FSA
n. countablen. Stands for Farm Security Administration. A group of people who worked together in the past to help farmers in the United States. They are famous for taking many photos of rural life during a difficult time called the Great Depression.
n. Abbreviation for Farm Security Administration. A New Deal agency created in 1937 to combat rural poverty in the United States. It is historically significant for its extensive photography program that documented the social conditions of the era.
The FSA hired photographers to document rural life.
Many iconic images of the Great Depression were captured by photographers working for the FSA to show the struggles of farming families.
While the primary mission of the FSA was to provide loans and resettlement opportunities to sharecroppers, its most enduring legacy remains the vast archive of documentary photography it commissioned.
Usually used with the definite article 'the' and treated as a singular entity.