Arthur Rothstein

 Negro boy selling pecans by road, near Alma, Georgia, 1937

 Nursery school, FSA camp, Harlingen, Texas. Member of mother's committee watches, 1942

 Oregon or bust. Leaving South Dakota for a new start in the Pacific Northwest, 1936

 Rehabilitation client. Smithfield, North Carolina, 1936

 Sharecropper's children, 1935

Shucking oysters, Bivalve, New Jersey, 1938

 Sign in restaurant, Shellpile, New Jersey, 1938

 Sign posted in Negro section of Belle Glade, Florida, 1937

Snow carnival, Lancaster, New Hampshire, 1936

Snow carnival, Lancaster, New Hampshire, 1936

Born in Slavery

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and assembled and microfilmed in 1941 as the seventeen-volume Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves.

 Abe Whitess, age over 90, 1936-38

 Anderson and Minerva Edwards, age 93 and 87, Marshall, Texas, 1936-38

 Charles H. Anderson, age 92, 1936-38

[Note that Mr. Anderson sports a hat with the logo "G.A.R.", standing for Grand Army of the Republic, meaning that in addition to being a former slave, he is a Union Army veteran.]

 Elijah Cox, 1930-40

 Ellen Butler, ex-slave, Beaumont, Texas, 1937

 Georgia Flournoy, Alabama, 1930-40

 Henry Cheatam, age 86, 1937

 Mary Armstrong, ex-slave, Houston, 1937

 Molly Ammonds, 1936-38

 Nathan Beauchamp, age about 92, 1936-38

 William Adams, ex-slave, Ft. Worth, 1937

Russell Lee - Kids

 Farm children playing on homemade merry-go-round. 

Williams County, North Dakota, 1937

 Farm children, Sheridan County, Kansas, 1939

 Girls at 4-H Club fair, Cimarron, Kansas, 1939

 Group of schoolchildren waiting to get in the movies, San Augustine, Texas, 1939

 Indian children in camp near Little Fork, Minnesota, 1937

 Josie Caudill helping set out cabbage plants, Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940

 Little Negro girls playing, Lafayette, Louisiana, 1938

 Little boy taking his nap at the Work Projects Administration nursery school at the Casa Grande Valley Farms, Pinal County, Arizona, 1940

 Little girl petting calf. Tenant purchase client near Weslaco, Texas, 1939

Little girl taking her nap at the Work Projects Administration nursery school at the Casa Grande Valley Farms, Pinal County, Arizona, 1940

Little girls playing jacks at the Casa Grande Valley Farms, Pinal County, Arizona, 1940

Edward S. Curtis - Southwest Indians

 Rear view of Navajo Indians on horseback making their way 

over the sparse, dry, grassy floor of Tesacod Canyon

 Storytelling, Apache

 Taos girl

 The blanket maker, Navaho

 Three Qahatika women sitting on ground with kiho carriers and pot nearby

 Two Apache Indian women at campfire

 Walpi Maidens, Hopi

 Walvia ("Medicine Root"), Taos

 Yaqui girl with striped shawl draped around shoulders and over head

 Zuni girl with jar

Zuni girls

Dorothea Lange - Japanese Internment

 A farm mother awaits evacuation bus. Centerville, California, 1942

 A farm youngster pictured two days before evacuation of persons of Japanese ancestry from this Santa Clara County farming community. 1942

 A mother and daughter, Issei and Nisei, who have been living in this Assembly Center for one month, are seen at the door of their home in the barracks. San Bruno, California, 1942

 A young member of an evacuee family awaiting evacuation bus. 

Hayward, California, 1942

 A young member of an evacuee family awaiting evacuation bus. 

Hayward, California, 1942

 An elementary school with voluntary attendance has been established with volunteer evacuee teachers, most of whom are college graduates. Manzanar, California, 1942

 Arranging flowers for altar on last day of services at Japanese Independent Congregational Church, prior to evacuation. Oakland, California, 1942

 Awaiting evacuation bus. Posters in background list names of families, buses to which they are assigned, and departure times. Centerville, California, 1942

 Baseball is the most popular recreation at this War Relocation Authority center with 80 teams having been formed throughout the Center. Manzanar, California, 1942

College students of Japanese ancestry who have been evacuated from Sacramento to the Assembly Center. 1942

 Evacuees enjoying the creek which flows along the outer border of this War Relocation Authority center. Manzanar, California, 1942

Families of Japanese ancestry arrived at Turlock assembly center. Evacuees will be housed later at War Relocation Authority centers for the duration. 1942