Ben Shahn

Here's another set of photos from FSA photographer Ben Shahn.

 At the July 4th celebration, Ashville, Ohio, 1938

 Colored mother and child, Little Rock, Arkansas, 1935

 Cultivating corn, central Ohio, 1938

 Dwellers in Circleville's 'Hooverville,' Ohio, 1938

 Ex-farmer and children, now on WPA, central Ohio, 1938

 Family on relief near Urbana, Ohio, 1938

 Loading bundles of wheat for hauling to thresher, central Ohio, 1938

Members of threshing crew, central Ohio, 1938

Ben Shahn - Kids

Ben Shahn was a Lithuanian-born photographer (also a painter) who worked for the FSA during the Great Depression. Here are some of his pictures of children.

 Children of African-American sharecroppers, Little Rock, Arkansas, 1935

 Children of Sam Nichols, Arkansas tenant farmer, 1935

 Children of destitute Ozark mountaineer, Arkansas, 1935

 Children of homesteaders, the Resettlement Administration's Shenandoah Homesteads, 1941

 Children of homesteaders, the Resettlement Administration's Shenandoah Homesteads, 1941

 Dwellers in Circleville's "Hooverville," central Ohio, 1938

(more on Hoovervilles)

School youngsters, Red House, West Virginia, 1935

Young boys salvaging coal from the slag heaps, Nanty Glo, Pennsylvania, 1937

Ben Shahn - Musicians

Ben Shahn was a Lithuanian-born photographer who worked for the Farm Security Administration. He had a strong social conscience and attempted to show, through his photographs, the effects of hard times on the lives of his subjects.

But this set focuses on people playing music. I only wish I had recordings of them!

 Aunt Samantha Baumgarner, fiddler, banjoist, guitarist, North Carolina, Asheville, 1937

 Fiddlin' Bill Hensley, mountain fiddler, Asheville, North Carolina , 1937

 Jeeter Gentry, Elmer Thompson and Fiddlin' Bill Hensley, Asheville, North Carolina, 1937

 Lovengood sisters, Asheville, North Carolina, 1937

 Mrs. Mary McLean, Skyline Farms, Alabama, 1937

 Practising for the Westmoreland Fair, Pennsylvania, 1937

 Sunday at home, Penderlea Homesteads, North Carolina, 1937

Young musician at Skyline Farms, Alabama, 1937