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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 technical experts in Washington in connection with the UNRRA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) training program at a conference with C.L. Moffatt (at extreme right, dark suit, handkerchief in breast pocket) , discuss flood control as a problem of industrial rehabilitation

Chinese technical experts in Washington in connection with the UNRRA (...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, 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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Driveway, stone relief, Birch Bayh Federal Building, Indianapolis, Indiana

Driveway, stone relief, Birch Bayh Federal Building, Indianapolis, Ind...

A steel-framed, flat-roofed building clad with Indiana limestone completed in 1905. Each pavilion has a central cast-bronze and glass doorway, reached by a wide, shallow gray granite stair flanked by pedestals ... More

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

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

GSA Fine Arts Program, 1940. FA476-B; dimensions: 3' x 4-1/2 'x 2"; medium: stone. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provid... More

Bas relief, World War II Memorial, Washington, D.C.

Bas relief, World War II Memorial, Washington, D.C.

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

Camp of relief corps, Johnstown Flood, May 31st, 1889

Camp of relief corps, Johnstown Flood, May 31st, 1889

17841U U.S. Copyright Office. Photographed and copyright by Histed, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Philadelphia Association for the Relief of Disabled Firemen / drawn and engraved by J.R. Smith, writing engraved by J. & W.W. Warr.

Philadelphia Association for the Relief of Disabled Firemen / drawn an...

Print is a certificate of membership in the Philadelphia Association for the Relief of Disabled Firemen which depicts a scene of firemen putting out a fire in a burning building and rescuing citizens from anoth... More

Panoramic view of the canal of Panama, From the relief constructed by Ch. Muret on official documents /

Panoramic view of the canal of Panama, From the relief constructed by ...

Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Portrait relief sculpture of Arnold Genthe

Portrait relief sculpture of Arnold Genthe

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

Prof. Paul H. Douglas, right, of Univ. of Chicago, & Prof. Alvin W. Hansen of Harvard U. before Senate Unemployment & Relief Comm. Hearings

Prof. Paul H. Douglas, right, of Univ. of Chicago, & Prof. Alvin W. Ha...

Two men looking at a blueprint on a table. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

60 per cent of Akron, O. population now on relief, Dies Committee told. Washington, D.C., Nov. 15. Testifying today before the House Committee Investigating Un-American Activities, C. Nelson Sparks, Akron, O., former Mayor and Chairman of a Law and Order League during the 1936 rubber strike, declared that 60 percent of the town's population is now living on government or state relief checks since rubber companies decentralized their operations after a wave of strikes

60 per cent of Akron, O. population now on relief, Dies Committee told...

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

[Reciprocal percentage frothy Cuban relief], Political Cartoon

[Reciprocal percentage frothy Cuban relief], Political Cartoon

Cartoon shows Theodore Roosevelt and Republican House Majority Leader Sereno Payne holding full steins of beer. They each spit into an empty stein held by a man representing Cuba. At the foot of the man is a "c... More

In temporary quarters - a barber at work, Fort Mason Relief Camp, San Francisco Disaster, Calif.

In temporary quarters - a barber at work, Fort Mason Relief Camp, San ...

H97381 U.S. Copyright Office Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. Index; Barbers; Ca. SF Earthquake; Shelf.

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....

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

Yarrow allotting relief to Armenian orphans

Yarrow allotting relief to Armenian orphans

Photograph shows Ernest Alfred Yarrow (1876-1939), who served as head of the Near East Relief in Armenia with Armenian women and children. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

Lest they perish Campaign for $30,000,000 - American Committee for Relief in the Near East--Armenia-Greece-Syria-Persia / / W.B. King ; Conwell Graphic Companies, N.Y.

Lest they perish Campaign for $30,000,000 - American Committee for Rel...

Poster showing a woman carrying a baby on her back among destroyed buildings.

Service - Surgical dressings for war relief / Thomas Tryon.

Service - Surgical dressings for war relief / Thomas Tryon.

Poster showing a nurse above the flags of the Allies. Border features medical supplies, labeled: drains, compresses, bath mitt, elbow rest, tampon, bed sock, bandages, fracture pillow.

Navy Yard relief map - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Navy Yard relief map - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Navy Yard relief map - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Navy Yard relief map - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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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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Henford MacNider & General H.E. Ely with relief map, 2/17/26

Henford MacNider & General H.E. Ely with relief map, 2/17/26

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Small boat recreation landing on one of the arms of Pickwick Lake built with work relief labor and lumber cut on the property

Small boat recreation landing on one of the arms of Pickwick Lake buil...

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Copy of relief map showing original topography of Jerusalem with removed section from Ophel showing course of Siloam tu[nnel]

Copy of relief map showing original topography of Jerusalem with remov...

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

Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas. A family of six alongside the road. 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, took to the road a year ago and when the photographs were made they were found to be without money, shelter, and without food for the four children

Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas. A family of six alongside the r...

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Waiting for relief checks. Calipatria, California

Waiting for relief checks. Calipatria, California

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

Drought refugees waiting for relief checks. Calipatria, California

Drought refugees waiting for relief checks. Calipatria, California

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

A black and white photo of two sheep laying on the side of a road, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of two sheep laying on the side of a road, Wes...

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

Washington, D.C. Vernon Atchely of the Special Skills division of the U.S. Resettlement Administration working on figures modeled in relief for the Greendale school

Washington, D.C. Vernon Atchely of the Special Skills division of the ...

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Hits present unemployment insurance. Washington, D.C., March 17. Appearing before the Senate Unemployment and Relief Committee today, Herman A. Gray, Chairman of the New York Unemployment Insurance State Advisory Council, declared that American system of unemployment insurance is cumbersome, complex and confused. He added, the benefit provisions are so complicated they are not readily understood even by the expert.,3/17/38

Hits present unemployment insurance. Washington, D.C., March 17. Appea...

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President organizes $4,000,000,000 pump priming campaign. Washington, D.C., April 11. President Roosevelt met with his Relief and Congressional Aides today to the personal command of a new administration fight to check business recession with a $4,000,000,000 pump priming campaign. The president subordinated all other White House business to efforts to hammer his lending and spending program into shape as a major New Deal offensive against recession and unemployment, left to right: Director of the Budget Daniel Bell, Sen. James F. Byrnes, SC. Sen. Carter Glass of Virginia, Majority Leader of the House Sen. Sam Rayburn of Tex., Sen Kenneth McKeller of Tenn., Sec. of Treasury Henry Morenthau, and in the rear, Rep. Edward Johnson, of Colo., April 11, 1938

President organizes $4,000,000,000 pump priming campaign. Washington, ...

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

Relief investigator near Urbana, Ohio

Relief investigator near Urbana, Ohio

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

A black and white photo of a house, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a house, West Virginia. Farm Security Admin...

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

Scene in Shafter, richest potato-producing area in California

Scene in Shafter, richest potato-producing area in California

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

People on relief, Urbana, Ohio. Great Depression public domain photograph.

People on relief, Urbana, Ohio. Great Depression public domain photogr...

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

A woman standing in front of a wooden building. Ohio during Great Depression.

A woman standing in front of a wooden building. Ohio during Great Depr...

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

A group of men sitting around a table, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A group of men sitting around a table, West Virginia. Farm Security Ad...

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

Native Texas tenant farmer. Near Goodliet, Texas. Aged seventy; seventeen years on the same farm. Is to be "tractored out" at the end of 1938. One son has been tractored out and has been on WPA (Work Projects Administration) for two years. Another son was tractored out in 1937. Has moved to town and remains temporarily off relief by selling his livestock. "What are my boys going to do? It's not a question of what they're going to do. It's a question of what they're going to have to do. They're not any up there in Congress but what are big landowners and they're going to see that the program is in their interest. As long as the government is paying the landowner more to let the land out than they make by renting it, they won't rent it."

Native Texas tenant farmer. Near Goodliet, Texas. Aged seventy; sevent...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a New Deal program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 as a response to the high unemployment during the Great Depression. The program put people t... More

WPA Administrator appears before Senate Relief Committee. Washington, D.C., Mar. 17. Corrington Gill, Asst. WPA Administrator told the Senate Committee on relief today that large numbers of rural families are facing serious deprivation, Gill declared that at least 3,500,000 families. At more than one out of every four rural families has received public assistance at some time during the Depression, 3/4/38

WPA Administrator appears before Senate Relief Committee. Washington, ...

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

FIRST BUDDY POPPY TO CHIEF EXECUTIVE. WASHINGTON, D.C. APRIL 14. THE FIRST BUDDY POPPY OF THE NATIONAL POPPY SALE FOR 1938 WAS TODAY PRESENTED TO PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT BY SIX-YEAR-OLD JANE COLGAN, DAUGHTER OF A DECEASED EX-SERVICE MAN. THE SALE OF THE BUDDY POPPIES WHICH IS HELD EVERY YEAR DURING THE WEEK OF MEMORIAL DAY IS DEVOTED TO WELFARE AND RELIEF WORK AMONG VETERANS AND THEIR FAMILIES

FIRST BUDDY POPPY TO CHIEF EXECUTIVE. WASHINGTON, D.C. APRIL 14. THE F...

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On U.S. 99. Near Brawley, Imperial County. Homeless mother and youngest child of seven walking the highway from Phoenix, Arizona where they picked cotton. Bound for San Diego, where the father hopes to get on relief "because he once lived there."

On U.S. 99. Near Brawley, Imperial County. Homeless mother and younges...

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Outside the Farm Security Administration (FSA) grant office during the pea harvest. Calipatria, California. During spring of 1938 for the first time, the labor surplus had grown so large that relief grants were necessary even during the peak of harvest. Colored migrants are becoming more numerous this year

Outside the Farm Security Administration (FSA) grant office during the...

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Home of Mexican squatters in San Antonio, Texas. They were receiving commodities from relief

Home of Mexican squatters in San Antonio, Texas. They were receiving c...

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

Outside the Farm Security Administration (FSA) grant office during the pea harvest. Calipatria, California. During spring of 1938 for the first time, the labor surplus had grown so large that relief grants were necessary even during the peak of harvest. Colored migrants are becoming more numerous this year

Outside the Farm Security Administration (FSA) grant office during the...

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

Townsendites have a day at hearings. Washington, D.C., Feb. 8. Rep. Ralph O. Brewster, Maine, L.W. Jeffery, Vice President of the Townsend National Recovery Plan, Inc. and Dr. Towsend, going over a few points on their testimony before the hearings today of the House Ways and Means Committee. Rep. Brewster told the Committee that adoption of the Townsend Bill will allow the government to do away with other forms of relief and would allow the budget to be balanced, 2-8-39

Townsendites have a day at hearings. Washington, D.C., Feb. 8. Rep. Ra...

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

Great Depression: A black and white photo of a man and two children. Farm Security Administration photogrpaph. Indiana

Great Depression: A black and white photo of a man and two children. F...

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

Washday of family on relief. Chicago, Illinois

Washday of family on relief. Chicago, Illinois

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

Washington, D.C. Under the auspices of the Bureau of University Travel and the National Capital School Visitors' Council, over 200 high school students chosen for their intellectual alertness visited Washington for a week. Examining a relief map at the Pan-American Union

Washington, D.C. Under the auspices of the Bureau of University Travel...

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Relief food for Tunisia leaves United States. Bags of flour, representing shipments to replenish stocks already distributed in Tunisia by the Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations, are loaded into the hatch of a cargo ship at an East Coast port. The food, to alleviate hunger among liberated populations, is distributed in Tunisia by the Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations, headed by Herbert H. Lehman, former Governor of New York

Relief food for Tunisia leaves United States. Bags of flour, represent...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a relief sculpture, monument, 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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Washington, D.C. Herbert H. Lehman, Director General of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, holds a press conference on his return from England and the battlefronts of Europe

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

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Washington, D.C. Roy E. Hendrickson, Deputy Director, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, in charge of supply

Washington, D.C. Roy E. Hendrickson, Deputy Director, United Nations R...

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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 technical experts in Washington in connection with the UNRRA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) training program at a conference with C.L. Moffatt (at extreme right, dark suit, handkerchief in breast pocket) , discuss flood control as a problem of industrial rehabilitation

Chinese technical experts in Washington in connection with the UNRRA (...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, 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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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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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

Bas relief at the U.S. Custom House in New Orleans, Louisiana. "Louisiana State Seal," by Auguste De Frasse. Date: ca. 1857. Dimensions: 12' x 20'. Materials: Marble, sculpture.

Bas relief at the U.S. Custom House in New Orleans, Louisiana. "Louisi...

Date: ca. 1857; dimensions: 12' x 20'; medium: marble. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Cre... More

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

Bas relief details around the statue of José Martí located in the Parque Central, Havana, Cuba

Bas relief details around the statue of José Martí located in the Parq...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2010; (DLC/PP-2... More

John Singleton Copley - William Sharp - The seige and relief of Gibraltar

John Singleton Copley - William Sharp - The seige and relief of Gibral...

Engraving by William Sharp after painting by J.S. Copley. Copyright by J.S. Copley.

Three related drought refugee families stalled on the highway near Lordsburg, New Mexico. From farms near Claremore, Oklahoma. Have been working as migratory workers in Calfornia and Arizona, now trying to get to Roswell, New Mexico, for work chopping cotton. Have car trouble and pulled up alongside the highway. "Would go back to Oklahoma but can't get along there. Can't feed the kids on what they give you (relief budget) and ain't made a crop there you might say for five years. Only other work there is fifty cents a day wages and the farmers can't pay it anyways." One of these families has lost two babies since they left their home in Oklahoma. The children, seventeen months and three years, died in the county hospital at Shafter California, from typhoid fever, resulting from unsanitary conditions in a labor camp

Three related drought refugee families stalled on the highway near Lor...

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

President Roosevelt visits farmer who is receiving drought relief grant. Mandan, North Dakota

President Roosevelt visits farmer who is receiving drought relief gran...

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[Jules Dalou's relief sculpture, "Before the Estates General", Grand prize winner, Palace of Fine Arts, Paris Exposition, 1889]

[Jules Dalou's relief sculpture, "Before the Estates General", Grand p...

Originals in PR12, LOT 6634. Public domain photograph of Paris Exposition Universelle, 1889, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Secretary Wallace boosts president's suggestion for rural security loans. Washington, D.C., July 12. Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace told the Senate Banking and Currency Committee today that the president's suggestion for loans totaling $600,000,000 for rural security projects is prudent and economic policy. He said there are 42,000 new tenant farmers each year, and 'if we continue to refuse aid to these needy families, many of them will inevitably drift in to the cities in an effort to get some kind of help there. The cost of supporting them on relief obviously will be far greater than the sum necessary to help them get a new start on the land'

Secretary Wallace boosts president's suggestion for rural security loa...

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

Ickes and Senator Guffey drop contributions in flood relief box at White House. Washington D.C. Callers on President Roosevelt today were reminded of the public's problem in the flood situation. A white enameled chest, about the size of a bread box, was put on a table in the lobby of the executive offices to receive flood contributions. Secretary of Interior Harold Ickes (left) and Senator Joseph Guffey, of Pennsylvania, pictured as they drop their contributions in the box

Ickes and Senator Guffey drop contributions in flood relief box at Whi...

Two men shaking hands in a room. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pont-a-Mousson, American Relief Station

Pont-a-Mousson, American Relief Station

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Doll raffled for Belgian Relief

Doll raffled for Belgian Relief

Photograph shows a doll that was raffled to raise funds for the relief of Belgium refugees during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

While someone gives his life, what are you giving? Think a minute All of the Red Cross War Fund goes for war relief.

While someone gives his life, what are you giving? Think a minute All ...

Poster shows a large red cross. Form N Y 3 - Second War Fund. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.

Women and children find some relief by wading in the creek on one of the hottest days in the history of the Capital. Snapped in Rock Creek Park today

Women and children find some relief by wading in the creek on one of t...

National Photo Company Collection. Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington DC, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

First printing of food stamps. Washington, D.C., April 20. Food stamps, the latest in the administration's plans to reduce the farm surplus, came off the presses today at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Of yellow and blue, the stamps will be issued to persons on relief who will be able to cash each one dollar stamp for food worth a dollar and fifty cents. Imogene Stanhope, printer's assistant at the Bureau, is pictured pulling the first batch off the press

First printing of food stamps. Washington, D.C., April 20. Food stamps...

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Orphans under care of American Near East Relief exercising at ruins of the Temple of Jupiter Athens In the background the Acropolis.

Orphans under care of American Near East Relief exercising at ruins of...

Filed in: Greece Children General (folder). Forms part of: American National Red Cross photograph collection.

[Group outside 1 Cent Restaurant, National Demonstration, Bernarr MacFadden Foundation Unemployment Relief]

[Group outside 1 Cent Restaurant, National Demonstration, Bernarr MacF...

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Guntersville Dam and powerhouse. Generator hall. Roof is supported by trusses with arched bottom chords, concealed by ceiling made up of asbestos boards on steel furring. Ceiling also serves as insulation and plenum chamber and permits recessing of highbay reflectors which are louvered at bottom to eliminate glare. These reflectors furnish the main working light and throw the generators upon which they are concentrated into strong relief; general illumination of the space comes from indirect reflectors concealed behind the crane relief and turned towards the ceiling. Floor is ceramic tile; wall, glazed structural tile up to ceiling, but of lighter color above crane rail

Guntersville Dam and powerhouse. Generator hall. Roof is supported by ...

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Scotts Run, West Virginia, walking into town for relief food

Scotts Run, West Virginia, walking into town for relief food

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Waiting for relief agent, Scotts Run, West Virginia

Waiting for relief agent, Scotts Run, West Virginia

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Drought relief crew building a road near Saint Anthony, North Dakota

Drought relief crew building a road near Saint Anthony, North Dakota

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A black and white photo of a woman holding a baby, Iowa. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a woman holding a baby, Iowa. Farm Security...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Grady Watson was moved from this shack at Irwinville, Georgia, to a new Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) house and farm unit in Irwinville Farms rural resettlement project

Grady Watson was moved from this shack at Irwinville, Georgia, to a ne...

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Wife of Homer Sharer and the baby, one of five children. Former tenant farmers and hired hands. They are now living on unemployment relief in Estherville, Iowa

Wife of Homer Sharer and the baby, one of five children. Former tenant...

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This family without food and work about to be returned to Oklahoma by the Relief Administration. They have lost a baby as a result of exposure during the winter. Had to sell their tent and car to buy food. Neideffer Camp, Holtville, Imperial Valley, California

This family without food and work about to be returned to Oklahoma by ...

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Waiting for relief checks. Calipatria, California. Imperial Valley

Waiting for relief checks. Calipatria, California. Imperial Valley

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 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 FSA (Farm Security Administration) 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 a month. Husband also works about ten days a month on odd jobs 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...

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A black and white photo of a small town, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a small town, West Virginia. Farm Security ...

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Woman living in camp near Mays Avenue. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Her husband has been denied work relief. He is a world war veteran

Woman living in camp near Mays Avenue. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Her hu...

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Outside Farm Security Administration (FSA) grant office during the pea harvest. Calipatria, California. During the spring of 1938, for the first time the labor surplus had grown so large that relief grants were necessary even during the peak of harvest

Outside Farm Security Administration (FSA) grant office during the pea...

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A little girl leaning against a fence, Texas, during Great Depression

A little girl leaning against a fence, Texas, during Great Depression

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Two children of family living on relief near Jefferson, Texas. These children did not attend school because of lack of warm clothes and indifference of mother who was sick with pellagra. Note baby's cradle

Two children of family living on relief near Jefferson, Texas. These c...

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