Farm Security Administration Photographs
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Dates
- 1936-1938
Creator
- United States Farm Security Administration (FSA) (creator, Organization)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
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Biographical / Historical
In an attempt to combat rural poverty, the United States, as part of the New Deal, created the Resettlement Administration (RA) in 1935. The RA turned into the Farm Security Administration (FSA).
The Farm Bureau criticized the FSA and their efforts to improve the lifestyle of sharecroppers, tenants, very poor landowning farmers, and a program to purchase submarginal land owned by poor famers and resettle them in group farms on land more suitable for efficient farming.
The Conservative coalition took control of Congress and it changed the FSA into a progam to help poor farmers buy land, that program is still in effect and is now called the Farmers Home Administration.
Extent
0.33 cubic feet
Quantity:
0.3 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Photographs.
General
- Contact Information:
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives 227 Ives Hall Tower Road Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3183 kheelref@cornell.edu https://catherwood.library.cornell.edu/kheel/
- Compiled by:
- Kheel Staff, March 20, 2013
- EAD encoding:
- Randall Miles, February 23, 2016
- Title
- Farm Security Administration Photographs
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Kheel Staff
- Date
- February 23, 2016
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Revision Statements
- 02/23/2024: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)
Repository Details
Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository