sharecroppers 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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In #SEPTEMBER-October 1938
Photos by #RussellLee (1903-1986) at the #LakeDick Resettlement Community, #Arkansas, for the Photography Project of the #ResettlementAdministration (by 1938 the #FarmSecurityAdministration)
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This was one of the #RA’s efforts to help ➡️
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‘Icing soft drink refrigerator in general store. Lake Dick Project, Arkansas.’
RA/FSA photographer Russell Lee. September 1938.
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In #SEPTEMBER 1938
#Photographer #RussellLee (1903-1986) at the #LakeDick Resettlement Community, #Arkansas, for the Photography Project of #ResettlementAdministration (by 1938 the #FarmSecurityAdministration)
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This was one of the #RA’s efforts to help ➡️
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‘School [and Community Center] at Greenbelt, Maryland.’
Photographer Marion Post Wolcott. September 1938.
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‘Cooperative gas station at Greenbelt, Maryland.’
#Photograph by Marion Post Wolcott.
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‘Cooperative store at Greenbelt, Maryland.’
Commercial activities in Greenbelt were community cooperatives.
Photograph by Marion Post Wolcott, September 1938.
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‘Mother and daughter cut flowers in their cottage style garden in Greenbelt, Maryland, near Washington, D.C., September 1938’ Photograph by Marion Post Wolcott
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In #SEPTEMBER 1938
#ResettlementAdministration – by then #FarmSecurityAdministration - #photographer #MarionPostWolcott (1910-1990) documents #Greenbelt, Maryland, as a now fully operational project - and community
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‘Granger homesteaders making a survey of their leisure hours. Iowa. Granger Homesteads, Iowa.’ Photographer Paul Carter. September 1936.
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‘Homesteader digging potatoes with tractor digger. Granger Homesteads, Iowa.’ Photographer Paul Carter. September 1936.
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‘Granger homesteaders. Granger, Iowa. [House with outbuildings.]’ Photographer Paul Carter. September 1936.
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‘Granger, Iowa. First baby born on Granger Homesteads. Granger, Dallas, Iowa’ Photographer Paul Carter. September 1936.
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‘Granger, Iowa. Homesteader granding [sic] his front lawn. Granger, Dallas, Iowa’
Photographer Paul Carter. September 1936.
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In #SEPTEMBER 1936
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#ResettlementAdministration #photographer Paul Carter visits the Granger Homesteads, Granger, Iowa, one of the Rural Resettlement Division’s Subsistence Homesteads cooperative communities - planned on federal land with new homes and other facilities.
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‘Houses [both types] nearing completion at #Greenbelt, Maryland.’ Photographer ‘Drier’. September 1936.
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‘Row houses [gable-roofed brick] nearing completion at #Greenbelt, Maryland.’
Photographer ‘Drier’. September 1936.
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In #SEPTEMBER 1936
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‘Row houses [gable-roofed brick] nearing completion at #Greenbelt, Maryland.’
Project staff photographer ‘Drier’, too, shot work in progress at the RA’s planned town & community in Sept. 1936.
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‘Completed [gable-roofed] brick-veneer row house at Greenbelt, Maryland.’ Photographer ‘Drier’. September 1936.
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‘Complete [flat-roofed] cinderblock house at Greenbelt, Maryland.’
Photographer ‘Drier’. September 1936.
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