Living on their farms. They begin moving other places looking for new land to live on. People were in dire straits. Wasof the worst hit areas agriculture. A Program Began under one of the advisors to president franklin theevelt to document conditions under which people. Ere living this is when we didnt have television. Of folksdio but a lot did not have electricity. They sent out photographers to take pictures of what was happening and they put these pictures into newspapers whenever they could and into magazines and trade journals and things like that. It was difficult to get newspapers to accept these photographs because nobody wanted to face up to what was happening, but lori stryker who was an economist from Columbia University was really persistent. He was the head of this project and went to newspaper offices, contacted newspaper people, magazine people and pushed and pushed against these pictures to get them published and out to the public so they could see what was happening. E