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

Wife and child of sharecropper near Gaffney, South Carolina. The farme...

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

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

Farm wagehand (day laborer, seventy-five cents per day) and his young wife looking at remains of their home (on three acre piece of land owned by his mother) which had just burned to the ground. Greene County, Georgia

Farm wagehand (day laborer, seventy-five cents per day) and his young ...

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Transient farm laborer in hotel room which he rents for one dollar and fifty cents a week. Dubuque, Iowa

Transient farm laborer in hotel room which he rents for one dollar and...

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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...

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Washington, D.C. Modeling blue dress made from sugar sacks worked out for a high school girl on a low income by graduate students of the Department of Clothing and Textiles, School of Home Economics, University of Alabama. Total cost of materials was three dollars and eighteen cents

Washington, D.C. Modeling blue dress made from sugar sacks worked out ...

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

These women work in nearby packing house and live in company-owned one-room cabins. Rent one dollar and seventy-five cents a week. Berrien County, Michigan

These women work in nearby packing house and live in company-owned one...

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Guanica, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Farm laborer employed in cutting sugar cane at one dollar and fifty-one cents per day

Guanica, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Farm laborer employed in cutting suga...

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

Daytona Beach, Florida. Students at Bethune-Cookman College, chopping and piling wood for thirty-five cents per hour

Daytona Beach, Florida. Students at Bethune-Cookman College, chopping ...

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

Kern County, California. Night street meeting of cotton strikers near end of defeated strike. Strikers received seventy-five cents per 100 pounds; demanded one dollar. In 1910 cotton growers in Imperial County advertised for pickers in the Southwest to come to Imperial Valley to pick for one dollar per 100 pounds

Kern County, California. Night street meeting of cotton strikers near ...

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

Sign on highway from Fort Beauregard to Alexandria,in Pineville, Louisiana. Beds, fifty cents, plate lunches and barbecue

Sign on highway from Fort Beauregard to Alexandria,in Pineville, Louis...

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Boy dancing for arrivals at hotel, price five cents, Cairo, Illinois

Boy dancing for arrivals at hotel, price five cents, Cairo, Illinois

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.

Agriculture chart. One of a series of ten charts released by the Bureau of Home Economics, Department of Agriculture. A limited number are on sale at twenty-five cents for a set of ten at the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office (GPO), Washington, D.C.

Agriculture chart. One of a series of ten charts released by the Burea...

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

Mrs. Butler had moved from the Camp Stewart area to Hazlehurst Farms only a few weeks ago. Her husband and son were clearing land at twenty-five cents per hour

Mrs. Butler had moved from the Camp Stewart area to Hazlehurst Farms o...

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.

Williston, North Dakota. Inspecting used tire for sale (eight dollars and fifty cents) in grocery store

Williston, North Dakota. Inspecting used tire for sale (eight dollars ...

Public domain photograph of American working class people in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New Britain, Connecticut. Mrs. Dorothy Bell and Miss Ida Hicks, employed at the American Railway Express Company, earn thirty-three dollars and twenty-six cents per week, sorting, weighing, and stamping packages

New Britain, Connecticut. Mrs. Dorothy Bell and Miss Ida Hicks, employ...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s US industrial development, Second World War, US war production, indusry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Schenectady, New York. Lunch costing thirty cents in the school cafeteria at the Oneida School

Schenectady, New York. Lunch costing thirty cents in the school cafete...

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

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Lillie Smith, working as a car washer in a garage, earns fifty-five cents per hour. She formerly did housework but likes this much better; she has one brother in the U.S. Army

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Lillie Smith, working as a car washer in a g...

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Jeffersontown, Kentucky. The Jefferson County community cannery, started by the WPA (Work Projects Administration), now conducted by the state (?) vocational education department. Women pay three cents each for cans and two cents per can for use of the pressure cooker. Women preparing cans to be heated and cooked

Jeffersontown, Kentucky. The Jefferson County community cannery, start...

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Agriculture chart. One of a series of ten charts released by the Bureau of Home Economics, Department of Agriculture. A limited number are on sale at twenty-five cents for a set of ten at the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office (GPO), Washington, D.C.

Agriculture chart. One of a series of ten charts released by the Burea...

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

Fishing boat coming into the Columbia River Packing Association docks, Astoria, Oregon. This plant paid from five to eight cents per pound for salmon this year

Fishing boat coming into the Columbia River Packing Association docks,...

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

Guanica, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Farm laborer employed in cutting sugar cane at one dollar and fifty-one cents per day

Guanica, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Farm laborer employed in cutting suga...

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Guanica, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Farm laborer employed in cutting sugar cane at one dollar and fifty-one cents per day

Guanica, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Farm laborer employed in cutting suga...

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Jeffersontown, Kentucky. The Jefferson County ommunity cannery, started by the WPA (Work Projects Administration), now conducted by the state (?) vocational education department. Women pay three cents each for cans and two cents per can for use of the pressure cooker. Left to right; Mrs. J. Payater Holt and Mrs. Hampden Lawsen of Louisville preparing string beans for canning. The beans were raised by Mrs. Holt in her victory garden

Jeffersontown, Kentucky. The Jefferson County ommunity cannery, starte...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, 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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Noonday dinner, family-style, at restaurant in Muskogee, Oklahoma. The price of this dinner was fifteen cents. It included a medium-sized serving of meat, sliced tomatoes and corn on the cob, potatoes, dumplings, corn bread and butter, tea and coffee, various jellies and preserves and onions. All you wanted of everything except the meat

Noonday dinner, family-style, at restaurant in Muskogee, Oklahoma. The...

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

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.

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...

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Noonday dinner, family style, at restaurant in Muskogee, Oklahoma. The price of this dinner was fifteen cents. It included a medium-sized serving of meat, sliced tomatoes, beans, corn on the cob, potatoes, dumplings, corn bread and butter, tea and coffee, various jellies and preserves and onions. All you wanted of everything except the meat

Noonday dinner, family style, at restaurant in Muskogee, Oklahoma. The...

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

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.

Agriculture chart. One of a series of ten charts released by the Bureau of Home Economics, Department of Agriculture. A limited number are on sale at twenty-five cents for a set of ten at the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office (GPO), Washington, D.C.

Agriculture chart. One of a series of ten charts released by the Burea...

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House on Winter Street, Quincy, Massachusetts. Because of lack of parking facilities, people living in the vicinity of the shipyards are renting car space in their backyards and the lots around their houses for "fifty cents a week."

House on Winter Street, Quincy, Massachusetts. Because of lack of park...

Public domain photograph of the 1930s, United States, cars, streets, John Kennedy, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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...

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Duplex at 3919-21 Utah Street. Rent has been increased from thirty dollars per side to fifty dollars per side. Reality board says top price per side should not be more than forty-two dollars and fifty cents per month. Director of housing surveys says seventy dollars for frontage would be ample. San Diego, California

Duplex at 3919-21 Utah Street. Rent has been increased from thirty dol...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential building, house, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Car pooling at Lockheed Vega. Bus ticket book in use at Lockheed Vega. This fifteen-cent ticket actually costs an employee twelve cents. For railheads at more distant points, tickets are proportionately higher

Car pooling at Lockheed Vega. Bus ticket book in use at Lockheed Vega....

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s US industrial development, Second World War, US war production, indusry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Brooklyn, New York. Red Hook housing development. Children in wading pool at play center which is supervised by the city's Department of Parks. There are separate pools for swimming and diving. Charge is nine cents for children, twenty five cents for adults

Brooklyn, New York. Red Hook housing development. Children in wading p...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty during the Great Depression, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Guanica, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Farm laborer employed in cutting sugar cane at one dollar and fifty-one cents per day

Guanica, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Farm laborer employed in cutting suga...

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.

Daytona Beach, Florida. This boy, who is a NYA (National Youth Administration) student, receives thirty-five cents an hour for chopping wood. By doing this he is able to pay his tuition fees

Daytona Beach, Florida. This boy, who is a NYA (National Youth Adminis...

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.

Mrs. Roosevelt is served a Victory lunch on her visit to General Motors' Eastern Aircraft Division in Linden, New Jersey. Consisting of a small steak, two vegetables, salad, enriched breads, custard and a glass of milk, this highly nutritious lunch is provided war workers for forty-seven cents in the plant cafeteria. Mrs. Clairs C. Curthrie, plant nutritionist, hands Mrs. Roosevelt the tray, while welder-trainee Emmie Banys stands by

Mrs. Roosevelt is served a Victory lunch on her visit to General Motor...

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

On the Bois d'Arc cooperative, Jerry Vardiman has a garden that will yield a large part of his family's food supply. Milk, which he obtains from the coop dairy, costs four cents a quart. Osage Farms, Missouri

On the Bois d'Arc cooperative, Jerry Vardiman has a garden that will y...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military shooting, machine gun, artillery, armed conflict, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

Mr. Ellis and Miss Christian making farm and home plans with Mr. & Mrs. E.H. Wise, RR (Rural Rehabilitation) family. There are six members in this family; their monthly food check is eight dollars. Total farm and home operating expenses for year is four hundred thirty-five dollars and ninety-five cents (435.95). They have about forty-two hens and take care of part of family expenses by selling eggs, chickens and other farm produce. Coffee County, Alabama

Mr. Ellis and Miss Christian making farm and home plans with Mr. & Mrs...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, office meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Interior of one-room cabin occupied by family of six, rented from fruit packing plant for one dollar and seventy-five cents a week. Berrien County, Michigan

Interior of one-room cabin occupied by family of six, rented from frui...

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

The "pick-table" of the grader at Belcross, North Carolina. Grader men get twenty cents an hour here

The "pick-table" of the grader at Belcross, North Carolina. Grader men...

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

Agriculture chart. One of a series of ten charts released by the Bureau of Home Economics, Department of Agriculture. A limited number are on sale at twenty-five cents for a set of ten at the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office (GPO), Washington, D.C.

Agriculture chart. One of a series of ten charts released by the Burea...

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

Mr. Tilly, who is fixing up the basement of his secondhand store to house fifty men at three dollars and fifty cents per week. He will spend one thousand dollars on the place. He expects to get it back in six weeks. Radford, Virginia

Mr. Tilly, who is fixing up the basement of his secondhand store to ho...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Negro slum area between D and C Streets off 1st Street, S.W. Washington, D.C. Most houses have five small rooms renting for twenty dollars and fifty cents a month, with rear wood kitchen shed, cold water, outdoor privy

Negro slum area between D and C Streets off 1st Street, S.W. Washingto...

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Lititz, Pennsylvania. Butcher shop of Benjamin Lutz (second from right) at 4:30 p.m. when shifts change at the factories. Although there is no scarcity of meat in Lancaster County yet, the wholesale price has risen as much as from five to eight cents a pound

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Butcher shop of Benjamin Lutz (second from right...

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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...

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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...

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Day labor now is used almost exclusively on Hopson Plantation, displacing the old tenants on the place. Cotton choppers are hired in nearby towns for seventy-five cents to one dollar a day and trucked to the plantation. Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

Day labor now is used almost exclusively on Hopson Plantation, displac...

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

Agriculture chart. One of a series of ten charts released by the Bureau of Home Economics, Department of Agriculture. A limited number are on sale at twenty-five cents for a set of ten at the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office (GPO), Washington, D.C.

Agriculture chart. One of a series of ten charts released by the Burea...

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

Carl's Cafe (lunchroom tent) put up about three months ago. Plate lunch increased from twenty-five cents to thirty-five cents and dinners from thirty-five cents to fifty cents. Alexandria, Louisiana

Carl's Cafe (lunchroom tent) put up about three months ago. Plate lunc...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a gas station, convenience store, 20th-century small town, 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 ...

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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

Day labor now is used almost exclusively on Hopson Plantation, displacing the old tenants on the place. Cotton choppers are hired in nearby towns for seventy-five cents to one dollar a day and trucked to the plantation. Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

Day labor now is used almost exclusively on Hopson Plantation, displac...

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

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...

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Jeffersontown, Kentucky. The Jefferson County ommunity cannery, started by the WPA (Work Projects Administration), now conducted by the state (?) vocational education department. Women pay three cents each for cans and two cents per can for use of the pressure cooker. Girls canning some of the beans raised in their victory gardens

Jeffersontown, Kentucky. The Jefferson County ommunity cannery, starte...

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A.E. Blum, proprietor of thirty-five cents a night hotel. Dubuque, Iowa

A.E. Blum, proprietor of thirty-five cents a night hotel. Dubuque, Iow...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, office meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Hallway of thirty-five cents a night hotel. Dubuque, Iowa

Hallway of thirty-five cents a night hotel. Dubuque, Iowa

Public domain photograph of working people, Great Depression, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Day labor now is used almost exclusively on Hopson Plantation, displacing the old tenants on the place. Cotton choppers are hired in nearby towns for seventy-five cents to one dollar a day and trucked to the plantation. Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

Day labor now is used almost exclusively on Hopson Plantation, displac...

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

Daytona Beach, Florida. Bethune-Cookman College. Students chopping and piling wood for thirty-five cents an hour

Daytona Beach, Florida. Bethune-Cookman College. Students chopping and...

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

Rural rehabilitation, Tulare County, California. This family had been ...

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

A group of men standing next to a truck. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A group of men standing next to a truck. Great Depression FFSA / OWI N...

Public domain photographs related to race relations, African Americans, discrimination, segregation, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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...

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A black and white photo of a group of men standing on the back of a truck. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A black and white photo of a group of men standing on the back of a tr...

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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...

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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

Washington, D.C. Modeling osnaburg pinafore worked out for a high school girl on a low income by graduate students of the Department of Clothing and Textiles, School of Home Economics, University of Alabama. Total cost of materials was fifty-seven cents

Washington, D.C. Modeling osnaburg pinafore worked out for a high scho...

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

Agriculture chart. One of a series of ten charts released by the Bureau of Home Economics, Department of Agriculture. A limited number are on sale at twenty-five cents for a set of ten at the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office (GPO), Washington, D.C.

Agriculture chart. One of a series of ten charts released by the Burea...

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

One of the nine cabins adjoining fruit packing plant. Families of seven and eight sometimes live in these one dollar and seventy-five cents a week cabins. Berrien County, Michigan

One of the nine cabins adjoining fruit packing plant. Families of seve...

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

Picking hops, Yakima County, Washington. Workers were paid this year two and a half to four cents per pound. This man said he could pick one hundred pounds a day

Picking hops, Yakima County, Washington. Workers were paid this year t...

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

This boy and girl were the champion pea pickers in the contractor's camp. They travel with their families in the contractor's camps. They have picked as many as thirty-two hampers each a day. Pay thirty cents per hamper. It is normal to pick about twenty hampers a day. Canyon County, Idaho

This boy and girl were the champion pea pickers in the contractor's ca...

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

Yauco, Puerto Rico. In a small cigar factory. These cigars are made for local consumption and sell for about two cents

Yauco, Puerto Rico. In a small cigar factory. These cigars are made fo...

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.

Daytona Beach, Florida. Bethune-Cookman College. This boy, who is a NYA (National Youth Administration) student, receives thirty-five cents an hour for chopping wood. By doing this he is able to pay his tuition fees

Daytona Beach, Florida. Bethune-Cookman College. This boy, who is a NY...

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.

Daytona Beach, Florida. Bethune-Cookman College. Students chopping and piling wood for thirty-five cents an hour

Daytona Beach, Florida. Bethune-Cookman College. Students chopping and...

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

Jeffersontown, Kentucky. The Jefferson County ommunity cannery, started by the WPA (Work Projects Administration), now conducted by the state (?) vocational education department. Women pay three cents each for cans and two cents per can for use of the pressure cooker. Mrs. Fred Kemper(left), and Mrs. Roland Kemper canning asparagus that they bought in the market

Jeffersontown, Kentucky. The Jefferson County ommunity cannery, starte...

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

Agriculture chart. One of a series of ten charts released by the Bureau of Home Economics, Department of Agriculture. A limited number are on sale at twenty-five cents for a set of ten at the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office (GPO), Washington, D.C.

Agriculture chart. One of a series of ten charts released by the Burea...

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

Agriculture chart. One of a series of ten charts released by the Bureau of Home Economics, Department of Agriculture. A limited number are on sale at twenty-five cents for a set of ten at the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office (GPO), Washington, D.C.

Agriculture chart. One of a series of ten charts released by the Burea...

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

Bus which was bought to transport workmen to the construction work at the naval air training base. Corpus Christi, Texas. Notice that there is no license on the bus. The bus company was advised that twenty-five buses would be required to transport workmen but have had to put less than half of the special buses in operation. Fare to the base is ten cents and the city bus company claims that it is losing money because the shifts are so changed that the buses go out full and return empty

Bus which was bought to transport workmen to the construction work at ...

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Agriculture chart. One of a series of ten charts released by the Bureau of Home Economics, Department of Agriculture. A limited number are on sale at twenty-five cents for a set of ten at the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office (GPO), Washington, D.C.

Agriculture chart. One of a series of ten charts released by the Burea...

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

Agriculture chart. One of a series of ten charts released by the Bureau of Home Economics, Department of Agriculture. A limited number are on sale at twenty-five cents for a set of ten at the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office (GPO), Washington, D.C.

Agriculture chart. One of a series of ten charts released by the Burea...

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Card game in lobby of thirty-five cents hotel a night hotel. Dubuque, Iowa

Card game in lobby of thirty-five cents hotel a night hotel. Dubuque, ...

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Fruit market. Benton Harbor, Michigan. Growers pay ten cents to drive truck through the market. If produce is not sold at the end of the line it must enter through the gate again

Fruit market. Benton Harbor, Michigan. Growers pay ten cents to drive ...

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This woman works in the packing plant. Her son works picking fruit with his father. Cabin owned by packing plant rents for one dollar and seventy-five cents a week. Berrien County, Michigan

This woman works in the packing plant. Her son works picking fruit wit...

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Mother and child who have moved to San Diego from San Angelo, Texas. The house this family lives in rented for twenty-two dollars and fifty cents per month six months ago. The rent is now forty dollars. Two roomers pay five dollars each per month for use of room. San Diego, California

Mother and child who have moved to San Diego from San Angelo, Texas. T...

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Lititz, Pennsylvania. Honor roll in the hall of the Lititz Borough Public School, showing which classes have 100 percent record for buying war stamps and bonds for the week. During the week of November 12th, out of the 845 children in the school, 780 children bought four hundred seventy-three dollars and ninety-five cents worth of stamps and bonds; two thousand seven hundred twenty-seven dollars and thirty cents worth this year

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Honor roll in the hall of the Lititz Borough Pub...

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Sunray, Texas. Sacking carbon black in a plant. Carbon black is worth 3 1/2 cents a pound

Sunray, Texas. Sacking carbon black in a plant. Carbon black is worth ...

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School boys training for agriculture. Miss Mae E. Howard, manager, U.S. Employment Service at Silver Spring registers one of the 125 high school boys for training at nearby farms. After passing a physical exam, they will spend a whole summer helping local farmers. In return they receive 28 cents an hour, a healthy summer in the outdoors and the satisfaction of knowing that they are helping to win the war and write the peace

School boys training for agriculture. Miss Mae E. Howard, manager, U.S...

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Guanica, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Farm laborer employed in cutting sugar cane at one dollar and fifty-one cents per day

Guanica, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Farm laborer employed in cutting suga...

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Washington, D.C. Deciding whether to buy the small can at twenty-five cents or the large can at sixty-seven cents at the Giant Food shopping center on Wisconsin Avenue

Washington, D.C. Deciding whether to buy the small can at twenty-five ...

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Jeffersontown, Kentucky. The Jefferson County ommunity cannery, started by the WPA (Work Projects Administration), now conducted by the state (?) vocational education department. Women pay three cents each for cans and two cents per can for use of the pressure cooker. Mrs. Thomas Benton of Louisville, whose husband is in the U.S. Army, skinning beets that she bought in town

Jeffersontown, Kentucky. The Jefferson County ommunity cannery, starte...

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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...

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Noonday dinner, family-style, at restaurant in Muskogee, Oklahoma. The price of this dinner was fifteen cents. It included a medium-sized serving of meat, sliced tomatoes, beans, corn on the cob, potatoes, dumplings, corn bread and butter, tea and coffee, various jellies and preserves and onions. All you wanted of everything except the meat

Noonday dinner, family-style, at restaurant in Muskogee, Oklahoma. The...

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Men sitting around the stove in lobby of thirty-five cents a night hotel. Many of these men are transient men (farm laborers) who quarter here during the winter. Dubuque, Iowa

Men sitting around the stove in lobby of thirty-five cents a night hot...

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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...

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Men sitting around stove in lobby of thirty-five cents a night hotel. Dubuque, Iowa

Men sitting around stove in lobby of thirty-five cents a night hotel. ...

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Negro slum area between D and C Streets off 1st Street, S.W. Washington, D.C. Most houses have five small rooms renting for twenty dollars and fifty cents a month, with rear wood kitchen shed, cold water, outdoor privy

Negro slum area between D and C Streets off 1st Street, S.W. Washingto...

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Brooklyn, New York. Red Hook housing development. Mrs. Caputo and her children in the living room of their four-and-a-half room apartment for which they pay five dollars and thirty-five cents weekly

Brooklyn, New York. Red Hook housing development. Mrs. Caputo and her ...

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Butte, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Working on contracts to determine pay for miners. The contract system is used in the Butte mines, where the minimum basic wage is six dollars and seventy-five cents daily

Butte, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Working on contracts t...

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