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From The History Blog
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/32205
This is neat. You can search by county for farm and livestock photographs taken between 1935 and 1945 for the Roosevelt Administration /Resettlement Program.
http://photogrammar.yale.edu/map/
"By the end of the decade-long FSA-OWI photography programs, they had generated an extraordinary archive of almost 170,000 pictures, prints and negatives. The archive was kept at the Library of Congress, grouped together with the Office of Emergency Management-Office of War Information Collection, the American at War Collection and the Portrait of America Collection. Because the LoC is consistently awesome, the archives have been digitized and made available to the public. You can even surf the exceptional color photographs of the FSA-OSI collection on the LoC’s Flickr page.
To make perusing this record, following in the footsteps of the photographs as they crossed the country, easier, a team from Yale University with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities have created a web platform called Photogrammar. You can search the database by keyword, date, location or select the name of a photographer and browse all of his or her work. The best part, though, are the maps. There’s one organized by county (the darker the green the more photographs) and one where each photographer is represented by a dot of a different color. I especially love the dot map with the 1937 Vico Motor Oil Map feature turned on, because you can see the movements of the photographers on the street map. You can see all the photographers on the maps at once, or you can select one at a time from the dropdown menu."
Or go here and search a topic http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/fsa/
I searched cattle and there was a lot of interesting things to think about in the pictures.
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?q=cattle&sp=20&co=fsa
...NOT an endorsement of the New Deal, just looking at pictures
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/32205
This is neat. You can search by county for farm and livestock photographs taken between 1935 and 1945 for the Roosevelt Administration /Resettlement Program.
http://photogrammar.yale.edu/map/
"By the end of the decade-long FSA-OWI photography programs, they had generated an extraordinary archive of almost 170,000 pictures, prints and negatives. The archive was kept at the Library of Congress, grouped together with the Office of Emergency Management-Office of War Information Collection, the American at War Collection and the Portrait of America Collection. Because the LoC is consistently awesome, the archives have been digitized and made available to the public. You can even surf the exceptional color photographs of the FSA-OSI collection on the LoC’s Flickr page.
To make perusing this record, following in the footsteps of the photographs as they crossed the country, easier, a team from Yale University with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities have created a web platform called Photogrammar. You can search the database by keyword, date, location or select the name of a photographer and browse all of his or her work. The best part, though, are the maps. There’s one organized by county (the darker the green the more photographs) and one where each photographer is represented by a dot of a different color. I especially love the dot map with the 1937 Vico Motor Oil Map feature turned on, because you can see the movements of the photographers on the street map. You can see all the photographers on the maps at once, or you can select one at a time from the dropdown menu."
Or go here and search a topic http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/fsa/
I searched cattle and there was a lot of interesting things to think about in the pictures.
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?q=cattle&sp=20&co=fsa
...NOT an endorsement of the New Deal, just looking at pictures
