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The president and directors for the Kentucky Insurance Company promise to pay ... or bearer on demand two dollars, Lexington 16 Aug. 1816

The president and directors for the Kentucky Insurance Company promise...

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A 12 year old knitter in the Rome Hosiery Mill. Been there some time. Earns four to five dollars a week. Location: Rome, Georgia.

A 12 year old knitter in the Rome Hosiery Mill. Been there some time. ...

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El Monte federal subsistence homesteads Four-bedroom house. Eight in family, six boys ages one to fourteen, California. Father is streetcar conductor, one hundred dollars a month. Pays sixteen dollars and twenty cents a month rent to apply on purchase

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads Four-bedroom house. Eight in ...

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Mexican quarter of Los Angeles, California. Average rental is eight dollars. Some houses have plumbing. See card 1799-C for detailed information

Mexican quarter of Los Angeles, California. Average rental is eight do...

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Coorperative sugarcane processing plant taken from Mississippi River levee costing approximately one hundred and seventeen thousand dollars. Growing 2819 cane in foreground. Capacity is one thousand tons per day. Serves territory in twenty mile radius. Works October through December. St. Charles Parish, Louisiana

Coorperative sugarcane processing plant taken from Mississippi River l...

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Cooperatively owned stallion bought with an Farm Security Administration loan. Cost seven hundred dollars. In 1938 bred sixty-four mares. Dawson County, Nebraska

Cooperatively owned stallion bought with an Farm Security Administrati...

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Home of rural rehabilitation client. Tulare County, California. They bought twenty acres of raw unimproved land with a first payment of fifty dollars which was money saved out of relief budget (August 1936). They received a FSA (Farm Security Administration) loan of seven hundred dollars for stock and equipment. Now they have a one-room shack, seven cows, three sows, and homemade pumping plant, along with ten acres of improved permanent pasture. Cream check approximately thirty dollars a month. Husband also works about ten days a month on odd jobs outside the farm. Husband is twenty-six years old, wife twenty-two. Three small children. Been in California five years. "Piece by piece this place gets put together. One more piece of pipe and our water tank will be finished."

Home of rural rehabilitation client. Tulare County, California. They b...

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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...

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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...

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Navy opens bids for battle wagons. Washington, D.C., Nov. 2. The Navy opened bids today on construction of three 35,000 ton battleships today, all bids specified that the dreadnaughts be completed within 52 months. The guns, armor plate, and other accessories to be furnished by the Government cost an estimated 15,000,000 dollars per ship. The ships are the first of that size to be built in 15 years. Seated, left. Admiral William Leahy, Chief of Naval Operations, and Sec. of the Navy Claude Swanson, right. Standing - left- Rear Admiral William G. Du Bose, Chief of the Bureau of Construction and Repair and right- Rear Admiral Charles Conard, Chief of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, 11/2/38

Navy opens bids for battle wagons. Washington, D.C., Nov. 2. The Navy ...

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Unemployment benefits aid begins. Line of men inside a division office of the State Employment Service office at San Francisco, California, waiting to register for benefits on one of the first days the office was open. They will receive from six to fifteen dollars per week for up to sixteen weeks. Coincidental with the announcement that the federal unemployment census showed close to ten million persons out of work, twenty-two states begin paying unemployment compensation

Unemployment benefits aid begins. Line of men inside a division office...

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Unemployment benefits aid begins. Line of men inside a division office of the State Employment Service office at San Francisco, California, waiting to register for benefits on one of the first days the office was open. They will receive from six to fifteen dollars per week for up to sixteen weeks. Coincidental with the announcement that the federal unemployment census showed close to ten million persons out of work, twenty-two states begin paying unemployment compensation

Unemployment benefits aid begins. Line of men inside a division office...

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Klamath Basin potato farmer. He remembers when the first carload of potatoes left this valley in 1910. In 1934 he lost thirty-five hundred dollars on forty-eight acres of potatoes. His present acreage is eleven acres in potatoes, the rest in hay and soil-building crops. Has eleven milking cows. "I'm gonna eat." Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California

Klamath Basin potato farmer. He remembers when the first carload of po...

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Jerry Vardiman, a typical coop member, averaged 480 dollars in 1938. In addition his share in the profit dividend of the cooperative was about ninety dollars. Osage Farms, Missouri

Jerry Vardiman, a typical coop member, averaged 480 dollars in 1938. I...

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

A man helping a little girl with skis, New Hamshire. Farm Security Organization photograph

A man helping a little girl with skis, New Hamshire. Farm Security Org...

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Negro tenant farmer who grew strawberries on shares near Hammond, Louisiana. The husband said that in a good year they came out with maybe two hundred dollars

Negro tenant farmer who grew strawberries on shares near Hammond, Loui...

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Family living in shacktown community, mostly from Kansas and Missouri. This family has five children, oldest in third grade. Rent seven dollars per month, no plumbing. Husband working on Work Projects Administration wages, forty four dollars. Washington, Yakima Valley

Family living in shacktown community, mostly from Kansas and Missouri....

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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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Arkansawyers auto camp. Ten cabins which rent for ten dollars a month with iron bed and electric light, one room. Greenfield, Salinas Valley, California

Arkansawyers auto camp. Ten cabins which rent for ten dollars a month ...

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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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Dickinson farm and ski town tow, which costs him about one thousand dollars to install three years ago. This is the first season he has made money on it, but business in increasing rapidly now. He has a small dairy, and until last year when the hurricane wiped out his entire grove of sugar maple, he used to make and sell syrup. Lisbon, New Hampshire

Dickinson farm and ski town tow, which costs him about one thousand do...

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Bringing in maple sap to the sugar house. Frank H. Shurtleff farm, North Bridgewater, Vermont. He has a 400 acre farm originally purchased by his grandfather in 1840. He raises sheep, cows, cuts lumber. He has been making maple syrup for about thirty-five years, and "sugaring" usually brings in about one thousand dollars annually. Because of the deep snow, this year he only tapped 1000 trees, instead of 2000. He expects to make about 300 to 500 gallons this year

Bringing in maple sap to the sugar house. Frank H. Shurtleff farm, Nor...

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Part of Bull tract near Marysville, California. Houses set on half and one acre lot are sold to workers who build their houses on them. No payment on principal are made for the first four years; interest payments start at three percent and go up to six percent by one percent increase yearly. At the end of four years payments on principal are due at rate of twenty to twenty-five percent annually. Land sells from two nudred to five hundred dollars per acre. Many migrants are settling in such tracts as these

Part of Bull tract near Marysville, California. Houses set on half and...

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Testing is an integral part of the work at the steel mills. Thousands of dollars worth of amazingly accuarate testing machinery will be found in every mill, testing tensile strength, elastic limit, elongation and reduction of area. All steel is thoroughly tested before it is shipped out for defense production

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Testing is an integral part of th...

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Barn on farm of Elof Hansen, small farmer and FSA (Farm Security Administration) client in Yuba County, California. He owns forty-seven acres but has federal land bank loan of twenty-two hundred dollars on his land (as of March 13, 1939). His farm plan calls for nine acres of peaches, ten in alfalfa, eight in corn, eight in clover, four in oats and five in pasture. Mr Hansen works out to supplement his income

Barn on farm of Elof Hansen, small farmer and FSA (Farm Security Admin...

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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 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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Maids making sandwiches for night shift workmen at Consolidated Aircrafts. This is in a boarding house for single men. They are given room and board--two meals every day and a lunch consisting of three sandwiches, fruit and cake for eight dollars weekly. While this house is clean and liked by the boarders, it is crowded and it is possible that it will be ordered to reduce the number of tenants by the public health officials. San Diego, California

Maids making sandwiches for night shift workmen at Consolidated Aircra...

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Mr. and Mrs. Birch and family in trailer in Edgewater trailer camp near Ypsilanti, Michigan. Mrs. Birch and the children share the trailer with another family. Mr. Birch lives in a tent nearby with two men. Rent: six dollars a week for trailer space; five dollars a week for tent. Mr. Birch works at the Ford bomber plant

Mr. and Mrs. Birch and family in trailer in Edgewater trailer camp nea...

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Family moving into trailer at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp for defense workers. This family is from Minnesota. The man came to San Diego ten months ago and enrolled in a vocational school. He started to work at Consolidated Aircrafts as a riveter and is now a clerk in the machine shop. Before his family came out three weeks ago he lived in a cabin for which he paid twelve dollars per month. He said it was alright for a man but that he wouldn't take his wife and children into such a place. He got a furnished apartment for his family--it was two rooms, rental eleven dollars per week. His wife soon discovered that there was inadequate hot water and was overrun with roaches and rats. San Diego, California

Family moving into trailer at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) c...

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Michael Du Mond, former gunshop proprietor in Wisconsin, came to Hartford in August to work at Colts at forty dollars a week, and has received several raises since. It took him four months to find a place for his wife and two children, namely a hotel apartment for sixty dollars a month, eating all meals out. Now they have a very hot small attic apartment, third floor, for thirty dollars a month, and no place for children to play. Hartford, Connecticut

Michael Du Mond, former gunshop proprietor in Wisconsin, came to Hartf...

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Tents which rent for five dollars a week to defense workers at Edgewater Park near the Ford bomber plant at Ypsilanti, Michigan

Tents which rent for five dollars a week to defense workers at Edgewat...

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Four months after R.E. Centers was telling about how he was going to clear one hundred and seventy-five dollars a week from his rooming house, he had a sign posted in front of the "R.E. Claf" hotel reading "Private Room and Board." Childersburg, Alabama. Centers is superintendent of carpenters

Four months after R.E. Centers was telling about how he was going to c...

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

Dingman Place, N.E. with Capitol dome in background. Negro tenements; four small rooms rent for fifteen dollars per month. Water and privy in yard

Dingman Place, N.E. with Capitol dome in background. Negro tenements; ...

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The Ford Motor Company has constructed and equipped, in eight months an airplane engine building. It covers 17.8 acres, will employ over 14,000 men, will turn out Pratt and Whitney engines at the rate of one an hour for sixteen hours a day. Building and machinery cost twenty-three million dollars. Photo shows three machines on truck, on their way to be installed in the new aircraft building

The Ford Motor Company has constructed and equipped, in eight months a...

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Honey Brook, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Rocks in the process of being removed from hand by Morris Zook Jr., FSA (Farm Security Administration) tenant purchase client who hired bulldozer at twenty-five dollars a day to raise the rocks. Now they will be dynamited and removed in pieces

Honey Brook, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Rocks in the process of being re...

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Civilian defense. Fire prevention. The careless smoker causes more fires each year than any other person in the country. He is to blame for 87,000 separate 1941 fires, which resulted in the loss of many lives and the destruction of 14 million dollars of property. Whether he falls asleep with a lighted smoke or is careless in the disposal of burning cigars, cigarettes, or matches, he is always a menace

Civilian defense. Fire prevention. The careless smoker causes more fir...

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Mr. Albert W. Williams, president of the Unity Life Insurance Company, dictating to secretary DeAcklin. Mr. Williams was born in Georgia, studied at the University of Pennsylvania, worked for eight years for an insurance company in Washington, D.C. then went to New Orleans, and for the last fifteen years has lived in Chicago. The company has about five million dollars worth of business in force. Chicago, Illinois

Mr. Albert W. Williams, president of the Unity Life Insurance Company,...

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Buffalo, New York. Lakeview nursery school for children of working mothers, operated by the Board of Education at a tuition fee of three dollars weekly. Gary playing in the yard which is well-equipped

Buffalo, New York. Lakeview nursery school for children of working mot...

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Gloucester, Massachusetts. Some of these fishing boats cost forty thousand dollars and upwards. A motor alone costs twenty-five thousand dollars and up

Gloucester, Massachusetts. Some of these fishing boats cost forty thou...

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Verona, Wisconsin. Loren Mead, sixteen, from Soyer County, Wisconsin, was placed on the Fleming farm after completing the farm short course at the University of Wisconsin and can do only light work for which he gets thirty-five dollars per month. He comes from a 160-acre farm which is nearly all woodland. His father works in a sawmill. He has three younger brothers and two sisters

Verona, Wisconsin. Loren Mead, sixteen, from Soyer County, Wisconsin, ...

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Buffalo, New York. Lakeview nursery school for children of working mothers, operated by the Board of Education at a tuition fee of three dollars weekly. Children from outside looking into the nursery school yard longingly

Buffalo, New York. Lakeview nursery school for children of working mot...

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Four dollars. This bill entitles the bearer to receive four Spanish milled dollars, or the value thereof in gold or silver, according to a resolution of congress, passed at Philadelphia, July 22, 1776

Four dollars. This bill entitles the bearer to receive four Spanish mi...

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Thirty dollars. This bill entitles the bearer t[o] receive thirty Spanish milled dollars or the value thereof in gold or silver, according to a resolution passed by congress at Philadelphia, Sept. 26th, 1778

Thirty dollars. This bill entitles the bearer t[o] receive thirty Span...

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New York, New York. Italian-American cafe espresso shop on MacDougal Street where coffee and soft drinks are sold. The coffee machine cost one thousand dollars

New York, New York. Italian-American cafe espresso shop on MacDougal S...

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The president, directors co. of the Cumberland Bank of Burksville promise to pay ... or bearer on demand five dollars. Burksville 28 Decem. 1818.

The president, directors co. of the Cumberland Bank of Burksville prom...

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"Shall we be more tender with our dollars than with the lives of our sons?" W.G. McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury Buy a United States government bond of the 2nd Liberty Loan of 1917 / / Edwards & Deutsch Litho. Co. Chicago.

"Shall we be more tender with our dollars than with the lives of our s...

Poster showing a soldier with a flag and a sailor with a sign, "We depend on you." No. 4.

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred homes, all occupied, each with three quarters of an acre land. Average family income eight hundred dollars per annum

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred homes, all occupi...

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Street scene in the mining settlement of Zookspur, Iowa, where part of the occupants of the Granger Homestead formerly lived. Each pump services four houses. Rent four dollars per month

Street scene in the mining settlement of Zookspur, Iowa, where part of...

San Fernando federal subsistence homesteads. Forty homes, all occupied, each with nearly an acre of ground. Average income eight hundred dollars yearly. California

San Fernando federal subsistence homesteads. Forty homes, all occupied...

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El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Three-room house seventy dollars and seventy cents monthly. Rent to apply on purchase. Four in family. Father, carpenter, earns seventy dollars monthly. California

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Three-room house seventy doll...

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Near Manteca, California. Formerly rehabilitation clients, now operating own farm under Tenant Purchase Act. A year and a half ahead on their payments. Family labor harvesting milo maize. Average loan for purchase of farm and improvements in San Joaquin County is seven thousand four hundred and sixty-five dollars

Near Manteca, California. Formerly rehabilitation clients, now operati...

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[U.S.-GREAT BRITAIN-CANADA TRADE TREATY SIGNED AT WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON, D.C. NOVEMBER 17. THE HISTORIC EAST ROOM OF THE WHITE HOUSE WAS THE SCENE TODAY AS THE GREATEST TRADE TREATY IN RECENT HISTORY, EMBRACING A TOTAL AMERICAN TRADE OF 1,500,000,000 DOLLARS, WAS SIGNED BY PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, BRITISH AMBASSADOR SIR RONALD LINDAY, AND OTHER HIGH OFFICIALS OF THE UNITED STATES, GREAT BRITAIN, AND CANADA. PICTURED, LEFT, 2ND SECRETARY OF THE BRITISH BOARD OF TRADE, BRITISH AMBASSADOR SIR RONALD LINDSAY, PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, AND CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER MacKENZIE KING, AND HULL. STANDING, L TO R: ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE FRANCIS B. SAYRE; CANADIAN MINISTER TO THE UNITED STATES HERBERT MARLER; DR. O.D. SKELTON, UNDERSECRETARY OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS OF CANADA; AND CHARLES BARNES, TRADE AGREEMENTS DEVISION OF THE STATE DEPARTMENT]

[U.S.-GREAT BRITAIN-CANADA TRADE TREATY SIGNED AT WHITE HOUSE, WASHING...

A black and white photo of a group of men sitting at a table. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Wife of formerly rehabilitation client. Now operating own farm under Tenant Purchase Act. A year and a half ahead on their payments. Family labor harvesting milo maize. Average loan for purchase of farm and improvements in San Joaquin County is seven thousand four hundred and sixty-five dollars. Near Manteca, California

Wife of formerly rehabilitation client. Now operating own farm under T...

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

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.

U.S.-GREAT BRITAIN-CANADA TRADE TREATY SIGNED AT WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON, D.C. NOVEMBER 17. THE HISTORIC EAST ROOM OF THE WHITE HOUSE WAS THE SCENE TODAY AS THE GREATEST TRADE TREATY IN RECENT HISTORY, EMBRACING A TOTAL AMERICAN TRADE OF 1,500,000,000 DOLLARS, WAS SIGNED BY PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, BRITISH AMBASSADOR SIR RONALD LINDAY, AND OTHER HIGH OFFICIALS OF THE UNITED STATES, GREAT BRITAIN, AND CANADA. PICTURED, LEFT, 2ND SECRETARY OF THE BRITISH BOARD OF TRADE, BRITISH AMBASSADOR SIR RONALD LINDSAY, PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, AND CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER MacKENZIE KING, AND HULL. STANDING, L TO R: ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE FRANCIS B. SAYRE; CANADIAN MINISTER TO THE UNITED STATES HERBERT MARLER; DR. O.D. SKELTON, UNDERSECRETARY OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS OF CANADA; AND CHARLES BARNES, TRADE AGREEMENTS DEVISION OF THE STATE DEPARTMENT

U.S.-GREAT BRITAIN-CANADA TRADE TREATY SIGNED AT WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGT...

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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...

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Bakersfield, Kern County, California. Housing for Negroes in a new district on the edge of town. A rapidly growing community of colored people, mostly from Texas, some from Oklahoma. Rent of this house without plumbing twelve dollars per month

Bakersfield, Kern County, California. Housing for Negroes in a new dis...

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A group of people sitting on the steps of a house, New Hamshire. Farm Security Organization photograph

A group of people sitting on the steps of a house, New Hamshire. Farm ...

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Migratory worker in auto camp. Single man, speaks his mind. "Them WPAs are keeping us from a living. They oughtn't to do it. It ain't fair in no way. The government lays them off (that is in Work Projects Administration - 1939) and they come in because they're locals and take the jobs away from us that never had no forty-four dollars a month. I came out of Pennsylvania, used to be an oil worker. I'm getting along in years now and I seen lots of presidents and lots of systems. Voted for Roosevelt both times and I don't know of any president that ever leaned toward the laboring man like him, but this system they've got here in the fruit is a rotten system the way they work it." Yakima Valley, Washington

Migratory worker in auto camp. Single man, speaks his mind. "Them WPAs...

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

The home of a new farmer who has successfully established himself on the raw land. He has repaid his FSA (Farm Security Administration) loan of twelve hundred and forty-eight dollars in full. Family arrived on the project in August 1937

The home of a new farmer who has successfully established himself on t...

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Rented cabins, ten dollars a month, in vicinity of Arkansawyers auto camp. Greenfield, Salinas Valley, California

Rented cabins, ten dollars a month, in vicinity of Arkansawyers auto c...

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Fred Maschman received a TP loan of 10,895 dollars, which paid for his farm and extensive repairs to his house. Iowa County, Iowa

Fred Maschman received a TP loan of 10,895 dollars, which paid for his...

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Carpenter at Hercules powder plant in his room in Sunday clothes, workclothes on the floor in front of him. He came here a month ago from Long Branch, West Virginia. Pays eight dollars a week room and board. Left his family at home. Would send for them if he could find a decent place to live. Radford, Virginia

Carpenter at Hercules powder plant in his room in Sunday clothes, work...

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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 ...

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

A black and white photo of a train in the snow, Vermont. Farm Security...

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Family of agricultural day laborer living in one of the four room scattered labor homes built by FSA (Farm Security Administration) at a cost of five hundred dollars. New Madrid County, Missouri

Family of agricultural day laborer living in one of the four room scat...

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Michael Du Mond, former gunshop proprietor in Wisconsin, came to Hartford in August to work at Colts at forty dollars a week, and has received several raises since. It took him four months to find a place for his wife and two children, namely a hotel apartment for sixty dollars a month, eating all meals out. Now they have a very hot small attic apartment, third floor, for thirty dollars a month, and no place for children to play. Hartford, Connecticut

Michael Du Mond, former gunshop proprietor in Wisconsin, came to Hartf...

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Man and wife just up from South Carolina. They stayed two nights at Salvation Army, today he got a job in shipyards, and they moved into eight dollars a week one-room apartment. Newport News, Virginia

Man and wife just up from South Carolina. They stayed two nights at Sa...

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Exterior of shack house which rents for fifteen dollars per month. San Diego, California

Exterior of shack house which rents for fifteen dollars per month. San...

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Logs on flatcar which will take them into town from mountain logging camp. The lumbering industry in the eastern part of the state was developed later than that in the western parts of the state but has gathered great speed. Income from forest products in Oregon is about 177,000,000 dollars annually with about 40,000 persons being employed, receiving about fifty-six million dollars in wages and salaries annually. Baker County, Oregon

Logs on flatcar which will take them into town from mountain logging c...

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Man and wife from South Carolina. He just got a job in shipyards, moved into this one room apartment, rent eight dollars a week. Newport News, Virginia

Man and wife from South Carolina. He just got a job in shipyards, move...

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Southington, Connecticut. Southington's nine-hole country club golf course. Membership fee in the club is purposely low (thirty-five dollars a year) so that everyone who enjoys the game may have a chance to play

Southington, Connecticut. Southington's nine-hole country club golf co...

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Buffalo, New York. Lakeview nursery school for children of working mothers, operated by the Board of Education at a tuition fee of three dollars weekly. Playing in the well-equipped yard

Buffalo, New York. Lakeview nursery school for children of working mot...

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Buffalo, New York. Lakeview nursery school for children of working mothers, operated by the Board of Education at a tuition fee of three dollars weekly. Children stop playing in the yard to watch a train go by

Buffalo, New York. Lakeview nursery school for children of working mot...

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Buffalo, New York. Lakeview nursery school for children of working mothers, operated by the Board of Education at the tuition fee of three dollars weekly. Midafternoon milk and zweibach

Buffalo, New York. Lakeview nursery school for children of working mot...

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Buffalo, New York. Lakeview nursery school for children of working mothers, operated by the Board of Education at a tuition fee of three dollars weekly. Gary at mid-afternoon lunch of milk and zweibach

Buffalo, New York. Lakeview nursery school for children of working mot...

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Coal gatherer at Nanty Glo, Pennsylvania. He receives ten cents per 100 pounds and makes between one and two dollars a day

Coal gatherer at Nanty Glo, Pennsylvania. He receives ten cents per 10...

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Albert Schafer, eight year old newsboy who usually begins at 8:00 A.M. Sundays. Sells some on week-days. Is a cripple. Makes one to two dollars a day. Location: Austin, Texas.

Albert Schafer, eight year old newsboy who usually begins at 8:00 A.M....

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Inflation. In Germany after the last war, it was possible to pay 50 million dollars for a nickel cup of coffee, and 35 million dollars for a $35 suit of clothes. This Berlin woman, realizing that fuel costs money, is starting the morning fire with marks "not worth the paper they are printed on"

Inflation. In Germany after the last war, it was possible to pay 50 mi...

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The president, directors & co. of the Bank of Henderson promise to pay ... or bearer, five dollars on demand. Henderson 18 Aug. 1818

The president, directors & co. of the Bank of Henderson promise to pay...

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FCC told in B.C. programs cost 1000,000,000 million dollars yearly. Washington, D.C., Nov. 17. Testifying at the Federal Communications Investigation of Purported Monopolistic Practices in the Radio Industry today, John F. Royal, NBC Vice President in charge of programs, said the programs carried by NBC cost 1000,000,000 dollars annually. Royal said this figure included programs picked up from foreign stations

FCC told in B.C. programs cost 1000,000,000 million dollars yearly. Wa...

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Keep this hand of mercy at its work one hundred million dollars : War fund week / / P.G. Morgan.

Keep this hand of mercy at its work one hundred million dollars : War ...

American Red Cross campaign poster promoting the war fund showing large arm coming down from the sky. Form N.Y. 17 Second War Fund. Issued(?) by: American Red Cross.

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Four-bedroom house. Eight in family, six boys, aged one to fourteen. Father is conductor (streetcar), one hundred dollars monthly. Pays sixteen dollars and twenty cents a month rent on purchase. California

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Four-bedroom house. Eight in ...

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El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. 100 homes. All occupied, each with nearly an acre. Average yearly income eight hundred dollars. California

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. 100 homes. All occupied, each...

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El Monte federal homesteads. One hundred occupied homes, each with nearly an acre. Average yearly income eight hundred dollars. California

El Monte federal homesteads. One hundred occupied homes, each with nea...

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The home of Max Sparks and family near Long Lake, Wisconsin. The family was forced to move from the place they were buying to this shack because of inability to pay three dollars monthly which was the basis of the contract. In moving from one county to another they have jeopardized their qualifications for receiving relief

The home of Max Sparks and family near Long Lake, Wisconsin. The famil...

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Rural rehabilitation, Tulare County, California. In 1936 this family was on relief. With a Farm Security Administration (FSA) loan of seven hundred and eighty dollars, they were able to purchase and install an irrigating pump for the vineyard, a team, and the balance gave them subsistence and operating expenses for the first grape season. This house which the family has just finished building is made of adobe bricks, made from clay on the farm. The cash cost in building the house was about six hundred dollars

Rural rehabilitation, Tulare County, California. In 1936 this family w...

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

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 ...

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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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Utility operators meet Roosevelt. Washington, D.C., Jan. 11. President Roosevelt and western private utility operators today discussed elimination of duplicating utility facilities and creation of investor confidence in the industry, the President conferred with, left to right: John Carpenter, President of the Texas Light and Power Co., Dallas, Tex.; Daniel C. Green, of the Central Service Corp. of Chicago; and A.B. West, Head of the Nevada-California Electric Corp. The discussion was one of the series he is holding with public utility officials in an effort to revive utility expenditures and pour billions of dollars into trade channels, 1/11/38

Utility operators meet Roosevelt. Washington, D.C., Jan. 11. President...

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Migratory family from Louisiana, been in California eighteen months now on Works Progress Administration (WPA), receives fifty-five dollars a month. No house available in nearest town under twenty dollars a month

Migratory family from Louisiana, been in California eighteen months no...

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Rural rehabilitation, Tulare County, California. This farm couple have been assisted to independence. In Feburary 1936 they rented a neglected farm of forty acres planted in grapes. They had no equipment, no stock, no seed, no money. Farm Security Administration (FSA) granted a loan of one thousand two hundred and sixty one dollars to cover these items, and four months subsistence for the family. Now November 1938, they are reestablished on a successful diversified farm, with a cash crop provided by vineyard, cows, hogs, and pigs

Rural rehabilitation, Tulare County, California. This farm couple have...

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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...

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When Fred Wilfang received his rehabilitation loan in the spring of 1938 he owed money on his farm machinery and his only livestock were two hogs and 100 chickens. He has been loaned 967.00 dollars. Black Hawk County, Iowa

When Fred Wilfang received his rehabilitation loan in the spring of 19...

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Wife of FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower keeps account of loan of seven hundred and forty-eight dollars. Dead Ox Flat, Malheur County, Oregon. General caption 67

Wife of FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower keeps account of l...

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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...

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Highway City, California, near Fresno. See general caption. Family from Oklahoma; have been in California for six years, have been migratory workers now on Works Progress Administration (WPA) from which they may be cut off at the opening of the 1939 harvest. Their house represents one of many similar structures, which they are attempting to construct by their own efforts on poor land, for which they are paying a few dollars a month out of the WPA budget. Their light bill is two dollars a month. Water bill one dollar a month, kerosene for cooking five dollars per month, approximately. They own a 1929 Ford. "The cheapest thing for the government to do would be to put people like me on enough land to make a living on. You can't tell me anything about running around with the fruit, I know that deal. You are lucky if you make enough to get home. I'm not a kickin', I'm being tuk care of, but if I should live to be hundred this way I'm not getting ahead noways."

Highway City, California, near Fresno. See general caption. Family fro...

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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...

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

Bucket for gathering sap from maple sugar tree and stack of wood neede...

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

A black and white photo of a woman sitting in the snow, Vermont. Farm ...

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