ONE THIRD OF A NATION: The Photographs of the Farm Security Administration 1935 - 1946


Jack Delano, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Carl Mydans, Gordon Parks, Marion Post Wolcott, David Robbins, Arthur Rothstein, Peter Sekaer, Ben Shahn


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Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, 1936, Howard Greenberg Gallery

Dorothea Lange


Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, 1936

Gelatin silver print; printed later. Image size: 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches; Paper size: 8 1/8 x 10 inches
"Reproduced from the Collections of the Library of Congress" stamp, with title, date, credit, and annotations in pencil on print verso.
Illus: Alona Pardo and Jilke Golbach, Dorothea Lange: Politics of Seeing, Prestel, 2018, p.104


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ONE THIRD OF A NATION: The Photographs of the Farm Security Administration 1935 - 1946
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Dorothea Lange

Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California

, 1936
Dorothea Lange, Filipinos Cutting Lettuce, Salinas, California, 1935 , Howard Greenberg Gallery

Dorothea Lange


Filipinos Cutting Lettuce, Salinas, California, 1935

Gelatin silver print; printed c.1964. 14 3/4 x 14 5/8 in.
Mounted. "No. 164" in pencil on mount verso. Provenance: Ex-collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Illus: Daniel Dixon, Dorothea Lange: Eloquent Witness (Edwynn Houk Gallery, Chicago, 1989), p. 32.


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ONE THIRD OF A NATION: The Photographs of the Farm Security Administration 1935 - 1946
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Dorothea Lange

Filipinos Cutting Lettuce, Salinas, California

, 1935
Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, 1936, Howard Greenberg Gallery

Dorothea Lange


Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, 1936

Gelatin silver print; printed later. Image size: 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches; Paper size: 8 1/8 x 10 inches
"Reproduced from the Collections of the Library of Congress" stamp, with title, date, credit, and annotations in pencil on print verso.
Illus: Alona Pardo and Jilke Golbach, Dorothea Lange: Politics of Seeing, Prestel, 2018, p.104


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ONE THIRD OF A NATION: The Photographs of the Farm Security Administration 1935 - 1946
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Dorothea Lange

Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California

, 1936
Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, 1936, Howard Greenberg Gallery

Dorothea Lange


Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, 1936

Gelatin silver print; printed later. Image size: 9 1/2 x 7 5/8 inches; Paper size: 10 x 8 1/8 inches
"Reproduced from the Collections of the Library of Congress" stamp, with title, date, credit, and annotations in pencil on print verso.
Illus: Alona Pardo and Jilke Golbach, Dorothea Lange: Politics of Seeing, Prestel, 2018, p.101


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ONE THIRD OF A NATION: The Photographs of the Farm Security Administration 1935 - 1946
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Dorothea Lange

Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California

, 1936
Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, 1936, Howard Greenberg Gallery

Dorothea Lange


Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, 1936

Gelatin silver print; printed later. Image size: 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches; Paper size: 8 1/8 x 10 inches
"Reproduced from the Collections of the Library of Congress" stamp, with title, date, credit, and annotations in pencil on print verso.
Illus: Alona Pardo and Jilke Golbach, Dorothea Lange: Politics of Seeing, Prestel, 2018, p.104


Howard Greenberg Gallery
ONE THIRD OF A NATION: The Photographs of the Farm Security Administration 1935 - 1946
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Dorothea Lange

Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California

, 1936
Dorothea Lange, Greek migratory woman living in a cotton camp near Exeter, California., c.1935 , Howard Greenberg Gallery

Dorothea Lange


Greek migratory woman living in a cotton camp near Exeter, California., c.1935

Gelatin silver print, printed c.1935. 7 1/8 x 9 1/2 in.
Titled in pencil and ink with notations in pencil, and Resettlement Administration Credit stamp on print verso.


Howard Greenberg Gallery
ONE THIRD OF A NATION: The Photographs of the Farm Security Administration 1935 - 1946
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Dorothea Lange

Greek migratory woman living in a cotton camp near Exeter,...

, c.1935
Jack Delano, Greene County, Georgia, 1941 , Howard Greenberg Gallery

Jack Delano


Greene County, Georgia, 1941

Gelatin silver print. 9 x 6 7/8 in.
Signed, titled, and dated in pencil on print verso.


Howard Greenberg Gallery
ONE THIRD OF A NATION: The Photographs of the Farm Security Administration 1935 - 1946
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Jack Delano

Greene County, Georgia

, 1941
Walker Evans, Construction worker, Louisiana, 1936 , Howard Greenberg Gallery

Walker Evans


Construction worker, Louisiana, 1936

Gelatin silver print; printed c.1936. 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.
Titled, dated, and numeric annotations in pencil, and two Lunn Archive "Walker Evans" stamps on print verso.


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ONE THIRD OF A NATION: The Photographs of the Farm Security Administration 1935 - 1946
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Walker Evans

Construction worker, Louisiana

, 1936
Walker Evans, Kitchen in Floyd Burroughs's Home, Hale County, Alabama, 1936, Howard Greenberg Gallery

Walker Evans


Kitchen in Floyd Burroughs's Home, Hale County, Alabama, 1936

Gelatin silver print; printed c.1936. 5 3/4 x 8 3/8 in.
Lunn Archive stamp annotated "111 265" in pencil on print verso.
Illus: Walker Evans (Foundation Mapfre, Madrid, 2009), p.55 & p.152


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ONE THIRD OF A NATION: The Photographs of the Farm Security Administration 1935 - 1946
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Walker Evans

Kitchen in Floyd Burroughs's Home, Hale County, Alabama

, 1936
Walker Evans, Laura Minnie Lee Tengle, Hale County, Alabama, 1936 , Howard Greenberg Gallery

Walker Evans


Laura Minnie Lee Tengle, Hale County, Alabama, 1936

Gelatin silver print; printed c.1936. 5 7/8 x 7 1/2 in. Mounted.
Provenance: a gift from the photographer to editor Frances Strunsky Collins and by descent to the present owner.
Illus: Judith Keller, Walker Evans: The Getty Museum Collection, (J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1995


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ONE THIRD OF A NATION: The Photographs of the Farm Security Administration 1935 - 1946
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Walker Evans

Laura Minnie Lee Tengle, Hale County, Alabama

, 1936
Walker Evans,

Walker Evans


"The Grand Man" Wall Mural, c.1935

Gelatin silver print on carte postale; printed c.1935
5 1/2 x 3 7/8 in.


Howard Greenberg Gallery
ONE THIRD OF A NATION: The Photographs of the Farm Security Administration 1935 - 1946
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Walker Evans

"The Grand Man" Wall Mural

, c.1935
Russell Lee, Combination Storage Room and Chick Room, Adjacent to Bedroom in Sharecropper's House, c.1936-37, Howard Greenberg Gallery

Russell Lee


Combination Storage Room and Chick Room, Adjacent to Bedroom in Sharecropper's House, c.1936-37

Gelatin silver print; printed c.1936-37. 7 x 9 1/2 in.
Mounted. Titled in ink on mount recto. Photographer's F.S.A. credit stamp and numerical notations in pencil on mount verso.


Howard Greenberg Gallery
ONE THIRD OF A NATION: The Photographs of the Farm Security Administration 1935 - 1946
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Russell Lee

Combination Storage Room and Chick Room, Adjacent to...

, c.1936-37
Russell Lee, Untitled (Bag Lady), 1936 , Howard Greenberg Gallery

Russell Lee


Untitled (Bag Lady), 1936

Vintage gelatin silver print. 8 3/16 x 4 3/4 in.
Mounted. Signed and dated in pencil on print verso.


Howard Greenberg Gallery
ONE THIRD OF A NATION: The Photographs of the Farm Security Administration 1935 - 1946
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Russell Lee

Untitled (Bag Lady)

, 1936
Russell Lee, Untitled (Floods Kill Hundreds...), 1936 , Howard Greenberg Gallery

Russell Lee


Untitled (Floods Kill Hundreds...), 1936

Vintage gelatin silver print. 7 5/8 x 9 1/8 in.
Mounted. Signed and dated in pencil on the mount.


Howard Greenberg Gallery
ONE THIRD OF A NATION: The Photographs of the Farm Security Administration 1935 - 1946
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Russell Lee

Untitled (Floods Kill Hundreds...)

, 1936
Russell Lee, Untitled, Men lying on stacks of wooden planks on boat, c. 1937 , Howard Greenberg Gallery

Russell Lee


Untitled, Men lying on stacks of wooden planks on boat, c. 1937

Vintage gelatin silver print. 9 1/2 x 13 1/2 in.
11798 M5 on verso.


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ONE THIRD OF A NATION: The Photographs of the Farm Security Administration 1935 - 1946
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Russell Lee

Untitled, Men lying on stacks of wooden planks on boat

, c. 1937
Carl Mydans, Children playing in back yard of slum area near Capitol. Area is inhabited by both blacks and whites. Washington, DC, 1935-42 , Howard Greenberg Gallery

Carl Mydans


Children playing in back yard of slum area near Capitol. Area is inhabited by both blacks and whites. Washington, DC, 1935-42

Vintage gelatin silver print 10 5/8 x 13 3/4 in.
Mounted. Sheet with typewritten caption affixed to mount recto. Title in pencil on mount verso.
Provenance: Ex-collection Pare Lorenz


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ONE THIRD OF A NATION: The Photographs of the Farm Security Administration 1935 - 1946
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Carl Mydans

Children playing in back yard of slum area near Capitol....

, 1935-42
Carl Mydans, Lewis Hunter, Negro client, with his family, Lady's Island, Beaufort, South Carolina, June 1936 , Howard Greenberg Gallery

Carl Mydans


Lewis Hunter, Negro client, with his family, Lady's Island, Beaufort, South Carolina, June 1936

Gelatin silver print. Image size: 13 3/8 x 10 inches; Mount size: 16 x 20 inches
Mounted. Signed in ink on mount recto.
Illus: Hank O'Neal, A Vision Shared (Steidl, Gottingen, 2017), p. 99


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ONE THIRD OF A NATION: The Photographs of the Farm Security Administration 1935 - 1946
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Carl Mydans

Lewis Hunter, Negro client, with his family, Lady's Island,...

, June 1936
Carl Mydans, Untitled (

Carl Mydans


Untitled ("General Blacksmithing Get Our Prices"), c.1936

Gelatin silver print; printed later. Image size: 10 3/8 x 13 3/8 inches; Mount size: 16 x 20 inches.
Mounted. Signed in in on mount recto.


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ONE THIRD OF A NATION: The Photographs of the Farm Security Administration 1935 - 1946
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Carl Mydans

Untitled ("General Blacksmithing Get Our Prices")

, c.1936
Gordon Parks, American Gothic, Washington, D.C., 1942 , Howard Greenberg Gallery

Gordon Parks


American Gothic, Washington, D.C., 1942

Gelatin silver print; printed later
Image size: 13 1/4 x 9 1/8 inches; Paper size: 14 x 11 inches
Signed and dated in ink on print verso.


Howard Greenberg Gallery
ONE THIRD OF A NATION: The Photographs of the Farm Security Administration 1935 - 1946
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Gordon Parks

American Gothic, Washington, D.C.

, 1942
Marion Post Wolcott, Unemployed coal miner's daughter carrying home can of kerosene. Company housing, Scotts Run, W. Va., 1938, Howard Greenberg Gallery

Marion Post Wolcott


Unemployed coal miner's daughter carrying home can of kerosene. Company housing, Scotts Run, W. Va., 1938

Gelatin silver print; printed 197. Image size: 8 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches; Paper size: 11 x 14 inches
Signed in pencil on print recto. Signed, titled, dated, print date, and annotations in pencil on print verso.


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ONE THIRD OF A NATION: The Photographs of the Farm Security Administration 1935 - 1946
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Marion Post Wolcott

Unemployed coal miner's daughter carrying home can of...

, 1938
David Robbins, Untitled (young man foraging for coal), 1938 , Howard Greenberg Gallery

David Robbins


Untitled (young man foraging for coal), 1938

Gelatin silver print, printed c.1938
10 x 8 inches


Howard Greenberg Gallery
ONE THIRD OF A NATION: The Photographs of the Farm Security Administration 1935 - 1946
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David Robbins

Untitled (young man foraging for coal)

, 1938
Arthur Rothstein, Sugar Beet before Topping, Adams County, Colo., 1939 , Howard Greenberg Gallery

Arthur Rothstein


Sugar Beet before Topping, Adams County, Colo., 1939

Gelatin silver print; printed c.1939. 9 1/2 x 7 3/8 inches
Titled and dated in type, FSA stamp with photographer's credit, and ā€28746Dā€ in pencil on print verso.


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ONE THIRD OF A NATION: The Photographs of the Farm Security Administration 1935 - 1946
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Arthur Rothstein

Sugar Beet before Topping, Adams County, Colo.

, 1939
Arthur Rothstein, Eroded land on tenant's farm, Walker County, Alabama, 1937 , Howard Greenberg Gallery

Arthur Rothstein


Eroded land on tenant's farm, Walker County, Alabama, 1937

Gelatin silver print; printed c.1937. 7 5/8 x 9 1/2 in.
F.S.A./Rothstein credit stamp and annotation "Erosion - Ala." in unknown hand in pencil on print verso.


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ONE THIRD OF A NATION: The Photographs of the Farm Security Administration 1935 - 1946
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Arthur Rothstein

Eroded land on tenant's farm, Walker County, Alabama

, 1937
Arthur Rothstein, Dust storm, Cimarron County, Okalahoma, 1936 , Howard Greenberg Gallery

Arthur Rothstein


Dust storm, Cimarron County, Okalahoma, 1936

Gelatin silver print. Image size: 19 x 18 7/8 inches; Paper size: 24 x 20 inches
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered "278/300" in pencil on print recto. "Arthur Rothstein Photograph from the collection of Grace Rothstein" stamp in ink on print verso.
Edition of 300


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ONE THIRD OF A NATION: The Photographs of the Farm Security Administration 1935 - 1946
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Arthur Rothstein

Dust storm, Cimarron County, Okalahoma

, 1936
Arthur Rothstein, Flood Victim, Missouri, 1938 , Howard Greenberg Gallery

Arthur Rothstein


Flood Victim, Missouri, 1938

Gelatin silver print; printed 1981. 14 x 11 in.
Signed in pencil with publisher's blindstamp on print recto. Published by Hyperion Press. Illus: Colin Westerbeck, A Democracy of Imagery (Steidl/Howard Greenberg Library, Gottingen/New York, 2016), pl. 102.
Edition of 50


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ONE THIRD OF A NATION: The Photographs of the Farm Security Administration 1935 - 1946
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Arthur Rothstein

Flood Victim, Missouri

, 1938
Peter Sekaer, Macon, Georgia (woman in doorway), 1936 , Howard Greenberg Gallery

Peter Sekaer


Macon, Georgia (woman in doorway), 1936

Gelatin silver print; printed c.1936
7 3/4 x 5 1/8 in.
Signed and dated by Christina Sekaer in pencil on print verso.


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ONE THIRD OF A NATION: The Photographs of the Farm Security Administration 1935 - 1946
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Peter Sekaer

Macon, Georgia (woman in doorway)

, 1936
Ben Shahn, Pushcart for Paper, NY, 1932-35 , Howard Greenberg Gallery

Ben Shahn


Pushcart for Paper, NY, 1932-35

Gelatin silver print; printed c.1932-35
6 5/8 x 9 1/2 in.
"Photograph by Ben Shahn, Mrs. Ben Shahn" in pencil on print recto.


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ONE THIRD OF A NATION: The Photographs of the Farm Security Administration 1935 - 1946
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Ben Shahn

Pushcart for Paper, NY

, 1932-35
Ben Shahn, Child of Fortuna Family, Hammond, Louisiana, October 1935 , Howard Greenberg Gallery

Ben Shahn


Child of Fortuna Family, Hammond, Louisiana, October 1935

Gelatin silver print; printed c.1935
7 5/8 x 9 1/2 in.
Typed title and date, F.S.A./Shahn credit stamp and F.S.A. return stamp on print verso.


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ONE THIRD OF A NATION: The Photographs of the Farm Security Administration 1935 - 1946
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Ben Shahn

Child of Fortuna Family, Hammond, Louisiana

, October 1935
Ben Shahn, Sharecropper's children on Sunday, Little Rock, Arkansas, October 1935 , Howard Greenberg Gallery

Ben Shahn


Sharecropper's children on Sunday, Little Rock, Arkansas, October 1935

Gelatin silver print, printed c.1935
7 5/8 x 9 5/8 in.
Provenance: From the Collection of Arnold Newman.


Howard Greenberg Gallery
ONE THIRD OF A NATION: The Photographs of the Farm Security Administration 1935 - 1946
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Ben Shahn

Sharecropper's children on Sunday, Little Rock, Arkansas

, October 1935
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