Title

Night meeting in the FSA office, Tulare County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Caption

Night meeting in the Farm Security Administration office, Rural Rehabilitation Division, Visalia, Tulare County, California. 144 families have applied for farm purchase loans under the Farm Tenancy Act, passed by Congress in 1937. Ten applicants from this region of four counties will be finally selected.

Date

1937

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM22A50_457

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

143,6Mb (4,3Mb) / 27,4in x 20,4in / 8206 x 6116 (300dpi)

Keywords

California agriculture female women woman people male library job man men farming meeting economics country guy occupation photography farmer location century profession loan thirties concept depression negative recession loans B&W borrowing Library of Congress United States of America applicant black & white black and white B W 1930s 20th century Great Depression farmers American America USA TGN photograph united states Congressional Library Heritage Art Dorothea Lange Lange Dorothea Taylor Dorothea Lange Dorothea Lange Taylor Russell Lee Lee Russell Farm Security Administration FSA Office of War Information OWI Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn Nutzhorn Dorothea Margaretta nitrate negative Rural Rehabilitation Administration sharecropper tenant farmer sharecroppers applicants