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Art News: How the Library of Congress Preserved 175K FSA Photos, 'One Picture at a Time'

By David Schonauer   Thursday May 21, 2026


Above: Pie Town, New Mexico,1940, by Russell Lee/Library of Congress
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A 16-year-long effort by the Library of Congress to digitize in high resolution its 175,000 or so Farm Security Administration photographs from the 1930s and ’40s is coming to an end. The work may be completed by the end …


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