AV 153 Agricultural Adjustment Administration Photograph Collection

              AV 153
Agricultural Adjustment Act Photograph Collection
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OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Manuscripts/ Audiovisual Collections
AV 153
Agricultural Adjustment Administration Photograph Collection
1939- 1940
OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION
Number:
AV 153
Title:
Agricultural Adjustment Administration Photograph Collection
Creator:
U. S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Dates:
1939- 1940
Media:
Photographs
Quantity:
1.33 cubic feet
Location:
Ohio Historical Center
HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE COLLECTION
The Agricultural Adjustment Act was passed in 1933 as part of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal program. The program, operated by the U. S. Department of Agriculture, was established to reduce the surplus of crops and livestock on the market, thus making farm products more profitable to produce. This was accomplished by subsidizing farmers to grow less. The AAA was soon declared unconstitutional by the U. S. Supreme Court. The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, which improved on those measures found unconstitutional in the first bill, was passed and declared constitutional.
Source:
“ Agricultural Adjustment Act.” Ohio History Central. Online. Internet. 6 February 2008.
[ URL: http:// www. ohiohistorycentral. org/ entry. php? rec= 1510& nm= Agricultural- Adjustment- Act]
SCOPE AND CONTENTS OF THE COLLECTION
The collection is comprised of approximately 1000 aerial photographs taken between mid- 1939 and late- 1940. The photographs were taken by the government of Ohio farmlands in Coshocton, Meigs and Vinton Counties. The topographic photographs taken were used to document agricultural production in those counties.