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Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a farmer, 1930s great depression, dust bowl era, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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01/01/1938
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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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Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, Mexican and white, from the Southwest. Pull, clean, tie and crate carrots for the eastern market for eleven cents per crate of forty-eight bunches. Many can barely make one dollar a day. Heavy oversupply of labor and competition for jobs keen

The stack of the towboat Charles T. Campbell on the river Ohio

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Lineup outside of Farm Security Administration grant office (relief to farm laborers) early in the morning, before the office has opened. Tulare, California

Checking the corn in hills, Jasper County, Iowa

W.D. Anglin cultivating his corn with his pair of mares. Transylvania Project, Louisiana

Oregon, Marion county, near West Stayton. Many children work in the bean harvest, as in the Oregon hop harvest. See "Pick for your supper." Sidel, Nation Child Labor Committee. General caption number 46

Farmers during Great Depression: A black and white photo of a man in a cowboy hat.

Farm laborers in the sugar fields near Yauco going off to lunch, Puerto Rico

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Refuge Plantation, Satilla River, Woodbine, Camden County, GA

Girl - Baner? Carswell. Been in mill 4 years. 12 years old. Runs 6 sides = 60 cents a day. Soon will run 8 = 80 cents a day. Father said "the wife of neighbor made $7.40 last week, $1.40 more than her husband. Women and girls makes more than the men." Child 8 yrs. old helps sister. Location: Gastonia, North Carolina

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new jersey camden county nitrate negatives camden photo corn farm laborers farm laborers cents five cents stack work farm security administration 1930 s great depression united states history farm security administration photographs agriculture farmers library of congress