"Doctor examining boy's throat, Reedsville, West Virginia."
Elmer Johnson, photographer.  Created April, 1935.
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection.

Like popular images and statistics, photographs can also help us understand what Americans expected from medicine and their experience of health. As we have seen in Part 1, photographers employed by the federal government’s Farm Security Administration in the late 1930s and early 1940s set out to document the American experience. Many of these showed Americans in need of and encountering medical care.

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