1936
Lone Driller’s Water Break is a 1939 photograph by Russell Lee, taken as part of the Farm Security Administration's photography program. It depicts a worker drinking from a battered pan during the Texas Oil Boom in Kilgore, Texas — a snapshot of boomtown grit and improvisation.
The Resettlement Administration was a New Deal U.S. federal agency created May 1, 1935. It relocated struggling urban and rural families to communities planned by the federal government. On September
Farm Security Administration
…States New Deal agency part of the Department of Agriculture created in 1937 to combat rural poverty during the Great Depression. It succeeded the Resettlement Administration (1935–1937). The FSA is famous for its small but highly influential photography program, 1935–1944, that portrayed the challenges of rural poverty. The…
Resettlement Administration poster by Bernarda Bryson Shahn (c. 1936)
Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace (left) with Will W. Alexander, appointed to head the Resettlement Administration (December 22, 1936)