USDA Land Use History Photographs

Assignment: First, scroll through all of the following slides and create a ½ page

(each) reflection on three of the following slides. One of the slides is required, the

fourth ½ page, and it will be identified within the presentation.

For each reflection, identify the slide by the title located at the top of the slide and include the photographers name.

USDA Land Use History Photographs

Plowing Field 1941 Georgia

Jack Delano

Italian Laborers 1941 New Jersey

Marion Post

Russell Lee

Picking String Beans 1939 Oklahoma

Arthur Rothstein

Hereford Cattle 1939

Iowa

Mexican Immigrants Picking Carrots 1939 Texas

Russell Lee

Migratory Farm Labor Camp- Crating Spinach 1942 Texas

Arthur Rothstein

Woman working

cotton- she was born 2

years before slavery

abolished- 1937

MississippiDorothea Lange

Tenant Farm Family 1936 Alabama

Dorothea Lange

Mexican Sugar Beet Workers 1936 South Dakota

Arthur Rothstein

Cultivating Sugar Cane 1941 Saint Croix Island, Virgin Islands Jack Delano

Taos, New Mexico 1941 Llano Quemado Rusinow

Taos, New Mexico 1941Rusinow

Tobacco Cultivation- Puerto Rico 1941

Jack Delano

Illinois 1940

• FSA rehabilitation borrower driving a tomato planter. His two little girls, sitting in the back, drop the plants into the ground and cover them up. John Vachon

Planting Corn Iowa 1940John Vachon

Assignment:

• The following caption accompanied the next picture: "Anyone who inspects one of these giant mechanized farms must realize that it foreshadows a fundamental change in American agriculture."

• Look at the following picture and then reflect in no fewer than five thoughtful sentences on what this means to our society.

Young Cotton Growing in Mechanized Field 1938 Texas Dorothea Lange

Dust Storm-1935 New Mexico

• What could have caused these epic dust storms?

Dorothea Lange

Town after a dust storm- 1936 Oklahoma

Arthur Rothstein

An Industrial Scene 1937 Alabama

Arthur Rothstein