New York Times - America in Black and White Photographs by Dorothea Lange and others featured in “Documenting the Face of America.”

The PBS film “Documenting the Face of America: Roy Stryker and the F.S.A./O.W.I. Photographers” shows how the small Farm Security Administration’s New Deal project to document poverty turned into a visual anthology of thousands of images of American life in the 1930s and early ’40s.

“Florence Thompson and Children,” by Dorothea Lange.

Photo: From the PBS documentary 'Documenting the Face of America'; photograph courtesy the Library of Congress Prints and Photos Division

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