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Buffalo, New York. United States NYA (National Youth Administration) trainee being trained to use a lathe in preparation for a job in industry. She is under twenty, works eight hours a day and gets paid forty dollars a month during training

Buffalo, New York. United States NYA (National Youth Administration) t...

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

Michael Du Mond, former gunshop proprietor in Wisconsin, came to Hartford in August to work at Colts at forty dollars a week, and has received several raises since. It took him four months to find a place for his wife and two children, namely a hotel apartment for sixty dollars a month, eating all meals out. Now they have a very hot small attic apartment, third floor, for thirty dollars a month, and no place for children to play. Hartford, Connecticut

Michael Du Mond, former gunshop proprietor in Wisconsin, came to Hartf...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of children, kids, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Frank Robbins of Wareham, Massachusetts, employed at United Aircraft, East Hartford, Connecticut, lives in trailer near the plant, with wife and four children because of housing shortage. He works nights, so he can sleep days in a bed used at night by two of the children. He makes forty dollars a week, his trailer payment is twenty dollars per month and twelve dollars rent for the campsite

Frank Robbins of Wareham, Massachusetts, employed at United Aircraft, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

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...

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

East Hartford, Connecticut. Frank Robbins of Wareham, Massachusetts, employed at the United Aircraft plant, lives in trailer near the plant, with his wife and four children, because of the housing shortage. He works nights, so he can sleep during the day in a bed used at night by two of the children. He makes forty dollars a week, his trailer payment is twenty dollars per month and his rent for the campsite is twelve dollars

East Hartford, Connecticut. Frank Robbins of Wareham, Massachusetts, e...

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

Buffalo, New York. United States NYA (National Youth Administration) trainee being trained to use a lathe in preparation for a job in industry. She is under twenty, works eight hours a day and gets paid forty dollars a month during training

Buffalo, New York. United States NYA (National Youth Administration) t...

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

Buffalo, New York. United States NYA (National Youth Administration) trainees between the ages of seventeen and twenty-one learning to use lathes in preparation for jobs in the war industry. They work eight hours a day and get paid forty dollars a month while training

Buffalo, New York. United States NYA (National Youth Administration) t...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Michael Du Mond, former gunshop proprietor in Wisconsin, came to Hartford in August to work at Colts at forty dollars a week, and has received several raises since. It took him four months to find a place for his wife and two children, namely a hotel apartment for sixty dollars a month, eating all meals out. Now they have a very hot small attic apartment, third floor, for thirty dollars a month, and no place for children to play. Hartford, Connecticut

Michael Du Mond, former gunshop proprietor in Wisconsin, came to Hartf...

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

Frank Robbins of Wareham, Massachusetts, employed at United Aircraft, East Hartford, Connecticut, lives in trailer near plant, with wife and four children because of housing shortage. He works nights, so he can sleep days in a bed used at night by the children. He makes forty dollars a week, his trailer payment is twenty dollars per month, and twelve dollars rent for the campsite

Frank Robbins of Wareham, Massachusetts, employed at United Aircraft, ...

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

Childersburg. Alabama. Shack village built to accomodate defense workers who each pay thirty to forty dollars a month rental

Childersburg. Alabama. Shack village built to accomodate defense worke...

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

Childersburg. Alabama. Shack village built to accomodate defense workers who each pay thirty to forty dollars a month rental

Childersburg. Alabama. Shack village built to accomodate defense worke...

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

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

East Hartford, Connecticut. Frank Robbins of Wareham, Massachusetts, employed at the United Aircraft plant, lives in trailer near the plant, with his wife and four children, because of the housing shortage. He works nights, so he can sleep during the day in a bed used at night by two of the children. He makes forty dollars a week, his trailer payment is twenty dollars per month and his rent for the campsite is twelve dollars

East Hartford, Connecticut. Frank Robbins of Wareham, Massachusetts, e...

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

Frank Robbins of Wareham, Massachusetts, employed at United Aircraft, East Hartford, Connecticut, lives in trailer near plant, with wife and four children because of housing shortage. He works nights, so he can sleep days in a bed used at night by the children. He makes forty dollars a week, his trailer payment is twenty dollars per month, and twelve dollars rent for the campsite

Frank Robbins of Wareham, Massachusetts, employed at United Aircraft, ...

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

Childersburg. Alabama. Shack village built to accomodate defense workers who each pay thirty to forty dollars a month rental

Childersburg. Alabama. Shack village built to accomodate defense worke...

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

Childersburg. Alabama. Shack village built to accomodate defense workers who each pay thirty to forty dollars a month rental

Childersburg. Alabama. Shack village built to accomodate defense worke...

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

Frank Robbins of Wareham, Massachusetts, employed at United Aircraft, East Hartford, Connecticut, lives in trailer near the plant, with wife and four children because of housing shortage. He works nights, so he can sleep days in a bed used at night by two of the children. He makes forty dollars a week, his trailer payment is twenty dollars per month and twelve dollars rent for the campsite

Frank Robbins of Wareham, Massachusetts, employed at United Aircraft, ...

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

Michael Du Mond, former gunshop proprietor in Wisconsin, came to Hartford in August to work at Colts at forty dollars a week, and has received several raises since. It took him four months to find a place for his wife and two children, namely a hotel apartment for sixty dollars a month, eating all meals out. Now they have a very hot small attic apartment, third floor, for thirty dollars a month, and no place for children to play. Hartford, Connecticut

Michael Du Mond, former gunshop proprietor in Wisconsin, came to Hartf...

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

Michael Du Mond, former gunshop proprietor in Wisconsin, came to Hartford in August to work at Colts at forty dollars a week, and has received several raises since. It took him four months to find a place for his wife and two children, namely a hotel apartment for sixty dollars a month, eating all meals out. Now they have a very hot small attic apartment, third floor, for thirty dollars a month, and no place for children to play. Hartford, Connecticut

Michael Du Mond, former gunshop proprietor in Wisconsin, came to Hartf...

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

Childersburg. Alabama. Shack village built to accomodate defense workers who each pay thirty to forty dollars a month rental

Childersburg. Alabama. Shack village built to accomodate defense worke...

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

... that the marine committee be authorized to advance to every able seaman, that enters into the Continental service any sum not exceeding forty dollars, and to every ordinary seaman or landsman ... Danvers: Printed by E. Russell at the House l

... that the marine committee be authorized to advance to every able s...

Facsimile reproduction of the earliest recruiting poster used by Continental army.; Gift Naval historical foundation.; Rec. 7-12-47. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facs... More

... that the marine committee be authorized to advance to every able seaman, that enters into the Continental service any sum not exceeding forty dollars, and to every ordinary seaman or landsman ... Danvers: Printed by E. Russell at the House l

... that the marine committee be authorized to advance to every able s...

Facsimile reproduction of the earliest recruiting poster used by Continental army.; Gift Naval historical foundation.; Rec. 7-12-47. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facs... More

Buffalo, New York. United States NYA (National Youth Administration) trainee being trained to use a lathe in preparation for a job in industry. She is under twenty, works eight hours a day and gets paid forty dollars a month during training

Buffalo, New York. United States NYA (National Youth Administration) t...

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

Michael Du Mond, former gunshop proprietor in Wisconsin, came to Hartford in August to work at Colts at forty dollars a week, and has received several raises since. It took him four months to find a place for his wife and two children, namely a hotel apartment for sixty dollars a month, eating all meals out. Now they have a very hot small attic apartment, third floor, for thirty dollars a month, and no place for children to play. Hartford, Connecticut

Michael Du Mond, former gunshop proprietor in Wisconsin, came to Hartf...

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

Michael Du Mond, former gunshop proprietor in Wisconsin, came to Hartford in August to work at Colts at forty dollars a week, and has received several raises since. It took him four months to find a place for his wife and two children, namely a hotel apartment for sixty dollars a month, eating all meals out. Now they have a very hot small attic apartment, third floor, for thirty dollars a month, and no place for children to play. Hartford, Connecticut

Michael Du Mond, former gunshop proprietor in Wisconsin, came to Hartf...

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

Buffalo, New York. United States NYA (National Youth Administration) trainees between the ages of seventeen and twenty-one learning to use lathes in preparation for jobs in the war industry. They work eight hours a day and get paid forty dollars a month while training

Buffalo, New York. United States NYA (National Youth Administration) t...

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

Buffalo, New York. United States NYA (National Youth Administration) trainee being trained to use a lathe in preparation for a job in industry. She is under twenty, works eight hours a day and gets paid forty dollars a month during training

Buffalo, New York. United States NYA (National Youth Administration) t...

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.

Michael Du Mond, former gunshop proprietor in Wisconsin, came to Hartford in August to work at Colts at forty dollars a week, and has received several raises since. It took him four months to find a place for his wife and two children, namely a hotel apartment for sixty dollars a month, eating all meals out. Now they have a very hot small attic apartment, third floor, for thirty dollars a month, and no place for children to play. Hartford, Connecticut

Michael Du Mond, former gunshop proprietor in Wisconsin, came to Hartf...

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

Childersburg. Alabama. Shack village built to accomodate defense workers who each pay thirty to forty dollars a month rental

Childersburg. Alabama. Shack village built to accomodate defense worke...

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

Childersburg. Alabama. Shack village built to accomodate defense workers who each pay thirty to forty dollars a month rental

Childersburg. Alabama. Shack village built to accomodate defense worke...

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

Childersburg. Alabama. Shack village built to accomodate defense workers who each pay thirty to forty dollars a month rental

Childersburg. Alabama. Shack village built to accomodate defense worke...

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