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Main Streets

by The Library of Congress

Take a walk down Main Streets of yesteryear. The Farm Security Administration (FSA) gathered these photos for a temporary exhibit held in the Library Congress Photograph Section file room in May 1945.

18 photos · 320 views

Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois (LOC)

Main street of Mogollon, New Mexico, second largest gold mining town in the state. New Mexico (LOC)

One of Miami's streets showing varied small shops, signs, and tourist bureaus. Miami Beach, Florida (LOC)

Timber Lake, South Dakota. Street scene, three workmen (LOC)

Scene along Bathgate Avenue in the Bronx, a section from which many of the New Jersey homesteaders have come, New York (LOC)

Street in Silver Peak, Nevada (LOC)

The main street of Derby, Connecticut, decorated for the Christmas season (LOC)

The main street in Springfield, Vermont (LOC)

Downtown section of Kilgore, Texas, studded with oil derricks (LOC)

[Hillsboro] street. Oxford, Granville County, North Carolina (LOC)

Farmers on main street, Saturday night. Iowa Falls, Iowa (LOC)

Burlington, Iowa (LOC)

Street scene, Provincetown, Massachusetts (LOC)

Selling apples on main street on Saturday afternoon, Lexington, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi (LOC)

Farmers in town on Saturday afternoon. Russellville, Kentucky (LOC)

Rainy day on the main street of Roxboro, North Carolina (LOC)

Camden, Tennessee (LOC)

Trailer camp. McAllen, Texas (LOC)