Three Depresion-Era Photographers in Utah
Dorothea Lange (b. New Jersey, 1895 – d. San Francisco, 1965), Russell Lee (b. Ottawa, Illinois 1903 – d. Austin, Texas 1986), and Arthur Rothstein (b. 1915, New York – d. 1985, New Rochelle, New York) are the three photographers who were hired by the Farm Security Administration to document rural Utah in the late 1930s. The portraits of agricultural workers and their families, and the land that they worked, provide a unique picture of Utah’s rural past.
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Farmers freezing ice cream. Pie Town, New Mexico. There is no ice in the town. Two or three farmers have built ice storage houses of wooden blocks, packing the ice in sawdust. When someone makes the thirty or forty mile trip for ice, several families get
Russell Lee
Photographer
Gelatin silver print
Resettlement clients to be moved from Widtsoe area to farm in another county of Utah
Dorothea Lange
Photographer
Gelatin silver print
Central Utah dry land adjustment project, forty miles from Tooele, Utah
Dorothea Lange
Photographer
Gelatin silver print
Central Utah fry land adjustment project, forty miles from Tooele, Utah. Sheep wagons in which some workers on project lived
Dorothea Lange
Photographer
Gelatin silver print
The old method of drawing a combine; ten or more horses were used. Box Elder County, Utah
Russell Lee
Photographer
Gelatin silver print
FSA (Farm Secutiry Administraiton) cooperative tractor .Box Elder County, Utah
Russell Lee
Photographer
Gelatin silver print