The photographs in the Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection at the Library of Congress are an extensive pictorial record of American life between 1935 and 1944.
The photographs were taken by field agents for three successive government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937), the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942), and the Office of War Information (1942-1944). All were concerned with stability and food security among farming families in rural America [1].
The two pictures here were taken by photographer Carl Mydans in June or July of 1936. In the top photograph the family’s name is listed as Hunter, in the second, it is listed as Hinter.
References Cited
[1] Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives Collection Description, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Collection, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/fsa/, accessed 23 Mar 2013.
[2] Mydans, Carl, photographer 1936 “Lewis Hunter, Negro client with his family on Lady’s Island off Beaufort, South Carolina,” Library of Congresss Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives Collection, Reproduction Number: LC-USF34-006790-D (b&w film nitrate neg.) LC-USZ62-131188 (b&w film copy neg. from print). http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/fsa1998020302/PP/, accessed 23 Mar 2013.
[3] Mydans, Carl, photographer 1936 “Lewis Hinter, Negro client with his family on Lady’s Island off Beaufort, South Carolina,” Library of Congresss Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives Collection, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-fsa-8b26557 (digital file from original) LC-USF34-006794-D (b&w film nitrate neg.). http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/fsa1998020304/PP/, accessed 23 Mar 2013.
