Jack Delano: Tap Dancing Class at Iowa State College, 1942

New Deal agencies hired some of the country's most talented photographers of the twentieth century to document the lives of rural Americans during the Great Depression and its aftermath. This moving record bears witness to the struggling people in northern New Mexico determined to succeed. ...more

Jack Delano's "photographic memories" include the struggles of migrant workers and the homefront contributions of ethnic and minority groups living in the shadow of the Depression. Employed as a photographer by the Historical Section of the Farm Security Administration (FSA), Delano later settled in Puerto Rico, where he has been ...more

Bi-lingual booklet in English and Spanish, published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name by the Smithsonian Institution. ...more