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Greene county, Georgia : the story of one southern county, U.S. Department of agriculture, Farm security administration, Washington, D.C.
No full textElectronic reproduction. Canberra, A.C.T. : National Library of Australia, 2010
Mexican woman in her home, San Antonio, Texas, March 1939
No full textPhotograph of a Mexican woman from the chest up. She is seated with her right arm on a table with a kerosene lamp. Photographs and illustrated calendars are pinned on the wall behind her. Clothes are hanging from on wire hangers next to the lamp.Verso: [typed] Mexican woman in her home, San Antonio, Texas, March 1939. [stamped] F.S.A. Farm Security Administration. Photo by: Lee
History of the Farm Security Administration
Get PDF[Contents:] I. The Causes of Rural Poverty --- II. First Steps to Meet the Problem – A. Rehabilitation – B. Resettlement – C. Land Purchase --- III. Subsistence Homesteads --- IV. Easing the Debt Burden --- V. The Resettlement Administration – A. Land Utilization – B. Resettlement Division – 1. Subsistence Homesteads – 2. Community Farming Projects – 3. Scattered Farms – 4. Migrant Camps – C. Rehabilitation – 1. Farm Debt Adjustment – 2. Co-operative and Community Service Loans --- VI. The Farm Security Administration – A. The Tenant Purchase Program --- VII. Organization of FSA – A. County Office – B. District Office – C. State Office – D. Regional Office – E. Washington Office
Toward Farm Security: The Problem of Rural Poverty and the Work of the Farm Security Administration
Get PDFExcerpts from the Foreword: This volume was planned and prepared for the new Farm Security employee, and more particularly the new Farm Security Administration County Supervisor. Personnel older in service, and the district, State, regional, and Washington staffs of the Farm Security Administration, may also find it useful in many ways. But the book was designed primarily to orient the new County Supervisor to his or her job, and is intended as a general introduction to the theory and practice of Farm Security. As the title implies, this book discusses the problems of rural poverty, and the methods used by this agency which may lead from precariousness toward security on the farm. The treatment is neither comprehensive nor detailed. It is only a general guide to the more important aspects of Farm Security, and not a shortcut in training to carry out the complicated task of this program. In addition to a general description of the causes and effects of rural poverty, the inception of the Farm Security Administration, and the administrative and technical organization of this agency, the book contains practical advice to county supervisors which they may use to advantage. Though the new employee will still have to learn, through training and experience, the efficient use of forms and documents and effective cooperation with other agencies, the objectives and methods discussed here should supply a basic guide in situations requiring independent judgment. Appended at the end of the book the reader will find: A glossary of terms constantly used in Farm Security work, keyed to Farm Security Administration Instructions where the formal definitions are to be found; an explanation of crucial legal terms used in connection with Farm Security Administration loans and collections; and a topical bibliography
The Medical Care Program for Farm Security Administration Borrowers
Get PDFExcerpts: More than 100,000 low-income U. S. farm families, or about 500,000 persons, have banded into groups to obtain adequate medical care at a cost they can afford. Started in a few rural counties five years ago, this medical care program now extends into over 800 counties in 33 States. The desperate economic situation in which one-fourth of the farm population found itself during the depression gave impetus to the medical care program. The medical care program sponsored by the Farm Security Administration is developed in close cooperation with the organized medical profession. No medical care plans are started until a basic agreement or understanding has been reached with the State Medical Association. When a mutually satisfactory understanding has been reached, county or district-wide plans for borrower families are designed
Farm Security Administration Photo
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La Forge Farms [Missouri]
Get PDFExcerpts: In 1937 the Farm Security Administration set out to discover a new system of faming for Southeastern Missouri which would work better than the old. It decided to take the same land and the same people who had failed under the old system, and try to find new methods which might lead than to success. Consequently, the Farm Security Administration bought 6,700 acres near LaForge in New Madrid County, most of which had once been in a typical plantation. On this land there lived 100 sharecropper families — 60 of them white and 40 Negro. Like the plantation they lived on, these families had not been able to make much headway under the traditional methods of farming. For that very reason, the Farm Security Administration asked these people to stay on the land as members of the new project. It wanted to find out whether these run-of-the-mill share-croppers could make a decent, secure living if they had a chance under different conditions
Arthurdale Project of the Farm Security Administration [West Virginia]
Get PDFExcerpts: Few groups of American workmen have felt the effects of the changing times more than the coal miners. After the World War the industry developed faster than its market and huge surpluses were created. At the same time, the increasing use of other fuels such as gas and oil lessened the demand for coal. The substitution of machines for men in the mining operations further shortened the demand for coal miners. Preston County, located high in the hills of northern West Virginia, was one of the mining areas hit hardest of all. By April 1933, nearly half of the families living in Preston County and the nearby area were receiving some kind of relief. For this reason, Preston County was one of the first areas to receive the attention of the new Division of Subsistence Homesteads of the Department of the Interior, which was established in June 1933. The new agency was set up to provide good homes with large gardens for families who had part-time work in some industry. The gardens would enable the families to supplement their incomes with home-raised food and the new homes would help them maintain an adequate standard of living. In a few cases, the Division of Subsistence Homesteads also planned to develop subsistence homesteads communities where groups of "stranded workers," like the miners in Preston County, could obtain full-time employment. Three sources of income were to be provided: the development of community industries, the sale of agricultural products, and the encouragement of private industry to establish factories or assembly plants in the locality
Statue on Cimarron, N.M.
No full textA statue by a local artists in Cimarron, New Mexico, depicting a Spanish-American man, August 1939
Spanish-American Farmstead in Chamisal, N.M.
No full textThe farmstead of a Spanish-American farmer in Chamisal, New Mexico, in July 1940
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