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Small girl standing by vegetable exhibit at Custer County fair, Broken Bow, Nebraska.

Small girl standing by vegetable exhibit at Custer County fair, Broken...

original size: 6x8 Public domain photograph - historical image of Nebraska, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S.S. Iowa, peeling spuds - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

U.S.S. Iowa, peeling spuds - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Public domain photograph of American ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Harvesting Maine Potatoes - Drawing. Public domain image.

Harvesting Maine Potatoes - Drawing. Public domain image.

A man and a boy in a partially dug row of potatoes. Copyright not renewed. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Potatoes Harvesting; Farms... Fruits & Veg.; Maine; Shelf.

Potato workers with sacked potatoes, near East Grand Forks, Minnesota

Potato workers with sacked potatoes, near East Grand Forks, Minnesota

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

Building for storing potatoes. Lake Dick Project, Arkansas

Building for storing potatoes. Lake Dick Project, Arkansas

Picryl description: Public domain photo of a factory, warehouse, commercial or industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Many migrant potato pickers board at houses in town. Freehold, New Jersey

Many migrant potato pickers board at houses in town. Freehold, New Jer...

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Many migrant potato pickers board at houses in town. Freehold, New Jersey

Many migrant potato pickers board at houses in town. Freehold, New Jer...

Public domain photograph of car garage, repair shop, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Children of sharecropper picking up sweet potatoes in field near Laurel, Mississippi

Children of sharecropper picking up sweet potatoes in field near Laure...

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 people working in a field, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a group of people working in a field, West ...

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

Small tenant farm producing peanuts and sweet potatoes. Southeastern Alabama

Small tenant farm producing peanuts and sweet potatoes. Southeastern A...

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

Thirteen year old daughter of Negro sharecropper planting sweet potatoes. She walks down the row and places the young plants in the holes her father dug with a hoe. They will return down the row, water the plants with a bucket then cover the roots with earth. Olive Hill, North Carolina

Thirteen year old daughter of Negro sharecropper planting sweet potato...

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

Klamath Basin rancher. Came from Arkansas sixty-four years ago. Won't raise potatoes. "Potatoes and pool rooms ruined this country". Klamath County, Oregon

Klamath Basin rancher. Came from Arkansas sixty-four years ago. Won't ...

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

Railroad yard behind potato shed from which Klamath potatoes are shipped across the country. Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California

Railroad yard behind potato shed from which Klamath potatoes are shipp...

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

A black and white photo of a man with a horse pulling a wagon, possibly related to: Picking up and loading sweet potatoes of Mr. Foushee, owner-operator. Mr. Foushee is sixty-five; has nineteen children. One of his neighbors is helping them get a small share of potatoes

A black and white photo of a man with a horse pulling a wagon, possibl...

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

A black and white photo of a group of people, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a group of people, Great Depression. FSA/OW...

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

Part of family come for work in potatoes. Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California. Left their home in Turkey, Texas, November, 1938. Picked cotton in Arizona till March. Picked fruit in Oregon till June. Picked prunes in Idaho till September 15th

Part of family come for work in potatoes. Tulelake, Siskiyou County, C...

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

Homesteader spraying potatoes, Tygart Valley, West Virginia

Homesteader spraying potatoes, Tygart Valley, West Virginia

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

Nursing along the fire by blowing on it. Potatoes are being cooked in this pan. Migrant family en route to California near Henrietta [i.e., Henryetta,] Oklahoma

Nursing along the fire by blowing on it. Potatoes are being cooked in ...

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

Picking up and loading sweet potatoes of Mr. Foushee, owner-operator. Mr. Foushee is sixty-five; has nineteen children. One of his neighbors is helping them get a small share of potatoes

Picking up and loading sweet potatoes of Mr. Foushee, owner-operator. ...

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

Boiling down sap into maple syrup in evaporator in Walter Gaylord's house in Waitsfield, Mad River Valley, Vermont. He averages about 150 gallons of syrup annually but this year tapped only 600 out of his 1000 trees, because of unusually deep snow and late spring. He owns several farms in this particular farm unit there are eighty acres. It has been in the family for three generations. He has about forty head of cattle, raises poultry, and potatoes

Boiling down sap into maple syrup in evaporator in Walter Gaylord's ho...

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

Wagon load of seed potatoes at the house of Lawrence J. Brown, FSA (Farm Security Administration) client of Eagle Lake, Maine

Wagon load of seed potatoes at the house of Lawrence J. Brown, FSA (Fa...

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

A couple of men sitting on top of a pile of wood. Kentucky during Great Depression.

A couple of men sitting on top of a pile of wood. Kentucky during Grea...

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 potatoes, Jefferson County, Kentucky

Harvesting potatoes, Jefferson County, Kentucky

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

Children (boy) picking potatoes on a large farm near Caribou, Maine. Schools do not open until the potatoes are harvested

Children (boy) picking potatoes on a large farm near Caribou, Maine. S...

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 small cabin in the snow, Vermont. Farm Security Administration photogrpaph.

A black and white photo of a small cabin in the snow, Vermont. Farm Se...

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Harvesting potatoes on a small farm six miles north of Caribou, Maine

Harvesting potatoes on a small farm six miles north of Caribou, Maine

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

A black and white photo of two people on skis, Vermont. Farm Security Administration photogrpaph.

A black and white photo of two people on skis, Vermont. Farm Security ...

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

Dumping potatoes into one of the storage bins at the Woodman Potato Company. Caribou, Maine

Dumping potatoes into one of the storage bins at the Woodman Potato Co...

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

Gathering potatoes on a farm near Caribou, Maine

Gathering potatoes on a farm near Caribou, Maine

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

Aroostook potatoes of the Katahdin variety on one of the farms of the Woodman Potato Company near Caribou, Maine

Aroostook potatoes of the Katahdin variety on one of the farms of the ...

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

A black and white photo of two people in a field. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A black and white photo of two people in a field. Great Depression FFS...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mrs. Lee Wagoner, wife of Black Canyon Project farmer, gets homegrown potatoes from storeroom. Canyon County, Idaho

Mrs. Lee Wagoner, wife of Black Canyon Project farmer, gets homegrown ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of the 1930s - 1940s, woman, female portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Christiansted, Saint Croix Island, Virgin Islands (vicinity). Puerto Rican farm woman on her farm where she has planted sweet potatoes between rows of sugar cane

Christiansted, Saint Croix Island, Virgin Islands (vicinity). Puerto R...

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

Rat on the left has been fed on a diet of meat and potatoes, white bread and butter, navy beans, oatmeal and apple pie. Rat on the right fed same diet plus milk, cod liver oil, fruits and vegetables and eggs. Nutrition laboratory at Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa

Rat on the left has been fed on a diet of meat and potatoes, white bre...

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Dehydration. Potatoes. A tray of sliced potatoes is placed on the steam blancher by Horace Campbell, chief of the Vegetable Section at the Western Regional Research Laboratory in Albany, California. Four to five minutes of blanching are necessary to inactivate enzymes which are harmful to the keeping qualities of the dehydrated product

Dehydration. Potatoes. A tray of sliced potatoes is placed on the stea...

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Worker peels sweet potatoes;boxes of unpeeled sweet potatoes in the foreground; printing on some boxes reads "North Carolina Sweet Potatoes."

Worker peels sweet potatoes;boxes of unpeeled sweet potatoes in the fo...

Forms part of a group of images recorded on August 17, documenting scenes at Sweet Potato Pie, Inc., 140 Auburn Street, Paterson.

Walter Gaylord drilling hole in maple tree to get sap which is boiled down into maple syrup. Mud River Valley, Waitsfield, Vermont. He averages about 150 gallons of syrup annually, this year tapped only 600 out of his 1000 trees, because of unusually deep snow and late spring. He owns several farms; in this particular farm unit there are eightty acres. It has been in family three generations. Has about thirty-five to forty head of cattle; raises poultry and potatoes

Walter Gaylord drilling hole in maple tree to get sap which is boiled ...

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

Cincinnatus in retirement falsely supposed to represent Jesuit-Pad driven back to his native Potatoes : see Romish Common-Wealth., British Cartoon Print

Cincinnatus in retirement falsely supposed to represent Jesuit-Pad dri...

Cartoon showing Edmund Burke, as an Irish jesuit, seated at a table eating potatoes from a pot labeled "Relick No. 1. used by St. Peter." Upon the appointment of Shelburne, following the death of Rockingham, Bu... More

[Satoimo taro potato with plant growing in the background]

[Satoimo taro potato with plant growing in the background]

Gift; Mrs. David Murray; 1909. Forms part of: David Murray collection. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

[Woman holding up spoon at boy, with mask, who is scaring young girl; African American woman peeling potatoes]

[Woman holding up spoon at boy, with mask, who is scaring young girl; ...

Photo by Fitz W. Guerin. #8. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: African Americans; Masks; Kitchens.

Gathering potatoes in Fort Bend County, Tx

Gathering potatoes in Fort Bend County, Tx

Photograph shows African American male picking potatoes, possibly prisoners from the Imperial State Prison Farm; three men on horseback oversee the work. Schlueter, Houston. No. 14.

Young girl gathering potatoes near East Grand Forks, Minnesota

Young girl gathering potatoes near East Grand Forks, Minnesota

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

Potato field. Most of the pickers are migratory workers from the southern states. Monmouth County, New Jersey

Potato field. Most of the pickers are migratory workers from the south...

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

Water supply near potato pickers' shacks. Monmouth County, New Jersey

Water supply near potato pickers' shacks. Monmouth County, New Jersey

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

Monmouth County, New Jersey. Privy near potato pickers' barracks used by eleven families

Monmouth County, New Jersey. Privy near potato pickers' barracks used ...

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

Sweet potatoes in field near Laurel, Mississippi

Sweet potatoes in field near Laurel, Mississippi

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

Shacks in which farmers house migrant potato pickers. Monmouth County, New Jersey

Shacks in which farmers house migrant potato pickers. Monmouth County,...

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

Child of sharecropper picking up sweet potatoes near Laurel, Mississippi

Child of sharecropper picking up sweet potatoes near Laurel, Mississip...

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

Inspecting washed potatoes. Monte Vista, Colorado

Inspecting washed potatoes. Monte Vista, Colorado

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of street life, food vendor, city market, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Picking up and loading sweet potatoes of Mr. Foushee, owner-operator. Mr. Foushee is sixty-five; has nineteen children. One of his neighbors is helping them get a small share of potatoes

Picking up and loading sweet potatoes of Mr. Foushee, owner-operator. ...

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

A black and white photo of men working in a field, Colorado. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of men working in a field, Colorado. Farm Secu...

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

Turning in the checks received for picking up potatoes at pay office near Spiro, Oklahoma. Pickers received three cents per bushel

Turning in the checks received for picking up potatoes at pay office n...

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

Farmer on load of potatoes, Rio Grande County, Colorado

Farmer on load of potatoes, Rio Grande County, Colorado

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

A black and white photo of three men working in a field, Colorado. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of three men working in a field, Colorado. Far...

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

Large-scale, mechanized farming. The potato planter operated by a crew of three men, makes the rows, fertilizes and plants potatoes in one operation. Kern County, California

Large-scale, mechanized farming. The potato planter operated by a crew...

Title and other information from caption card. Electronic surrogate made from item with the same number in the LC-USF34 series. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Was... More

A black and white photo of a pile of hay, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a pile of hay, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Ph...

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Potato trucks outside a starch factory in Caribou, Maine. Some of them had been waiting over twenty-four hours for the potatoes to be graded and weighed. See general caption Aroostook number 1

Potato trucks outside a starch factory in Caribou, Maine. Some of them...

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

Mr. Claude Levesque, FSA (Farm Security Administration) client and potato farmer, demonstrating method of cutting seed potatoes for immediate planting. Near Van Buren, Maine

Mr. Claude Levesque, FSA (Farm Security Administration) client and pot...

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

Child eating lunch during the noon hour at school in Breathitt County, Kentucky. In his lunch pail were cold potatoes, corn bread and mush

Child eating lunch during the noon hour at school in Breathitt County,...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Grocery clerk weighing up potatoes. Concho, Arizona

Grocery clerk weighing up potatoes. Concho, Arizona

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

A man standing next to a tree in the snow, Vermont. Farm Security Administration photogrpaph.

A man standing next to a tree in the snow, Vermont. Farm Security Admi...

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

Hoisting and dumping potatoes in a storage barn on one of the farms of the Woodman Potato Company. Eleven miles north of Caribou, Maine

Hoisting and dumping potatoes in a storage barn on one of the farms 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.

The opening of school was delayed in parts of Arrostook County so children could help pick potatoes. Near Caribou, Maine

The opening of school was delayed in parts of Arrostook County so chil...

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

Loading barrels of potatoes on a wagon to be taken to the storage barns on a small farm near Caribou, Maine

Loading barrels of potatoes on a wagon to be taken to the storage barn...

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

A black and white photo of a group of men. Kentucky during Great Depression.

A black and white photo of a group of men. Kentucky during Great Depre...

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

Potatoes stored in basement farm on Burlington project, North Dakota

Potatoes stored in basement farm on Burlington project, North Dakota

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.

A couple of people standing in front of a fruit stand, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A couple of people standing in front of a fruit stand, Great Depressio...

Picryl description: Public domain image of industrial or agricultural worker, 1930s, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

A black and white photo of a person in the snow, Vermont. Farm Security Administration photogrpaph.

A black and white photo of a person in the snow, Vermont. Farm Securit...

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

Potato trucks outside a starch factory in Caribou, Maine. Some of them had been waiting over twenty-four hours for the potatoes to be graded and weighed. See general caption Aroostook number 1

Potato trucks outside a starch factory in Caribou, Maine. Some of them...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc... More

Loading sacked potatoes onto truck for transportation to railroad cars. Klamath County, Oregon

Loading sacked potatoes onto truck for transportation to railroad cars...

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

Small potatoes, dirt, sticks, etc., drop through the bars to ground below as potatoes are cleaned, graded and sacked at the cellar. Klamath County, Oregon

Small potatoes, dirt, sticks, etc., drop through the bars to ground be...

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Aroostook County, Maine. Grandson of Dufour who lost land when the price of potatoes went down

Aroostook County, Maine. Grandson of Dufour who lost land when the pri...

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Dicing potatoes which will be dehydrated at the regional agricultural research laboratory. Albany, California

Dicing potatoes which will be dehydrated at the regional agricultural ...

Public domain photograph of laboratory, science, research, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dehydration. Potatoes. A comparison of the potato in three different forms--dehydrated, natural and sliced--clearly shows the value of dehydrated vegetables for wartime shipment. Dehydrated potato goals for the fiscal year of 1943-1944 have been set at 136 million pounds, which will be directed mainly to the armed forces and lend-lease

Dehydration. Potatoes. A comparison of the potato in three different f...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

Food in Britain. At an Royal Air Force station in southern England which runs its own farm, a corporal feeds the farm's smallest pig while the commander looks on. The farm practically feeds the whole station, little being bought outside. A corporal and five men look after eight cows and litters, hundreds of chickens, geese, ducks and turkeys and eighteen acres of potatoes

Food in Britain. At an Royal Air Force station in southern England whi...

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Worker peels sweet potatoes; boxes of unpeeled sweet potatoes in the foreground.

Worker peels sweet potatoes; boxes of unpeeled sweet potatoes in the f...

Forms part of a group of images recorded on August 17, documenting scenes at Sweet Potato Pie, Inc., 140 Auburn Street, Paterson.

Woody Boggs demonstrating how he stores potatoes underground over the winter

Woody Boggs demonstrating how he stores potatoes underground over the ...

Event: Visit to the home of Gail Ballard. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Old time professional migratory laborer camping on the outskirts of Perryton, Texas at opening of wheat harvest. With his wife and growing family, he has been on the road since marriage, thirteen years ago. Migrations include ranch land in Texas, cotton and wheat in Texas, cotton and timber in New Mexico, peas and potatoes in Idaho, wheat in Colorado, hops and apples in Yakima Valley, Washington, cotton in Arizona. He wants to buy a little place in Idaho

Old time professional migratory laborer camping on the outskirts of Pe...

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

Migratory labor digging potatoes, season very bad, market poor, left potatoes in ground as long as possible, hoping for rise in prices. Often not worth digging, left to rot in ground. Near Homestead, Florida

Migratory labor digging potatoes, season very bad, market poor, left p...

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

Custer County fair exhibit, Broken Bow, Nebraska

Custer County fair exhibit, Broken Bow, Nebraska

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

[Back of man driving a cart filled with potatoes]

[Back of man driving a cart filled with potatoes]

Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1939:0060). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

[Man harvesting potatoes, holding out potato to woman]

[Man harvesting potatoes, holding out potato to woman]

Public domain photograph of landscape view, nature, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Templehofer Field, Berlin plowed for potatoes

Templehofer Field, Berlin plowed for potatoes

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Peeling potatoes on ARKANSAS - Public domain painting

Peeling potatoes on ARKANSAS - Public domain painting

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mechnical potato digger. Monmouth County, New Jersey

Mechnical potato digger. Monmouth County, New Jersey

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

A group of people walking down a dirt road, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A group of people walking down a dirt road, West Virginia. Farm Securi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Many migrants potato pickers board at houses in town. Freehold, New Jersey

Many migrants potato pickers board at houses in town. Freehold, New Je...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential building, house, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Klamath Basin potato farmer. He remembers when the first carload of potatoes left this valley in 1910. In 1934 he lost thirty-five hundred dollars on forty-eight acres of potatoes. His present acreage is eleven acres in potatoes, the rest in hay and soil-building crops. Has eleven milking cows. "I'm gonna eat." Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California

Klamath Basin potato farmer. He remembers when the first carload of po...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century dust bowl era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Weighing seed potatoes at cooperative's association. Bradford, Vermont, Orange County

Weighing seed potatoes at cooperative's association. Bradford, Vermont...

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.

Washed potatoes are inspected. Monte Vista, Colorado

Washed potatoes are inspected. Monte Vista, Colorado

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.

Kern County, California. Large-scale mechanized farming. The potato planter, operated by a crew of three men, makes the rows, fertilizes and plants potatoes in one operation

Kern County, California. Large-scale mechanized farming. The potato pl...

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

Migratory labor digging potatoes, season very bad, market poor, left potatoes in ground as long as possible, hoping for rise in prices. Often not worth digging, left to rot in ground. Near Homestead, Florida

Migratory labor digging potatoes, season very bad, market poor, left p...

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

Loading potatoes in storage cellar. Monte Vista, Colorado

Loading potatoes in storage cellar. Monte Vista, Colorado

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

Children gathering potatoes on a large farm, vicinity of Caribou, Aroostook County, Me. Schools do not open until the potatoes are harvested

Children gathering potatoes on a large farm, vicinity of Caribou, Aroo...

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

Kern County, California. Supply of fertilizer and potato seed on edge of field in which mechanical potato planter is operating

Kern County, California. Supply of fertilizer and potato seed on edge ...

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

Grading potatoes, preparing for shipment, cold, rainy morning, end of harvesting season. Potatoes have been stored in this grower's cellar. Ten miles south of Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon

Grading potatoes, preparing for shipment, cold, rainy morning, end of ...

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

Kern County, California. Truck loaded with potato seed

Kern County, California. Truck loaded with potato seed

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

A black and white photo of two men working in a field, Florida. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of two men working in a field, Florida. Farm S...

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

Mr. Foushee, owner-operator of farm, waiting while his son and neighbor load the wagon with sweet potatoes. He is sixty-five and has nineteen children. Orange County, North Carolina

Mr. Foushee, owner-operator of farm, waiting while his son and neighbo...

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

Potatoes in a storage cellar. Monte Vista, Colorado

Potatoes in a storage cellar. Monte Vista, Colorado

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

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