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Workers scattered all around but lost in the foliage. Tobacco farm of Mr. Stokes-Taylor. He has 50 acres in tobacco this year. Sometimes has 100--a large amount. Mostly negro workers this year. Location: Zion [vicinity], Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Workers scattered all around but lost in the foliage. Tobacco farm of ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Children hoeing on farm near Mt. Vernon, Ky. Go to Mt. Vernon Graded School. Mamie, 7 years, Grace, 9 years, Marguerite, 12 years and Everett, 14 years. Father, Alfred Bryant, Mt. Vernon P.O. owns 35 acres. Location: Rockcastle County--Mt. Vernon [vicinity], Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Children hoeing on farm near Mt. Vernon, Ky. Go to Mt. Vernon Graded S...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Sharecrop farm, Gaffney, South Carolina. In 1936 he raised seven bales on thirteen acres, half of which went to his landlord

Sharecrop farm, Gaffney, South Carolina. In 1936 he raised seven bales...

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Farmhouse on the one hundred sixty acres owned and operated by August Grattencord. This farm southwest of Fowler, Indiana, carries a small mortgage

Farmhouse on the one hundred sixty acres owned and operated by August ...

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Agricultural laborer who lives at "Eighty Acres," Glassboro, New Jersey

Agricultural laborer who lives at "Eighty Acres," Glassboro, New Jerse...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

A black and white photo of a man standing in a field, New Jersey. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a man standing in a field, New Jersey. Farm...

Picryl description: Public domain image of fishing, fishing boat, river, lake, nature, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a woman picking cotton, North Carolina. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a woman picking cotton, North Carolina. Far...

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

Homes of day laborers on large farm near Ralls, Texas. There are 4900 acres in this farm. Nine tractors are used

Homes of day laborers on large farm near Ralls, Texas. There are 4900 ...

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Hog killing on Milton Puryeur place. He is a Negro owner of five acres of land. Route No. 1, Box 59, Dennison, Halifax County, Virginia. This is six miles south (on Highway No. 501) of South Boston. He used to grow tobacco and cotton but now just a subsistence living. These hogs belong to a neighbor landowner. He burns old shoes and pieces of leather near the heads of the slaughtered hogs while they are hanging, to keep the flies away

Hog killing on Milton Puryeur place. He is a Negro owner of five acres...

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Approaching Kytta farm, shows house in background and part of field newly cleared by bulldozer. To date, they have cleared eight acres. Western Washington, Thurston County, Michigan Hill. See general caption number 35

Approaching Kytta farm, shows house in background and part of field ne...

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Old Butler place near Social Circle, Georgia. Built about 1831, now rented by one family, about 3000 acres

Old Butler place near Social Circle, Georgia. Built about 1831, now re...

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Hog killing on Milton Puryeur place. He is a Negro owner of five acres of land. Rural Route No. 1, Box 59, Dennison, Halifax County, Virginia. This is six miles south (on Highway No. 501) of South Boston. He used to grow tobacco and cotton but now just a subsistence living. These hogs belong to a neighbor landowner. He burns old shoes and pieces of leather near the heads of the slaughtered hogs while they are hanging, to keep the flies away

Hog killing on Milton Puryeur place. He is a Negro owner of five acres...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mr. L.L. Lecompt and his oxen. He plows three oxen, prefers them to other work stock because they use less corn. He owns eighty acres and cultivates thirty-nine. Coffee County, Alabama

Mr. L.L. Lecompt and his oxen. He plows three oxen, prefers them to ot...

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Zollie Lyons, Negro sharecropper, home from the field for dinner at noontime, and part of his family. Upchurch, North Carolina. He has thirteen acres of tobacco and a labor force of five

Zollie Lyons, Negro sharecropper, home from the field for dinner at no...

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Navy gets original commission of John Paul Jones. Washington, D.C., March 12. The orginal commission of John Paul Jones, as captian in the United States Navy, dated October 10, 1776, and issued under authority of the Continental Congress with signature of John Hancock as its president was presented to the Secretary of Navy Charles Edison today. Capt. H.A. Baldridge, U.S.N. retired, curator of the U.S. Naval Academy Museum, presented the valuable document to the secretary on behalf of the owner, John L. Senior of Glen Acres, Roxbury, Conn. who was not able to be present. The commission will be placed in the crypt of the Revolutionary War hero at the Naval Academy. Left to right: Admiral H.R. Stark, Chief of Naval Operations; Capt. H.A. Baldridge; Capt. Dudley Knox, Chief of Naval Records and Library; and Secretary Edison, 3-12-40

Navy gets original commission of John Paul Jones. Washington, D.C., Ma...

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A black and white photo of a man sitting on a horse drawn sleigh, Vermont. Farm Security Administration photogrpaph.

A black and white photo of a man sitting on a horse drawn sleigh, Verm...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Sacramento Pit copper mine at Bisbee, Arizona. This is a pit 435 feet deep. In 1911 a shaft was sunk into the slopes of the east wall. In 1917 a dynamite charge blew off the top rock of the crown and dredges were worked to excavate the pit's ore bodies. By 1931 the pit floor was too narrow for dredges to work in. The ore was taken out by caving in the walls into the lower mine levels. Between 1917 and 1931 the mine, which covers thity-five acres, yielded 20,843,667 tons of ore. The mine is today abandoned. This development by the Phelps Dodge Company

Sacramento Pit copper mine at Bisbee, Arizona. This is a pit 435 feet ...

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Farm of R.W. Cassidy. Putney, Vermont. He owns about two hundred acres. Has lived there about seventeen years

Farm of R.W. Cassidy. Putney, Vermont. He owns about two hundred acres...

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Hired man and Frank H. Shurtleff shovelling out sled with vat for gathering maple sap for making maple syrup. The Shurtleff farm has about 400 acres, and was originally purchased by grandfather in 1840. He raises sheep, cows, cuts lumber and has been syrup for about thirty-five years. Sugaring brings in about one thousand dollars annually. Because of the deep snow this year he only tapped 1000 of his 2000 trees. He expects to make about 300 to 500 gallons this year. North Bridgewater, Vermont

Hired man and Frank H. Shurtleff shovelling out sled with vat for gath...

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Newly-arrived farmer clearing land of sage brush. Vale-Owyhee irrigation project, Malheur County, Oregon. On the Vale-Owyhee project the average farmer has been able to clear and get into cultivation (small grain, alfalfa) forty-four acres in the first year on his farm

Newly-arrived farmer clearing land of sage brush. Vale-Owyhee irrigati...

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mr. L. A. Anderson, who owned a few acres of land in the Camp Croft area. Although almost totally blind, he was repairing an old house to move into temporarily. Near Whitestone, South Carolina

Mr. L. A. Anderson, who owned a few acres of land in the Camp Croft ar...

Public domain photograph of South Carlina in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Burlington, Iowa. Acres unit, FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp. Mr. and Mrs. Barker in their trailer

Burlington, Iowa. Acres unit, FSA (Farm Security Administration) trail...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of the 1930s - 1940s, woman, female portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Burlington, Iowa. Acres unit, FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp for workers at Burlington ordnance plant

Burlington, Iowa. Acres unit, FSA (Farm Security Administration) trail...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s train station, train car, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pine Ford Acres Community Building, Middletown, Pennsylvania. Detail I

Pine Ford Acres Community Building, Middletown, Pennsylvania. Detail I

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Green Acres, Verona, New Jersey. Apartment 105, living room

Green Acres, Verona, New Jersey. Apartment 105, living room

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Green Acres, Verona, New Jersey. Exterior III

Green Acres, Verona, New Jersey. Exterior III

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A canoe trip up the Mobile Delta, which consists of approximately 20,323 acres of water just north of Mobile Bay, Alabama

A canoe trip up the Mobile Delta, which consists of approximately 20,3...

The Mobile Delta is 30 miles long and 12 miles wide, formed by the confluence of the Alabama and Tombigbee Rivers. It covers more than 200,000 acres of swamps, river bottom lands and marshes. Congress named the... More

The United States National Arboretum was established in 1927 by an Act of Congress. It is 446 acres in size and is located in NE, Washington, D.C.

The United States National Arboretum was established in 1927 by an Act...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of District of Columbia Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Pr... More

"Renters." Itinerant Texas farmers who rent a farm for a year or so and then move on, giving them nomadic habits and everything is temporary. House unpainted and ill-cared for. The children from five years old upward pick cotton and help with the farm work, but get little or no schooling. It is estimated by State University that 300,000 children are thus affected in Texas alone. See Hine report Texas. Beginning with the five year old girl here who picks some, all work including the women. The nine year old girl picks one hundred and fifty pounds a day. Father is in town. Farm comprises fifty acres and they get about twenty bales of cotton, this year which is not a good year. Been here one year. Farm of J.W. Vaughn. Route 6. Location: Corsicana, Texas.

"Renters." Itinerant Texas farmers who rent a farm for a year or so an...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A Map of the lands ceded by the Cherokee Indians to the State of South-Carolina at a congress held in May, A.D. 1777; containing about 1,697,700 acres.

A Map of the lands ceded by the Cherokee Indians to the State of South...

Scale ca. 1:253,440. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Prime meridian: Charleston. Relief shown by hachures. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1522 Available also through the Library of Congress Web si... More

[The Georgia Negro] Acres of land owned by Negroes in Georgia.

[The Georgia Negro] Acres of land owned by Negroes in Georgia.

Bar graph shows the amount of land owned by African Americans in Georgia from 1874 to 1899. Title from LOT 11931, no. 1; part title from item. Chart prepared by Du Bois for the Negro Exhibit of the American Sec... More

A dilapidated "renters" home near West. The Tripp farm. Five in the family. Girl (apparently fifteen years old) is married. The farm contains a hundred and fifty acres now. A larger farm of eight hundred acres was cut up into this and three others - to rent. See Hine report. Location: West, Texas.

A dilapidated "renters" home near West. The Tripp farm. Five in the fa...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Families of Henry and John Miller: boy of eleven years, girl of eleven and girl of thirteen, hoeing the sugar beets. They have 80 acres in beets, come out here from the town in May and go back late in November. One of the families has been here for five years and owns its home. See Hine Report, Colorado. Beet Workers, July, 1915. Location: Colorado.

Families of Henry and John Miller: boy of eleven years, girl of eleven...

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["Old Acres," Robert Low Bacon house, Old Westbury, New York. Pathway to house]

["Old Acres," Robert Low Bacon house, Old Westbury, New York. Pathway ...

Site History. House Architecture: John Russell Pope, 1904-1910. Landscape: Martha Brookes Brown Hutcheson, 1904-1910. Associated Name: Virginia Murray (Mrs. Robert L.) Bacon. Other: House also known as ""Oldfie... More

Mrs. Sophie Rudd, a widow who lives by herself on forty acres of land near Black River Falls, Wisconsin

Mrs. Sophie Rudd, a widow who lives by herself on forty acres of land ...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Wisconsin, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

This farm of twelve acres operated as a prune ranch. Was a financial failure. Under farm plan devised by Farm Security Administration rehabilitation supervisor and a loan of one thousand dollars, it now provides steady income for the owners. Tulare County, California

This farm of twelve acres operated as a prune ranch. Was a financial f...

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Rehabilitated small farmer in field of milo maize, Tulare County, California. This family has been granted an Farm Security Administration loan of thirteen hundred dollars after struggling for eleven years on sixteen acres of poor land

Rehabilitated small farmer in field of milo maize, Tulare County, Cali...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Ten families have been established by the Farm Security Administration (FSA) on the Mineral King Cooperative Farm, an old ranch of 500 acres, which they will operate as a farm unit, raising cotton, alfalfa, and dairy products for cash crops. Tulare County, California

Ten families have been established by the Farm Security Administration...

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Onions in sacks are drying. Those on ground are culls. 1000 acres of onions are grown, 700 to 800 cars are shipped annually from Malheur County, Oregon

Onions in sacks are drying. Those on ground are culls. 1000 acres of o...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Oregon, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Washington, Yakima Valley. Drought refugee, aged sixty three, from Bismark, North Dakota. "Come to Washington three years ago in that Chevy coupe you see over there and twenty-five dollars cash. Had 480 acres back there. I dried out after thirty years, lost it, and walked out." With help of Work Projects Administration (WPA) and supplementary work on ranches is buying three quaters of an acre in shacktown near Yakima, has it nearly paid for, has good garden. "On my own place I can't starve."

Washington, Yakima Valley. Drought refugee, aged sixty three, from Bis...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Father and son have cleared thirty acres of raw stump land in three years. Boundary County, Idaho. See general caption 52

Father and son have cleared thirty acres of raw stump land in three ye...

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House and packing shed of fruit farmer. Placer County, California. This man owns thirty acres, is considered an average owner in this section

House and packing shed of fruit farmer. Placer County, California. Thi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural landscape, farmhouse, pasture, farm field, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Walter Gaylord adjusting cover on bucket that catches the sap from sugar maple tree from which is made maple syrup. Mad River Valley, Waitsfield, Vermont. He averages about 150 gallons of syrup annually, this year tapped only 600 out of his 1000 trees because of unusually deep snow and late spring. He owns several farms; in this particular farm unit there are eighty acres. It has been in family three generations. Has about thirty-five to forty head of cattle; raises poultry and potatoes

Walter Gaylord adjusting cover on bucket that catches the sap from sug...

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A black and white photo of a man carrying a bucket, Vermont. Farm Security Administration photogrpaph.

A black and white photo of a man carrying a bucket, Vermont. Farm Secu...

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Two men in the snow with skis and a barrel, Vermont. Farm Security Administration photogrpaph.

Two men in the snow with skis and a barrel, Vermont. Farm Security Adm...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mrs. Richard M. Tobin, Woodside Acres, residence in Syosset, Long Island. Refrigerator

Mrs. Richard M. Tobin, Woodside Acres, residence in Syosset, Long Isla...

Public domain photograph of midcentury American residential architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Harvesting wheat with combines on Schnitzler Corporation ranch, Froid, Montana. There are about 2800 acres on this part of the ranch and they are getting over forty bushels to the acre. It is one of the largest wheat ranches in the West

Harvesting wheat with combines on Schnitzler Corporation ranch, Froid,...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Helper on wagonload of wheat to be threshed on Beerman's ranch at Emblem, Wyoming. He has about 150 acres in all (quarter section), about forty-three in wheat; the rest in oats, beans, and alfalfa. This year they are getting between fifty-five and sixty bushels wheat per acre, whereas ordinarily he gets about forty bushels per acre. He has lived on the place forty years, owned it for the past twenty years.

Helper on wagonload of wheat to be threshed on Beerman's ranch at Embl...

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

Clouds. No clouds of war these, but peaceful carriers of rains that help broad acres of Kentucky farmland to bear life-giving crops for the nation's needs

Clouds. No clouds of war these, but peaceful carriers of rains that he...

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Burlington, Iowa. Acres unit, FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp. The camp is in a residential section

Burlington, Iowa. Acres unit, FSA (Farm Security Administration) trail...

Public domain photograph of America during the Great Depression, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Burlington, Iowa. Acres unit, FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp. Hanging up clothes outside utility building for workers at Burlington ordnance plant

Burlington, Iowa. Acres unit, FSA (Farm Security Administration) trail...

Public domain image of cattle, livestock, farm animals, agriculture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Pine Ford Acres Community Building, Middletown, Pennsylvania. Detail V

Pine Ford Acres Community Building, Middletown, Pennsylvania. Detail V

Public domain photograph of midcentury American architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Green Acres, Verona, New Jersey. Apartment 105, bedroom

Green Acres, Verona, New Jersey. Apartment 105, bedroom

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Green Acres, Verona, New Jersey. Exterior VIII

Green Acres, Verona, New Jersey. Exterior VIII

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Spruce Acres, 110 North Main Street, Camden, Kent County, DE

Spruce Acres, 110 North Main Street, Camden, Kent County, DE

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Alligator Alley has 20 acres of natural cypress swamp land, where alligators roam freely in a protected environment, Summerdale, Alabama

Alligator Alley has 20 acres of natural cypress swamp land, where alli...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

Detail from the Radha Madhav Dham, the main U.S. center of Jagadguru Kripalu Parishat, a nonprofit spiritual organization located on more than 200 acres of land in Hays County, south of Austin, Texas

Detail from the Radha Madhav Dham, the main U.S. center of Jagadguru K...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Radha Madhav Dham is home to Shree Raseshwari Radha Rani Temple, the largest Hindu temple and ashram complex in America. It is a plac... More

A case of "Economic Need." Jacob Roomel [i.e., Rommel?] and his family live in this roomy shack, well-furnished, with a good range, organ, etc. They own a good home in Ft. Collins, but late in April they moved out here, taking contract for nearly 40 acres of beets, working their 9 and 10 yr. old girls hard at piling and topping (altho[ugh] they are not rugged) and they will not return until November. The little girl said, "Piling is hardest, it gets your back. I have cut myself some, topping." The older girl said, "Don't you call us Russians, we're Germans," (although they were most of them were born in Russia). Family been in this country eleven yrs. (See photo 4041.) Location: Ft. Collins [vicinity], Colorado / Photo by Hine, Oct. 30/15.

A case of "Economic Need." Jacob Roomel [i.e., Rommel?] and his family...

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Shore Acres, theatrical script

Shore Acres, theatrical script

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Map of Hamilton County, Ohio : exhibiting th various divisions and sub divisions of land with the name of the owners & number of acres in each tract together with the roads, canals, streams, towns &c. throughout the county /

Map of Hamilton County, Ohio : exhibiting th various divisions and sub...

LC Land ownership maps, 633 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes property tax statistical table, insets of Madisonville, Harrison, Sharon, Storrs Township, Mill Cr... More

Agriculture Building, (covering 23 acres), showing floral clock, World's Fair, St. Louis.

Agriculture Building, (covering 23 acres), showing floral clock, World...

H49115 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph of building, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Palace of Transportation, covering 16 acres the 2nd largest of exposition buildings, World's Fair, St. Louis, 1904

Palace of Transportation, covering 16 acres the 2nd largest of exposit...

H49921 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 5739. Public domain photograph of monument, historic place, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Part of the family of George Padroni, near Sterling, Colo. They have 9 children and some hired help. Only one child in school (see 4042). This is 6 yr. old Lena, who works some too. The 8 yr. old boy pulls and piles beets. 9 and 12 yr. old boys run the pulling machine, (the mother said, "We all got to do all we can.") 11 yr. old girl piles and tops and does housework. 13 yr. old girl piles and tops. Says she hasn't hurt herself with the knife this year, but did last year. The whole family begins work from 5 to 6 A.M. and works until 6 P.M. and after, with time off for dinner. Pedroni has been living here for 20 yrs., owns several hundred acres, about 100 in beets. Is said to be well-to-do. Location: Sterling [vicinity], Colorado / Photo by Hine, Oct. 25/15.

Part of the family of George Padroni, near Sterling, Colo. They have 9...

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Home of Ed Bentley family, Route 2, Hebbardsville. Father is up the river cutting logs (is home part of the time) and sister is attending the Zion School. Boys expect to go to Bluff City School, Div. 3, Henderson Co., in about 2 weeks; have lost 2 weeks already. Hayward is 15 years old and Harry is 11. Father rents the farm and has 6 acres in tobacco. No other help. Location: Hebbardsville, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Home of Ed Bentley family, Route 2, Hebbardsville. Father is up the ri...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Willie Welch, 15 years old, R.D. 3, Box 89, Bowling Green, worming tobacco. Goes to old Union School near Plano (?). Will start school next week (6 weeks late) He works for Jasper Harper, R. 3, Box 90, Bowling Green. Jasper is 21 years old and has 13 acres in tobacco. Gives half the tobacco for rent. Father is a tenant. Location: Warren County, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Willie Welch, 15 years old, R.D. 3, Box 89, Bowling Green, worming tob...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Family of W.T. Frakes, Route 5, Lawton, Okla. Mother said 6-year old Warren picked 41 pounds of cotton yesterday "An I don't make him pick; he picked last year." Had about 20 pounds in his bag. She said Clara, 11 years old, averages 75 pounds a day. Picked 101 pounds yesterday, earning $1.25 (they are picking now for another farmer). She carries 40 pounds in the bag. Velma, 14 years, picks 125 pounds. Has picked over 200 pounds in a day. Children go to Flower Mound School, District 48 while living here, but they are itinerant, renting a small farm of 10 acres now. "We move about a good deal" mother said.] Location: [Comanche County, Oklahoma] / Lewis W. Hine.

[Family of W.T. Frakes, Route 5, Lawton, Okla. Mother said 6-year old ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of working farmers, agriculture, farm, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a family standing on a porch, Iowa. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a family standing on a porch, Iowa. Farm Se...

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Pennsylvania: A black and white photo of a tractor plowing a field. Great Depression

Pennsylvania: A black and white photo of a tractor plowing a field. Gr...

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Chicken house and cattle barn, made of straw and wire, on William Helmke farm near Dickens, Iowa. The ninety acres and the crop share lease owned by a lawyer. All the buildings are of his own construction

Chicken house and cattle barn, made of straw and wire, on William Helm...

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Marcus Miller and family in shack that he built himself. Spencer, Iowa. This is half the house. Miller is a hired hand who has managed to save enough to make a part payment on seven and a half acres of land. However, he is most anxious to get steady work or to operate a farm

Marcus Miller and family in shack that he built himself. Spencer, Iowa...

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mrs. Oscar Gaither and two of her five children in their farmhouse near McLeansboro, Illinois. Gaither is a tenant farmer of eighty acres

Mrs. Oscar Gaither and two of her five children in their farmhouse nea...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Corn crib on the owner-operated farm of Mary Lah, two hundred thirty acres. The farm, which has carried a small mortgage since the depression, lies west of Fowler, Indiana, near the Illinois state line

Corn crib on the owner-operated farm of Mary Lah, two hundred thirty a...

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Barn and silo on William Keefe's owner-operated farm near Boswell, Benton County, Indiana. Three hundred twenty acres, heavily mortgaged

Barn and silo on William Keefe's owner-operated farm near Boswell, Ben...

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Ten families have been established by the Farm Security Administration (FSA) on the Mineral King Cooperative Farm, an old ranch of 500 acres, which they will operate as a farm unit, raising cotton, alfalfa, and dairy products for cash crops. Tulare County, California

Ten families have been established by the Farm Security Administration...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Dusting plane hedge-hopping after spraying swath on beanfield. These planes can spray 100 acres an hour, can usually fly one or two hours unless it rains or storms in an average day. The ususal traveling "dusting circus" has at least three or four planes, its own pilots, mechanics and elementary repair shop. Seabrook Farms, between Bridgeton and Vineland, New Jersey

Dusting plane hedge-hopping after spraying swath on beanfield. These p...

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A black and white photo of a bunch of meat hanging from a tree, Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a bunch of meat hanging from a tree, Virgin...

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Washington, Yakima Valley, near Wapato. Name of Borrower, Edgar Hardt. On Tenant Purchase farm. Forty acres, price six thousand fifty dollars, all stock and machinery included. Diversified irrigated farm, raising grapes, tomatoes, cantaloupes and watermelons, sweet and field corn, hay and grain. They have six cows, hogs

Washington, Yakima Valley, near Wapato. Name of Borrower, Edgar Hardt....

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Baling hay on the Mary E. Jones place, about 140 acres. The sons, W.E. and R.E. Jones, own ninety-nine acres and about sixty acres respectively. There are eight mules on the entire place, two cows, and this year, forty acres in tobacco, no cotton. They have owned it about forty-five years. It is on Route No. 91 about two miles from Wake Forest, Wake County, North Carolina

Baling hay on the Mary E. Jones place, about 140 acres. The sons, W.E....

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Frank H. Shurtleff hanging the bucket on the spout while tapping sugar maple tree for gathering sap to make syrup. The Shurtleff farm has about 400 acres and was originally purchased by grandfather in 1840. He raises sheep, cows, cuts lumber and has been making maple syrup for about thirty-five years. Sugaring brings about one thousand dollars annually. Because of the deep snow this year he only tapped 1000 of his 2000 trees. He expects to make about 300 to 500 gallons this year. North Bridgewater, Vermont

Frank H. Shurtleff hanging the bucket on the spout while tapping sugar...

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A black and white photo of a group of people on a sled, Vermont. Farm Security Administration photogrpaph.

A black and white photo of a group of people on a sled, Vermont. Farm ...

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Space is a prime requisite for a steel plant. The huge production machinery itself and the various tools for treatment of the steel after it has been refined may extend for acres. In the center here is the exit end of a plate mill. After the plates are hot-rolled and released, they pass through the roller leveling device at the right, where they are flattened for commercial use

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Space is a prime requisite for a ...

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Daughter of fruit farmer. Placer County, California. Her father owns eighteen acres, twelve of which are in fruit. Has no garden, cows, pigs, etc. Have farmed this land for twenty-five years and now have heavy indebtedness to Federal Land Bank and expect to lose their farm momentarily. "Maybe the Okies will make a success where we have made a failure" they say as they see the Okies moving in

Daughter of fruit farmer. Placer County, California. Her father owns e...

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Farm of R.W. Cassidy, Putney, Vermont. He owns about two hundred acres. Has lived there about seventeen years

Farm of R.W. Cassidy, Putney, Vermont. He owns about two hundred acres...

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Farm home of owner of forty acres of land in Tehama County, California

Farm home of owner of forty acres of land in Tehama County, California

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A man standing next to a tree in the snow, Vermont. Farm Security Administration photogrpaph.

A man standing next to a tree in the snow, Vermont. Farm Security Admi...

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Barns on R.W. Cassidy's farm, Putney, Vermont. He owns about two hundred acres, has lived here about seventeen years

Barns on R.W. Cassidy's farm, Putney, Vermont. He owns about two hundr...

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A black and white photo of two people and a horse, Vermont. Farm Security Administration photogrpaph.

A black and white photo of two people and a horse, Vermont. Farm Secur...

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Every available space for parking is used by skiers on weekends at Clinton Gilbert's farm. The house is about eighty years old; purchased by Gilbert in 1929. He has about 150 acres, mainly a dairy farm with twenty-three cows. He also makes about one hundred gallons of maple syrup every year. First skiing town in U.S. built on this farm in 1934 by White Cupboard Inn, but Gilbert now owns and runs tow and it has increased his income about twenty-five per cent. Has enabled him to build small ski lodge and do many repairs to property

Every available space for parking is used by skiers on weekends at Cli...

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A black and white photo of a person in the snow, Vermont. Farm Security Administration photogrpaph.

A black and white photo of a person in the snow, Vermont. Farm Securit...

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Harvesting wheat with combines on Schnitzler Corporation ranch, Froid, Montana. There are about 2800 acres on this part of the ranch and they are getting over forty bushels to the acre. It is one of the largest wheat ranches in the West

Harvesting wheat with combines on Schnitzler Corporation ranch, Froid,...

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Burlington, Iowa. Acres unit, FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp. Cecil Patrick's kids going to bed in their trailer for workers at Burlington ordnance plant

Burlington, Iowa. Acres unit, FSA (Farm Security Administration) trail...

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Rural scrap collection. The rural scrap collection project sponsored by the (WPB) War Production Board had excellent cooperation at Dexter, Michigan. Mr. John F. Hoey weighs a load from a local farm on the scales of his lumber, coal, grain and seed establishment. He was a big help to Mr. Dawson and Mr. Holland, who were in charge of the project. He also gave the use of several acres of land for a collection center

Rural scrap collection. The rural scrap collection project sponsored b...

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Meeker County, Minnesota. Mike McRaith farms eighty acres

Meeker County, Minnesota. Mike McRaith farms eighty acres

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Food in Britain. At an Royal Air Force station in southern England which runs its own farm, a corporal feeds the farm's smallest pig while the commander looks on. The farm practically feeds the whole station, little being bought outside. A corporal and five men look after eight cows and litters, hundreds of chickens, geese, ducks and turkeys and eighteen acres of potatoes

Food in Britain. At an Royal Air Force station in southern England whi...

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Pine Ford Acres Community Building, Middletown, Pennsylvania. Entrance facade

Pine Ford Acres Community Building, Middletown, Pennsylvania. Entrance...

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Daniel Sampson, farmer of 125 acres of submarginal land. Jefferson County, New York

Daniel Sampson, farmer of 125 acres of submarginal land. Jefferson Cou...

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Shore Acres, theatrical script

Shore Acres, theatrical script

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Compagnie de colonisation Americaine. Action de 100 acres de terres dans les etats de Virginie et de Kentucky

Compagnie de colonisation Americaine. Action de 100 acres de terres da...

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Acres and acres of empty oyster shells. Piles 15 deep in places. Shells are used all over the town to make streets, railroad beds, etc. Many of these piles are said to be the work of young shuckers. Location: Florida.

Acres and acres of empty oyster shells. Piles 15 deep in places. Shell...

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The Yelverton Family. Ten in the family. Live in a six-room house, "The only one on the street," they told me repeatedly. Two years ago the came here from the farm fifty miles away and a mile from the R.R. where they owned 135 acres. Father and four oldest boys have been working in the Laurel Cotton Mills for two years. Father said, "the little girls don't work, an' we're not goin' to let 'em if we can help it. We'll send 'em to school an' make ladies out of em. I don't reckon we'll ever go back to the farm. They all like the mill work. It's light work, but not very healthy though." The boys said, "We'd ruther work in the mill, It's easier. No hot sun an' no cold in winter 'cause they heat the mill then." The two youngest boys, eleven and thirteen years old, the father said, have been in the mill two years, and have had almost no schooling, and no likelihood of getting any more. The mother said, "I don't like to live in the city near so well. We're more shut in, an' we can't give the boys the schoolin' they ought to have 'cause they've got to work in the mill (wages is so low). We haven't been so well as on the farm." Location: Laurel, Mississippi.

The Yelverton Family. Ten in the family. Live in a six-room house, "Th...

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