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Mare Island Naval Shipyard, East of Nave Drive, Vallejo, Solano County, CA

Mackert, Md. State, 1920 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Drainage system at Nahr el Falek or Birket Ramadan. Canal & large cultivated 'redeemed' land

A black and white photo of three people and a child. Office of War Information Photograph

Israel Marinoff, 81st St., Ward 5. Works at #2 drawing-in room. At his home his father gave me the boys age at 14 or 15. Those of his other children he was more sure of. Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts.

A black and white photo of a man holding a baseball bat. America during Great Depression and World War Two. FSA / OWI Photograph.

Example of self-resettlement in California. Oklahoma farm family on highway between Blythe and Indio

An old photo of a nurse and a patient. Office of War Information Photograph

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Example of self-resettlement in California. Oklahoma farm family on highway between Blythe and Indio

Example of self-resettlement in California. Oklahoma farm family on highway between Blythe and Indio

Example of self-resettlement in California. Oklahoma farm family on highway between Blythe and Indio

Example of self-resettlement in California. Oklahoma farm family on highway between Blythe and Indio. Forced by the drought of 1936 to abandon their farm, they set out with their children to drive to California. Picking cotton in Arizona for a day or two at a time gave them enough for food and gas to continue. On this day, they were within a day's travel of their destination, Bakersfield, California. Their car had broken down en route and was abandoned

Oklahomans bound for Oregon along a highway in California

An Amish horse, buggy, and driver head down a rural road near the settlement of Emma in LaGrange County, Indiana

Camp by the roadside near Spiro, Oklahoma. This family did agricultural day labor to obtain funds to go to Arizona and California. Sequoyah County, Oklahoma

Family camped on U.S. Highway 63. Cache County, Oklahoma

Family camped on U.S. Highway 63. Cache County, Oklahoma

Example of self-resettlement in California. Oklahoma farm family on highway between Blythe and Indio

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Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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01/01/1936
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Lange, Dorothea, photographer
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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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A man and a woman standing outside of a building. Great Depression Era FSA/OWI Photograph

Mother and daughter tenant farmers. Hill section of McIntosh County, Oklahoma

A black and white photo of a man sitting on a pile of sticks, Louisiana. Farmers during Great Depression

Saturday night dance in the community building of the Agua Fria migratory labor camp. Arizona

Priming a tractor with gasoline, El Indio, Texas

Barto, Berks County, Pennsylvania. The Evans family at supper on the farm of Thomas G. Evans, a FSA (Farm Security Administration) client

Italian metal worker at the Correct Manufacturing Company in Fallston Pennsylvania

Eight-year old Jack on a Western Massachusetts farm. He is a type of child who is being overworked in many rural districts. See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, August, 1915. Location: Western Massachusetts, Massachusetts.

Yauco, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Farm laborer who was cutting cane in a sugar field

A black and white photo of an old outhouse, Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph

Members of home demonstration club working on contest which was determined who could make the largest number of words from the letters in the word "Washington." It was Washington's birthday. McIntosh County, Oklahoma

Son of white migrant eating lunch of blackberry pie along the highway east of Fort Gibson, Oklahoma

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