Part of FDR’s New Deal during the Great Depression was the Farm Security Administration helping rural Americans
struggling to keep their farms going.Included in the program was to photograph participants showing their plight
and progress. I suspect it was to hush critics wanting to know exactly where the money went too but it resulted
in a hoard of hundreds of thousands of photographs documenting the depression in America.
Shorpy brings us one of those photographs with the title, No Man’s Land.
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May 1940. Grant County, Illinois. "FSA rehabilitation borrower operating tractor. She and her mother run the farm without the assistance of any men." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration.
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