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Spiritual Union | 1940
A group of teenagers humming spirituals at an UCPAPWA (United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America) union meeting in Bristow, Oklahoma. These gatherings were at the time considered major social events, often taking on all of the trappings of old time revival meetings. Spirituals routinely vied with the union songs for popularity. Photographer Russell Lee on assignment for the U.S. Farm Security Administration, 1940.
Uploaded on Dec 27, 2009 Old School | 1936
A group of teenage boys sitting on a street bench in Waco, Texas. Photographer Russell Lee on assignment for the U.S. Farm Security Administration. 1936
Uploaded on Dec 27, 2009 All In The Family | 1936
A sharecropper with his family on Lady's Island, off the coast of Beaufort, South Carolina. Photographer Carl Mydans on assignment for the U.S. Farm Security Administration, 1936.
Uploaded on Dec 27, 2009 On The Road Again | 1940
A group of Florida migrant farm workers on their way to Cranberry, New Jersey, to pick potatoes. Photo taken near Shawboro, North Carolina. Photographer Jack Delano on assignment for the U.S. Farm Security Administration. 1940
Uploaded on Dec 27, 2009 A Day At The Fair | 1941
A family attending the Greene County fair in Greensboro, Georgia. Photographer, Jack Delano, on assignment for the U.S. Farm Security Administration. 1941
Uploaded on Dec 27, 2009 |
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