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This ex-tenant still lives on the plantation but works for wages of one dollar a day. He estimated that he worked about 190 days during 1936. Near Clarksdale, Mississippi

This ex-tenant still lives on the plantation but works for wages of on...

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Brawley, Imperial Valley. In Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp. Family of mother, father and eleven children, originally from near Mangrum, Oklahoma, where he had been tenant farmer. Came to California in 1936 after the drought. Since then has been traveling from crop to crop in California, following the harvest. Six of the eleven children attend school wherever the family stops long enough. Five older children work along with the father and mother. February 23, two of the family have been lucky and "got a place" (a day's work) in the peas on the Sinclair ranch. Father had earned about one dollar and seventy-three cents for ten-hour day. Oldest daughter had earned one dollar and twenty-five cents. Form these earnings had to provide their transportation to the fields twenty miles away. Mother wants to return to Oklahoma, father unwilling.She says, "I want to go back to where we can live happym live decent, and grow what we eat." He says, "We can't go the way I am now. We've got nothing in the world to farm with. I made my mistake when I came out here."

Brawley, Imperial Valley. In Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrat...

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Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, Mexican and white, from the Southwest. Pull, clean, tie and crate carrots for the eastern market for eleven cents per crate of forty-eight bunches. Many can make barely one dollar a day. Heavy oversupply of labor and competition for jobs is keen

Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, M...

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Interior of one-room cabin occupied by family of six, rented from fruit packing plant for one dollar and seventy-five cents a week. Berrien County, Michigan

Interior of one-room cabin occupied by family of six, rented from frui...

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Day labor now is used almost exclusively on Hopson Plantation, displacing the old tenants on the place. Cotton choppers are hired in nearby towns for seventy-five cents to one dollar a day and trucked to the plantation. Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

Day labor now is used almost exclusively on Hopson Plantation, displac...

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Day labor is used almost exclusively on Hopson plantation, displacing the old tenants on the place. Cotton choppers are hired in nearby towns for seventy-five cents to one dollar a day and trucked to the plantation. Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

Day labor is used almost exclusively on Hopson plantation, displacing ...

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Home of turpentine worker near Cordele, Alabama. Father's wage is one dollar a day. This is the standard of living the turpentine trees support

Home of turpentine worker near Cordele, Alabama. Father's wage is one ...

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Children of turpentine worker near Cordele, Alabama. The father earns one dollar a day

Children of turpentine worker near Cordele, Alabama. The father earns ...

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Former tenant farmer on a large cotton farm. Now a tractor driver for one dollar a day on the same farm. Bell County, Texas

Former tenant farmer on a large cotton farm. Now a tractor driver for ...

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A black and white photo of a group of people standing in front of a train, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a group of people standing in front of a tr...

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

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

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Day labor now is used almost exclusively on Hopson Plantation, displacing the old tenants on the place. Cotton choppers are hired in nearby towns for seventy-five cents to one dollar a day and trucked to the plantation. Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

Day labor now is used almost exclusively on Hopson Plantation, displac...

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Day labor is used almost exclusively on Hopson plantation, displacing the old tenants on the place. Cotton choppers are hired in nearby towns for seventy-five cents to one dollar a day and trucked to the plantation. Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

Day labor is used almost exclusively on Hopson plantation, displacing ...

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Day labor is used almost exclusively on Hopson plantation, displacing the old tenants on the place. Cotton choppers are hired in nearby towns for seventy-five cents to one dollar a day and trucked to the plantation. Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

Day labor is used almost exclusively on Hopson plantation, displacing ...

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I can make my crop money for next year in a month, said John Fields, tenant living on a small farm seven miles out of town. Farm labor in this section, until 1940, received from sixty cents to one dollar a day, working from sunup to sundown. He works as a carpenter or common laborer. Childersburg, Alabama

I can make my crop money for next year in a month, said John Fields, t...

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Guanica, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Farm laborer employed in cutting sugar cane at one dollar and fifty-one cents per day

Guanica, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Farm laborer employed in cutting suga...

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Orange pickers camp, Farmersville, Tulare County California. Rent: one dollar per week

Orange pickers camp, Farmersville, Tulare County California. Rent: one...

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

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

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Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, Mexican and white, from the Southwest. Pull, clean, tie and crate carrots for the eastern market for eleven cents per crate of forty-eight bunches. Many can make barely one dollar a day. Heavy oversupply of labor and competition for jobs is keen

Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, M...

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A black and white photo of a group of people riding on the back of a truck, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a group of people riding on the back of a t...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of migrant workers, 1930s car, Great Depression, Dust Bowl refugees, poverty, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Day labor now is used almost exclusively on Hopson Plantation, displacing the old tenants on the place. Cotton choppers are hired in nearby towns for seventy-five cents to one dollar a day and trucked to the plantation. Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

Day labor now is used almost exclusively on Hopson Plantation, displac...

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

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

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

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

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of migrant workers, 1930s car, Great Depression, Dust Bowl refugees, poverty, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, Mexican and white, from the Southwest. Pull, clean, tie and crate carrots for the eastern market for eleven cents per crate of forty-eight bunches. Many can barely make one dollar a day. Heavy oversupply of labor and competition for jobs keen

Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, M...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, Mexican and white, from the Southwest. Pull, clean, tie and crate carrots for the eastern market for eleven cents per crate of forty-eight bunches. Many can make barely one dollar a day. Heavy oversupply of labor and competition for jobs is keen

Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, M...

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

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

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

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A black and white photo of a group of men standing on the back of a truck. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A black and white photo of a group of men standing on the back of a tr...

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

A black and white photo of a group of men standing next to a truck, Te...

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A black and white photo of a man standing next to a truck, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a man standing next to a truck, Tennessee. ...

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Day labor now is used almost exclusively on Hopson Plantation, displacing the old tenants on the place. Cotton choppers are hired in nearby towns for seventy-five cents to one dollar a day and trucked to the plantation. Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

Day labor now is used almost exclusively on Hopson Plantation, displac...

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One of the nine cabins adjoining fruit packing plant. Families of seven and eight sometimes live in these one dollar and seventy-five cents a week cabins. Berrien County, Michigan

One of the nine cabins adjoining fruit packing plant. Families of seve...

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A crew of two hundred colored hoers were brought to the Aldridge Plantation to hoe cotton at one dollar a day. Many of them are ex-tenant farmers. Near Leland, Mississippi

A crew of two hundred colored hoers were brought to the Aldridge Plant...

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On the outskirts of a modern Oklahoma City within sight of its gleaming skyscrapers. The rent, one dollar, is collected by the city and the health officer is in charge, although there is no sanitation

On the outskirts of a modern Oklahoma City within sight of its gleamin...

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Migratory field workers picking cotton in the San Joaquin Valley, California. Negroes, Mexicans, and refugee whites pick cotton together in this field. These pickers are being paid seventy-five cents per one hundred poounds of picked cotton. Strikers, organizing under the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), are demanding one dollar

Migratory field workers picking cotton in the San Joaquin Valley, Cali...

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

Kern County, California. Night street meeting of cotton strikers near end of defeated strike. Strikers received seventy-five cents per 100 pounds; demanded one dollar. In 1910 cotton growers in Imperial County advertised for pickers in the Southwest to come to Imperial Valley to pick for one dollar per 100 pounds

Kern County, California. Night street meeting of cotton strikers near ...

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

A black and white photo of a group of people, possibly related to: Day...

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

Day labor now is used almost exclusively on Hopson Plantation, displacing the old tenants on the place. Cotton choppers are hired in nearby towns for seventy-five cents to one dollar a day and trucked to the plantation. Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

Day labor now is used almost exclusively on Hopson Plantation, displac...

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

Day labor now is used almost exclusively on Hopson Plantation, displacing the old tenants on the place. Cotton choppers are hired in nearby towns for seventy-five cents to one dollar a day and trucked to the plantation. Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

Day labor now is used almost exclusively on Hopson Plantation, displac...

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A crew of two hundred colored hoers were brought to the Aldridge Plantation to hoe cotton at one dollar a day. Many of them are ex-tenant farmers. Near Leland, Mississippi

A crew of two hundred colored hoers were brought to the Aldridge Plant...

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

These cotton hoers work from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. for one dollar near Clarksdale, Mississippi

These cotton hoers work from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. for one dollar near Clar...

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Postmaster General receives largest postcard sent through mails. [...] postcard ever sent through the mails was delivered [...]eneral Harry S. New today as an invitation to [...]ening of the Bicennial Conference of the National [...] Post office clerks in Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 5. [...]red 24 by 36 inches and required one dollar in postage. Left to right: Postmaster General New; Thomas F. [...] retary National Federation of Postoffice Clerks; President of the federation and G.K. Mulvey, carrier [...] the card

Postmaster General receives largest postcard sent through mails. [...]...

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Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, Mexican and white, from the Southwest. Pull, clean, tie and crate carrots for the eastern market for eleven cents per crate of forty-eight bunches. Many can barely make one dollar a day. Heavy oversupply of labor and competition for jobs keen

Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, M...

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

Strathmore, California. Orange picker's camp. One dollar a week rental

Strathmore, California. Orange picker's camp. One dollar a week rental

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

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

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

Public domain photograph of train tracks, railroad works, construction workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Day labor now is used almost exclusively on Hopson Plantation, displacing the old tenants on the place. Cotton choppers are hired in nearby towns for seventy-five cents to one dollar a day and trucked to the plantation. Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

Day labor now is used almost exclusively on Hopson Plantation, displac...

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

Guanica, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Farm laborer employed in cutting sugar cane at one dollar and fifty-one cents per day

Guanica, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Farm laborer employed in cutting suga...

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

Migrant winter camp on outskirts of Sacramento, California. Eighty families, build their own shacks, pay one dollar and twenty-five cents a month ground rent which includes water. One half-mile from American River camp

Migrant winter camp on outskirts of Sacramento, California. Eighty fam...

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

These cotton hoers work from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. for one dollar near Clarksdale, Mississippi

These cotton hoers work from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. for one dollar near Clar...

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Cotton hoers leaving Greenville at 5 a.m. for a day's work on the plantations. Wages one dollar a day, one dollar and twenty-five cents on a few plantations. Hoers carry their lunches. They return about 8 p.m. Mississippi

Cotton hoers leaving Greenville at 5 a.m. for a day's work on the plan...

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Cotton hoers leaving Greenville at 5 a.m. for a day's work on the plantations. Wages one dollar a day, one dollar and twenty-five cents on a few plantations. Hoers carry their lunches. They return about 8 p.m. Mississippi

Cotton hoers leaving Greenville at 5 a.m. for a day's work on the plan...

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

In Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp. Family, mother, father and eleven children, originally from Oklahoma, where he had been a tenant farmer. Came to California in 1936 after drought. Since then have been traveling from crop to crop in California following the harvest. Six of the children attend school wherever the family stops long enough with mother and father. February 23, two of the family had been lucky and "got a place" (a day's work) in the peas on the Sinclair Ranch. Father had earned one dollar and seventy-three cents for ten hours a day. Oldest daughter had earned one dollar and twenty-five cents. From these earnings had to provide transportation to the fields twenty miles away. Mother wants to return to Oklahoma, father unwilling. She says, "I want to go back home where we can live happy, live decent, and grow what we eat." Brawley, Imperial Valley, California

In Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp. Family, mo...

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

Large-scale agricultural gang labor, Mexicans and whites from the Southwest pull, clean, tie and crate carrots for the eastern market for eleven cents per crate of forty-eight bunches. Many can make barely one dollar a day. Heavy oversupply of labor and competition for jobs is keen. Near Meloland, Imperial Valley

Large-scale agricultural gang labor, Mexicans and whites from the Sout...

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

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

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

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

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

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

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

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Day labor now is used almost exclusively on Hopson Plantation, displacing the old tenants on the place. Cotton choppers are hired in nearby towns for seventy-five cents to one dollar a day and trucked to the plantation. Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

Day labor now is used almost exclusively on Hopson Plantation, displac...

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

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

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Adolescent spinners in the Suffolk (Virginia) Knitting Mills. One of these, fourteen years old, said she had been working here, off and on, for four years, and earns about one dollar a day now. Location: Suffolk, Virginia

Adolescent spinners in the Suffolk (Virginia) Knitting Mills. One of t...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2228. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

"Teaching the young Idea How to Sell." Gus Hodges, age 11, instructing his brother Julius, age 5. I found Gus selling as late as 9:00 P.M., and he said that he had made over one dollar a day. Julius and another brother, 9 years old, has made 25 cents that day. Norfolk, Virginia.

"Teaching the young Idea How to Sell." Gus Hodges, age 11, instructing...

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Cotton pickers at work in the southern San Joaquin Valley, California. They receive one dollar and one dollar and twenty-five cents per hundred pounds

Cotton pickers at work in the southern San Joaquin Valley, California....

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Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, Mexican and white, from the Southwest. Pull, clean, tie and crate carrots for the eastern market for eleven cents per crate of forty-eight bunches. Many can barely make one dollar a day. Heavy oversupply of labor and competition for jobs keen

Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, M...

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

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

A black and white photo of a group of men standing next to a truck, po...

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

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

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

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

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

Day labor is used almost exclusively on Hopson plantation, displacing the old tenants on the place. Cotton choppers are hired in nearby towns for seventy-five cents to one dollar a day and trucked to the plantation. Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

Day labor is used almost exclusively on Hopson plantation, displacing ...

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

Daughter of migrant fruit worker in cabin (one room) which rents for one dollar and seventy-five cents a week. Berrien County, Michigan

Daughter of migrant fruit worker in cabin (one room) which rents for 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

This woman works in the packing plant. Her son works picking fruit with his father. Cabin owned by packing plant rents for one dollar and seventy-five cents a week. Berrien County, Michigan

This woman works in the packing plant. Her son works picking fruit wit...

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

Guanica, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Farm laborer employed in cutting sugar cane at one dollar and fifty-one cents per day

Guanica, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Farm laborer employed in cutting suga...

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.

Guanica, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Farm laborer employed in cutting sugar cane at one dollar and fifty-one cents per day

Guanica, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Farm laborer employed in cutting suga...

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

The only school near the Cotton Mills, Winona, Miss. A private school taught by Miss. McIntosh, who for several years off and on has conducted it, charging each pupil only one dollar a month. With only ten pupils now the job is not very lucrative. She said it was discouraging, but that many seemed to appreciate it. "What we need is compulsory education and a free school out here, which we may get before long." Children range from six to ten years. One of the ten year old boys said, "Only two more years and I'll be in the mill." Little girls added, "Four years more and I'll be there." They all seemed to feel they would get into the mill as soon as possible. Location: Winona, Mississippi.

The only school near the Cotton Mills, Winona, Miss. A private school ...

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Migrant winter camp on outskirts of Sacramento, California. Eighty families, build their own shacks, pay one dollar and twenty-five cents a month ground rent which includes water. One half-mile from American River camp

Migrant winter camp on outskirts of Sacramento, California. Eighty fam...

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A black and white photo of people standing next to a truck, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of people standing next to a truck, Tennessee....

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

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

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

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

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

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

A black and white photo of people standing on the back of a truck, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of people standing on the back of a truck, Ten...

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Strathmore, California. Orange picker's camp. One dollar a week rental

Strathmore, California. Orange picker's camp. One dollar a week rental

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

Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, Mexican and white, from the Southwest. Pull, clean, tie and crate carrots for the eastern market for eleven cents per crate of forty-eight bunches. Many can make barely one dollar a day. Heavy oversupply of labor and competition for jobs is keen

Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, M...

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Oregon, Marion County, near West Stayton. Weighing beans at scales on edge of field. Rate: one dollar per 100 pounds. General caption 46

Oregon, Marion County, near West Stayton. Weighing beans at scales on ...

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Roofer and his daughter in front of tent home. Corpus Christi, Texas. This man has been working at the naval air training base but hurt his back a week ago and is now unable to work. Roofers draw one dollar per hour but are laid off during bad weather; consequently, the last week he worked he made only three dollars

Roofer and his daughter in front of tent home. Corpus Christi, Texas. ...

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Day labor is used almost exclusively on Hopson plantation, displacing the old tenants on the place. Cotton choppers are hired in nearby towns for seventy-five cents to one dollar a day and trucked to the plantation. Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

Day labor is used almost exclusively on Hopson plantation, displacing ...

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Guanica, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Farm laborer employed in cutting sugar cane at one dollar and fifty-one cents per day

Guanica, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Farm laborer employed in cutting suga...

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Guanica, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Farm laborer employed in cutting sugar cane at one dollar and fifty-one cents per day

Guanica, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Farm laborer employed in cutting suga...

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Petaluma, Sonoma County, California. Inspecting pedigreed eggs under a blue light to examine the texture and detect cracks. These eggs are produced for breeding purposes and worth at least one dollar each

Petaluma, Sonoma County, California. Inspecting pedigreed eggs under a...

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A group of men walking down a dirt road - FSA / Office of War Information Photograph

A group of men walking down a dirt road - FSA / Office of War Informat...

Annotation on original negative jacket: DL. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

Tractor operator on the Aldridge Plantation near Leland Mississippi. These young Negroes drive tractors for one dollar and twenty-five cents a day and cabin

Tractor operator on the Aldridge Plantation near Leland Mississippi. T...

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Memphis, Tennessee. Cotton hoers are transported to the fields daily during the season. Truck drivers are paid by the planters and serve as "runners" to recruit the men. Trucks leave at five o'clock in the morning for the Arkansas Delta plantations. Hoers are paid one dollar a day

Memphis, Tennessee. Cotton hoers are transported to the fields daily d...

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Tractor operator in western cotton fields. Works as wage laborer, earns one dollar per day. Childress County, Texas

Tractor operator in western cotton fields. Works as wage laborer, earn...

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A group of men standing around a truck Farmers of Great Depression. Dust bowl refugees, Resettlement program.

A group of men standing around a truck Farmers of Great Depression. Du...

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

Meeting opens with taking the collection. Army contributes (about one dollar and fifty cents) again, as well as the audience. Salvation Army, San Francisco, California

Meeting opens with taking the collection. Army contributes (about one ...

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

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

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

Family of roofer from Oklahoma in their tent home at Corpus Christi, Texas. He is working at the naval air training base. He draws one dollar an hour pay but frequent layoffs because of bad weather makes his average weekly wage small

Family of roofer from Oklahoma in their tent home at Corpus Christi, T...

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

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

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Interior of one-room cabin for migratory fruit workers. Rent is one dollar and seventy-five cents a week. Berrien County, Michigan

Interior of one-room cabin for migratory fruit workers. Rent is one do...

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Guanica, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Farm laborer employed in cutting sugar cane at one dollar and fifty-one cents per day

Guanica, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Farm laborer employed in cutting suga...

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Cotton hoers on the Mississippi Delta. They worked from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. for one dollar

Cotton hoers on the Mississippi Delta. They worked from 6 a.m. to 7 p....

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

These cotton hoers work from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. for one dollar near Clarksdale, Mississippi

These cotton hoers work from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. for one dollar near Clar...

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Migratory field worker picking cotton in San Joaquin Valley, California. These pickers are paid seventy-five cents per hundred pounds of picked cotton. Strikers organizing under CIO union (Congress of Industrial Organizations) are demanding one dollar. A good male picker, in good cotton, under favorable weather conditions, can pick about two hundred pounds in a day's work

Migratory field worker picking cotton in San Joaquin Valley, Californi...

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

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

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