Photography’s Role In The New Deal: How the Farm Security Administration introduced America to Americans

Federico Alegría
4 min readDec 16, 2018
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“Through these travels and the photographs I got to love the United States more than I could have in any other way.”

— Jack Delano

Between 1935 and 1943, photographers from the U.S. government’s Farm Security Administration (FSA) were assigned to travel across…

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