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From Dustbowl And Dairy Farm To Defense Housing: Understanding The Farm Security Administration Photographs Of Bath Iron Works, Rachel Miller
From Dustbowl And Dairy Farm To Defense Housing: Understanding The Farm Security Administration Photographs Of Bath Iron Works, Rachel Miller
Maine History
In the late 1930s and early 1940s, Roy Stryker and his team of photographers at the Farm Security Administration (FSA) set out to create images of America that could bolster the spirit of the country in the midst of economic depression and international war. By 1940, photographs of small towns and America’s increasing military capability were common. In December 1940, Stryker sent photographer Jack Delano to Bath, Maine, to document the housing shortage for workers at the Bath Iron Works. This assignment was part of the FSA’s project to monitor and record migrant populations during the Great Depression, with the …