Category:Farm Security Administration images

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The Farm Security Administration (FSA) was created in the United States Department of Agriculture in 1937. The FSA and its predecessor, the US Resettlement Administration (RA), were New Deal programs designed to assist poor farmers during the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression. Roy Emerson Stryker was the head of a special photographic section in the RA and FSA from 1935- 1942. During its eight-year existence, the section created 77,000 black-and-white documentary still photographs now preserved in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. Beginning in 1939, it also created 644 color documentary still photographs. The section's documentary project continued for one year after the unit moved to the Office of War Information in 1942.