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A black and white photo of a woman holding a child. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

Portrait photograph of Hutton, Mrs, C.M.Bell Studio

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

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Mother and child who have moved to San Diego from San Angelo, Texas. The house this family lives in rented for twenty-two dollars and fifty cents per month six months ago. The rent is now forty dollars. Two roomers pay five dollars each per month for use of room. San Diego, California

Living room in house rented to Mexican family for twelve dollars and fifty cents per month. San Diego, California

Living room in house rented to Mexican family for twelve dollars and fifty cents per month. San Diego, California

Exterior of shack house which rents for fifteen dollars per month. San Diego, California

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Three-room house seventy dollars and seventy cents monthly. Rent to apply on purchase. Four in family. Father, carpenter, earns seventy dollars monthly. California

Construction workman, his sister and her little girl in rented house. San Diego, California. They live together. He supports all three. They have this house for three weeks because a friend of theirs moved out; at the end of the week they will join the hordes of house hunters. This frame house consisting of four rooms and bath, rents for twenty-five dollars per month

Slums of East El Centro, California. Housing for Mexican field workers. They rent for eight dollars a month. Imperial Valley

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Four-bedroom house. Eight in family, six boys, aged one to fourteen. Father is conductor (streetcar), one hundred dollars monthly. Pays sixteen dollars and twenty cents a month rent on purchase. California

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Four in family. Three-room house, seventeen dollars and seventy cents rent to apply on purchase. Father's occupation: carpenter. Earns seventy dollars a month. California

Mother and child who have moved to San Diego from San Angelo, Texas. The house this family lives in rented for twenty-two dollars and fifty cents per month six months ago. The rent is now forty dollars. Two roomers pay five dollars each per month for use of room. San Diego, California

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Public domain photograph of California in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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california san diego county san diego safety film negatives azure vista mother child angelo san angelo house lives twenty two dollars twenty two dollars fifty cents fifty cents month month six months rent forty forty dollars roomers two roomers five dollars room united states history library of congress
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01/01/1941
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Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, photographer
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Azure Vista ,  32.71949, -117.26309
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Library of Congress
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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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Oldest girl, Minnie Carpenter, House 53 Loray Mill, Gastonia, N.C. Spinner. Makes fifty cents a day of 10 hours. Works four sides. Younger girl works irregularly. Location: Gastonia, North Carolina

Boston, December 15, 1836. You are hereby notified that an assessment of five dollars on each and every share of the capital stock of the Western Railroad corporation, has been laid by the directors, payable to the treasurer, on Monday, the sixt

Childersburg. Alabama. Shack village built to accomodate defense workers who each pay thirty to forty dollars a month rental

Room for maids who work in boarding house for single men who are mostly employed at the Consolidated Aircrafts. Notice the laundry tub in same room. The maids are paid five dollars per week and room and board. San Diego, California

Calipatria, Imperial Valley. In FSA (Farm Security Administration) emergency migratory labor camp. Left Oklahoma December 11, 1937 with husband and two children and son-in-law. Ex-tenant farmers on third and fourths in cotton. Had fifty dollars when set out. Went to Phoenix, picked cotton and pulled bolls, made eighty cents a day with two people picking bolls. Stayed until school closed. Went to Idaho, picked peas until August, left McCarl with forty dollars "in hand." Went to Cedar City and Parowan, Utah, a distance of 700 miles. Picked peas through September. Went to Hollister, Calipatria. Picked peas through October. Left for Calipatria for early peas which froze. Now receiving FSA food grant and waiting for work to begin. "Back in Oklahoma we was sinkin.' You work your head off for a crop and then see it burn up. You live in debts that you can never get out of. This isn't a good life, but I say it's a better life than that was."

Alexander Ferrier, 6 Hampton St., (on left hand). Has been band boy in #8 mill for two years. He said that a short time ago an unprotected gear on his machine caught his sleeve and tore it off completely. Another boy had a large part of his hand taken off by the same machine. David Ferrier (brother to Alexander) has been doffer in #10 mill one month. Location: Ludlow, Massachusetts.

Why is the paper five cents to-day, boy? : the regular price is only a penny : Ain't it worth four extra cents, lady, to read that the president has got some spunk after all?

Childersburg. Alabama. Shack village built to accomodate defense workers who each pay thirty to forty dollars a month rental

Carl's Cafe and lunchroom tent put up about three months ago. Plate lunch increases from twenty-five cents to thirty-five cents and dinners from thirty-five cents to fifty cents. Alexandria, Louisiana

A black and white photo of a group of men standing next to a truck, possibly related to: Day laborers being hired for cotton picking on Mississippi and Arkansas plantations. Between four and six-thirty every morning during the season, near the Hallan Bridge in Memphis, Tennessee, crowds of Negroes in the streets gather and are loaded into trucks by drivers who bid, and offer them anywhere from fifty cents to one dollar per day

A black and white photo of a man standing next to a truck, possibly related to: Day laborers being hired for cotton picking on Mississippi and Arkansas plantations. Between four and six-thirty every morning during the season, near the Hallan Bridge in Memphis, Tennessee, crowds of Negroes in the streets gather and are loaded into trucks by drivers who bid, and offer them anywhere from fifty cents to one dollar per day

A black and white photo of a group of people walking down a street One of the tens of thousands untitled images from FSA/OWI

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california san diego county san diego safety film negatives azure vista mother child angelo san angelo house lives twenty two dollars twenty two dollars fifty cents fifty cents month month six months rent forty forty dollars roomers two roomers five dollars room united states history library of congress