An intriguing collection of archival photographs from the late 1930s and 1940s, depicting women's lives in settings ranging from the railroad yards at Clovis to the homestead community of Pie Town and from Taos County Hispanic villages to southern ranches. Noted photographers Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, John Collier, Arthur Rothstein and others produced these compelling images for the Farm Security Administration as part of the WPA project. The images, many showing women at work, are supplemented by descriptive accounts of women's life and work.
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RThis intriguing collection of New Deal photographs and texts documents women's lives in late 1930s and early 1940s New Mexico from the railroad yards at Clovis to the homestead community of Pie Town and from Taos County Hispanic villages to Lea Country ranches. The eighty-six photographs by Farm Security Administration photographers John Collier, Jr., Jack Delano, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, and Arthur Rothstein are complemented by twenty-five excerpts from manuscripts in the WPA New Mexico Federal Writer;s Project files. Woman are portrayed as engaged in activities surrounding the home, water and washing, food and cooking, education and welfare, sewing and weaving, commerce, and celebration and ritual.
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