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[Reproductions of three Confederate five dollar bills and a Confederate two dollar bill]

[Reproductions of three Confederate five dollar bills and a Confederat...

Plate IV. Nos. 9, 10, 11, and 12. Copyright by William Lee.

If we have to make speeches until morning!' Austin on Senate filibuster. Washington, D.C., July 1. The Senate met at noon yesterday and kept going until 1:53 the next morning. Reason was that a republican bloc, opposed to allowing the President continued power to devalue the dollar and the Treasury to dip into the $2,000,000,000 stabilization fund, filibustered until midnight, at which time the power was supposed to lapse. Some opinion held that the power could again be granted, even after that time, so Senator Warren R. Austin told reporters that he had a list of 10 Senators who would speak if it held the Senate in session until dawn. The monetary authorization was, as was promised, 'talked to death'

If we have to make speeches until morning!' Austin on Senate filibuste...

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DOLLAR, CAPT. ROBERT. STEAMSHIP LINE OWNER

DOLLAR, CAPT. ROBERT. STEAMSHIP LINE OWNER

A black and white photo of a man in a coat and tie. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Construction of a million dollar bridge across the Tidal Basin. Archie A. Alexander, Negro, senior partner

Construction of a million dollar bridge across the Tidal Basin. Archie...

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Construction of a million dollar bridge across the Tidal Basin. Archie A. Alexander, Negro, senior partner

Construction of a million dollar bridge across the Tidal Basin. Archie...

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Home of turpentine worker near Cordele, Alabama. Father's wage is one dollar a day. This is the standard of living the turpentine trees support

Home of turpentine worker near Cordele, Alabama. Father's wage is one ...

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Children of turpentine worker near Cordele, Alabama. The father earns one dollar a day

Children of turpentine worker near Cordele, Alabama. The father earns ...

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Former tenant farmer on a large cotton farm. Now a tractor driver for one dollar a day on the same farm. Bell County, Texas

Former tenant farmer on a large cotton farm. Now a tractor driver for ...

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Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico. "We come from all states and we can't make a dollar in this field noways. Working from seven in the morning until twelve noon, we earn an average of thirty-five cents." California

Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico. "W...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 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...

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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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Movie theater, Elkins, West Virginia. There are two movies in town, both offer games of chance, win a dollar, three nights a week

Movie theater, Elkins, West Virginia. There are two movies in town, bo...

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

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.

Business district of Corpus Christi, Texas, with the two million dollar seawall which is now being constructed in the foreground

Business district of Corpus Christi, Texas, with the two million dolla...

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Day labor 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 is used almost exclusively on Hopson plantation, displacing ...

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

Day labor 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 is used almost exclusively on Hopson plantation, displacing ...

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I can make my crop money for next year in a month, said John Fields, tenant living on a small farm seven miles out of town. Farm labor in this section, until 1940, received from sixty cents to one dollar a day, working from sunup to sundown. He works as a carpenter or common laborer. Childersburg, Alabama

I can make my crop money for next year in a month, said John Fields, t...

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Auction followed the dinner at the fiesta of the Holy Ghost. Santa Clara, California. Rather than distributing food to the needy of the community during the fiesta of the Holy Ghost, proceeds from the auction are used for this work. It is not unusual for a single egg or lemon to sell at auction for one dollar

Auction followed the dinner at the fiesta of the Holy Ghost. Santa Cla...

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Government hotel for Negro women war workers. Administrative staff members of the 760,000 dollar Lucy D. Slowe Residence Hall, first government constructed hotel for Negro women war workers in Washington, D.C. are shown in one of the nooks of the spacious lounge of the hotel. Reading to the left (clockwise) Miss Ernestine M. Dupy, Mrs. Marie Wilson, Miss Bernice L. Hawkins, Miss Georgia Williams, Miss Lossie Lewis and Miss Mary H. Dowling

Government hotel for Negro women war workers. Administrative staff mem...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Denver, Colorado. This workman has gone "all out" to speed up the Navy's unique shipbuilding program here in this mile-high city--the world's largest city not on a navigable waterway. Even though he has never seen an ocean or a ship larger than the pleasure launch on Denver's city park lake, the steel worker behind this acetylene torch is no less a shipbuilder! He is one of the workers in the eight Denver fabricating firms turning out hull parts in a 56 million dollar which means more escort vessels for Uncle Sam's Navy--vessels made in Denver and assembled at Mare Island Navy Yard 1,300 miles away

Denver, Colorado. This workman has gone "all out" to speed up the Navy...

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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 worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Melbourne, Australia. United States Army hospital. Exterior view of hospital. Towering high above the city is Australia's newest and finest medical structure, built as a civic enterprise as the Royal Melbourne Hospital. Today, renamed the United States Army Fourth General Hospital, it is a healing place for American soldiers and sailors. A three million dollar lump sum of reciprocal lend-lease was handed over to the United States before it ever had a civilian occupant

Melbourne, Australia. United States Army hospital. Exterior view of ho...

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Dollar Savings Bank, Grand Concourse, New York. Interior VI

Dollar Savings Bank, Grand Concourse, New York. Interior VI

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Details from the "million dollar courthouse," the Theodore Levin United States Courthouse, Detroit Federal Building, Detroit, Michigan

Details from the "million dollar courthouse," the Theodore Levin Unite...

Courtroom is from the previous building built in 1896. It was disassembled and reassembled in the new building in 1932. It contains over 30 types of marble. Behind the bench is a frieze of 10 female figures dep... More

Home of the FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower who moved on this land six years ago, built log house and buildings. Cut enough hay between the stumps to feed eight cows, three calves and two horses through the winter of 1938. Three hundred and fifteen dollar land-clearing loan. Priest River Peninsula, Bonner County, Idaho. See general caption 49

Home of the FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower who moved on t...

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

Copper River & Northwest Railroad, Million Dollar Bridge, Spanning Copper River at Miles Glacier, Cordova, Valdez-Cordova Census Area, AK

Copper River & Northwest Railroad, Million Dollar Bridge, Spanning Cop...

Significance: One of two "impossible bridges" across the Copper R., one of unprecedented size and strength, built across the faces of two glaciers and key to the success of the CR&NWRR, which was to be the All ... More

[The Waltham Bank fifty dollar private bank note proof]

[The Waltham Bank fifty dollar private bank note proof]

Print shows vignettes of women symbolizing knowledge and medicine in front of a factory; a Native American man; and a man filing metal.

N.Y.C. street scenes--million dollar corner, 34th St. & Broadway. Small plot which sold for a million dollars

N.Y.C. street scenes--million dollar corner, 34th St. & Broadway. Smal...

George Grantham Bain Collection. Public domain photograph - city, downtown, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Join - Red Cross work must go on! All you need is a heart and a dollar / / Dexter.

Join - Red Cross work must go on! All you need is a heart and a dollar...

Poster showing a Red Cross nurse. Public domain photograph of nurses, hospital, medical care, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cotton hoers on the Mississippi Delta. They worked from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. for one dollar

Cotton hoers on the Mississippi Delta. They worked from 6 a.m. to 7 p....

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

Tractor operator on the Aldridge Plantation near Leland Mississippi. These young Negroes drive tractors for one dollar and twenty-five cents a day and cabin

Tractor operator on the Aldridge Plantation near Leland Mississippi. T...

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Memphis, Tennessee. Cotton hoers are transported to the fields daily during the season. Truck drivers are paid by the planters and serve as "runners" to recruit the men. Trucks leave at five o'clock in the morning for the Arkansas Delta plantations. Hoers are paid one dollar a day

Memphis, Tennessee. Cotton hoers are transported to the fields daily d...

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

A black and white photo of a man standing on a dock, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a man standing on a dock, Great Depression....

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

Tractor operator in western cotton fields. Works as wage laborer, earns one dollar per day. Childress County, Texas

Tractor operator in western cotton fields. Works as wage laborer, earn...

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 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.

Rocks and stream along the Million Dollar Highway, Ouray County, Colorado

Rocks and stream along the Million Dollar Highway, Ouray County, Color...

Photograph shows U.S. 550. Public domain photograph of a cave, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Meeting opens with taking the collection. Army contributes (about one dollar and fifty cents) again, as well as the audience. Salvation Army, San Francisco, California

Meeting opens with taking the collection. Army contributes (about one ...

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Family of roofer from Oklahoma in their tent home at Corpus Christi, Texas. He is working at the naval air training base. He draws one dollar an hour pay but frequent layoffs because of bad weather makes his average weekly wage small

Family of roofer from Oklahoma in their tent home at Corpus Christi, T...

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

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...

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

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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Business district of Corpus Christi, Texas, with the two million dollar seawall which is now being constructed in the foreground

Business district of Corpus Christi, Texas, with the two million dolla...

Public domain photograph of a city streets, cityscape, urban environment, buildings, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Abandoned gold mill along Million Dollar Highway immediately south of Ouray, Colorado in Ouray County

Abandoned gold mill along Million Dollar Highway immediately south of ...

Public domain photograph of a mountain pass, mountains, nature, mountain range, view, landscape, rocks, free to use, no copyright restrictions - 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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Shipbuilding (Newport News). Behind the scaffolding is one of the most powerful ships ever built, the U.S.S. Alabama, which is scheduled to be launched in February, 1941. This 70 milllion dollar super dreadnought is one of several powerful additions to Uncle Sam's rapidly growing fleet under construction at the Norfolk Navy Yard

Shipbuilding (Newport News). Behind the scaffolding is one of the most...

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Mrs. Myrtle Higgins of Leraysville, New York, with some of the belongings she has packed preparing to move out of the area being taken over by the Army. Mrs. Higgins has been selling eggs and berries in the town and her son added to her two dollar a week income by working in a junk yard in Watertown, New York. She is moving to a farm near Mexico, New York

Mrs. Myrtle Higgins of Leraysville, New York, with some of the belongi...

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

War worker goes to Washington. Miss Clara Camille Carroll, recently arrived war worker from Cleveland, Ohio, was lucky. The 760,000 dollar Lucy D. Slowe Resident Hall had just been opened for Negro women war workers, and the War Housing desk at the United States Informational Service referred her as a possible tenant. There she met W. Spurgeon Burke, managing director

War worker goes to Washington. Miss Clara Camille Carroll, recently ar...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

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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Government hotel for Negro women war workers. The spacious lounge of the 760,000 dollar Lucy D. Slowe Residence Hall, first government constructed hotel for Negro women war workers in Washington, D.C., is shown above. The 322 residents of the hotel will also enjoy a comfortable lobby, a fountain room for leisure hour snacks, a cafeteria, valet shop and beauty salon

Government hotel for Negro women war workers. The spacious lounge of t...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Melbourne, Australia. United States Army hospital. Exterior view of hospital. Towering high above the city is Australia's newest and finest medical structure, built as a civic enterprise as the Royal Melbourne Hospital. Today, renamed the United States Army Fourth General Hospital, it is a healing place for American soldiers and sailors. A three million dollar lump sum of reciprocal lend-lease was handed over to the United States before it ever had a civilian occupant

Melbourne, Australia. United States Army hospital. Exterior view of ho...

Public domain photograph of hospital building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dollar Savings Bank, Grand Concourse, New York. Interior I

Dollar Savings Bank, Grand Concourse, New York. Interior I

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Dollar Savings Bank, Grand Concourse, Bronx, New York. Exterior, from left

Dollar Savings Bank, Grand Concourse, Bronx, New York. Exterior, from ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commercial building, downtown, shopping center, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Dollar Savings Bank, Parkchester Branch, Bronx, New York. Exterior from left

Dollar Savings Bank, Parkchester Branch, Bronx, New York. Exterior fro...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commercial building, downtown, shopping center, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Details from the "million dollar courthouse," the Theodore Levin United States Courthouse, Detroit Federal Building, Detroit, Michigan

Details from the "million dollar courthouse," the Theodore Levin Unite...

Courtroom is from the previous building built in 1896. It was disassembled and reassembled in the new building in 1932. It contains over 30 types of marble. Behind the bench is a frieze of 10 female figures dep... More

Details from the "million dollar courthouse," the Theodore Levin United States Courthouse, Detroit Federal Building, Detroit, Michigan

Details from the "million dollar courthouse," the Theodore Levin Unite...

Courtroom is from the previous building built in 1896. It was disassembled and reassembled in the new building in 1932. It contains over 30 types of marble. Behind the bench is a frieze of 10 female figures dep... More

Details from the "million dollar courthouse," the Theodore Levin United States Courthouse, Detroit Federal Building, Detroit, Michigan

Details from the "million dollar courthouse," the Theodore Levin Unite...

Courtroom is from the previous building built in 1896. It was disassembled and reassembled in the new building in 1932. It contains over 30 types of marble. Behind the bench is a frieze of 10 female figures dep... More

The Million Dollar Band, the University of Alabama's marching band, fire up the crowd before a University of Alabama football game, Tuscaloosa, Alabama

The Million Dollar Band, the University of Alabama's marching band, fi...

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

Copper River & Northwest Railroad, Million Dollar Bridge, Spanning Copper River at Miles Glacier, Cordova, Valdez-Cordova Census Area, AK

Copper River & Northwest Railroad, Million Dollar Bridge, Spanning Cop...

Significance: One of two "impossible bridges" across the Copper R., one of unprecedented size and strength, built across the faces of two glaciers and key to the success of the CR&NWRR, which was to be the All ... More

Copper River & Northwest Railroad, Million Dollar Bridge, Spanning Copper River at Miles Glacier, Cordova, Valdez-Cordova Census Area, AK

Copper River & Northwest Railroad, Million Dollar Bridge, Spanning Cop...

Significance: One of two "impossible bridges" across the Copper R., one of unprecedented size and strength, built across the faces of two glaciers and key to the success of the CR&NWRR, which was to be the All ... More

Copper River & Northwest Railroad, Million Dollar Bridge, Spanning Copper River at Miles Glacier, Cordova, Valdez-Cordova Census Area, AK

Copper River & Northwest Railroad, Million Dollar Bridge, Spanning Cop...

Significance: One of two "impossible bridges" across the Copper R., one of unprecedented size and strength, built across the faces of two glaciers and key to the success of the CR&NWRR, which was to be the All ... More

Joseph Starbuck House, 4 New Dollar Lane, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA

Joseph Starbuck House, 4 New Dollar Lane, Nantucket, Nantucket County,...

Significance: This is a typical Nantucket mansion of the early nineteenth century when the houses began to be more spacious. Survey number: HABS MA-940 Building/structure dates: 1890 Initial Construction Bui... More

[National Lincoln Monument Association donation in the form of a dollar bill.]

[National Lincoln Monument Association donation in the form of a dolla...

National Lincoln Monument Association. Received from Charles H. Howe for subscription to the Lincoln Monument in the City of Washington, D. C. One Dollar. Washington, May 29, 868.

Noon ball game. Boys working at the Priscilla Knitting Mills. Meridian, Miss. Some of the youngest workers are: Kendall Hoffer, 4 Ave. & C St., said was 12 yrs. old and makes $3 to $5 a week. Sam. Mc Adams, A St., 12 years old. Working a long time. Makes a dollar a day some times. Tom Brantley, 7th Ave., said 13 years old, but like the rest he did not appear to be. Irving Williams said he was 15, but? Boys all said none under 12 can work. Location: Meridian, Mississippi.

Noon ball game. Boys working at the Priscilla Knitting Mills. Meridian...

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"Want any more MEN?" 7 year old Alec applying for job on tobacco farms. "Like fun I take what what [sic] they give me. A dollar a day is the cheapest I work." Location: Connecticut. / L.W. Hine.

"Want any more MEN?" 7 year old Alec applying for job on tobacco farms...

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These cotton hoers work from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. for one dollar near Clarksdale, Mississippi

These cotton hoers work from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. for one dollar near Clar...

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

Cotton hoers leaving Greenville at 5 a.m. for a day's work on the plantations. Wages one dollar a day, one dollar and twenty-five cents on a few plantations. Hoers carry their lunches. They return about 8 p.m. Mississippi

Cotton hoers leaving Greenville at 5 a.m. for a day's work on the plan...

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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 Navy so strong other nations won't risk war with U.S., Edison tells house committee. Washington, D.C., Feb. 26. Rep. Carl Vinson, (left) Chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee, chats with Assistant Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison just before he (Edison) appeared before the committee today to urge a strong Navy. Questioned on President Roosevelt's proposed billion dollar Naval Expansion Program, Edison told the committee that future peace in the U.S. is dependent on a Navy so strong that no nation will risk war with its country, 2/26/38

A Navy so strong other nations won't risk war with U.S., Edison tells ...

Two men sitting at a table talking to each other. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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.

Large-scale agricultural gang labor, Mexicans and whites from the Southwest pull, clean, tie and crate carrots for the eastern market for eleven cents per crate of forty-eight bunches. Many can make barely one dollar a day. Heavy oversupply of labor and competition for jobs is keen. Near Meloland, Imperial Valley

Large-scale agricultural gang labor, Mexicans and whites from the Sout...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farm, farmer, agriculture, early 20th century, 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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Day laborers being hired for cotton picking on Mississippi and Arkansas plantations. Between four and six-thirty every morning during the season, near the Hallan Bridge in Memphis, Tennessee, crowds of Negroes in the streets gather and are loaded into trucks by drivers who bid, and offer them anywhere from fifty cents to one dollar per day

Day laborers being hired for cotton picking on Mississippi and Arkansa...

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

Family of migrant agricultural day laborers camped near Spiro, Oklahoma. The man and his wife had farmed in this vicinity for many years. However, they had always been renters. They have found it increasingly difficult to find land and house for rent. They had moved to the river bottom where they were camping out while working in the nearby fields. The mosquitoes were bad. They had to move to higher ground by the roadside. The entire family--mother, father and six children--had malaria. When the man was asked if there was much malaria among the people, he replied, "Yes, they have always started chillin' and they'll keep achillin' till frost, them that don't die." The father and two children were chopping cotton for a dollar a day. The father said "that as soon as they got a few dollars ahead it came a rain and they spent their money before it was dry enough to work again." They had a car and were going on to California as soon as they had enough money. The woman's sister is living in Bakersfield, California, and they want to get out there. "They ain't doing much, but he's making a living and I ain't making it here."

Family of migrant agricultural day laborers camped near Spiro, Oklahom...

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On the plains west of Fresno, California. Family of seven from Oregon dairy ranch which they lost. "We tried to get too big, I guess. Milk cans are all that's left of the dairy. Now pick bolls to make fifty cents to one dollar a day. We can't work every day or maybe we could get by." Rent for house without water or sanitation -six dollars per month. Plan next to pick fruit. "They say if you come to California, you always come back, but I'm willing to leave it."

On the plains west of Fresno, California. Family of seven from Oregon ...

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Reciprocal aid. American nurses and officers enjoy themselves in nurses' quarters of a new 3,000,000 dollar hospital "somewhere in Australia" which government of Australia has provided, without payment by the United States, for American servicemen recuperating from wounds and illness. Hospital is one of many Australian contributions under reciprocal lend-lease. Left to right: Miss Bertha Only, Middletown, New York; Major James Hipple, Pierre, South Dakota; Lieutenant R.A. Pearson, Jr., Raleigh, North Carolina; Miss Genevieve Kusek, Danvers, Massachusetts; Captain T.F. Connolly, Sacramento, California; Lieutenant Ray Loper, Cleveland, Oklahoma; Miss Julia Owens, Columbus, Georgia; Lieutenant Edward Ferreri, Connorsville, Indiana; Miss Sera Clifton, Harrington, Delaware

Reciprocal aid. American nurses and officers enjoy themselves in nurse...

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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 image of a farm, farmer, agriculture, early 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Largest open pit copper mine in the world at Santa Rita, New Mexico. Copper was discovered here by an officer of the Spanish army in 1800 who sold the same to a wealthy Spanish merchant. Pure native copper was transported by pack mule to Mexico City to enter the royal mint for coinage. In 1900 a young mining engineer became interested in the development and was instrumental in the ultimate success of the Chino Copper Company. The ore is now shipped to Hurley, a short distance to the south, where it is put through a five million dollar smelter

Largest open pit copper mine in the world at Santa Rita, New Mexico. C...

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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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Jefferson Memorial. Exterior of the Jefferson Memorial, Washington, D.C. Dedicated on the third president's bi-centennial anniversary, April 12, 1943, the 3 million dollar building was designed by Russel Pope and is constructed of marble from Vermont, Missouri, Georgia and Tennessee

Jefferson Memorial. Exterior of the Jefferson Memorial, Washington, D....

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Shopping for victory with war bonds. These are what war bonds buy. These are 50-caliber armor-piercing shells and a 100 dollar war bond pays for 1,000 of them. A 100 dollar bond buys 1,000 chances of making a Zero really nothing!

Shopping for victory with war bonds. These are what war bonds buy. The...

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Dollar Bay and Portage Lake, Mich.

Dollar Bay and Portage Lake, Mich.

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Copper River & Northwest Railroad, Million Dollar Bridge, Spanning Copper River at Miles Glacier, Cordova, Valdez-Cordova Census Area, AK

Copper River & Northwest Railroad, Million Dollar Bridge, Spanning Cop...

Significance: One of two "impossible bridges" across the Copper R., one of unprecedented size and strength, built across the faces of two glaciers and key to the success of the CR&NWRR, which was to be the All ... More

[The Waltham Bank five hundred dollar private bank note proof]

[The Waltham Bank five hundred dollar private bank note proof]

Print shows vignette of Civil War soldiers with cannon, American flag, and fort in the background. On verso: Deposited April 8, 1862. The Waltham bank, proprs. See vol. 37, p. 172.

[The Waltham Bank one hundred dollar private bank note proof]

[The Waltham Bank one hundred dollar private bank note proof]

Print shows vignettes of sailors on wharf with steamship; girl and boy with grazing cows and sheep; and factory. On verso: Deposited April 8, 1862. The Waltham bank, proprs. See vol. 37, p. 173.

[Confederate one hundred dollar bill], Confederate States of America.

[Confederate one hundred dollar bill], Confederate States of America.

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The evolution of the dollar / Dalrymple.

The evolution of the dollar / Dalrymple.

Illustration shows the financial situation for laborers and capitalists in 1875 and in 1900. The high interest earned by the dollar was good for the capitalist in 1875, but as interest on the dollar dropped, th... More

Mrs. Montemora, Fifty-five years old, is janitress for a large tenement, 133 W. Houston St., (lives Apt. 7) housing 26 families. When not tending the furnace or occupied with other duties for others and her own family, she makes flowers, assisted by her niece Josephine, 12 years old. They both work until 10:00 P.M. frequently. Photo was taken at 2:30 P.M., Feb 2, 1912, a school-day, and their only explanation was, "She just stayed out." Making buds. Several adult men relatives live with them. The flowers bring in only a dollar or two a week. Location: New York, New York (State)

Mrs. Montemora, Fifty-five years old, is janitress for a large tenemen...

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Every dollar spent in Canada -- Victory Loan -- prosperity

Every dollar spent in Canada -- Victory Loan -- prosperity

Poster shows an arm reaching down from sky with bills and coins in hand; below a landscape, with "prosperity" written over the rising sun. W.P. 6.

Sees that Uncle Sam gets value in purchases. Washington, D.C., Sept. 28. Miss Mary L. Rollins is responsible for seeing that the government gets value received for every dollar expended for paper and materials containing textile fibers. As fiber technologist of the National Bureau of Standards, she take a microscopic test of typewriter paper, memo pads, envelopes, police uniforms, chair cushions, flags, etc. to determine whether the articles are delivered are represented when purchased, 9/28/37

Sees that Uncle Sam gets value in purchases. Washington, D.C., Sept. 2...

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This ex-tenant still lives on the plantation but works for wages of one dollar a day. He estimated that he worked about 190 days during 1936. Near Clarksdale, Mississippi

This ex-tenant still lives on the plantation but works for wages of on...

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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...

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At Republican women's dinner. Washington, D.C., March 27. The League of Republican Women of the District of Columbia held a "Five dollar a plate" dinner tonight attended by prominent republicans of both sex. Here are John Hamilton, chairman of the Republican National Committee, Mrs. Edward Everett -Dolly- Gann, President of the League, Mrs. Robert Taft, wife of the Ohio Senator and Rep. Karl Mundt of South Dakota, one of the principal speakers. 3-27-39

At Republican women's dinner. Washington, D.C., March 27. The League o...

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Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, Mexican and white, from the Southwest. Pull, clean, tie and crate carrots for the eastern market for eleven cents per crate of forty-eight bunches. Many can make barely one dollar a day. Heavy oversupply of labor and competition for jobs is keen

Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, M...

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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...

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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...

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Day labor 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 is used almost exclusively on Hopson plantation, displacing ...

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Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). These men are putting in some of the hundreds of thousands of rivets on the huge 70 milion dollar battleship U.S.S. Alabama, under construction at the Norfolk Yard. The ship is scheduled for launching in February 1942

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). These men are putting in some of the...

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A black and white photo of old wooden buildings. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of old wooden buildings. Office of War Informa...

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

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). A gathering machine in the bindery room of the printing and duplicating section. This twenty-thousand dollar machine binds twenty pages at a time and turns out 3,000 bound sets an hour. It works twenty-four hours a day for the WPB

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). A gathering m...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Melbourne, Australia. United States Army hospital. Exterior view of hospital. Towering high above the city is Australia's newest and finest medical structure, built as a civic enterprise as the Royal Melbourne Hospital. Today, renamed the United States Army Fourth General Hospital, it is a healing place for American soldiers and sailors. A three million dollar lump sum of reciprocal lend-lease was handed over to the United States before it ever had a civilian occupant

Melbourne, Australia. United States Army hospital. Exterior view of ho...

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Dollar Savings Bank, Grand Concourse, New York. Exterior, from left

Dollar Savings Bank, Grand Concourse, New York. Exterior, from left

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