Farm Security Administration photographers
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Farm Security Administration photographers were a group of U.S. government-hired documentary photographers in the 1930s and early 1940s who created iconic images of rural poverty and New Deal America.
All labels observed (7)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T86139 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Farm Security Administration photographers Context triple: [Dust Bowl, documentedBy, Farm Security Administration photographers]
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A.
Federal Writers’ Project
The Federal Writers’ Project was a New Deal initiative that employed thousands of writers during the Great Depression to produce guidebooks, oral histories, and other cultural documentation across the United States.
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B.
Civilian Conservation Corps
The Civilian Conservation Corps was a New Deal work relief program that provided jobs to young men during the Great Depression through conservation and public lands projects across the United States.
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C.
Federal Art Project
The Federal Art Project was a New Deal initiative that employed thousands of artists across the United States to create public artworks, murals, posters, and art education programs during the Great Depression.
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D.
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
The Federal Emergency Relief Administration was a New Deal agency that provided direct relief and work relief to millions of unemployed Americans during the Great Depression.
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E.
Civil Works Administration
The Civil Works Administration was a short-lived U.S. federal jobs program of the New Deal that provided millions of unemployed workers with temporary manual labor on public works projects during the Great Depression.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Farm Security Administration photographers Target entity description: Farm Security Administration photographers were a group of U.S. government-hired documentary photographers in the 1930s and early 1940s who created iconic images of rural poverty and New Deal America.
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A.
Federal Writers’ Project
The Federal Writers’ Project was a New Deal initiative that employed thousands of writers during the Great Depression to produce guidebooks, oral histories, and other cultural documentation across the United States.
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B.
Civilian Conservation Corps
The Civilian Conservation Corps was a New Deal work relief program that provided jobs to young men during the Great Depression through conservation and public lands projects across the United States.
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C.
Federal Art Project
The Federal Art Project was a New Deal initiative that employed thousands of artists across the United States to create public artworks, murals, posters, and art education programs during the Great Depression.
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D.
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
The Federal Emergency Relief Administration was a New Deal agency that provided direct relief and work relief to millions of unemployed Americans during the Great Depression.
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E.
Civil Works Administration
The Civil Works Administration was a short-lived U.S. federal jobs program of the New Deal that provided millions of unemployed workers with temporary manual labor on public works projects during the Great Depression.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
New Deal cultural program
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group of documentary photographers ⓘ |
| activePeriod |
1930s
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early 1940s ⓘ |
| collectionHeldBy | Library of Congress ⓘ |
| coordinatedBy | Roy Stryker ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| dissolved | 1944 ⓘ |
| employer |
Resettlement Administration
ⓘ
surface form:
Farm Security Administration
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| genre |
documentary photography
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photojournalism ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Ann Rosener
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Arthur Rothstein ⓘ Ben Shahn ⓘ Carl Corey ⓘ Carl Mydans ⓘ Dorothea Lange ⓘ Edwin Rosskam ⓘ Esther Bubley ⓘ Gordon Parks ⓘ Jack Delano ⓘ John Collier Jr. ⓘ John Ferrell ⓘ John H. White ⓘ John Vachon ⓘ Lee Russell ⓘ Marion Post Wolcott ⓘ Martha McMillan Roberts ⓘ Paul Carter ⓘ Russell Lee ⓘ Theodor Jung ⓘ Walker Evans ⓘ |
| inception | 1935 ⓘ |
| influenced |
later documentary photography in the United States
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photojournalism standards in the 20th century ⓘ |
| location |
Washington, D.C.
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surface form:
Washington, D.C. (administrative headquarters)
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| mainSubject |
African American life in the 1930s and 1940s
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Dust Bowl ⓘ
surface form:
Dust Bowl migrants
Great Depression ⓘ
surface form:
Great Depression in the United States
New Deal ⓘ
surface form:
New Deal programs
farm tenancy and sharecropping ⓘ industrialization and urbanization in the United States ⓘ rural poverty in the United States ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (photographs by Walker Evans)
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Dorothea Lange ⓘ
surface form:
Migrant Mother by Dorothea Lange
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| numberOfImages | over 170000 black-and-white photographs ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | United States Department of Agriculture ⓘ |
| partOf |
Resettlement Administration
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surface form:
Farm Security Administration
Resettlement Administration ⓘ
surface form:
Resettlement Administration photography project
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| purpose |
to build public support for New Deal agricultural and relief programs
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to document the effects of the Great Depression ⓘ |
| sponsor |
United States government
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surface form:
United States federal government
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How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Farm Security Administration photographers Description of subject: Farm Security Administration photographers were a group of U.S. government-hired documentary photographers in the 1930s and early 1940s who created iconic images of rural poverty and New Deal America.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection
this entity surface form:
Farm Security Administration documentary photography project
this entity surface form:
Great Depression photography
this entity surface form:
Dust Bowl photographs
this entity surface form:
Great Depression rural life photographs
this entity surface form:
Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection
this entity surface form:
New Deal photography