Photogrammar
Photogrammar is a digital-humanities project that makes nearly 170,000 photographs from the Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information (1935–1945) accessible through an interactive web platform.
Developed at Yale with NEH support, it allows users to search, map, and visualize this vast archive, revealing both iconic and lesser-known images of the Great Depression and World War II.
By combining historical scholarship with innovative digital tools, Photogrammar opens new ways to explore and interpret one of the most important visual records of 20th-century America.
This is a geographical map of the series of photos organized, which is completely interactive for viewers to view photos from specific locations.
The geographical map can be used by viewing State’s counties or cities (City view shown to the left.)
“The 170,000 photographs taken between 1935 and 1944 under the direction of the Farm Security Administration (FSA) and the Office of War Information (OWI) constitutes one of the richest photographic archives in the United States, arguably the world. One of the most famous documentary photography collections of the twentieth century, the “Historic Section” created visual evidence of government initiatives alongside scenes of everyday life during the Great Depression and World War II across the United States. Photogrammar provides tools to explore this abundant archive: maps to see photos taken in thousands of locations across the United States, a “treemap” to explore them categorically and thematically, a timeline to concentrate on a given moment in time or a specific photographer, and individual photographer pages with oral histories.” – Photogrammar