Dorothea Lange
1936, February
Gelatin silver print
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
LC-USF34-2392-E
LL/1672
1 of 82
Ben Shahn
1938, 12 December
Gelatin silver print
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
LC-USZ62-120969
LL/1664
2 of 82
Arthur Rothstein
1938, July
Gelatin silver print
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
LC-USZ62-65017
LL/1665
3 of 82
Esther Bubley
1944
Gelatin silver print
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
LC-USZ62-121073
LL/1666
4 of 82
John Collier Jr.
1935-1939
Gelatin silver print
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
LC-USZ62-120967
LL/1667
5 of 82
Marjory Collins
1942, November
Gelatin silver print
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
LC-USW3-11699-E
LL/1668
6 of 82
Jack Delano
1943 (ca)
Gelatin silver print
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
LC-USZ62-120966
LL/1669
7 of 82
Sheldon Dick
1939, 20 May
Gelatin silver print
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
LC-USZ62-121076
LL/1670
8 of 82
Walker Evans
n.d.
Gelatin silver print
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
LC-USF33-4225-M4
LL/1671
9 of 82
Russell Lee
1942 (ca)
Gelatin silver print
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
LC-USW3-19997
LL/1673
10 of 82
Harold Lieberman
1940-1950
Gelatin silver print
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
LC-USZ62-121072
LL/1674
11 of 82
Edwin Locke
1940-1950
Gelatin silver print
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
LC-USZ62-121075
LL/1675
12 of 82
Carl Mydans
1935
Gelatin silver print
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
LC-USZ62-120968
LL/1676
13 of 82
Gordon Parks
1942-1946
Gelatin silver print
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
LC-USZ62-121074
LL/1677
14 of 82
Edwin Rosskam
1941
Gelatin silver print
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
LC-USF34-81652-D
LL/1678
15 of 82
Roy Stryker
1939, August
Gelatin silver print
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
LC-USF33-12352-M2
LL/1679
16 of 82
John Vachon
1942
Gelatin silver print
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
LC-USF34-14695-D
LL/1680
17 of 82
Marion Post Wolcott
1940, January
Gelatin silver print
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
LC-USF34-29245-D
LL/1681
18 of 82
White Angel Breadline
1932
Gelatin silver print
11 x 14 in
Lee Gallery
Courtesy of Lee Gallery (X1320)
LL/13185 [Further details available]
19 of 82
Funeral Cortege, End of an Era in a Small Valley Town
1936
Gelatin silver print
16 x 20 in
Lee Gallery
Courtesy of Lee Gallery (X1167)
LL/13181 [Further details available]
20 of 82
Human Erosion in California (Migrant Mother) [Nipomo, California]
1936
Gelatin silver print
13 7/16 x 10 9/16
J. Paul Getty Museum
© J. Paul Getty Trust [98.XM.162]
LL/6028
21 of 82
J.R. Butler, President of the Southern Tenent Farmer's Union, Memphis, TN
1938
Edwynn Houk Gallery
LL/5091
22 of 82
Tractored Out, Childress Co., Texas
1938 (ca)
Gelatin silver print
6 1/2 x 9 1/2 in
Lee Gallery
Courtesy of Lee Gallery (Y1056)
LL/13186 [Further details available]
23 of 82
Squatters' camp on highway. Characters in scene from Resettlement film. Near Bakersfield, Calif.
1935
Gelatin silver print
8 x 10 ins (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
NYPL - New York Public Library
Farm Security Administration Collection, Catalog Call Number: 000955-C, Digital ID: 3999703, Record ID: 2319476
LL/48448
24 of 82
Along the highway near Bakersfield, California. Dust bowl refugees. [Dust bowl refugees, on highway near Bakersfield, California.]
1935, November
Gelatin silver print
8 x 7 3/8 ins (20.3 x 18.7 cm)
NYPL - New York Public Library
Farm Security Administration Collection, Catalog Call Number: 000963-E, Digital ID: 3999709, Record ID: 2319479
LL/48449
25 of 82
Car and homemade trailer on U.S. 101 near King City, California. Man and wife middle-aged, from Wisconsin. "Old Man Depression sent us out on the road ... You don't know anything about how many people are living in trailers till you 'hit' Florida.
1936, February
Gelatin silver print
8 x 10 ins (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
NYPL - New York Public Library
Farm Security Administration Collection, Catalog Call Number: 001691-C c.2, Digital ID: 4000175, Record ID: 2319712
LL/48450
26 of 82
[Background for Hightstown project photographs. Seventh Avenue and West 28th Street, New York. ]
1936
Gelatin silver print
10 x 8 ins (25.4 x 20.3 cm)
NYPL - New York Public Library
Farm Security Administration Collection, Catalog Call Number: 009124-C, Digital ID: 3969611, Record ID: 2034778
LL/48451
27 of 82
[Outdoor portrait of man in cloth cap.]
1936
Gelatin silver print
10 x 8 ins (25.4 x 20.3 cm)
NYPL - New York Public Library
Farm Security Administration Collection, Catalog Call Number: 009185-E c.2, Digital ID: 4001283, Record ID: 2320266
LL/48452
28 of 82
Main Street, Saratoga Springs
1931
Gelatin silver print
21 1/4 x 16 3/4 in
Lee Gallery
Courtesy of Lee Gallery (T1053)
LL/14187 [Further details available]
29 of 82
Black Girl, Torn Collar
1935
Gelatin silver print
4 1/2 x 7 3/8 in
Lee Gallery
Courtesy of Lee Gallery (S2139)
LL/14178 [Further details available]
30 of 82
Three Members of a Prison Work Gang, possibly Louisiana
1935 (ca)
Gelatin silver print
5 1/2 x 7 7/8 in
Lee Gallery
Courtesy of Lee Gallery (W1030)
LL/12688
31 of 82
Alabama Cotton Tenant Farmer Wife, Allie Mae Burroughs, Wife of a Sharecropper
1936
Gelatin silver print
9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in
Lee Gallery
Courtesy of Lee Gallery (S1464)
LL/14173 [Further details available]
32 of 82
Floyd Burroughs, L Profile, in Cap
1936
Gelatin silver print
9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in
Lee Gallery
Courtesy of Lee Gallery (S2152)
LL/14181 [Further details available]
33 of 82
Bethlehem graveyard and steel mill. Pennsylvania.
1935
Gelatin silver print
8 x 10 ins (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
NYPL - New York Public Library
Farm Security Administration Collection, Catalog Call Number: 001167-A, Digital ID: 3932077, Record ID: 2020302
LL/48444
34 of 82
Belle Grove Plantation, 1858. [Iberville Parish,] Louisiana
1935, December
Gelatin silver print
10 x 8 ins (25.4 x 20.3 cm)
NYPL - New York Public Library
Farm Security Administration Collection, Catalog Call Number: 001273-C, Digital ID: 3999941, Record ID: 2319595
LL/48445
35 of 82
Entrance to Marianna, Arkansas, during the 1937 flood
1937, February
Gelatin silver print
5 1/4 x 8 7/8 ins (13.3 x 22.5 cm)
NYPL - New York Public Library
Farm Security Administration Collection, Catalog Call Number: 008181-C, Digital ID: 4001165, Record ID: 2320207
LL/48446
36 of 82
Rialto Theatre, Washington, D.C.
1936
Gelatin silver print
10 x 8 ins (25.4 x 20.3 cm)
NYPL - New York Public Library
Farm Security Administration Collection, Catalog Call Number: 009209-M3, Digital ID: 4001293, Record ID: 2320271
LL/48447
37 of 82
'Fleeing a dust storm'. Farmer Arthur Coble and sons walking in the face of a dust storm, Cimmaron County, Oklahoma
1936
Gelatin silver print, mounted to board
10 1/2 x 14
Silverstein Photography
LL/349 [Further details available]
38 of 82
Poster by Record Section, Suburban Resettlement Administration.
1935, December
Gelatin silver print
10 x 8 ins (25.4 x 20.3 cm)
NYPL - New York Public Library
Farm Security Administration Collection, Catalog Call Number: 001036-C, Digital ID: 3999769, Record ID: 2319509
LL/48468 [Further details available]
39 of 82
Children at play in the slum district of St. Louis, Missouri.
1936, March
Gelatin silver print
8 11/16 x 7 3/4 ins (22.1 x 19.7 cm)
NYPL - New York Public Library
Farm Security Administration Collection, Catalog Call Number: 001832-E, Digital ID: 3969569, Record ID: 2034757
LL/48469
40 of 82
A fertile valley in Piedmont, West Va.
1936?
Gelatin silver print
10 x 8 ins (25.4 x 20.3 cm)
NYPL - New York Public Library
Farm Security Administration Collection, Catalog Call Number: 001882-E, Digital ID: 3969577, Record ID: 2034761
LL/48470
41 of 82
Daughter of Dalton McLeod, Negro rehabilitation client. Fuquay Springs, North Carolina.
1935, September
Gelatin silver print
8 x 10 ins (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
NYPL - New York Public Library
Farm Security Administration Collection, Catalog Call Number: 002136-M2, Digital ID: 3984185, Record ID: 2087988
LL/48471
42 of 82
Schoolteacher at Corbin Hollow, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia.
1935, October
Gelatin silver print
7 7/16 x 9 13/16 ins (18.9 x 24.9 cm)
NYPL - New York Public Library
Farm Security Administration Collection, Catalog Call Number: 002177-M3.1 c.2, Digital ID: 4000123, Record ID: 2319686
LL/48472
43 of 82
Citizens of Nethers, Virginia. [Mountaineers "spelling" themselves, Nethers, Virginia.]
1935, October
Gelatin silver print
8 x 10 ins (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
NYPL - New York Public Library
Farm Security Administration Collection, Catalog Call Number: 002213-M1.1 c.2, Digital ID: 4000191, Record ID: 2319720
LL/48473
44 of 82
Winter sports. Hanover, New Hampshire.
1936
Gelatin silver print
8 x 10 ins (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
NYPL - New York Public Library
Farm Security Administration Collection, Catalog Call Number: 002276-M1 c.2, Digital ID: 4000953, Record ID: 2320101
LL/48474
45 of 82
House model prepared by architectural section of Region 1. New Haven, Conn.
1936
Gelatin silver print
8 x 10 ins (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
NYPL - New York Public Library
Farm Security Administration Collection, Catalog Call Number: 002443-C, Digital ID: 4001191, Record ID: 2320220
LL/48475
46 of 82
House model prepared by architectural section Region 1. New Haven, Conn.
1936
Gelatin silver print
8 x 10 ins (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
NYPL - New York Public Library
Farm Security Administration Collection, Catalog Call Number: 002444-C, Digital ID: 4001193, Record ID: 2320221
LL/48476
47 of 82
Sharecroppers, Arkansas
1935
Gelatin silver print
6 3/8 x 9 1/2
Silverstein Photography
LL/351
48 of 82
Medicine show, Huntingdon, Tennessee.
1935, October
Gelatin silver print
8 x 10 ins (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
NYPL - New York Public Library
Farm Security Administration Collection, Catalog Call Number: 006167-M4.1, Digital ID: 3969579, Record ID: 2034762
LL/48477
49 of 82
Man using outside stairway for "colored" to enter theater
n.d.
Gelatin silver print
Stephen Bulger Gallery
LL/2181
50 of 82
A member of the Wilkins family making biscuits for dinner
n.d.
Gelatin silver print
Stephen Bulger Gallery
LL/2178
51 of 82
McClung Drug Co.
1930s (ca)
Gelatin silver print
12 x 8.75
Andrew Smith Gallery
LL/2434
52 of 82
Untitled
n.d.
Gelatin silver print
Stephen Bulger Gallery
LL/2180
53 of 82
Coal Miner Waiting For A Ride. Each Pays 25 Cents A Week To Car Owner. WV
1938
Gelatin silver print
9.1 x 8.6
Andrew Smith Gallery
LL/2435
54 of 82
Sunday afternoon in New Orleans, Louisiana.
1941, January (?)
Gelatin silver print
8 x 10 ins (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
NYPL - New York Public Library
Farm Security Administration Collection, Catalog Call Number: 031195-M4, Digital ID: 4001049, Record ID: 2320149
LL/48479
55 of 82
Child flood refugees. Tent City near Shawneetown, Illinois.
1937, April
Gelatin silver print
8 x 10 ins (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
NYPL - New York Public Library
Farm Security Administration Collection, Catalog Call Number: 010657-D, Digital ID: 4001359, Record ID: 2320304
LL/48453
56 of 82
New growth of pine forest in Black River Falls project, Wisconsin.
1937, June
Gelatin silver print
8 x 10 ins (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
NYPL - New York Public Library
Farm Security Administration Collection, Catalog Call Number: 030532-A, Digital ID: 3969623, Record ID: 2034784
LL/48454
57 of 82
Bedroom in farm home in Minnesota cut-over lands, near Northome.
1937, Setember
Gelatin silver print
8 x 10 ins (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
NYPL - New York Public Library
Farm Security Administration Collection, Catalog Call Number: 030699-D, Digital ID: 4000993, Record ID: 2320121
LL/48455
58 of 82
View in slaughter house in the meat section at the experimental farm of the United States Department of Agriculture. Beltsville, Maryland.
1935, November
Gelatin silver print
7 13/16 x 9 11/16 ins (19.8 x 24.6 cm)
NYPL - New York Public Library
Farm Security Administration Collection, Catalog Call Number: 000027-M1, Digital ID: 3969585, Record ID: 2034765
LL/48457
59 of 82
View of three types of cow (dairy, beef, and dual purpose) developed at the experimental farm of the U.S.D.A. Prince Georges County. Beltsville, Maryland.
1935, November
Gelatin silver print
8 x 10 ins (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
NYPL - New York Public Library
Farm Security Administration Collection, Catalog Call Number: 000043-M4, Digital ID: 4000645, Record ID: 2319947
LL/48458
60 of 82
Horse. Prince Georges County, Beltsville, Maryland.
1935, August
Gelatin silver print
8 x 10 ins (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
NYPL - New York Public Library
Farm Security Administration Collection, Catalog Call Number: 000080-M4, Digital ID: 4000727, Record ID: 2319988
LL/48459
61 of 82
Cleaning greenhouse roof. Prince Georges County, Beltsville, Maryland.
1935, August
Gelatin silver print
7 1/4 x 9 1/4 ins (18.4 x 23.5 cm)
NYPL - New York Public Library
Farm Security Administration Collection, Catalog Call Number: 000099-M5, Digital ID: 3969583, Record ID: 2034764
LL/48460
62 of 82
Cattle. Prince Georges County, Beltsville, Maryland.
1935, November
Gelatin silver print
10 x 8 ins (25.4 x 20.3 cm)
NYPL - New York Public Library
Farm Security Administration Collection, Catalog Call Number: 000232-M5, Digital ID: 3969591, Record ID: 2034768
LL/48461
63 of 82
Testing meats at the Department of Agriculture. Beltsville, Maryland.
1935, August
Gelatin silver print
8 x 10 ins (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
NYPL - New York Public Library
Farm Security Administration Collection, Catalog Call Number: 000254-M5, Digital ID: 3969589, Record ID: 2034767
LL/48462
64 of 82
Old horse sign in Manchester, New Hampshire.
1936, October
Gelatin silver print
8 x 10 ins (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
NYPL - New York Public Library
Farm Security Administration Collection, Catalog Call Number: 000839-M1, Digital ID: 4000593, Record ID: 2319921
LL/48463
65 of 82
Cotton patch showing rocky character of land at Crabtree Creek recreational demonstration area near Raleigh, North Carolina.
1936, March
Gelatin silver print
8 x 10 ins (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
NYPL - New York Public Library
Farm Security Administration Collection, Catalog Call Number: 001982-D, Digital ID: 3999803, Record ID: 2319526
LL/48464
66 of 82
Cotton patch showing rocky character of land at Crabtree Creek recreational demonstration area near Raleigh, North Carolina.
1936, March
Gelatin silver print
8 x 10 ins (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
NYPL - New York Public Library
Farm Security Administration Collection, Catalog Call Number: 001983-D, Digital ID: 3999805, Record ID: 2319527
LL/48465
67 of 82
Carpenter. Berwyn project, [Greenbe] Maryland.
1936, February
Gelatin silver print
10 x 8 ins (25.4 x 20.3 cm)
NYPL - New York Public Library
Farm Security Administration Collection, Catalog Call Number: 002265-B, Digital ID: 4001565, Record ID: 2320407
LL/48466
68 of 82
Anacostia, D.C. Frederick Douglass housing project. Mother watching her children as she prepares the evening meal.
1942, July
Gelatin silver print
10 x 8 ins (25.4 x 20.3 cm)
NYPL - New York Public Library
Farm Security Administration Collection, Catalog Call Number: 013377-C, Digital ID: 3969615, Record ID: 2034780
LL/48467
69 of 82
Cooperative filling station at Arthurdale project. Reedsville, West Virginia.
1937, February
Gelatin silver print
8 x 10 ins (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
NYPL - New York Public Library
Farm Security Administration Collection, Catalog Call Number: 013114-D,Digital ID: 4001535, Record ID: 2320392
LL/48456
70 of 82
Backyards, Baltimore, Maryland.
1938, July
Gelatin silver print
8 x 10 ins (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
NYPL - New York Public Library
Farm Security Administration Collection, Catalog Call Number: 020020-M4, Digital ID: 4000865, Record ID: 2320057
LL/48442
71 of 82
Children in slum district. Baltimore, Maryland.
1938, July
Gelatin silver print
10 x 8 ins (25.4 x 20.3 cm)
NYPL - New York Public Library
Farm Security Administration Collection, Catalog Call Number: 020028-M2, Digital ID: 4000915, Record ID: 2320082
LL/48443
72 of 82
Living room of new Greenbelt house. Greenbelt, Maryland.
1936, September
Gelatin silver print
8 x 10 ins (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
NYPL - New York Public Library
Farm Security Administration Collection, Catalog Call Number: 011328-B, Digital ID: 4001531, Record ID: 2320390
LL/48441
73 of 82
Children of migrant fruit worker, Berrien County, Mich.
1940, July
Gelatin silver print
8 x 10 ins (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
NYPL - New York Public Library
Farm Security Administration Collection, Catalog Call Number: 001995-M5, Digital ID: 3999819, Record ID: 2319534
LL/48478
74 of 82
[Plowing on a Maryland farm?]
1936
Gelatin silver print
8 x 10 ins (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
NYPL - New York Public Library
Farm Security Administration Collection, Catalog Call Number: 002823-C, Digital ID: 4001447, Record ID: 2320348
LL/48440
75 of 82
Experimental photo panel prepared by Edwin Rosskam in 1940
1940
Negative
4 x 5 in or smaller.
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
LC-USF34-007533-ZC
LL/8002
76 of 82
Experimental photo panel prepared by Edwin Rosskam in 1940
1940
Negative
4 x 5 in or smaller.
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
LC-USF34-007526-ZC
LL/8003
77 of 82
This is America... smile, man, smile
1940-1945
Poster
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Courtesy of Smithsonian National Museum of American History (Photo 91-16227) - Gift of Sheldon-Claire Company
LL/6656
78 of 82
This is America...where Main Street is bigger than Broadway
1940-1945
Poster
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Courtesy of Smithsonian National Museum of American History (Photo 91-2541) - Gift of Sheldon-Claire Company
LL/6657
79 of 82
Book cover for Dorothea Lange "An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion. Text by Paul Taylor" (New York: Reynald Hitchcock, 1939)
1939
Book cover
Christie's - New York
Christies - NY (Sale 2110: Lot 63 - April 10, 2008 - Fine Photobooks from an Important Private Collection)
LL/28386
80 of 82
Book cover for Dorothea Lange "An American Exodus. A record of human erosion" (New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939 - First edition)
1939
Book cover
Van Ham Fine Art Auctions
Van Ham - Contemporary Photographs, Literature on Photography (June 14, 2008) Lot: 109
LL/29188 [Further details available]
81 of 82
Book cover for Walker Evans "Photographs for the Farm Security Administration, 1935-1938" (New York: Da Capo Press, 1973)
1973
Book cover
Stockholms Auktionsverk
Photographica, 4 April 2011, Lot: 4357
LL/43521 [Further details available]
82 of 82
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