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Fais-do-do near Crowley, Louisiana. These are gatherings of local country people usually of French origin who are clannish. Very few outsiders are present at these dances. Sections of the hall are reserved for the different sexes. They are usually attended by family groups, the smaller children and babies sleeping in their mother's arms and on a huge bed with a rice straw mattress

Fais-do-do near Crowley, Louisiana. These are gatherings of local coun...

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

Small portable sawmill, very typical of the sawmills which are cutting small pine and hardwood growth of the area. Note mill and boiler, sawdust pile, stacks of slabs (or outsiders) located in fringe of trees between the highway and a corn field. Near Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Small portable sawmill, very typical of the sawmills which are cutting...

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The Campo Santo in Genoa where one joins a club to get a grave. Outsiders are charged double The port of Genoa with the city climbing the hillsides to low forts built by Napoleon.

The Campo Santo in Genoa where one joins a club to get a grave. Outsid...

Photographs show a graveyard and hillside, and ships in the port of Genoa, Italy. On page: no. 1562 (top image), no. 1564 (middle image), and no. 1563 (bottom image). Text under image no. 1564: "Same as 1563".... More