1. Assignment: First, scroll through all of the following slides and create a ½ page (each) reflection on three of the following slides. One of the slides is required, the fourth ½ page, and it will be identified within the presentation. For each reflection, identify the slide by the title located at the top of the slide and include the photographers name. USDA Land Use History Photographs

2. Plowing Field 1941 Georgia Jack Delano

3. Italian Laborers 1941 New Jersey Marion Post

4. Russell Lee Picking String Beans 1939 Oklahoma

5. Arthur Rothstein Hereford Cattle 1939 Iowa

6. Mexican Immigrants Picking Carrots 1939 Texas Russell Lee

7. Migratory Farm Labor Camp- Crating Spinach 1942 Texas Arthur Rothstein

8. Woman working cotton- she was born 2 years before slavery abolished- 1937 Mississippi Dorothea Lange

9. Tenant Farm Family 1936 Alabama Dorothea Lange

10. Mexican Sugar Beet Workers 1936 South Dakota Arthur Rothstein

11. Cultivating Sugar Cane 1941 Saint Croix Island, Virgin Islands Jack Delano

12. Taos, New Mexico 1941 Llano Quemado Rusinow

13. Taos, New Mexico 1941 Rusinow

14. Tobacco Cultivation- Puerto Rico 1941 Jack Delano

15. Illinois 1940 FSA rehabilitation borrower driving a tomato planter. His two little girls, sitting in the back, drop the plants into the ground and cover them up. John Vachon

16. Planting Corn Iowa 1940 John Vachon

17. Assignment: The following caption accompanied the next picture: "Anyone who inspects one of these giant mechanized farms must realize that it foreshadows a fundamental change in American agriculture." Look at the following picture and then reflect in no fewer than five thoughtful sentences on what this means to our society.

18. Young Cotton Growing in Mechanized Field 1938 Texas Dorothea Lange

19. Dust Storm-1935 New Mexico What could have caused these epic dust storms? Dorothea Lange

20. Town after a dust storm- 1936 Oklahoma Arthur Rothstein

21. An Industrial Scene 1937 Alabama Arthur Rothstein