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Why call a taxi when you can be wheeled around in royal state in this victoria with the velvet robed driver for twenty cents an hour. Every one can be a prince or princess for an hour Type of Roumanian peasant girl. Upon her wedding day an olive twig must be held over her head by one of the men attendants and if once it is dropped, even during the dancing and feasting, bad luck will be her lot and the gaiety will be dispelled in a jiffy.

Photographs show scenes in Romania including: a horse-drawn carriage driver in his carriage, Bucharest; and a young woman wearing a head scarf. Negative series code stamped on page: LC-C26. On page: no. 1265 More

Patsy, eight year old newsboy, Newark, N.J. Says he makes fifty cents a day. - Aug. 1, 1924. Location: Newark, New Jersey.

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Xmas eve dance! Town Hall, Epping Dec. 24, 1924. Music by Elkin's boys of Pep. Admission 50 cents.

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Iraq. Calah. (Nimrud) 20 miles S. of Mosul, capital of Assyria in 9th and 8th cents. B.C.

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At Split-Coin hearing. Testifying before the House Coinage Committee are C.M. Hester, Assistant General Counsel of the Treasury Department, and Miss Mary O'Reilly, assistant director of the U.S. Mint, as congress propares to consider the plea of several states that they be allowed to issue coins in fractional cents for sales tax purposes. Miss O'Rielly has been with the Mint for 32 years. 8/8/35

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Cotton pickers receiving sixty cents a day, Pulaski County, Arkansas

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Authors of Administration Minimum Wage and Maximum Hours of Work Bill. Washington, D.C. May 24. Senator Hugo L. Black, (left) democratic senator from Alabama and Chairman of the Senate Committee on Education and Labor, and Rep. William P. Connery Jr, of Massachusetts Chairman of the House Labor Committee, study the bills they introduce today in the Senate and [...] for enactment of a standard wage scale and [minim]um hours of work law. The bills were introduced [...] after President Roosevelt's address demanding [...w] was read to both Houses of Congress. [...] call for a minimum of 40 cents an hour [mini]mum hours comprimise a 35 to 40 hour work [week], 5/24/37

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Resettled child of Bosque Farms, New Mexico. She herds cows for neighboring families for five cents per day

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Still in disagreement. This executive photograph taken at the coal strike conference in Washington found the principles as far apart as the poles. From the left: Edward F. McGrady, Assistant Secretary of Labor; James F. Dewey, Labor Department conciliator; John L. Lewis, President of United Mine Workers, and M. L. Garvey, Coal Operator of New Riverfield, W.Va. Mr. Lewis said several plans of compromise had been under discussion but that nine cents a tone was the last work from him, "take it or leave it." McGrady told newsmen that FERA Hopkins had assured relief to striking miners when it became necessary, 9/24/35

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Cotton pickers at work in the southern San Joaquin Valley, California. They receive one dollar and one dollar and twenty-five cents per hundred pounds

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A sign in grocery store window "PAPER - 9 rolls for 25 cents CORN 14 1/2 cents," Manchester, New Hampshire

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Winter migrant camp on the outskirts of Sacramento, California. Each family has to build its own shack; they pay one dollar and twenty-five cents a month ground rent, including water. Eighty families living here in November 1936. They work in the fruit during the summer, migrating from harvest to harvest

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Migrant winter camp on outskirts of Sacramento, California. Eighty families, build their own shacks, pay one dollar and twenty-five cents a month ground rent which includes water. One half-mile from American River camp

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El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Two-bedroom house, three in family. Girl eleven. Father truck driver. Earns ninety-five dollars monthly, pays fifteen dollars and twenty cents rent to apply on purchase. California

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Two hangman's nooses hang as a grim warning to prospective bidders on this foreclosed farm. In this way many farms sold for only a few cents until the Farm Debt Adjustment Committee came into being

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Background photo for Hightstown project. Sixth Street and Avenue C, New York City, where the Solomon family do their shopping. In the street and displayed on newspaper. All socks for sale at ten cents the pair

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In spotlight at Sec. Inquiry. Washington, D.C., Dec. 29. Testifying before the Securities and Exchange Commission Investment Trust Inquiry today, Leon G. Ruth, President of the Liberty Bond and Share Corporation of Buffalo, told his Corporation granted loans to their officers, employees, and former employees on collateral that decreased in value until it was worth only 15 cents on the dollar. He also related how the Liberty Bond and shares assets shrunk from $10,004,00 on April 2, 1929 to $716,00 on Sept. 30, 1936

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

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A farmer listing his fields under the wind erosion control program. He receives twenty cents an acre for the work. Liberal, Kansas

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Cotton pickers bringing in their "pick" to be weighed. They receive one dollar and one dollar and twenty-five cents per hundred pounds. San Joaquin Valley, California

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Peach pickers being driven to the orchards. They earn seventy-five cents a day. Muscella, Georgia

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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

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Shucking oysters at twenty-five cents a gallon, Rock Point, Maryland. The average shucker does five gallons a day

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Wife of owner-operator and wife of hired hand clearing chickens in cellar preparatory to canning them. Chickens at this time of year are bringing six cents per pound. These are roasting. Harry Madsen farm, near Dickens, Iowa. Three hundred sixty acres, owner operated

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El Monte federal subsistence housing. Three-room house. Seventeen dollars and seventy cents rent applied on purchase. Father: carpenter. California

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At the wharf oystermen get forty cents a bushel. Rock Point, Maryland

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A farmer listing his fields under the wind erosion control program. He receives twenty cents an acre for the work. Liberal, Kansas

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El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Seventeen dollars and seventy cents rent to apply on purchase of three-room house. California

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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

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A sign in grocery store window "PAPER - 9 rolls for 25 cents CORN 14 12 cents," Manchester, New Hampshire

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Plowboy in Alabama earns seventy-five cents daily

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Farmers' cooperative creamery at Ruthven, Iowa. This is very successful. It is run on a stock share basis. Milk sells retail at five cents per quart and cream (thirty-five to thirty-eight percent) at thirty-five cents per quart

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Lunchtime for these Georgia peach pickers. They earn seventy-five cents a day in the orchards. Muscella, Georgia

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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

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Cotton pickers who receive fifty cents a hundred pounds. Kaufman County, Texas

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Plowboy in Alabama earns seventy-five cents daily

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Coachella Valley, California. Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri and Mexico. "We come from all states, and we can't make a dollar a day in this field noways. Working from seven in the morning till twelve noon we earn an average of thirty five cents"

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Pennsylvania: A black and white photo of a man with a bucket. Great Depression

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Auto camp north of Calipatria, California. Approximately eighty families from the Dust Bowl are camped here. They pay fifty cents a week. The only available work now is agricultural labor

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Pennsylvania: A black and white photo of men working on a hill. Great Depression

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One of a Mexican gang of migratory laborers thinning and weeding cantaloupe plants at thirty cents an hour; the young plants are capped with wax paper spread over a wire wicket to protect against cold and accelerate growth. Imperial Valley, California

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Man salvaging coal; they receive ten cents per hundred pound sack or two dollars a ton, one man can make from ten to twenty sacks a day, Nanty Glo, Pennsylvania

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Pennsylvania photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Photograph.

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Pennsylvania: A black and white photo of a man sitting on top of a hill. Great Depression

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Picking peas near Nipomo, California. Wages: twenty-two cents a hamper

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A fighting cocks' garage. Owners of cocks can park their fowl here while they go about their business. The fee is twenty-five cents for "room and board." San Juan, Puerto Rico

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Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri and Mexico. Coachella Valley, California. "We come from all states and we can't make a dollar a day in this field noways. Working from seven in the morning till twelve noon we earn an average of thirty five cents"

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Auto camp north of Calipatria, California. Approximately eighty families from the Dust Bowl are camped here. They pay fifty cents a week. The only available work now is agricultural labor

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The tractor driver is colored. His wages when he works is one dollar and fifty cents a day as long as there is daylight. Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi

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Negro field hand getting ready to go to town on a Saturday afternoon. His wages seventy-five cents a day and cabin. He has six children

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One of a Mexican field gang of migratory laborers thinning and weeding cantaloupe plants. The young plants are "capped" with wax paper spread over a wire wicket to protect against cold and accelerate growth. The laborers' wages are thirty cents an hour. Imperial Valley, California

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White sharecropper's home. He drives tractors for his present landlord for seventy-five cents a day near Cleveland, Mississippi

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Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico. Coachella Valley, California. "We come from all states and we can't make a dollar a day in the field no ways. Working in the field from seven in the morning till twelve noon we earn an average of thirty-five cents"

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Auto camp north of Calipatria, California. Approximately eighty families from the Dust Bowl are camped here. They pay fifty cents a week. The only available work now is agricultural labor

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Mexican gang of migratory laborers under a Japanese field boss. These men are thinning and weeding cantaloupe plants. Wages thirty cents an hour. These young plants are "capped" with wax paper spread over a wire wicket to protect against cold and to accelerate growth. Imperial Valley, California

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Pennsylvania photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Photograph.

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Potato workers earn three cents per bushel gathering and sacking potatoes, near East Grand Forks, Minnesota

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Carrot pullers from Texas. Texas farmer on edge of carrot field. In California for two weeks, migrating after three years of crop failures. Combined earnings, man and wife tying carrots: One dollar and twelve cents a day

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Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico. Coachella Valley, California. "We come from all states and we can't make a dollar a day in the field no ways. Working in the field from seven in the morning till twelve noon we earn an average of thirty-five cents"

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Corn loans "immediate necessity" President Roosevelt told. Washington, D.C., Oct. 20. Corn loans of 60 cents a bushel are an "immediate necessity", Edward R. O'Neal, (center) President of the American Farm Bureau Federation, told President Roosevelt at a White House conference today. The condition of farm prices is one reason for the stock market being so jittery, O'Neal told newsmen following the call. Earl Smith, (left) President oft he Illinois Agricultural Association, and Clifford H. Gregory, Editor of Wallace's Farm Journal, were also in on the Conference. 10/20/37

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Pennsylvania: A couple of men standing next to each other. Great Depression

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A couple of people that are in a field, Minnesota. Farm Security Administration photograph.

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John Today, an old miner now receiving six dollars and sixty-five cents a month on relief. He is a single shacker in Iron County, Michigan

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Cotton hoers leaving Greenville at 5 a.m. for a day's work on the plantations. Wages one dollar a day, one dollar and twenty-five cents on a few plantations. Hoers carry their lunches. They return about 8 p.m. Mississippi

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Truck being loaded as it goes down the rows. The pickers pick the potatoes from the ground and put them in sack which is suspended from their waist between their knees after the machine has dug them from the ground. This work requires endurance but no special skill. 1937 wages: forty cents an hour. Shafter, California

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Mexican gang of migratory laborers under a Japanese field boss. These men are thinning and weeding cantaloupe plants. Wages thirty cents an hour. These young plants are "capped" with wax paper spread over a wire wicket to protect against cold and to accelerate growth. Imperial Valley, California

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Tractor operator on the Aldridge Plantation near Leland Mississippi. These young Negroes drive tractors for one dollar and twenty-five cents a day and cabin

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Auto camp north of Calipatria, California. Approximately eighty families from the Dust Bowl are camped here. They pay fifty cents a week. The only available work now is agricultural labor

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Near Shafter, California. Potatoes are dug by machines and strewn on the ground as the digger goes down the rows. The picker puts the potatoes into sacks suspended from their waist between their knees. The sacks are loaded onto the field trucks and taken to the sheds for sorting and grading. Potato pickers earned forty cents an hour in 1937

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Cost $2,000,000 to write U.S. checks. Washington, D.C., March 17. Reflecting the widening range of federal activity, the Treasury, as the Nation's Paymaster, issed 35,735,746 checks in 1936, as compared with 28,509,924 in 1935. Guy F. Allen, Chief Disbursing Officer of the Treasury says to make these payments cost about $2,000,000 or close to 6 cents a check

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Wife and child of sharecropper near Gaffney, South Carolina. The farmer does a little day labor for his landlord. He received fifty cents a day in 1936, sixty to seventy-five cents in 1937. He raised seven bales of cotton on thirteen acres; half to his landlord

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A black and white photo of a man in overalls. Great Depression FSA photogpraph

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Woman and child picking coal from a slag heap. They are paid ten cents for each 100 pound sack, Nanty Glo, Pennsylvania

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Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico. "We come from all states and we can't make a dollar in this field noways. Working from seven in the morning until twelve noon, we earn an average of thirty-five cents." California

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Berry pickers at 5 a.m. Waiting for the truck to haul them to work. Earn about sixty cents per day. Memphis, Tennessee

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Cotton picker in fields of Lake Dick Cooperative Association. He is paid by the day and lives in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Rate of pay: seventy-five cents per one hundred pounds

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An old photo of a man working on a stove, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

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Company store, Osage, West Virginia. Sack of flour in A&P. In same town costs sixty-nine cents and in company store costs one dollar and twenty-five cents

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Kern County, California. Undernourished cotton picker's child listening to speeches of organizer at strike meeting to raise wages from seventy-five cents to ninety cents a hundred pounds. Strike unsuccessful

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A black and white photo of a man picking corn, New Jersey. Farm Security Administration photograph

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Farmers during Great Depression: A black and white photo of a man picking corn.

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Former coal miner, worked twelve years for Chaplin Coal Company as hand coal loader. He and several others complained to company about conditions not being up to NRA (National Recovery Administration) standards. All lost jobs. He's now on WPA (Works Progress Administration) at thirty-eight dollars and twenty-five cents per month. Scotts Run, West Virginia

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Miner waiting for ride home. Each miner pays twenty-five cents a week to owner of car. Capels, West Virginia

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Looking from the camp to adjoining tract where the Farm Security Administration (FSA) has just completed forty homes to be occupied by low income workers. These homes represent a first step in stabilization of this group. Rent is eight dollars and twenty cents monthly, which includes gas and electricity. Shafter migrant camp, California

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Rural rehabilitation, Tulare County, California. This family had been on relief. They are now re-established on a small farm, where their cash outlay for food is about two dollars and fifty cents a week for a family of seven

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Migratory field worker picking cotton in San Joaquin Valley, California. These pickers are paid seventy-five cents per hundred pounds of picked cotton. Strikers organizing under CIO union (Congress of Industrial Organizations) are demanding one dollar. A good male picker, in good cotton, under favorable weather conditions, can pick about two hundred pounds in a day's work

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A black and white photo of a man cutting corn, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

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The "water company" was formed by the people in abandoned mining town of Jere, West Virginia, after the coal company cut off all public services because they were abandoning the mine. The coal company used to charge one dollar and twenty-cove cents per month for water. The present "people's" water company charges its members twenty-five cents per month and makes money at that even when everyone can't pay dues. There are dividends of flour, sugar, lard, etc. The lock is necessary to keep people from other camps from stealing the water, which is very scarce. It's still necessary to change the lock about every four months

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A black and white photo of an old gas station, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

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Husking corn. Farm laborers get five cents a stack for this work. Camden County, New Jersey

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Type house at "Garden Homes," Kern County, California. Twenty such homes have been completed and are occupied on a tract adjoining the Arvin Migratory Labor Camp. Rent is eight dollars and twenty cents monthly, which includes electricity and water

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Looking from the camp to adjoining tract where Farm Security Administration (FSA) has just completed forty homes to be occupied by low income workers. These homes represent a first step in stabilization of this group. Rent is eight dollars and twenty cents monthly, which includes gas and electricity. Shafter migrant camp, California

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Pan American awarded New York-Bermuda airmail contract. Washington, D.C., Jan. 15. Submitting the only bid, Pan American Airways today was awarded the contract to carry air mail from New York to Hamilton, Bermuda. In announcing the bid the Post Office Department said the following rates would prevail --.00001 cents per pound for a specified load of 800 pounds and .000005 cents per pound over 800 pounds. In the photograph, left to right: William L. Slattery, P.O. Dept. Comptroller; J. Carroll Cone, Atlantic Manager for Pan American; Roy M. North, Acting 3rd Assistant Post Master General; Harlee Branch, 2nd Assistant Post Master General in charge of air mail operations; and George H. Grayson, Asst. Director of the Division of International Postal Service, 1/15/38

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Small cotton farm, Kern County, California. The farmer keeps accounts. Each picker weighs his sack of cotton. In this case the sack weighs approximately fifty pounds. Took three hours to pick, for which, on basis of seventy-five cents per one hundred pounds of picked cotton, he will be paid thirty-eight cents

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"Scratch Hill," outside Atoka, Oklahoma. Atoka County, Oklahoma. "Most of the people here have farmed, now they're on Work Projects Administration at twenty-three dollars and ten cents a month. Their hold to this country used to be timber work, but that's cut out"

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A woman picking corn from a pile in a field, New Jersey. Farm Security Administration photograph

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Rural rehabilitation, Tulare County, California. This family had been on relief. They are now re-established on a small farm, where their cash outlay for food is about two dollars and fifty cents a week for a family of seven

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Type house at "Garden Homes," Kern County, California. Twenty such homes have been completed and are occupied on a tract adjoining the Arvin Migratory Labor Camp. Rent is eight dollars and twenty cents monthly, which includes electricity and water

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Migratory field workers picking cotton in the San Joaquin Valley, California. Negroes, Mexicans, and refugee whites pick cotton together in this field. These pickers are being paid seventy-five cents per one hundred poounds of picked cotton. Strikers, organizing under the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), are demanding one dollar

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Colored field hands hoe cotton from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. for sixty cents a day. Near Menifee, Arkansas

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