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Fur buyer figuring out his bid on the next lot of muskrat pelts. The auction sale is held in a dance hall on Delacroix Island, Saint Bernard Parish, Louisiana

Fur buyer figuring out his bid on the next lot of muskrat pelts. The auction sale is held in a dance hall on Delacroix Island, Saint Bernard Parish, Louisiana

Fourteen-year-old high school student Vernon Lubben, from Manchester, Iowa filling out his judging card during judging of hogs at the Iowa High School Agricultural Congress at Iowa State College. Ames, Iowa

Fourteen-year-old high school student Vernon Lubben, from Manchester, Iowa filling out his judging card during judging of hogs at the Iowa High School Agricultural Congress at Iowa State College. Ames, Iowa

John Bastia, a former lumberjack and coal miner, now a single shacker in Iron County, Michigan. He speaks only Italian, is stone deaf

Son of depression refugee from Oklahoma now in California

A black and white photo of a group of people, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

Trying on a pair of shoes. San Augustine, Texas

A black and white photo of a man sitting in a chair. America during Great Depression and World War Two. FSA / OWI Photograph.

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A black and white photo of a man sitting in a chair. America during Great Depression and World War Two. FSA / OWI Photograph.

Construction workers at Hercules powder plant in their room in boardinghouse. Radford, Virginia

Carpenter employed at Hercules powder plant in the parlor of Mrs. Prichard's boardinghouse. Radford, Virginia

Carpenter employed at Hercules powder plant in the parlor of Mrs. Prichard's boardinghouse. Radford, Virginia

Out of state employee of Hercules powder plant in his room at Mrs. Sells boardinghouse. Radford, Virginia

Out of state employee of Hercules powder plant in his room at Mrs. Sells boardinghouse. Radford, Virginia

Construction workers at Hercules powder plant in their room in boardinghouse. Radford, Virginia

Mechanic at powder plant in his room in basement of Mr. Tilly's furniture store. Radford, Virginia

Powder plant's construction worker in his bedroom at Mrs. Pritchard's boardinghouse. Radford, Virginia

Carpenter at Hercules powder plant in his room in Sunday clothes, workclothes on the floor in front of him. He came here a month ago from Long Branch, West Virginia. Pays eight dollars a week room and board. Left his family at home. Would send for them if he could find a decent place to live. Radford, Virginia

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01/01/1940
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Vachon, John, 1914-1975, photographer
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Radford Village ,  37.12318, -80.56672
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No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html

label_outline Explore Hercules Powder Plant, Sunday Clothes, Radford Village

A black and white photo of a woman with a cat, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

Four Freedoms and Arsenal of Democracy posters. District of Columbia commissioner J. Russell Young, Colonel Lemuel Bolles, District of Columbia director of civilian defense, addressed the throng on hand to witness the unveiling in the nation's capitol of the 15 x 30 foot photomontages entitled "The Four Freedoms" and "The Arsenal of Democracy." These were designed for the (OEM) Office of Emergency Management by the eminent poster artist Jean Carlu and were first seen in New York. From there they came to Washington where they were displayed for a month beginning November 7, 1941. Then they were sent out for display in various other cities around the country. Seated on the platform is Colonel Lemuel Bolles, director of civilian defense for the nation's capitol

Leo Donathon wearing his identification badge for Hercules powder plant. Radford, Virginia

Schoots Court with Senate building in background. Four very small dark rooms rent for fifteen and eighteen dollars per month with water and privy in yard. It used to rent for six and eight dollars. Frank Coles and his friend are sitting on the bench He was a cement plasterer but has been on relief during the past year. He has frequent heart attacks and his feet and ankles are all swollen. Doctor advises a chicken and lamb diet, no pork or beef, but he doesn't even have money to buy fuel. He can't get waited on in a clinic or get to one. He waited from before eleven until four p.m. but still could not see a doctor. He has been in Washington since 1906

Safe clothes for women war workers. Estelle Hendel, twenty-eight, a guard at the Bendix Aviation Plant in Brooklyn, stands before the company service flag and gives the correct salute. Bendix Aviation Plant, Brooklyn, New York

U.S. Consul General in Berlin reports to President Roosevelt. Washington, D.C., Dec. 1. Raymond H. Geist, U.S. Consul General in Berlin, leaving the White House today after giving President Roosevelt a first-hand report on European war conditions and Germany. Geist left Germany on Oct. 9, more than a month after the war started

Rolfe Lawrence Chickering, farmboy from Saint Johnsbury, Vermont, who came to work at Pratt and Whitney United Aircraft in January 1941. Because of congested housing conditions, he commutes twenty miles each way daily from East Hartford to Suffield Connecticut, where he lives with a private family, pays eight dollars weekly for room and board. He is single, about twenty years old

Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas Island, Virgin Islands. Washing clothes in a slum section

103 union presidents meet with Green to urge Congress to change WPA wage-hour rates. Washington, D.C., July 12. Leaders of the American Federation of Labor's national and international unions met today to plan methods of persuading Congress to restore old wage and hour rates of pay for WPA workers who now work 130 hours for the same pay they once received for as little as 55 hours a month. Here are Frank Morrison, Secretary-Treasurer of the AF of L, Herbert Rivers, Secretary and Treasurer of the Building and Construction Trades Department, and William Green, President of the AF of L photographed at the meeting this morning

Children of defense workers playing outside their home in Sunset Village. FSA (Farm Security Administration) housing project. Radford, Virginia

Partially completed homes for agricultural workers to enable them to settle permanently. These houses rent for eight dollars and twenty cents per month which includes water and electricity. This tract adjoins the migratory labor camp. Farmersville, California. Compare 19550 and 19546

[Members of Congress posed, eating pie, left to right: Stewart Hoffman Appleby, Ralph Eugene Updike, William Radford Coyle, Samuel Dickstein, Edith Nourse Rogers, James Campbell(?) McLaughlin, Samuel James Montgomery, Clarence John McLeod, John Bartholomew Sosnowski, and Joseph Lawrence Hooper]

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