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A black and white photo of people in a store. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A young truant newsie, during school hours. Location: Nashville, Tennessee

A couple of men standing next to each other. Office of War Information Photograph

Michael Mero, 2 West 4th St., Bootblack, 12 years of age, working one year of own volition. Don't smoke. Out after 11 P.M. on May 21, Ordinarily works 6 hours per day. Location: Wilmington, Delaware

A black and white photo of two men, possibly related to: Street scene, Marysville, Ohio

Theatre on Michigan Ave., Chicago, Illinois

A couple of men standing next to each other. Great Depression FSA photogpraph

Meat rationing preview. Harold Rowe, Office of Price Administration (OPA) food rationing chief, sells meat to girl reporter at shopping preview of new program

Inflation. In Germany after the last war, it was possible to pay 50 million dollars for a nickel cup of coffee, and 35 million dollars for a $35 suit of clothes. This Berlin woman, realizing that fuel costs money, is starting the morning fire with marks "not worth the paper they are printed on"

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Crystal Palace Saloon, Tombstone, Arizona. Original bar of "Helldorado"

Crystal Palace Saloon, Allen & Fifth Streets, Tombstone, Cochise County, AZ

Crystal Palace Saloon, Allen & Fifth Streets, Tombstone, Cochise County, AZ

Famous old bar in Tombstone, Arizona

Tombstone in Boothill Cemetery, Tombstone, Arizona

Crystal Palace Saloon, Allen & Fifth Streets, Tombstone, Cochise County, AZ

Crystal Palace Saloon, Allen & Fifth Streets, Tombstone, Cochise County, AZ

Famous old bar in Tombstone, Arizona

The Crystal Palace, the Alhambra court

Crystal Palace Saloon, Tombstone, Arizona. Original bar of "Helldorado"

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Title and other information from caption card.

Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.

More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi

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Film copy on SIS roll 27, frame 1540.

Born in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1895, Dorothea Lange contracted polio as a young girl. She learned professional photography skills while working in New York in her early 20s, and then landed in San Francisco where she ran a portrait business catering to the city's wealthy elite. Her second husband, Paul Taylor, helped her to get out into the fields with the destitute pickers, who she'd treat like portrait subjects with empathy and identification with her subjects. When the Depression hit, she captured crowded breadlines. In the late 1930s Dorothea Lange had been hired by the photographic unit of the Farm Security Administration - to photograph Dust Bowl refugees escaped into California from the Midwest and her images went far beyond bureaucratic reportage. A skilled portraitist, Lange might not have been able to change government policies, but her images for the FSA were picked up by newspapers across the country. John Steinbeck used them for inspiration in his 1939 Dust Bowl tale "The Grapes of Wrath."

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Date

01/01/1938
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in collections

Dorothea Lange, FSA, HD

Dorothea Lange's Dust Bowl refugees photographs.
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Location

arizona
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Library of Congress
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https://www.loc.gov/
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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

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Havasu Creek flows past a campground between Mooney Falls and Havasu Falls, two of the five Havasupai waterfalls deep in Arizona's Havasu Canyon, an offshoot of Grand Canyon National Park but on lands administered by the Havasupai Indian Tribe

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Globe, Gila County, Arizona

Aerial view of a portion of Lake Powell, a reservoir on the Colorado River, straddling the border between Arizona and Utah near Page, Arizona, that is a favorite recreational destination

Hightstown, New Jersey. On this project some of the homesteaders will work on the cooperative farm, some in the cooperative factory. This group represents wives and children of the farm group. This is a Jewish community background

Mrs. Lawrence Corda, wife of tiff miner, with some of her 800 quarts of food canned under supervision of FSA (Farm Security Administration). Washington County, Missouri

Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. People bring their junk to a retail junk yard in everything from a pushcart to a limousine

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Company. Supply store in lamp house of mine

Grand Gulch Mine, Littlefield, Mohave County, AZ

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Naco, Cochise County, Arizona

A black and white photo of a woman in a store. Great Depression Era FSA/OWI Photograph

The North Bisbee extension, Bisbee, Arizona

A portion of renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright's Harold C. Price Sr. House, colloqually known as the "UHaul House", in Paradise Valley, Arizona

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