Harvey G. Berthold, twenty years old, was placed on the Colby farm in Wisconsin after completing the farm short course at the University of Wisconsin and has been at his job two weeks at a salary of sixty-five dollars per month. He has two brothers and five sisters on the family's sixty nine acre farm in Ladysmith Brusk County, Wisconsin. They have cultivated fifty-one acres and own nine milk cows and five heifers. The family has been helped by FSA (Farm Security Administration) for several years

Jack Delano (August 1, 1914 – August 12, 1997) was an American photographer, cinematographer, composer, and director. He is best known for his work with the Farm Security Administration (FSA) during the Great Depression, where he captured the struggles of rural Americans and their way of life in photographs that have become iconic images of the era. Delano was born in Kiev, Ukraine, and emigrated to the United States in 1923. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and later worked for the FSA and Office of War Information during World War II, where he documented the war effort and daily life on the home front. After the war, Delano continued to work as a photographer and filmmaker, composed music, and directed documentaries.