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Class in soil fertility inspecting sweet clover on University of Illinois, experiment field, near Odin, Marion County

Class in soil fertility inspecting sweet clover on University of Illin...

Stereograph showing a group of men in a field listening to a lecture, from a man standing on left pointing at clover bushes, about soil fertility; several men busily writing notes. J227033 U.S. Copyright Office... More

Soil and shelter exhibit. United States Resettlement Administration

Soil and shelter exhibit. United States Resettlement Administration

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At the sugar beet unloading station a sample of each farmer's load is taken to determine the tare or quantity of soil adhering to the beets. This is deducted from the weight on which payment is based. Adams County, Colorado

At the sugar beet unloading station a sample of each farmer's load is ...

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.

At county 4-H Club meeting members from one community put on a one act play in which Farmer Brown was tried and indicted for "cruelty to his farm." His neighbors testified to his spurning of soil conservation practices, etc. District attorney is shown charging the jury. Eufaula, Oklahoma

At county 4-H Club meeting members from one community put on a one act...

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Antiaircraft gun carriage workers. Workers assembling the elevating mechanism of one of America's many new thirty-seven-millimeter antiaircraft gun carriages. These guns will soon take their place in the protection of our soil against the best-armoured and the fastest-flying planes that our enemies can produce. Scene in a Pennsylvania engineering plant now converted almost entirely to America's war program production. AETNA. Ellwood City, Pennsylvania

Antiaircraft gun carriage workers. Workers assembling the elevating me...

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Foods such as these--turnips, pumpkins, onions, potatoes, apples, pears--can be kept for several months if stored right. The best type of storage depends upon the climate, the soil conditions, and the materials you have to work with. Now you will see pictures of many different types of storage, and perhaps they will help you decide which type would be best for your farm

Foods such as these--turnips, pumpkins, onions, potatoes, apples, pear...

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

Baker, Florida. (vicinity) Land bordering on Escambia Farms showing soil which has been washed due to inadequate terracing

Baker, Florida. (vicinity) Land bordering on Escambia Farms showing so...

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Taos County, New Mexico. Father Cassidy, the Catholic priest of the parish of Penasco, telling his troop of Boy Scouts about soil conservation and erosion

Taos County, New Mexico. Father Cassidy, the Catholic priest of the pa...

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Penasco, New Mexico. Science class in the high school making soil tests

Penasco, New Mexico. Science class in the high school making soil test...

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The winds of the "dust bowl" have piled up large drifts of soil against this farmer's barn near Liberal, Kansas

The winds of the "dust bowl" have piled up large drifts of soil agains...

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

Grand democratic free soil banner, engraving, Library of Congress

Grand democratic free soil banner, engraving, Library of Congress

Print shows a campaign banner for Free Soil Party candidates Martin Van Buren and Charles Francis Adams in the presidential race of 1848. The two candidates, nominated at the third party's convention on August ... More

An example of how listing soil into furrows helps impede erosion. Mills, New Mexico

An example of how listing soil into furrows helps impede erosion. Mill...

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Cotton field showing rock-strewn soil and character of land at Crabtree Creek Recreational Project near Raleigh, North Carolina

Cotton field showing rock-strewn soil and character of land at Crabtre...

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Drifting soil in a farmyard. Hartley County, Texas

Drifting soil in a farmyard. Hartley County, Texas

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Soil erosion in California hills. Small dairy ranch near Gibson, California

Soil erosion in California hills. Small dairy ranch near Gibson, Calif...

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Cut-over farm. Florence County, Wisconsin. The family has moved to better buildings. Note rocky soil

Cut-over farm. Florence County, Wisconsin. The family has moved to bet...

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

CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) working with Soil Conservation Service making diversion terrace to prevent gullying, Vernon County, Wisconsin

CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) working with Soil Conservation Servi...

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CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) boys cooperating with Soil Conservation Service working limestone quarry. Vernon County, Wisconsin. Soil tests made show Vernon County to be lime deficient for the satisfactory growing of alfalfa

CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) boys cooperating with Soil Conservat...

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CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) working with Soil Conservation Service making diversion terrace to prevent gullying, Vernon County, Wisconsin

CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) working with Soil Conservation Servi...

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Soil erosion gullies on farm in Caswell County, North Carolina

Soil erosion gullies on farm in Caswell County, North Carolina

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Tilling field, showing rocky soil along Route 34, three miles north of Spencer, New York

Tilling field, showing rocky soil along Route 34, three miles north of...

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Song director conducting singing of Negro spiritual at soil conservation meeting at Vernon, Oklahoma

Song director conducting singing of Negro spiritual at soil conservati...

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Examining soil from bored well hole. The boring continues until water bearing sand is reached. Safe well demonstration, Ridge, Saint Mary's County, Maryland

Examining soil from bored well hole. The boring continues until water ...

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Vernon County, Wisconsin. Saugstad and Soil Conservation Service man looking over strip cropping

Vernon County, Wisconsin. Saugstad and Soil Conservation Service man l...

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

Wilson Dam, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) boys weeding loblolly pine seedlings at TVA nursery. Since 1934, eighty million trees have been planted for soil conservation and flood control in the Tennessee Valley

Wilson Dam, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Civilian Conse...

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

Washington public schools go to war. The public schools of Washington, D.C., like those in most other sections of the country, have revised their curricula to fit the pupils for fuller participation in the war effort. They have gone all-out for the Program of Civilian Defense. Many of the schools have their Victory Gardens. Photo shows boys preparing the soil for their community Victory Garden under supervision of one of their teachers

Washington public schools go to war. The public schools of Washington,...

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

The life, adventures, and unparalleled sufferings of Andrew Oehler, containing an account of his travels through France, Italy, the East and West Indies, and part of the United STates; his imprisonment in France, Germany and Spain: and the latitude, soil, climate, productions, manners and customs of the different countries. Written by himself.

The life, adventures, and unparalleled sufferings of Andrew Oehler, co...

The part of the book following p. 80 is chiefly devoted to the author's travels in the United States and Mexico. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC nsk 2019-04-23 update (1 ... More

U.S. Plant Introduction Station, Soil Conservation Service Cluster, 11601 Old Pond Road, Glenn Dale, Prince George's County, MD

U.S. Plant Introduction Station, Soil Conservation Service Cluster, 11...

Survey number: HAER MD-122-H Building/structure dates: 1937 Initial Construction

Free speech, free soil, free men. This is to certify that [blank] is a member of the [blank] Wide-awake Club

Free speech, free soil, free men. This is to certify that [blank] is a...

A membership certificate for the Wide-Awake Club, a Republican marching club formed in February or March 1860 and active throughout the North during the election campaign. The club was dedicated to the preserva... More

The emigrant's guide to the western and southwestern states and territories : comprising a geographical and statistical description of the states ; Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ohio ; the territories of Alabama, Missouri, and Michigan ; and the western parts of Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New-York ; with a complete list of the road and river routes, west of the Allegheny Mountains, and the connecting roads from New-York, Philadelphia, and Washington City, to New-Orleans, St. Louis, and Pittsburg ; The whole comprising a more comprehensive account of the soil, productions, climate, and present state of improvement of the regions described, than any work hitherto published; accompanied by a map of the United States, including Louisiana, projected and engraved expressly for this work

The emigrant's guide to the western and southwestern states and territ...

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[Native Americans collecting sap and cooking maple syrup in pots, tilling soil into raised humps, and sowing seeds, North America]

[Native Americans collecting sap and cooking maple syrup in pots, till...

Illus. in: Moeurs des sauvages ameriquains, comparées aux moeurs des premiers temps / Joseph Francois Lafitau. Paris : Saugrain l'aîne [etc.], 1724, vol. 2, pl. 7, opp. p. 154.

A Chinese farmer turning the soil with a wooden plow drawn by donkeys

A Chinese farmer turning the soil with a wooden plow drawn by donkeys

Picryl description: Public domain image of working farmers, agriculture, farm, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Destructive logging followed by fire has completely destroyed this forest and soil erosion has started

Destructive logging followed by fire has completely destroyed this for...

Soil erosion at Arroyo Grande, California. Soil Conservation has one of its principal stations here

Soil erosion at Arroyo Grande, California. Soil Conservation has one o...

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Soil and shelter exhibit. United States Resettlement Administration

Soil and shelter exhibit. United States Resettlement Administration

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Depression refugee family from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Arrived in California June 1936. Mother and three half-grown children; no father. "Anybody as wants to work can get by. But if a person loses their faith in the soil like so many of them back there in Oklahoma, then there ain't no hope for them. We're making it all right here, all but for the schooling, 'cause that boy of mine, he wants to go to the University"

Depression refugee family from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Arrived in California ...

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

Damage to state highway and soil by flood. Near Hazleton, Indiana

Damage to state highway and soil by flood. Near Hazleton, Indiana

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Building a new Army camp at top speed. New camps are being built with great rapidity all over the country to house not only Britain's rapidly expanding Army, but the thousands of U.S. and Canadian troops now arriving. The work is done by civilian contractors, but the Army garrison engineer is in constant supervision to see that work is as specified and that it is completed on time. Leveling soil ready to receive a concrete floor

Building a new Army camp at top speed. New camps are being built with ...

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A black and white photo of a man milking a cow. War Poduction. Office of War Information.

A black and white photo of a man milking a cow. War Poduction. Office ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of workers, war production, aircraft, airfield, the 1930s -1940s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Wilson Dam, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority(TVA)). Civilian Conservation Corps boys weeding loblolly pine seedlings at TVA nursery. Since 1934, eighty million trees have been planted for soil conservation and flood control in the Tennessee Valley

Wilson Dam, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority(TVA)). Civilian Conser...

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

Washington, D.C. Victory gardening in the Northwest section. Buying top soil to improve the victory garden

Washington, D.C. Victory gardening in the Northwest section. Buying to...

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Checking the Depth of the Soil Cover

Checking the Depth of the Soil Cover

Checking the depth of the soil in the barbecue pit with a pitchfork, Saturday, June 17, 1978 People in photograph: Miller. Ernest; Klaumann, Kenny; Recanzone, Butch; Unidentified; Humphrey, Bob

U.S. Plant Introduction Station, Soil Conservation Service Cluster, 11601 Old Pond Road, Glenn Dale, Prince George's County, MD

U.S. Plant Introduction Station, Soil Conservation Service Cluster, 11...

Survey number: HAER MD-122-H Building/structure dates: 1937 Initial Construction

[Hampton Institute, Hampton, Virginia, ca. 1898 - field trip to marsh - studying soil formation by quiet water and plants]

[Hampton Institute, Hampton, Virginia, ca. 1898 - field trip to marsh ...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). LOT subdivision subject: Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute - Liberal Arts & Science... More

A Deere pulling machine, two horses. These merely loosen the soil, leaving the final pull to be exerted by the workers. Hine. Oct. 1915. Location: Colorado.

A Deere pulling machine, two horses. These merely loosen the soil, lea...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farm, farmer, agriculture, early 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The Remains of a raider, one of the Zeppelins brought down on English soil

The Remains of a raider, one of the Zeppelins brought down on English ...

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A Product of the 4 H. Club. Gradie Walton, 17 yrs. old, - is very deficient in most school branches (except in mathematics where he shines). He is much handicapped physically, - lost one eye in an accident and the other is weak. This year he raised 135 bushels of corn on one acre (his father raised about one half as much and complained that the boy's land was better). The secret was that the boy worked hard on the plot, - fertilizing and cultivating, even bringing soil in from the woods. He got the First Prize for two years. Location: Pocahontas County, West Virginia / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

A Product of the 4 H. Club. Gradie Walton, 17 yrs. old, - is very defi...

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

Soil and shelter exhibit. United States Resettlement Administration

Soil and shelter exhibit. United States Resettlement Administration

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Limestone crusher at limestone quarry. CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) cooperating with SCS (Soil Conservation Service). Vernon County, Wisconsin

Limestone crusher at limestone quarry. CCC (Civilian Conservation Corp...

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Mrs. Brown and children. She paid her taxes with oranges grown on the farm. Her husband worked in nearby oyster beds. The soil on the farm is better than usual in that section. Saint Helena Island, Beaufort, South Carolina

Mrs. Brown and children. She paid her taxes with oranges grown on the ...

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

Two men riding on the back of a car down a dirt road, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

Two men riding on the back of a car down a dirt road, Great Depression...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a tractor, farming equipment, agriculture, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mrs. Brown and family. She paid her taxes with oranges raised on her farm. Her husband worked in nearby oyster beds. The soil on the farm is better than usual in that section. Saint Helena Island, Beaufort, South Carolina

Mrs. Brown and family. She paid her taxes with oranges raised on her f...

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Spreading lime to increase productivity of soil before planting winter wheat on Emery M. Hopper's tobacco farm in Corbett Ridge section. Caswell County, North Carolina

Spreading lime to increase productivity of soil before planting winter...

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Manpower bores a shallow well if the soil is soft. Ridge well project, St. Mary's County, Maryland

Manpower bores a shallow well if the soil is soft. Ridge well project,...

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

Knox County, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Spring plowing. Clover is being turned over to enrich the soil, cane corn will be planted for silage

Knox County, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Spring plow...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a tractor, farming equipment, agriculture, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The life, adventures, and unparalleled sufferings of Andrew Oehler, containing an account of his travels through France, Italy, the East and West Indies, and part of the United STates; his imprisonment in France, Germany and Spain: and the latitude, soil, climate, productions, manners and customs of the different countries. Written by himself.

The life, adventures, and unparalleled sufferings of Andrew Oehler, co...

The part of the book following p. 80 is chiefly devoted to the author's travels in the United States and Mexico. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC nsk 2019-04-23 update (1 ... More

The life, adventures, and unparalleled sufferings of Andrew Oehler, containing an account of his travels through France, Italy, the East and West Indies, and part of the United STates; his imprisonment in France, Germany and Spain: and the latitude, soil, climate, productions, manners and customs of the different countries. Written by himself.

The life, adventures, and unparalleled sufferings of Andrew Oehler, co...

The part of the book following p. 80 is chiefly devoted to the author's travels in the United States and Mexico. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC nsk 2019-04-23 update (1 ... More

U.S. Plant Introduction Station, Soil Conservation Service Cluster, 11601 Old Pond Road, Glenn Dale, Prince George's County, MD

U.S. Plant Introduction Station, Soil Conservation Service Cluster, 11...

Survey number: HAER MD-122-H Building/structure dates: 1937 Initial Construction

Egypt - Cairo. Women carrying river mud from the Nile to enrich the soil

Egypt - Cairo. Women carrying river mud from the Nile to enrich the so...

Two women carrying mud in containers on their heads. Public domain photograph - historical image of Egypt, Middle East, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Prof. Milton Whitney, Chief Bureau of Soil

Prof. Milton Whitney, Chief Bureau of Soil

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

The Famous Columbus tree at Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. It was to this tree that Columbus is said to have moored his caravel when he landed on American soil

The Famous Columbus tree at Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. It was ...

No. 6712. National Photo Company Collection.

S.O.S. Soldiers of the Soil - boys to the front

S.O.S. Soldiers of the Soil - boys to the front

Poster shows a farmer on a horse leading two plow horses pointing and to vignette showing soldiers in battle. Text encourages boy between the ages of 15 and 19 to volunteer for the Soldiers of the Soil program.

Tilling the soil with wooden plow and oxen, Queretaro, Mexico

Tilling the soil with wooden plow and oxen, Queretaro, Mexico

J238283 U.S. Copyright Office No. 16160. Public domain photograph of landscape view, nature, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Buckwheat that is grown on stony soil, Garrett County, Maryland

Buckwheat that is grown on stony soil, Garrett County, Maryland

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

Shows wasteful use of soil, Garrett County, Maryland

Shows wasteful use of soil, Garrett County, Maryland

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

Soil erosion on a Brown County, Indiana, farm

Soil erosion on a Brown County, Indiana, farm

Public domain photograph of United States countryside, nature, during 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Special tools made by one of the workers to remove soil from the roots of trees in clearing the lake sites at the Berwyn project, Maryland

Special tools made by one of the workers to remove soil from the roots...

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Soil and shelter exhibit. United States Resettlement Administration

Soil and shelter exhibit. United States Resettlement Administration

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Soil erosion. Hamilton County, Illinois. This land has been cleared of timber and put into corn. Note stumps of trees, and beginning of erosion gullies

Soil erosion. Hamilton County, Illinois. This land has been cleared of...

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

New dust bowl program for southwest. Washington, D.C., June 2. Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace today appointed Roy I. Kimmel, of Amarillo, Texas to coordinate a broad federal proram to rehabilitate the soil conservation, resettlement and AAA wind erosion program in 100 counties, comprimising 140,000 sq miles, in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico. Kimbel has been in charge of the RA Rehabilitation Program in the southwest, his appointment is effective for an indefinite term, 6/2/37

New dust bowl program for southwest. Washington, D.C., June 2. Secreta...

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

Soil erosion in Posey County, Indiana. Grass has been planted in an effort to slow the process of gully formation

Soil erosion in Posey County, Indiana. Grass has been planted in an ef...

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Good soil makes good gardens in Tygart Valley Homesteads, West Virginia

Good soil makes good gardens in Tygart Valley Homesteads, West Virgini...

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

Landscape showing farmhouse, outbuildings, and cornfield. The corn is very spotty showing the unevenness of the soil. Note washings thru the fields. Caswell County, North Carolina

Landscape showing farmhouse, outbuildings, and cornfield. The corn is ...

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

Looking down country road in Person County, North Carolina. Note light sandy soil

Looking down country road in Person County, North Carolina. Note light...

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

Breaking virgin soil by means of tractor-drawn plow. El Indio, Texas

Breaking virgin soil by means of tractor-drawn plow. El Indio, Texas

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

Maryland photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Photograph.

Maryland photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of War In...

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

Twin Falls, Idaho is one of the main agricultural buying and distributing centers of the Snake River valley, Idaho. Soil in this valley is very fertile and the section is noted for fine crops of grains, fruit, potatoes and sugar beets. Twin Falls itself is sometimes called the magic city because it sprang up so fast after water was made available for irrigation of the farm land. It was settled principally by people from the Middle West

Twin Falls, Idaho is one of the main agricultural buying and distribut...

Public domain photograph of the 1930s, United States, cars, streets, John Kennedy, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Agronomy students taking soil samples on the animal husbandry farm at Iowa State College. Ames, Iowa

Agronomy students taking soil samples on the animal husbandry farm at ...

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Ripping Soil with Chisel Blade

Ripping Soil with Chisel Blade

When spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil -- Heber

When spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil -- Heber

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Jersey troops breaking the ground for a fort to defend Washington, on Virginia soil near the long bridge

Jersey troops breaking the ground for a fort to defend Washington, on ...

Title on verso. Signed lower left: A.R. Waud. Inscribed on verso: "I have a better sketch taken next day when the 7th had their turn General Mansfield and Capt. Meigs looking [...]. Similar image published in N... More

Children of the soil African-American experience

Children of the soil African-American experience

2 African American children in hollow of log(?).

Plowing the rich prairie soil with tractor, S. Dak.

Plowing the rich prairie soil with tractor, S. Dak.

No. 16733. Public domain photograph of landscape view, nature, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Typical Ozark backwoods scene, a corn patch in rocky soil. Meramec Forest project area. Near Salem, Missouri

Typical Ozark backwoods scene, a corn patch in rocky soil. Meramec For...

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

Chief Executive meets with administration experts on flood control projects, Washington, D.C., August 10. Seeking a decision as to what flood control projects will be started as soon as Congress makes available $330,000,000 authorized in the omnibus flood control ? as well as projects that can be begun with funds now on hand, President Roosevelt called in those administration experts today. Left to right: Frederick A. Doland and Abel Wolman, of National Resources Board; H.H. Bennett, Director of Soil Conservation, Dept. of Agriculture; General Edward M. Markham, Chief of U.S. Army Engineers; and Aubrey Williams, Assistant Administrator of WPA

Chief Executive meets with administration experts on flood control pro...

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

Tractor pulling wooden floater to smooth the soil. El Indio, real estate development, Texas

Tractor pulling wooden floater to smooth the soil. El Indio, real esta...

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

House on side of mountain in Bisbee, Arizona, showing the timber supports needed to keep soil from washing completely away from the house

House on side of mountain in Bisbee, Arizona, showing the timber suppo...

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

Fred Coulter, Iowa corn farmer, examining soil on his place. Grundy County, Iowa

Fred Coulter, Iowa corn farmer, examining soil on his place. Grundy Co...

Picryl description: Public domain image of working farmers, agriculture, farm, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a pile of logs. Great Depression and Dust Bowl.

A black and white photo of a pile of logs. Great Depression and Dust B...

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

Provincetown, Massachusetts. City fathers of Provincetown, all of Portuguese descent, gathered in council, before a painting representing the signing of the Pilgrim compact in the bay of Provincetown upon the first landing of the Pilgrims on American soil

Provincetown, Massachusetts. City fathers of Provincetown, all of Port...

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

Vernon County, Wisconsin. Saugstad and Soil Conservation Service man looking over strip cropping

Vernon County, Wisconsin. Saugstad and Soil Conservation Service man l...

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

Dorchester County, Maryland. The congregation of this church are all "watermen": oystermen, lobstermen, fishermen. Only a few raise anything on the soil and they all look to the Chesepeake Bay for their main source of livelihood

Dorchester County, Maryland. The congregation of this church are all "...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of a church building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

U.S. forces inflict heavy casualties on Japs in capture of Buna, New Guinea. Palm trees and branches lie strewn on the shell-churned soil of Buna Village, New Guinea, in the wake of the Japanese retreat before U.S. and Australian forces. The Japs were completely routed here with heavy losses

U.S. forces inflict heavy casualties on Japs in capture of Buna, New G...

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

A black and white photo of a person with a shovel. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a person with a shovel. Office of War Infor...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War... More

Taos County, New Mexico. Science class making soil tests in Penasco High School

Taos County, New Mexico. Science class making soil tests in Penasco Hi...

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

The winds of the "dust bowl" have piled up large drifts of soil against this farmer's barn near Liberal, Kansas

The winds of the "dust bowl" have piled up large drifts of soil agains...

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

U.S. Plant Introduction Station, Soil Conservation Service Cluster, 11601 Old Pond Road, Glenn Dale, Prince George's County, MD

U.S. Plant Introduction Station, Soil Conservation Service Cluster, 11...

Survey number: HAER MD-122-H Building/structure dates: 1937 Initial Construction

A Giddings beet-puller, drawn by 4 horses. The two knives pass along the sides of the beet rows and loosen the soil -- but they do not pull the beets -- the workers finish pulling by hand, often with some extra exertion. A kind of hand plow puller is often used on small farms. Near Sterling, Oct. 23/15. Location: Sterling [vicinity], Colorado.

A Giddings beet-puller, drawn by 4 horses. The two knives pass along t...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farm, farmer, agriculture, early 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Derʻâh 123 km von Damaskus, 529 m ü. M. In der Mitte der Kerak (Burgberg).

Derʻâh 123 km von Damaskus, 529 m ü. M. In der Mitte der Kerak (Burgbe...

Plate 17 in portfolio: Bilder aus Palästina. Nord-Arabien und dem Sinai. Berlin : Dietrich Riemer, 1916. Letterpress caption in German. Translated title by Library staff.

[When spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil -- Heber]

[When spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil -- Heber]

Title from CAI - Green, no. 117 (D size), later version. Later version published as frontispiece in Harper's magazine, 136:617, 1918. (DLC/PP-1933:0185). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library... More

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