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Virgil Burns and Fred Ringler, members of co-op (FSA (Farm Security Administration)) in charge of hog department. Two Rivers Non-Stock Cooperative, Waterloo, Nebraska. There are 181 head of hogs, average weight 160 pounds. There are also 40 sows and 219 suckling pigs

A black and white photo of a man sitting on a horse drawn plow. America during Great Depression and World War Two. FSA / OWI Photograph.

Drought refugees from Oklahoma at work in the pea fields near Nipomo, California

A black and white photo of a man holding a bunch of sticks. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man in a field. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

Threshing oats, Brookeville, Maryland

A black and white photo of two men in a corn field. Office of War Information Photograph

Farmers during Great Depression: A black and white photo of a man on a horse drawn cart.

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Farmers during Great Depression: A man standing on top of a pile of hay.

Farmers during Great Depression: A man standing on top of a pile of hay.

Farmers during Great Depression: A man standing on top of a pile of hay.

Farmers during Great Depression: A man standing on top of a pile of hay.

Farmers during Great Depression: A man standing on top of a pile of hay.

Walla Walla County, Washington. Men on the combine in a wheat field. The man in the foreground is sewing up the bags of wheat

A couple of people walking down a road Farmers of Great Depression. Dust bowl refugees, Resettlement program.

A black and white photo of a man in a straw hat Farmers of Great Depression. Dust bowl refugees, Resettlement program.

A black and white photo of a man holding a pig Farmers of Great Depression. Dust bowl refugees, Resettlement program.

Farmers during Great Depression: A man standing on top of a pile of hay.

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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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ohio mechanicsburg nitrate negatives photo vicinity harvest hand harvest hand helper virgil thaxton farm farm security administration 1930 s great depression united states history farm security administration photographs agriculture farmers library of congress
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01/01/1938
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Mechanicsburg ,  40.07200, -83.55631
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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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Yauco, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Farm laborer who was cutting cane in a sugar field

Virgil Thaxton closing door to corn crib; corn crib and barn on farm, near Mechanicsburg, Ohio

Marion Post Wolcott with Rolleiflex and Speed Graphic in hand in Montgomery County, Maryland

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

Civilian protection. Members of the rescue parties like this worker must be prepared to reach victims of bomb raids and fallen debris and give them emergency first aid treatment. It is not always possible to remove debris by hand, therefore, rescue workers' trucks carry equipment to enable the rescue squad to shore up masonry, cut through steel or stone, shut off broken mains or tunnel through conglomerate heaps of debris. The worker here shown is using an acetylene torch to cut away a stubborn resisting piece of expanded steel

Richwood, West Virginia. These boys stayed at home when the special train left Richwood carrying agricultural workers to upper New York state to help in the harvest

Owners Dean and Julie Folkmann walk hand in hand with their 16-year-old daughter, Katie, at the family hog farm in Benton County, near Newhall, Iowa

A black and white photo of a man wearing a hat, possibly related to: Harvest hand in the wheat fields, Walla Walla County, Washington

Adjusting the hand pump. Safe well demonstration near La Plata, Maryland. Charles County

Mrs. Watkins, FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower, and her helper, milking cows. She sells from eight to ten pounds of butter each week. Coffee County, Alabama

Migrant worker making stakes for the setting up of his tent, vicinity of Harlingen, Texas

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ohio mechanicsburg nitrate negatives photo vicinity harvest hand harvest hand helper virgil thaxton farm farm security administration 1930 s great depression united states history farm security administration photographs agriculture farmers library of congress