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A few suggestions, respectfully submitted, concerning the Senate bill now pending in the House of representatives; a bill virtually creating monopoly and high prices in telegraphing between the Atlantic and Pacific states. Respectfully addressed

A few suggestions, respectfully submitted, concerning the Senate bill ...

Speed, John J.; Telegraph. Page Order: Leaflet Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 204... More

Don't blame it all on the war! / PR.

Don't blame it all on the war! / PR.

Poster showing a mule "Industry" upsetting a cart as it is bothered by flies "Unjust taxation," "Agitation," Waste," "Strife," and "Unfair laws." Title continues: As a consumer has it ever occurred to you there... More

A black and white photo of a store front. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A black and white photo of a store front. Great Depression FFSA / OWI ...

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

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteer checking and posting ceiling prices for the U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

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New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteers who check and post ceiling prices for the U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

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

Volunteer woman investigator for the Office of Price Administration (OPA) enforcement agency in Philadelphia, one of three cities selected in a test drive to discover violations of rationing and ceiling prices, in a department store checking prices of women's apparel. All investigators were required to fill out reports, regardless whether violations were uncovered or not. A number of complaints against law violations in three test cities resulted from the surprise investigation

Volunteer woman investigator for the Office of Price Administration (O...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Posting ceiling prices in English and foreign languages

Posting ceiling prices in English and foreign languages

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

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteers who check and post ceiling prices for the U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

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

Salvage. Requisitioning auto graveyard. U.S. marshals, accompanied by county police, raid the Colmar Manor, Maryland auto graveyard of the Lenox Motor Company. Donovan, the owner, has refused to sell scrap metal and rubber at established prices and the U.S. government requisitioned all the material on hand

Salvage. Requisitioning auto graveyard. U.S. marshals, accompanied by ...

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

Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. Charles Ruggiero, clerk in a grocery store in New York's Italian section, wishes the handful of spaghetti he is breaking were Mussolini's neck. The ceiling price sign above his head, printed in Italian, is helping to defeat Il Duce by controlling inflation, one of America's most dangerous enemies

Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. Charles Ruggiero, clerk i...

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

Turlock, California. Housewife shops for household goods, comparing prices and quality in various stores

Turlock, California. Housewife shops for household goods, comparing pr...

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

Preparation for point rationing. Never too young to learn, these future homemakers receive first-hand experience in looking for point values as well as prices and information on labels when buying canned and bottled foods with war ration book two

Preparation for point rationing. Never too young to learn, these futur...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

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.

Ferris' Comedians the pacemakers at popular prices.

Ferris' Comedians the pacemakers at popular prices.

D22662 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyright 1900, The U.S.P. Co., Russell-Morgan Print, Cin. & N.Y." No. 4903. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Arguelles Factory, Tampa, Fla. Not running to-day. Said to hire a good many young children as apprentices. A School Factory, advertised in papers 3 months ago, for apprentices at low prices.  Location: Tampa, Florida.

Arguelles Factory, Tampa, Fla. Not running to-day. Said to hire a good...

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

A ghost town decaying as a result of drought and low farm produce prices.  Ardmore, South Dakota

A ghost town decaying as a result of drought and low farm produce pric...

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

A black and white photo of a menu board, Iowa. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a menu board, Iowa. Farm Security Administr...

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

"Administration propaganda halts rise in prices of farm commodities." Washington, D.C. June 7. Speaking before the Senate Agriculture Committee today, Seantor Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma, assailed "propaganda" by administration officials which he said has worked to halt the rise in prices of farm commodities. He placed in the records copies of speeches by Secretary Wallace, Dr. Mordecai Ezekiel and Leon Henderson, government economists, which Thomas said, urged "Keeping Prices Low". 6737

"Administration propaganda halts rise in prices of farm commodities." ...

A black and white photo of a man holding a piece of paper, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, ... More

President receives legislative program of American Farm Bureau. Washington, D.C., Jan. 10. The legislative program of the American Farm Bureau, calling for modification of hours and wages of relief labor and suggesting that both industry and labor refrain from advancing prices and wage rates, was presented to President Roosevelt today. In the group, left to right: O.O. Wolf of Kansas; E.A. O'Neal of Alabama, President of the American Farm Bureau; George M. Putnam of New Hampshire; H.J. King of Wyoming; Donald Kirkpatrick, legal counsel; J.F. Porter of Tennessee; and W.R. Ogg of the Research Division of the Bureau, 1/10/39

President receives legislative program of American Farm Bureau. Washin...

A group of men standing next to each other. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Negro grocery store. Sylvania, Georgia. Prices posted outside

Negro grocery store. Sylvania, Georgia. Prices posted outside

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

Organs and other relics on display at the Bird Cage Theater museum. Tombstone, Arizona. The Bird Cage Theater boasted such performers as Lilly Langtry and Anna Held. Seats on the main floor were ten dollars, in the boxes thirty dollars. Whiskey, beer and champagne was served to the audience during the shows at correspondingly high prices

Organs and other relics on display at the Bird Cage Theater museum. To...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bureau, office furniture, desk, chair, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Salvage. Requisitioning auto graveyard. Standing among the piles of reclaimable materials at the Colmar Manor, Maryland auto graveyard of the Lenox Motor Company, a U.S. Marshal requisitions all scrap metal on hand. Donovan, the owner, had refused to sell the much-needed materials at established prices

Salvage. Requisitioning auto graveyard. Standing among the piles of re...

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

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteers who check and post ceiling prices for the U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

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

Ceiling prices displayed in groceries and drug stores. Where all the goods in a bin or

Ceiling prices displayed in groceries and drug stores. Where all the g...

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

Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. Grateful that the United States has given him the freedom which was denied him in his native country, Mr. Brafman is proud and eager to do everything he can to cooperate with the government in the fight against inflation. Like many other tenants of New York's East Side marketplaces who feel as he does about their new homeland, he has posted his ceiling prices where his customers can easily see them

Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. Grateful that the United ...

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

New world for housewife. With prices of most of the goods the family buys controlled by government ceilings beginning May 18, the housewife will find new price markings greeting her in the familiar store. Here is a typical ceiling price card for use on a table or counter

New world for housewife. With prices of most of the goods the family b...

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

Meat rationing preview. Meat cuts with ceiling prices and point values per pound properly displayed

Meat rationing preview. Meat cuts with ceiling prices and point values...

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

William Elliot House, 2206 Newport Gap Pike (State Route 41), Prices Corner, New Castle County, DE

William Elliot House, 2206 Newport Gap Pike (State Route 41), Prices C...

Significance: The William Elliot House documents the growth of the Greenback area from a predominantly rural agricultural landscape into an industrial/manufacturing community and transportation center. It is a... More

Andrew Jackson Williams House, 2200 Newport Gap Pike (State Route 41), Prices Corner, New Castle County, DE

Andrew Jackson Williams House, 2200 Newport Gap Pike (State Route 41),...

Significance: This dwelling is a rural private home that was built for a middle-class family. It also documents the growth of the Greenback area from a predominantly rural agricultural landscape into an indust... More

The physician of the period / Dalrymple.

The physician of the period / Dalrymple.

Print shows an elderly physician sitting in a chair in an office, hanging on the wall is a fee schedule labeled, on the left, "Ailments for People of Moderate Means. Low Fees" and on the right, "Same Ailments f... More

Wheat is up - Drawing. Public domain image.

Wheat is up - Drawing. Public domain image.

A stalk of wheat with human features is shown hopping out of bed wearing pajamas emblazoned with "Crop 1907". An elderly woman, referred to as "The Northwest" stands next to the bed with hands on her hips. No c... More

Corn loans "immediate necessity" President Roosevelt told. Washington, D.C., Oct. 20. Corn loans of 60 cents a bushel are an "immediate necessity", Edward R. O'Neal, (center) President of the American Farm Bureau Federation, told President Roosevelt at a White House conference today. The condition of farm prices is one reason for the stock market being so jittery, O'Neal told newsmen following the call. Earl Smith, (left) President oft he Illinois Agricultural Association, and Clifford H. Gregory, Editor of Wallace's Farm Journal, were also in on the Conference. 10/20/37

Corn loans "immediate necessity" President Roosevelt told. Washington,...

A black and white photo of three men in suits and hats. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bookmen for the warehouse follow the sale and check the prices of tobacco after the auction. Durham, North Carolina

Bookmen for the warehouse follow the sale and check the prices of toba...

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

Used cars for sale with signs and prices at service station on main highway near Alexandria, Louisiana

Used cars for sale with signs and prices at service station on main hi...

Public domain photograph of an automobile, car, the 1920s or 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Salvage. Requisitioning auto graveyard. Standing among the piles of reclaimable materials at the Colmar Manor, Maryland auto graveyard of the Lenox Motor Company, a U.S. Marshal requisitions all scrap metal on hand. Donovan, the owner, had refused to sell the much-needed materials at established prices

Salvage. Requisitioning auto graveyard. Standing among the piles of re...

Public domain photograph of a graveyard monument, monument, grave, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Detroit, Michigan. Conference between U.S. Army ordnance and washing machine industry officials to determine the ability of manufacturers to produce parts needed by the Army. After inspecting samples, blueprints and prices were discussed. Exhibit showing parts of an anti-tank mine

Detroit, Michigan. Conference between U.S. Army ordnance and washing m...

Public domain photograph of the 1930s-1940s World War Two, armed forces, military production, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Posed photograph at a department store in Philadelphia, with volunteer woman investigator checking for Office of Price Administration's (OPA) enforcement agency prices of lingerie and hosiery

Posed photograph at a department store in Philadelphia, with volunteer...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. Anthony Weber, proprietor of a store in the German section of New York, is selling a Westphalian ham to Mrs. Elizabeth Freygang. The names are German, but both are patriotic Americans, glad to be in the United States, where a storekeeper is free to keep such well-stocked racks of food. Weber has shown his support of his adopted country by posting his ceiling price list

Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. Anthony Weber, proprietor...

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

Posting ceiling prices in English and foreign languages

Posting ceiling prices in English and foreign languages

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

Drawings. Ceiling prices. On some goods, government price regulations permit the storekeeper to display the ceilings by price lines. Here a shoe store posts its maximum prices on three lines of men's street shoes. In addition, each pair of shoes must be marked with its selling price

Drawings. Ceiling prices. On some goods, government price regulations ...

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

Posting ceiling prices in English and foreign languages

Posting ceiling prices in English and foreign languages

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

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteers who check and post ceiling prices for the U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

Public domain photograph of meeting, discussion, group of people, political event, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Los Angeles, California. The evacuation of Japanese-Americans from the West coast areas under United States Army war emergency order. Evacuation prices advertised in stores in Little Tokyo

Los Angeles, California. The evacuation of Japanese-Americans from the...

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

Andrew Jackson Williams House, 2200 Newport Gap Pike (State Route 41), Prices Corner, New Castle County, DE

Andrew Jackson Williams House, 2200 Newport Gap Pike (State Route 41),...

Significance: This dwelling is a rural private home that was built for a middle-class family. It also documents the growth of the Greenback area from a predominantly rural agricultural landscape into an indust... More

Low prices, their cause and effect by Joseph Sampson. June 1, 1895.

Low prices, their cause and effect by Joseph Sampson. June 1, 1895.

Page Order: Leaflet Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 207, Folder 48.

Storefront, Greensboro, Alabama

Storefront, Greensboro, Alabama

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

Owner of horses making a plea for better prices at auction, Eldorado, Texas

Owner of horses making a plea for better prices at auction, Eldorado, ...

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

A black and white photo of men on a tractor, Florida. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of men on a tractor, Florida. Farm Security Ad...

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

Every retailer has his own set of ceiling prices. Ceiling prices are based on the highest prices in each store during March and therfore vary from store to store. In any store where all items on a counter or shelf have the same ceiling price, one sign may be used to show the maximum price for all the articles in the group

Every retailer has his own set of ceiling prices. Ceiling prices are b...

Actual size of negative is B (approximately 5 x 7 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Los Angeles, California. The evacuation of Japanese-Americans from West coast areas under United States Army war emergency order. Prices are cut as Japanese merchants try to sell their stock before they leave

Los Angeles, California. The evacuation of Japanese-Americans from Wes...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteers who check and post ceiling prices for the U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

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

Gene and Francis discuss hogs, feed rations, and prices. Near Ames, Iowa

Gene and Francis discuss hogs, feed rations, and prices. Near Ames, Io...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural farming landscape, agriculture, farm animals, livestock, farmers, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Shining up an administrator. With ceiling prices listed on his shoe box, Howard Rae Lynch, fourteen, polishes the shoes of Office of Price Administration (OPA) Leon Henderson

Shining up an administrator. With ceiling prices listed on his shoe bo...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Photographed by Albert Freeman, Alfred T. Palmer or George Danor. Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer;... More

Posting ceiling prices in English and foreign languages

Posting ceiling prices in English and foreign languages

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

"Administration propaganda halts rise in prices of farm commodities." Washington, D.C. June 7. Speaking before the Senate Agriculture Committee today, Seantor Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma, assailed "propaganda" by administration officials which he said has worked to halt the rise in prices of farm commodities. He placed in the records copies of speeches by Secretary Wallace, Dr. Mordecai Ezekiel and Leon Henderson, government economists, which Thomas said, urged "Keeping Prices Low". 6/7/37

"Administration propaganda halts rise in prices of farm commodities." ...

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

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.

Detroit, Michigan. Conference between U.S. Army ordnance and washing machine industry officials to determine the ability of manufacturers to produce parts needed by the Army. After inspecting samples, blueprints and prices were discussed

Detroit, Michigan. Conference between U.S. Army ordnance and washing m...

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

Detroit, Michigan. Conference between U.S. Army ordnance and washing machine industry officials to determine the ability of manufacturers to produce parts needed by the Army. After inspecting samples, blueprints and prices were discussed

Detroit, Michigan. Conference between U.S. Army ordnance and washing m...

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

Detroit, Michigan. Conference between U.S. Army ordnance and washing machine industry officials to determine the ability of manufacturers to produce parts needed by the Army. After inspecting samples, blueprints and prices were discussed

Detroit, Michigan. Conference between U.S. Army ordnance and washing m...

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

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteer checking and posting ceiling prices for the U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

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

Manager (owner?) of P & S Variety Center, 367 21st Avenue, stands in the doorway of his shop.

Manager (owner?) of P & S Variety Center, 367 21st Avenue, stands in t...

Forms part of a group of images documenting businesses along 21st Avenue in Paterson.

Close-up of merchandise in window of Madison Avenue Apparel Outlet.

Close-up of merchandise in window of Madison Avenue Apparel Outlet.

Forms part of a group of images documenting scenes along 21st Avenue, Paterson.

The gas prices, but not the "open" sign, are accurate at this little truck stop east of the town of Sabinol, Texas, for the pumps have long been dry

The gas prices, but not the "open" sign, are accurate at this little t...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Merrill Lynch account executive chalks up current stock prices on quotation board in firm's new mobile office

Merrill Lynch account executive chalks up current stock prices on quot...

Photograph shows man writing on quotation chalk board the current stock prices as Merrill Lynch staffers look on. No. L199.

Thomas Jefferson to Matthew Boulton, July 1, 1787, Prices of Tableware

Thomas Jefferson to Matthew Boulton, July 1, 1787, Prices of Tableware

Prices of Tableware Public domain scan of Thomas Jefferson correspondence, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

"Baby Service, Inc." Washington, D.C., Aug. 18. "Enjoy your baby, let us work for him" is the motto of a brand new business started here recently by Mrs. John McGee, the former Narcissa Sullivan, daughter of Mark Sullivan, the political writer. Baby service, Inc. will prepare and deliver baby food made according to special formulae, sterlize bottles, provide girls who will stay with children at night, shop for supplies, make layettes, or render baby needs, scaling all prices to the clients purse. #1--Getting a call for baby service, Mrs. McGee, at the phone

"Baby Service, Inc." Washington, D.C., Aug. 18. "Enjoy your baby, let ...

A woman sitting at a desk talking on a phone. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

"Do it now" / J.S. Pughe. - Public domain dedication image

"Do it now" / J.S. Pughe. - Public domain dedication image

Illustration shows a man sitting in an ice house, wearing a fur coat and hat labeled "Ice Trust", writing "Owing to the mild winter, we regret to say that ice next summer will be dearer than ever." Illus. in: ... More

Monopoly witness, Dr. Lubin. Washington, D.C., Dec. 4. Dr. Isadore Lubin, Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, appeared before the Monopoly Committee today. He said that a period of rising prices and 'painful economic readjustment' is in prospect as a result of the European war. 'The experience of the past 100 years, ' Lubin said, 'has demonstrated repeatedly that major wars bring tremendous changes in prices and have far reaching effect upon the structure of industry and upon the entire economy. Senator Borah presided in the absence of Senator O'Mahoney

Monopoly witness, Dr. Lubin. Washington, D.C., Dec. 4. Dr. Isadore Lub...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Aboard a trap fishing boat, delivering fish at freezer. Most of the trap boats are owned by the freezer. Men work on shares, the company fifty percent. Prices are set according to day's supply in all traps. As in almost all cases traps share equally in a day's run. Fishermen get little either way, they either sell little fish for a comparatively decent price or much fish for little. Provincetown, Massachusetts

Aboard a trap fishing boat, delivering fish at freezer. Most of the tr...

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

Aboard a trap fishing boat, delivering fish at the freezer. Most of the trap boats are owned by the freezers. Men work on shares, the company gets fifty percent. Prices are set according to days supply in all traps. As in almost all cases traps share equally in a day's run. Fishermen get little money either way--they either sell little fish for a comparatively decent price, or much fish for very little. Provincetown, Massachusetts

Aboard a trap fishing boat, delivering fish at the freezer. Most of th...

Picryl description: Public domain image of fishing, fishing boat, river, lake, nature, 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 image of a tractor, farming equipment, agriculture, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Construction workers eating in cafe in Alexandria, Louisiana. They say food is up at least one third, often prices double for meals

Construction workers eating in cafe in Alexandria, Louisiana. They say...

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

Detroit, Michigan. Conference between U.S. Army ordnance and washing machine industry official to determine the ability of manufacturers to produce parts needed by the Army. After inspecting samples, blueprints and prices were discussed. Exhibit showing the manufacture of a gun projectile

Detroit, Michigan. Conference between U.S. Army ordnance and washing m...

Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Posting ceiling prices in English and foreign languages

Posting ceiling prices in English and foreign languages

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

Shining up an administrator. With ceiling prices listed on his shoe box, Howard Rae Lynch, fourteen, polishes the shoes of Office of Price Administration (OPA) Leon Henderson

Shining up an administrator. With ceiling prices listed on his shoe bo...

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

Posting ceiling prices in English and foreign languages

Posting ceiling prices in English and foreign languages

Public domain photograph of 1930s industry, war production in the United States free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Posting ceiling prices in English and foreign languages
New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteers who check and post ceiling prices for the U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

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

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteers who check and post ceiling prices for the U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

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

Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. The ceiling price sign displayed in "Shapiro's Bargain Stand," one of New York's East Side marketplaces, shows that the Shapiros, like hundreds of others in the market, are cooperating with the Office of Price Administration in posting prices where their customers can see them

Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. The ceiling price sign di...

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

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteers who check and post ceiling prices for the U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

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

Posting ceiling prices in English and foreign languages

Posting ceiling prices in English and foreign languages

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

The great advertising ball of the season / J. Keppler.

The great advertising ball of the season / J. Keppler.

Illustration shows the interior of a large room where many of the decorations are for sale, as well as clothing displayed on lifeless figures; all items have price tags with value indicated. Illus. from Puck, ... More

As to the many theatrical failures, business will pick up when-- / Ehrhart.

As to the many theatrical failures, business will pick up when-- / Ehr...

Illustration shows a vignette cartoon with, at center, the construction of mannequin models as stand-ins for actors, surrounded by scenes of price gouging, poorly attended performances, the use of wooden actors... More

Sign showing scale of prices (retail) at farmer cooperative creamery, Ruthven, Iowa. Note the low prices

Sign showing scale of prices (retail) at farmer cooperative creamery, ...

Public domain photograph of farm, farmer, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Waiting for the semimonthly relief checks at Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California. Typical story: fifteen years ago they owned farms in Oklahoma. Lost them through foreclosure when cotton prices fell after the war. Became tenants and sharecroppers. With the drought and dust they came West, 1934-1937. Never before left the county where they were born. Now although in California over a year they haven't been continuously resident in any single county long enough to become a legal resident. Reason: migratory agricultural laborers

Waiting for the semimonthly relief checks at Calipatria, Imperial Vall...

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

Aboard a trap fishing boat, delivering fish at freezer. Most of the trap boats are owned by the freezer. Men work on shares, the company fifty percent. Prices are set according to day's supply in all traps. As in almost all cases traps share equally in a day's run. Fishermen get little either way, they either sell little fish for a comparatively decent price or much fish for little. Provincetown, Massachusetts

Aboard a trap fishing boat, delivering fish at freezer. Most of the tr...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Detroit, Michigan. Conference between U.S. Army ordnance and washing machine industry officials to determine the ability of manufacturers to produce parts needed by the Army. After inspecting samples, blueprints and prices were discussed. Manufacturing processes of an anti-aircraft projectile

Detroit, Michigan. Conference between U.S. Army ordnance and washing m...

Public domain photograph of the 1930s-1940s World War Two, armed forces, military production, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

This is the Herbster shoe supply. A new pair of shoes a month is needed by the family. Mrs. Herbster finds that shoe prices have not increased

This is the Herbster shoe supply. A new pair of shoes a month is neede...

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

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteers who check and post ceiling prices for the U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military personnel, army, group photograph, armed people in uniform, war inspection, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteers who check and post ceiling prices for the U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

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

Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. Charles Ruggiero, clerk in a grocery store in New York's Italian section, wishes the handful of spaghetti he is breaking were Mussolini's neck. The ceiling price sign above his head, written in Italian, is helping to defeat Il Duce by controlling inflation, one of America's most dangerous enemies

Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. Charles Ruggiero, clerk i...

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

Price control. Anti-inflation window display. The "Wise Old Owl" display not only boosts sales in this drugstore, but stresses cooperation between government and merchant to control prices of items essential to the war effort. The "Save Your Money" theme is a clever merchandising angle informing the customer that ceiling prices vary in different stores

Price control. Anti-inflation window display. The "Wise Old Owl" displ...

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

Alta Scarbrough's yard creations displayed in the yard of her daughter-in-law, together with prices

Alta Scarbrough's yard creations displayed in the yard of her daughter...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an ornamental print, pattern design, mannerism, baroque, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Dick Ferris presents The Grace Hayward Co. a wonderful show at popular prices.

Dick Ferris presents The Grace Hayward Co. a wonderful show at popular...

D22661 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyright 1900, The U.S.P. Co., Russell-Morgan Print, Cin. & N.Y." No. 4902. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Now that everyone has advanced his little idea explaining their presence / F. Fox.  Just one d-- thing after another / Phil Porter.

Now that everyone has advanced his little idea explaining their presen...

In the first of two illustrations a tall man "Mr. Hi Costo Living" and a short man "Mr. L.O. Wages" are singing "We're here because we're here because we're here..."; in the second illustration a man in tattere... More

Yamacraw Market, Fahn Street, Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia

Yamacraw Market, Fahn Street, Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia

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

A couple of men riding on the back of a motorcycle, Florida. Farm Security Administration photograph

A couple of men riding on the back of a motorcycle, Florida. Farm Secu...

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

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

A black and white photo of people working in a field, Florida. Farm Se...

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

Monopoly witness, Dr. Lubin. Washington, D.C., Dec. 4. Dr. Isadore Lubin, Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, appeared before the Monopoly Committee today. He said that a period of rising prices and 'painful economic readjustment' is in prospect as a result of the European war. 'The experience of the past 100 years, ' Lubin said, 'has demonstrated repeatedly that major wars bring tremendous changes in prices and have far reaching effect upon the structure of industry and upon the entire economy. Senator Borah presided in the absence of Senator O'Mahoney

Monopoly witness, Dr. Lubin. Washington, D.C., Dec. 4. Dr. Isadore Lub...

A man in a suit holding a large white board, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. Gen... More

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