The post discusses untitled photos in the Farm Security Administration Collection, and efforts to provide them titles. Also, the author explores still untitled photos and utilizes visual literacy techniques to speculate what they are about.
One of my favorite ways to explore the vast collections of the Prints & Photographs Division is to look for connections between multiple collections that span different time periods. Quite by accident while searching for another photo in the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, I found this fascinating 1942 photo of a stop …