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A black and white photo of a young girl, Negro girl. Hill House, Mississippi

A black and white photo of a young girl, Negro girl. Hill House, Missi...

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String of five housecars. This group represents good conditions among pea pickers. California

String of five housecars. This group represents good conditions among ...

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Drought refugee family from McAlester, Oklahoma. Arrived in California October 1936 to join the cotton harvest. Near Tulare, California

Drought refugee family from McAlester, Oklahoma. Arrived in California...

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Hightstown, New Jersey. Type house for two families (incomplete). Will be ready for occupancy July, 1936

Hightstown, New Jersey. Type house for two families (incomplete). Will...

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Negro woman carrying her shoes home from church. Mississippi Delta

Negro woman carrying her shoes home from church. Mississippi Delta

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A black and white photo of a man cutting another man's hair, possibly related to: Community barber shop in Kern County migrant camp, California

A black and white photo of a man cutting another man's hair, possibly ...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

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...

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Utah coal mining town. Consumers, near Price, Utah. "Dumping grounds of the West"

Utah coal mining town. Consumers, near Price, Utah. "Dumping grounds o...

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

Occupants--one more home on wheels. California

Occupants--one more home on wheels. California

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Oklahoma sharecropper and family entering California. Stalled on the desert near Indio, California

Oklahoma sharecropper and family entering California. Stalled on the d...

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Southern lady of the old school on veranda of the "Big House" at the Wray Plantation, Georgia

Southern lady of the old school on veranda of the "Big House" at the W...

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

Filipino boy of a labor gang cutting cauliflower near Santa Maria, California

Filipino boy of a labor gang cutting cauliflower near Santa Maria, Cal...

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Recreation in a migratory agricultural workers' camp near Holtville, California

Recreation in a migratory agricultural workers' camp near Holtville, C...

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Colored tractor driver and empty cabin on mechanized cotton plantation. Aldridge Plantation near Leland, Mississippi

Colored tractor driver and empty cabin on mechanized cotton plantation...

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Abandoned house in Carey, Texas. Mechanized cotton farming and displacement of tenant families is fast making Carey a ghost town

Abandoned house in Carey, Texas. Mechanized cotton farming and displac...

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Housing typical of that afforded Mexican field workers of the Imperial Valley. These people are not migrants, but live on the edge of the ranches and work in peas and melons

Housing typical of that afforded Mexican field workers of the Imperial...

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Oklahomans encamped on a river bottom near Holtville, California

Oklahomans encamped on a river bottom near Holtville, California

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

Cleveland County, Oklahoma. 1930s public domain photogrpaph.

Cleveland County, Oklahoma. 1930s public domain photogrpaph.

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

Careyville, northern Florida. A few colored families still live here, but almost all the houses stand empty. The people scattered

Careyville, northern Florida. A few colored families still live here, ...

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Drought refugees stopped along the highway near Lordsburg, New Mexico

Drought refugees stopped along the highway near Lordsburg, New Mexico

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Tractor and driver on the Aldridge Plantation. Mississippi

Tractor and driver on the Aldridge Plantation. Mississippi

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Eighteen year-old mother from Oklahoma, now a California migrant

Eighteen year-old mother from Oklahoma, now a California migrant

Annotation on original negative jacket: DL. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

In front of the local paper of San Francisco's Chinatown Chinese read news of the surrender of Canton to the Japanese. Most of San Francisco's Chinese are Cantonese

In front of the local paper of San Francisco's Chinatown Chinese read ...

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

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...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Great Plains homesteads, showing sheep barn. Near Cland, New Mexico

Great Plains homesteads, showing sheep barn. Near Cland, New Mexico

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Migratory field workers picking cotton in the San Joaquin Valley, California. Negroes, Mexicans, and refugee whites pick cotton together in this field. These pickers are being paid seventy-five cents per one hundred poounds of picked cotton. Strikers, organizing under the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), are demanding one dollar

Migratory field workers picking cotton in the San Joaquin Valley, Cali...

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

Young migrants waiting for signal to come for refreshments. Halloween party at Shafter camp for migrants, California

Young migrants waiting for signal to come for refreshments. Halloween ...

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

Halloween party at Shafter migrant camp, California

Halloween party at Shafter migrant camp, California

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Migratory children living in "Rambler's Park." They have lived on the road for three years. Nine children in the family. Yakima Valley, Washington

Migratory children living in "Rambler's Park." They have lived on the ...

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

Stump rancher and wife. They and their seven children are making a new start on cut-over land. Priest River Penninsula, Bonner County, Idaho. See general caption 51

Stump rancher and wife. They and their seven children are making a new...

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

On transportation outskirts of small Oregon town on the Columbia River. Arlington, Gilliam County, Oregon

On transportation outskirts of small Oregon town on the Columbia River...

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

Calipatria, Imperial Valley. Idle pea pickers discuss prospects for work. California

Calipatria, Imperial Valley. Idle pea pickers discuss prospects for wo...

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

Oregon, Marion County, near West Stayton Local high school girl, who picks beans during vacation time. See general caption number 46

Oregon, Marion County, near West Stayton Local high school girl, who p...

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Bindles on shady side of Pastime Cafe. California, Siskiyou County, Tulelake

Bindles on shady side of Pastime Cafe. California, Siskiyou County, Tu...

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Yakima Indian valley on the Columbia River, inhabited during salmon season. After the fishing is over they return to the Yakima Valley. Indian girl: "They don't want to live better. The government is trying to make them." Celilo, Wasco County, Oregon

Yakima Indian valley on the Columbia River, inhabited during salmon se...

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

Young son of tenant farmer gathering sticks for workers to string tobacco on. Granville County, North Carolina

Young son of tenant farmer gathering sticks for workers to string toba...

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George Cleaver, new farmer, has five boys. The three older boys, ages twelve, sixteen, and eighteen, are needed at home to develop the farm and do not go to school. Malheur County, Oregon

George Cleaver, new farmer, has five boys. The three older boys, ages ...

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Mrs. Granger's storeroom. She has 500-600 quarts of canned food. "You never know what may happen." Yamhill farms. (FSA - Farm Security Administration). Yamhill County, Williamette Valley, Oregon

Mrs. Granger's storeroom. She has 500-600 quarts of canned food. "You ...

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

Champion hop picker in squatter camp before the season opens. Earned five dollars a day in the 1938 season. Age twenty three, been on the road seven years. Married. "I think I did pretty well, only have one baby. Want to get out of this living like a dog." Washington, Yakima Valley

Champion hop picker in squatter camp before the season opens. Earned f...

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

Negro plowing corn. He is a tenant; raises mainly tobacco; has lived here for four years. The cornfield is grassy and poor. On dirt road from Highway 144. Person County, North Carolina. He is saying "You ain't looking for money, is you?" Person County, North Carolina

Negro plowing corn. He is a tenant; raises mainly tobacco; has lived h...

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

Mrs. Soper tells how it was when they first came. Willow Creek area, Malheur County, Oregon. General caption number 72

Mrs. Soper tells how it was when they first came. Willow Creek area, M...

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

Putting in tobacco after the morning work. Shoofly, North Carolina

Putting in tobacco after the morning work. Shoofly, North Carolina

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

Orange packer of Sunkist oranges. Self-built trailer. California

Orange packer of Sunkist oranges. Self-built trailer. California

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

Hop yard on ranch of M. Rivard in French-Canadian colony, three weeks before picking. Yakima Valley, Moxee Valley district, Washington

Hop yard on ranch of M. Rivard in French-Canadian colony, three weeks ...

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Family work clearing land by burning. Near Bonners Ferry, Boundary County, Idaho. See general caption 49

Family work clearing land by burning. Near Bonners Ferry, Boundary Cou...

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

Oxford, Granville County, North Carolina. Note everpresent Confederate monument in town center

Oxford, Granville County, North Carolina. Note everpresent Confederate...

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

Church in Potrero district where there is a "Russian-White" colony. San Francisco, California

Church in Potrero district where there is a "Russian-White" colony. Sa...

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

The Wardlow family in their dugout basement home on Sunday. The youngest boy copies out a recipe for his mother. Dead Ox Flat, Malheur County, Oregon

The Wardlow family in their dugout basement home on Sunday. The younge...

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

Migrant agricultural worker in Marysville migrant camp (trying to figure out his year's earnings). California

Migrant agricultural worker in Marysville migrant camp (trying to figu...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc... More

Date picker's home. Coachella Valley, California

Date picker's home. Coachella Valley, California

File print misnumbered LC-USF341-001609-B; corrected 1998. Original negative missing. This negative made from file print. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War In... More

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 ...

Annotation on original negative jacket: DL. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

People living in miserable poverty, Elm Grove, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma

People living in miserable poverty, Elm Grove, Oklahoma County, Oklaho...

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

The tractor is driving cotton workers off the land. Mississippi Delta, Aldridge Plantation

The tractor is driving cotton workers off the land. Mississippi Delta,...

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

"Skid Row." Howard Street, San Francisco, California. The hock shop

"Skid Row." Howard Street, San Francisco, California. The hock shop

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Mobile housing--a trend. One of the many housecars under construction by homeless people who formerly lived in tents. California

Mobile housing--a trend. One of the many housecars under construction ...

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Typical Teutonic farm wife and child of Mills, New Mexico, area. Client for resettlement

Typical Teutonic farm wife and child of Mills, New Mexico, area. Clien...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. More information ... More

Texans earning their way westward, bound for a new start in Oregon. United States No. 99, California

Texans earning their way westward, bound for a new start in Oregon. Un...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 4 x 5 inches). File print misnumbered LC-USF343-003804-ZE; corrected 1998. Print in microfilmed lot misnumbered 38042-E. Title and other information from caption card... More

Building the road to the community factory. Hightstown, New Jersey

Building the road to the community factory. Hightstown, New Jersey

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

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 ...

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

Center Market. Washington, D.C. Farm Security Administartion 1930s public domain photo.

Center Market. Washington, D.C. Farm Security Administartion 1930s pub...

Title and other information from caption card. Date indicates this could be Florida Avenue Market, which replaced Center Market after it was torn down in 1931 (Source: Tangires' Public Markets, 2008, p. 187) Tr... More

Drought farmers come to town. Sallisaw, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma

Drought farmers come to town. Sallisaw, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma

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

A black and white photo of a large building, Concrete mixing plant. Birmingham, Alabama

A black and white photo of a large building, Concrete mixing plant. Bi...

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Peach pickers being driven to the orchards. They earn seventy-five cents a day. Muscella, Georgia

Peach pickers being driven to the orchards. They earn seventy-five cen...

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

One of the rear windows, tenement dwelling of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Solomon, 133 Aveue D, New York City. The Solomon family are on the accepted list for resettlement at Hightstown, New Jersey

One of the rear windows, tenement dwelling of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Solom...

Additional information on caption card: See RA 9191-E [i.e. LC-USF34-009191-E] for project background. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas... More

A couple of men standing next to each other in a field, Cotton weighing near Robstown, Texas

A couple of men standing next to each other in a field, Cotton weighin...

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

Freight car converted into house in "Little Oklahoma," California

Freight car converted into house in "Little Oklahoma," California

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc... More

A black and white photo of three men sitting on a porch, Storefront loafers. Mississippi Delta

A black and white photo of three men sitting on a porch, Storefront lo...

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

Evicted Arkansas sharecropper. One of the more active of the union members (Southern Tenant Farmers Union). Now building his new home at Hill House, Mississippi

Evicted Arkansas sharecropper. One of the more active of the union mem...

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

Squatter camp. Outskirts of Bakersfield, California. Note number of auto trailers and trailer being constructed on left

Squatter camp. Outskirts of Bakersfield, California. Note number of au...

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

White and blacks solve problems together on the Sherwood Eddy cotton cooperative of Hill House, Mississippi

White and blacks solve problems together on the Sherwood Eddy cotton c...

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

Drying up corn near Eutaw, Alabama

Drying up corn near Eutaw, Alabama

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

Migrant worker from Oklahoma repairing tire on California highway

Migrant worker from Oklahoma repairing tire on California highway

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

Weighers' and warehousemens' union headquarters. Oakland, California

Weighers' and warehousemens' union headquarters. Oakland, California

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

Children of Oklahoma drought refugee in migratory camp in California

Children of Oklahoma drought refugee in migratory camp in California

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

A Negro tenant farmer and several members of his family hoeing cotton on their farm in Alabama

A Negro tenant farmer and several members of his family hoeing cotton ...

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

Daughter of migrant Tennessee coal miner. Living in American River camp near Sacramento, California

Daughter of migrant Tennessee coal miner. Living in American River cam...

Additional information on caption card: See 9904-C [i.e. LC-USF34-009904-E]. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washing... More

Scene in a downtown park. Jacksonville, Florida

Scene in a downtown park. Jacksonville, Florida

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

Drought farmers line the shady side of the main street on the town while their crops burn up in the fields. "Hello Bill, when's it gonna rain?"

Drought farmers line the shady side of the main street on the town whi...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc... More

Sunday school for migrant children in a potato pickers' camp. Kern County, California

Sunday school for migrant children in a potato pickers' camp. Kern Cou...

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

Chamber of Commerce sign. Drew, Mississippi

Chamber of Commerce sign. Drew, Mississippi

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

A black and white photo of a man and two children, Sharecropper near Hartwell, Georgia

A black and white photo of a man and two children, Sharecropper near H...

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

Mississippi Negress hoeing cotton. She was born a slave "two years before the surrender"

Mississippi Negress hoeing cotton. She was born a slave "two years bef...

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

El Paso housewives after a day's shopping in Juarez, Mexico where they benefit by the rate of exchange. Texas

El Paso housewives after a day's shopping in Juarez, Mexico where they...

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

The pea fields of the California coast

The pea fields of the California coast

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

Pea fields of the Imperial Valley, California. Tamarisk trees are commonly planted along the irrigation ditches for shade so necessary in this desert valley. Note water barrels

Pea fields of the Imperial Valley, California. Tamarisk trees are comm...

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

The pea fields of the California coast

The pea fields of the California coast

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

The lumber mill closed, the track is being torn up and the rails sent to Japan along with other scrap iron from the mill. Careyville, Florida

The lumber mill closed, the track is being torn up and the rails sent ...

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

Home of turpentine worker near Godwinsville, Georgia

Home of turpentine worker near Godwinsville, Georgia

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

Delta cooperative farms in 1938. Hillhouse, Mississippi

Delta cooperative farms in 1938. Hillhouse, Mississippi

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

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...

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

Cultivating cotton at Lake Dick project, Arkansas

Cultivating cotton at Lake Dick project, Arkansas

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

Farm Security Administration (FSA) rural rehabilitation client. Tulare County, California

Farm Security Administration (FSA) rural rehabilitation client. Tulare...

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

Auto camp which rents tent space where migrant citrus workers live. Tulare County, California

Auto camp which rents tent space where migrant citrus workers live. Tu...

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

Watching ball game. Shafter migrant camp. California

Watching ball game. Shafter migrant camp. California

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

Oregon, Klamath County, Merrill. Young woman from a South Dakota farm, where her family still lives. She and her husband are migratory laborers and live in a shack in Klamath County waiting for potato harvest to open. "My husband just day labors."

Oregon, Klamath County, Merrill. Young woman from a South Dakota farm,...

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

Laundry facilities for ten cabins at Arkansawyers auto camp, Salinas Valley, California. Note stove to heat water

Laundry facilities for ten cabins at Arkansawyers auto camp, Salinas V...

Actual size of negative is E (approximately 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

A grandmother in a migrant camp. Stanislaus County, California. "Been in California fourteen months. From Oklahoma. The main thing is to get our families located and quieted down. Ain't no use to send them back; it's a waste of money. They won't stay."

A grandmother in a migrant camp. Stanislaus County, California. "Been ...

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

Farm Security Administration (FSA) temporary camp for migrants. Gridley, California. Peak of the season is August

Farm Security Administration (FSA) temporary camp for migrants. Gridle...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Carrot digger. Imperial Valley, near Meloland, California

Carrot digger. Imperial Valley, near Meloland, California

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

Tranquillity, California. Sunday morning service. Migrants from the southwest bring their religions with them to California

Tranquillity, California. Sunday morning service. Migrants from the so...

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

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