Skyline Farms, Alabama: A New Deal Community

This lesson activity explores the community of Skyline Farms, Alabama, formally known as Cumberland Mountain Farms, through photographs. Three Farm Security Administration photographers, Arthur Rothstein, Carl Mydans, and Ben Shahn, photographed Skyline Farms between 1935 and 1937. 

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Search the Prints & Photographs Collection for images from another community  established by the Resettlement Administration, such as Gee’s Bend. Compare these photographs to the ones taken of Skyline Farms. How are they similar? How are they different?