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Farmyard and buildings on Bert Aldrich farm, near Dickens, Iowa. This farm, 300 acres, owned by Colorado landlord, has been kept in good shape

Farmyard and buildings on Bert Aldrich farm, near Dickens, Iowa. This ...

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

Barns and cows on Frank Armstrong's farm near Marseilles, Illinois. Landlord intends to replace these barns

Barns and cows on Frank Armstrong's farm near Marseilles, Illinois. La...

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

A black and white photo of a woman picking cotton, North Carolina. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a woman picking cotton, North Carolina. Far...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a farmer, 1930s great depression, dust bowl era, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of people in a field, North Carolina. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of people in a field, North Carolina. Farm Sec...

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

Three portable buildings on farm of FSA (Farm Security Administration) rehabiliation borrower, Yakima County, Washington. Buildings are portable because Indian landlord doesn't supply buildings

Three portable buildings on farm of FSA (Farm Security Administration)...

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

Washington, D.C. Air raid wardens attending a meeting in their headquarters, which is provided by the landlord, in the basement of a large apartment building

Washington, D.C. Air raid wardens attending a meeting in their headqua...

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

A black and white photo of a house on wheels, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a house on wheels, Tennessee. Farm Security...

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

Sharecrop farm, Gaffney, South Carolina. In 1936 he raised seven bales on thirteen acres, half of which went to his landlord

Sharecrop farm, Gaffney, South Carolina. In 1936 he raised seven bales...

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 woman picking cotton, North Carolina. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a woman picking cotton, North Carolina. Far...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a farmer, 1930s great depression, dust bowl era, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mr. Timothy Rack Rent, an old miserable landlord, & his neighbour Lease-hold, a country attorney

Mr. Timothy Rack Rent, an old miserable landlord, & his neighbour Leas...

Landlord telling leaseholder he is raising his rent. "Printed for John Spilsbury, engraver, map and print seller, in Russel-Court Covent-Garden." No. 6. Unprocessed in PC 3 - Addenda (A size).

The 10 tavern commandments, as every landlord should show them to his guests = Die 10 Wirthshaus-Gebote, wie sie jeder Wirth seinen Gästen auf's fleissigste vorhalten soll / Theod. Kahlmann, Lith.

The 10 tavern commandments, as every landlord should show them to his ...

Print shows tavern scene around which are printed, in German and English, 10 rules for guests at a tavern. 10944 U.S. Copyright Office

Sylvester Garring, thirty-one year old tenant of an absentee landlord, chopping wood. Near Fowler, Indiana

Sylvester Garring, thirty-one year old tenant of an absentee landlord,...

Public domain photograph of Great Depression, farm, farmer, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Compton, Negro sharecropper, and his wife stripping and grading tobacco. He has a Negro landlord who lives in Mebane, part of a very prosperous Negro settlement. Near Carr, North Carolina. See general notes on subregion, September 28, 1939, number four

Compton, Negro sharecropper, and his wife stripping and grading tobacc...

Picryl description: Public domain image of ethnic group, people gathering, anthropology, colonies, exotic, indigenous people, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

House on the farm rented by Erasty Emvich. Near Battlefield, Indiana. Emvich repaired this house at his own expense when he moved in. There were no windows or doors and the roof had holes three feet wide. He also built a barn, dug a fruit cellar, and put in one hundred rods of fence--all at his own expense. He has now been advised by the landlord that he must leave this year

House on the farm rented by Erasty Emvich. Near Battlefield, Indiana. ...

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

Barn on the land of Sylvester Garring, thirty-one-year-old tenant farmer. Garring built the addition to the barn to house his cattle. The landlord paid for the lumber. Near Fowler, Indiana

Barn on the land of Sylvester Garring, thirty-one-year-old tenant farm...

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

A black and white photo of three men in a field, North Carolina. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of three men in a field, North Carolina. Farm ...

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

A black and white photo of a man picking cotton. Great Depression FSA photogpraph

A black and white photo of a man picking cotton. Great Depression FSA ...

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

Mr. and Mrs. Bert Aldrich, tenant farmers on farm owned by an absentee landlord near Ruthven, Iowa

Mr. and Mrs. Bert Aldrich, tenant farmers on farm owned by an absentee...

Picryl description: Public domain image of 1930s woman, female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of two men working in a field, North Carolina. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of two men working in a field, North Carolina....

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

A black and white photo of a woman in a field, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a woman in a field, Great Depression. FSA/O...

Public domain photograph of Great Depression, farm, farmer, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Home of Ernest W. Kirk Jr., FSA (Farm Security Administration) client near Ordway, Colorado. He runs an irrigated forty-acre farm which he rented from his landlord, a judge. His landlord is purchasing the eighty acres next to him, so that he may have 120 acres altogether

Home of Ernest W. Kirk Jr., FSA (Farm Security Administration) client ...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Wife and child of sharecropper near Gaffney, South Carolina. The farmer does a little day labor for his landlord. He received fifty cents a day in 1936, sixty to seventy-five cents in 1937. He raised seven bales of cotton on thirteen acres; half to his landlord

Wife and child of sharecropper near Gaffney, South Carolina. The farme...

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

Erasty Emvich bringing fruit from the cellar he dug himself. Emvich, a tenant farmer, has also repaired the farmhouse, put in windows and doors, built a barn, and put in one hundred rods of fence at his own expense during the three years he has rented the farm. His landlord has advised him that he must move this year. Near Battle Ground, Indiana

Erasty Emvich bringing fruit from the cellar he dug himself. Emvich, a...

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

Negro wage hands filling bag with corn they have just shucked for landlord who is a white woman. On road to Cedar Grove, west of highway No. 14, Orange County, North Carolina

Negro wage hands filling bag with corn they have just shucked for land...

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

This one-room hut built of rough lumber over the chassis of an abandoned Ford truck was the housing provided by a landlord for an illiterate wood-cutter, with a wife and seven children. Found on U.S. Route 70 between Camden and Bruceton, Tennessee, near Tennessee River. Family of nine lived and slept in this shack

This one-room hut built of rough lumber over the chassis of an abandon...

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

A black and white photo of a group of men working in a field, North Carolina. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a group of men working in a field, North Ca...

Public domain photograph of Great Depression, farm, farmer, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A couple of men standing next to each other in a field, North Carolina. Farm Security Administration photograph

A couple of men standing next to each other in a field, North Carolina...

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

House on Frank Armstrong's farm near Marseilles, Illinois. Armstrong rents one hundred twenty acre farm from landlord who is interested in building up his farm. This farmhouse has asbestos siding

House on Frank Armstrong's farm near Marseilles, Illinois. Armstrong r...

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

White sharecropper's home. He drives tractors for his present landlord for seventy-five cents a day near Cleveland, Mississippi

White sharecropper's home. He drives tractors for his present landlord...

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

A black and white photo of a woman in a field, North Carolina. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a woman in a field, North Carolina. Farm Se...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a farmer, 1930s great depression, dust bowl era, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

J.A. Johnson's oldest daughter picking cotton in cotton field, Statesville, North Carolina. He is a sharecropper, works about ten acres, receives half the cotton, must pay for half the fertilizer. Landlord furnishes stock and tools

J.A. Johnson's oldest daughter picking cotton in cotton field, Statesv...

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

A black and white photo of a group of men working in a field, North Carolina. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a group of men working in a field, North Ca...

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

A black and white photo of two men in a field, North Carolina. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of two men in a field, North Carolina. Farm Se...

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

Landless family of cotton sharecroppers, Macon County, Georgia. For their labor they receive half the crop they produce, and the equivalent of ten dollars a month "furnish" (credit) from the landlord. Their vegetable garden failed this year for lack of rain

Landless family of cotton sharecroppers, Macon County, Georgia. For th...

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

Terraced fields of sharecropper. In 1936 he made seven bales of cotton, half of which went to his landlord. Near Gaffney, South Carolina

Terraced fields of sharecropper. In 1936 he made seven bales of cotton...

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

Negro sharecropper and two wagehands shucking corn for the landlord, a white woman. On road to Cedar Grove, west of highway No. 14, Orange County, North Carolina

Negro sharecropper and two wagehands shucking corn for the landlord, a...

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

A couple of men standing next to each other in a field, North Carolina. Farm Security Administration photograph

A couple of men standing next to each other in a field, North Carolina...

Public domain photograph of decorated book cover, binding, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A couple of men standing next to each other in a field, North Carolina. Farm Security Administration photograph

A couple of men standing next to each other in a field, North Carolina...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Washington, D.C. Air raid wardens' meeting in zone nine, Southwest area. Air raid wardens attending a meeting in their headquarters which is provided by the landlord in the basement of a large apartment building

Washington, D.C. Air raid wardens' meeting in zone nine, Southwest are...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, meeting, civil rights movement, African Americans, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A woman standing in a field of cotton, North Carolina. Farm Security Administration photograph

A woman standing in a field of cotton, North Carolina. Farm Security A...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a farmer, 1930s great depression, dust bowl era, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A woman holding a child in a field of cotton, North Carolina. Farm Security Administration photograph

A woman holding a child in a field of cotton, North Carolina. Farm Sec...

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

A woman holding a child in a cotton field, North Carolina. Farm Security Administration photograph

A woman holding a child in a cotton field, North Carolina. Farm Securi...

Public domain photograph of Great Depression, farm, farmer, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A woman picking cotton in a field, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A woman picking cotton in a field, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograp...

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

J.A. Johnson and family, Statesville, North Carolina, Route No. 3, picking cotton. He is a sharecropper, works about ten acres, receives half the cotton, must pay for half the fertilizer. Landlord furnishes stock and tools

J.A. Johnson and family, Statesville, North Carolina, Route No. 3, pic...

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

The landlord's pet. H. De Marsan, Air: There was a jolly miller. H. De Marsan, Publisher, 38 & 60 Chatham Street, N. Y

The landlord's pet. H. De Marsan, Air: There was a jolly miller. H. De...

Public domain song - scan of American song sheet, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Compton, Negro sharecropper and his wife stripping and grading tobacco. He has a Negro landlord who lives in Mebane, part of a very prosperous Negro settlement. Near Carr, North Carolina. See general notes on subregion, Sept. 28, 1939, number four

Compton, Negro sharecropper and his wife stripping and grading tobacco...

Public domain photograph of 1930s North Carolina, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A flock of sheep standing on top of a snow covered field, Iowa. Farm Security Administration photograph

A flock of sheep standing on top of a snow covered field, Iowa. Farm S...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

A group of people picking cotton in a field, North Carolina. Farm Security Administration photograph

A group of people picking cotton in a field, North Carolina. Farm Secu...

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

Negro sharecropper and two wage hands shucking corn for the landlord, a white woman. On road to Cedar Grove, west of Highway 14. Orange County, North Carolina. See general notes on sub-region, September 28, 1939, number two

Negro sharecropper and two wage hands shucking corn for the landlord, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an 18th-19th century military conflict, armed forces, infantry, militia, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Home of Ernest W. Kirk Jr., FSA (Farm Security Administration) client near Ordway, Colorado. He runs an irrigated forty-acre farm which he rented from his landlord, a judge. His landlord is purchasing the eighty acres next to him, so that he may have 120 acres altogether

Home of Ernest W. Kirk Jr., FSA (Farm Security Administration) client ...

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

Colonel Pluck, and Landlord, fill the flowing bowl. Air: Parody on "St. Patrick was a gentleman." Sold wholesale and retail, by L. Deming, No. 62, Hanover Street, Boston, and at Middlebury, Vt

Colonel Pluck, and Landlord, fill the flowing bowl. Air: Parody on "St...

Public domain song - scan of American song sheet, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Wife and child of sharecropper near Gaffney, South Carolina. The farmer does a little day labor for his landlord. He received fifty cents a day in 1936, sixty to seventy-five cents in 1937. He raised seven bales of cotton on thirteen acres; half to his landlord

Wife and child of sharecropper near Gaffney, South Carolina. The farme...

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

August Feck and a load of soybean hay. Feck's three hundred twenty acre farm near Templeton, Indiana, is owned by an absentee landlord who lives in Florida

August Feck and a load of soybean hay. Feck's three hundred twenty acr...

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