Horseshoe pitching contest at the annual field day of the FSA (Farm Security Administration) farmworkers community, Yuma, Arizona – Antique Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Horseshoe pitching contest at the annual field day of the FSA (Farm Security Administration) farmworkers community, Yuma, Arizona, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Horseshoe pitching contest at the annual field day of the FSA (Farm Security Administration) farmworkers community, Yuma, Arizona
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Horseshoe pitching, rather than the horses the board suggests, is the focus of this March 1942 scene from the annual field day of a Farm Security Administration farmworkers community in Yuma, Arizona. The FSA built camps and communities for migrant and seasonal farm laborers during the Depression, and events like this gave families a chance to gather, socialize and compete in friendly contests. The picture survives as a nitrate negative, a fragile early film base, and it offers a rare glimpse of everyday recreation in a community often described only in terms of labor.
| Created / published | 1942 Mar. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : nitrate ; 35 mm. |
| Genre | Nitrate negatives. |
| Notes | Title and other information from caption card. United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. |
| Subjects | United States--Arizona--Yuma County--Yuma. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,272 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-201774 |
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