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The Face of America: Photographing the Great Depression


The eight photographs in this traveling exhibition are part of the largest effort to record a place and time ever undertaken. From 1935 to 1943, a team of photographers hired by the government’s Farm Security Administration (FSA) fanned out across America to document everyday life in a struggling nation. Their photographs captured the dignity and determination of people beset by poverty and hardship. Eighty years later, these powerful images still define our understanding of the Great Depression.

Earlier Event: January 6
School Resumes
Later Event: January 17
No School—Records Day