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(via Double Rich: 1941 | Shorpy Historical Photo Archive)

July 1941. “Chicago. Waiting for a streetcar.” 35mm nitrate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

(via Tuf Nut: 1940 | Shorpy Historical Photo Archive)

February 1940. Muskogee County, Oklahoma. “Farm boy eating pie which he bought at auction and which was made by the girl with whom he is sitting.” Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

(via Paddy Wagon: 1936 | Shorpy Historical Photo Archive)

September 1938. Abbeville, Louisiana. “Farmer’s truck at state rice mill.” 35mm negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

(via Photos of a Square Dance in McIntosh County, Oklahoma (1940) | The Public Domain Review)

Photographs taken during a square dance in McIntosh County in Oklahoma by photographers working for the U.S. government’s Farm Security Administration (FSA). The FSA and later the Office of War Information (OWI) between 1939 and 1944 made approximately 1,600 color photographs depicting life in the United States, including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. The pictures focused on rural areas and farm labor, as well as aspects of World War II mobilization, including factories, railroads, aviation training, and women working. 

(All images from the Library of Congress via Flickr Commons). 

(via Near Earle: 1936 | Shorpy Historical Photo Archive)

July 1936. “Negro women near Earle, Arkansas.” Medium-format nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

(via Iron Man: 1941 | Shorpy Historical Photo Archive)

August 1941. “One end of the Hull-Rust-Mahoning pit, largest open pit iron mine in the world, near Hibbing, Minnesota. The pit is two and a half miles long, three quarters of a mile wide and about four hundred feet deep.” Medium format safety negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

(via Or Else: 1938 | Shorpy Historical Photo Archive)

October 1938. “Sign at Rice Festival in Crowley, Louisiana.” Alternate title: “The Ballad of Competing (and Possibly Complementary) Imperatives.” 35mm nitrate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

(via Cajun Spice Girls: 1938 | Shorpy Historical Photo Archive)

October 1938. “Cajun girls at Rice Festival in Crowley, Louisiana.” 35mm nitrate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

(via Such Is Life: 1938 | Shorpy Historical Photo Archive)

October 1938. “Mother and children with popcorn, National Rice Festival, Crowley, Louisiana.” Valuable practice for the Popcorn Festival. 35mm nitrate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

(via Washed Up: 1939 | Shorpy Historical Photo Archive)

June 1939. Muskogee County, Oklahoma. “Near Webbers Falls. Sons of agricultural day laborer after washing up for dinner.” 35mm nitrate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.