FSA - Tenant Purchase borrowers by their house, Puerto Rico – Vintage Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This historic image of FSA - Tenant Purchase borrowers by their house, Puerto Rico brings a moment of history to your wall. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
Order it framed and ready to hang, or unframed to match a frame you already love. It brings character to any room and makes a memorable gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
FSA - Tenant Purchase borrowers by their house, Puerto Rico
Order a print
Thank you. Your order went through, and a receipt is on its way by email.
Secure checkout · SSL encryptedPowered by Stripe and PayPal
Free shipping in the lower 48 states. The checkout page shows the picture, size and price before you pay.
Here a family of Tenant Purchase borrowers poses beside their own house in Puerto Rico, a detail that marks the picture as a record of land ownership rather than farm work or rural fairs. The Tenant Purchase program, created under the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act of 1937, let tenant farmers take out long-term loans to buy the land they worked, and the Farm Security Administration photographed these borrowers to document the program's results. Its work in Puerto Rico, where many families farmed land they did not own, drew photographers such as Jack Delano in the early 1940s. Look closely at the house itself, since its construction and setting reflect the modest means the loans were meant to improve.
| Original scan | 5,474 × 3,814 px · prints to 18 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
|---|---|
| Reference | 1a34007u FSA - Tenant Purchase borrowers by their house, Puerto Rico |
More from the Barns & Farms collection
Snapshots of the Past helps heritage brands, museums, historians and storytellers tell stories with history: historic prints, image licensing and historical storytelling drawn from more than 25 years of research and curation.
