EXHIBITION CATALOG
01. Day laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Mississippi, 1939 / Marion Post Wolcott
02. Jim Norris, homesteader, Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940 / Russell Lee
03. Eagle Fruit Store and Capital Hotel, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1942 / John Vachon
04. Mr. Leatherman, homesteader, tying up cauliflower, Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940 / Russell Lee
05. General store, near Questa, Taos County, New Mexico, 1943 / John Collier
06. Negroes fishing in creek near cotton plantations outside Belzoni, Mississippi, 1939 / Marion Post Wolcott
07. Mountaineers and farmers trading mules and horses on "Jockey St.," near the Court House, Campton, Wolfe County, Kentucky, 1940 / Marion Post Wolcott
08. Headlines posted in street-corner window of newspaper office (Brockton Enterprise), Brockton, Massachusetts, 1940 / Jack Delano
09. Sorting and packing tomatoes at the Yauco Cooperative Tomato Growers Association, Puerto Rico, 1942 / Jack Delano
10. Malaria poster in small hotel, Puerto Rico, San Juan, 1941 / Jack Delano
11. FSA borrower who lives in village La Vallee, St. Croix island, Virgin Islands, 1941 / Jack Delano
12. Tobacco string in the tobacco barn? vicinity of Barranquitas? Puerto Rico, 1942 / Jack Delano
13. Courtyard of the Pan American Building, Washington, D.C., 1943 / John Collier
14. Children with adult in the tenement district, Brockton, Massachusetts, 1940 / Jack Delano
15. Main Street, Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940 / Russell Lee
16. Jack Whinery and his family, homesteaders, Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940 / Russell Lee
17. A Negro family seated on the porch of a house. Bayou Bourbeau plantation, a FSA cooperative, Natchitoches, Louisiana, 1940 / Marion Post Wolcott
18. Les Thomas, homesteader, Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940 / Russell Lee
19. Farm Security Administration borrower, vicinity of Frederiksted, St. Croix, Virgin Islands, 1941 / Jack Delano
20. Boys sitting on truck parked at the FSA labor camp, Robstown, Texas, 1942 / Arthur Rothstein
21. Shulman's market, on N at Union Street S.W., Washington, D.C., between 1941 and 1942 / Louise Rosskam
22. Children aiming sticks as guns, lined up against a brick building, Washington, D.C.?, 1939
23. Sawmill at the Greensboro Lumber Co., Greensboro, Georgia, 1941 / Jack Delano
24. Santa Fe R.R. train, Melrose, New Mexico, 1943 / Jack Delano
![25. L. Logan, of West Chicago, boilermaker at the roundhouse at the Proviso yard. Melrose Park (near Chicago), Illinois; C & NW RR [i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad], 1942 / Jack Delano](https://galleryf11.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/12-325x217.jpg)
25. L. Logan, of West Chicago, boilermaker at the roundhouse at the Proviso yard. Melrose Park (near Chicago), Illinois; C & NW RR [i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad], 1942 / Jack Delano
![26. Two employees at the roundhouse at Proviso yard, C & NW RR [i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad], Chicago, Illinois, 1942 / Jack Delano](https://galleryf11.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/09-325x217.jpg)
26. Two employees at the roundhouse at Proviso yard, C & NW RR [i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad], Chicago, Illinois, 1942 / Jack Delano
27. Night view of part of the South Water street freight terminal of the Illinois Central R.R., Chicago, Illinois, 1943 / Jack Delano
![28. View in a departure yard at C & NW RR's [i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad's] Proviso (?) yard at twilight, Chicago, Illinois, 1942 / Jack Delano](https://galleryf11.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/11-325x217.jpg)
28. View in a departure yard at C & NW RR's [i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad's] Proviso (?) yard at twilight, Chicago, Illinois, 1942 / Jack Delano
29. Belt Railway, looking toward the west yard of clearing yard, taken from bridge of hump, Chicago, Illinois, 1943 / Jack Delano
30. Diesel switch engine moving freight cars at the South Water street freight terminal of the Illinois Central R.R., Chicago, Illinois, 1943 / Jack Delano
31. Loading a freighter with coal at one of the three coal docks owned by the Pennsylvania Railroad, Sandusky, Ohio, 1943 / Jack Delano
32. Men working on telephone lines, probably near a TVA dam hydroelectric plant, Tennessee, 1942 / Alfred Palmer
33. Scrap and salvage depot, Butte, Montana, 1942 / Russell Lee
34. Workers leaving Pennsylvania shipyards, Beaumont, Texas, 1943 / John Vachon
35. Women workers employed as wipers in the roundhouse having lunch in their rest room, C. & N.W. R.R., Clinton, Iowa, 1943 / Jack Delano
![36. Car jacked up for repairs on the repair tracks, North Proviso, C & NW RR [i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad] Chicago, Illinois, 1942 / Jack Delano](https://galleryf11.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/10-325x217.jpg)
36. Car jacked up for repairs on the repair tracks, North Proviso, C & NW RR [i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad] Chicago, Illinois, 1942 / Jack Delano
37. John Paulinski, car inspector, blue flagging a train for inspection, at Corwith yard, Santa Fe RR trip, Chicago, Illinois, 1943 / Jack Delano
38. Sylvia Sweets Tea Room, corner of School and Main streets, Brockton, Massachusetts, 1940 / Jack Delano
39. Street corner, Brockton, Massachusetts, 1941 / Jack Delano
40. Connecticut town, probably Stonington, on the sea, 1940 / Jack Delano
41. A view of the old sea town, Stonington, Connecticut, 1940 / Jack Delano
42. At the Vermont state fair, Rutland, 1941 / Jack Delano
43. At the Vermont state fair, Rutland, 1941 / Jack Delano
44. At the Vermont state fair, Rutland, "backstage" at the "girlie" show, 1941 / Jack Delano
45. On the ferris wheel at the Vermont state fair, Rutland, 1941 / Jack Delano
46. Poster for a side show at the Vermont state fair, Rutland, 1941 / Jack Delano
47. "Backstage" at the "girlie" show at the Vermont state fair, Rutland, 1941 / Jack Delano
48. Couples at square dance, McIntosh County, Oklahoma, 1939 or 1940 / Russell Lee
49. Field of daisies and orange flowers, possibly hawkweed, Vermont, 1943 / John Collier
50. Tying a ribbon on a calf's tail was one of the feature attractions at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair rodeo, 1940 / Russell Lee
51. Men in front of outdoor fire, Pie Town Fair, New Mexico, 1940 / Russell Lee
52. Saying grace before the barbeque dinner at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair, 1940 / Russell Lee
53. Door and window in a Spanish-American home, Costilla, New Mexico, 1940 / Russell Lee
54. Gas pump with clothesline, barn and horse-drawn wagon in background, between 1941 and 1942
55. Road out of Romney, West Virginia, 1942 or 1943 / John Vachon
56. Negro boy near Cincinnati, Ohio, 1942 or 1943 / John Vachon
57. General store, Chacon, New Mexico, 1943 / John Collier
58. Houses and factories, between 1941 and 1942
59. Woman working on an airplane motor at North American Aviation, Inc., plant in California, 1942 / Alfred Palmer
60. Men and women make efficient operating teams on riveting and other jobs at the Douglas Aircraft plant, Long Beach, California, 1942 / Alfred Palmer
61. Working inside the nose of a PBY, Elmer J. Pace is learning the construction of Navy planes, Corpus Christi, Texas, 1942 / Howard Hollem
62. A noontime rest for a full-fledged assembly worker at the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company, 1942 / Alfred Palmer
63. Girl inspector confers with a worker as she makes a a careful check of center wings for C-47 transport planes, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, California, 1942 / Alfred Palmer
64. Girl inspectors at the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company make a careful check of center wings for C-47 transport planes, 1942 / Alfred Palmer
65. This girl in a glass house is putting finishing touches on the bombardier nose section of a B-17F navy bomber, Long Beach, California, 1942 / Alfred Palmer
66. Farm Security Administration borrower, vicinity of Frederiksted, St. Croix, Virgin Islands, 1941 / Jack Delano
67. Chopping cotton on rented land near White Plains, Greene County, Georgia, 1941 / Jack Delano
68. Backyard of Negro tenant's home, Marcella Plantation, Mileston, Mississippi Delta, 1939 / Marion Post Wolcott
69. FSA - Tenant Purchase borrowers? by their house, Puerto Rico, 1941 / Jack Delano
70. Faro and Doris Caudill, homesteaders, Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940 / Russell Lee
71. Jim Norris and wife, homesteaders, Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940 / Russell Lee
72. Wheat farm, Walla Walla, Washington, 1941 / Russell Lee
73. Grain elevators, Caldwell, Idaho, 1941 / Russell Lee
74. Steel and concrete go into place rapidly as a new steel mill takes form, Columbia Steel Co., Geneva, Utah, 1942 / Andreas Feininger
75. Worker at carbon black plant, Sunray, Texas, 1942 / John Vachon
76. Traffic at 5:30 on Second Avenue, Detroit, Michigan, 1942 / Arthur Siegel
77. Woman putting on her lipstick in a park with Union Station behind her, Washington, D.C., 1943
78. Little girl in a park with Union Station in the background, Washington, D.C., 1943
About the FSA and OWI archive
FSA (Farm Security Administration) - Farm Security Administration, an American federal agency (formerly the Resettlement Administration, 1935-1937) created to fight rural poverty in the United States during the Great Depression. Widely known for its photographic program (1935-1942), which in different years employed such photographers as Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Gordon Parks, Marion Post Walcott, Arthur Rothstein, Ben Schoen, John Vashon, Russell Lee, Jack Delano, John Collier, Carl Meadans, etc.
Roy Stryker, who headed the FSA's photographic program, managed to create a huge photographic archive consisting of more than 250,000 black and white and about 1600 color photographs (including the OWI collection).
OWI (Office of War Information) - Office of War Information. It was formed in 1942 for the purpose of creating a large-scale information and propaganda campaign about the participation of the United States in World War II.
Now the FSA and OWI photo archive is stored in the Library of Congress and is publicly available.
The exhibition features photographs by 11 authors: Marion Post Walcott, Russell Lee, John Vashon, John Collier, Jack Delano, Arthur Rothstein, Louise Rosskam, Alfred Palmer, Howard Hollem, Andreas Feininger, Arthur Siegel.