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

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

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

Calipatria, Imperial Valley, In Farm Security Administration (FSA) emergency migratory labor camp. Daughter of ex-tenant farmers on thirds and fourths in cotton. Had fifty dollars when set out. Went to Phoenix, picked cotton, pulled bolls made eighty cents a day with two people pulling bolls. Stayed until school closed. Went to Idaho, picked peas until August. Left McCall with forty dollars "in hand." Went to Cedar City and Parowan, Utah, a distance of 700 miles. Picked peas through September. Went to Hollister, California. Picked peas through October. Left Hollister for Calipatria for early peas which froze. Now receiving Farm Security Administration food grant and waiting for work to begin. "Back in Oklahoma, we are sinking. You work your head off for a crop and then see it burn up. You live in debts that you can never get out of. This isn't a good life, but I say that it's a better life than it was."

Calipatria, Imperial Valley, In Farm Security Administration (FSA) eme...

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

Houses at 3677 Jackdaw Street. Rent has been increased from twenty-eight dollars per month to fifty dollars for house in front and twelve to thirty-five dollars for house in rear. San Diego, California

Houses at 3677 Jackdaw Street. Rent has been increased from twenty-eig...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential building, house, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Duplex at 3919-21 Utah Street. Rent has been increased from thirty dollars per side to fifty dollars per side. Reality board says top price per side should not be more than forty-two dollars and fifty cents per month. Director of housing surveys says seventy dollars for frontage would be ample. San Diego, California

Duplex at 3919-21 Utah Street. Rent has been increased from thirty dol...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential building, house, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Houses at 3677 Jackdaw Street. Rent has been increased from twenty-eight dollars per month to fifty dollars for house in front and twelve to thirty-five dollars for house in rear. San Diego, California

Houses at 3677 Jackdaw Street. Rent has been increased from twenty-eig...

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

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

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

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

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.

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

"Bryan" barn on rural resettlement farm unit in Irwinville Farms, Georgia. This barn, designed and built under supervision of W.P. Bryan, project manager, cost one hundred forty-five dollars. This compared with the cost of three hundred fifty dollars of Rural Resettlement Administration-specified barn

"Bryan" barn on rural resettlement farm unit in Irwinville Farms, Geor...

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

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

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

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

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

The Tioga Navigation Company - office 21 Merchants Exchange - acknowledges itself indebted for blank or bearer, in the sum of fifty dollars payable on the first day of May, A.D. 1840, with interest at the rate of six per cent per annum, from the date hereof P.S. Duval's lith. Philadelphia

The Tioga Navigation Company - office 21 Merchants Exchange - acknowle...

Print shows a sample bond note in the amount of $50 to be issued by the Tioga Navigation Company at 6% interest, stating that "This loan is convertible into stock, receivable for tolls or redeemable in coin at ... 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

New barn which rehabilitation built with loan of four hundred and fifty dollars. Old barn in background. Ada County, Idaho

New barn which rehabilitation built with loan of four hundred and fift...

Home of family living in Sumac Park, shacktown community outside of Yakima, Washington. Father is ill and unable to work. They are paying for land (three hundred and fifty dollars) at rate of seven dollars a month

Home of family living in Sumac Park, shacktown community outside of Ya...

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

Fifty dollars will be given for any information as to the scoundrel who published to the world a notice, purporting to have been written by the managers of the Washington circus, in which I was made the subject of ridicule and circulated by some

Fifty dollars will be given for any information as to the scoundrel wh...

On verso: 47. 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 209, Folder 27.

150 reward! Stop the thief! My desk was entered by means of a false key, on Sunday night the 31st day of October last, and a sum of money stolen therefrom ... A reward of one hundred and fifty dollars, will be paid for his apprehension ... M. Ma

150 reward! Stop the thief! My desk was entered by means of a false ke...

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 30, Folder 29.

150 reward! Stop the thief! My desk was entered by means of a false key, on Sunday night the 31st day of October last, and a sum of money stolen therefrom ... A reward of one hundred and fifty dollars, will be paid for his apprehension ... M. Ma

150 reward! Stop the thief! My desk was entered by means of a false ke...

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 30, Folder 29.

The silo on the Daxtater barn has just been finished and cost three hundred fifty dollars. Little Falls, New York

The silo on the Daxtater barn has just been finished and cost three hu...

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 family living in Sumac Park, shacktown community outside of Yakima, Washington. Father is ill and unable to work. They are paying for land (three hundred and fifty dollars) at rate of seven dollars a month

Home of family living in Sumac Park, shacktown community outside of Ya...

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. In FSA (Farm Security Administration) emergency migratory labor camp. Left Oklahoma December 11, 1937 with husband and two children and son-in-law. Ex-tenant farmers on third and fourths in cotton. Had fifty dollars when set out. Went to Phoenix, picked cotton and pulled bolls, made eighty cents a day with two people picking bolls. Stayed until school closed. Went to Idaho, picked peas until August, left McCarl with forty dollars "in hand." Went to Cedar City and Parowan, Utah, a distance of 700 miles. Picked peas through September. Went to Hollister, Calipatria. Picked peas through October. Left for Calipatria for early peas which froze. Now receiving FSA food grant and waiting for work to begin. "Back in Oklahoma we was sinkin.' You work your head off for a crop and then see it burn up. You live in debts that you can never get out of. This isn't a good life, but I say it's a better life than that was."

Calipatria, Imperial Valley. In FSA (Farm Security Administration) eme...

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

Fifty dollars worth of firewood. To keep the soup kettles at the American Red Cross station at Skoplje a boiling, this wood was hauled from the Albanian mountains a distance of 12 miles. It took the small ox team two days to make the trip. So scarce is wood for fuel in Serbia that one resident offered fifty dollars to the driver for the load

Fifty dollars worth of firewood. To keep the soup kettles at the Ameri...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Paris Office. Group title: Serbia, Food. Used in: Nov. 24, RC Nul. Gift; Amer... More

Production. War housing trailers. Constructed of four-foot sections, the prefabricated Westcraft housing home is sold in 12 x 16 or 12 x 20 size. It may be added to at will, providing separate bedrooms, garage, etc. The model pictured here comprises a combination living-bedroom, bathroom and kitchen. It sells for eleven hundred fifty dollars, furnished as shown. Made by Western Trailer Company of Los Angeles whose principal war effort is the production of war housing trailers

Production. War housing trailers. Constructed of four-foot sections, t...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s train station, train car, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman: "Whitman Broadsides," 1855-1889; Check for fifty dollars from Whitman to Oldach & Co., 1889, Oct. 3

Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman: "Whitman...

Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman: "Whitman Broadsides," 1855-1889; Check for fifty dollars from Whitman to Oldach & Co., 1889, Oct. 3

Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman: "Whitman...

The silo on the Daxtater barn has just been finished and cost three hundred fifty dollars. Little Falls, New York

The silo on the Daxtater barn has just been finished and cost three hu...

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

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...

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

I got fifty dollars, he cried - Drawing. Public domain image.

I got fifty dollars, he cried - Drawing. Public domain image.

(DLC/PP-1933:0080). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The Boarding House Gramaphone" by Norvell Harrison, Woman's Home Companion, 38:18 (Dec. 1911).

New barn which rehabilitation built with loan of four hundred and fifty dollars. Old barn in background. Ada County, Idaho

New barn which rehabilitation built with loan of four hundred and fift...

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

Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman: "Whitman Broadsides," 1855-1889; Check for fifty dollars from Whitman to Oldach & Co., 1889, Oct. 3

Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman: "Whitman...

Duplex at 3919-21 Utah Street. Rent has been increased from thirty dollars per side to fifty dollars per side. Reality board says top price per side should not be more than forty-two dollars and fifty cents per month. Director of housing surveys says seventy dollars for frontage would be ample. San Diego, California

Duplex at 3919-21 Utah Street. Rent has been increased from thirty dol...

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

Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman: "Whitman Broadsides," 1855-1889; Check for fifty dollars from Whitman to Oldach & Co., 1889, Oct. 3

Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman: "Whitman...

$50 reward! stolen! from the subscriber living in Milford, Decatur County, Ia. a dark iron gray mare, three years old ... The thief is a boy about 20 years old ... [Offering a reward of fifty dollars for the mare and the boy or twenty dol

$50 reward! stolen! from the subscriber living in Milford, Decatur Cou...

Reward.; Imprint 2. 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 19, Folder 38.

$50 reward! stolen! from the subscriber living in Milford, Decatur County, Ia. a dark iron gray mare, three years old ... The thief is a boy about 20 years old ... [Offering a reward of fifty dollars for the mare and the boy or twenty dol

$50 reward! stolen! from the subscriber living in Milford, Decatur Cou...

Reward.; Imprint 2. 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 19, Folder 38.