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Farm Security Administration Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 6125 P

Dates

  • 1936-1938

Creator

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

Contact:
227 Ives Hall Tower Road
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3183