In #MARCH 1936
‘House, #CumberlandHomesteads, Crossville, Cumberland, Tennessee. Crossville, Tennessee.’ #ResettlementAdministration.
#RA photographer #CarlMydans (1907-2004)
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In #MARCH 1936
‘Fireplace in office of Cumberland Homesteads, Crossville, Cumberland, Tennessee’ Crossville, Tennessee. #ResettlementAdministration photographer #CarlMydans (1907-2004)
#TheNewDeal #subsistencehomesteads #CumberlandHomesteads #Tennessee
#blackandwhitephotography
In #MARCH 1936
‘Close up of the stone house which is being built by the farmer at #Crossville, #Tennessee. #CumberlandHomesteads.’ #ResettlementAdministration photographer #CarlMydans (1907-2004)
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In #MARCH 1936
‘Trading post at Cumberland Homesteads, Crossville, Cumberland, Tennessee’ #ResettlementAdministration photographer Carl Mydans (1907-2004)
#TheNewDeal #CarlMydans #SubsistenceHomesteads #CumberlandHomesteads #Tennessee
#blackandwhitephotography
‘Model of pedestrian underpass’ Greenbelt, Maryland. #ResettlementAdministration photographer Carl Mydans (1907-2004). 1935 or 1936.
#blackandwhitephotography #CarlMydans #urbanplanning #cityplanning #ResettlementAdministration #RA #Greenbelt #Maryland #TheNewDeal
Cellar foundation. February 1936.
#GreatDepression #TheNewDeal #blackandwhitephotography #CarlMydans #Greenbelt #Maryland #ResettlementAdministration #cityplanning
Tools are distributed to workers from ‘tool-houses’ like this one. February 1936.
#GreatDepression #TheNewDeal #blackandwhitephotography #CarlMydans #Greenbelt #Maryland #ResettlementAdministration #cityplanning
‘Hospital and first aid station. Berwyn, Maryland. Photographer #CarlMydans [1907-2004]. January 1936.’
#TheNewDeal #Greenbelt #blackandwhitephotography #ResettlementAdministration #GreenbeltTowns
‘One of the first manholes on the sewer line which is being driven through the lake site at the Berwyn project, Maryland. #CarlMydans [1907-2004]. January 1936.’
#TheNewDeal #Greenbelt #blackandwhitephotography #ResettlementAdministration #GreenbeltTowns
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC https://www.loc.gov/item/2017713885/
In #NOVEMBER 1935
‘CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) boys at work, #PrinceGeorgesCounty, Maryland’
Resettlement Administration photographer Carl Mydans (1907-2004). Nov. 1935.
#GreatDepression #TheNewDeal #CCC #CivilianConservationCorps #CarlMydans #ResettlementAdministration
‘Steam Shovel operator’
Carl Mydans. November 1935.
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‘Steam Shovel operator’
Carl Mydans. November 1935.
#GreatDepression #TheNewDeal #ResettlementAdministration #JerseyHomesteads #RooseveltNJ #CarlMydans #construction #constructionworkers #steamshovel #blackandwhitephotography
‘Truck driver at the Hightstown, New Jersey, project’ Carl Mydans. November 1935. https://daysgoneby.me/trouble-looms-ahead-jersey-homesteaders/
In #NOVEMBER 1935
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#ResettlementAdministration #photographer #CarlMydans (1907-2004) at #JerseyHomesteads (now Roosevelt NJ), a cooperative community planned by the #RA's Subsistence Homesteads Division to bring Jewish garment workers out of NYC tenements & sweatshops.
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‘Metal plates to be used in casting concrete slabs at the #JerseyHomesteads, a U.S. #ResettlementAdministration Subsistence Homestead Project’ #CarlMydans. November 1935.
#GreatDepression #TheNewDeal #RooseveltNJ #construction #concrete #blackandwhitephotography
‘1st slab of concrete at Hightstown, New Jersey’ Carl Mydans. November 1935. https://daysgoneby.me/troubles-continue-hightstown-new-jersey-homesteaders/
In #NOVEMBER 1935
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#ResettlementAdministration #photographer #CarlMydans (1907-2004) at #JerseyHomesteads (now Roosevelt NJ), a cooperative community planned by the #RA's Subsistence Homesteads Division to bring Jewish garment workers out of NYC tenements & sweatshops.
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‘Grader operator at the Hightstown, New Jersey, project’
Carl Mydans. November 1935.
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‘Grader at work at the Hightstown, New Jersey, project.’ Carl Mydans. November 1935.
In #NOVEMBER 1935
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#ResettlementAdministration #photographer #CarlMydans (1907-2004) at #JerseyHomesteads (now Roosevelt NJ), a cooperative community planned by the #RA's Subsistence Homesteads Division to bring Jewish garment workers out of NYC tenements & sweatshops.
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‘Field Engineers at work at the Hightstown, New Jersey, project’ Carl Mydans. November 1935.
#GreatDepression #TheNewDeal #ResettlementAdministration #JerseyHomesteads #RooseveltNJ #CarlMydans #blackandwhitephotography
‘Rodman. Hightstown, New Jersey’ Carl Mydans. November 1935. #GreatDepression #TheNewDeal #ResettlementAdministration #JerseyHomesteads #RooseveltNJ #CarlMydans #blackandwhitephotography
‘Rodman. Hightstown, New Jersey’ Carl Mydans. November 1935.
#GreatDepression #TheNewDeal #ResettlementAdministration #JerseyHomesteads #RooseveltNJ #CarlMydans #blackandwhitephotography
Stone masons at work at Hightstown, New Jersey. Carl Mydans. November 1935.
In #NOVEMBER 1935
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#ResettlementAdministration #photographer #CarlMydans (1907-2004) at #JerseyHomesteads (now Roosevelt NJ), a cooperative community planned by the #RA's Subsistence Homesteads Division to bring Jewish garment workers out of NYC tenements & sweatshops.
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‘Transients clearing land. Prince George's County, Maryland. Greenbelt, Prince Georges, Maryland’ Photographer Carl Mydans. November 1935.
#TheNewDeal #CarlMydans #Greenbelt #blackandwhitephotography
‘Transient workers clearing land, Prince George's County, Maryland. Greenbelt, Prince Georges, Maryland’ Photographer Carl Mydans. November 1935.
#TheNewDeal #CarlMydans #Greenbelt #blackandwhitephotography
‘Transients clearing land, Prince George's County, Maryland. Greenbelt, Prince Georges, Maryland’ Photographer Carl Mydans. November 1935.
#TheNewDeal #CarlMydans #Greenbelt #blackandwhitephotography
‘Guardhouse number two and newly built road to Berwyn project, Maryland. Photographer Carl Mydans. November 1935.’
‘Land clearing. Prince George's County, Maryland. Greenbelt, Prince Georges, Maryland. Photographer Carl Mydans. November 1935’
Envisioned by urban planners as a way to transform territorial organization nation-wide, and as a long-range effort by the New Deal’s #ResettlementAdministration (#RA), only 3 such projects were actually realized.
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‘Snowhill Estate, Maryland. The Snowhill Estate was purchased by the Resettlement Administration for the project. Greenbelt, Prince Georges, Maryland. Photographer Carl Mydans. November 1935.’ Images from http://photogrammar.yale.edu/search/results.php?start=60&search=&pname=&lot=&van=&state=Maryland&county=Prince+Georges&city=&year_start=1935&month_start=0&year_stop=1936&month_stop=12
‘Old farmhouse on Snowden Estate, recently purchased by Resettlement Administration. Maryland. Greenbelt, Prince Georges, Maryland. Photographer Carl Mydans. November 1935’
In #NOVEMBER 1935
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#ResettlementAdministration #photographer #CarlMydans (1907-2004) documented the outset of work at the newly acquired site for the model community of #Greenbelt, MD planned by the #ResettlementAdministration (Suburban Resettlement Division)
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In #OCTOBER 1935
‘Progress shot of Berwyn project [i.e. the construction of the #ResettlementAdministration (#RA)’s new planned town & community of #Greenbelt]. #Berwyn, #Maryland' #PrinceGeorgesCounty’. RA #photographer #CarlMydans (1907-2004)
#blackandwhitephotography
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‘Plasterer’ Greenbelt, Maryland. #Photographer #CarlMydans (1907-2004)
August 1936
#PhotographyIsArt #blackandwhitephotography #TheNewDeal #ResettlementAdministration #RA #Construction #constructionworker #plaster #wallplaster #Greenbelt #Maryland
In #AUGUST 1936
#ResettlementAdministration #photographer #CarlMydans (1907-2004) at #Greenbelt #Maryland, a new town planned - and now being built - by its #SuburbanResettlementDivision shots here showing the range of workers employed:
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‘#Plumber cutting pipe’
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‘Carpenter at Greenbelt, Maryland’ #Photographer #CarlMydans (1907-2004)
August 1936
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