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19;Some of the best-known documentary photographs came out of the photographic divisions of two government agencies, established in response to the Depression: the Resettlement Administration (1935 - 1937) and the Farm Security Administration (1937 - 1942). These agencies employed a number of photographers whose work would become an extensive archive of rural America and the effects of government programs created to lessen the impact of poverty. The permanent collection at ICP contains photographs that Theodor Jung, Dorothea Lange, Carl Mydans, Arthur Rothstein, and Ben Shahn took around the country while employed by the RA and FSA.
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56 Items
![[Unidentified Man, Pulaski County, Arkansas]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/icptmsdata/s/h/a/h/shahn_ben_1051_1975_460126_displaysize.jpg)
![[Unidentified Group, Natchez, Mississippi]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/icptmsdata/s/h/a/h/shahn_ben_1058_1975_458914_displaysize.jpg)
![[Unidentified Levee Worker, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/icptmsdata/s/h/a/h/shahn_ben_1061_1975_427254_displaysize.jpg)
![[Unidentified Levee Workers, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/icptmsdata/s/h/a/h/shahn_ben_1063_1975_440603_displaysize.jpg)
![[Unidentified Children, Hammond, Louisiana]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/icptmsdata/s/h/a/h/shahn_ben_1082_1975_459618_displaysize.jpg)
![[House, Marysville, California]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/icptmsdata/l/a/n/g/lange_dorothea_1101_1975_415344_displaysize.jpg)
![[Backyard]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/icptmsdata/l/a/n/g/lange_dorothea_1102_1975_440284_displaysize.jpg)
![[Backyard, Cincinnati, Ohio]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/icptmsdata/m/y/d/a/mydans_carl_1109_1975_428522_displaysize.jpg)
![[Children of John Wilson]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/icptmsdata/r/o/t/h/rothstein_arthur_1121_1975_418167_displaysize.jpg)
