The job of the Farm Security Administration is to help needy farm families to escape from relief rolls and become permanently selfsupporting. This leaflet outlines some of the reasons why more than two million farm families have been forced to seek relief since 1930, and the ways in which FSA has helped many of them.

This collection of photographs was produced from the Farm Security Administration files held by the Library of Congress. A copy of all photographs identified to Oklahoma during the 1930s and early 1940s were ordered. While the subject matter of the photographs varies, there is extensive documentation of the effects of the Depression on Oklahoma residents, as well as oil wells and refineries, railroads and farm activities. Nearly all of the photographs were taken by Russell Lee, although the collection does include smaller numbers taken by Jack Delano, Dorothea Lange, John Vachon and Arthur Rothstein. All photographs are captioned in pencil on their versos.