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Auto camp north of Calipatria, California. Approximately eighty families from the Dust Bowl are camped here. They pay fifty cents a week. The only available work now is agricultural labor

Auto camp north of Calipatria, California. Approximately eighty famili...

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

A colony of twenty adobe houses built by the inhabitants with materials supplied by the Great Western Sugar Company. Thirteen of the houses are used; seven are being unfit to use for inhabitation. In the thirteen houses live approximately fifty people. Being in the limits of an incorporated town (Hudson) there is a water system. However there is only one outlet (an outdoor spigot) for this whole colony. No electricity, gas or sewerage system. Colorado

A colony of twenty adobe houses built by the inhabitants with material...

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

Uncle George, blacksmith and carpenter who came from prison as a boy to the Marcella Plantation and has lived there for fifty years. Mileston, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

Uncle George, blacksmith and carpenter who came from prison as a boy t...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of men loading a truck, Mississippi. Farmers during Great Depression.

A black and white photo of men loading a truck, Mississippi. Farmers d...

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Mr. and Mrs. E.H. Wise and sons shelling peanuts around the fireplace for planting this year. They shell about fifty bushels, the yearly task of all families in this section at this season. Coffee County, Alabama

Mr. and Mrs. E.H. Wise and sons shelling peanuts around the fireplace ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Negro slum area between D and C Streets off 1st Street, S.W. Washington, D.C. Most houses have five small rooms renting for twenty dollars and fifty cents a month, with rear wood kitchen shed, cold water, outdoor privy

Negro slum area between D and C Streets off 1st Street, S.W. Washingto...

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

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airplane lookout on Pine Mountain, getting her lunch from the air-cooled icebox under the floor of the tower, fifty feet above the ground

Gorham (vicinity), New Hampshire. Barbara Mortensen, a fire and airpla...

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

Three related drought refugee families stalled on the highway near Lordsburg, New Mexico. From farms near Claremore, Oklahoma. Have been working as migratory workers in Calfornia and Arizona, now trying to get to Roswell, New Mexico, for work chopping cotton. Have car trouble and pulled up alongside the highway. "Would go back to Oklahoma but can't get along there. Can't feed the kids on what they give you (relief budget) and ain't made a crop there you might say for five years. Only other work there is fifty cents a day wages and the farmers can't pay it anyways." One of these families has lost two babies since they left their home in Oklahoma. The children, seventeen months and three years, died in the county hospital at Shafter California, from typhoid fever, resulting from unsanitary conditions in a labor camp

Three related drought refugee families stalled on the highway near Lor...

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

Fifty cents. Shin plaster - Public domain scan / drawing

Fifty cents. Shin plaster - Public domain scan / drawing

Another mock shinplaster (see also nos. 1837-9 and -10 above). Again the artist attributes the shortage of hard money to the successive monetary programs of presidents Jackson and Van Buren, particularly to the... More

Home of farmer who has raised cotton for fifty years on his own land. Greene County, Georgia

Home of farmer who has raised cotton for fifty years on his own land. ...

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

Auto camp north of Calipatria, California. Approximately eighty families from the Dust Bowl are camped here. They pay fifty cents a week. The only available work now is agricultural labor

Auto camp north of Calipatria, California. Approximately eighty famili...

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

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

Preparing dinner for the six hundred fifty flood refugees encamped at Tent City near Shawneetown, Illinois

Preparing dinner for the six hundred fifty flood refugees encamped at ...

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Small cotton farm, Kern County, California. The farmer keeps accounts. Each picker weighs his sack of cotton. In this case the sack weighs approximately fifty pounds. Took three hours to pick, for which, on basis of seventy-five cents per one hundred pounds of picked cotton, he will be paid thirty-eight cents

Small cotton farm, Kern County, California. The farmer keeps accounts....

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

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

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

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

Fifty grade children being made up for play about Indians (which grew out of their regular class studies) on May Day-Health Day program. Ashwood Plantations, South Carolina

Fifty grade children being made up for play about Indians (which grew ...

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

Mexican boy drinking out of water faucet. There were five of these faucets to supply water for about fifty Mexican families averaging five members each. They live in five units. Robstown, Texas

Mexican boy drinking out of water faucet. There were five of these fau...

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Uncle George who has worked on Marcella Plantation in blacksmith and carpentry shop for last fifty years after he got out of prison, fixing his old car, Mileston, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

Uncle George who has worked on Marcella Plantation in blacksmith and c...

Public domain photograph of an automobile, 1920s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

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

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

Uncle George, blacksmith and carpenter who came from prison as a boy to the Marcella Plantation and has lived there for fifty years. Mileston, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

Uncle George, blacksmith and carpenter who came from prison as a boy t...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Day laborers being hired for cotton picking on Mississippi and Arkansas plantations. Between four and six-thirty every morning during the season, near the Hallan Bridge in Memphis, Tennessee, crowds of Negroes in the streets gather and are loaded into trucks by drivers who bid, and offer them anywhere from fifty cents to one dollar per day

Day laborers being hired for cotton picking on Mississippi and Arkansa...

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Migratory bean pickers at camp at Staytonville, Delaware. There are 130 persons all told in this camp--thirty in the house in the backgrpund (called the "bullpen") and fifty in each of the two long wooden structures on the side

Migratory bean pickers at camp at Staytonville, Delaware. There are 13...

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Negro children in rural school gathered around the stove as the room warms up in the morning. After school was in session the thermometer registered fifty degrees the entire morning. Creek County, Oklahoma

Negro children in rural school gathered around the stove as the room w...

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

Truckload of milk cans of the Dairymen's Cooperative Creamery. Caldwell, Canyon County, Idaho. This cooperative handles about fifty percent of the creamery products of the Boise Valley; five other creameries handle the other fifty percent

Truckload of milk cans of the Dairymen's Cooperative Creamery. Caldwel...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a cart, carriage, wagon, chariot, 18th-19th century design, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Battery of curing molds. While the curing, or cooking, operation is going on for the tire we have followed through the plant, it is also going on simultaneously for hundreds of other tires in production. This view shows one corridor in the curing room where fifty tires are being cured at once. Additional molds flank this group on both sides of long corridor such as this one. Firestone (General) Tires, Akron, Ohio

Battery of curing molds. While the curing, or cooking, operation is go...

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Subcontracting. Passaic home workshop pool. Lathe parts are explained to students in the trade school of the Howe Machinery Company, Passaic, New Jersey. The school trains fifty workers at a time in the production of essential war equipment. More than ninety percent secure jobs after training, some in the Howe shop

Subcontracting. Passaic home workshop pool. Lathe parts are explained ...

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Fuel oil conservation. Insulation packed snugly between the beams in the attic floor can reduce loss of heat up to forty or even fifty per cent. The householder can do this himself with an unfloored attic and by doing so save fifteen percent on fuel

Fuel oil conservation. Insulation packed snugly between the beams in t...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Paper machinery to plant wing parts. All bearing surfaces on turret gun mount housings for M-3 tanks are rough planed and finished planed on a fifty inch by fifty inch four-head planer. The job is being done in the plant of an Eastern paper machinery manufacturer who is also turning out naval sights and plane wing equipment

Conversion. Paper machinery to plant wing parts. All bearing surfaces ...

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

New York, New York. Pressroom of the New York Times newspaper. Transporting plates from shaver to presses on truck. Each plate weighs about fifty pounds, is made of lead alloy and is remelted after each printing in Autoplate

New York, New York. Pressroom of the New York Times newspaper. Transpo...

Picryl description: Public domain image of people, meeting, eating, drinking, food, beverage, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Silverware plant. Erstwhile polisher of fine silverware, this employee of an Eastern plant now undergoing conversion to production of war essentials, is at present engaged in assembly of bomb shackles. More than 500 operations on 100 parts are required to assemble the shackles. And incidentally, before it can be assembled, fifty parts requiring 167 tool operations are in order. Oneida Ltd., Oneida, New York

Conversion. Silverware plant. Erstwhile polisher of fine silverware, t...

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

White albino alligator (one of fifty in the world) at the National Academy of Science in San Francisco, California

White albino alligator (one of fifty in the world) at the National Aca...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

The gallant charge of the fifty fourth Massachusetts (colored) regiment: on the rebel works at Fort Wagner, Morris Island, near Charleston, July 18th 1863, and death of Colonel Robt. G. Shaw

The gallant charge of the fifty fourth Massachusetts (colored) regimen...

Print shows Union and Confederate soldiers engaged in combat during the attack of the Massachusetts 54th Infantry Regiment on Fort Wagner, Morris Island, South Carolina. 624 or 23714 U.S. Copyright Office. Ins... More

Three related drought refugee families stalled on the highway near Lordsburg, New Mexico. From farms near Claremore, Oklahoma. Have been working as migratory workers in Calfornia and Arizona, now trying to get to Roswell, New Mexico, for work chopping cotton. Have car trouble and pulled up alongside the highway. "Would go back to Oklahoma but can't get along there. Can't feed the kids on what they give you (relief budget) and ain't made a crop there you might say for five years. Only other work there is fifty cents a day wages and the farmers can't pay it anyways." One of these families has lost two babies since they left their home in Oklahoma. The children, seventeen months and three years, died in the county hospital at Shafter California, from typhoid fever, resulting from unsanitary conditions in a labor camp

Three related drought refugee families stalled on the highway near Lor...

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

India in the war. A worker in one of India's fast expanding munitions plants. India produces more than fifty different kinds of arms and ammunition of the most up-to-date type. Alltogether seventy-five percent of her requirements of war supplies is made in India

India in the war. A worker in one of India's fast expanding munitions ...

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

The Yelverton Family. Ten in the family. Live in a six-room house, "The only one on the street," they told me repeatedly. Two years ago the came here from the farm fifty miles away and a mile from the R.R. where they owned 135 acres. Father and four oldest boys have been working in the Laurel Cotton Mills for two years. Father said, "the little girls don't work, an' we're not goin' to let 'em if we can help it. We'll send 'em to school an' make ladies out of em. I don't reckon we'll ever go back to the farm. They all like the mill work. It's light work, but not very healthy though." The boys said, "We'd ruther work in the mill, It's easier. No hot sun an' no cold in winter 'cause they heat the mill then." The two youngest boys, eleven and thirteen years old, the father said, have been in the mill two years, and have had almost no schooling, and no likelihood of getting any more. The mother said, "I don't like to live in the city near so well. We're more shut in, an' we can't give the boys the schoolin' they ought to have 'cause they've got to work in the mill (wages is so low). We haven't been so well as on the farm." Location: Laurel, Mississippi.

The Yelverton Family. Ten in the family. Live in a six-room house, "Th...

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

Old auto and Advance Rumley tractor in junkyard at Wildrose, North Dakota. Tractor cost six or seven thousand dollars and burned. A mixture of about fifty percent kerosene and fifty percent water. The water was added to keep the valves from overheating

Old auto and Advance Rumley tractor in junkyard at Wildrose, North Dak...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a tractor, farming equipment, agriculture, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

50 years at the Capitol. Washington, D.C. June 18. For over fifty years "Old Harry" Parker, colored, has been guarding the doors of the House Ways and Means Committee sanctum on Capitol Hill. His other duties include the preparing of the note pads and checking the ice-water coolers. Harry says he's "done forgot" his age. 6/18/37

50 years at the Capitol. Washington, D.C. June 18. For over fifty year...

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

Rammed earth construction near Birmingham, Alabama. Under tamping the earth is compressed approximately fifty percent

Rammed earth construction near Birmingham, Alabama. Under tamping the ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Living conditions for migratory laborers in private auto camp. Tent space fifty cents per week. Calipatria, Imperial County

Living conditions for migratory laborers in private auto camp. Tent sp...

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

Fred Maschman, TP client, was heavily in debt in 1937. At that time, his debt was reduced fifty percent by a Farm Debt Adjustment Committee. Iowa County, Iowa

Fred Maschman, TP client, was heavily in debt in 1937. At that time, h...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to politics, political campaigns, committee, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A group of men standing next to a truck, Mississippi. Farmers during Great Depression.

A group of men standing next to a truck, Mississippi. Farmers during G...

Public domain photograph of a truck, pickup truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Day laborers being hired for cotton picking on Mississippi and Arkansas plantations. Between four and six-thirty every morning during the season, near the Hallan Bridge in Memphis, Tennessee, crowds of Negroes in the streets gather and are loaded into trucks by drivers who bid, and offer them anywhere from fifty cents to one dollar per day

Day laborers being hired for cotton picking on Mississippi and Arkansa...

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

On the plains west of Fresno, California. Family of seven from Oregon dairy ranch which they lost. "We tried to get too big, I guess. Milk cans are all that's left of the dairy. Now pick bolls to make fifty cents to one dollar a day. We can't work every day or maybe we could get by." Rent for house without water or sanitation -six dollars per month. Plan next to pick fruit. "They say if you come to California, you always come back, but I'm willing to leave it."

On the plains west of Fresno, California. Family of seven from Oregon ...

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

Transient farm laborer in hotel room which he rents for one dollar and fifty cents a week. Dubuque, Iowa

Transient farm laborer in hotel room which he rents for one dollar and...

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

Home of Reed family. They have been on this place raising hogs and cattle for the past fifty years

Home of Reed family. They have been on this place raising hogs and cat...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Working on jigs, with dormitories in the background at the FSA (Farm Security Administration trailer camp for defense workers. The dormitories at this project will accomodate, when finished, 952 single men. Dormitory residents will pay five dollars weekly for single rooms and three dollars and fifty cents weekly for each occupant sharing a double room. San Diego, California

Working on jigs, with dormitories in the background at the FSA (Farm S...

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

Conversion. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. More space for making bomb dies. The owner of a small factory and his wife inspect blue prints of the addition they need to accomodate their war production, on orders. Fifty, instead of seven men, will man the new shop. Sivon Machine Company, Painesville, Ohio

Conversion. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. More space for...

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

Anaconda smelter, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Cars containing fifty tons of copper ore are dumped by an unloading mechanism into a 200 ton hopper

Anaconda smelter, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Cars contai...

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

Armorer placing fifty caliber machine gun in pursuit plane at Lake Muroc, California

Armorer placing fifty caliber machine gun in pursuit plane at Lake Mur...

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

Frederick, Maryland. Walter Spangenberg, a student at Woodrow Wilson High School, travels fifty miles from his home to take flying lessons

Frederick, Maryland. Walter Spangenberg, a student at Woodrow Wilson H...

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

West Quoddy Head Light in Lubec, Maine, the easternmost point of the contiguous United States and the closest point to Europe from a point in the fifty States

West Quoddy Head Light in Lubec, Maine, the easternmost point of the c...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the... More

The cotton pickers on this farm were temporary neighbors to the owner. Four adults and seven children. The latter as follows: one six year old boy picks one hundred pounds a day. His father said "He picks one hundred pounds every day." Two children of seven pick one hundred and fifty pounds a day each. One of nine years picks about two hundred pounds. Several from ten to fifteen pick three to four hundred pounds. The whole group picks a bale a day. (1,600 to 1,800) pounds a day. Location: McKinney [vicinity], Texas.

The cotton pickers on this farm were temporary neighbors to the owner....

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

A Jerusalem porter carrying fifty empty petrol tins on his back

A Jerusalem porter carrying fifty empty petrol tins on his back

These were used as water containers, esp. during the war in Sinai Desert. No. 3983. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Forms part of: the G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection. Cap... More

Women Ask President for Equal Rights Legislation. Fifty prominent members of the New National Woman's Party called at the White House today to ask the president's aid in passing an "Equal Rights Bill" in the next Congress. The bill would give women full equality in the government service, give married women citizenship in their own right and make women of the District of Columbia eligible to serve on juries, equal guardianship rights, and equal rights of inheritance and contract. Photograph shows suffragists with President Harding at the White House.

Women Ask President for Equal Rights Legislation. Fifty prominent memb...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of National Woman's Party members with President Harding on the lawn in front of the White House.

Topping off a spar mast for the high lead logging operation. This tree was two hundred fifty feet high. The high climber is topping it off at a height of one hundred eighty-five feet. Washington

Topping off a spar mast for the high lead logging operation. This tree...

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

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...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Squaw Valley farm. 640 acres, sixty in tillable land, raises mainly livestock. Established about fifty years ago. Note old shakes on small building in foreground. The Ola self-help sawmill co-op has supplied shingles for barn and grainery. Note new lumber from the mill, piled in yard. Gem County, Idaho. General caption 48

Squaw Valley farm. 640 acres, sixty in tillable land, raises mainly li...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural landscape, farmhouse, pasture, farm field, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a man standing next to an old car, Mississippi. Farmers during Great Depression.

A black and white photo of a man standing next to an old car, Mississi...

Public domain photograph of an automobile, car, the 1920s or 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Uncle George's blacksmith and carpentry shop. He has been on the plantation for fifty years. Marcella Plantation, Mileston, Mississippi

Uncle George's blacksmith and carpentry shop. He has been on the plant...

Public domain photograph of a shop, shopping, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A group of people standing around a truck, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A group of people standing around a truck, Tennessee. Farm Security Ad...

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Uncle George who has worked on Marcella Plantation in blacksmith and carpentry shop for last fifty years after he got out of prison, fixing his old car, Mileston, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

Uncle George who has worked on Marcella Plantation in blacksmith and c...

Public domain photograph of an automobile, 1920s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a truck and a car, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a truck and a car, Tennessee. Farm Security...

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

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

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

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

At the farmworkers' community at Indio, California, the newly-acquired school bus picks up one of its three loads of fifty children

At the farmworkers' community at Indio, California, the newly-acquired...

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

Conversion. Silverware plant. Undergoing conversion to production of bomb shackles from silver tableware, employees of an Eastern plant are helping America deal death to the Axis. Worker operating the progressive welder is fabricating bomb shackle frames. More than 500 operations on 100 parts are required to assemble the shackles. And incidentally, before it can be assembled, fifty parts requiring 167 tool operations are in order. Oneida Ltd., Oneida, New York

Conversion. Silverware plant. Undergoing conversion to production of b...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Lae, New Guinea. A United States Army Air Force A-20 attack plane pilot swooped down to within sixty feet of the ground to get this aerial view of smashed enemy planes. More than fifty Japanese planes, destroyed by Allied bombing and strafing raids, littered the airfield after the Allied attack. In this photograph, showing a small section of the dump, are three smashed medium bombers and four, possibly five, Zeros that will never fly again

Lae, New Guinea. A United States Army Air Force A-20 attack plane pilo...

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

Bell Aircraft Corporation, Niagara Falls, New York. Woman welder who has been welding the ejection chutes of fifty callibre machine guns

Bell Aircraft Corporation, Niagara Falls, New York. Woman welder who h...

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Emporia, Kansas. Passing the Kansas soybean mill inc. on an Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe train. There are fifty storage bins, each holding 2800 bushels. The plant processes soybeans for oil and feed

Emporia, Kansas. Passing the Kansas soybean mill inc. on an Atchison, ...

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

Section no. 1, The International Religious Congress of Triumph, The Church and Kingdom of God in Christ, lasting fifty days beginning July 20, 1919, Elder E.D. Smith, Apostle

Section no. 1, The International Religious Congress of Triumph, The Ch...

J237198 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; E. D. Smith; October 10, 1919. Photographer's address: Indianapolis, Ind.

One hundred & fifty miles around Richmond. 10th ed.

One hundred & fifty miles around Richmond. 10th ed.

[Scale ca. 1:880,000]. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 632.4 "Tenth edition 3000 of Magnus' all around map." Cover title of accompanying envelope: Magnus' half dollar portfolio. For the Army of the Potomac. Contai... More

The gallant charge of the fifty fourth Massachusetts (colored) regiment: on the rebel works at Fort Wagner, Morris Island, near Charleston, July 18th 1863, and death of Colonel Robt. G. Shaw

The gallant charge of the fifty fourth Massachusetts (colored) regimen...

Print shows Union and Confederate soldiers engaged in combat during the attack of the Massachusetts 54th Infantry Regiment on Fort Wagner, Morris Island, South Carolina. 624 or 23714 U.S. Copyright Office. Ins... More

Trucks outside of a starch factory, Caribou, Aroostook County, Me. There were almost fifty trucks in the line. Some had been waiting for twenty-four hours for the potatoes to be graded and weighed

Trucks outside of a starch factory, Caribou, Aroostook County, Me. The...

Public domain photograph of a village, town, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

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

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

Coolidge (Fifty Cent group), 2/21/24

Coolidge (Fifty Cent group), 2/21/24

A group of men standing in front of a building. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Barn and silo on farm optioned by Resettlement Administration fifty miles north of Ithaca, New York. The farm is in good condition and little money need be spent on it. Tompkins County, New York

Barn and silo on farm optioned by Resettlement Administration fifty mi...

Public domain photograph of a farm barn, granary, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

House in which cotton farmer has lived for fifty years. Macon County, Georgia

House in which cotton farmer has lived for fifty years. Macon County, ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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C.N. Roberts who owns his own farm near Roseville, brought his cotton to the Lassiter gin in Knightdale, Wake County, North Carolina. This gin which is operated by Mr. Faison has ginned only two hundred and fifty bales of cotton this season and doesn't expect much more. The boll weevil got most of the cotton in that section. Because of the tobacco market holiday all the picking and ginning of cotton was finished very early this year

C.N. Roberts who owns his own farm near Roseville, brought his cotton ...

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Mr. Tilly, who is fixing up the basement of his secondhand store to house fifty men at three dollars and fifty cents per week. He will spend one thousand dollars on the place. He expects to get it back in six weeks. Radford, Virginia

Mr. Tilly, who is fixing up the basement of his secondhand store to ho...

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Negro slum area between D and C Streets off 1st Street, S.W. Washington, D.C. Most houses have five small rooms renting for twenty dollars and fifty cents a month, with rear wood kitchen shed, cold water, outdoor privy

Negro slum area between D and C Streets off 1st Street, S.W. Washingto...

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A black and white photo of cars parked in front of a house. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of cars parked in front of a house. Office of ...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More

Forged steel hook. A New York City manufacturer of steel fittings is seeking subcontractors with eight-hundred to three-thousand pound drop hammer facilities for the manufacture of three hooks and buckles, similar to the item illustrated, in quantities of fifty to sixty-thousand. Subcontractor must furnish forging dies

Forged steel hook. A New York City manufacturer of steel fittings is s...

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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...

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Washington, D.C. George Camblair leaving home early in the morning to go to the Selective Service Board from which, with about fifty others, he will leave by train for the induction station

Washington, D.C. George Camblair leaving home early in the morning to ...

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Washington, D.C. George Camblair leaving home early in the morning to go to the Selective Service Board from which, with about fifty others, he will leave by train for the induction station

Washington, D.C. George Camblair leaving home early in the morning to ...

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The gallant charge of the fifty fourth Massachusetts (colored) regiment: on the rebel works at Fort Wagner, Morris Island, near Charleston, July 18th 1863, and death of Colonel Robt. G. Shaw

The gallant charge of the fifty fourth Massachusetts (colored) regimen...

Print shows Union and Confederate soldiers engaged in combat during the attack of the Massachusetts 54th Infantry Regiment on Fort Wagner, Morris Island, South Carolina. 624 or 23714 U.S. Copyright Office. Ins... More

Dangerous work. Charlie McBride. Said twelve years old. This twelve year old boy has a steady job with the Miller & Vidor Lumber Company. He takes slabs out of a chute which has a moving endless chain to carry the wood up the chute. He passes the slabs onto the other boy who saws them on an unguarded circular saw. Charlie runs the saw himself whenever he gets the chance. He is exposed not only to the above danger, but to the weather - no roof even. Has been here for some months. "Get four bits a day." Fifty cents. Works ten hours. This was the only mill that I found around Beaumont that employed boys, likely because they are located some distance out of town. Location: Beaumont, Texas.

Dangerous work. Charlie McBride. Said twelve years old. This twelve ye...

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Eddie Marek a six year old cotton picker who picks fifty pounds a day. His sister eighteen years old picks one hundred pounds. Father and mother and some negroes also pick. A frugal Bohemian family. Own the farm of two hundred acres near Houston. Location: Houston [vicinity], Texas.

Eddie Marek a six year old cotton picker who picks fifty pounds a day....

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One hundred & fifty miles around Richmond. 9th ed.

One hundred & fifty miles around Richmond. 9th ed.

Scale ca. 1:880,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 632.3 General map centered on Richmond, Virginia. Map is printed in blue with title and border in red. "Ninth edition 3000 of Magnus' all around map." "Dedicate... More

The tractor driver is colored. His wages when he works is one dollar and fifty cents a day as long as there is daylight. Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi

The tractor driver is colored. His wages when he works is one dollar a...

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Plantation house where the Wray family has lived for generations. A cotton plantation of 2700 acres, employing fifty tenant families in 1918 and seven tenant families in 1937. Greene County, Georgia

Plantation house where the Wray family has lived for generations. A co...

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Rural rehabilitation, Tulare County, California. This family had been on relief. They are now re-established on a small farm, where their cash outlay for food is about two dollars and fifty cents a week for a family of seven

Rural rehabilitation, Tulare County, California. This family had been ...

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A black and white photo of a group of people walking down a street, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a group of people walking down a street, Te...

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Migrant camp, Weslaco, Texas. Local employment men say that there was no need for migrant labor to handle the citrus and vegetable crops in the valley, the local supply of labor being ample for this purpose. Most of the local labor is Mexican and the labor contractors favor Mexican labor over white labor, partly because the Mexican will work much cheaper than whites. One white woman who was a permanent resident (her husband was on WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) said that the white people who lived in the valley, had no trouble with the Mexicans. The Mexicans were good neighbors, she said, always willing to share what they had. She said the white migrants who came into the valley and resented and misunderstood the Mexicans caused the trouble between the two races. Some towns in this section permit camping only in trailers. The charge for camping in tents is about fifty cents per week, including water, which in some cases must be carried four city blocks. Privies are tin, very bad condition. Garbage is collected only once a week, with large dumps of decaying fruits and vegetables scattered among the camps. Some of the white migrants in this camp were very suspicious of governmental activity, due to the use by south Texas newspapers of the term "concentration camps" referring to FSA (Farm Security Administration) camps

Migrant camp, Weslaco, Texas. Local employment men say that there was ...

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A group of men standing next to a truck. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A group of men standing next to a truck. Great Depression FFSA / OWI N...

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Day laborers being hired for cotton picking on Mississippi and Arkansas plantations. Between four and six-thirty every morning during the season, near the Hallan Bridge in Memphis, Tennessee, crowds of Negroes in the streets gather and are loaded into trucks by drivers who bid, and offer them anywhere from fifty cents to one dollar per day

Day laborers being hired for cotton picking on Mississippi and Arkansa...

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Migratory laborers' camp. Single-room cabin costs two dollars and fifty cents, double room four dollars per week. Water hauled, usually priced at fifty-five cents for fifty-five gallon tank. Toilet for about 150 people. Near Belle Glade, Florida

Migratory laborers' camp. Single-room cabin costs two dollars and fift...

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A group of men standing next to a truck, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A group of men standing next to a truck, Tennessee. Farm Security Admi...

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