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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...

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

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...

Public domain photograph of cooking, kitchen, 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.

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...

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

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...

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

The saving properties of the solar system! The law of necessity the law of all laws. One thousand billion dollars sun for 25 cents. Six thousand years war with the natural laws. Editor, author and orator, Daniel Pratt, the great American travell

The saving properties of the solar system! The law of necessity the la...

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 12.

Grand Opera, the largest theatre in the world, cost six million dollars, Paris, France / photographed and published by B.W. Kilburn.

Grand Opera, the largest theatre in the world, cost six million dollar...

Pedestrians, carriages, and double decker bus in street in front of opera house. No. 10935.

Two hundred dollars! fer a live nigger?

Two hundred dollars! fer a live nigger?

(DLC/PP-1934:0045). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "When Pussy-Foot Came to Town" by Harris Dickson, Saturday evening post, 186:17 (March 14, 1914).

All we'll have to do for the rest of our lives will be to get away with our thousand dollars a month

All we'll have to do for the rest of our lives will be to get away wit...

(DLC/PP-1934:0045). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The High Heart" by Basil King, Saturday evening post, 190:19 (July 21, 1917).

Negro tenant family who barely lives on the earnings of fifty dollars a year. They pay a standing rent. There are five children working; ages from seven to fourteen. The older children cultivating, the younger children hoeing and chopping. Eutaw, Alabama

Negro tenant family who barely lives on the earnings of fifty dollars ...

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

Mission District. San Francisco, California. Rent twenty to twenty-two dollars a month for three or four rooms

Mission District. San Francisco, California. Rent twenty to twenty-two...

Public domain photograph of a history of California, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Autoworkers' houses. These houses rent for twenty-five to thirty dollars and have stoves, but water is drawn from a commercial well. Flint, Michigan

Autoworkers' houses. These houses rent for twenty-five to thirty dolla...

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

This farm of twelve acres operated as a prune ranch. Was a financial failure. Under farm plan devised by Farm Security Administration rehabilitation supervisor and a loan of one thousand dollars, it now provides steady income for the owners. Tulare County, California

This farm of twelve acres operated as a prune ranch. Was a financial f...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural countryside landscape, agriculture, farm animals, livestock, pasture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Rehabilitated small farmer in field of milo maize, Tulare County, California. This family has been granted an Farm Security Administration loan of thirteen hundred dollars after struggling for eleven years on sixteen acres of poor land

Rehabilitated small farmer in field of milo maize, Tulare County, Cali...

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

The coal company also offers insurance to workers covering accidents anywhere except in the mines for five dollars per month. Most miners signed up for it. If killed or hurt even after working for that company for twenty years, they get nothing. Purseglove, West Virginia

The coal company also offers insurance to workers covering accidents a...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of coal miners, workers, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Long time between these bills. Washington, D.C., June 29. Clerk of the House during the Wilson administration and now holding the same job under the present Roosevelt administration, South Trimble compares his signature on the recently passed tax bill with that of John Beckley, first Clerk of the House, on an old measure just unearthed in the archives of the United States Capitol. During his tenure as Clerk, Trimble has affixed his signature to appropriations totaling billions of dollars, more than any official of the U.S. Government, 6/29/38

Long time between these bills. Washington, D.C., June 29. Clerk of the...

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

Operator of spool winding machine making knot. When spindles run out these knots are made with machine in her left hand. The small machine costs sixty-five dollars and replaces ten to fifteen operators. Laurel mills, Laurel, Mississippi

Operator of spool winding machine making knot. When spindles run out t...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory worker, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

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

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

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

Migrant vegetable pickers and packinghouse workers living quarters. This shack rents for eight dollars a month: no water, light, or sanitary facilities. Eleven people sleep in it. Near Canal Point, Florida

Migrant vegetable pickers and packinghouse workers living quarters. Th...

Public domain photograph of a historic place in Florida, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ernest W. Kirk Jr. with his two sons on their farm near Ordway, Colorado. Fruits of their farm, coming from their labor, which has placed them in a few months from almost hopeless condition to a family with net worth approaching a thousand dollars

Ernest W. Kirk Jr. with his two sons on their farm near Ordway, Colora...

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

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...

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

Negro housing in North Memphis, Tennessee. Some of the occupants of these houses work at powder plant in Millington. Rent of twelve dollars a month was recently raised to fourteen dollars

Negro housing in North Memphis, Tennessee. Some of the occupants of th...

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

Finnish Lagation deluged with donations to aid fight with Soviet. Washington, D.C., March 7. Mail from all parts of the nation and from all classes is deluging the Finnish Legation to the extent that its staff has jumped from 3 to 30, and a new building has been rented to handle contributions to aid Finland's fight with Soviet Russia. Money, comes in in letters addressed to Minister Procope, The Finnish Government, The Finnish Government in care of Uncle Sam, etc., and contain contributions ranging from five cents to thousands of dollars. Here, Eero Lappalainen, attache at the legation, is shown packing a box with contributions of goods to be sent to Helsinki, 3-7-40

Finnish Lagation deluged with donations to aid fight with Soviet. Wash...

Public domain photograph of Washington DC, 1910s-1920s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Million Dollar Stope from which a million dollars worth of silver was taken in Tombstone's initial boom. Stope mining is carried on in timber- supported passages. The passages lead for miles under the surrounding county and connect with other mines. Tombstone, Arizona

The Million Dollar Stope from which a million dollars worth of silver ...

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

Sunset Trailer Camp, San Diego, California. The majority of the workers who have come into San Diego are apparently living in trailers. The county passed stringent sanitary laws when migratory agriculture workers came into the section some years ago and these laws prevent the Hooverville type of settlement. Rent for trailer space here is ten dollars per month with electricity and sanitary facilities, including showers and toilets, furnished

Sunset Trailer Camp, San Diego, California. The majority of the worker...

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

Negro housing in North Memphis, Tennessee. Some of the occupants of these houses work at powder plant in Millington. Rent of twelve dollars a month was recently raised to fourteen dollars

Negro housing in North Memphis, Tennessee. Some of the occupants of th...

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

Tourist court which caters to employees of defense industries. San Diego, California. Rental fees at these courts are from five to ten dollars a week, usually eight dollars, and include small room, bath and kitchenette equipped with two burner gas plates. No vacancy signs are frequent

Tourist court which caters to employees of defense industries. San Die...

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

Schoots Court with Senate building in background. Four very small dark rooms rent for fifteen and eighteen dollars per month with water and privy in yard. It used to rent for six and eight dollars. Frank Coles and his friend are sitting on the bench He was a cement plasterer but has been on relief during the past year. He has frequent heart attacks and his feet and ankles are all swollen. Doctor advises a chicken and lamb diet, no pork or beef, but he doesn't even have money to buy fuel. He can't get waited on in a clinic or get to one. He waited from before eleven until four p.m. but still could not see a doctor. He has been in Washington since 1906

Schoots Court with Senate building in background. Four very small dark...

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

Frank Robbins of Wareham, Massachusetts, employed at United Aircraft, East Hartford, Connecticut, lives in trailer near the 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 two of 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, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

This workman at the Umatilla ordnance depot built this house for his family, spending fifty dollars for materials. He rents building space from homeowner in Hermiston, Oregon. He pays for use of sanitary facilities in house of homeowner; outside privies are provided

This workman at the Umatilla ordnance depot built this house for his f...

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

Detail of trailer camps. Hermiston, Oregon. Workmen at Umatilla ordnance are paying eight dollars per month to park their trailers in this court

Detail of trailer camps. Hermiston, Oregon. Workmen at Umatilla ordnan...

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

Family group in interior of house in Mexican section. This man is an agricultural worker. This family of two adults and eight children, with another on the way, live in three small rooms, with no bath for which they pay eleven dollars per month. They use an outside toilet shared with five other families

Family group in interior of house in Mexican section. This man is an a...

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

Bathroom in house which rents for sixteen dollars a month. Norfolk, Virginia

Bathroom in house which rents for sixteen dollars a month. Norfolk, Vi...

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

House occupied by defense worker and family. They came from North Carolina farm. Rent ten dollars per month. Norfolk, Virginia

House occupied by defense worker and family. They came from North Caro...

Public domain photograph of a historic place in Virginia, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fort Knox. Browning machine gun. This staff sergeant of the armored forces teaches young soldiers some of the fine points of mechanized warfare at Fort Knox, Kentucky. He gives Uncle Sam a mighty good value for his ninety-six dollars monthly base pay

Fort Knox. Browning machine gun. This staff sergeant of the armored fo...

Public domain image of a military uniform, officer portrait, armed forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions - 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...

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

Civilian defense. Fire prevention. Fires started by lightning are more common in rural sections than in cities. Country homes and other buildings should be protected by lightning rods. A full 24,000 fires and a loss of 8 1/2 million dollars by lightning were recorded during the last year

Civilian defense. Fire prevention. Fires started by lightning are more...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bantam, Connecticut. Defense homes. Fred Heath works on the night shift at the Warren McArthur plant in Bantam, and spends his days with Mrs. Heath and their three-year-old daughter, Ann. Here they are in the living room of the Heath's new four-room apartment, part of the new eighty-unit defense housing project just five minutes walk from the plant. The Heaths, who pay thirty dollars rent, like overstuffed chairs, and Ann also likes her overstuffed Teddy Bear

Bantam, Connecticut. Defense homes. Fred Heath works on the night shif...

Picryl description: Public domain image of 1930s woman, female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. War housing trailers. The inside and outside of each war housing trailer is thoroughly checked before receiving okay for delivery from the Los Angeles plant of Western Trailer Company. These rolling homes currently sell for about twelve hundred five dollars, f.o.b. Los Angeles

Production. War housing trailers. The inside and outside of each war h...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of chickens in front of a barn. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of chickens in front of a barn. Office of War ...

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

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...

Picryl description: Public domain image of park architecture, palace, chateau, open space, 18th, and 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Civilian defense. Fire prevention. Fires caused by faulty electrical wiring and the misuse of electrical equipment cost the United States 26 million dollars last year. A total of 55,000 fires were started by overheated irons, defective lamp cords, overloaded and improperly fused circuits, and other faults in the use or construction of electrical equipment

Civilian defense. Fire prevention. Fires caused by faulty electrical w...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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...

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

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. Mother, who has come to pick up her child after work plays with other children

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.

Keysville, Virginia. Randolph Henry High School. Display of graduation presents a student received. This student also got thirty dollars in cash

Keysville, Virginia. Randolph Henry High School. Display of graduation...

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

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...

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

Congratulations, you just spent twelve thousand dollars so she could join the typing pool

Congratulations, you just spent twelve thousand dollars so she could j...

Twenty dollars. This bill entitles the bearer to receive twenty Spanish milled dollars or the value thereof in gold or silver, according to a resolution passed by congress at Philadelphia, Sept. 26th, 1778

Twenty dollars. This bill entitles the bearer to receive twenty Spanis...

Picryl description: Public domain image of banknote, paper money, numismatic catalog, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Isaac Boyett, "I'm de whole show." The twelve year old proprietor, manager and messenger of the Club Messenger Service, 402 Austin Street, Waco Tex. The photo shows him in the heart of the Red Light District where he was delivering messages as he does several times a day. Said he knows the houses and some of the inmates. Has been doing this for one year, working until 9:30 P.M. on Saturdays. Not so late on other nights. Makes from six to ten dollars a week. Location: Waco, Texas.

Isaac Boyett, "I'm de whole show." The twelve year old proprietor, man...

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A hitchhiking family waiting along the highway in Macon, Georgia. The father repairs sewing machines, lawn mowers, etc. He is leaving Macon, where a license is required for such work (twenty-five dollars) and heading back for Alabama

A hitchhiking family waiting along the highway in Macon, Georgia. The ...

Public domain photograph - Georgia folklife collection, ethnography, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

$200 reward! The sum of two hundred dollars will be paid for the arrest and return of William Wells, who escaped from the U. S. Penitentiary December 26, 1860 ... C. P. Sengstack, warden. [Washington, D. C. 1860].

$200 reward! The sum of two hundred dollars will be paid for the arres...

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 6.

Seven dollars fo' one hat!!!! : come right out of dis!!! : is you crazy

Seven dollars fo' one hat!!!! : come right out of dis!!! : is you craz...

No publication information. (DLC/PP-1934:0009). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

Rep. Bloom presents sculptress with check from anonymous New Yorker to save home. Washington, D.C., Nov. 18. Early this week a reporter on a local paper discovered that Adelaide Johnson, sculptress, who created the Susan B. Anthony Sufferagist Group in the U.S. Capitol, was about to be evicted from her bare house. She had no means of moving several busts and statues which she had in the house and had set about destroying them. The matter was called to the attention of Rep. Sol Bloom of New York who investigated. An anonymous woman in New York sent a thousand dollars, and other amounts brought the total up to almost $2,000. Rep. Bloom arranged a suitable agreement with the realty company, and now Miss Johnson, shown here receiving the check, will be allowed to stay and continue her work. In the background is a bust of Susan B. Anthony

Rep. Bloom presents sculptress with check from anonymous New Yorker to...

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

Soil erosion takes a toll of millions of dollars in the United States annually. The causes of this drain upon productive lands and preventive measures are graphically shown in an exhibit prepared by the Office of Exhibits of the United States Department of Agriculture for exhibition at the sesquicentennial exposition. Florence Bryant, an artist, is shown painting the exhibit

Soil erosion takes a toll of millions of dollars in the United States ...

A woman is painting a picture on a wall. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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 name. 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. M[y]ron Cole, some time. Location: Lynchburg, Virginia.

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

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

[Nine year old Mollie Keller and her two sisters, 10 and 13 yrs old, pulling beets. The overalls are used by many girls and women. They said they begin sometimes at 5 A.M., usually about 6 or 7, -and work until 6 P.M. with an hour off at noon. An 8 yr old sister works some. These 4 children, with the father and mother, work a large plot of beets on contract for W.E. Damm, near Sterling Colo. Mr. Damm said this family would make from $800 to $900 this season, with two or three hundred dollars out for expenses] Location: [Sterling vicinity, Colorado] / [Photo by Hine. Oct. 21/15]

[Nine year old Mollie Keller and her two sisters, 10 and 13 yrs old, p...

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

Texas tenant farmer in Marysville, California, migrant camp during the peach season. 1927 made seven thousand dollars in cotton. 1928 broke even. 1929 went in the hole. 1930 still deeper. 1931 lost everything. 1932 hit the road. 1935, fruit tramp in California

Texas tenant farmer in Marysville, California, migrant camp during the...

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

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

El Monte Federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred homes, each with ...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred homes. All occupi...

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Family of James Strunk, farmer. Works for WPA (Works Progress Administration), earns forty-four dollars per month, drives twenty-six miles to work fourteen days per month. Car expense comes out of the forty-four dollars. Has eight children, four of them at home. Wheelock, North Dakota

Family of James Strunk, farmer. Works for WPA (Works Progress Adminis...

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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

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

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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...

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Same as 19051. Newly-built cabins, rent five dollars per month. California. Near Bakersfield

Same as 19051. Newly-built cabins, rent five dollars per month. Califo...

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Part of migrant laborers' camp (packinghouse workers) near Canal Point, Florida. Just enough land to set up camp rents for five dollars per month and they must clear it themselves. There is no water, no light, no sanitary facilities

Part of migrant laborers' camp (packinghouse workers) near Canal Point...

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

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Arkansas girl in migrant camp near Greenfield, Salinas Valley, California. This is an Arkansawyers auto camp, filled almost completely with Arkansawyers recently in California. Rent ten dollars per month for one room, iron bed, electric light. (This community is subject of a study by Regional Office, BAE, Land Utilization Division, Berkely, California)

Arkansas girl in migrant camp near Greenfield, Salinas Valley, Califor...

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Interior of four-room scattered labor home built by FSA (Farm Security Administration) at cost of five hundred dollars. New Madrid County, Missouri

Interior of four-room scattered labor home built by FSA (Farm Security...

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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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Hired man, young neighbor (Julia Fletcher), collie dog, and Frank H. Shurtleff's son gathering sap from sugar trees for making 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 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, young neighbor (Julia Fletcher), collie dog, and Frank H. S...

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Buckets hanging on spouts to catch the sap from maple sugar trees from which is made maple syrup. On Frank H. Shurtleff place. 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

Buckets hanging on spouts to catch the sap from maple sugar trees from...

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Men on car by tents. Construction workers in front of tents. Names: William Allen Jones, Fort Benning, Paul Knight, Fort Benning, J.F. Goza, C.D. Brownlee and B.I. Juhan. For space only in W.T. Mullis' backyard they pay two dollars a week. Two of them are now working at Fort Benning and others the Williams Construction Company, building foundations for new barracks, got laid off couple of weeks ago for indefinite time. They all came from Stone Mountain, Atlanta, Georgia, where they worked on WPA (Work Projects Administration). Some have been here one month. One said "There's something crooked in this here job--some men have worked every day seven days a week and others get no work at all. It's a dirty shame and the government ought to know about these conditions and see what goes on. It's awful bad."

Men on car by tents. Construction workers in front of tents. Names: Wi...

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Rolfe Lawrence Chickering, farmboy from Saint Johnsbury, Vermont, who came to work at Pratt and Whitney United Aircraft in January 1941. Because of congested housing conditions, he commutes twenty miles each way daily from East Hartford to Suffield Connecticut, where he lives with a private family, pays eight dollars weekly for room and board. He is single, about twenty years old

Rolfe Lawrence Chickering, farmboy from Saint Johnsbury, Vermont, who ...

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

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

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Mexican woman in her house for which she pays six dollars per month. It has no electricity, no bath, no gas. An outside toilet is used by six families. San Diego, California

Mexican woman in her house for which she pays six dollars per month. I...

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Interior of the laundry of one of the central utility buildings of the defense trailer camp at Erie, Pennsylvania. Complete laundry facilities, including tubs, ringers, ironing boards and drying lines are provided. Also located in the building are showers, wash basins, and toilets. All facilities are included in the weekly trailer rental of six dollars per week

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Interior of the laundry of one of...

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

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

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Honey Brook, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Rocks removed from field by Morris Zook, Jr., FSA (Farm Security Administration) tenant purchase client. Bulldozer was hired at twenty-five dollars a day to lift out rocks

Honey Brook, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Rocks removed from field by Morr...

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Butte, Montana. Part of Columbia Gardens, an outdoor amusement resort. In 1898, W.A. Clark spent a million dollars to change a barren spot to a park. Every Thursday during the summer, city buses transport children to the park free of charge

Butte, Montana. Part of Columbia Gardens, an outdoor amusement resort....

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Santurce, Puerto Rico. Women working in the Rodriguez needlework factory where the minimum wage is six dollars a week

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

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Niagara Falls, New York. Nan Hannegan, a nineteen year old chemical operator at the Niacet chemical company earning thirty-nine dollars a week, taking readings from dials and thermometers

Niagara Falls, New York. Nan Hannegan, a nineteen year old chemical op...

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Niagara Falls, New York. Nan Hannegan a nineteen year old chemical operator at the Niacet chemical company, earning thirty-nine dollars a week, taking readings from dials and thermometers

Niagara Falls, New York. Nan Hannegan a nineteen year old chemical ope...

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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. Taking naps after lunch

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

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