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

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

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

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

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

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

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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Near Hartsville, South Carolina, sorting and stringing the "golden leaf" at the tobacco barn, preparatory to curing. Note sled by which tobacco is brought to the barn from the field. This sharecropper family has six acres in tobacco, their main cash crop. They will sell this year's crop for about nine hundred dollars, of which they receive one-half

Near Hartsville, South Carolina, sorting and stringing the "golden lea...

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Near Hartsville, South Carolina, sorting and stringing the "golden leaf" at the tobacco barn, preparatory to curing. Note sled by which tobacco is brought to the barn from the field. This sharecropper family has six acres in tobacco, their main cash crop. They will sell this year's crop for about nine hundred dollars, of which they receive one-half

Near Hartsville, South Carolina, sorting and stringing the "golden lea...

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Since becoming rehabilitation clients the value of the Dixon family's possessions has risen from 500 dollars to 1500 dollars. Saint Charles County, Missouri

Since becoming rehabilitation clients the value of the Dixon family's ...

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

Skiers on porch of Mr. Dickinson's home in Lisbon, Franconia, New Hampshire. He installed a ski tow on his property three years ago costing around one thousand dollars, and this is the first year he has made any money on it, but business is increasing rapidly now. He has a small dairy farm and until the hurricane last year destroyed his entire grove of maple trees, he made and sold maple syrup

Skiers on porch of Mr. Dickinson's home in Lisbon, Franconia, New Hamp...

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Washington, Yakima Valley. Drought refugee, aged sixty three, from Bismark, North Dakota. "Came to Washington three years ago in that Chevy coupe you see over there and twenty-five dollars cash. Had 480 acres back there. I dried out after thirty years, lost it, and walked out." With help of Work Projects Administration (WPA) and supplementary work on ranches is buying three quarters of an acre in shacktown near Yakima, has it nearly paid for, has good garden. "On my own place I can't starve."

Washington, Yakima Valley. Drought refugee, aged sixty three, from Bis...

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

Inside of rolling store with tank of kerosene on back (at left). Coffee County, Alabama. Average daily sale is sixty dollars and they take in lots of produce

Inside of rolling store with tank of kerosene on back (at left). Coffe...

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.

Lettuce field near Ontario, Malheur County, Oregon. Lettuce is the most speculative crop in Malheur Valley. It yielded two hundredf and thirty nine dollars per acre in 1939. Yielded so well because lettuce at Salinas, California, froze

Lettuce field near Ontario, Malheur County, Oregon. Lettuce is the mos...

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

Firemen's muster. Boothbay center, Maine. Volunteer fire companies compete for one hundred dollars to the company which can throw water farthest with hand-operated pumps

Firemen's muster. Boothbay center, Maine. Volunteer fire companies com...

Public domain image of a historic view of Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Newly-built cabins. Rent five dollars per month. California. Near Bakersfield

Newly-built cabins. Rent five dollars per month. California. Near Bake...

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

Hired man of Frank H. Shurtleff gathering sap from sugar trees for making maple syrup. Sugaring is a social event and is enjoyed by all the young people and children in the neighborhood. 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 in 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

Hired man of Frank H. Shurtleff gathering sap from sugar trees for mak...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Sign costing thirty dollars at Tri-County Farmers Co-op Market in Du Bois, Pennsylvania

Sign costing thirty dollars at Tri-County Farmers Co-op Market in Du B...

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Piping the maple sap from the vat into the sugar house after gathering. There it is boiled down into syrup in an evaporator. Frank Shurtleff's farm of about 400 acres, 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 in about one thousand dollars nnually. Because of the deep snow this year he only tapped 1000 of his 2000 trees. He expects to make about 200 to 500 gallons this year. North Bridgewater, Vermont

Piping the maple sap from the vat into the sugar house after gathering...

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

House which rents for four dollars a month. Portsmouth, Virginia

House which rents for four dollars a month. Portsmouth, Virginia

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Children playing in De Frees Street, N.E. near the Capitol building. One basement room rents for nine dollars a month; two rooms upstairs for sixteen dollars; one bath and cold water in the hall for entire building

Children playing in De Frees Street, N.E. near the Capitol building. O...

Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

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...

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

Line-up of trailers at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp for defense workers. All trailers rent for seven dollars per week--rental fee includes electricity and water and use of laundry and all sanitary facilities. There is a fee of ten cents for twenty minutes usage of electrical washing machines. San Diego, California

Line-up of trailers at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp for...

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

Frank Robbins of Wareham, Massachusetts, employed at United Aircraft, East Hartford, Connecticut, lives in trailer near plant, with wife and four children because of housing shortage. He works nights, so he can sleep days in a bed used at night by the children. He makes forty dollars a week, his trailer payment is twenty dollars per month, and twelve dollars rent for the campsite

Frank Robbins of Wareham, Massachusetts, employed at United Aircraft, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty during the Great Depression, migrant workers, 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 accomodate, 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...

Public domain scan of construction site, excavation, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Santurce, Puerto Rico. Women working at the Rodriguez needlework factory. Minimum wage is six dollars a week

Santurce, Puerto Rico. Women working at the Rodriguez needlework facto...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a living room, salon, office, late 19th-century interior, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Newton County, Missouri. Camp Crowder area. Cabins renting at five dollars a week put up on farmland along U.S. Highway No. 71 for construction workers

Newton County, Missouri. Camp Crowder area. Cabins renting at five dol...

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

Bridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural workers' camp. This truckload of Florida migrants had been on the way three days and three nights. It was raining much of the time, and one woman contracted pleurisy. The trip cost each person about eight dollars. They arrived at the camp at 4:30 a.m. in a drizzle

Bridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Cashier receiving rent from Joseph Griswold, who has a three-room apartment at the Ida B. Wells Housing Project, Chicago, Illinois. This rent is twenty dollars a month

Cashier receiving rent from Joseph Griswold, who has a three-room apar...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bureau, office furniture, desk, chair, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Greenbelt, Maryland. Federal housing project. Story hour in the nursey school which is run cooperatively by the mothers. The teacher is paid twenty-five dollars a week

Greenbelt, Maryland. Federal housing project. Story hour in the nursey...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children, kids, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Childersburg. Alabama. Shack village built to accomodate defense workers who each pay thirty to forty dollars a month rental

Childersburg. Alabama. Shack village built to accomodate defense worke...

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

Childersburg, Alabama. Trailer camp where defense workers from the Dupont powder plant live. Rent is three dollars a month

Childersburg, Alabama. Trailer camp where defense workers from the Dup...

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

Harvey G. Berthold, twenty years old, was placed on the Colby farm in Wisconsin after completing the farm short course at the University of Wisconsin and has been at his job two weeks at a salary of sixty-five dollars per month. He has two brothers and five sisters on the family's sixty nine acre farm in Ladysmith Brusk County, Wisconsin. They have cultivated fifty-one acres and own nine milk cows and five heifers. The family has been helped by FSA (Farm Security Administration) for several years

Harvey G. Berthold, twenty years old, was placed on the Colby farm in ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Buffalo, New York. Peter Grimm, age ten, waiting with his wagon outside Loblaw's grocery store for customers to ask him to deliver their groceries. This was a rainy day with few customers. Sometimes Peter makes as much as three dollars on a Saturday. He pays for all his school supplies and much of his clothing. His mother, a twenty-six year old widow, is a crane operator at Pratt and Letchworth

Buffalo, New York. Peter Grimm, age ten, waiting with his wagon outsid...

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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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Lakeview nursery school for children of working mothers, operated by the Board of Education at the tuition fee of three dollars weekly. Gary's father brings him to school because he goes to work later than his mother

Lakeview nursery school for children of working mothers, operated by t...

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

Trampas, New Mexico. Everybody in remote New Mexico buys by mail. Juan Lopez, the majordomo (mayor), and his wife Maclovia are thinking of buying new harnesses; it will cost sixty dollars, so they will probably get along with what they have

Trampas, New Mexico. Everybody in remote New Mexico buys by mail. Juan...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children, kids, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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. Johnny finds it hard to adjust himself and is apt to go off in corners alone and look very sad

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

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

John P. Drace to Abraham Lincoln, Tuesday, June 14, 1864 (Telegram requesting ten thousand dollars)

John P. Drace to Abraham Lincoln, Tuesday, June 14, 1864 (Telegram re...

Lexington lottery, No. One. Authorized by law of the state of Virginia. This ticket, on payment of five dollars, will entitle the bearer to such prize as may be drawn to its number, if demanded within twelve months. Subject to a deduction of fif

Lexington lottery, No. One. Authorized by law of the state of Virginia...

1 strip of 3 tickets used for exchange 10-22-52.; 5 tickets. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection;... More

Home Insurance Company, New York ... cash capital two million dollars

Home Insurance Company, New York ... cash capital two million dollars

Plate marks trimmed. Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Colored family from near Houston, Texas. Been in California for two years. Husband came first, later sent for wife and two children, who traveled by bus (on licensed car, fare six dollars, traveling night and day). Husband now on Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Colored family from near Houston, Texas. Been in California for two ye...

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

If you can't enlist, invest - Buy a Liberty Bond - Defend your country with your dollars / Winsor McCay.

If you can't enlist, invest - Buy a Liberty Bond - Defend your country...

Poster showing figure "America" with shield "Liberty Loan" fighting against "Devastation," "Starvation," "War," "Pestilence," and "Death." Copyright Star Co., New York American. No. 37.

Miss Dolly Dollars a musical comedy

Miss Dolly Dollars a musical comedy

Accompaniment reduced for piano. Copy under M1503.H535 vol. 22: Gift of composer's daughter, Ella Herbert Bartlett, Spring 1974. DLC (acquisition) Staff notation. (language)

This bill of two hundred dollars shall be exchanged and redeemed in Spanish milled dollars, or the value thereof in gold or silver, at the rate of one for forty at the treasury of Virginia, on or before the thirtieth day of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, according to an act of assembly passed the seventh day of May, 1781.

This bill of two hundred dollars shall be exchanged and redeemed in Sp...

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$300 reward. The subscribers, Selectmen of Reading, in behalf of the town, hereby offer a reward of three hundred dollars for the arrest and conviction of the person who assaulted Miss Gertie Stimpson on Wednesday, March 11th, 1885 ... Se

$300 reward. The subscribers, Selectmen of Reading, in behalf of the t...

Reward.; Title. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 76, Folder 33.

New York City--Sale of the Stewart collection of paintings at auction, at Chickering Hall--"Sixty-six thousand dollars and--sold!" / from a sketch by a staff artist.

New York City--Sale of the Stewart collection of paintings at auction,...

People at auction. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1887 April 2.

Sunday morning at Lynchburg Cotton Mill (Virginia) Ed Tolley, the smallest, said 15 years old, but that is very doubtful. Others in these three photos, Lucien Tolley, Herbert Aultico, Henry Daly, John Crawley. (See my report for addresses.) Most of these boys could not spell own names. All claimed to be over 14, but their disputes showed "These's a reason." They get from three to four dollars a week and some pay board. One said, "I get all over $2.60." Some were surely under twelve. All work. Lindsey Witt has been working there 2 years. Dewey Anderson, three years. Myron Cole, some time. Location: Lynchburg, Virginia.

Sunday morning at Lynchburg Cotton Mill (Virginia) Ed Tolley, the smal...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph group portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Family of Manuel Mederas, 71 Davis St., Has been a sweeper for one year in Nashawena Mill; he says he gets six dollars a week. Has lived in New Bedford six years. His father, Joseph, works in the mill too. Home well kept. His brothers are 10 and 12 years old. Compare with Manuel. It was a bitter cold day and Manuel went to and from the mill with no overcoat nor muffler. "Gee, It's cold!". Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Family of Manuel Mederas, 71 Davis St., Has been a sweeper for one yea...

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Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas. A family of six alongside the road. An example of how they fall between the relief agencies. The father, aged thirty-five, is an intelligent fellow, a painter by trade. Advanced tuberculosis, victim of an occupational disease. Ineligible for WPA (Works Progress Administration), rated as totally disabled. As a state charge under Oklahoma relief standards, the family were told the maximum relief would be seven dollars every two weeks. They lost their home, their furniture, took to the road a year ago and when the photographs were made they were found to be without money, shelter, and without food for the four children

Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas. A family of six alongside the r...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

El Monte federal subsistence housing. 100 homes all occupied. Each with nearly an acre. Average yearly income eight hundred dollars. California.

El Monte federal subsistence housing. 100 homes all occupied. Each wit...

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

Henry Lotz closing the gate to the barns at the Midway City Dairy Association, near Santa Ana. Orange County, California. Seven families obtained a loan of seven thousand eight hundred fifty dollars from the Resettlement Administration payable in installments over a period of five years and and started a cooperative. From their earnings and wages they have met every payment when due. Henry Lotz says "This Resettlement loan, it's a future to us from the bidding platform for old age labor"

Henry Lotz closing the gate to the barns at the Midway City Dairy Asso...

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

Type house at "Garden Homes," Kern County, California. Twenty such homes have been completed and are occupied on a tract adjoining the Arvin Migratory Labor Camp. Rent is eight dollars and twenty cents monthly, which includes electricity and water

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

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

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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Looking from the camp to adjoining tract where Farm Security Administration (FSA) has just completed forty homes to be occupied by low income workers. These homes represent a first step in stabilization of this group. Rent is eight dollars and twenty cents monthly, which includes gas and electricity. Shafter migrant camp, California

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

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

Harvesting milo maize, Tulare County, California. Cost of harvesting by this method totals ten dollars per acre. Cost of harvesting by cooperative harvester bought by Farm Security Administration (FSA) in this county, six dollars per acre

Harvesting milo maize, Tulare County, California. Cost of harvesting b...

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

Woodpiles along the street are a characteristic of Portland, Oregon. Costs five dollars and fifty cents per cord, and must now be hauled thirty-five miles. Portland, Oregon

Woodpiles along the street are a characteristic of Portland, Oregon. C...

Public domain photograph of a post office building, postal service, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

On Saturday afternoon many high school students come to Dickinson's farm to ski. Mr Dickenson built a ski tow on his farm three years ago at a cost of one thousand dollars. This is the first year he had made any money, although business is increasing rapidly now. He has a small dairy farm and until the hurricane last year destroyed his entire grove of maple trees he made and sold maple syrup. Lisbon near Franconia, New Hampshire

On Saturday afternoon many high school students come to Dickinson's fa...

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

Home of Negro agricultural day laborer's home in Muskogee County, Oklahoma. These houses rent from two to five dollars per month. Muskogee County, Oklahoma

Home of Negro agricultural day laborer's home in Muskogee County, Okla...

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

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

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

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

Washington, Yakima Valley, near Wapato. Name of Borrower, Edgar Hardt. On Tenant Purchase farm. Forty acres, price six thousand fifty dollars, all stock and machinery included. Diversified irrigated farm, raising grapes, tomatoes, cantaloupes and watermelons, sweet and field corn, hay and grain. They have six cows, hogs

Washington, Yakima Valley, near Wapato. Name of Borrower, Edgar Hardt....

Picryl description: Public domain image of field, irrigation, agriculture, water, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Migrant packinghouse workers living quarters. Just enough land to set up camp rents for five dollars per month; they have to clear it themselves. No water, lights or sanitary facilities. Near Canal Point, Florida

Migrant packinghouse workers living quarters. Just enough land to set ...

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

Farmer from Nebraska in emergency camp for migratory workers during pea harvesting says "I put mine in what I thought was the best investment -- the good old earth--but we lost on that, too. The finance company caught up with us, the mortgage company caught up with us. Managed to lose twelve thousand dollars in three years. My boys have no more future than I have so far as I can see ahead." He had been on the road a little less than a year. Calipatria, Imperial County, California

Farmer from Nebraska in emergency camp for migratory workers during pe...

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

Toilet for ten cabins, men, women and children in auto camp for Arkansawyers, recent migrants to California. Rent for cabins ten dollars a month. Greenfield, Salinas Valley, California

Toilet for ten cabins, men, women and children in auto camp for Arkans...

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

Frank H. Shurtleff hanging the bucket on the spout while tapping sugar maple tree for gathering sap to make syrup. 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

Frank H. Shurtleff hanging the bucket on the spout while tapping sugar...

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

A black and white photo of a group of people on a sled, Vermont. Farm Security Administration photogrpaph.

A black and white photo of a group of people on a sled, Vermont. Farm ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Ghost mining town once produced over eighty million dollars in gold, silver and load. Eureka, Nevada

Ghost mining town once produced over eighty million dollars in gold, s...

Public domain photograph of American farm workers, countryside in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

WPB (War Production Board) poster. This is the official poster which may be displayed on all construction work costing over five hundred thousand dollars with certain exceptions, to show that the work has been authorized by the WPA (Work Projects Administration)

WPB (War Production Board) poster. This is the official poster which m...

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

"We're living in a tent because we wouldn't pay anyone thirty or thirty-five dollars for a two-room bug trap." Mission Valley, California, which is about three miles from San Diego

"We're living in a tent because we wouldn't pay anyone thirty or thirt...

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

Children looking out of trailer window. Trailer where C.E. Childre and family live in highway about three miles from Fort Benning. He is an auto mechanic and came up to Columbus, Georgia two weeks ago from Albany, Georgia and now works at Columbus Motor Company. They couldn't find any other place to live so had to get a trailer. They pay two dollars a week for space in W.T. Mullis' backyard. Never lived in a trailer before, don't like it, difficult with children and wet weather

Children looking out of trailer window. Trailer where C.E. Childre and...

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

A black and white photo of two people and a horse, Vermont. Farm Security Administration photogrpaph.

A black and white photo of two people and a horse, Vermont. Farm Secur...

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

Streetcars which have been converted into dwellings. These rent for twenty-five dollars per month. They are equipped with electricity, running water and bathrooms. San Diego, California

Streetcars which have been converted into dwellings. These rent for tw...

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Desert Ranch. This man is waiting for irrigation water which will be supplied by the Black Canyon irrigation project. Canyon County, Idaho. He has spent about three thousand dollars for buildings and is ready to start farming when, he hopes, he gets water in the fall of 1942

Desert Ranch. This man is waiting for irrigation water which will be s...

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

De Land pool. Babcock airplane plant. Interior of the Babcock plant at De Land, Florida. When the Japanese struck Pearl Harbor, this was a dormant airplane plant. It was revived as a community project. Businessmen of De Land pooled their machines and resources, used this plant as a prime contractor to obtain war work, and now are producing over two-million dollars worth of war equipment in it. These motor repair racks, being turned out on a production schedule engineers termed "impossible" two months ago, are being built by former clerks, auto-mechanics and small shop operators who were caught by the impact of the war on their peacetime businesses

De Land pool. Babcock airplane plant. Interior of the Babcock plant at...

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

Civilian defense. Fire prevention. Cook stoves, lamps, and other household utilities in which there are open flames, cannot be watched too closely. This line of clothes drying over a gas stove is very dangerous. So is a curtain that a puff of wind can float over an open flame. So is anything combustible that is allowed to come too close to fire. These fires cost over five million dollars

Civilian defense. Fire prevention. Cook stoves, lamps, and other house...

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Childersburg, Alabama. Trailer camp where defense workers from the Dupont powder plant live. Rent is three dollars a month

Childersburg, Alabama. Trailer camp where defense workers from the Dup...

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

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. Teacher examining child's throat

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

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Niagara Falls, New York. Mrs. Hannegan runs a boardinghouse for from six to ten girls working in war plants. She is the mother of eleven children, loves people, and feels that this is the best way to contribute to the war effort. Girls pay eight dollars a week, including meals; her daughter Nan pays twelve dollars

Niagara Falls, New York. Mrs. Hannegan runs a boardinghouse for from s...

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

Buffalo, New York. Lakeview nursery school for children of working mothers, operated by the Board of Education oat a tuition fee of three dollars weekly. Taking cod liver oil after lunch

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

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[Poster offering fifty dollars reward for the capture of a runaway slave Stephen.]

[Poster offering fifty dollars reward for the capture of a runaway sla...

Negative Photostat.; Reward. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 1, Folder 12.

15 dollars reward. Strayed or stolen, on Sunday evening the 17th instant, a large well-built bay horse, 16 hands high ... Any information leading to the recovery of the above property will be received and the said reward paid, by calling at hous

15 dollars reward. Strayed or stolen, on Sunday evening the 17th insta...

Reward. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 204, Folder 22.

Panoramic view of Butte, Montana, 1904 : population 60,000, altitude near gov. bldg. 6,000 feet, values taken out of Butte mines over 600 million dollars, the largest mining camp on earth, a model city with all modern institutions and conveniences /

Panoramic view of Butte, Montana, 1904 : population 60,000, altitude n...

Relief shown pictorially. Panoramic view of city of Butte, Montana and suburbs showing foliage, architecture, mining operations within residential areas, and the Rocky Mountains overlooking the town. "Copyright... More

Sunday morning at Lynchburg Cotton Mill (Virginia) Ed Tolley, the smallest, said 15 years old, but that is very doubtfull. Others in these three photos, Lucien Tolley, Herbert Aultico, Henry Daly, John Crawley. (See my report for addresses.) Most of these boys could not spell own names. All claimed to be over 14, but their disputes showed "These's a reason." They get from three to four dollars a week and some pay board. One said, "I get all over $2.60." Some were surely under twelve. All work. Lindsey Witt has been working there 2 years. Dewey Anderson, three years. Myron Cole, some time. Location: Lynchburg, Virginia.

Sunday morning at Lynchburg Cotton Mill (Virginia) Ed Tolley, the smal...

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Louis Gabriel, 123 4 Street, Washington, D.C., (13 yrs. old.), S.W., and brother Eddie (10 yrs. old) and Johnnie, 7 yrs. old. I found Louis and Eddie selling after midnight, April 17th, with about 50 papers left on their hands. "We got stuck". Eddie says he is often up until 10 or 12 P.M., and sometimes up at 4 A.M. Sunday. They said they make several dollars some days, "Wid de tips." The younger ones were very voluble about tips."I allus axes em fer nickels," Johnnie said. The 2 older boys, Louis and Eddie, are on probation at Juvenile Court. Family is well known to charities. Father taken into Court for non-support. Has deserted. April 19 at 1 A.M. I found Louis and Eddie still selling Extras. They said they made $3 to-night, but last night they, "got stuck bad." For three nights in succession they had been out selling until after midnight, as many others of their age had been. Location: Washington (D.C.), District of Columbia.

Louis Gabriel, 123 4 Street, Washington, D.C., (13 yrs. old.), S.W., ...

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Monopoly Committee learns that five states hold 67 percent of U.S. savings. Washington, D.C., May 23. Dr. Donald Davenport, special economic consultant for the S.E.C., told the Monopoly Committee yesterday, with the aid of large charts, that New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut have 37.8 billions of dollars laid up in savings, this amount being 67 percent of the total savings of the United States

Monopoly Committee learns that five states hold 67 percent of U.S. sav...

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Two dollars a mile on China airmail. PMG James A. Farley, left, receives a bid from Warren Juan Trippe, President of Pan American Airways, for $2 a mile for an 800 pound loan of mail from San Francisco to China. The route is via Honolulu and Manila covering 16,000 miles. 10/21/35

Two dollars a mile on China airmail. PMG James A. Farley, left, receiv...

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

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred occupied homes, e...

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Housing. City of Los Angeles. Within five minutes walk of City Hall. Rent eight dollars monthly

Housing. City of Los Angeles. Within five minutes walk of City Hall. R...

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Man salvaging coal; they receive ten cents per hundred pound sack or two dollars a ton, one man can make from ten to twenty sacks a day, Nanty Glo, Pennsylvania

Man salvaging coal; they receive ten cents per hundred pound sack or t...

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Mrs. Hale and her oldest son in front of their home near Black River Falls, Wisconsin. This farm house was built with a total expenditure of three dollars in money

Mrs. Hale and her oldest son in front of their home near Black River F...

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U.S. Expert on burnt and mutilated currency. Washington, D.C., Oct. 8. For years it has been the duty of Miss Bertha M. Sherfy to pass on the genuineness of the burnt and mutilated currency which is sent to the U.S. Treasury for Redemption. Miss Sherfy says she finds the most difficult currency to identify is that which has been buried underground, expose to water, dampness, etc. Charred money is too easy to identify but currency burned to a gray ash can never be distinguished. An average of three million dollars of this type of money is forwarded to the Treasury for redemption every [...]

U.S. Expert on burnt and mutilated currency. Washington, D.C., Oct. 8....

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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 Farm Security Administration (FSA) 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 per month. Husband also works about ten days a month 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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Presenting L.H. Adams with check for five thousand dollars. Adams was the first farmer in Region I to receive a loan under the tenant purchase program. Burlington, New Jersey

Presenting L.H. Adams with check for five thousand dollars. Adams was ...

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Galento puts up 10-grand note as challenge to Joe Louis. Washington, D.C., Nov. 9. Roly Poly Tony Galenton today deposited with the D.C. Boxing Commission ten thousand dollars as a challenge to Joe Louis for a championship bout. Tony claims Joe Louis ran out on him when he accepted a bout with John Henry Lewis instead. Left to right - sitting- Secretary Harvey L. Miller of the D.C., Boxing Commission - Tony Galento, Joe Jacobs, his manager. Standing is Herman Taylor, Philadelphia promoter whose schedules bout between Galento and Louis was postponed because of Tony's illness, 11/9/38

Galento puts up 10-grand note as challenge to Joe Louis. Washington, D...

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A group of people sitting on top of a truck, New Hamshire. Farm Security Organization photograph

A group of people sitting on top of a truck, New Hamshire. Farm Securi...

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Building plank tobacco barn to replace old log one. Building takes approximately one week, this barn can be built for one hundred dollars. The average life of a barn is fifteen to twenty years. Near Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Building plank tobacco barn to replace old log one. Building takes app...

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Washington, Cowlitz County. Longview. Type of home built by private interests for mill people. Rent twenty-five dollars per month. Compare with 20455-C

Washington, Cowlitz County. Longview. Type of home built by private in...

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Woodpiles along the street are a characteristic of Portland, Oregon. Costs five dollars and fifty cents per cord, and must be hauled thirty-five miles. (Shows homeowner on porch.) Portland, Oregon

Woodpiles along the street are a characteristic of Portland, Oregon. C...

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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...

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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...

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A group of people standing on top of a snow covered slope, New Hamshire. Farm Security Organization photograph

A group of people standing on top of a snow covered slope, New Hamshir...

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A black and white photo of a man carrying a bucket, Vermont. Farm Security Administration photogrpaph.

A black and white photo of a man carrying a bucket, Vermont. Farm Secu...

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A couple of men standing next to a pile of snow, Vermont. Farm Security Administration photogrpaph.

A couple of men standing next to a pile of snow, Vermont. Farm Securit...

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Hired man on Frank H. Shurtleff farm gathering sap from sugar trees for making maple syrup. Sugaring is a social event and is enjoyed by all the young people in the neighborhood. The Shurtleff farm has about 400 acres, and was originally purchased by grandfather in 1840. He raises sheep, cuts lumber and has been making maple syrup for about thirty-five years. Sugaring brings in about one thousand dollars annually. Because of the deep snow this year he tapped only 100 of his 2000 trees. He expects to make about 300 to 500 gallons this year. North Bridgewater, Vermont

Hired man on Frank H. Shurtleff farm gathering sap from sugar trees fo...

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