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Mr. Ellis and Miss Christian making farm and home plans with Mr. & Mrs. E.H. Wise, RR (Rural Rehabilitation) family. There are six members in this family; their monthly food check is eight dollars. Total farm and home operating expenses for year is four hundred thirty-five dollars and ninety-five cents (435.95). They have about forty-two hens and take care of part of family expenses by selling eggs, chickens and other farm produce. Coffee County, Alabama

Miss Christian, home supervisor, explaining the farm and family record book to Mrs. E.H. Wise (RR-Rural Rehabilitation) who is keeping an accurate account of all expenses, Coffee County, Alabama

Miss Hesterley and Miss Christian, FSA (Farm Security Administration) home economists, discussing farm and home plan with Ellis Adkins family, rural rehabilitation borrowers, in front of their home. This is their first year on the program. There are nine in the family. Coffee County, Alabama

Miss Hesterly, FSA (Farm Security Administration) home economist, following Adkins family, FSA rural rehabilitation clients, into their house to help make out their home and farm plans. Coffee County, Alabama

Farm scene on farm of FSA (Farm Security Administration) rehabilitation borrower Nyssa Heights, Oregon, Malheur County. The first year that this land on the Owyhee irrigation project is farmed it is impossible to grow any crops except hay. The farmers in the beginning had a few cows because of lack of funds to start herds, but within two or three years, herds began to increase and now much of the feed on the farm is used by home herd

Farm scene on farm of FSA (Farm Security Administration) rehabilitation borrower Nyssa Heights, Oregon, Malheur County. The first year that this land on the Owyhee irrigation project is farmed it is impossible to grow any crops except hay. The farmers in the beginning had a few cows because of lack of funds to start herds, but within two or three years, herds began to increase and now much of the feed on the farm is used by home herd

Miss Hesterley and Miss Christian, home economists discussing farm and home plan with Ellis Adkins family, rural rehabilitation borrowers, in front of their home. This is their first year on the program. There are nine in the family. Coffee County, Alabama

Edward Johson of Murray, Salt Lake County, Utah, makes poultry pay his way on a one-acre farm. Careful farm and home management and the aid of Farm Security Administration rehabilitation loan have put this farmer on his feet

Agriculture. Women on farms. The horses, cows, and chickens cared for, Mrs. Harold Sontag of Maple Park, Illinois, starts out for the farmhouse with her blonde, pre-school youngsters. Like many another U.S. farmer's wife, Mrs. Sontag takes an extremely active part in the management of her farm, which will be increasingly short-handed for the duration

Mr. Ellis and Miss Christian making farm and home plans with Mr. & Mrs. E.H. Wise, RR (Rural Rehabilitation) family. There are six members in this family; their monthly food check is eight dollars. Total farm and home operating expenses for year is four hundred thirty-five dollars and ninety-five cents (435.95). They have about forty-two hens and take care of part of family expenses by selling eggs, chickens and other farm produce. Coffee County, Alabama

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alabama coffee county coffee farms safety film negatives fairfield estates ellis miss christian miss christian farm home plans home plans wise rural rehabilitation rural rehabilitation members six members food check food check dollars eight dollars total total farm expenses year thirty five thirty five dollars ninety five cents ninety five cents forty two hens forty two hens care part eggs chickens female portrait 1930 s women woman photograph history of alabama american farmers 1930 s library of congress
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01/01/1939
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Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990, photographer
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Fairfield Estates ,  31.32489, -85.88216
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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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Forty-two celebrated quartettes - American sheet music, 1870-1885

Chicago, Illinois. Looking for a bag in the baggage check room at the Union Station

WISE, J.W. HONORABLE - Harris & Ewing, Studio Portrait

A black and white photo of a warehouse. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

Prompt patriotism. At a convention of republican delegates, consisting of one hundred and forty-two members, from fifty one towns/in the late County of Hampshire, comprising the counties, of Hampshire, Franklin and Hampden, convened at the Court

Clifford Beason examining a sample of corn raised in 1936. The corn in this crib represents total crop from two hundred thirty acres of corn in five hundred twenty acre farm. His estimate of the crop is thirty-five bushels. Iowa

Baltimore, Maryland. The "work" cards, by means of which constant check is kept on what is being done with each block of Social Security Account Applications, are punched in the Production and Control Section. Each hole in each "work" or peration, card represents a letter or a numeral. When translated, these give necessary pertinent data for the daily permenent work records of the Social Security Board Records Office in Baltimore. The photograph above shows a worker in the Production and Control Section of the Records Office punching "work", or operation cards

Rural rehabilitation, Tulare County, California. In 1936 this family was on relief. With a Farm Security Administration (FSA) loan of seven hundred and eighty dollars, they were able to purchase and install an irrigating pump for the vineyard, a team, and the balance gave them subsistence and operating expenses for the first grape season

Washington, D.C. A lieutenant in the United States Army Air Transport Command calling the airport to check on flight conditions before checking out at the United Nations service center

Jack Cowan, Farm Security Administration representative, Helen Warren, home supervisor, and Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Thornton, going over farm and home plans. Story County, Iowa

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

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Honor roll in the hall of the Lititz Borough Public School, showing which classes have 100 percent record for buying war stamps and bonds for the week. During the week of November 12th, out of the 845 children in the school, 780 children bought four hundred seventy-three dollars and ninety-five cents worth of stamps and bonds; two thousand seven hundred twenty-seven dollars and thirty cents worth this year

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alabama coffee county coffee farms safety film negatives fairfield estates ellis miss christian miss christian farm home plans home plans wise rural rehabilitation rural rehabilitation members six members food check food check dollars eight dollars total total farm expenses year thirty five thirty five dollars ninety five cents ninety five cents forty two hens forty two hens care part eggs chickens female portrait 1930 s women woman photograph history of alabama american farmers 1930 s library of congress