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May Hosiery Mills. The boy is Harvey Curtis, 12 years old, turns stockings. Made $1.41 this week, out of which he paid sixty cents carfare. Location: Nashville, Tennessee.

May Hosiery Mills. The boy is Harvey Curtis, 12 years old, turns stock...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tool and machine shed on W.H. Cox farm, Clearcreek Township, Johnson County, Iowa. Note how the buildings are propped up. This is an owner-operated farm of one hundred twenty-four acres, sixty of which are tillable

Tool and machine shed on W.H. Cox farm, Clearcreek Township, Johnson C...

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

Filipino gang labor in pea fields near Pismo Beach, Nipomo, California. Work for Japanese, live on Japanese ranches. Sixty men in this gang

Filipino gang labor in pea fields near Pismo Beach, Nipomo, California...

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

Corncrib on the one hundred sixty acres owned and operated by August Grettencord. This farm southwest of Fowler, Indiana, carries a small mortgage

Corncrib on the one hundred sixty acres owned and operated by August G...

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

A black and white photo of an old outhouse, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of an old outhouse, West Virginia. Farm Securi...

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

Rural rehabilitation, Tulare County, California. This farm couple have been assisted to independence. In Feburary 1936 they rented a neglected farm of forty acres planted in grapes. They had no equipment, no stock, no seed, no money. Farm Security Administration (FSA) granted a loan of one thousand two hundred and sixty one dollars to cover these items, and four months subsistence for the family. Now November 1938, they are reestablished on a successful diversified farm, with a cash crop provided by vineyard, cows, hogs, and pigs

Rural rehabilitation, Tulare County, California. This farm couple have...

Public domain image of cattle, livestock, farm animals, agriculture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Colored field hands hoe cotton from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. for sixty cents a day. Near Menifee, Arkansas

Colored field hands hoe cotton from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. for sixty cents a...

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

Newport News, Virginia. The "President Jackson" on the eve of its launching. When a ship such as this one is launched, it is about sixty percent completed. After the launching the ship goes to the fitting slips where the interior fittings, deck fittings, engines, etc. are installed

Newport News, Virginia. The "President Jackson" on the eve of its laun...

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

Threshing wheat on Beerman's ranch at Emblem, Wyoming. He has about 160 acres (quarter section), about forty-three in wheat, the rest in oats, beans, and alfalfa. This year he is getting between fifty-five and sixty bushels per acre, whereas ordinarily he gets about forty bushels wheat per acre. He has lived on the place forty years and owned it for the past twenty.

Threshing wheat on Beerman's ranch at Emblem, Wyoming. He has about 16...

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

Gloucester, Massachusetts. The crew of "Old Glory" pulls up a sizeable haul of fish. Almost all of this catch will be filleted and frozen for military and lend-lease shipment. Of the total packs in the United States, sixty percent of the salmon and eighty percent of the sardine and macherel are consumed by the armed forces here and abroad

Gloucester, Massachusetts. The crew of "Old Glory" pulls up a sizeable...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

City Market House, South Sixty & A Streets, Richmond, Wayne County, IN

City Market House, South Sixty & A Streets, Richmond, Wayne County, IN

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-14 Survey number: HABS IN-24-14 Building/structure dates: 1855 Initial Construction

Brig.-Genl. Michael Corcoran - of the Irish Brigade late colonel of the gallant N.Y. "Sixty Ninth"

Brig.-Genl. Michael Corcoran - of the Irish Brigade late colonel of th...

Print shows Michael Corcoran, half-length portrait, facing slightly right, wearing military uniform and holding sword in left hand. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, M... More

A collection of designs in architecture, containing new plans and elevations of houses, for general use. With a great variety of sections of rooms ... To which are added, curious designs of stone and timber bridges ... Likewise some screens and pavilions. In two volumes, each containing sixty plates ... engraved on copper.

A collection of designs in architecture, containing new plans and elev...

First published in 1757. Plates 61-65 at end of v. 2 are dated 1758. LC copy has vols. 1-2 bound together. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1756 ESTC N27410 Gift of Lessing J. Rosenwald, 19... More

A collection of designs in architecture, containing new plans and elevations of houses, for general use. With a great variety of sections of rooms ... To which are added, curious designs of stone and timber bridges ... Likewise some screens and pavilions. In two volumes, each containing sixty plates ... engraved on copper.

A collection of designs in architecture, containing new plans and elev...

First published in 1757. Plates 61-65 at end of v. 2 are dated 1758. LC copy has vols. 1-2 bound together. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1756 ESTC N27410 Gift of Lessing J. Rosenwald, 19... More

Chisholm, Minn., Nov. 5th 1908, taken sixty days after the fire

Chisholm, Minn., Nov. 5th 1908, taken sixty days after the fire

H122635 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; E. Dahl; February 6, 1909. Copyright claimant's address: Chisholm, Minn.

Hog house on Roy Merriott farm near Estherville, Iowa, one hundred sixty acres. Until recently this farm was owned by a loan company. It is now sold to a private owner. This is the third farm Merriot has had sold from under him in the last ten years. He is holding a "quitting farming" sale, as he does not have a farm for next year

Hog house on Roy Merriott farm near Estherville, Iowa, one hundred six...

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

House for the married hired hand on the Harry Madsen farm. Three hundred sixty acres, near Dickens, Iowa. Operated by Mr. Madsen who is a very progressive owner

House for the married hired hand on the Harry Madsen farm. Three hundr...

Public domain photograph of a house, cottage, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Privy in Negro section "Paradise Alley." Only one for sixty people. Charleston, West Virginia

Privy in Negro section "Paradise Alley." Only one for sixty people. Ch...

Public domain photograph related to race relations, African Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Baling hay on the Mary E. Jones place of about 140 acres. The sons W.E. and R.E. Jones own ninety-nine acres and sixty acres respectively. There are eight mules on the entire place, two cows and this year forty acres in tobacco, no cotton. They have owned it about forty-five years. It is on Route No. 91, about two miles from Wake Forest. Wake County, North Carolina

Baling hay on the Mary E. Jones place of about 140 acres. The sons W.E...

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

A new house. Lumber from Ola self-help sawmill co-op. Farm has sixty acres in tillable land, 100 acres in pasture. Gem County, Idaho. See general caption 48

A new house. Lumber from Ola self-help sawmill co-op. Farm has sixty a...

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

Washington, Cowlitz County, Longview. On the Longview homesteads (Farm Security Administration) initiated in 1934. A project of sixty units where practically all are employed in one large lumber mill

Washington, Cowlitz County, Longview. On the Longview homesteads (Farm...

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

Helper on wagonload of wheat to be threshed on Beerman's ranch at Emblem, Wyoming. He has about 150 acres in all (quarter section), about forty-three in wheat; the rest in oats, beans, and alfalfa. This year they are getting between fifty-five and sixty bushels wheat per acre, whereas ordinarily he gets about forty bushels per acre. He has lived on the place forty years, owned it for the past twenty years

Helper on wagonload of wheat to be threshed on Beerman's ranch at Embl...

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

Illustrated atlas and Columbian souvenir of La Grange County, Indiana : showing its development in the first sixty years since organization.

Illustrated atlas and Columbian souvenir of La Grange County, Indiana ...

LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 4542 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes index, map of the United States, brief history of LaGrange County, and biographies ... More

Sherman's men destroying railroad. Marching through Georgia. "So we made a thoroughfare for Freedom and her train, sixty miles in latitude, three hundred to the main"

Sherman's men destroying railroad. Marching through Georgia. "So we ma...

Stereograph showing Union soldiers inspecting the damaged railroad before the evacuation. Copyright in 1904 by John C. Taylor, Hartford, Conn. Attributed to George N. Barnard, based on LC-B811-3631. Forms part... More

Sixty years ago. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Sixty years ago. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Title on verso. (DLC/PP-1937:0027). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Harper's third reader. New York : Harper & Brothers, 1888, p. 249.

Filipino gang labor in pea fields near Pismo Beach, Nipomo, California. Work for Japanese, live on Japanese ranches. Sixty men in this gang

Filipino gang labor in pea fields near Pismo Beach, Nipomo, California...

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

Baling hay on the Mary E. Jones place of about 140 acres. The sons W.E. and R.E. Jones own ninty-nine and sixty acres respectively. There are eight mules on the entire place, two cows, and this year, forty acres in tobacco--no cotton. They have owned it about forty years. It is on Route No. 91, about two miles from Wake Forest, Wake County, North Carolina

Baling hay on the Mary E. Jones place of about 140 acres. The sons W.E...

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

Near Holtville, Imperial Valley, California. Migratory labor housing during carrot harvest. This field owned by proprietor of adjoining grocery store who allows workers to camp here rent-free. Approximately sixty families were living in camp

Near Holtville, Imperial Valley, California. Migratory labor housing d...

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

Trampas, New Mexico. Everybody in remote New Mexico buys by mail. Juan Lopez, the majordomo (mayor), and his wife Maclovia are thinking of buying new harnesses; it will cost sixty dollars, so they will probably get along with what they have

Trampas, New Mexico. Everybody in remote New Mexico buys by mail. Juan...

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

City Market House, South Sixty & A Streets, Richmond, Wayne County, IN

City Market House, South Sixty & A Streets, Richmond, Wayne County, IN

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-14 Survey number: HABS IN-24-14 Building/structure dates: 1855 Initial Construction

Brig.-Genl. Michael Corcoran - of the Irish Brigade late colonel of the gallant N.Y. "Sixty Ninth"

Brig.-Genl. Michael Corcoran - of the Irish Brigade late colonel of th...

Print shows Michael Corcoran, half-length portrait, facing slightly right, wearing military uniform and holding sword in left hand. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, M... More

A collection of designs in architecture, containing new plans and elevations of houses, for general use. With a great variety of sections of rooms ... To which are added, curious designs of stone and timber bridges ... Likewise some screens and pavilions. In two volumes, each containing sixty plates ... engraved on copper.

A collection of designs in architecture, containing new plans and elev...

First published in 1757. Plates 61-65 at end of v. 2 are dated 1758. LC copy has vols. 1-2 bound together. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1756 ESTC N27410 Gift of Lessing J. Rosenwald, 19... More

Filipino gang labor in pea fields near Pismo Beach, Nipomo, California. Work for Japanese, live on Japanese ranches. Sixty men in this gang

Filipino gang labor in pea fields near Pismo Beach, Nipomo, California...

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

Lois Madsen playing the piano in the home of her father, Harry Madsen, owner-operator of three hundred and sixty acre farm near Dickens, Iowa. (Suggest this as contrast showing difference in opportunity offered children in owner-operated farms and that offered in poorer tenant or hired hand homes)

Lois Madsen playing the piano in the home of her father, Harry Madsen,...

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

Farmhouse on the one hundred sixty acres owned and operated by August Grattencord. This farm southwest of Fowler, Indiana, carries a small mortgage

Farmhouse on the one hundred sixty acres owned and operated by August ...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

I can make my crop money for next year in a month, said John Fields, tenant living on a small farm seven miles out of town. Farm labor in this section, until 1940, received from sixty cents to one dollar a day, working from sunup to sundown. He works as a carpenter or common laborer. Childersburg, Alabama

I can make my crop money for next year in a month, said John Fields, t...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

"Me and the old gent." Jake Sparling, sixty, head of the two-man shop of the Sparling Pulley Manufacturing Company, Bay City, Michigan. He and his seventy-nine-year-old ex-lumberjack helper were recognized by Donald Nelson as the only two-man labor- management war production drive committee in the United States. The two work fifteen hours a day, seven days a week, and, unaided, have produced 18,000 steel flanges for war equipment in eighteen months

"Me and the old gent." Jake Sparling, sixty, head of the two-man shop ...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to politics, political campaigns, committee, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

"Me and the old gent." A citation by Donald Nelson, commending the war production effort of Jake Sparling, sixty, and Percy Fogelsong, seventy-nine-year-old ex-lumberjack, who between them produced 18,000 steel flanges for war equipment in eighteen months. "The old gent and me" have been working fifteen hours daily, seven days a week. "The old gent," hired eighteen months ago to take care of Jake's sick dog, had never before seen a lathe

"Me and the old gent." A citation by Donald Nelson, commending the war...

Public domain photograph - United States during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Illustrated atlas and Columbian souvenir of La Grange County, Indiana : showing its development in the first sixty years since organization.

Illustrated atlas and Columbian souvenir of La Grange County, Indiana ...

LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 4542 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes index, map of the United States, brief history of LaGrange County, and biographies ... More

Illustrated atlas and Columbian souvenir of La Grange County, Indiana : showing its development in the first sixty years since organization.

Illustrated atlas and Columbian souvenir of La Grange County, Indiana ...

LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 4542 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes index, map of the United States, brief history of LaGrange County, and biographies ... More

Illustrated atlas and Columbian souvenir of La Grange County, Indiana : showing its development in the first sixty years since organization.

Illustrated atlas and Columbian souvenir of La Grange County, Indiana ...

LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 4542 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes index, map of the United States, brief history of LaGrange County, and biographies ... More

View of Alexandria, Virginia, showing new engine house in which sixty engines can be stored in working order

View of Alexandria, Virginia, showing new engine house in which sixty ...

Photograph shows an aerial view of the U.S. Military Railroad engine barn in Alexandria, Virginia. Freight cars in the foreground.

Sixty three is the jubilee - Public domain American music sheet

Sixty three is the jubilee - Public domain American music sheet

Colonel Michael Corcoran, at the Battle of Bull Run, Virginia-July 21st 1861: The desperate and bloody charge of the "Gallant Sixty Ninth," on the rebel batteries

Colonel Michael Corcoran, at the Battle of Bull Run, Virginia-July 21s...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1318

Constitution's escape from the British squadron after a chase of sixty hours / M. Cornè p. ; W. Hoogland sc.

Constitution's escape from the British squadron after a chase of sixty...

Print shows rowboats towing the USS Constitution away from the British fleet as the British frigate Belvidera fires it's cannons. In the background, rowboats tow the British frigate Shannon. Other ships in the ... More

Building on Theodore F. Frank farm near Anthon, Iowa. He was owner-operator and built up his one hundred sixty acre farm on his own earnings. Pressure of depression and drought made it necessary for him to mortgage his farm. The farm is now owned hy a loan company. The buildings are in excellent repair. Family without resources except those livestock necessary to keep on farming

Building on Theodore F. Frank farm near Anthon, Iowa. He was owner-ope...

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

Hired hands skinning freshly-killed hog on Harry Madsen farm near Dickens, Iowa. Three hundred sixty acres, owner-operated

Hired hands skinning freshly-killed hog on Harry Madsen farm near Dick...

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

Wife of owner-operator and wife of hired hand clearing chickens in cellar preparatory to canning them. Chickens at this time of year are bringing six cents per pound. These are roasting. Harry Madsen farm, near Dickens, Iowa. Three hundred sixty acres, owner operated

Wife of owner-operator and wife of hired hand clearing chickens in cel...

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

Fruit jars being sterilized on old lady Graham's back fence in berry season. Near Conway, Arkansas. "We just gather and can peas, beans, berries, and sausage when we butcher the hogs in the winter. We put up seventy-five quarts of berries, sixty of beans, sixty of kraut, thirty of grapes and twenty of peaches. I swapped two bushels of grapes and got two bushels of peaches and I swapped one bushel of grapes for one bushel of apples"

Fruit jars being sterilized on old lady Graham's back fence in berry s...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

An old black and white photo of two men and a horse. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

An old black and white photo of two men and a horse. Great Depression ...

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

Bringing the hay from the field to the machine for baling. The Mary E. Jones place of about 140 acres. There are eight mules on the entire place, two cows and this year forty acres in tobacco, no cotton. The sons, W.E. and R.E. Jones, own ninety-nine acres and sixty acres respectively. They have owned it about forty-five years. It is on Route No. 91, about two miles from Wake Forest. Wake County, North Carolina

Bringing the hay from the field to the machine for baling. The Mary E....

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

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Trucks built for the U.S. Army by Dodge are tested on this ramp to make sure that all of them are able to meet the Army specifications of climbing a sixty percent grade. Brakes are also tested at the same time to make sure of their ability to hold the truck on any part of this tremendously steep incline

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Trucks built for the U.S. Army by Dodg...

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

Helper on wagonload of wheat to be threshed on Beerman's ranch at Emblem, Wyoming. He has about 150 acres in all (quarter section), about forty-three in wheat; the rest in oats, beans, and alfalfa. This year they are getting between fifty-five and sixty bushels wheat per acre, whereas ordinarily he gets about forty bushels per acre. He has lived on the place forty years, owned it for the past twenty years.

Helper on wagonload of wheat to be threshed on Beerman's ranch at Embl...

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

Dr Bair. Scientist becomes workman to aid the War Production Drive. Dr. Bair, holder of eleven college degrees and sixty U.S. patents, saws steel billets on a power hacksaw

Dr Bair. Scientist becomes workman to aid the War Production Drive. Dr...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Anaconda smelter, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Smokestack, which is the largest in the world: 585 feet in height with a diameter at base of seventy-five feet and at top of sixty feet. Flue gases are discharged at the rate of three to four million cubic feet per minute. The arsenic plant is seen at the base of the stack

Anaconda smelter, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Smokestack,...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a tower, column, chimney, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Freeport Sulphur Company, Hoskins Mound, Texas. Raising the walls on sulphur vat which is being built. Sulphur is put into these vats to a height of sixty feet. As it solidifies, the sections of wall are raised

Freeport Sulphur Company, Hoskins Mound, Texas. Raising the walls on s...

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

Illustrated atlas and Columbian souvenir of La Grange County, Indiana : showing its development in the first sixty years since organization.

Illustrated atlas and Columbian souvenir of La Grange County, Indiana ...

LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 4542 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes index, map of the United States, brief history of LaGrange County, and biographies ... More

City Market House, South Sixty & A Streets, Richmond, Wayne County, IN

City Market House, South Sixty & A Streets, Richmond, Wayne County, IN

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-14 Survey number: HABS IN-24-14 Building/structure dates: 1855 Initial Construction

City Market House, South Sixty & A Streets, Richmond, Wayne County, IN

City Market House, South Sixty & A Streets, Richmond, Wayne County, IN

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-14 Survey number: HABS IN-24-14 Building/structure dates: 1855 Initial Construction

Alexandrofski central prison about sixty versts from Irkutsk

Alexandrofski central prison about sixty versts from Irkutsk

Transfer; Manuscript Division (George Kennan Papers); 1973; (DLC/PP-1973:080). The central prison in the village of Aleksandrovsk was approximately forty miles south of Irkutsk on the Angara River. Originally b... More

Tremendous barn, sixty by one hundred feet, and windmill on Roy Merriot farm of three hundred twenty acres near Estherville, Iowa

Tremendous barn, sixty by one hundred feet, and windmill on Roy Merrio...

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

Part of the farmyard of W.H. Cox. Farm owner-operated, one hundred and twenty-four acres, of which sixty are tillable. Clearcreek Township, Iowa

Part of the farmyard of W.H. Cox. Farm owner-operated, one hundred and...

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

Washstand in house occupied by married hired hand and his wife. Harry Madsen farm near Dickens, Iowa. Three hundred sixty acres, owner-operated

Washstand in house occupied by married hired hand and his wife. Harry ...

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

One of Edgar Allen's children playing with doll. The couch and sewing machine are the two most substantial pieces of furniture in the house. The farm is one hundred sixty acres and rented from private party. Near Milford, Iowa

One of Edgar Allen's children playing with doll. The couch and sewing ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Some of the farm buildings of owner-operated farm. Three hundred and sixty acres owned by Harry Madsen near Dickens, Iowa. Note the excellent accomodations for livestock

Some of the farm buildings of owner-operated farm. Three hundred and s...

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

A section of Harry Madsen farm near Dickens, Iowa. Hired men are feeding the hogs. This farm is of three hundred sixty acres, owner-operated. Note the adequate buildings for care of livestock and hogs

A section of Harry Madsen farm near Dickens, Iowa. Hired men are feedi...

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

Twenty-four clients of Farm Security Administration (FSA) under the Rural Rehabilitation program, have cooperatively bought and cooperatively operated an all-crop harvester. The machine was put into operation June 7, 1938. Has to date (Nov. 3, 1938) served on sixty harvesting jobs in wheat, barley, soy beans, and milo maize. Tulare County, California

Twenty-four clients of Farm Security Administration (FSA) under the Ru...

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

Baling hay on the Mary E. Jones place, about 140 acres. The sons, W.E. and R.E. Jones, own ninety-nine acres and about sixty acres respectively. There are eight mules on the entire place, two cows, and this year, forty acres in tobacco, no cotton. They have owned it about forty-five years. It is on Route No. 91 about two miles from Wake Forest, Wake County, North Carolina

Baling hay on the Mary E. Jones place, about 140 acres. The sons, W.E....

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

I can make my crop money for next year in a month, said John Fields, tenant living on a small farm seven miles out of town. Farm labor in this section, until 1940, received from sixty cents to one dollar a day, working from sunup to sundown. He works as a carpenter or common laborer. Childersburg, Alabama

I can make my crop money for next year in a month, said John Fields, t...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Michael Du Mond, former gunshop proprietor in Wisconsin, came to Hartford in August to work at Colts at forty dollars a week, and has received several raises since. It took him four months to find a place for his wife and two children, namely a hotel apartment for sixty dollars a month, eating all meals out. Now they have a very hot small attic apartment, third floor, for thirty dollars a month, and no place for children to play. Hartford, Connecticut

Michael Du Mond, former gunshop proprietor in Wisconsin, came to Hartf...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of children, kids, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Threshing wheat on Beerman's ranch at Emblem, Wyoming. He has about 160 acres (quarter section), about forty-three in wheat, the rest in oats, beans, and alfalfa. This year he is getting between fifty-five and sixty bushels per acre, whereas ordinarily he gets about forty bushels wheat per acre. He has lived on the place forty years and owned it for the past twenty.

Threshing wheat on Beerman's ranch at Emblem, Wyoming. He has about 16...

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

A collection of designs in architecture, containing new plans and elevations of houses, for general use. With a great variety of sections of rooms ... To which are added, curious designs of stone and timber bridges ... Likewise some screens and pavilions. In two volumes, each containing sixty plates ... engraved on copper.

A collection of designs in architecture, containing new plans and elev...

First published in 1757. Plates 61-65 at end of v. 2 are dated 1758. LC copy has vols. 1-2 bound together. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1756 ESTC N27410 Gift of Lessing J. Rosenwald, 19... More

Wife and child of sharecropper near Gaffney, South Carolina. The farmer does a little day labor for his landlord. He received fifty cents a day in 1936, sixty to seventy-five cents in 1937. He raised seven bales of cotton on thirteen acres; half to his landlord

Wife and child of sharecropper near Gaffney, South Carolina. The farme...

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

Rural arts exhibition held under the auspices of the Farm Security Administration (FSA) in the patio of the U.S. Department of Agriculture building. Dog show by Mr. Omar Marcoux of League of New Hampshire Arts and Crafts, Concord, who makes more than sixty kinds of dogs

Rural arts exhibition held under the auspices of the Farm Security Adm...

Public domain image of cattle, livestock, farm animals, agriculture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

A man sitting on top of a hay bale next to a horse. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A man sitting on top of a hay bale next to a horse. Great Depression F...

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

Near Holtville, Imperial Valley, California. Migratory labor housing during carrot harvest. This field owned by proprietor of ajoining grocery and general store who allows workers to camp here rent-free. Approximately sixty families were living in camp

Near Holtville, Imperial Valley, California. Migratory labor housing d...

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Baling hay on the Mary E. Jones place, of about 140 acres. The sons, W.E. and R.E. Jones, own ninety-nine acres and sixty acres respectively. There are eight mules on the entire place, two cows and this year forty acres in tobacco. There is no cotton. They have owned it about forty-five years. It is on Route No. 45 about two miles from Wake Forest, Wake County, North Carolina

Baling hay on the Mary E. Jones place, of about 140 acres. The sons, W...

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The one-and-a-half story part of this house was built fifty to sixty years ago. The two-story part was built in 1900. Farm is owned by a woman whose husband died seventeen years ago. Person County, North Carolina

The one-and-a-half story part of this house was built fifty to sixty y...

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Michael Du Mond, former gunshop proprietor in Wisconsin, came to Hartford in August to work at Colts at forty dollars a week, and has received several raises since. It took him four months to find a place for his wife and two children, namely a hotel apartment for sixty dollars a month, eating all meals out. Now they have a very hot small attic apartment, third floor, for thirty dollars a month, and no place for children to play. Hartford, Connecticut

Michael Du Mond, former gunshop proprietor in Wisconsin, came to Hartf...

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Threshing wheat on Beerman's ranch at Emblem, Wyoming. He has about 160 acres (quarter section), about forty-three in wheat, the rest in oats, beans, and alfalfa. This year he is getting between fifty-five and sixty bushels per acre, whereas ordinarily he gets about forty bushels wheat per acre. He has lived on the place forty years and owned it for the past twenty.

Threshing wheat on Beerman's ranch at Emblem, Wyoming. He has about 16...

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Helper on wagonload of wheat to be threshed on Beerman's ranch at Emblem, Wyoming. He has about 150 acres in all (quarter section), about forty-three in wheat; the rest in oats, beans, and alfalfa. This year they are getting between fifty-five and sixty bushels wheat per acre, whereas ordinarily he gets about forty bushels per acre. He has lived on the place forty years, owned it for the past twenty years

Helper on wagonload of wheat to be threshed on Beerman's ranch at Embl...

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Illustrated atlas and Columbian souvenir of La Grange County, Indiana : showing its development in the first sixty years since organization.

Illustrated atlas and Columbian souvenir of La Grange County, Indiana ...

LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 4542 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes index, map of the United States, brief history of LaGrange County, and biographies ... More

Illustrated atlas and Columbian souvenir of La Grange County, Indiana : showing its development in the first sixty years since organization.

Illustrated atlas and Columbian souvenir of La Grange County, Indiana ...

LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 4542 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes index, map of the United States, brief history of LaGrange County, and biographies ... More

Illustrated atlas and Columbian souvenir of La Grange County, Indiana : showing its development in the first sixty years since organization.

Illustrated atlas and Columbian souvenir of La Grange County, Indiana ...

LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 4542 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes index, map of the United States, brief history of LaGrange County, and biographies ... More

Illustrated atlas and Columbian souvenir of La Grange County, Indiana : showing its development in the first sixty years since organization.

Illustrated atlas and Columbian souvenir of La Grange County, Indiana ...

LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 4542 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes index, map of the United States, brief history of LaGrange County, and biographies ... More

A collection of designs in architecture, containing new plans and elevations of houses, for general use. With a great variety of sections of rooms ... To which are added, curious designs of stone and timber bridges ... Likewise some screens and pavilions. In two volumes, each containing sixty plates ... engraved on copper.

A collection of designs in architecture, containing new plans and elev...

First published in 1757. Plates 61-65 at end of v. 2 are dated 1758. LC copy has vols. 1-2 bound together. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1756 ESTC N27410 Gift of Lessing J. Rosenwald, 19... More

Car trouble on west side of Highway No. 33 in San Joaquin Valley. Formerly a California cowhand and roving laborer. Now with his wife, he follows the fruit. "My uncle homesteaded here sixty years ago. I'm lower on money than at any time." A veteran of the the AEF (American Expeditionary Forces) engineers. He searches his trunk and produces snapshots of the AEF, including Pershing reviewing the troops in Germany. San Joaquin Valley, California

Car trouble on west side of Highway No. 33 in San Joaquin Valley. Form...

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Baling hay on the Mary E. Jones place of about 140 acres. The sons W.E. and R.E. Jones own ninty-nine and sixty acres respectively. There are eight mules on the entire place, two cows, and this year, forty acres in tobacco--no cotton. They have owned it about forty years. It is on Route No. 91, about two miles from Wake Forest, Wake County, North Carolina

Baling hay on the Mary E. Jones place of about 140 acres. The sons W.E...

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

Washington, Yakima Valley. Drought refugee, aged sixty three, from Bismark, North Dakota. "Came to Washington three years ago in that Chevy coupe you see over there and twenty-five dollars cash. Had 480 acres back there. I dried out after thirty years, lost it, and walked out." With help of Work Projects Administration (WPA) and supplementary work on ranches is buying three quarters of an acre in shacktown near Yakima, has it nearly paid for, has good garden. "On my own place I can't starve."

Washington, Yakima Valley. Drought refugee, aged sixty three, from Bis...

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A black and white photo of two men loading hay. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A black and white photo of two men loading hay. Great Depression FFSA ...

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Inside of rolling store with tank of kerosene on back (at left). Coffee County, Alabama. Average daily sale is sixty dollars and they take in lots of produce

Inside of rolling store with tank of kerosene on back (at left). Coffe...

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Threshing wheat on Beerman's ranch at Emblem, Wyoming. He has about 160 acres (quarter section), about forty-three in wheat, the rest in oats, beans, and alfalfa. This year he is getting between fifty-five and sixty bushels per acre, whereas ordinarily he gets about forty bushels wheat per acre. He has lived on the place forty years and owned it for the past twenty.

Threshing wheat on Beerman's ranch at Emblem, Wyoming. He has about 16...

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

Harvey G. Berthold, twenty years old, was placed on the Colby farm in Wisconsin after completing the farm short course at the University of Wisconsin and has been at his job two weeks at a salary of sixty-five dollars per month. He has two brothers and five sisters on the family's sixty nine acre farm in Ladysmith Brusk County, Wisconsin. They have cultivated fifty-one acres and own nine milk cows and five heifers. The family has been helped by FSA (Farm Security Administration) for several years

Harvey G. Berthold, twenty years old, was placed on the Colby farm in ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Trampas, New Mexico. Everybody in remote New Mexico buys by mail. Juan Lopez, the majordomo (mayor), and his wife Maclovia are thinking of buying new harnesses; it will cost sixty dollars, so they will probably get along with what they have

Trampas, New Mexico. Everybody in remote New Mexico buys by mail. Juan...

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Buffalo, New York. The metallurgical laboratory of Republic Steel entirely manned by women. Twenty-one year old Florence Bergtold is "boss" of one shift. Here steel samples are tested for tensil strength, hardenability, and density. Billet samples such as one being pounded, weighing from sixty to eighty pounds; are moved about on rolling belts

Buffalo, New York. The metallurgical laboratory of Republic Steel enti...

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Illustrated atlas and Columbian souvenir of La Grange County, Indiana : showing its development in the first sixty years since organization.

Illustrated atlas and Columbian souvenir of La Grange County, Indiana ...

LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 4542 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes index, map of the United States, brief history of LaGrange County, and biographies ... More

Illustrated atlas and Columbian souvenir of La Grange County, Indiana : showing its development in the first sixty years since organization.

Illustrated atlas and Columbian souvenir of La Grange County, Indiana ...

LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 4542 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes index, map of the United States, brief history of LaGrange County, and biographies ... More

Sixty three is the jubilee - American Civil War sheet music

Sixty three is the jubilee - American Civil War sheet music

Music associated with the Union side

View of Alexandria, Virginia, showing new engine house in which sixty engines can be stored in working order

View of Alexandria, Virginia, showing new engine house in which sixty ...

Photograph shows an aerial view of the U.S. Military Railroad engine barn in Alexandria, Virginia. Freight cars in the foreground.

Shrimp-pickers in Peerless Oyster Co. Photo taken just as they stood. On other side of the shed, still younger children were working. Out of sixty working (only half were there) I counted fifteen apparently under twelve years old. Some three, four, and five years old were picking too. Parents acknowledged ages and fact that they worked some. Boss said they went to work at 3:00 A.M., and would quit about 3 or 4 P.M. Location: Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.

Shrimp-pickers in Peerless Oyster Co. Photo taken just as they stood. ...

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