Untitled FSA/OWI Photos: Stories Waiting to be Uncovered
March 29, 2024
Posted by: Kristi Finefield
Photos are stories. Stories of a moment, a day, a life. And some photo stories are actually mysteries!
Within the over 175,000 images in the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information (FSA/OWI) Collection, roughly 70,000 of them came to us untitled. This means the negative was never printed as a photo and therefore a caption was never written to describe its contents. Over many