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America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945
URL: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html

Description:
More than 160,000 black-and-white and 1600 color photographs from the Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information collection have been digitized. Includes scenes of rural and small-town life, migrant labor, the effects of the Great Depression, and mobilization for World War II. Keyword searchable and browsable by subject, creator (photographers such as Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Ben Shahn, and Gordon Parks) and place. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress.

Publisher:
Library of Congress

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
United States -- History
United States -- History -- Photographs
United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945

LII Database Information:
Record 1128 created by Jody Moser Brewster on 06/19/1999
Last modification on 01/02/2009
Published: 06/19/1999  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/1128