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A black and white photo of a man picking apples, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

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

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

A black and white photo of a man picking apples, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

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

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

Weighing crates of packed and wrapped pears at Hood River, Oregon

Weighing crates of packed and wrapped pears at Hood River, Oregon

Public domain photograph - working class people, the 1930s United States, work, labor, worker, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Crates of pears going into town for shipment by rail to the markets. Hood River, Oregon

Crates of pears going into town for shipment by rail to the markets. H...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military vehicle, automobile, tractor truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Study of pears - Print, Library of Congress collection

Study of pears - Print, Library of Congress collection

40520 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Barclay, J. E., arti... More

Prickly pears, a plant which must be grubbed out before cultivating land. Tom Green County, Texas

Prickly pears, a plant which must be grubbed out before cultivating la...

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

Picking pears. Pleasant Hill Orchard. Washington, Yakima Valley. See general caption number 34

Picking pears. Pleasant Hill Orchard. Washington, Yakima Valley. See g...

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

Dumping full sack of picked pears to lug box, which will be trucked to the packinghouse. Note design of picking sack which opens from bottom. Washington, Yakima Valley. See general caption number 34

Dumping full sack of picked pears to lug box, which will be trucked to...

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

FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower picking pears. Saint Mary's County, Maryland

FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower picking pears. Saint Mary'...

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

Empire fruit dessert - Print, Library of Congress collection

Empire fruit dessert - Print, Library of Congress collection

General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Hoover, J., copyright claimant. Category designati... More

Wrapping and packing pears. Hood River, Oregon

Wrapping and packing pears. Hood River, Oregon

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.

La Poire était mûre - A drawing of a pear on a branch

La Poire était mûre - A drawing of a pear on a branch

A ripe pear, with profile of Napoleon between leaf and branch, falling from a branch.

American autumn fruit - Print, Library of Congress collection

American autumn fruit - Print, Library of Congress collection

General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Nurre, A. J., copyright claimant. Category designa... More

Madison County, Ala., 1941-1943(?)--Mrs. Frank Jacobs likes to can fruits and vegetables

Madison County, Ala., 1941-1943(?)--Mrs. Frank Jacobs likes to can fru...

Photo shows Mrs. Jacobs canning pears. No. N-2419. Forms part of: Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information collection (Library of Congress).

Picking pears. Pleasant Hill Orchards. Washington, Yakima Valley. See general caption number 34

Picking pears. Pleasant Hill Orchards. Washington, Yakima Valley. See ...

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

Fruit farmer and his wife in their living room. Placer County, California. These people have raised fruit on four hundred acres for twenty-five years but because of changed market conditions are now heavily in debt to the Federal Land Bank. This year they didn't even pick many of their pears, knowing they couldn't sell them

Fruit farmer and his wife in their living room. Placer County, Califor...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a living room, lobby, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Lidding crates of pears. Hood River, Oregon

Lidding crates of pears. Hood River, Oregon

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

American fruits & flowers - Print, Library of Congress collection

American fruits & flowers - Print, Library of Congress collection

70967 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Tunison, H. C., copyr... More

[Advertisement for Pears' Soap illustrated with Halley's Comet]

[Advertisement for Pears' Soap illustrated with Halley's Comet]

Illus. in: Red Book Magazine, 1910 April. cf: The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress, Summer 1983, p. 270. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Advertisements; Comets.

Prickly pears. A growth of these threatens to cover pastures of Sheridan County, Kansas. The FSA (Farm Security Administration) is allowing farmers to work off their grants by removal of these prickly pears

Prickly pears. A growth of these threatens to cover pastures of Sherid...

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

Harvesting pears requires agility and balance. Washington, Yakima Valley. See general caption number 34

Harvesting pears requires agility and balance. Washington, Yakima Vall...

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

Fatherless migratory family camped behind gas station. The mother is trying to support three boys by picking pears. Just arrived from Minnesota, she used to work in a restaurant there. Oldest boy, age ten, helped carry ladder from tree to tree Photograph made at end of day (temperature 106 degrees) when she returned from orchard. Yakima Valley, Washington

Fatherless migratory family camped behind gas station. The mother is t...

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

Feeding unmarketable pears to hogs on farm. Placer County, California

Feeding unmarketable pears to hogs on farm. Placer County, California

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

Fruit farmer and his wife, Placer County, California. He owns four hundred acres and has farmed this land for about thirty-five years. He started work in this section freighting ore out. Next he went into cattle raising and about twenty-five years ago into fruit. Last good year for him was ten years ago, but now there is no market for the variety of pears and plums he grows. He has a large loan from Federal Land Bank, he will probably not be able to pay out and will lose his farm

Fruit farmer and his wife, Placer County, California. He owns four hun...

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

Fruit farmer's wife playing piano. Placer County, California. Because they have not changed the variety of plums and pears which they raise to meet changed market conditions they have gone further and further into debt to the Federal Land Bank and are now on verge of losing their four hundred acre farm on which they have raised fruit on for twenty-five years

Fruit farmer's wife playing piano. Placer County, California. Because ...

Public domain image of musical performance, piano music, keyboard instrument, pianist, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hood River, Oregon, shipping and shopping center for Hood River Valley, where apples and pears are main crops

Hood River, Oregon, shipping and shopping center for Hood River Valley...

Public domain photograph of a mountain pass, mountains, nature, mountain range, view, landscape, rocks, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Grading, wrapping and packing pears at Hood River, Oregon. 6,500,000 boxes of freshly packed fruit are shipped from Hood River annually

Grading, wrapping and packing pears at Hood River, Oregon. 6,500,000 b...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a man holding a drum, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a man holding a drum, Great Depression. FSA...

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

Dumping freshly-picked pears into chute which leads to washing vats. Hood River, Oregon

Dumping freshly-picked pears into chute which leads to washing vats. H...

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.

Edwin Henry to Abraham Lincoln, Tuesday, August 26, 1862  (Sends pears)
Pears hung from hoop by means of string. This is one method of keeping pears from rotting. New Iberia, Louisiana

Pears hung from hoop by means of string. This is one method of keeping...

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 black and white photo of a man in a suit, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a man in a suit, Great Depression. FSA/OWI ...

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

Bufford's fruit cards, no. 779-1 [pear] / Bufford.

Bufford's fruit cards, no. 779-1 [pear] / Bufford.

Print shows a pear with the arms, legs, and head of a woman, facing front, holding a parasol, with trees in the background. S24947 U.S. Copyright Office. Caption: How do I a'pear? Copyright 1887. J.H. Bufford'... More

He won't be happy till he gets it (with profuse apologies to the Pears' Soap Baby) / L.M. Glackens.

He won't be happy till he gets it (with profuse apologies to the Pears...

Illustration shows a man labeled "Organized Greed", possibly Chauncey M. Depew, as a baby trying to climb out of a tub of bath water labeled "Special Privilege", reaching for a bar of soap labeled "Ship Subsidy... More

Agriculturalist wields brush for posterity. Royal C. Steadman, 20-year veteran of the Agriculture Department, wields his brush on wax models of apples, pears and other fruits so that the department archives will have a permanent record of outstanding characteristics of different varieties. Steadman has developed a technique for this type of art work which results in a very delectable wax apple. 12/4/35

Agriculturalist wields brush for posterity. Royal C. Steadman, 20-year...

Public domain photograph of people in office, interior, the 1910s-1920s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Picking pears. Pleasant Hill Orchards. Washington, Yakima Valley. See general caption number 34

Picking pears. Pleasant Hill Orchards. Washington, Yakima Valley. See ...

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

A black and white photo of a man standing in front of a tree, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a man standing in front of a tree, Great De...

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

A black and white photo of a man standing in front of a tree, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a man standing in front of a tree, Great De...

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

Crates of pears just in from the orchard. Hood River, Oregon

Crates of pears just in from the orchard. Hood River, Oregon

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

Imperial fruit - Print, Library of Congress collection

Imperial fruit - Print, Library of Congress collection

19258 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Calvert Lithographing... More

Harvesting pears, Pleasant Hill Orchards. Washington, Yakima Valley. See general caption number 34

Harvesting pears, Pleasant Hill Orchards. Washington, Yakima Valley. S...

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

A black and white photo of a man standing in front of an apple tree, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a man standing in front of an apple tree, G...

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

A couple of men standing on top of a ladder, Picking pears, Hood River, Oregon

A couple of men standing on top of a ladder, Picking pears, Hood River...

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

Champion fruit - Print, Library of Congress collection

Champion fruit - Print, Library of Congress collection

1060 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Latham (J.) & Co., pub... More

Farm produce with small image of horse in the upper left corner

Farm produce with small image of horse in the upper left corner

27425 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title devised by Library staff or Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Donaldson Litho. ... More

Pears hung from hoop by means of string. This is one method of keeping pears from rotting. New Iberia, Louisiana

Pears hung from hoop by means of string. This is one method of keeping...

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

Harvesting pears, Pleasant Hill Orchards. Washington, Yakima Valley. See general caption number 34

Harvesting pears, Pleasant Hill Orchards. Washington, Yakima Valley. S...

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

Pears rotting on the ground. Placer County, California. There was no market for these hard pears this year, nor has there been much of one for the last ten years. Better methods of refrigeration make it possible to ship a softer pear east and the war has closed the European markets

Pears rotting on the ground. Placer County, California. There was no m...

Public domain photograph of rural landscape, California, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower picking pears. Saint Mary's County, Maryland

FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower picking pears. Saint Mary'...

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

Inspecting pears before packing at Hood River, Oregon

Inspecting pears before packing at Hood River, Oregon

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Pears arriving from orchard at packing plant. Hood River, Oregon

Pears arriving from orchard at packing plant. Hood River, Oregon

Public domain photograph of American working class people in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Wrapping and packing pears. Hood River, Oregon

Wrapping and packing pears. Hood River, Oregon

Public domain photograph - working class people, the 1930s United States, work, labor, worker, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Charles Sumner to Abraham Lincoln, Wednesday, January 14, 1863  (Sends pears)
Peaches in a glass bowl surrounded by grapes, pears, bananas and apples

Peaches in a glass bowl surrounded by grapes, pears, bananas and apple...

General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title devised by Library staff or Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Ream, C. P., artist. Category designation on o... More

Packing crates of pears onto truck which will take them into town for shipment by rail to the markets. Hood River, Oregon

Packing crates of pears onto truck which will take them into town for ...

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

The garden city fruit - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Congress

The garden city fruit - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Congres...

General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Hoover, Jos., copyright claimant. Category designa... More

Farm house with orchards in the background near Auburn, California. Farmers haven't had much money in this section to repair houses in the last ten years. They have raised a hard variety of pears which are no longer bought by the eastern markets since new refrigeration methods made the softer varieties shipable. Placer County

Farm house with orchards in the background near Auburn, California. Fa...

Public domain photograph of a history of California, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fruit, cheese, and glass of lemonade on a table

Fruit, cheese, and glass of lemonade on a table

General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title devised by Library staff or Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Gibson & Co., copyright claimant. Category des... More

Picker demonstrates how pears are ringed. Washington, Yakima Valley. See general caption number 34

Picker demonstrates how pears are ringed. Washington, Yakima Valley. S...

Public domain photograph of body armor, protective gear, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Leaves drift down on unused farm equipment. Auburn, California. This is a section which is rapidly declining because of changed market conditions.  These fruit farmers raise varieties of plums and pears that are no longer acceptable to the eastern market

Leaves drift down on unused farm equipment. Auburn, California. This i...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s US industrial development, Second World War, US war production, indusry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

"American Summer Fruit" - Print, Library of Congress collection

"American Summer Fruit" - Print, Library of Congress collection

General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Nurre, A. J., copyright claimant. Category designa... More

Restein's American fruit - Print, Library of Congress collection

Restein's American fruit - Print, Library of Congress collection

12477 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. E.P. & L. Restein, co... More

Prickly pears. A growth of these threatens to cover pastures of Sheridan County, Kansas. The FSA (Farm Security Administration) is allowing farmers to work off their grants by removal of these prickly pears

Prickly pears. A growth of these threatens to cover pastures of Sherid...

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

Checking crates of pears ready for shipment to the markets. Hood River, Oregon

Checking crates of pears ready for shipment to the markets. Hood River...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a river, water stream, lake or pond, park or forest, natural landscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Excelsior fruit - Print, Library of Congress collection

Excelsior fruit - Print, Library of Congress collection

General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Category designation on original folder: Fruit. Pr... More

Sarah Saneri, (on the left end) 11 years old last summer. Worked stringing beans and husking corn in sheds at Albion. Her principal said she has tuberculosis. Lost 11 weeks school time, is a repeater. School #2. Lucy Martina, 16 years old last summer. Worked on tomatoes and apples in factory at Wilson, N.Y. Lost 12 weeks schooling. Is a repeater. Carmelo Castanzo, 12 years old last summer. Dropped cans on apple machine in factory at Wilson, N.Y. Lost 12 weeks schooling. Josephine Guercio, 11 years old last summer. Worked on tomatoes, peaches, apples, pears and plums in factory. Made $1.00 to $1.50 a day. Lost 13 weeks school. Is a repeater.  Buffalo, New York (State)

Sarah Saneri, (on the left end) 11 years old last summer. Worked strin...

Public domain image of personnel, army, group of people in uniform, parade, historic place, military activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a store front, Louisiana. Farmers during Great Depression

A black and white photo of a store front, Louisiana. Farmers during Gr...

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

Crates for packing pears in front of pear packing establishment. Hood River, Oregon

Crates for packing pears in front of pear packing establishment. Hood ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, excavation or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Crates for packing pears in front of pear packing establishment. Hood River, Oregon

Crates for packing pears in front of pear packing establishment. Hood ...

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

Pride of the banquet - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Congress

Pride of the banquet - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Congress

General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Gibson & Co., copyright claimant. Category designa... More

Edwin Henry to Abraham Lincoln, Tuesday, August 26, 1862  (Sends pears)
"A royal dessert" - Print, Library of Congress collection

"A royal dessert" - Print, Library of Congress collection

4493 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Krebs Lithographing Co... More

Pears rotting on the ground. Placer County, California. There was no market for these hard pears this year, nor has there been much of one for the last ten years. Better methods of refrigeration make it possible to ship a softer pear east and the war has closed the European markets

Pears rotting on the ground. Placer County, California. There was no m...

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