About the FSA Collection

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Description of the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information (FSA-OWI) Photograph Collection at the Library of Congress.  History of the New Deal photographic unit and its creation of documentary images from 1935 to 1943, which portray scenes of the Great Depression, farms and small town life, and the buildup of American industry for World War II.

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