Farm Security Administration #5: Ben Shahn

1937. Men loafing. Crossville, Tennessee.

Advertisements for popular malaria cure. Natchez, Mississippi
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October 1935. Among the few remaining inhabitants of Zinc, Arkansas, deserted mining town.

October 1935. Boone County, Arkansas. The family of a Resettlement Administration client in the doorway of their home.

October 1935. Children of rehabilitation client, Maria Plantation, Arkansas.

October 1935. Coal miner in Jenkins, Kentucky.

October 1935. Coal miners' houses in Omar, West Virginia.

October 1935. Cotton picker in Pulaski County, Arkansas.

October 1935. Cotton pickers in Pulaski County, Arkansas.

October 1935. Destitute Ozark resident, Arkansas.

October 1935. Interior of tenant farmer home. Little Rock, Arkansas.

October 1935. Medicine show at Huntingdon, Tennessee.

October 1935. Men of Maynardville, Tennessee. 

October 1935. Men of Maynardville, Tennessee.

October 1935. One of the few remaining inhabitants of Zinc, Arkansas, deserted mining town.

October 1935. Poverty on the march.

October 1935. Residents of Amite City, Louisiana.

October 1935. Workers coming off the job at Consolidated Coal in Jenkins, Kentucky.

September 1935. Resident of Smithland, Kentucky.

Summer 1938. At the bus station in Marion, Ohio

Summer 1938. Hamburger stand at the Buckeye Lake amusement park near Columbus

Summer 1938. On Route 40 in central Ohio, moving combine and tractor.

Summer 1938. Passing the time outside the bus station in Marion, Ohio.

Summer 1938. Saturday afternoon shopping in London, Ohio.

Summer 1938. Thermometer sign. Marion, Ohio.

Summer 1938. Tourist signs in Central Ohio.

 Summer 1938. Circleville, Ohio. "Dwellers in Circleville's 'Hooverville.' During Depression many farms of the district were foreclosed. People who lost homes naturally gravitated toward the town. A town of its character is unable to house new influx of population. Consequently there sprang up around it an extensive Hooverville."
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Agosto 1938 Urbana Ohio

Agosto 1938 Urbana Ohio
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October 1935 West Memphis Arkansas