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
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)
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
Resettlement Administration
…1935. It relocated struggling urban and rural families to communities planned by the federal government. On September 1, 1937, it was succeeded by the Farm Security Administration. The RA was the brainchild of Rexford G. Tugwell, an economics professor at Columbia University who became an advisor to Franklin D. Roosevelt during…
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.