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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...

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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

Production. Tin smelting. "Bars" of pure tin are stacked in the warehouse of a Southern smelter to await shipment for war uses. Each bar weighs about eighty pounds and has a value of about forty-one dollars and sixty cents at the present price of fifty- two cents per pound. This tin, made from South American ore, serves many needs of the United Nations

Production. Tin smelting. "Bars" of pure tin are stacked in the wareho...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

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.

Berry pickers at 5 a.m. Waiting for the truck to haul them to work. Earn about sixty cents per day. Memphis, Tennessee

Berry pickers at 5 a.m. Waiting for the truck to haul them to work. Ea...

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8 a.m. Migratory field workers pulling carrots in a field. Note carrot digging tractor in background. "They'll sleep in the row (to hold a place in the field) to earn sixty cents a day." Near Meloland, Imperial County, California

8 a.m. Migratory field workers pulling carrots in a field. Note carrot...

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

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

A black and white photo of a man smiling. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man smiling. Office of War Information Ph...

Title and other information from caption card. Two negatives found in original negative jacket; only one edge-numbered. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington ... More

Berry pickers at 5 a.m. Waiting for the truck to haul them to work. Earn about sixty cents per day. Memphis, Tennessee

Berry pickers at 5 a.m. Waiting for the truck to haul them to work. Ea...

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

A black and white photo of a man smiling. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man smiling. Office of War Information Ph...

Actual size of negative is E (approximately 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Two negatives found in original negative jacket; only one edge-numbered. Transfer; United States... More

8 a.m. Migratory field workers pulling carrots in a field. Note carrot digging tractor in background. "They'll sleep in the row (to hold a place in the field) to earn sixty cents a day." Near Meloland, Imperial County, California

8 a.m. Migratory field workers pulling carrots in a field. Note carrot...

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

Cotton pickers receiving sixty cents a day, Pulaski County, Arkansas

Cotton pickers receiving sixty cents a day, Pulaski County, Arkansas

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

Production. Tin smelting. "Bars" of pure tin are stacked in the warehouse of a Southern smelter to await shipment for war uses. Each bar weighs about eighty pounds and has a value of about forty-one dollars and sixty cents at the present price of fifty- two cents per pound. This tin, made from South American ore, serves many needs of the United Nations

Production. Tin smelting. "Bars" of pure tin are stacked in the wareho...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cotton pickers receiving sixty cents a day, Pulaski County, Arkansas

Cotton pickers receiving sixty cents a day, Pulaski County, Arkansas

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

Production. Tin smelting. "Bars" of pure tin are stacked in the warehouse of a Southern smelter to await shipment for war uses. Each bar weighs about eighty pounds and has a value of about forty-one dollars and sixty cents at the present price of fifty- two cents per pound. This tin, made from South American ore, serves many needs of the United Nations

Production. Tin smelting. "Bars" of pure tin are stacked in the wareho...

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Men in room at Mrs. Jones's boardinghouse. Six men live in this room. Three beds, pay eight to ten dollars a week rent. Most of them have families they left behind in Bluefield, West Virginia; Bristol, Tennessee; or High Point, North Carolina. They are carpenters, carpenters' assistants, riggers and laborers. They make sixty cents to one dollar and twenty-five cents per hour. Radford, Virginia

Men in room at Mrs. Jones's boardinghouse. Six men live in this room. ...

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

Production. Tin smelting. "Bars" of pure tin are stacked in the warehouse of a Southern smelter to await shipment for war uses. Each bar weighs about eighty pounds and has a value of about forty-one dollars and sixty cents at the present price of fifty- two cents per pound. This tin, made from South American ore, serves many needs of the United Nations

Production. Tin smelting. "Bars" of pure tin are stacked in the wareho...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

A black and white photo of three men sitting on a bed. World War Two Era FSA/OWI Photograph.

A black and white photo of three men sitting on a bed. World War Two E...

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