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The art of the reject pile

A new book gives life to Depression-era negatives that were deemed unworthy of publishing

Picture of Jackie Friedman
by Jackie Friedman
June 29, 2016

Eighteen-year-old mother from Oklahoma, now a California migrant. 1937.

(Dorothea Lange/Library of Congress)At the helm of this massive project, which lasted from 1935 to 1944, was Roy E. Stryker, an economist and photographer. Stryker's task was monumental — hir

Mr. Tronson, farmer near Wheelock, North Dakota. 1937.

(Russell Lee/Library of Congress)

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Homesteader at Roanoke Farms, North Carolina. 1938.

(John Vachon/Library of Congress)In his new book, Ground: A Reprise of Photographs from the Farm Security Administration (Daylight Books), McDowell resurrects the FSA's killed negatives, tran

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Untitled. Alabama. 1936.

(Walker Evans/Library of Congress)

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Levee workers, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. 1935.

(Ben Shahn/Library of Congress)

Getting fields ready for spring planting, North Carolina. 1936.

(Carl Mydans/Library of Congress)

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Lumber mill worker, Lowell, Vermont. 1937.

(Arthur Rothstein/Library of Congress)

Untitled. Kansas. 1938.

(John Vachon/Library of Congress)

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Five-bedroom house, Meridian (Magnolia) Homesteads, Mississippi. 1935.

(Arthur Rothstein/Library of Congress)

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Mud bath, Prince George's County, Maryland. 1935.

(Carl Mydans/Library of Congress)

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Scioto farms, Ohio. 1938.

(Arthur Rothstein/Library of Congress)

Sharecropper and dog, North Carolina. 1938.

(John Vachon/Library of Congress)**For more about Ground, check Daylight Books.**

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