November 25, 1989

Robert L. Reid describes the history behind "Picturing Minnesota, 1936-1943"

Mark Heistad - Interviewer, Robert L. Reid - Interviewee

LISTEN:Robert L. Reid describes the history behind "Picturing Minnesota, 1936-1943"
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MPR’s Mark Heistad interviews Robert L. Reid, author of Picturing Minnesota, 1936-1943. The book highlights photographs from the Farm Security Administration.

In the middle of the Great Depression, photographers working for Franklin D. Roosevelt's Farm Security Administration (FSA) began traveling across America taking pictures of ordinary people and places. 

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Robert L. Reid describes the history behind "Picturing Minnesota, 1936-1943"