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[Women inspecting currency at the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing]

[Women inspecting currency at the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printin...

Copyright deposit; Underwood & Underwood; 1907. No. 658. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S. Treasury, Washington DC, Waldon Fawcett photo, Washington DC

U.S. Treasury, Washington DC, Waldon Fawcett photo, Washington DC

Two women with stacks of paper money. Copyright by Waldon Fawcett.

Buy United States government war savings stamps Your money back with interest from the United States Treasury / / reproduced by the Strobridge Litho. Co. Cincinnati & New York.

Buy United States government war savings stamps Your money back with i...

Poster showing a variety of people lined up at a window tended by Uncle Sam, beneath a sign "W.S.S. for sale here"; a little girl waves the American flag in the foreground. No. S-11. LC-USZ62-9459 damaged; digi... More

Lend your money to your government Buy a United States government bond, second Liberty Loan of 1917, U.S. Treasury will pay you interest every six months.

Lend your money to your government Buy a United States government bond...

Poster showing a panoramic view of the U.S. Treasury Building from the southeast. No. 7.

Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas. A family of six alongside the road. An example of how they fall between the relief agencies. The father, aged thirty-five, is an intelligent fellow, a painter by trade. Advanced tuberculosis, victim of an occupational disease. Ineligible for WPA (Works Progress Administration), rated as totally disabled. As a state charge under Oklahoma relief standards, the family were told the maximum relief would be seven dollars every two weeks. They lost their home, their furniture, took to the road a year ago and when the photographs were made they were found to be without money, shelter, and without food for the four children

Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas. A family of six alongside the r...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

I can lick the bum' Washington, D.C., Nov. 9. Rollicking Tony Galento, Orange, N.J., pubkeeper, sounding off today at the offices of the D.C. Boxing Commission where he laid on the line for Secretary Harvey L. Miller a ten-grand note as a challenge to Joe Louis for a championship bout. The money will be forwarded by Miller, an official of the National Boxing Association, to Charles E. Reynolds, President of the NBA, 11/9/38

I can lick the bum' Washington, D.C., Nov. 9. Rollicking Tony Galento,...

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

As the auctioneer knocks down the last bid on each basket of tobacco in the warehouse, the price is immediately recorded, and the farmers go to the "money box" to get their money. Douglas, Georgia

As the auctioneer knocks down the last bid on each basket of tobacco i...

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

Improvements impossible unless rail wage cut - fact finding committee told. Washington, D.C., Oct. 7. Charles Donnelly, President of the Northern Pacific Railroad, today told the fact finding committee that it would be impossible for any railroad to spend money for improvements under present conditions. He urged approval of the wage cut, 10/7/38

Improvements impossible unless rail wage cut - fact finding committee ...

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

A black and white photo of a group of people, Mississippi. Farmers during Great Depression.

A black and white photo of a group of people, Mississippi. Farmers dur...

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Negro plowing corn. He is a tenant; raises mainly tobacco; has lived here for four years. The cornfield is grassy and poor. On dirt road from Highway 144. Person County, North Carolina. He is saying "You ain't looking for money, is you?" Person County, North Carolina

Negro plowing corn. He is a tenant; raises mainly tobacco; has lived h...

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

Brunswick stew dinner in front of the tobacco warehouse on opening day of the auctions. Prepared by Parent Teachers Association of Prospect Hill, to raise money for a new gymnasium for the Prospect Hill Consolidated School in Caswell County, North Carolina

Brunswick stew dinner in front of the tobacco warehouse on opening day...

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

Many parents and young people from the school and nearby communities attend the pie and box supper, given by the school to raise money for additional repairs and supplies. Each box or pie is auctioned off to the highest bidder, sometimes bringing a good deal, since the girl's "boyfriend" usually wins and has the privilege of eating it with her afterwards. Quicksand School, Breathitt County, Kentucky

Many parents and young people from the school and nearby communities a...

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Women in industry. Aircraft motor workers. A million dollar baby, not in terms of money but in her value to Uncle Sam, twenty-one-year-old Eunice Hancock, erstwhile five-and-ten-cent store employee, operates a compressed-air grinder in a Midwest aircraft motor plant. With no previous experience, Eunice quickly mastered the techniques of her war job and today is turning out motor parts with speed and skill. Note protective mask and visor, two vital safety accessories

Women in industry. Aircraft motor workers. A million dollar baby, not ...

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.

There's no June in January for the housewife with economy and Victory on her mind. Buying foods out of season means less food for more money, and less money available for household staples and defense stamps

There's no June in January for the housewife with economy and Victory ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Minesweepers. David L. Zimbough, age seventy, came out of retirement to operate a lathe to make parts for sweepers in an Eastern shipyard. He returned his last social security check, declaring that the money he made helping win the war was enough for him. Gibbs Cass Company

Production. Minesweepers. David L. Zimbough, age seventy, came out of ...

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.

Women in industry. Aircraft motor workers. A million dollar baby, not in terms of money but in her value to Uncle Sam, twenty-one-year-old Eunice Hancock, erstwhile five-and-ten-cent store employee, operates a compressed-air grinder in a Midwest aircraft motor plant. With no previous experience, Eunice quickly mastered the techniques of her war job and today is turning out motor parts with speed and skill. Note protective mask and visor, two vital safety accessories

Women in industry. Aircraft motor workers. A million dollar baby, not ...

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.

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Not King Midas counting out his money, but an inspector in a cartridge case shop examining cartridge case blanks or discs for flaws in metal structure. Any flaws in the blanks can be easily detected in the freshly- cut edges after they are wiped clean. These circular blanks, which are cut on a press from heavy sheet brass, are drawn and formed into shell cases. Chase Copper and Brass Company, Euclid, Ohio

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Not King Midas counting out h...

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

Car pooling at Lockheed Vega. When the company first offered bus transportation, employees were dubious, but responded to salesmanship. Once tried, they found that they saved time, money and parking worries. Result: six busses put in service in April have catapulted to eighty-four busses on June 1, with demand for more. The girl here is selling ticket book

Car pooling at Lockheed Vega. When the company first offered bus trans...

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Spring pulpwood drive on the Brown Company timber holdings in Maine. Woodsmen playing cards in the bunkhouse after a thirteen-hour day of driving logs. They are using Canadian money

Spring pulpwood drive on the Brown Company timber holdings in Maine. W...

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Keysville, Virginia. Randolph Henry High School. Cafeteria. Students don't have much money so they bring produce from farms for which they receive tickets. Lunches cost about fifteen cents. Typical lunch for fifteen cents: candied yams, macaroni and cheese, fruit salad, deviled eggs, dessert and milk. Milk is free and children can have as much as they want

Keysville, Virginia. Randolph Henry High School. Cafeteria. Students d...

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Keysville, Virginia. Randolph Henry High School. Cafeteria. Students don't have much money so they bring produce from home for which they receive tickets. Lunches cost about fifteen cents. Typical lunch for fifteen cents: candied yams, macaroni and cheese, fruit salad, deviled eggs, dessert and milk. Milk is free and children can have as much as they want

Keysville, Virginia. Randolph Henry High School. Cafeteria. Students d...

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

Boys and girls! You can help your Uncle Sam win the war - save your quarters, buy War Savings Stamps / James Montgomery Flagg ; American Lithographic Co., N.Y.

Boys and girls! You can help your Uncle Sam win the war - save your qu...

Poster showing Uncle Sam offering War Savings Stamps to a boy and girl. W.S.S. War Savings Stamps issued by the United States government. Form A-51.

[Man checking drying tray at U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing]

[Man checking drying tray at U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing]

Photograph shows a man checking currency in a drying tray at the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Copyright deposit; Underwood & Underwood; 1908. No. 361.

For victory they paid their all--For a Victory Bond you pay money and get it back with interest / R.L.B.

For victory they paid their all--For a Victory Bond you pay money and ...

Design for a poster showing troops charging over a hill, with a graveyard in the background.

Buy United States government war savings stamps Your money back with interest from the United States Treasury / / Reproduced by the Strobridge Litho. Co. Cincinnati & New York.

Buy United States government war savings stamps Your money back with i...

Poster showing a variety of people lined up at a window tended by Uncle Sam, beneath a sign "W.S.S. for sale here"; a little girl waves the American flag in the foreground. No. S-11. Forms part of: Willard and ... More

Admits "kicking back" part of salary. Washington, D.C., April 22. He "turned back" $75 of his $200 per month salary, Henry M. Lewis former Deputy Sheriff in Harlan County, Ky., told the Senate Civil Liberties Committee as it resumed its investigation of alleged terrorism in connection with Harlan County Coal Operators' efforts to resist union organization drives. The money was returned to Sheriff Theodore R. Middleton each month in 1935 and 1936. Lewis added that many of the men listed as drawing salaries from the Sheriff's office were not regarded as regular employees, and several of them worked for coal companies, 4/22/1937

Admits "kicking back" part of salary. Washington, D.C., April 22. He "...

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

"You pay your money and make your choice" Washington, D.C., May 31. A feature of the twenty-eighth National Conference on Weights and Measures which opened in Washington today was display of the many parking meters now in use throughout the country. they range from 1cent to 5cents allowing the parker 20 minutes to half an hour. 49,500 meters are now in use in 56 cities. R.E. Gould, chief of the time section of the National Bureau of Standards, is pictured examining the display, 5/31/38

"You pay your money and make your choice" Washington, D.C., May 31. A ...

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

A black and white photo of a group of people, Mississippi. Farmers during Great Depression.

A black and white photo of a group of people, Mississippi. Farmers dur...

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

Brunswick stew dinner in front of the tobacco warehouse on opening day of the auctions. Prepared by Parent Teachers Association of Prospect Hill, to raise money for a new gymnasium for the Prospect Hill Consolidated School in Caswell County, North Carolina

Brunswick stew dinner in front of the tobacco warehouse on opening day...

Public domain photograph of people eating food, drinking, tavern, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

PRESIDENT PRESENTS MEDAL TO COHAN FOR 'OVER THERE' WAR SONG. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT TODAY PRESENTED A GOLD MEDAL TO GEORGE M. COHAN IN BELATED RECOGNITION OF COHAN'S SERVICES AS COMPOSER OF TWO PATRIOTIC SONGS DURING THE WORLD WAR, 'OVER THERE' AND 'THE GRAND OLD FLAG.' COHAN WROTE THE SONG, AND MONEY FROM SALES WERE GIVEN TO CHARITY. THE MEDAL WAS AUTHORIZED BY CONGRESS IN 1936. IN THIS PHOTOGRAPH IS SOME RESEMBLANCE IN COHAN TO PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT WHOM HE CHARACTERIZED IN A RECENT PLAY

PRESIDENT PRESENTS MEDAL TO COHAN FOR 'OVER THERE' WAR SONG. PRESIDENT...

A man in a suit is holding a medal. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a group of people. Great Depression FSA photogpraph

A black and white photo of a group of people. Great Depression FSA pho...

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Lititz, Pennsylvania. The Moravian sewing circle quilts for anyone at one cent a yard of thread and donates the money to the church

Lititz, Pennsylvania. The Moravian sewing circle quilts for anyone at ...

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

Keysville, Virginia. Randolph Henry High School. Cafeteria. Students don't have much money so they bring produce from farms for which they receive tickets. Lunches cost about fifteen cents. Typical lunch for fifteen cents: candied yams, macaroni and cheese, fruit salad, deviled eggs, dessert and milk. Milk is free and children have as much as they want

Keysville, Virginia. Randolph Henry High School. Cafeteria. Students d...

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

Keysville, Virginia. Randolph Henry High School. Cafeteria. Students don't have much money so they bring produce from farms for which they receive tickets. Lunches cost about fifteen cents. Typical lunch for fifteen cents: candied yams, macaroni and cheese, fruit salad, deviled eggs, dessert and milk. Milk is free and children have as much as they want

Keysville, Virginia. Randolph Henry High School. Cafeteria. Students d...

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

Engraving the plates for printing paper money, Bureau of Printing and Engraving, Washington, D.C.

Engraving the plates for printing paper money, Bureau of Printing and ...

Stereograph showing men engraving plates. J224191 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyrighted by Keystone View Company. No. 22299.

Woman in classical garb with palm leading emigrants (?)

Woman in classical garb with palm leading emigrants (?)

For Kodak poster or advertisement. Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1935:0064). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

8:00 P.M. Flashlight photo of messengers absorbed in their usual Poker game in the "Den of the Terrible Nine" (the waiting room for Wes. Union Messengers, Hartford, Conn.) They play for money. Some loose a whole month's wages in a day and then are afraid to go home. Location: Hartford, Connecticut.

8:00 P.M. Flashlight photo of messengers absorbed in their usual Poker...

A group of men sitting on top of a white box. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[A series of small scenes that illustrate various ways of getting money]

[A series of small scenes that illustrate various ways of getting mone...

Title devised. Inscribed: Robbery; Forgery; Burglary; Highway robbery; CHECK BOOK. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.0512) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[Eight Confederate bills ranging in value from five to one hundred dollars]

[Eight Confederate bills ranging in value from five to one hundred dol...

Copyright by William Lee, M.D. Plate II. Public domain photograph related to Confederate States of America, American Civil War, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Where some of the newsboy's money goes. Location: Wilmington, Delaware.

Where some of the newsboy's money goes. Location: Wilmington, Delawar...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Family of L.W. Money. Father, daughter and two boys work in spinning room of Washington Cotton Mills. Fries, Virginia Smallest worker said he was thirteen, but it is doubtful. Location: Fries, Virginia.

Family of L.W. Money. Father, daughter and two boys work in spinning r...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Picryl description: Public domain image of byciclyst, bike, bicycle wheel, sport event, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Picryl description: Public domain image of byciclyst, bike, bicycle wh...

Picryl description: Public domain image of bicyclist, bike, bicycle wheel, sport event, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Once a prosperous Texas farmer, near Bakersfield, California, now come to California looking for work and work for his family in cotton. No work, and no money

Once a prosperous Texas farmer, near Bakersfield, California, now come...

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

Drought refugees from Chickasaw, Oklahoma. Three families traveling together. They can't travel because of lack of money for trailer license. Near Santa Maria, California

Drought refugees from Chickasaw, Oklahoma. Three families traveling to...

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

Typical of better home once owned by white people, but for past ten years owned by Negro woman who hasn't money to keep it repaired. Monticello Road, near Columbia, South Carolina

Typical of better home once owned by white people, but for past ten ye...

Public domain photograph of a historic place in North Carolina, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Car trouble on west side of Highway No. 33 in San Joaquin Valley. Formerly a California cowhand and roving laborer. Now with his wife, he follows the fruit. "My uncle homesteaded here sixty years ago. I'm lower on money than at any time." A veteran of the the AEF (American Expeditionary Forces) engineers. He searches his trunk and produces snapshots of the AEF, including Pershing reviewing the troops in Germany. San Joaquin Valley, California

Car trouble on west side of Highway No. 33 in San Joaquin Valley. Form...

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Cotton picker's camp, Salt River Valley, Arizona. For many refugees from the Southwest, Arizona is a stopping point on the way to California, where money can be made during the cotton harvest with which to continue the journey

Cotton picker's camp, Salt River Valley, Arizona. For many refugees fr...

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

A couple of men standing next to a car, Mississippi. Farmers during Great Depression.

A couple of men standing next to a car, Mississippi. Farmers during Gr...

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

A group of men working on a piece of wood. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A group of men working on a piece of wood. Great Depression FFSA / OWI...

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Brunswick stew dinner in front of the tobacco warehouse on opening day of the auctions. Prepared by Parent Teachers Association of Prospect Hill, to raise money for a new gymnasium for the Prospect Hill Consolidated School in Caswell County, North Carolina

Brunswick stew dinner in front of the tobacco warehouse on opening day...

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

Many parents and young people from the school and nearby communities attend the pie and box supper, given by the school to raise money for additional repairs and supplies. Each box or pie is auctioned off to the highest bidder, sometimes bringing a good deal, since the girl's "boyfriend" usually wins and has the privilege of eating it with her afterwards. Quicksand School, Breathitt County, Kentucky

Many parents and young people from the school and nearby communities a...

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

"Me and the old gent." This two-man plant operated at Bay City, Michigan by Jake Sparling, sixty-year-old ex-lumberjack who saw his first lathe a year and a half ago, was named by Donald Nelson to head the list of 1,300 plants enrolled in the war production drive. "The old gent and myself," says Sparling, "work fifteen hours a day, seven days a week," and produced 18,000 steel flanges for war equipment in eighteen months. The money will buy war bonds and stamps

"Me and the old gent." This two-man plant operated at Bay City, Michig...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a train station, railroad tracks, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Blue Island, Illinois. Bobby Senise has a paper route which nets him some spending money and helps to fill his war stamp book

Blue Island, Illinois. Bobby Senise has a paper route which nets him s...

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Whistle blows noon Opelika Cotton Mill. Smallest girl in photograph is Velma Smith a tiny little spinner with a steady job all day. I found her at home crying bitterly because her father refused to let her have any money out of the pay envelope she brought home. Mother said: "That haint no way to encourage children to work." Mother, father and several children work. Her mother admitted she worked here before 12 years old, and at Ella White Mill and one other city for about a year. Says they have no family record, but claims Velma is 12 now (which is doubtful). I saw her several times going and coming at 5:45 A.M. and noon. Location: Opelika, Alabama.

Whistle blows noon Opelika Cotton Mill. Smallest girl in photograph is...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The art of making money plenty in every man's pocket by Doctor Franklin. New York Published by P. Maverick, 1817.

The art of making money plenty in every man's pocket by Doctor Frankli...

Karl Witklwskr, 812 Walnut St., Market vender. 11 years of age. 1 year at work. Works of own choice. Earns percentage of money received from stand, amounting to an average of 50 cents a week. Money not needed at home. Works of own volition. Investigator, Edward F. Brown. Location: Wilmington, Delaware Photo by Louis W. Hine, May, 1910

Karl Witklwskr, 812 Walnut St., Market vender. 11 years of age. 1 year...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 1506. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Quizzed by Monopoly Committee. Washington, D.C., Dec. 21. Herbert G. Shimp, President of the American Conservation Co., detailed to the National Monopoly Committee today the deal he made with Hugh T. Martin, President of the Illinois Bankers Life Assurance Co., whereby $430,000 paid to his--Shimp--company to reinsure the Illinois Bankers Life Association was 'kicked back' to Martin and two of his associates. Martin told the committee that he and his associates used the money to buy stock in the Life Assurance Co., which succeeded the association

Quizzed by Monopoly Committee. Washington, D.C., Dec. 21. Herbert G. S...

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

PRESIDENT AGAINST CLASS LEGISLATION. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT APPEARS BEFORE THE JOINT SESSION OF HOUSE AND SENATE AND VETOES THE PATMAN BONUS BILL. HE SAID HE OBJECTED TO CLASS LEGISLATION WHICH WOULD GIVE ABLE-BODIED VETERANS MONEY AT THIS TIME WHILE WITHOLDING MONEY FROM NON-VETERANS

PRESIDENT AGAINST CLASS LEGISLATION. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT APPEARS BEFOR...

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

Entered California the fall of 1938. En-route to pea harvest in Imperial Valley. Car broke down. "Want to get back to Missouri if they ever get the money." U.S. 99. Tulare, California

Entered California the fall of 1938. En-route to pea harvest in Imperi...

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

Stores in warehouse district held big sales during tobacco auction season, to get money from unsuspecting farmers who have sold their tobacco. Durham, North Carolina

Stores in warehouse district held big sales during tobacco auction sea...

Picryl description: Public domain image of banknote, paper money, numismatic catalog, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Negroes gambling with their cotton money in a juke joint outside of Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta

Negroes gambling with their cotton money in a juke joint outside of Cl...

Public domain photographs related to race relations, African Americans, discrimination, segregation, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Family who have small goat dairy in front of their tent home near Sallisaw, Oklahoma. They had moved into the tent to save rent and fuel money in town

Family who have small goat dairy in front of their tent home near Sall...

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

Negroes buying secondhand clothing with the money they earned picking cotton. Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

Negroes buying secondhand clothing with the money they earned picking ...

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

Negroes shooting craps behind a tenant house, disposing of their cotton money on Saturday afternoon, Marcella Plantation, Mileston, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

Negroes shooting craps behind a tenant house, disposing of their cotto...

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

Priorities unemployment. No more money. John Jones, silk worker, is a victim of "priorities unemployment." It might have been James Smith, rubber worker. It might have been anybody. The "priorities unemployment" is part of a process of changing over, of retooling. And it's a temporary part, in most cases. Defense industries are expanding. In the long run, the defense program will make more jobs than it will break. It has already created 4,000,000 new jobs and there will be 2,500,000 more by April 1942. Production skills are needed for defense, John Jones'skills, James Smith's skills. How does "man meet job?"

Priorities unemployment. No more money. John Jones, silk worker, is a ...

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

Washington, D.C. A soldier asking for help for his mother at the Red Cross home service office. This service deals with personal problems of servicemen, acts as a liaison between them and their families at home and often helps them out with loans or grants of money

Washington, D.C. A soldier asking for help for his mother at the Red C...

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

Chicago schoolchildren buy 263,148.83 in war bonds. In a specialwWar bond Campaign which ended last month, the public school children of the South-Central District of Chicago purchased 263,148.83 in war bonds and stamps. The campaign was climaxed with a rally in Washington Park on June fourth, at which time a huge check representing enough money for 125 jeeps, two pursuit planes and motorcycle was presented to Major C. Udell Turpin of the Illinois War Bond Sales staff, representing the Treasury Department. Also participating in the excercises were representatives of the War Department

Chicago schoolchildren buy 263,148.83 in war bonds. In a specialwWar b...

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

Washington, D.C. A woman giving money to a worker for the American rescue society

Washington, D.C. A woman giving money to a worker for the American res...

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.

Street scene in Deadwood, South Dakota, a town that underwent extensive rehabilitation using money raised from casino proceeds

Street scene in Deadwood, South Dakota, a town that underwent extensiv...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to Wild West, western, cowboys, no copyright restrictions image.

Member of Montescaglioso Club with plateful of money he has obtained from spectators.

Member of Montescaglioso Club with plateful of money he has obtained f...

Forms part of a group of images documenting the annual San Rocco procession, sponsored by the Montescaglioso Club of Paterson, as it passes through the People's Park neighborhood of Paterson, New Jersey.

Making paper money, Bureau of Printing and Engraving, Washington, D.C.

Making paper money, Bureau of Printing and Engraving, Washington, D.C.

J218451 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyrighted by Keystone View Company. No. 22290; No. 94.

Hardwick, Vermont. A few of the hundreds of items being donated and sold at the Victory Store, the money from which goes into a local war fund

Hardwick, Vermont. A few of the hundreds of items being donated and so...

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

[Whistle blows noon Opelika Cotton Mill. Smallest girl in photograph is Velma Smith a tiny little spinner with a steady job all day. I found her at home crying bitterly because her father refused to let her have any money out of the pay envelope she brought home. Mother said: "That haint no way to encourage children to work." Mother, father and several children work. Her mother admitted she worked here before 12 years old, and at Ella White Mill and one other city for about a year. Says they have no family record, but claims Velma is 12 now (which is doubtful). I saw her several times going and coming at 5:45 A.M. and noon.] Location: [Opelika, Alabama]

[Whistle blows noon Opelika Cotton Mill. Smallest girl in photograph i...

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Whistle blows noon Opelika Cotton Mill. Smallest girl in photograph is Velma Smith a tiny little spinner with a steady job all day. I found her at home crying bitterly because her father refused to let her have any money out of the pay envelope she brought home. Mother said: "That haint no way to encourage children to work." Mother, father and several children work. Her mother admitted she worked here before 12 years old, and at Ella White Mill and one other city for about a year. Says they have no family record, but claims Velma is 12 now (which is doubtful). I saw her several times going and coming at 5:45 A.M. and noon. Location: Opelika, Alabama.

Whistle blows noon Opelika Cotton Mill. Smallest girl in photograph is...

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[Confederate one hundred dollar bill], Confederate States of America.

[Confederate one hundred dollar bill], Confederate States of America.

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Death on economy. U.S. "I suppose I must spend a little on life-saving service, life-boat stations, life-boats, surf-boats, etc.; but it is too bad to be obliged to waste so much money" / Th. Nast.

Death on economy. U.S. "I suppose I must spend a little on life-saving...

Cartoon showing Uncle Sam looking at drowned bodies and shipwrecked Huron. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1877 Dec. 29, p. 1024.

Relief labor more costly than private contract, House committee told. Washington D.C. Testifying before the House Agricultural Committee today, Resettlement Administrator W.W. Alexander said that construction of improvements on farms in the south, if done with relief labor, would cost nearly twice as much as if done under private contract. The Committee is considering the Jones-Bankhead Farm Tenancy Bill which would set up a federal corporation to loan money to tenant farmers to enable them to buy and improve land

Relief labor more costly than private contract, House committee told. ...

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Uncle Sam's monetary brains. Washington, D.C., Jan. 7. The government's experts on money matters met with Senate and House leaders today to discuss legislation to be submitted to the 75th session of Congress. A discussion was made at the conference to extend the life of important federal monetary lending agencies, and also, to move in giving the President authority to discontinue the R.F.C. at anytime the conditions warrant. In the photograph, left to right: Jesse Jones, Chairman of the Treasury; Senator Pat Harrison, Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee; and Marriner Eccles, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board

Uncle Sam's monetary brains. Washington, D.C., Jan. 7. The government'...

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Ofc. of Comptroller. Committee checking daily destruction of National Bank notes

Ofc. of Comptroller. Committee checking daily destruction of National...

Three men in Treasury Department office with bank notes. National Photo Company Collection.

Treasury. A $75,000 wheelbarrow of mutilated money on way to vaults. Employee in picture has wheeled barrow 50 years

Treasury. A $75,000 wheelbarrow of mutilated money on way to vaults. E...

Man pushing wheelbarrow with money stacked on it. National Photo Company Collection.

Where some of the newsboy's money goes. Location: Wilmington, Delaware.

Where some of the newsboy's money goes. Location: Wilmington, Delawar...

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Money washing machine at the Treasury Dept.

Money washing machine at the Treasury Dept.

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See real warfare - "over there" cantonment - made possible by blood-not money 5th Regiment Armory, Baltimore - tickets for sale here / / Lloyd Harrison ; H Gamse & Bro. Litho. Balto. Md.

See real warfare - "over there" cantonment - made possible by blood-no...

Poster showing a tank climbing across a trench. Opens March 30th, moving pictures, music, world's greatest orators.

Uncle Sam needs money as well as men--Join the Liberty Loan partial payment plan [...] at any bank

Uncle Sam needs money as well as men--Join the Liberty Loan partial pa...

Poster showing a monumental Uncle Sam seated, with citizens offering money on the left, and military personnel on the right. Copyright by H.F. Rawll. Plan devised and offered by Christmas Club, a corporation, 3... More

A group of men standing around a man laying on the ground - FSA / Office of War Information Photograph

A group of men standing around a man laying on the ground - FSA / Offi...

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MRS. A.C. CARLSON, NATIONAL PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY, PRESENTS A VETERAN-MADE POPPY TO PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. THE ORGANIZATION SELLS POPPIES EACH YEAR TO RAISE MONEY FOR VETERANS SUFFERING FROM WAR INJURIES

MRS. A.C. CARLSON, NATIONAL PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY...

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U.S. Expert on burnt and mutilated currency. Washington, D.C., Oct. 8. For years it has been the duty of Miss Bertha M. Sherfy to pass on the genuineness of the burnt and mutilated currency which is sent to the U.S. Treasury for Redemption. Miss Sherfy says she finds the most difficult currency to identify is that which has been buried underground, expose to water, dampness, etc. Charred money is too easy to identify but currency burned to a gray ash can never be distinguished. An average of three million dollars of this type of money is forwarded to the Treasury for redemption every [...]

U.S. Expert on burnt and mutilated currency. Washington, D.C., Oct. 8....

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A group of people sitting on top of a truck, New Hamshire. Farm Security Organization photograph

A group of people sitting on top of a truck, New Hamshire. Farm Securi...

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Bell made of old silver money on Marcella Plantation. Mileston, Mississippi

Bell made of old silver money on Marcella Plantation. Mileston, Missis...

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A shanty built of refuse near the Sunnyside slack pile, Herrin, Illinois Many residences in southern Illinois coal towns were built with money borrowed from building and loan associations. During the depression building and loan associations almost all went into receivership. Their mortgages were sold for whatever they would bring, and the purchasers demolished houses by the hundreds in order to salvage the scrap lumber. The result is a serious overcrowding and high rents in all the coal towns. A number of people can find no houses to rent, and are living in tents and shanties on the fringes of the town

A shanty built of refuse near the Sunnyside slack pile, Herrin, Illino...

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A couple of people standing next to a car. Great Depression FSA photogpraph

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Three of the four Arnold children. The oldest boy earned the money to buy his bicycle. Western Washington, Thurston County, Michigan Hill. See general Caption number 36

Three of the four Arnold children. The oldest boy earned the money to ...

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A group of people standing on top of a snow covered slope, New Hamshire. Farm Security Organization photograph

A group of people standing on top of a snow covered slope, New Hamshir...

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FDR [Franklin Delano Roosevelt] RECIEVES CHINESE SCROLL. WASHINGTON, D.C. MAY 24, A GROUP OF CHINESE STUDENTS PRESENTED PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT WITH A SCROLL SIGNED BY 200 CHINESE STUDENTS IN SHANGHAI EXPRESSING THANKS FOR MONEY RAISED BY AMERICAN STUDENTS FOR THEIR EDUCATION. R TO L: TENNYSON CHANG, HANSON HWANG, STUDENTS; DAVID TOONG, GEN. SEC. OF THE CHINESE STUDENTS CHRISTIAN ASSN. PRESENTING F.D.R. WITH THE SCROLL; PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT; AND JACK McMICHAEL, CHAIRMAN OF THE AMERICAN YOUTH CONGRESS

FDR [Franklin Delano Roosevelt] RECIEVES CHINESE SCROLL. WASHINGTON, D...

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Many parents and young people from the school and nearby communities attend the pie and box supper, given by the school to raise money for additional repairs and supplies. Each box or pie is auctioned off to the highest bidder, sometimes bringing a good deal, since the girl's "boyfriend" usually wins and has the privilege of eating it with her afterwards. Quicksand school, Breathitt County, Kentucky

Many parents and young people from the school and nearby communities a...

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A group of men sitting around a wooden table, North Carolina. Farm Security Administration photograph

A group of men sitting around a wooden table, North Carolina. Farm Sec...

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A black and white photo of three men sitting in front of a building, Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of three men sitting in front of a building, V...

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Parent Teachers Association of Prospect Hill, Caswell County serving and selling Brunswick stew dinner in Mebane, North Carolina on opening day of tobacco market, to raise money for a new gymnasium for the Prospect Hill consolidated school in Caswell County, North Carolina

Parent Teachers Association of Prospect Hill, Caswell County serving a...

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Many parents and young people from the school and nearby communities attend the pie and box supper, given by the school to raise money for additional repairs and supplies. Each box or pie is auctioned off to the highest bidder, sometimes bringing a good deal, since the girl's "boyfriend" usually wins and has the privilege of eating it with her afterwards. Quicksand School, Breathitt County, Kentucky

Many parents and young people from the school and nearby communities a...

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A group of men sitting at a table in front of a car, North Carolina. Farm Security Administration photograph

A group of men sitting at a table in front of a car, North Carolina. F...

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