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A black and white photo of two men standing in front of a building, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of two men standing in front of a building, We...

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

An old photo of two men standing outside of a building, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

An old photo of two men standing outside of a building, West Virginia....

Picryl description: Public domain image of a great depression era, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Type house at Garden Homes, Arvin (Kern County) California. This is an Farm Security Administration housing project for low income farm workers. Rent of eight dollars and twenty cents monthly includes electricity and water

Type house at Garden Homes, Arvin (Kern County) California. This is an...

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

Water peddler in community camp. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He is paid fifteen cents a barrel for delivering water to the shack homes. See general caption no. 21

Water peddler in community camp. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He is paid f...

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

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

Texas photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of War Infor...

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Young migrant worker brings his hops to weigh scales. From five a.m. until noon, when photograph was made, he had picked eighty pounds, which equals eighty cents. Temperature 105 degrees. Oregon, Polk County, near Independence

Young migrant worker brings his hops to weigh scales. From five a.m. u...

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 people in a field, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of people in a field, Great Depression. FSA/OW...

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

Interior of one-room cabin for migratory fruit workers. Rent is one dollar and seventy-five cents a week. Berrien County, Michigan

Interior of one-room cabin for migratory fruit workers. Rent is one do...

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

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

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

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

Pennsylvania motor police on duty at the King Farm during the strike of workers against seventeen cents and twenty cents an hour. Near Morrisville, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania motor police on duty at the King Farm during the strike o...

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Migratory laborers' camp. Single-room cabin costs two dollars and fifty cents, double room four dollars per week. Water hauled, usually priced at fifty-five cents for fifty-five gallon tank. Toilet for about 150 people. Near Belle Glade, Florida

Migratory laborers' camp. Single-room cabin costs two dollars and fift...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, warehouse, depot, train station, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a group of people standing in front of a train, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a group of people standing in front of a tr...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A group of men standing next to a truck, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A group of men standing next to a truck, Tennessee. Farm Security Admi...

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Near Shafter, California. Family from Oklahoma lives in old cow-barn and picks cotton for seventy-five cents a 100 pounds. During cotton strike

Near Shafter, California. Family from Oklahoma lives in old cow-barn a...

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

Gang of migratory carrot pullers in field. Wages: fourteen cents per crate of forty eight bunches. Imperial Valley, California

Gang of migratory carrot pullers in field. Wages: fourteen cents per c...

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

An old black and white photo of a man and a woman standing next to an elephant, Mississippi. Farmers during Great Depression.

An old black and white photo of a man and a woman standing next to an ...

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Working on jigs, with dormitories in the background at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp for defense workers. The dormitories at this project will accommodate, when finished, 952 single men. Dormitory residents will pay five dollars weekly for single rooms and three dollars and fifty cents weekly for each occupant sharing a double room. San Diego, California

Working on jigs, with dormitories in the background at the FSA (Farm S...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of migrant workers, 1930s car, Great Depression, Dust Bowl refugees, poverty, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Trailer and tent-camp at Mission Valley, California, which is about three miles from San Diego. The charge for pitching tents in this camp is two dollars and fifty cents per week and rental fee entitles campers to electricity and use of sanitary facilities, shower and toilet. Electric washing machines are rented by the camp owner

Trailer and tent-camp at Mission Valley, California, which is about th...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, park architecture, outdoors, romantic atmospheric landscape, cemetery, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

Migrant winter camp on outskirts of Sacramento, California. Eighty fam...

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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

Auto camp north of Calipatria, California. Approximately eighty famili...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

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

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a child of a farmer, migrant worker, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

One of a Mexican gang of migratory laborers thinning and weeding canta...

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 people standing next to a truck, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of people standing next to a truck, Tennessee....

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

Partially completed homes for agricultural workers to enable them to settle permanently. These houses rent for eight dollars and twenty cents per month which includes water and electricity. This tract adjoins the migratory labor camp. Farmersville, California. Compare 19550 and 19546

Partially completed homes for agricultural workers to enable them to s...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A group of people standing around a truck, Mississippi. Farmers during Great Depression.

A group of people standing around a truck, Mississippi. Farmers during...

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

A group of people standing next to a truck, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A group of people standing next to a truck, Tennessee. Farm Security A...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of people standing on the back of a truck, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of people standing on the back of a truck, Ten...

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

Pennsylvania photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of Wa...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a mountain pass, summit, rocks, mountains, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

An old photo of a man standing in a door way, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

An old photo of a man standing in a door way, West Virginia. Farm Secu...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a great depression era, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

8 a.m. Migratory field workers pulling carrots in a field. Note carrot digging tractor in background. "They'll sleep in the row (to hold a place in the field) to earn sixty cents a day." Near Meloland, Imperial County, California

8 a.m. Migratory field workers pulling carrots in a field. Note carrot...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Partially completed homes for agricultural workers to enable them to settle permanently. These houses rent for eight dollars and twenty cents per month, which includes water and electricity. This tract adjoins the migratory labor camp, Farmersville, California. (compare 19550 and 19546)

Partially completed homes for agricultural workers to enable them to s...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a man on a horse, Mississippi. Farmers during Great Depression.

A black and white photo of a man on a horse, Mississippi. Farmers duri...

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Keysville, Virginia. Randolph Henry High School. Cafeteria. Students don't have much money so they bring produce from farms for which they receive tickets. Lunches cost about fifteen cents. Typical lunch for fifteen cents: candied yams, macaroni and cheese, fruit salad, deviled eggs, dessert and milk. Milk is free and children have as much as they want

Keysville, Virginia. Randolph Henry High School. Cafeteria. Students d...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a school, preschool, children, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

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

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

Brawley, Imperial Valley. In Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp. Family of mother, father and eleven children, originally from near Mangrum, Oklahoma, where he had been tenant farmer. Came to California in 1936 after the drought. Since then has been traveling from crop to crop in California, following the harvest. Six of the eleven children attend school wherever the family stops long enough. Five older children work along with the father and mother. February 23, two of the family have been lucky and "got a place" (a day's work) in the peas on the Sinclair ranch. Father had earned about one dollar and seventy-three cents for ten-hour day. Oldest daughter had earned one dollar and twenty-five cents. Form these earnings had to provide their transportation to the fields twenty miles away. Mother wants to return to Oklahoma, father unwilling.She says, "I want to go back to where we can live happym live decent, and grow what we eat." He says, "We can't go the way I am now. We've got nothing in the world to farm with. I made my mistake when I came out here."

Brawley, Imperial Valley. In Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrat...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a tent, military, or refugee camp, temporary settlement, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A woman in a white coat is preparing food, Texas, during Great Depression

A woman in a white coat is preparing food, Texas, during Great Depress...

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

Calipatria, Imperial Valley, In Farm Security Administration (FSA) emergency migratory labor camp. Daughter of ex-tenant farmers on thirds and fourths in cotton. Had fifty dollars when set out. Went to Phoenix, picked cotton, pulled bolls made eighty cents a day with two people pulling bolls. Stayed until school closed. Went to Idaho, picked peas until August. Left McCall with forty dollars "in hand." Went to Cedar City and Parowan, Utah, a distance of 700 miles. Picked peas through September. Went to Hollister, California. Picked peas through October. Left Hollister for Calipatria for early peas which froze. Now receiving Farm Security Administration food grant and waiting for work to begin. "Back in Oklahoma, we are sinking. You work your head off for a crop and then see it burn up. You live in debts that you can never get out of. This isn't a good life, but I say that it's a better life than it was."

Calipatria, Imperial Valley, In Farm Security Administration (FSA) eme...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

Auto camp north of Calipatria, California. Approximately eighty famili...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of camp, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

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

Type house at "Garden Homes," Kern County, California. Twenty such hom...

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

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

Looking from the camp to adjoining tract where Farm Security Administr...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp, 155 migrant families in camp. One-third had no work, two-thirds were finding part time work harvesting spring peas, earning on average (head of family) of four dollars twenty cents per week

Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp, 155 migrant f...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a refugee camp, migrant workers, 1930s, Great Depression, Dust Bowl refugees, poverty, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Keysville, Virginia. Randolph Henry High School. Cafeteria. Students don't have much money so they bring produce from farms for which they receive tickets. Lunches cost about fifteen cents. Typical lunch for fifteen cents: candied yams, macaroni and cheese, fruit salad, deviled eggs, dessert and milk. Milk is free and children can have as much as they want

Keysville, Virginia. Randolph Henry High School. Cafeteria. Students d...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a school, preschool, children, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Miss Mary DaVanzo, twenty-two, employed at the Pennsylvania Railroad steel car shop boiler room as a stationary firemen's helper, earning seventy-two cents per hour. She lives on a farm in nearby Delmont and was formerly a waitress in the Mercy Hospital, Pittsburgh

Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Miss Mary DaVanzo, twenty-two, employed at the...

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

Three related drought refugee families stalled on the highway near Lordsburg, New Mexico. From farms near Claremore, Oklahoma. Have been working as migratory workers in Calfornia and Arizona, now trying to get to Roswell, New Mexico, for work chopping cotton. Have car trouble and pulled up alongside the highway. "Would go back to Oklahoma but can't get along there. Can't feed the kids on what they give you (relief budget) and ain't made a crop there you might say for five years. Only other work there is fifty cents a day wages and the farmers can't pay it anyways." One of these families has lost two babies since they left their home in Oklahoma. The children, seventeen months and three years, died in the county hospital at Shafter California, from typhoid fever, resulting from unsanitary conditions in a labor camp

Three related drought refugee families stalled on the highway near Lor...

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

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

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

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

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

Company store, Osage, West Virginia. Sack of flour in A&P. In same tow...

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

A group of people standing around a truck, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A group of people standing around a truck, Tennessee. Farm Security Ad...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a truck and a car, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a truck and a car, Tennessee. Farm Security...

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

A black and white photo of people working in a field, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of people working in a field, Great Depression...

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

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

Looking from the camp to adjoining tract where the Farm Security Admin...

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

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

Former coal miner, worked twelve years for Chaplin Coal Company as han...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a great depression era, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

Migratory field worker picking cotton in San Joaquin Valley, Californi...

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

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

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

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

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

The "water company" was formed by the people in abandoned mining town ...

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

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

A black and white photo of an old gas station, West Virginia. Farm Sec...

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

A black and white photo of people in a truck, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of people in a truck, Tennessee. Farm Security...

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

Near Los Banos, California. Migratory agricultural workers. Cotton hoers leave the field at end of the day. Wages twenty cents an hour

Near Los Banos, California. Migratory agricultural workers. Cotton hoe...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

West Mine, West Frankfort, Illinois. Now abandoned. This mine has been down about a year. General caption: Many of the miners displaced by machinery in the larger mines are left stranded after mines are abandoned; have opened shallow primitive workings on the coal seam where it occurs close to the surface. The output of these shallow mines, known locally as gopher holes, is processed by a crude method and sold to truckers at about half the price of deep-vein coal. Many of the gopher holes have no storage in the tipple, and the miners underground are idle when no truck is waiting at the chute to load coal. Wages of gopher hole miners run from seventy-five cents to five dollars per day, and many miners earn less than WPA (Works Progress Administration) workers. Some of the larger gopher holes, such as Blue Ribbon Number 2 at Spillertown, Williamson County, are better equipped, pay better wages, and produce as high as 40,000 tons a year

West Mine, West Frankfort, Illinois. Now abandoned. This mine has been...

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

A group of men standing next to a train, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A group of men standing next to a train, Tennessee. Farm Security Admi...

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A black and white photo of a group of people on a street, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a group of people on a street, Tennessee. F...

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Jones Trailer Camp where army men and construction workers and their families live. They pay two dollars and fifty cents weekly for space only. One said "It's nothing but a mud hole, only running water, you can't find a decent place to live in Columbus, and nobody will allow children in their homes--it's a shame. We was all children once. Most folks got children."

Jones Trailer Camp where army men and construction workers and their f...

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

Migrant fruit worker living in cabin owned by packing house for which he works. Rent one dollar and seventy-five cents a week. Berrien County, Michigan

Migrant fruit worker living in cabin owned by packing house for which ...

Public domain photograph of sport activity, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Migratory agricultural workers getting in line to be paid for picking beans. They get seven cents a hundred pounds

Migratory agricultural workers getting in line to be paid for picking ...

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

A black and white photo of a man smoking a pipe, North Carolina. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a man smoking a pipe, North Carolina. Farm ...

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

Jones Trailer Camp where Army men and construction workers and their families live. They pay two dollars and fifty cents weekly for space only. One said "It's nothing but a mud hole, only running wate, you can't find a decent place to live in Columbus and nobody will allow children in their homes. It's a shame. We was all children once. Most folks got children."

Jones Trailer Camp where Army men and construction workers and their f...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a tent, camp, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

One of a Mexican field gang of migratory laborers thinning and weeding...

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

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

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

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

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

Type house at "Garden Homes," Kern County, California. Twenty such hom...

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

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

Migratory field workers picking cotton in the San Joaquin Valley, Cali...

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

A couple of men standing next to each other, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A couple of men standing next to each other, West Virginia. Farm Secur...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a great depression era, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a group of people walking down a street, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a group of people walking down a street, Te...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of migrant workers, 1930s car, Great Depression, Dust Bowl refugees, poverty, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Migrant camp, Weslaco, Texas. Local employment men say that there was no need for migrant labor to handle the citrus and vegetable crops in the valley, the local supply of labor being ample for this purpose. Most of the local labor is Mexican and the labor contractors favor Mexican labor over white labor, partly because the Mexican will work much cheaper than whites. One white woman who was a permanent resident (her husband was on WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) said that the white people who lived in the valley, had no trouble with the Mexicans. The Mexicans were good neighbors, she said, always willing to share what they had. She said the white migrants who came into the valley and resented and misunderstood the Mexicans caused the trouble between the two races. Some towns in this section permit camping only in trailers. The charge for camping in tents is about fifty cents per week, including water, which in some cases must be carried four city blocks. Privies are tin, very bad condition. Garbage is collected only once a week, with large dumps of decaying fruits and vegetables scattered among the camps. Some of the white migrants in this camp were very suspicious of governmental activity, due to the use by south Texas newspapers of the term "concentration camps" referring to FSA (Farm Security Administration) camps

Migrant camp, Weslaco, Texas. Local employment men say that there was ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a refugee camp, migrant workers, 1930s, Great Depression, Dust Bowl refugees, poverty, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Two women making tortillas in a kitchen, Texas, during Great Depression

Two women making tortillas in a kitchen, Texas, during Great Depressio...

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Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant labor camp. Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California. 155 migrant families in camp. One third had no work; two-thirds were finding part-time work harvesting spring peas, earning on average (head of family) four dollars and twenty cents a week

Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant labor camp. Calipatria, Imp...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of camp, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Near Los Banos, California. Migratory agricultural workers, cotton hoers. Leave field at the end of the day. Wages twenty cents per hour

Near Los Banos, California. Migratory agricultural workers, cotton hoe...

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A black and white photo of a man standing on top of a truck, Mississippi. Farmers during Great Depression.

A black and white photo of a man standing on top of a truck, Mississip...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train tracks, rail transportation, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a group of people, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a group of people, Great Depression. FSA/OW...

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Migratory laborers' camp. Single-room cabin costs two dollars and fifty cents, double room four dollars per week. Water hauled, usually priced at fifty-five cents for fifty-five gallon tank. Toilet for about 150 people. Near Belle Glade, Florida

Migratory laborers' camp. Single-room cabin costs two dollars and fift...

Public domain photograph of car garage, repair shop, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A group of men standing next to a truck, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A group of men standing next to a truck, Tennessee. Farm Security Admi...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a group of men standing next to a truck, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a group of men standing next to a truck, Te...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a man standing next to a truck, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a man standing next to a truck, Tennessee. ...

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Flophouse of about thirty-seven beds at fifty cents each, constantly crowded with construction workers sleeping in several shifts. Some of them had flu. Alexandria, Louisiana

Flophouse of about thirty-seven beds at fifty cents each, constantly c...

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

A black and white photo of a little girl and a boy. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a little girl and a boy. Office of War Info...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More

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

Auto camp north of Calipatria, California. Approximately eighty famili...

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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

Migratory field worker picking cotton in San Joaquin Valley, Californi...

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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

Type house at "Garden Homes," Kern County, California. Twenty such hom...

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Mr. Shoenfeldt and son, FSA (Farm Security Administration) client in Sheridan County, Kansas, at entrance to fruit cellar which they built for six dollars and twenty cents

Mr. Shoenfeldt and son, FSA (Farm Security Administration) client in S...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of migrant workers, 1930s car, Great Depression, Dust Bowl refugees, poverty, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of men loading a truck, Mississippi. Farmers during Great Depression.

A black and white photo of men loading a truck, Mississippi. Farmers d...

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Near Los Banos, California. Migratory agricultural workers. Cotton hoers. Leave the field at the end of the day. Wages twenty cents an hour

Near Los Banos, California. Migratory agricultural workers. Cotton hoe...

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Daughter of migrant fruit worker in cabin (one room) which rents for one dollar and seventy-five cents a week. Berrien County, Michigan

Daughter of migrant fruit worker in cabin (one room) which rents for o...

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

Three related drought refugee families stalled on the highway near Lordsburg, New Mexico. From farms near Claremore, Oklahoma. Have been working as migratory workers in Calfornia and Arizona, now trying to get to Roswell, New Mexico, for work chopping cotton. Have car trouble and pulled up alongside the highway. "Would go back to Oklahoma but can't get along there. Can't feed the kids on what they give you (relief budget) and ain't made a crop there you might say for five years. Only other work there is fifty cents a day wages and the farmers can't pay it anyways." One of these families has lost two babies since they left their home in Oklahoma. The children, seventeen months and three years, died in the county hospital at Shafter California, from typhoid fever, resulting from unsanitary conditions in a labor camp

Three related drought refugee families stalled on the highway near Lor...

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

Migratory cotton pickers on small cotton farm, Kern County, California. They are paid senty-five cents per one hundred pounds of picked cotton

Migratory cotton pickers on small cotton farm, Kern County, California...

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An old black and white photo of two men and a woman, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

An old black and white photo of two men and a woman, West Virginia. Fa...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a great depression era, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

Migratory field worker picking cotton in San Joaquin Valley, Californi...

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

A black and white photo of a man and two children, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a man and two children, West Virginia. Farm...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a great depression era, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a woman making tortillas, Texas, during Great Depression

A black and white photo of a woman making tortillas, Texas, during Gre...

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

Living conditions for migratory laborers in private auto camp. Tent space fifty cents per week. Calipatria, Imperial County

Living conditions for migratory laborers in private auto camp. Tent sp...

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In Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp. Family, mother, father and eleven children, originally from Oklahoma, where he had been a tenant farmer. Came to California in 1936 after drought. Since then have been traveling from crop to crop in California following the harvest. Six of the children attend school wherever the family stops long enough with mother and father. February 23, two of the family had been lucky and "got a place" (a day's work) in the peas on the Sinclair Ranch. Father had earned one dollar and seventy-three cents for ten hours a day. Oldest daughter had earned one dollar and twenty-five cents. From these earnings had to provide transportation to the fields twenty miles away. Mother wants to return to Oklahoma, father unwilling. She says, "I want to go back home where we can live happy, live decent, and grow what we eat." Brawley, Imperial Valley, California

In Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp. Family, mo...

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

A group of men standing next to a truck, Mississippi. Farmers during Great Depression.

A group of men standing next to a truck, Mississippi. Farmers during G...

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Migratory agricultural workers picking beans at seven cents a hundred pounds in a field near Statensville, Delaware

Migratory agricultural workers picking beans at seven cents a hundred ...

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

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