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Small cotton farmer, Kern County, California. He leases the land, and pays 14 of the crop for rent, also pays the water bill (irrigation). "It's come to that there's not going to be any more small farms in California. The big fellows have got us all with a ring in our nose. You take the small farmer like me--we can't come out. There's no difference hardly between me and my pickers--only I've got a place to stay out of the rain"

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Small cotton farmer, Kern County, California. He leases the land, and pays 1/4 of the crop for rent, also pays the water bill (irrigation). "It's come to that there's not going to be any more small farms in California. The big fellows have got us all with a ring in our nose. You take the small farmer like me--we can't come out. There's no difference hardly between me and my pickers--only I've got a place to stay out of the rain"

Small cotton farmer, Kern County, California. He leases the land, and pays 14 of the crop for rent, also pays the water bill (irrigation). "It's come to that there's not going to be any more small farms in California. The big fellows have got us all with a ring in our nose. You take the small farmer like me--we can't come out. There's no difference hardly between me and my pickers--only I've got a place to stay out of the rain"

Small cotton farmer, Kern County, California. He leases the land, and pays 14 of the crop for rent, also pays the water bill (irrigation). "It's come to that there's not going to be any more small farms in California. The big fellows have got us all with a ring in our nose. You take the small farmer like me--we can't come out. There's no difference hardly between me and my pickers--only I've got a place to stay out of the rain"

Agricultural day laborer wiping the sweat from his neck after his return home from chopping cotton.This man had once been a tenant farmer and had quit farming because of repeated crop failures and inability to secure good farming land; he then became a day laborer, his entire family working with him in the fields. They chopped cotton, hoed corn, picked cotton, cut spinach and picked up potatoes. However, because they had this established tent home on the banks of the Arkansas River and because they worked in and around this neighborhood, they considered themselves a class above the migrant workers who came in to harvest the crops. This man had planted a small garden back of his tent not for the value of the garden since he said that the sun would get it before the vegetables were mature, but because it would prevent any of the migrant families from camping near them. He said, "Those migrants don't live the way we do, course they don't have anything to live with." Near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma

One of a group of western Oklahoma wheat farmers congregated at crossroads service station. "In 1934 I had four renters, and I didn't make anything. I bought tractors on the money the government give me, and I got shet of my renters. Right about half the people in these little towns used to be renters. They've got their choice--go to California or Work Projects Administration (WPA)"

Agricultural day laborer wiping the sweat from his neck after his return home from chopping cotton.This man had once been a tenant farmer and had quit farming because of repeated crop failures and inability to secure good farming land; he then became a day laborer, his entire family working with him in the fields. They chopped cotton, hoed corn, picked cotton, cut spinach and picked up potatoes. However, because they had this established tent home on the banks of the Arkansas River and because they worked in and around this neighborhood, they considered themselves a class above the migrant workers who came in to harvest the crops. This man had planted a small garden back of his tent not for the value of the garden since he said that the sun would get it before the vegetables were mature, but because it would prevent any of the migrant families from camping near them. He said, "Those migrants don't live the way we do, course they don't have anything to live with." Near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma

Fruit farmer and his wife, Placer County, California. He owns four hundred acres and has farmed this land for about thirty-five years. He started work in this section freighting ore out. Next he went into cattle raising and about twenty-five years ago into fruit. Last good year for him was ten years ago, but now there is no market for the variety of pears and plums he grows. He has a large loan from Federal Land Bank, he will probably not be able to pay out and will lose his farm

Farmer from Nebraska in emergency camp for migratory workers during pea harvesting says "I put mine in what I thought was the best investment -- the good old earth--but we lost on that, too. The finance company caught up with us, the mortgage company caught up with us. Managed to lose twelve thousand dollars in three years. My boys have no more future than I have so far as I can see ahead." He had been on the road a little less than a year. Calipatria, Imperial County, California

Washington, Klickitat County, near Goldendale. Wheat country, abandoned farm in foreground, occupied farm beyond. Heard in local filling station: "Well, heck, the large farmers are buying out the small farmers and taking over the country. The farmers have to do it in dry land farming to build their land up to where it was. The little fellows are off to the four winds."

Small cotton farmer, Kern County, California. He leases the land, and pays 1/4 of the crop for rent, also pays the water bill (irrigation). "It's come to that there's not going to be any more small farms in California. The big fellows have got us all with a ring in our nose. You take the small farmer like me--we can't come out. There's no difference hardly between me and my pickers--only I've got a place to stay out of the rain"

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During the cotton strike, the International Labor Defense distributes clothing and shoes to destitute families of striking cotton pickers. Kern County, California

Odd Fellows Hall. The Victors Temperance Brigade, Election Day, Dec. 8, 1906. Corbin, Ky.

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

Adeline, 12 years old, earns more than her mother. Get 1 cents a pound for snipping beans[?] at the sheds at Hamburg Canning Factory. Geno was 8 years old, last summer. These two and mother and made 70 to 80 cents a day. Much of this money goes to pay rent for [...] in Buffalo, that is reserved through the summer. All three worked in sheds. They went to the country the last of May returned to Buffalo middle of October, losing about 9 weeks of school. Attend School #2. Location: Buffalo, New York (State)

The pursuit of General Lee's rebel army. The heavy guns - 30 pounders - going to the front during a rain storm / E.F.

Complex clouds form after many inches of rain over several days near Stockton, California

Small cotton farmer stays at the wagon and keeps acocunt of the weight of each sack brought in by pickers from the field. Kern County, California

Miners very often give each other haircuts on front porch. Note rain barrel. The "Patch," Chaplin, West Virginia

Odd Fellows' Home of Ohio, 404 East McCreight Avenue, Springfield, Clark County, OH

Odd Fellows Building & Auditorium, 228-250 Auburn Avenue, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Odd Fellows Building, 1019 Southwest Tenth Street, Portland, Multnomah County, OR

Antient and modern preachers. The difference between antient and modern preachers taken from the Scriptures. If any think me to severe to the Clergy, let them study the examples of Christ and his apostles, and compare the picture

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