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Entrance to Mexican house. San Antonio, Texas

Spanish muskrat trapper's home in the marshes. In the small boats or "piroques" he can go up the very narrow and shallow bayous. Delacroix Island, Saint Bernard Parish, Louisiana

Home of rural rehabilitation client, Tulare County, California. They bought twenty acres of raw unimproved land with a first payment of fifty dollars which was money saved out of relief budget (August 1936). They received a Farm Security Administration (FSA) loan of seven hundred dollars for stock and equipment. Now they have a one-room shack, seven cows, three sows, and homemade pumping plant, along with ten acres of improved permanent pasture. Cream check approximately thirty dollars per month. Husband also works about ten days a month outside the farm. Husband is twenty-six years old, wife twenty-two, three small children. Been in California five years. "Piece by piece this place gets put together. One more piece of pipe and our water tank will be finished."

A man standing in front of a wooden outhouse. Great Depression and Dust Bowl.

William Helmke in front of his one-room shack built by himself. Ninety acre farm, crop share lease owned by lawyer. Iowa

Home of worker in strip coal mine. Cherokee County, Kansas

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Coal mine at Lewisburg, Alabama. Some of the settlers on homesteads work here

Miner's home. Cherokee County, Kansas

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Home of worker in strip coal mine. Cherokee County, Kansas

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Public domain photograph - historical image of Kansas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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01/01/1936
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Rothstein, Arthur, 1915-1985, 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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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Company. Stockpile of timbers for the mine

Martin Mine, Benton, Wis. - Public domain portrait print

Wife of torpedo plant worker talks with her neighbor. Trailer camp in Alexandria, Virginia

World's largest open pit iron mine at Hibbing, Minnesota. The pit is two and a half miles long, three quarters of a mile wide, four hundred feet deep

Algatcha mine, 3 versts from the town of Algatcha [i.e., Algachi]

A black and white photo of a man smoking a cigarette. Office of War Information Photograph

Company houses at Franklin Mine, Michigan

Nyssa, Oregon. FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp. Japanese-American farm worker

Family of unemployed oil worker, who is now living on relief, eating supper. Seminole, Oklahoma

Home of Negro WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) worker. Muskogee County, Oklahoma

Guntersville Dam and powerhouse. Closeup view of powerhouse. Note texture of concrete on electrical bay which is typical of most TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) projects. Pattern is produced by alternating directions of grain in adjoining form panels. Rough-sawn lumber is used to make grain more pronounced. Heavy texture conceals color and surface irregularities of concrete and will become particularly valuable as concrete ages. Office floor is above flood level and has continuous glass brick strip

Picket's sign outside copper mine during strike. Ducktown, Tennessee

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