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[Armenian refugess in Relief Committee tents, Aintab]

[Armenian refugess in Relief Committee tents, Aintab]

Photograph shows Aremnian refugees at Antep (Gaziantep), Turkey.

[Orphans from the interior of Asia brought to Marathon in Greece by the Near East Relief looking in wonder at the mountains and the sea, as it is the first time they have seen either]

[Orphans from the interior of Asia brought to Marathon in Greece by th...

Photoprint by Near East Relief. George Grantham Bain Collection. No. 7033.

A little starving child brought back to life, because you went without some luxury All of the Red Cross War Fund goes for war relief.

A little starving child brought back to life, because you went without...

Poster shows a large red cross. Form N Y 1 - Second War Fund. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.

Mrs. Orme Thornberry, balloon girl at the Near East Relief Benefit Garden Fete]

Mrs. Orme Thornberry, balloon girl at the Near East Relief Benefit Gar...

Woman holding balloons. National Photo Company Collection. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Headquarters staff, American Red Cross Disaster Relief Hdqs., Tulsa, Okla., after the race riot of June 1921

Headquarters staff, American Red Cross Disaster Relief Hdqs., Tulsa, O...

Photograph shows group portrait of African American and white relief workers in front of Red Cross building. Filed in: Disaster Relief Race Riots Oklahoma Tulsa, 1921. Forms part of: American National Red Cros... More

Committee for relief, Miss Valley, 4/22/27

Committee for relief, Miss Valley, 4/22/27

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

Copy of relief map showing original topography of Jerusalem with Ophel & removal to show tunnel

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

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Bedroom of relief family, Hamilton Co., Ohio

Bedroom of relief family, Hamilton Co., Ohio

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John Today, an old miner now receiving six dollars and sixty-five cents a month on relief. He is a single shacker in Iron County, Michigan

John Today, an old miner now receiving six dollars and sixty-five cent...

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Parents in one of the better homes of Williams County. They are on relief. North Dakota

Parents in one of the better homes of Williams County. They are on rel...

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Family of four to be returned to Oklahoma by the Relief Administration. "They won't go until they get so hungry that there's nothing else for them to do. They won't go--not twenty-five percent will go" said a transient case worker in Imperial County. This family was hungry. They lost a two-year-old baby as the result of exposure during the winter. Holtville, California

Family of four to be returned to Oklahoma by the Relief Administration...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A group of men standing around a barrel, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A group of men standing around a barrel, West Virginia. Farm Security ...

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

A couple of men standing next to a tree, New Jersey. Farm Security Administration photograph

A couple of men standing next to a tree, New Jersey. Farm Security Adm...

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

A black and white photo of men loading a truck, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of men loading a truck, West Virginia. Farm Se...

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An old black and white photo of a man and two children. Ohio during Great Depression.

An old black and white photo of a man and two children. Ohio during Gr...

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Protest WPA relief cuts. Washington, D.C., Dec .15. David Lasser, President of the Workers Alliance, and Mary Gorman, research worker for the same organization, led WPA workers from 28 states in protesting to Asst. WPA Administrator Aubry Williams the recent relief cuts, 12/15/38

Protest WPA relief cuts. Washington, D.C., Dec .15. David Lasser, Pres...

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

A black and white photo of a man opening a door. Ohio during Great Depression.

A black and white photo of a man opening a door. Ohio during Great Dep...

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The commodities on the counter represent two weeks allotment for four people. Photograph made in Farm Security Administration (FSA) distributing station for emergency grants of food and clothing to destitute agricultural workers. Bakersfield, California

The commodities on the counter represent two weeks allotment for four ...

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A black and white photo of a man and a child walking down a road, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a man and a child walking down a road, West...

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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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Presidential conferences useless as means to stem recession. Washington, D.C., March 1. Robert W. Irwin, Grand Rapids, Mich., furniture manufacturer, appearing before the Senate Unemployment and Relief Committee today declared that conferences between the President and business leaders would fail to stem the recession. President Hoover tried the same plan to stem the 1929 depression, but entirely without beneficial results, Irwin added, 3/1/38

Presidential conferences useless as means to stem recession. Washingto...

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

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

Woman on relief, Urbana, Ohio. Great Depression public domain photogra...

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Waiting for relief commodities, Urbana, Ohio

Waiting for relief commodities, Urbana, Ohio

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Abandoned tenant house seen across tractored fields. Hall County, Texas. Many tenants who have filled the land on the family-farm basis are made landless, forced by the machine into the towns, or reduced to day labor on the farms. Large numbers who have gone to the towns have fallen on relief, or even have sought refuge in distant parts. Not only is their security gone, but the opportunity even to rise to ownership is diminished, for profitable operation of mechanized farms requires more land and more capital equipment per farm

Abandoned tenant house seen across tractored fields. Hall County, Texa...

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

On U.S. 99. Near Brawley, Imperial County. Homeless family of seven, w...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Crowd of people waiting at WPA clothing department, San Antonio, Texas

Crowd of people waiting at WPA clothing department, San Antonio, Texas

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

Family on relief living in shanty on city dump. Herrin, Illinois

Family on relief living in shanty on city dump. Herrin, Illinois

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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...

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

Son of man on relief. Herrin, Illinois

Son of man on relief. Herrin, Illinois

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Baby of family living on relief. Notice the homemade cradle. Near Jefferson, Texas. Housing conditions in this section are particularly bad

Baby of family living on relief. Notice the homemade cradle. Near Jeff...

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Government cartographer develops new process for making relief maps. Washington, D.C., Jan. 13. Through a process just perfected by John Braund, Cartographer for the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, relief maps can now be made showing all the details of topography in a form true to nature and which can be quickly understood and accurately read by even the untrained map reader. Instead of compressed paper or cardboard, Braund uses thin metal on which he has printed the map desired. He then hammers out the typography with a special electric hammer he has designed. Braund says this new method has proved more speedier, efficient, and costs less to make than maps, 1/13/39

Government cartographer develops new process for making relief maps. W...

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Social Security Legislation has proved it will work Board Chairman tells House Committee. Washington, D.C., Feb. 1. Chairman Arthur J. Altmeyer, left, of the Social Security Board, shown here with Rep. Robert L. Doughton, Chairman of House Ways and Means Committee, today told that Committee that the Social Security legislation has proved it will work and estimated that federal benefits, including relief, paid out in 1938 were $ 2,500,000,000. He predicted the federal Social Security Program is "certain to be one of continuing growth for a long time to come," 2-1-39

Social Security Legislation has proved it will work Board Chairman tel...

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

Quilts of family on relief near Jefferson, Texas

Quilts of family on relief near Jefferson, Texas

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In front of city hall, San Francisco, California. The Worker's Alliance, Works Progress Administration (WPA) organize simultaneous demonstrations in the large cities of the nation cut in the relief appropriation by the United States Congress

In front of city hall, San Francisco, California. The Worker's Allianc...

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Abandoned tipple and coal miners' homes, some of whom still remain on relief, near Chavies, Perry County, Kentucky

Abandoned tipple and coal miners' homes, some of whom still remain on ...

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Batavia, New York. Elba FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm labor camp. Man on the left is a former relief client who was transported from New York City to work in the crops. Man to right is from West Virginia

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

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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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Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. C.K. Liang, a senior technical expert chemist, working in the Chemistry Division Laboratory of the National Institute of Health. Dr. Liang was send here by the Chinese government under the auspices of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration to do various research work and study post-war problems

Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. C.K. Liang, a senior technical expert chemist,...

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Chinese technical experts who are attending UNRRA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) training center at the University of Maryland discuss the program with Mr. F.L. McDougall, economic advisor for the High Commission for Australia and the Australian government delegate to the Interim Commission on Food and Agriculture (second left), and Mrs. Eleanor Hinder from the ILO Montreal branch and coordinator of the course for Chinese experts at UNRRA training center (third left). In the picture are from left: Lin, Liu Shih-ta Hsu, Mr. McDougall, Miss Hinder, Tsai Pang, Chung-Juci, Wu Yiu-sing

Chinese technical experts who are attending UNRRA (United Nations Reli...

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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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Chinese technical experts inspect model barn at University of Maryland barn, which is part of the UNRRA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) training center. From left: C.C. Chen and C.K. Lin

Chinese technical experts inspect model barn at University of Maryland...

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United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration training center, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. Visiting instructors who are regarded as authorities in their respective fields, as well as members of the staff of United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration itself are called upon to instruct appointees

United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration training cente...

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Bas relief at the Interior Department Building, Washington, D.C.

Bas relief at the Interior Department Building, Washington, D.C.

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. The 7 story building is of steel frame construction, clad in granite and limestone. It consists of a north-south core which bisects... More

Bas relief. Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Asheville, North Carolina

Bas relief. Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Asheville, North Ca...

Built as the U.S. Post Office and Courthouse in 1929, the building is currently occupied by the U.S. Courthouse and other government agencies, including Social Security Administration, the U.S. Forestry Commiss... More

Bas relief at the F. Edward Hebert Federal Building, New Orleans, Louisiana

Bas relief at the F. Edward Hebert Federal Building, New Orleans, Loui...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built in 1939, the building is a large, modernistic, eleven... More

[Second Floor, Northwest Pavilion. Circular relief of Spring by Bela L. Pratt. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]

[Second Floor, Northwest Pavilion. Circular relief of Spring by Bela L...

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

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

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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

Bas relief detail at The Ace of Clubs House in Texarkana, Texas, more formally known as the Draughon-Moore home. The house was built in 1885 in roughly the shape of the "club" figure on the ace of clubs card in a poker deck, with three octagonal wings and a rectangular wing. According to legend, the house was built with money won from a poker game. It is now a city-owned tour home and museum

Bas relief detail at The Ace of Clubs House in Texarkana, Texas, more ...

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

Facade of the long-abandoned First National Bank Building, which opened in 1937 in downtown Beaumont. The building presents a classic example of the Art Deco style. Not its granite base, brushed-aluminum clock, and relief figures of industrial workers and professional people set in carved limestone.

Facade of the long-abandoned First National Bank Building, which opene...

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

Yellow Fever National Relief Commission, 1879

Yellow Fever National Relief Commission, 1879

You are about to apply A document from LOC collection of correspondence between Frederick Douglass and his peers. Frederick Douglass was an African American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and st... More

Share--Jewish Relief Campaign / Burke, Johnstone Studios ; lithographed by Sackett & Wilhelms Corporation, Brooklyn, N.Y.

Share--Jewish Relief Campaign / Burke, Johnstone Studios ; lithographe...

Poster showing a monumental female figure with a tray of food, poor women and children at her feet, with the skyline of New York City in the background. Exhibited: "From Haven to Home : A Library of Congress Ex... More

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.

November 13, 1783, Botetourt, Asking relief from payment of minister's salary arrears, suggests various means including sale of glebe, etc.

November 13, 1783, Botetourt, Asking relief from payment of minister's...

Picryl description: Public domain copy of a historic document - petition, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Waiting for relief commodities, Urbana, Ohio

Waiting for relief commodities, Urbana, Ohio

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Report of the "Citizens' relief committee" appointed after the great Baltimore fire, February 7 and 8, 1904.

Report of the "Citizens' relief committee" appointed after the great B...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Bas relief "Bienville, Founder of New Orleans, 1718," by Auguste De Frasse at the U.S. Custom House in New Orleans, Louisiana

Bas relief "Bienville, Founder of New Orleans, 1718," by Auguste De Fr...

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

An address to the public, from the Pennsylvania Society for promoting the abolition of slavery, and the relief of free negroes, unlawfully held in bondage ... Signed by order of the Society, B. Franklin, President. Philadelphia, 9th of November,

An address to the public, from the Pennsylvania Society for promoting ...

Relief at hand / Dalrymple. - Drawing. Public domain image.

Relief at hand / Dalrymple. - Drawing. Public domain image.

Print shows a St. Bernard rescue dog with a blanket labeled "Tariff Reform" strapped to its back and a small barrel labeled "The Wilson Tariff Bill" under its chin, next to a man labeled "Labor" caught in snow ... More

[Washington, D.C. public school classroom scenes - 1st Division geography class - students examining relief map]

[Washington, D.C. public school classroom scenes - 1st Division geogra...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). In album: "1st Division." Caption card tracings: DC, Wash. Schools; Schools Classrooms; Shelf.

Pessimistic report. Washington, D.C., May 4. Governor John Moses of North Dakota, in a conference with President Roosevelt, presented a pessimistic report on unemployment and relief problems in North Dakota. Moses said his state was in a bad financial condition as a result of 10 years of crop failures and that county and state budgets were unbalanced

Pessimistic report. Washington, D.C., May 4. Governor John Moses of No...

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

Cuban relief, U.S. labor laws ..., Political Cartoon

Cuban relief, U.S. labor laws ..., Political Cartoon

Cartoon shows Republican House Speaker Sereno Payne as a messenger delivering a sheet of paper "Cuban relief. U.S. labor laws. U.S. immigration law. 20% reduction reciprocity. April 1, '02" to a barefoot man "... More

Guard relief - march of West Point cadets

Guard relief - march of West Point cadets

No. 1671-12. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Army, U.S.; Univ. & Colleges.

Near East relief, George Grantham Bain Collection

Near East relief, George Grantham Bain Collection

Orphaned Greek and Armenian children waiting for boat from Turkey to Greece. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Near East relief, George Grantham Bain Collection

Near East relief, George Grantham Bain Collection

Orphans at orphanage on the Asiatic side of the Bosphorous doing exercises. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Mr. Carpenter dons a typhus uniform and goes through a Near East Relief camp for Greek refugees from Asia Minor

Mr. Carpenter dons a typhus uniform and goes through a Near East Relie...

Frank Carpenter, standing with three other men, all wearing white robes and head coverings, probably Istanbul, Turkey. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress). In album: European Pictures (... More

Pres. Coolidge & Dr. J.H. Hinley, Near East Relief Com., 12/4/25

Pres. Coolidge & Dr. J.H. Hinley, Near East Relief Com., 12/4/25

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Baruch quizzed by Senate Committee. Washington, D.C., Feb. 28. Senator James F. Byrnes, (left) Chairman of the Senate Unemployment and Relief Committee, questioning Bernard Baruch, voted Financier today. Baruch declared America must make a choice between the "proof of its system and the hope of gain" and the "the new European ideas of state regulation and fear of punishment"

Baruch quizzed by Senate Committee. Washington, D.C., Feb. 28. Senator...

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

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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Making cornbread with relief flour. Shenandoah National Park, Virginia

Making cornbread with relief flour. Shenandoah National Park, Virginia

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

A group of people standing outside of a shack. Great Depression and World War Two FSA/OWI Photograph

A group of people standing outside of a shack. Great Depression and Wo...

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ROOSEVELT RETURNS. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT RETURNS FROM HIS SHORT TRIP TO HYDE PARK APPARENTLY AS FIT AS A FIDDLE AND READY FOR ANY SORT OF BATTLE WITH THE SENATE THAT IS NECESSARY TO BREAK THE DEAD-LOCK ON THIS RELIEF PROGRAM

ROOSEVELT RETURNS. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT RETURNS FROM HIS SHORT TRIP TO ...

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Ghost town three miles south of Canton, Pennsylvania. The thirty people now living here are all on relief

Ghost town three miles south of Canton, Pennsylvania. The thirty peopl...

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Rural rehabilitation client. Chicken farmer making good on rural resettlement loan. He sells one case of eggs a day. Worked on a state emergency relief administration job previous to loan. San Fernando Valley, California

Rural rehabilitation client. Chicken farmer making good on rural reset...

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

American River camp, Sacramento. Home of Tennessee family, now migratory workers. Seven in family, came to California July 1935, following relatives who had come in 1933. Father was a coal miner in Tennessee. Reason for coming to California. "Our neighbors were coming. We only got one or two days work a week (relief.) Thought we could make it better here." Since arrival family has worked in walnuts, tomatoes, peaches, and the mother has worked in a fruit cannery

American River camp, Sacramento. Home of Tennessee family, now migrato...

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

A mother in California who with her husband and her two children will be returned to Oklahoma by the Relief Administration. This family had lost a two-year-old baby during the winter as a result of exposure

A mother in California who with her husband and her two children will ...

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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...

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Mrs. William Sharrard and one of her children. Her husband has been a farmer of the cut-over regions for years, but cannot make a living at it. The family is on relief. Near Silk Lake, Michigan

Mrs. William Sharrard and one of her children. Her husband has been a ...

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

Uncle Sam spending $3,000,000 to make one map. Washington D.C. July 28. A huge photographic map which when completed will have cost $3,000,000, is being put together by the Agriculture Adjustment Administration, Department of Agriculture, in Washington. Approximately one-thrid of the entire land surface of the United States is being photographed from the air from a distance of three to five miles up. The idea behind this gigantic job is to determine compliance in the Agricultural Conservation Program, plan soil conservation or Public Works projects, lay out roads, forests and public parks, drainage ditches, dams and lakes and also to seek to improve National Defense. (1) C.E. Kowalczyk, AAA worker, is shown making a stereoscopic examination of the finished photographic prints to determine the relief or elevation of land surface. 7/28/37

Uncle Sam spending $3,000,000 to make one map. Washington D.C. July 28...

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During the cotton strike, the International Labor Defense distributes clothing and shoes to destitute families of striking cotton pickers. Kern County, California

During the cotton strike, the International Labor Defense distributes ...

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Lineup outside of Farm Security Administration grant office (relief to farm laborers) early in the morning, before the office has opened. Tulare, California

Lineup outside of Farm Security Administration grant office (relief to...

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Rural rehabilitation, Tulare County, California. In 1936 this family was on relief. With a Farm Security Administration (FSA) loan of seven hundred and eighty dollars, they were able to purchase and install an irrigating pump for the vineyard, a team, and the balance gave them subsistence and operating expenses for the first grape season

Rural rehabilitation, Tulare County, California. In 1936 this family w...

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A black and white photo of a group of people. Ohio during Great Depression.

A black and white photo of a group of people. Ohio during Great Depres...

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Suggests unemployment insurance be modified to include dependants. Washington, D.C., March 19. Appearing before the Senate Unemployment and Relief Committee today, William Hodson, New York City Commissioner of Welfare, suggested modification of the Unemployment Insurance Act so that the basic payment to an unemployed person will provide an allowance for his dependents. Hodson pointed out that in New York the maximum unemployed benefit averages between $10 and $12 a week, with no regard as to whether the family contains two or five persons, 3/19/38

Suggests unemployment insurance be modified to include dependants. Was...

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Railway heads. Washington, D.C., March 11. M.W. Clement, (left) President of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and Daniel Willard, Prexy of the B&O, pictured at the meeting of the Board of Directors of the Association of American Railroads here today. The Executives were called into special session to seek a relief for the "critical financial condition" of the Nation's largest industry, 3/11/38

Railway heads. Washington, D.C., March 11. M.W. Clement, (left) Presid...

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A black and white photo of a pile of junk, New Jersey. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a pile of junk, New Jersey. Farm Security A...

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Relief clients, Urbana, Ohio. Great Depression public domain photograph.

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[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 tol...

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Greater need for rural relief. Washington, D.C., Jan. 11. A bleak picture of rural districts accompanied by inadequacy of federal relief facilities was presented by Sec. of Agriculture Henry Wallace today before the Senate Unemployment Committee. Tying the rural economic conditions to those of industry and labor, the Secretary emphasized that, "it is especially important to hold up the truth that the welfare of all these groups moves together," 1/11/38

Greater need for rural relief. Washington, D.C., Jan. 11. A bleak pict...

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Destitute farm labor families come to Farm Security Administration (FSA) distributing depot to apply for food grant. Kern County, California

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Involuntary unemployment dangerous to public health. U.S. Surgeon General. Washington, D.C., March 16. Appearing before the Senate Unemployment and Relief Committee today, U.S. Surgeon General Thomas Parran declared that involuntary unemployment "breeds pathological political philosophies, subversive to our present democratic institutions". Speaking as a doctor and not as an economist, Dr. Parran urged that employment be provided for all who are willing and able to work. Idle hands are dangerous to public health, Dr. Parran indicated in his statement, 3/16/38

Involuntary unemployment dangerous to public health. U.S. Surgeon Gene...

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Waiting for relief, Urbana, Ohio

Waiting for relief, Urbana, Ohio

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The relief truck brings food supplies to abandoned mining town, Jere, West Virginia. The shack on right is used as community house for prayer and church meetings, union and water company meetings, etc. Is represented by many people whose homes are so much worse than this

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Rural rehabilitation, Tulare County, California. In 1936 this family was on relief. With a Farm Security Administration (FSA) loan of seven hundred and eighty dollars, they were able to purchase and install an irrigating pump for the vineyard, a team, and the balance gave them subsistence and operating expenses for the first grape season. This house which the family has just finished building is made of adobe bricks, made from clay on the farm. The cash cost in building the house was about six hundred dollars

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Family of unemployed oil worker, who is now living on relief, eating supper. Seminole, Oklahoma

Family of unemployed oil worker, who is now living on relief, eating s...

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Listening to speeches at mass meeting of Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers protesting congressional cut of relief appropriations. San Francisco, California

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Young Mexican girl who was playing around relief line in San Antonio, Texas

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Packing grapefruit into sacks. This is common method of packing for relief distribution. Weslaco, Texas

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