#OTD in 1934
#FederalEmergencyReliefAdministration (#FERA)
Distribution of clothing at 413 Fairview Avenue North, Seattle, October 10, 1934
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#GreatDepression #TheNewDeal

‘Festival’ Daniel Celentano (New York 1902-1980). Oil on canvas. Public Works of Art Project. Smithsonian American Art Museum. Transfer from the U.S. Department of Labor. 1934.
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#DanielCelentano #TheNewDeal #PWAP #AmericanArt

Changing New York series, #WPA #FederalArtProject October 9, 1935
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In #OCTOBER 1940
‘Jim Norris, homesteader, Pie Town, New Mexico’
Color transparency by Russell Lee (1903-1986) for the #FarmSecurityAdministration. October 1940.
#PieTown #NewMexico #homesteading #homesteaders #farming #farmers #RussellLee #colorphotography #TheNewDeal

In #OCTOBER 1940
‘Home of Jim Norris, homesteader, Pie Town, New Mexico’ Color transparency by Russell Lee (1903-1986) for the #FarmSecurityAdministration. October 1940.
#PieTown #NewMexico #homesteading #homesteaders #farming #farmers #RussellLee #colorphotography #TheNewDeal

‘Typical Lake Dick farm home[s].’ Photographer Russell Lee (1903-1986) in October 1938.
#blackandwhitephotography #RussellLee #TheNewDeal #cooperatives #farming #housing #houses #LakeDick #Arkansas

‘Looking Across the Lake, Lake Dick Project, Arkansas.’
Photographer Russell Lee (1903-1986)
October 1938
#blackandwhitephotography #RussellLee #TheNewDeal #cooperatives #farming #housing #houses #LakeDick #Arkansas

to work for themselves. Here 3,453 acres had been purchased, and 80 #houses, 6 community buildings and several farm support structures built, to create a cooperative farm community.
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#blackandwhitephotography #RussellLee #TheNewDeal #cooperatives #housing #LakeDick #Arkansas

Map ‘Raw Materials for a U.S. Ruhr’ *Fortune*. Detail.
#TVA #TennesseeValleyAuthority #TheNewDeal

Map ‘Raw Materials for a U.S. Ruhr’ *Fortune*. Details.
#TVA #TennesseeValleyAuthority #TheNewDeal

In #Fortune #OCTOBER 1933
#TVA - 2
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As #LewisHine was at work, an article by #JamesAgee gives as vivid, incisive and - of course - magnificently written a picture as possible of the problems posed by the #TennesseeValley and of the goals of the TVA - and #theNewDeal.
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there with a series of color transparencies for the photography program of the Farm Security Administration (former Resettlement Administration) in October of 1940.
#PieTown #NewMexico #homesteading #homesteaders #farmers #farmlife #RussellLee #colorphotography #TheNewDeal

Panoramic view of Lake Dick Project. Community center in foreground. Lake Dick, Arkansas.’ Photographer Russell Lee (1903-1986). October 1938.
#blackandwhitephotography #RussellLee #TheNewDeal #cooperatives #farming #LakeDick #Arkansas

to work for themselves. Here 3,453 acres had been purchased, and 80 houses, 6 community buildings and several farm support structures built, to create a cooperative farm community.
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#blackandwhitephotography #RussellLee #TheNewDeal #cooperatives #farming #LakeDick #Arkansas

In #OCTOBER 1940
‘Dugout house of Faro Caudill, homesteader with Mt. Allegro in the background, Pie Town, New Mexico’
Color transparency by #RussellLee (1903-1986) for the #FarmSecurityAdministration October 1940
#PieTown #homesteading #TheNewDeal #colorphotography #NewMexico

Putting up soybean hay. The man driving the mule in these photos is the president of Cooperative Association.
Photographer Russell Lee (1903-1986). October 1938.
#blackandwhitephotography #RussellLee #TheNewDeal #cooperatives #farming #LakeDick #Arkansas

to work for themselves. Here 3,453 acres had been purchased, and 80 houses, 6 community buildings and several farm support structures built, to create a cooperative farm community.
#blackandwhitephotography #RussellLee #TheNewDeal #cooperatives #farming #LakeDick #Arkansas

*Changing New York* series (1935-1938), Federal Art Project. October 3, 1935.
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#BereniceAbbott #Manhattan #WPA #FederalArtProject #TheNewDeal #photography #photographyart #photographers #streetphotography #blackandwhitephotography #Bowery

In #OCTOBER 1942
(WPA) Women at work on bomber, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. October 1942.
Photograph by Alfred Palmer (1906-1993 👉ALT)
#WW2 #womenWW2 #WPA #TheNewDeal #DefenseProduction #AlfredPalmer #DouglasAircraft #aircraft #bombers

In #OCTOBER 1940
‘Faro and Doris Caudill, homesteaders. Pie Town, New Mexico’
Color slide by Russell Lee (1903-1986) for the Farm Security Administration, October 1940
#PieTown #NewMexico #homesteading #RussellLee #FarmSecurityAdministration #colorphotography #farming #TheNewDeal