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A man and a woman standing in front of a building, possibly related to: Mr. and Mrs. Roy Merriott on rented farm of 160 acres near Estherville, Iowa. Until recently owned by loan company; it has been sold to a private party. It is the third farm Merriott has lost in the past ten years

A man and a woman standing in front of a building, possibly related to...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

A man and a woman standing in front of a house, Iowa. Farm Security Administration photograph

A man and a woman standing in front of a house, Iowa. Farm Security Ad...

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

Hog house on Roy Merriott farm near Estherville, Iowa, one hundred sixty acres. Until recently this farm was owned by a loan company. It is now sold to a private owner. This is the third farm Merriot has had sold from under him in the last ten years. He is holding a "quitting farming" sale, as he does not have a farm for next year

Hog house on Roy Merriott farm near Estherville, Iowa, one hundred six...

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

Poletown Historic District, Guarantee Trust & Loan Company, Limited, 2126 East Canal Boulevard, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

Poletown Historic District, Guarantee Trust & Loan Company, Limited, 2...

Significance: The Guarantee Trust and Loan Company building is solely significant for its unique architectural style. The Guarantee Trust and Loan Company was founded in 1915. The subject structure was constr... More

Farm building on Rex Inman farm near Estherville, Iowa. Owned by loan company. Straw barn was built by tenant because of inadequate size of barn recently erected by the loan company

Farm building on Rex Inman farm near Estherville, Iowa. Owned by loan ...

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Barn of Lyle Askeland farm, six hundred forty acres near Armstrong, Iowa. Owned by loan company. Until recently it was owned by absentee estate. Barn received little or no attention over period of twenty years

Barn of Lyle Askeland farm, six hundred forty acres near Armstrong, Io...

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

Three-room shack, the residence of L.H. Nissen, hired man for a tenant farmer. Farm is owned by a loan company. Ten people live in the shack: mother, father, seven children, and one grandchild. Iowa

Three-room shack, the residence of L.H. Nissen, hired man for a tenant...

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

Mrs. Theodore F. Frank, wife of a formerly prosperous farm owner. The farm is now owned by a loan company and the family is left with very little resources

Mrs. Theodore F. Frank, wife of a formerly prosperous farm owner. The ...

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

Williston, North Dakota. Theodore F. Jeffries, squatter on street corner of Williston, North Dakota. This is an old truck, bright red, with the body removed from the chassis which he is fixing up for his winter home having lost his home to the loan company. County FSA (Farm Security Administration) supervisor advises that he was recently yardmaster on the Great Northern Railroad and that at one time he was one of the best reporters on the New York Times. He is now a radical

Williston, North Dakota. Theodore F. Jeffries, squatter on street corn...

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

Andrew Ostermeyer, eighty-one years old. One of the original homesteaders. He has lost his farm to loan company. Still works and lives on farm of his son, Miller Township, Woodbury County, Iowa

Andrew Ostermeyer, eighty-one years old. One of the original homestead...

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

Breaking ice to water mules on Rex Inman's farm near Estherville, Iowa. This farm, 360 acres, is rented from loan company by tenant

Breaking ice to water mules on Rex Inman's farm near Estherville, Iowa...

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Farm building on Rex Inman farm near Estherville, Iowa. Owned by loan company. Straw barn was built by tenant because of inadequate size of barn recently erected by the loan company

Farm building on Rex Inman farm near Estherville, Iowa. Owned by loan ...

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

Building on Theodore F. Frank farm near Anthon, Iowa. He was owner-operator and built up his one hundred sixty acre farm on his own earnings. Pressure of depression and drought made it necessary for him to mortgage his farm. The farm is now owned hy a loan company. The buildings are in excellent repair. Family without resources except those livestock necessary to keep on farming

Building on Theodore F. Frank farm near Anthon, Iowa. He was owner-ope...

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

Mr. and Mrs. Roy Merriott on rented farm of 160 acres near Estherville, Iowa. Until recently owned by loan company; it has been sold to a private party. It is the third farm Merriott has lost in the past ten years

Mr. and Mrs. Roy Merriott on rented farm of 160 acres near Estherville...

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

A man and a woman standing in front of a building, Iowa. Farm Security Administration photograph

A man and a woman standing in front of a building, Iowa. Farm Security...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mr. & Mrs. Austin Fretty on their farm near Armstrong, Iowa. The land is rented from a loan company, and they have started farming with the help of a resettlement loan

Mr. & Mrs. Austin Fretty on their farm near Armstrong, Iowa. The land ...

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

Detail of corn crib on Lyle Askedland farm, six hundred forty acres, near Armstrong, Iowa. This building has received little or no attention in twenty years. This farm until recently was owned by absentee estate. Is now owned by loan company

Detail of corn crib on Lyle Askedland farm, six hundred forty acres, n...

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

Three-room shack, the residence of L.H. Nissen, hired man for a tenant farmer. Farm is owned by a loan company. Ten people live in the shack: mother, father, seven children, and one grandchild. Iowa

Three-room shack, the residence of L.H. Nissen, hired man for a tenant...

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

A man and a woman standing in front of a house, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A man and a woman standing in front of a house, Great Depression. FSA/...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Rustan brothers preparing a "warm drink" for their hogs. Farm is now owned by loan company. Has not been owner-operated for six years. Title is not clear but loan company collects rent and makes very few repairs. Two hundred forty acres, crop share. Near Dickens, Ohio

Rustan brothers preparing a "warm drink" for their hogs. Farm is now o...

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

Rustan brothers' farm near Dickens, Iowa. Two hundred forty acres, crop share lease, owned by loan company. Title not clear, but loan company collects the rent and makes a few repairs. This farm was formerly owner-operated until five or six years ago (note equipment standing in open)

Rustan brothers' farm near Dickens, Iowa. Two hundred forty acres, cro...

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

Breaking ice to water mules on Rex Inman's farm near Estherville, Iowa. This farm, 360 acres, is rented from loan company by tenant

Breaking ice to water mules on Rex Inman's farm near Estherville, Iowa...

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

An old black and white photo of a man and a woman and a child, possibly related to: Family of Glen Cook, who rents his farm from a loan company. Cook's livestock has been cut down considerably due to lack of feed. Little Sioux township, Woodbury County, Iowa

An old black and white photo of a man and a woman and a child, possibl...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

Front porch of house on Elmer Nelson farm. This farm has been in hands of loan company for at least fifteen years. Buildings have not been painted for fifteen years. Crop share lease. Farm full of cockleburrs

Front porch of house on Elmer Nelson farm. This farm has been in hands...

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

Closeup of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Ostermeyer, homesteaders, Miller Township, Woodbury County, Iowa. They have lost their farm to a loan company

Closeup of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Ostermeyer, homesteaders, Miller Townsh...

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

An old black and white photo of a man and a woman and a child, Iowa. Farm Security Administration photograph

An old black and white photo of a man and a woman and a child, Iowa. F...

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

Hog house on Roy Merriott farm near Estherville, Iowa, one hundred sixty acres. Until recently this farm was owned by a loan company. It is now sold to a private owner. This is the third farm Merriot has had sold from under him in the last ten years. He is holding a "quitting farming" sale, as he does not have a farm for next year

Hog house on Roy Merriott farm near Estherville, Iowa, one hundred six...

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

Rustan brothers preparing a "warm drink" for their hogs. Farm is now owned by loan company. Has not been owner-operated for six years. Title is not clear but loan company collects rent and makes very few repairs. Two hundred forty acres, crop share. Near Dickens, Ohio

Rustan brothers preparing a "warm drink" for their hogs. Farm is now o...

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

Building on Theodore F. Frank farm near Anthon, Iowa. He was owner-operator and built up his one hundred sixty acre farm on his own earnings. Pressure of depression and drought made it necessary for him to mortgage his farm. The farm is now owned hy a loan company. The buildings are in excellent repair. Family without resources except those livestock necessary to keep on farming

Building on Theodore F. Frank farm near Anthon, Iowa. He was owner-ope...

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

Mrs. Theodore F. Frank, wife of a formerly prosperous farm owner. The farm is now owned by a loan company and the family is left with very little resources

Mrs. Theodore F. Frank, wife of a formerly prosperous farm owner. The ...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

House of Ellison Parks on eighty acre farm which he rents from a loan company. He has applied for Resettlement Administration grant

House of Ellison Parks on eighty acre farm which he rents from a loan ...

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

Farmhouse on the heavily mortgaged farm of Theodore F. Frank. The family is practically destitute, near Anthon, Iowa. Frank formerly owned this farm, and built it up by himself until pressure of drought and depression necessitated mortgaging of land to a loan company into whose hands it has now passed

Farmhouse on the heavily mortgaged farm of Theodore F. Frank. The fami...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A man and a woman standing in front of a house Farmers of Great Depression. Dust bowl refugees, Resettlement program.

A man and a woman standing in front of a house Farmers of Great Depres...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

An old photo of two women and a child, Iowa. Farm Security Administration photograph

An old photo of two women and a child, Iowa. Farm Security Administrat...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Family of Glen Cook, who rents his farm from a loan company. Cook's livestock has been cut down considerably due to lack of feed. Little Sioux township, Woodbury County, Iowa

Family of Glen Cook, who rents his farm from a loan company. Cook's li...

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

Rustan brothers' farm near Dickens, Iowa. Two hundred forty acres, crop share lease, owned by loan company. Title not clear, but loan company collects the rent and makes a few repairs. This farm was formerly owner-operated until five or six years ago (note equipment standing in open)

Rustan brothers' farm near Dickens, Iowa. Two hundred forty acres, cro...

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

Barn of Lyle Askeland farm, six hundred forty acres near Armstrong, Iowa. Owned by loan company. Until recently it was owned by absentee estate. Barn received little or no attention over period of twenty years

Barn of Lyle Askeland farm, six hundred forty acres near Armstrong, Io...

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

House of Ellison Parks on eighty acre farm which he rents from a loan company. He has applied for Resettlement Administration grant

House of Ellison Parks on eighty acre farm which he rents from a loan ...

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

Detail of barn on Lyle Askeland farm of six hundred forty acres, until recently part of an absentee estate near Armstrong, Iowa. Painting and repairing of buildings has been neglected for twenty years. This farm has now been taken over by loan company and is worked on a crop share (fifty-fifty basis on some stock)

Detail of barn on Lyle Askeland farm of six hundred forty acres, until...

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

Andrew Ostermeyer, eighty-one years old. One of the original homesteaders. He has lost his farm to loan company. Still works and lives on farm of his son, Miller Township, Woodbury County, Iowa

Andrew Ostermeyer, eighty-one years old. One of the original homestead...

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

Mr. & Mrs. Austin Fretty on their farm near Armstrong, Iowa. The land is rented from a loan company, and they have started farming with the help of a resettlement loan

Mr. & Mrs. Austin Fretty on their farm near Armstrong, Iowa. The land ...

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

Front porch of house on Elmer Nelson farm. This farm has been in hands of loan company for at least fifteen years. Buildings have not been painted for fifteen years. Crop share lease. Farm full of cockleburrs

Front porch of house on Elmer Nelson farm. This farm has been in hands...

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

Family of Glen Cook, who rents his farm from a loan company. Cook's livestock has been cut down considerably due to lack of feed. Little Sioux township, Woodbury County, Iowa

Family of Glen Cook, who rents his farm from a loan company. Cook's li...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A couple of people standing next to each other, possibly related to: Mr. and Mrs. Roy Merriott on rented farm of 160 acres near Estherville, Iowa. Until recently owned by loan company; it has been sold to a private party. It is the third farm Merriott has lost in the past ten years

A couple of people standing next to each other, possibly related to: M...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

Corn crib on Rex Inman farm near Estherville, Iowa. This farm owned by a loan company

Corn crib on Rex Inman farm near Estherville, Iowa. This farm owned by...

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

Building on Elmer Nelson farm near Wallingford, Iowa. This farm is owned by a loan company

Building on Elmer Nelson farm near Wallingford, Iowa. This farm is own...

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

Detail of barn on Lyle Askeland farm of six hundred forty acres, until recently part of an absentee estate near Armstrong, Iowa. Painting and repairing of buildings has been neglected for twenty years. This farm has now been taken over by loan company and is worked on a crop share (fifty-fifty basis on some stock)

Detail of barn on Lyle Askeland farm of six hundred forty acres, until...

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

Mr. and Mrs. Roy Merriott on rented farm of 160 acres near Estherville, Iowa. Until recently owned by loan company; it has been sold to a private party. It is the third farm Merriott has lost in the past ten years

Mr. and Mrs. Roy Merriott on rented farm of 160 acres near Estherville...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A man and a woman standing in front of a house, possibly related to: Mr. & Mrs. Austin Fretty on their farm near Armstrong, Iowa. The land is rented from a loan company, and they have started farming with the help of a resettlement loan

A man and a woman standing in front of a house, possibly related to: M...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

An old photo of two women and a child, possibly related to: Mrs. Theodore F. Frank, wife of a formerly prosperous farm owner. The farm is now owned by a loan company and the family is left with very little resources

An old photo of two women and a child, possibly related to: Mrs. Theod...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

Farmhouse on the heavily mortgaged farm of Theodore F. Frank. The family is practically destitute, near Anthon, Iowa. Frank formerly owned this farm, and built it up by himself until pressure of drought and depression necessitated mortgaging of land to a loan company into whose hands it has now passed

Farmhouse on the heavily mortgaged farm of Theodore F. Frank. The fami...

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