Farm Security Administration photographs

E272974

United States government work documentary photography project photographic collection

Farm Security Administration photographs are a renowned body of documentary images from the 1930s and early 1940s that vividly captured the hardships of the Great Depression and rural American life.

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All labels observed (14)

Label	Occurrences
Farm Security Administration photography project	11
Farm Security Administration photography	5
Farm Security Administration documentary photography project	2
Farm Security Administration documentary project	2
FSA sharecropper portraits	1
Farm Security Administration documentary photographs	1
Farm Security Administration photographs canonical	1
Farm Security Administration photographs of the American South	1
Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection	1
Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Photograph Collection at the Library of Congress	1
Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information photographic collection	1
Farm Security Administration–Office of War Information Collection	1
Farm Security Administration–Office of War Information photographic collection	1
Farm Security Administration–Office of War Information photographic project	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2508355 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Farm Security Administration photographs
Context triple: [Dorothea Lange, knownFor, Farm Security Administration photographs]

A. Farm Security Administration photographers
Farm Security Administration photographers were a group of U.S. government-hired documentary photographers in the 1930s and early 1940s who created iconic images of rural poverty and New Deal America.
B. Resettlement Administration
The Resettlement Administration was a New Deal U.S. federal agency that relocated struggling rural families, developed planned communities, and implemented land conservation and rehabilitation projects during the Great Depression.
C. Agricultural Adjustment Administration
The Agricultural Adjustment Administration was a New Deal agency that sought to raise agricultural prices and support farmers by reducing crop surpluses through government intervention and subsidies.
D. Civil Works Administration
The Civil Works Administration was a short-lived U.S. federal jobs program of the New Deal that provided millions of unemployed workers with temporary manual labor on public works projects during the Great Depression.
E. Federal Emergency Relief Administration
The Federal Emergency Relief Administration was a New Deal agency that provided direct relief and work relief to millions of unemployed Americans during the Great Depression.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Farm Security Administration photographs
Target entity description: Farm Security Administration photographs are a renowned body of documentary images from the 1930s and early 1940s that vividly captured the hardships of the Great Depression and rural American life.

A. Farm Security Administration photographers
Farm Security Administration photographers were a group of U.S. government-hired documentary photographers in the 1930s and early 1940s who created iconic images of rural poverty and New Deal America.
B. Resettlement Administration
The Resettlement Administration was a New Deal U.S. federal agency that relocated struggling rural families, developed planned communities, and implemented land conservation and rehabilitation projects during the Great Depression.
C. Agricultural Adjustment Administration
The Agricultural Adjustment Administration was a New Deal agency that sought to raise agricultural prices and support farmers by reducing crop surpluses through government intervention and subsidies.
D. Civil Works Administration
The Civil Works Administration was a short-lived U.S. federal jobs program of the New Deal that provided millions of unemployed workers with temporary manual labor on public works projects during the Great Depression.
E. Federal Emergency Relief Administration
The Federal Emergency Relief Administration was a New Deal agency that provided direct relief and work relief to millions of unemployed Americans during the Great Depression.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	United States government work ⓘ documentary photography project ⓘ photographic collection ⓘ
aimedAt	building public support for New Deal policies ⓘ
archiveAt	Library of Congress ⓘ Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress ⓘ linked to: Prints and Photographs Division
commissionedBy	Farm Security Administration ⓘ United States federal government ⓘ linked to: United States government
continuedAs	Office of War Information photography project ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
curatedBy	Roy Stryker ⓘ
depicts	Dust Bowl migrants ⓘ Great Depression in the United States ⓘ linked to: Great Depression New Deal programs ⓘ poverty in the United States ⓘ rural life in the United States ⓘ sharecroppers ⓘ tenant farmers ⓘ
endTime	1944 ⓘ
genre	documentary photography ⓘ photojournalism ⓘ
hasPart	Office of War Information photographs ⓘ
hasPhotographer	Arthur Rothstein ⓘ Ben Shahn ⓘ Carl Mydans ⓘ Dorothea Lange ⓘ Esther Bubley ⓘ Gordon Parks ⓘ Jack Delano ⓘ John Vachon ⓘ Marion Post Wolcott ⓘ Russell Lee ⓘ Walker Evans ⓘ
inception	Resettlement Administration photography project ⓘ linked to: Resettlement Administration
influenced	American documentary photography ⓘ photojournalism in the United States ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
license	public domain ⓘ
medium	black-and-white photography ⓘ color photography ⓘ
notableWork	Allie Mae Burroughs portraits ⓘ Migrant Mother ⓘ
numberOfItems	over 170000 ⓘ
organizedBy	Roy Stryker ⓘ
partOf	Farm Security Administration ⓘ
startTime	1935 ⓘ
subject	child labor and child poverty ⓘ economic hardship ⓘ farm labor and agricultural work ⓘ race relations in the United States ⓘ rural housing conditions ⓘ

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