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A couple of women standing next to each other at a table, Florida. Farm Security Administration photograph

A couple of women standing next to each other at a table, Florida. Far...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Strawberry pickers near Lakeland, Florida (see general captions no. 3 and no. 4)

Strawberry pickers near Lakeland, Florida (see general captions no. 3 ...

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

Captions for exhibits. Great Depression public domain photograph.
Mrs. Compton and her four year-old son, Billy, taking sticks of tobacco out of barn to strip house. They are tenants and the Negro owner lives in Mebane. This is a part of a prosperous Negro settlement between Carr and Cedar Grove, Orange County, North Carolina. See captions 52055-D and 52080-D. See general notes on subregion. September 28, 1939. Number four

Mrs. Compton and her four year-old son, Billy, taking sticks of tobacc...

Public domain photograph of a historic place in North Carolina, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Strawberry pickers near Lakeland, Florida (see general captions no. 3 and no. 4)

Strawberry pickers near Lakeland, Florida (see general captions no. 3 ...

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

Captions for exhibits. Great Depression public domain photograph.
[Photocopy showing two images of soldiers with handwritten captions. Incomplete image above is captioned Morgan's Command in Ohio Penitentiary, Columbus. Image below is captioned Louisiana Tigers, New Orleans, 1861]

[Photocopy showing two images of soldiers with handwritten captions. I...

Public domain image of personnel, army, group of people in uniform, parade, historic place, military activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Strawberry pickers near Lakeland, Florida (see general captions no. 3 and no. 4)

Strawberry pickers near Lakeland, Florida (see general captions no. 3 ...

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

An old woman in a straw hat is sitting at a table, Florida. Farm Security Administration photograph

An old woman in a straw hat is sitting at a table, Florida. Farm Secur...

Picryl description: Public domain image of industrial or agricultural worker, 1930s, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

Captions for exhibits. Great Depression public domain photograph.

Captions for exhibits. Great Depression public domain photograph.

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

Playing "Cross Questions and Silly Answers" at play party in McIntosh County, Oklahoma. See general captions 26

Playing "Cross Questions and Silly Answers" at play party in McIntosh ...

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

Strawberry pickers near Lakeland, Florida (see general captions no. 3 and no. 4)

Strawberry pickers near Lakeland, Florida (see general captions no. 3 ...

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

Ex-mill worker clears eight-acre field after bulldozer has pulled the stumps. Boundary County, Idaho. See general captions 55, 49
Captions for exhibits - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Captions for exhibits - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

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

Strawberry pickers near Lakeland, Florida (see general captions no. 3 and no. 4)

Strawberry pickers near Lakeland, Florida (see general captions no. 3 ...

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

A couple of people that are in the dirt. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A couple of people that are in the dirt. Great Depression FFSA / OWI N...

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

Farrand Packing Co. A young berry picker on Curran's farm, Rock Creek. This boy, Irvan Stevans, and the other (see 828) were the only whites working with a large number of negroes that day, and bad language was abundant. Says he works from "sunup to sundown" and has been working 3 summers. [On card with captions for both #827 and #828: Norris Lovitt. Been picking for 3 years in berry fields near Baltimore, Md. (See 827 and label). July 8, 1909.]  Location: Baltimore, Maryland.

Farrand Packing Co. A young berry picker on Curran's farm, Rock Creek....

Picryl description: Public domain image of a garden, gardening, agriculture, plants, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

An old black and white photo of a man in a field. Great Depression FFS...

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

Strawberry pickers near Lakeland, Florida (see general captions no. 3 and no. 4)

Strawberry pickers near Lakeland, Florida (see general captions no. 3 ...

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

Continental Hotel. Captions for photographs, Continental Hotel II

Continental Hotel. Captions for photographs, Continental Hotel II

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

A black and white photo of a man working on a piece of wood, Florida. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a man working on a piece of wood, Florida. ...

Public domain photograph of Great Depression, farm, farmer, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a man in a field. Farmers during Great Depression

A black and white photo of a man in a field. Farmers during Great Depr...

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

A black and white photo of sheep in a field - FSA/OWI, Great Depression

A black and white photo of sheep in a field - FSA/OWI, Great Depressio...

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

Unit no. 32 of Yamhill farms, Oregon: sewage disposal, electrification, twelve-cow dairy barn, silo under construction and five-room house. See general captions 57

Unit no. 32 of Yamhill farms, Oregon: sewage disposal, electrification...

Public domain photograph of life in the United States in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A woman in a straw hat at a fruit stand, Florida. Farm Security Administration photograph

A woman in a straw hat at a fruit stand, Florida. Farm Security Admini...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Yearling steer eating salt on Cruzen Ranch. Valley County, Idaho. Notice small amount of damage done to grass around salt trough. More about this trough in other captions

Yearling steer eating salt on Cruzen Ranch. Valley County, Idaho. Noti...

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

Strawberry pickers near Lakeland, Florida (see general captions no. 3 and no. 4)

Strawberry pickers near Lakeland, Florida (see general captions no. 3 ...

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

Continental Hotel. Captions for photographs, Continental Hotel I

Continental Hotel. Captions for photographs, Continental Hotel I

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a historic hotel building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Strawberry pickers near Lakeland, Florida (see general captions no. 3 and no. 4)

Strawberry pickers near Lakeland, Florida (see general captions no. 3 ...

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

Strawberry pickers near Lakeland, Florida (see general captions no. 3 and no. 4)

Strawberry pickers near Lakeland, Florida (see general captions no. 3 ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of street life, food vendor, city market, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fairbanks' home. Home Management Supervisor of FSA (Farm Security Administration) tries to persuade wife to screen tent. Willow Creek area, Malheur County, Oregon. General captions 66 and 67

Fairbanks' home. Home Management Supervisor of FSA (Farm Security Admi...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A couple of men working in a field. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A couple of men working in a field. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negati...

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

[Columbia Basin, near Quincy, Grant County, Washington. August 14, 1939. Dry lands and abandoned farms]

[Columbia Basin, near Quincy, Grant County, Washington. August 14, 193...

Caption information for Dorothea Lange photographs. Describes area of abandoned farms about 75 miles from Grand Coulee in the Columbia Basin. Also describes an ageing couple, Mr. and Mrs. Chris Ament, who remai... More

Nyssa, Malheur County, Oregon

Nyssa, Malheur County, Oregon

Caption information for Dorothea Lange photographs. Describes the town of Nyssa, Oregon. Includes a newspaper clipping which gives information about the 1939 operating season of the Amalgamated Sugar Company pl... More

Strawberry pickers near Lakeland, Florida (see general captions no. 3 and no. 4)

Strawberry pickers near Lakeland, Florida (see general captions no. 3 ...

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

[Stockade in Yakima, Washington]

[Stockade in Yakima, Washington]

Caption information for Dorothea Lange photographs. Describes a stockade built in 1933 during a pickers' strike. Includes a newspaper clipping from October 21, 1939, describing a petition to remove the stockad... More

Strawberry pickers near Lakeland, Florida (see general captions no. 3 and no. 4)

Strawberry pickers near Lakeland, Florida (see general captions no. 3 ...

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

Strawberry pickers near Lakeland, Florida (see general captions no. 3 and no. 4)

Strawberry pickers near Lakeland, Florida (see general captions no. 3 ...

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

Strawberry pickers near Lakeland, Florida (see general captions no. 3 and no. 4)

Strawberry pickers near Lakeland, Florida (see general captions no. 3 ...

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

Strawberry pickers near Lakeland, Florida (see general captions no. 3 and no. 4)

Strawberry pickers near Lakeland, Florida (see general captions no. 3 ...

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

Captions for exhibits. Great Depression public domain photograph.

Captions for exhibits. Great Depression public domain photograph.

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

A black and white photo of a man and a woman in a shack, Florida. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a man and a woman in a shack, Florida. Farm...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Strawberry pickers near Lakeland, Florida (see general captions no. 3 and no. 4)

Strawberry pickers near Lakeland, Florida (see general captions no. 3 ...

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

A black and white photo of a woman walking in a field, Florida. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a woman walking in a field, Florida. Farm S...

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 man working in a field, Florida. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a man working in a field, Florida. Farm Sec...

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

[Route 501, Person County, North Carolina]

[Route 501, Person County, North Carolina]

Caption information for Dorothea Lange photographs. Describes a hill-side farm in Person County, North Carolina. Includes description of the owner's house, and the sharecropper's farm and family. Transfer; U... More

Ex-mill worker clears eight-acre field after bulldozer has pulled the stumps. Boundary County, Idaho. See general captions 55, 49
New Jersey Turnpike. Captions - Public domain document scan

New Jersey Turnpike. Captions - Public domain document scan

Public domain photograph of 1940s-1950s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Arterial highway US 99, California]

[Arterial highway US 99, California]

Caption information for Dorothea Lange photographs. Describes the commercial products and people who travel US 99 which serves the San Joaquin and Sacramento Valleys of California. Includes the facilities that ... More

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

A black and white photo of a person in a field. Great Depression FFSA ...

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

Captions for exhibits. Great Depression public domain photograph.
A black and white photo of a person in a field. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A black and white photo of a person in a field. Great Depression FFSA ...

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

Strawberry pickers near Lakeland, Florida (see general captions no. 3 and no. 4)

Strawberry pickers near Lakeland, Florida (see general captions no. 3 ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Land reclamation and irrigation in Malheur County, Oregon

Land reclamation and irrigation in Malheur County, Oregon

Caption information for Dorothea Lange photographs. Describes the Vale-Owyhee projects in Malheur County, Oregon. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divi... More

[Columbia Basin, near Quincy, Grant County, Washington. August 14, 1939. Dry lands and abandoned farms]

[Columbia Basin, near Quincy, Grant County, Washington. August 14, 193...

Caption information for Dorothea Lange photographs. Describes area of abandoned farms about 75 miles from Grand Coulee in the Columbia Basin. Also describes an ageing couple, Mr. and Mrs. Chris Ament, who remai... More

[String bean harvest, Marion County, Willamette Valley, Oregon]

[String bean harvest, Marion County, Willamette Valley, Oregon]

Caption information for Dorothea Lange photographs. Describes the string bean harvest in Marion County, Oregon. Includes information about the pickers. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overs... More

Land reclamation and irrigation in Malheur County, Oregon

Land reclamation and irrigation in Malheur County, Oregon

Caption information for Dorothea Lange photographs. Describes the Vale-Owyhee projects in Malheur County, Oregon. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divi... More