Untitled photograph by John Vachon, 1938, taken on Roanoke Farms, Enfield, North Carolina.
Featured on PDR in the essay The Kept and the Killed
Of the 270,000 photographs commissioned by the US Farm Security Administration to document the Great Depression, more than a third were “killed”. Erica X Eisen examines the history behind this hole-punched archive and the unknowable void at its center.
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Roanoke Farms, Enfield, North Carolina
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1938
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