Carl Mydans Gallery

ROAD CONSTRUCTION. 1936. A tool made by a worker to remove soil from the roots

ROAD CONSTRUCTION. 1936.
A tool made by a worker to remove soil from the roots of trees in clearing the lake sites for road construction at the Berwyn project, Maryland. Photograph by Carl Mydans, February 1936

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POVERTY: CHILDREN, 1936. Twelve-year-old girl of a family of eleven living in a one-room shelter

POVERTY: CHILDREN, 1936.
Twelve-year-old girl of a family of eleven living in a one-room shelter, built over the chassis of an abandoned Ford truck in an open field along U.S. Route 70 between Camden and Bruceton, Tennessee. The girl is dressed in a meal sack. Photograph by Carl Mydans, March 1936. From the Farm Security Administration photography project

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MIGRANT FAMILY, 1936. A resettlement official investigating an impovished family

MIGRANT FAMILY, 1936.
A resettlement official investigating an impovished family of nine living in a trailer at a migrant worker camp on U.S. 70 in Tennessee, near the Tennessee River. Photograph by Carl Mydans, March 1936

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