Baseball Team, Irwinville Farms,

Irwinville, Irwin County, Georgia

c. John Vachon, 1938.

Image courtesy of the Library of Congress

Chester Foster, third from left, is the only man I'm able to identify in this photograph. The Library of Congress holds a vast collection of photographs of the Irwinville Farms Project, a directive of the Work Projects Administration and the Farm Security Administration. The WPA and FSA sought to improve the lives of rural Americans during the Great Depression, and many houses and barns built for the Irwinville Project are still in use today. I'll highlight some of these in future posts.

LINK

http://rs6.loc.gov/pp/fsaPlaces10.html