United States Farm Security Administration Photographs of Arkansas

Collection

Identifier: MC 499

Staff Only
Select files to request

Scope and Content Note

Microphotographic transparencies duplicated by the Office of War Information in 1945 from original photographs created by the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937) and the Farm Security Administration (1937-1939) of Arkansas subjects. The photographs document rural and urban life in many counties and towns in Arkansas during the Depression.

Dates

1935-1939

Creator

United States. Farm Security Administration (Organization)

Language of Materials

Materials are in English.

Access Information

Please call (479) 575-8444 or email specoll@uark.edu at least two weeks in advance of your arrival to ensure availability of the materials.

Use Information

No Use Restrictions Apply.

No Interlibrary Loan.

Standard Federal Copyright Laws Apply (U.S. Title 17).

Biographical Note

The Farm Security Administration was an agency created in the New Deal as a successor to the Resettlement Administration in 1937. The agency was created to combat rural poverty during the Great Depression.

Extent

.1 Linear Feet (1 item)

Additional Description

Arrangement of the Papers

The collection consists of a single item, housed in a box with other smaller manuscript collections.

Acquisition Information

The United States Farm Security Administration Photographs of Arkansas were purchased by Special Collections, University of Arkansas Libraries in 1982 from the Library of Congress Photoduplication Service of Washington, D. C.