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Aboard a trap fishing boat, the fish freezer and the fish buyer. Fish freezers deliver most of their whiting to the Middle West and West. Squid is used for bait, sold at a dollar a barrel. Trap fishermen who manages to earn between eight hundred and one thousand dollars a year considers himself royally successful. Provincetown, Massachusetts

Aboard a trap fishing boat, the fish freezer and the fish buyer. Fish ...

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 man standing on top of a small airplane, possibly related to: "Duster" plane spraying insecticide over a field of beans. The mechanic in the foreground indicates the outside limit of the last "swath" which has settled by the time the plane returns. Note how low the plane flies. Beanfields like this, hundreds of acres in extent, are plowed, planted cultivated and even harvested by tractors. Seabrook Farms, Bridgeton, and Vineland, New Jersey

A man standing on top of a small airplane, possibly related to: "Duste...

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

Water supply in the workers' quarter of Porta de Tierra. San Juan, Puerto Rico

Water supply in the workers' quarter of Porta de Tierra. San Juan, Pue...

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

Mixer in a sugar refinery near Ponce, Puerto Rico

Mixer in a sugar refinery near Ponce, Puerto Rico

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 two men on a boat, possibly related to: Aboard a trap fishing boat. The deck of the boat on the way home. Provincetown, Massachusetts

A black and white photo of two men on a boat, possibly related to: Abo...

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

A man standing next to a pile of coins, possibly related to: Aboard a trap fishing boat. The deck of the boat on the way home. Provincetown, Massachusetts

A man standing next to a pile of coins, possibly related to: Aboard a ...

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

A group of men standing next to each other, possibly related to: Easter procession outside of fashionable Negro church, Black Belt, Chicago, Illinois

A group of men standing next to each other, possibly related to: Easte...

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

Undertaking parlor in the Black Belt, O.F. Douglas Funeral Home, Chicago, Illinois

Undertaking parlor in the Black Belt, O.F. Douglas Funeral Home, Chica...

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 group of children. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a group of children. Office of War Informat...

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

A black and white photo of a man standing in front of a store. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man standing in front of a store. Office ...

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

A young girl jumping in the air with a jump rope. Office of War Information Photograph

A young girl jumping in the air with a jump rope. Office of War Inform...

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

A black and white photo of a man in a suit and hat. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man in a suit and hat. Office of War Info...

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

A black and white photo of an old house. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of an old house. Office of War Information Pho...

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

Washington, D.C. Preparing the defense bond sales photomural, to be installed in the Grand Central terminal, New York, in the visual unit of the FSA (Farm Security Administration). Edwin Rosskam and Milton Tinsley making the scale paste-up from the original dummy

Washington, D.C. Preparing the defense bond sales photomural, to be in...

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

A black and white photo of a man in a room Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information photo.

A black and white photo of a man in a room Farm Security Administratio...

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

Toy sellers in the municipal plaza. San Juan, Puerto Rico

Toy sellers in the municipal plaza. San Juan, Puerto Rico

This image in a jacket marked "Killed." Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information ... More

A group of people standing around a boat on a beach, possibly related to: Art class. Provincetown's reputation as an art center provides ample income for several art schools

A group of people standing around a boat on a beach, possibly related ...

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

Class in maternal welfare. In a P.R.R.A. (Puerto Rico Resettlement Administration) health center. San Juan, Puerto Rico

Class in maternal welfare. In a P.R.R.A. (Puerto Rico Resettlement Adm...

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

Child in workers' quarter of Puerto De Tierra. San Juan, Puerto Rico

Child in workers' quarter of Puerto De Tierra. San Juan, Puerto Rico

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

Hoeing a tobacco slope. No matter how steep, all of the hills in the picture are under cultivation. Puerto Rico

Hoeing a tobacco slope. No matter how steep, all of the hills in the p...

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

Street and open sewer in the workers' quarter of Porta De Tierra. San Juan Puerto Rico

Street and open sewer in the workers' quarter of Porta De Tierra. San ...

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

Interior of country store in the hills. Puerto Rico

Interior of country store in the hills. Puerto Rico

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

Coffee being dried in the hills. Coffee was original crop of Puerto Rico, is grown less and less. Puerto Rico

Coffee being dried in the hills. Coffee was original crop of Puerto Ri...

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 sitting on a bench, Longshoreman. San Juan, Puerto Rico

A black and white photo of a man sitting on a bench, Longshoreman. San...

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 tobacco worker fetching water from the creek. Puerto Rico

Children of tobacco worker fetching water from the creek. Puerto Rico

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 two men on a dock, Fishermen repairing nets, Provincetown, Massachusetts

A black and white photo of two men on a dock, Fishermen repairing nets...

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

"Kitchenette" apartment house, Black Belt, Chicago, Illinois

"Kitchenette" apartment house, Black Belt, Chicago, Illinois

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 dog laying on a wall. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a dog laying on a wall. Office of War Infor...

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

A group of people walking down a sidewalk. Office of War Information Photograph

A group of people walking down a sidewalk. Office of War Information P...

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 store front. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a store front. Office of War Information Ph...

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

A black and white photo of a group of children, possibly related to: Young people outside of Negro high school, Black Belt, Chicago, Illinois

A black and white photo of a group of children, possibly related to: Y...

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

Washington, D.C. Preparing the defense bond sales photomural, to be installed in the Grand Central terminal, New York, in the visual unit of the FSA (Farm Security Administration). Edwin Rosskam and Milton Tinsley making the scale paste-up from the original dummy

Washington, D.C. Preparing the defense bond sales photomural, to be in...

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

A black and white photo of a group of children playing, possibly related to: Children playing "ring around a rosie" in one of the better neighborhoods of the Black Belt, Chicago, Illinois

A black and white photo of a group of children playing, possibly relat...

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

A group of people standing in front of a building, possibly related to: Crowd outside of fashionable Negro church after Easter Sunday service, Black Belt, Chicago, Illinois

A group of people standing in front of a building, possibly related to...

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

A black and white photo of a group of people. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a group of people. Office of War Informatio...

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 tractor plowing a field, possibly related to: Luke Weldon, small farmer, and his son using ancient Buick (transformed by cutting down the chassis) as improvised tractor. Automobile bought in second hand car lot. Cost fifteen dollars. New Bridgetown, New Jersey

A black and white photo of a tractor plowing a field, possibly related...

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

Trainer cleaning a fighting cock's throat with a feather before the fight. Puerto Rico

Trainer cleaning a fighting cock's throat with a feather before the fi...

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 beginning of the cock fight. When the man in the center raises the cloth, the birds will see each other and begin to fight. Puerto Rico

The beginning of the cock fight. When the man in the center raises 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

A black and white photo of a factory, possibly related to: Boilers in a sugar refinery near Ponce, Puerto Rico

A black and white photo of a factory, possibly related to: Boilers in ...

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

Meat for sale on the street. This is common and there are no controls to ensure cleanliness or keep away flies. San Juan, Puerto Rico

Meat for sale on the street. This is common and there are no controls ...

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

Water supply, Puerto de Tierra. San Juan, Puerto Rico

Water supply, Puerto de Tierra. San Juan, Puerto Rico

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

In the workers' quarter of Porta de Tierra. San Juan, Puerto Rico

In the workers' quarter of Porta de Tierra. San Juan, Puerto Rico

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

Jibaro woman in tobacco field. Puerto Rico

Jibaro woman in tobacco field. Puerto Rico

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 group of people - FSA / Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a group of people - FSA / Office of War Inf...

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

Captain Jack's Wharf, formerly a fish pier, now a tourist colony mainly inhabited by "artists." Previously the shacks had been used for storing and repairing of nets and gear. Provincetown, Massachusetts

Captain Jack's Wharf, formerly a fish pier, now a tourist colony mainl...

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 people on a beach, possibly related to: Beach scene at "New Beach," the most popular beach near Provincetown. Regular bus service makes this beach easily available; lack of bath houses causes a great deal of picturesque dressing and undressing in and behind parked cars. Provincetown, Massachusetts

A black and white photo of people on a beach, possibly related to: Bea...

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

A black and white photo of a group of children. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a group of children. Office of War Informat...

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 couple of men standing next to a wooden bench. Office of War Information Photograph

A couple of men standing next to a wooden bench. Office of War Informa...

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

A black and white photo of a young boy holding a baseball glove. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a young boy holding a baseball glove. Offic...

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

A black and white photo of a man on an object. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man on an object. Office of War Informati...

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

An old photo of a woman and two children. Office of War Information Photograph

An old photo of a woman and two children. Office of War Information Ph...

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

A black and white photo of people on a sidewalk, possibly related to: Undertaking parlor in the Black Belt, O.F. Douglas Funeral Home, Chicago, Illinois

A black and white photo of people on a sidewalk, possibly related to: ...

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

A group of men standing next to each other on a sidewalk. Office of War Information Photograph

A group of men standing next to each other on a sidewalk. Office of Wa...

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

A black and white photo of a woman entering a restroom. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a woman entering a restroom. Office of War ...

Additional information on caption cards for numbers 12843-12859: Cards not typed. Refer to caption sheets. Title and other information from caption sheet entry. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informatio... More

An old black and white photo of a woman listening. Office of War Information Photograph

An old black and white photo of a woman listening. Office of War Infor...

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 standing on a pier, possibly related to: Aboard a trap fishing boat, the fish freezer and the fish buyer. Fish freezers deliver most of their whiting to the Middle West and West. Squid is used for bait, sold at a dollar a barrel. Trap fishermen who manages to earn between eight hundred and one thousand dollars a year considers himself royally successful. Provincetown, Massachusetts

A black and white photo of a man standing on a pier, possibly related ...

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

Aboard a trawler. The net comes aboard. Each net (there are two) usually drags about an hour, is then brought aboard by the power winch. Crew and captain work on "shares." Commonly one share to each man, one to captain and one to boat. Captain maintains boat. Provincetown, Massachusetts

Aboard a trawler. The net comes aboard. Each net (there are two) usual...

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 member of the P.R.R.A. (Puerto Rico Resettlement Project) needlework cooperative holding up a sample of work. San Juan, Puerto Rico

A member of the P.R.R.A. (Puerto Rico Resettlement Project) needlework...

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

Dusting plane hedge-hopping after spraying swath on beanfield. These planes can spray 100 acres an hour, can usually fly one or two hours unless it rains or storms in an average day. The ususal traveling "dusting circus" has at least three or four planes, its own pilots, mechanics and elementary repair shop. Seabrook Farms, between Bridgeton and Vineland, New Jersey

Dusting plane hedge-hopping after spraying swath on beanfield. These p...

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 group of men loading fish onto a boat, possibly related to: Summer residents watch the tourist boat arrive from Boston, Provincetown, Massachusetts

A group of men loading fish onto a boat, possibly related to: Summer r...

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

Experimental photo panel prepared by Edwin Rosskam in 1940

Experimental photo panel prepared by Edwin Rosskam in 1940

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

A black and white photo of sailboats in a harbor, possibly related to: Aboard a trap fishing boat. The deck of the boat on the way home. Provincetown, Massachusetts

A black and white photo of sailboats in a harbor, possibly related to:...

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

A black and white photo of a sailboat in the water FSA/OWI - Farm security administration and Office of War Information photograph.

A black and white photo of a sailboat in the water FSA/OWI - Farm secu...

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

A black and white photo of two men on a boat, possibly related to: Aboard a trap fishing boat. The deck of the boat on the way home. Provincetown, Massachusetts

A black and white photo of two men on a boat, possibly related to: Abo...

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

New York, New York. Children playing in Washington Square

New York, New York. Children playing in Washington Square

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 two young girls. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of two young girls. Office of War Information ...

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 woman standing at the door of a building. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a woman standing at the door of a building....

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

A black and white photo of a barber shop. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a barber shop. Office of War Information Ph...

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

A black and white photo of a street scene. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a street scene. Office of War Information P...

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

A black and white photo of a bus with advertisements on it. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a bus with advertisements on it. Office of ...

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

Negro family and their home in one of the alley dwelling sections. Washington, D.C

Negro family and their home in one of the alley dwelling sections. Was...

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 group of children FSA/OWI - Farm security administration and Office of War Information photograph.

A black and white photo of a group of children FSA/OWI - Farm security...

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

A black and white photo of a group of people. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a group of people. Office of War Informatio...

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 man and a woman standing in front of a market. Office of War Information Photograph

A man and a woman standing in front of a market. Office of War Informa...

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 person on a rope. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a person on a rope. Office of War Informati...

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

Washington, D.C. Victory gardening in the Northwest section

Washington, D.C. Victory gardening in the Northwest section

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

In the workers' quarter of La Perla. San Juan, Puerto Rico

In the workers' quarter of La Perla. San Juan, Puerto Rico

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 group of men standing in front of a building. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a group of men standing in front of a build...

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 group of people. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a group of people. Office of War Informatio...

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

Luke Weldon, small farmer, and his son using ancient Buick (transformed by cutting down the chassis) as improvised tractor. Automobile bought in second hand car lot. Cost fifteen dollars. New Bridgeton, New Jersey

Luke Weldon, small farmer, and his son using ancient Buick (transforme...

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

Aboard a trap fishing boat, delivering fish at freezer. Most of the trap boats are owned by the freezer. Men work on shares, the company fifty percent. Prices are set according to day's supply in all traps. As in almost all cases traps share equally in a day's run. Fishermen get little either way, they either sell little fish for a comparatively decent price or much fish for little. Provincetown, Massachusetts

Aboard a trap fishing boat, delivering fish at freezer. Most of the tr...

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

Trap fishing boats. These boats are diesel-powered and are used to go in the early morning to collect the fish in the line of "traps" or "wiers" which are stretched along the coast. Provincetown, Massachusetts

Trap fishing boats. These boats are diesel-powered and are used to go ...

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 boat in the water, possibly related to: Trap fishing boats. These boats are diesel-powered and are used to go in the early morning to collect the fish in the line of "traps" or "wiers" which are stretched along the coast. Provincetown, Massachusetts

A black and white photo of a boat in the water, possibly related to: T...

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

A black and white photo of a man on a boat Farmers of Great Depression. Dust bowl refugees, Resettlement program.

A black and white photo of a man on a boat Farmers of Great Depression...

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

A black and white photo of a group of people, possibly related to: Fishermen in repair shack repairing nets and sharpening tools. The twine of these nets is impregnated with coal tar; as the sewing of nets requires the holding of the twine in the mouth an occupational disease has developed which is referred to as fishermen's lip cancer. Provincetown, Massachusetts

A black and white photo of a group of people, possibly related to: Fis...

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

Cidra (vicinity), Puerto Rico. Jubaro tobacco workers leaving home for day labor in the fields

Cidra (vicinity), Puerto Rico. Jubaro tobacco workers leaving home for...

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

Slum dwellings in the workers' quarter of Porta De Tierra. Note: shacks are built on piles driven into swamp. Under the boards is open water. This place is infested with malarial mosquitoes. San Juan, Puerto Rico

Slum dwellings in the workers' quarter of Porta De Tierra. Note: shack...

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

Settling tanks in waterworks. Washington, D.C

Settling tanks in waterworks. Washington, D.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

Experimental photo panel prepared by Edwin Rosskam in 1940

Experimental photo panel prepared by Edwin Rosskam in 1940

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

A black and white photo of two men fishing, possibly related to: Fishermen repairing nets, Provincetown, Massachusetts

A black and white photo of two men fishing, possibly related to: Fishe...

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

A man walking past a store with many items on display Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information photo.

A man walking past a store with many items on display Farm Security Ad...

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

A black and white photo of two children playing in the sand Farmers of Great Depression. Dust bowl refugees, Resettlement program.

A black and white photo of two children playing in the sand Farmers of...

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

A black and white photo of a building with a broken window. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a building with a broken window. Office of ...

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

A black and white photo of a group of girls holding hands, possibly related to: Children playing "ring around a rosie" in one of the better neighborhoods of the Black Belt, Chicago, Illinois

A black and white photo of a group of girls holding hands, possibly re...

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

A black and white photo of a group of people. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a group of people. Office of War Informatio...

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

Easter procession outside of fashionable Negro church, Black Belt, Chicago, Illinois

Easter procession outside of fashionable Negro church, Black Belt, Chi...

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 people standing in front of a building. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of people standing in front of a building. Off...

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

A black and white photo of a sign in a window. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a sign in a window. Office of War Informati...

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 group of children, possibly related to: Children in front of apartment buildings in one of the better neighborhoods in the Black Belt, Chicago, Illinois

A black and white photo of a group of children, possibly related to: C...

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

A black and white photo of a group of people. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a group of people. Office of War Informatio...

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

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