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
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