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Relief line waiting for commodities, San Antonio, Texas

Relief line waiting for commodities, San Antonio, Texas

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

Bas relief "Transportation & Distribution of the Mail," by Raymond Barger at the John O. Pastore Federal Building in Providence, Rhode Island

Bas relief "Transportation & Distribution of the Mail," by Raymond Bar...

Date:1940; dimensions: 3' x 4-1/2' x 2". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photo... More

Great Depression: A young boy sitting in the grass with a dog. Farm Security Administration photogrpaph. Indiana

Great Depression: A young boy sitting in the grass with a dog. Farm Se...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se... More

A black and white photo of a woman reaching out of a window, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a woman reaching out of a window, West Virg...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se... More

Corner of kitchen of family on relief. Chicago, Illinois

Corner of kitchen of family on relief. Chicago, Illinois

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Ironing. Family on relief. Chicago, Illinois

Ironing. Family on relief. Chicago, Illinois

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Batavia, New York. Elba FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm labor camp. George Wright, fifty, ex-showman and jack of all trades whose last job was in a sugar refinery where he broke a leg. He had been on relief since 1929, until the relief agency in New York City sent him to the Elba farm workers camp. Later he was elected a councilman in the camp

Batavia, New York. Elba FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm labor ...

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

New wartime baseball. Cork-cushioned centers in baseballs--official in major leagues for more than a decade--are war-taboo. Rubber-cushioned centers, "borrowed" from stopped golf ball production, offer temporary relief. Left: cork-type ball; right; new baseball with rubber center

New wartime baseball. Cork-cushioned centers in baseballs--official in...

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El Shatt, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's refugee camp for Yugoslavs

El Shatt, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration'...

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El Shatt, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's refugee camp for Yugoslavs

El Shatt, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration'...

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El Shatt, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's refugee camp for Yugoslavs

El Shatt, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration'...

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El Shatt, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's refugee camp for Yugoslavs

El Shatt, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration'...

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El Shatt, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's refugee camp for Yugoslavs

El Shatt, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration'...

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El Shatt, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's refugee camp for Yugoslavs

El Shatt, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration'...

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El Shatt, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's refugee camp for Yugoslavs

El Shatt, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration'...

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United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration training center, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. Dr. Frank Munk, director of the school is a Czechoslovakian who escaped from Prague at the time of Nazi occupation. He is on leave from the University of California, where he is an instructor in economics. He is the author of numerous books on costs and problems of distrubution

United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration training cente...

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El Shatt, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's refugee camp for Yugoslavs

El Shatt, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration'...

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Villa Finale historic mansion bas relief in garden, San Antonio, Texas

Villa Finale historic mansion bas relief in garden, San Antonio, Texas

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Villa Finale, originally built in 1876, was restored in the late 1960s by preservation visionary Walter Mathis, who lived in the home until his death in 2... More

Summit Hotel. El Gaucho relief figure

Summit Hotel. El Gaucho relief figure

Public domain photograph of New York, midcentury American architecture, 1940s-1950s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

State of Maine; base map with highways and contours, shaded relief.

State of Maine; base map with highways and contours, shaded relief.

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Carol M. Highsmith - [Bas relief]

Carol M. Highsmith - [Bas relief]

Digital image produced by Library of Congress. Date provided by photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase... More

[Librarian's Room. Dome showing stuccoed relief of a ring of Grecian girls by Weinert with the central disc displaying the mural Letters by Holslag. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]

[Librarian's Room. Dome showing stuccoed relief of a ring of Grecian g...

Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

[Great Hall. Detail of relief and capitals. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]

[Great Hall. Detail of relief and capitals. Library of Congress Thomas...

Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Bas relief at the Navy Memorial, 701 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, D.C.

Bas relief at the Navy Memorial, 701 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of District of Columbia Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Pr... More

The U.S. Steam Frigate Mississippi, Com..re M.C. Perry--Going out to the relief of the American steamer Hunter a French bark [her prize] and an American pilot boat wrecked on Green Island reef near Vera Cruize March 21st, 1847 / lith. of Sarony & Major ; executed by H. Walke Lt. U.S.N.

The U.S. Steam Frigate Mississippi, Com..re M.C. Perry--Going out to t...

Naval Portfolio No. 1. Naval scenes in the Mexican War by H. Walke Lieut. U.S. Navy. Copyright by Sarony & Major.

They shall not perish ... American Committee for relief in the Near East / Douglas Volk.

They shall not perish ... American Committee for relief in the Near Ea...

Girl, symbolizing Near East, clinging to woman with sword and U.S. flag, symbolizing America.

North Carolina Route 1314 Bridge, Spanning Toe River, Relief, Mitchell County, NC

North Carolina Route 1314 Bridge, Spanning Toe River, Relief, Mitchell...

Significance: North Carolina Route 1314 Bridge has the unique feature of containing a riveted 159-foot Camelback and a pin-connected 125-foot Pratt. Because of Yancey County's devastating floods, the bridge co... More

North Carolina Route 1314 Bridge, Spanning Toe River, Relief, Mitchell County, NC

North Carolina Route 1314 Bridge, Spanning Toe River, Relief, Mitchell...

Significance: North Carolina Route 1314 Bridge has the unique feature of containing a riveted 159-foot Camelback and a pin-connected 125-foot Pratt. Because of Yancey County's devastating floods, the bridge co... More

Bas relief "Jackson, Defender of New Orleans, 1818," by Auguste DeFrasse at the U.S. Custom House in New Orleans, Louisiana

Bas relief "Jackson, Defender of New Orleans, 1818," by Auguste DeFras...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive,... More

The Herald of relief from America / Th. Nast.

The Herald of relief from America / Th. Nast.

Woman, on shore of Ireland, holding up a sign for help to American ships; her foot rests on rock enscribed "we are starving". Family huddled behind her. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1880 Feb. 28, p. 129.

Ohio - the mining troubles in Hocking Valley - tent life of the striking miners--The distribution of relief to the unemployed / from sketches by Joseph Becker.

Ohio - the mining troubles in Hocking Valley - tent life of the striki...

Three illustrations showing: family in tent on a cold night, exterior of a tent, and people receiving food relief.

Senate Banking and Currency Committee hears Secretary Wallace. Washington, D.C., June 7. Secretary of Agriculture, Henry Wallace, today told the Senate Banking and Currency Committee that he approved the bill to revamp the Farm Credit System because farmers need relief from 'excessive interest charges and debts which they cannot pay. In addition,' he said, '60 percent of all the National Farm Loan Associations have had their capitol so impaired that they cannot make new loans. Beyond question there is room for improvement in both the general farm credit situation and the Federal Land Bank System'

Senate Banking and Currency Committee hears Secretary Wallace. Washing...

A group of men sitting around a table with papers. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Relief labor more costly than private contract, House committee told. Washington D.C. Testifying before the House Agricultural Committee today, Resettlement Administrator W.W. Alexander said that construction of improvements on farms in the south, if done with relief labor, would cost nearly twice as much as if done under private contract. The Committee is considering the Jones-Bankhead Farm Tenancy Bill which would set up a federal corporation to loan money to tenant farmers to enable them to buy and improve land

Relief labor more costly than private contract, House committee told. ...

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American relief ship "Bayern" at Messina

American relief ship "Bayern" at Messina

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BELGIAN RELIEF. MISS MARY DECKER OF THE 'MILE OF PENNIES' CAMPAIGN

BELGIAN RELIEF. MISS MARY DECKER OF THE 'MILE OF PENNIES' CAMPAIGN

A woman in a coat and hat holding a sign. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Armenian refugees from Istanbul, assisted by Near East Relief, farming in field, Rodosto, Thrace]

[Armenian refugees from Istanbul, assisted by Near East Relief, farmin...

Photograph from Near East Relief. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress).

[Shoppers looking at window display of Brown's Drug Store, advertising "Digestit," a stomach relief patent medicine; product is being endorsed by a pianist, "Mr. Thomas," who has been playing in the store window non-stop for 60 hours and 45 minutes; Mr. W.L. Brown in standing behind Mr. Thomas.]

[Shoppers looking at window display of Brown's Drug Store, advertising...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. LOT subdivision subject: Business Activities. National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress). Formerly in SPF - Medicines. Caption ca... More

If you knew a day's pay would save a life, would you give one day a month? All of the Red Cross War Fund goes for war relief.

If you knew a day's pay would save a life, would you give one day a mo...

Poster shows a large red cross. Form N Y 2 - Second War Fund. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.

[Red Crescent relief, Jerusalem]

[Red Crescent relief, Jerusalem]

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BELGIAN RELIEF. CHAMP CLARK BUYING FORGET-ME-NOTS TO SAVE BELGIAN BABIES

BELGIAN RELIEF. CHAMP CLARK BUYING FORGET-ME-NOTS TO SAVE BELGIAN BABI...

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Left behind in Serbia - Send money for the women and children to the Serbian Relief, 70 Fifth Avenue, New York / Boardman Robinson.

Left behind in Serbia - Send money for the women and children to the S...

Poster showing victims in need of war relief. Public domain scan of American poster, advertisement, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

HOOVER, HERBERT C. HEAD OF FOOD ADM.; DIS. GEN. OF RELIEF, SUPR.; COUNCIL OF SUP. ANDRELIEF, ETC.; PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, 1929-1933

HOOVER, HERBERT C. HEAD OF FOOD ADM.; DIS. GEN. OF RELIEF, SUPR.; COUN...

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Hunger knows no armistice--Near East Relief / M. Leone Bracker 1919 ; Alco-Gravure Inc., New York-Baltimore.

Hunger knows no armistice--Near East Relief / M. Leone Bracker 1919 ; ...

Poster showing a woman and children, cowering in distress. 937 Woodward Building, campaign headquarters, Near East Relief, 819 15th Street.

First food stamp. Washington, D.C., April 20. The first of the new surplus food stamps came of the presses at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing today. Latest of the administration's plans to reduce the farm surplus, the stamps, of yellow and blue, will be issued to persons on relief who in turn can trade each $1.00 stamp for food worth $1.50. Rochester, New York, will be one of the first half dozen cities to try the new stamp plan

First food stamp. Washington, D.C., April 20. The first of the new sur...

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Near east relief lawn fete - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Near east relief lawn fete - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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American Red Cross relief work in the Mississippi Valley flood

American Red Cross relief work in the Mississippi Valley flood

African American refugees at Greenville, Miss., lined up for vaccination. National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress). Photograph by the American Red Cross.

One who needed no relief. A relative of the ex-king of Montenegro. The biggest man physically as well as politically in the country. He stands 6 feet 4 inches in his stocking feet and tips the scales at 327 pounds. He is a type of the old monarchist regime, but like all other political factions of the country he pitched in to aid the American Red Cross in its program of relief. And he was also one of the few in Montenegro who asked for no aid from the American relief organization

One who needed no relief. A relative of the ex-king of Montenegro. The...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Paris Office. Group title: Montenegro (Personnel) On caption card: (11681) Us... More

Petra (Wadi Musa). El-Khazneh. Equestrian bas relief. On façade north side of portico

Petra (Wadi Musa). El-Khazneh. Equestrian bas relief. On façade north ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a romantic landscape with ruins, historical building, classical architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Refugees in front of the old palace, Athens. This was used as a palace by King George 1, who was killed in 1912, during the war it was used as a hospital. Now part of it is occupied by refugees and part of it is offices for the relief of refugees. To this palace refugees come every day to learn whether lost relatives and friends have been found; a bureau for that purpose is maintained there. Refugees come also to this palace to get their identification books, entitled them to relief. The names of those whose books are ready are called out of the window

Refugees in front of the old palace, Athens. This was used as a palace...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Data: 1922. Classification: Dr. (Fires) Smyrna (refugees-Greece) Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General information about the American Nation... More

Near East Relief, 3/8/24 - Public domain monumental decor photograph

Near East Relief, 3/8/24 - Public domain monumental decor photograph

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Pres. Coolidge presented rug by Near East Relief Com., 12/4/25

Pres. Coolidge presented rug by Near East Relief Com., 12/4/25

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[Relief map] Historic map, Library of Congress

[Relief map] Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief model of Jerusalem made by Ernest Forrest Beaumont. (Source: researcher T. Powers, 2014)

Urge $10,000,000 Red Cross Relief Fund. President Hoover, as President of the American Red Cross, joins Judge John Barton Payne, chairman, in a special call for a $10,000,000 popular subscription to the Red Cross to be used for drought relief in 21 states. Payne has described the drought problem, accentuated by unemployment, as the "greatest peace-time emergency" the organization has ever faced. 1/14/31 [White House, Washington, D.C.]

Urge $10,000,000 Red Cross Relief Fund. President Hoover, as President...

Two men in suits standing next to each other. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Wash. D.C. Funny. Mayor F.H. LaGuardia, right, finds something quite amusing as he sits beside Mayor Howard W. Jackson of Baltimore, at the luncheon given the U.S. Conference of Mayors at the opening session here today. Mayor LaGuardia eveidently is NOT thinking about the relief

Wash. D.C. Funny. Mayor F.H. LaGuardia, right, finds something quite a...

A black and white photo of a group of men sitting at a table. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Waiting for relief check, Scotts Run, West Virginia

Waiting for relief check, Scotts Run, West Virginia

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

Oklahoma migrant, Texas. An example of how they fall between the relief agencies. The father, aged thirty-five, is an intelligent fellow, a painter by trade. Advanced tuberculosis, victim of an occupational disease. Ineligible for WPA (Works Progress Administration), rated as totally disabled. As a state charge under Oklahoma relief standards, the family were told the maximum relief would be seven dollars every two weeks. They lost their home, their furniture,

Oklahoma migrant, Texas. An example of how they fall between the relie...

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

Home of Tennessee family of seven, now migratory workers living in camp outside of Sacramento, California. Father was coal miner in Tennessee but when the mines were not working received two days a week relief work. "Thought we could make it better out here"

Home of Tennessee family of seven, now migratory workers living in cam...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a tent, camp, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Estherville, Iowa. Homer Sharer and family He has rented farms in the past, but was last employed as a hired hand for 16 months. The family is now on unemployment relief.

Estherville, Iowa. Homer Sharer and family He has rented farms in the ...

Corresponding negative no. LC-USF34-10094-D. Forms part of: FSA/OWI Collection (Library of Congress). LOT 1155.

Waiting for relief checks. Calipatria, California

Waiting for relief checks. Calipatria, California

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Bed in William Howell's home near Tipler, Wisconsin. He is a cut-over farmer with a family on relief

Bed in William Howell's home near Tipler, Wisconsin. He is a cut-over ...

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Waiting for relief checks. Calipatria, California

Waiting for relief checks. Calipatria, California

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Final witness before profit sharing committee. Washington, D.C., Dec. 14. George P. McNear, Jr., President of the Toledo, Peoria and Western Railroad system, who was the final witness before the finance subcommittee studying profit sharing. The president of the 300-mile road told Senators Herring and Vendenberg that the government could best help railroads by leaving them alone and by giving some relief on social security taxes. The committee is expected to close the hearings today, 12/14/38

Final witness before profit sharing committee. Washington, D.C., Dec. ...

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A group of people standing around each other. Ohio during Great Depression.

A group of people standing around each other. Ohio during Great Depres...

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[VFW National Committee testifies before Dies Committee. Washington, D.C., Dec. 8. Appearing before the House Committee Investigating Un-American Activities, Eugene I. Van Antwerp, National Commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, today advocated enforced state and federal registration of all organizations which disseminate propaganda in the United States. He also proposed reduction of present immigration quotes by 90 per cent and elimination from relief rolls of aliens who have not declared their intention of becoming citizens]

[VFW National Committee testifies before Dies Committee. Washington, D...

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Home of rural rehabilitation client, Tulare County, California. They bought twenty acres of raw unimproved land with a first payment of fifty dollars which was money saved out of relief budget (August 1936). They received a Farm Security Administration (FSA) loan of seven hundred dollars for stock and equipment. Now they have a one-room shack, seven cows, three sows, and homemade pumping plant, along with ten acres of improved permanent pasture. Cream check approximately thirty dollars per month. Husband also works about ten days a month outside the farm. Husband is twenty-six years old, wife twenty-two, three small children. Been in California five years. "Piece by piece this place gets put together. One more piece of pipe and our water tank will be finished."

Home of rural rehabilitation client, Tulare County, California. They b...

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

A couple of men standing next to a barrel, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A couple of men standing next to a barrel, West Virginia. Farm Securit...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of coal miners, workers, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Relief office, London, Ohio (see general caption)

Relief office, London, Ohio (see general caption)

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Waiting for relief commodities, Urbana, Ohio

Waiting for relief commodities, Urbana, Ohio

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Family on relief, Great Depression, Lancaster, Ohio

Family on relief, Great Depression, Lancaster, Ohio

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Sigh of relief. Washington, D.C., Dec. 21. "Glad that's over!" Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Rober seemed to sigh today following his last press conference. He will leave the cabinet on December 23, 12/21/38

Sigh of relief. Washington, D.C., Dec. 21. "Glad that's over!" Secreta...

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Public domain image of New york city cityscape, free to use, no copyri...

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Man on relief. Herrin, Illinois (see general caption on card 299-M4)

Man on relief. Herrin, Illinois (see general caption on card 299-M4)

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Mother and child. This woman, wife of an ex-farmer now living on relief, had pellagra in an advanced stage. She has had some treatment and shown great improvement but there were still evidences of mental disturbance. She was the mother of twelve children. The child in her arms has malaria as have probably the entire family. Jefferson, Texas

Mother and child. This woman, wife of an ex-farmer now living on relie...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty during the Great Depression, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Great Depression: A young boy is playing with a cat. Farm Security Administration photogrpaph. Indiana

Great Depression: A young boy is playing with a cat. Farm Security Adm...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se... More

Testify before Senate Relief Committee. Washington, D.C., Mar. 7. Roy Franklin, left, business agent for Local #183, United Packing House Workers, and Ernest B. Jacobs, Pres. Of the same union, Austin, Minn. testified before the Senate Relief Committee today, both employees of the Hormel Packing Plant, said Franklin, that the workers felt that the management had made no effort to increase the amount of work to be done in a 40-hour budget because the workers in a previous period had completed and budgeted work in les than the allotted time, 3/7/38

Testify before Senate Relief Committee. Washington, D.C., Mar. 7. Roy ...

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Batavia, New York. Elba FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm labor camp. An old man who has lived all of his life near Broadway, New York City, and who was taken off relief and sent to the Elba FSA camp to work in the harvest. He said, "There is so much suffering in the world today that mine doesn't seem so much and I'm doing my best to help bring in Uncle Sam's crops"

Batavia, New York. Elba FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm labor ...

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

Mejex-El-Bab, Tunisia. A market operated by the Allied civilian relief groups to sell at cost food, clothing, kerosene, etc., supplied by the U.S. Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations to natives and Europeans, victims of war deprivation

Mejex-El-Bab, Tunisia. A market operated by the Allied civilian relief...

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El Shatt, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's refugee camp for Yugoslavs

El Shatt, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration'...

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El Shatt, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's refugee camp for Yugoslavs

El Shatt, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration'...

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El Shatt, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's refugee camp for Yugoslavs

El Shatt, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration'...

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El Shatt, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's refugee camp for Yugoslavs

El Shatt, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration'...

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El Shatt, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's refugee camp for Yugoslavs

El Shatt, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration'...

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Chinese agricultural experts looking at timothy hay in University of Maryland agricultural school barn. A Chinese group is attending the UNRRA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) training center at the University of Maryland. From left: N.F. Chang and C.C. Chen

Chinese agricultural experts looking at timothy hay in University of M...

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El Shatt, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's refugee camp for Yugoslavs

El Shatt, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration'...

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Washington, D.C. Herbert H. Lehman, Director General of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, being interviewed by the press after his return from England and the battlefronts of Europe. Left to right: John Corson, Deputy Director in charge of Finance and Administration, and Herbert H. Lehman, Director General of United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration

Washington, D.C. Herbert H. Lehman, Director General of the United Nat...

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Washington, D.C. Herbert H. Lehman, Director General of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration

Washington, D.C. Herbert H. Lehman, Director General of the United Nat...

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El Shatt, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's refugee camp for Yugoslavs

El Shatt, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration'...

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El Shatt, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's refugee camp for Yugoslavs

El Shatt, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration'...

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United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration training center, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. Meals are served in the cafeteria where the school is located and are secured by the students on regular Army mess trays

United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration training cente...

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.

El Shatt, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's refugee camp for Yugoslavs

El Shatt, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration'...

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El Shatt, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's refugee camp for Yugoslavs

El Shatt, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration'...

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Art deco relief, one of many at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Centennial celebration and the Pan-American Exposition in 1937 in Dallas, Texas

Art deco relief, one of many at Fair Park, site of the 1936 Texas Cent...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The park preserves the largest collection of 1930s Art Deco architecture in the United States. It also holds the distinction of being ... More

Interior bas relief detail, United States Commerce building, Washington, D.C.

Interior bas relief detail, United States Commerce building, Washingto...

Architect: Cass Gilbert. Built 1922-1925. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in t... More

Bas relief detail on floor, interior of the National Archives, Washington, D.C.

Bas relief detail on floor, interior of the National Archives, Washing...

The United States National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an independent agency of the United States government charged with preserving and documenting government and historical records and with ... More

Bas relief detail on floor, interior of the National Archives, Washington, D.C.

Bas relief detail on floor, interior of the National Archives, Washing...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a relief sculpture, monument, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Civil War bas relief on the Pension Building, 401 F St., NW, Washington, D.C.

Civil War bas relief on the Pension Building, 401 F St., NW, Washingto...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of District of Columbia Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Pr... More

[View of a sculpture relief "The Spirit's Flight" by E.D. Palmer]

[View of a sculpture relief "The Spirit's Flight" by E.D. Palmer]

Photographer unidentified. Case: central scroll medallion with corner scrolls on front; plain back. Engraved on brass mat: The Spirit's Flight, H.K. Brown, from E.D. Palmer. Gift; Henry K. Bush-Brown; 1934; (DL... More

Part of an impoverished family of nine on a New Mexico highway. Depression refugees from Iowa. Left Iowa in 1932 because of father's ill health. Father an auto mechanic laborer, painter by trade, tubercular. Family has been on relief in Arizona but refused entry on relief roles in Iowa to which state they wish to return. Nine children including a sick four-month-old baby. No money at all. About to sell their belongings and trailer for money to buy food. "We don't want to go where we'll be a nuisance to anybody"

Part of an impoverished family of nine on a New Mexico highway. Depres...

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During the cotton strike, the father, a striking picker, has left his wife and child in the car while he applies to the Farm Security Administration for an emergency food grant. Shafter, California

During the cotton strike, the father, a striking picker, has left his ...

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

Save Serbia our ally. Send contributions to Serbian Relief Committee of America

Save Serbia our ally. Send contributions to Serbian Relief Committee o...

Views of Serbian soldiers and civilians as they migrate into the mountains. The remains of the Serbian nation, approximately 700,000 people, who after their severe defeat by the Austro-German army, fled to t... More

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