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The Farm Security Administration photographs serve as poignant documents of depression-era America and a rich visual archive.

Picture collection transfer (1992) to the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of art, prints and Photographs.

Quilting Party, Nebraska. n.d. by John Vachon
(FSA#8655D).

Poker game in home of day laborer.
Sunday afternoon,
near New Iberia, La.
October 1938,
by Russell Lee
(FSA#31881D).

General store interior,
Moundville, Alabama.
1935, by Walker Evans
(FSA#8164A).

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