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Migrant family on U.S. Highway 99 between Bakersfield and Famoso, California. Note: the photographer passed twenty-eight cars of this type while driving thirty-five miles between 9:00 and 9:45 in the morning

Migrant family on U.S. Highway 99 between Bakersfield and Famoso, Cali...

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Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico. Coachella Valley, California. "We come from all states and we can't make a dollar a day in the field no ways. Working in the field from seven in the morning till twelve noon we earn an average of thirty-five cents"

Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico. Co...

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

A black and white photo of a group of people pulling a cart, Vermont. Farm Security Administration photogrpaph.

A black and white photo of a group of people pulling a cart, Vermont. ...

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A black and white photo of a man in the snow, Vermont. Farm Security Administration photogrpaph.

A black and white photo of a man in the snow, Vermont. Farm Security A...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a worker, construction, carpenter, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a man in the snow, Vermont. Farm Security Administration photogrpaph.

A black and white photo of a man in the snow, Vermont. Farm Security A...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania. Thirty-five ton electric arc melting furnace in operation. These furnaces convert scrap iron and steel into high quality steel alloys. This type of furnace gives much faster heating and permits the accurate temperature control so necessary in the processing of the high quality steels. The alloying elements are being added to the bath of molten steel

Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenri...

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This truck and goods belongs to a crew of thirty-five migrants who are making a trip from Belcross to another job at Onley, Virginia

This truck and goods belongs to a crew of thirty-five migrants who are...

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Shenandoah Valley. Paul Fletcher's tiny factory in Harrisburg, which turns out fifteen bottle washing machines a year, selling at thirty-five hundred dollars a piece. This was an invention of Mr. Fletcher's under the spur of necessity

Shenandoah Valley. Paul Fletcher's tiny factory in Harrisburg, which t...

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Young son of Frank H. Shurtleff gathering sap from sugar trees for making maple syrup. Sugaring is a social event and is enjoyed by all the young people and children in the neighborhood. The Shurtleff farm has about 400 acres and was originally purchased by grandfather in 1840. He raises sheep, cows, cuts timber and has been making maple syrup for the last thirty-five years. Sugaring brings in about one thousand dollars annually. Because of the deep snow this year he only tapped 1000 of his 2000 trees. He expects to make about 300 to 500 gallons this year. North Bridgewater, Vermont

Young son of Frank H. Shurtleff gathering sap from sugar trees for mak...

Photo shows Irving Thomas Shurtleff, age 10, gathering sap from sugar trees, as identified by daughter Brenda Shurtleff, 2006.

Accepted applicant for resettlement on the Hightstown project. Jewish-American. This man is already employed on the project as carpenter, working on the nearly completed first unit of thirty-five houses. He says, "Will we succeed? Any people who will go through what we did--any people with such patience--will succeed"

Accepted applicant for resettlement on the Hightstown project. Jewish-...

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A black and white photo of a train in the snow, Vermont. Farm Security Administration photogrpaph.

A black and white photo of a train in the snow, Vermont. Farm Security...

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Southington, Connecticut. Southington's nine-hole country club golf course. Membership fee in the club is purposely low (thirty-five dollars a year) so that everyone who enjoys the game may have a chance to play

Southington, Connecticut. Southington's nine-hole country club golf co...

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Daytona Beach, Florida. Students at Bethune-Cookman College, chopping and piling wood for thirty-five cents per hour

Daytona Beach, Florida. Students at Bethune-Cookman College, chopping ...

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Farmers' cooperative creamery at Ruthven, Iowa. This is very successful. It is run on a stock share basis. Milk sells retail at five cents per quart and cream (thirty-five to thirty-eight percent) at thirty-five cents per quart

Farmers' cooperative creamery at Ruthven, Iowa. This is very successfu...

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Mumby Lumber Mill, closed in 1938 after thirty-five years of operation. Now being dismantled. Western Washington, Grays Harbor County, Malone, Washington. General caption number 39

Mumby Lumber Mill, closed in 1938 after thirty-five years of operation...

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Hired man of Frank H. Shurtleff gathering sap from sugar trees for making maple syrup. Sugaring is a social event and is enjoyed by all the young people and children in the neighborhood. The Shurtleff farm has about 400 acres and was originally purchased by grandfather in 1840. He raises sheep, cows, cuts lumber and has been making maple syrup for about thirty-five years. Sugaring brings in about one thousand dollars annually. Because of the deep snow this year he only tapped 1000 of his 2000 trees. He expects to make about 300 to 500 gallons this year. North Bridgewater, Vermont

Hired man of Frank H. Shurtleff gathering sap from sugar trees for mak...

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

Men in lobby of thirty-five cents hotel. Dubuque, Iowa

Men in lobby of thirty-five cents hotel. Dubuque, Iowa

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

Card game in lobby of thirty-five cents hotel. Dubuque, Iowa

Card game in lobby of thirty-five cents hotel. Dubuque, Iowa

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Emma Dougherty, thirty-five, does a man's job, running an end-grinding machine, and gets same pay as a man. There are three girls in the factory who do this and they have all learned to set their own tools

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Emma Dougherty, thirty-five, does a man's job, r...

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Clifford Beason examining a sample of corn raised in 1936. The corn in this crib represents total crop from two hundred thirty acres of corn in five hundred twenty acre farm. His estimate of the crop is thirty-five bushels. Iowa

Clifford Beason examining a sample of corn raised in 1936. The corn in...

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Truck of a group of thirty-five migrant workers leaving North Carolina for Easton, Maryland, to pick beans

Truck of a group of thirty-five migrant workers leaving North Carolina...

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Hired man, young neighbor (Julia Fletcher), collie dog, and Frank H. Shurtleff's son gathering sap from sugar trees for making syrup. Sugaring is a social event and is enjoyed by all the young people and children in the neighborhood. The Shurtleff farm has about 400 acres and was purchased by grandfather in 1840. He raises sheep, cows, cuts lumber and has been making maple syrup for about thirty-five years. Sugaring brings in about one thousand dollars annually. Because of the deep snow this year he only tapped 1000 of his 2000 trees. He expects to make about 300 to 500 gallons this year. North Bridgewater, Vermont

Hired man, young neighbor (Julia Fletcher), collie dog, and Frank H. S...

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Card game in lobby of thirty-five cents hotel a night hotel. Dubuque, Iowa

Card game in lobby of thirty-five cents hotel a night hotel. Dubuque, ...

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

Buckets hanging on spouts to catch the sap from maple sugar trees from which is made maple syrup. On Frank H. Shurtleff place. The Shurtleff farm has about 400 acres, and was originally purchased by grandfather in 1840. He raises sheep, cows, cuts lumber and has been making maple syrup for about thirty-five years. Sugaring brings in about one thousand dollars annually. Because of the deep snow this year he only tapped 1000 of his 2000 trees. He expects to make about 300 to 500 gallons this year. North Bridgewater, Vermont

Buckets hanging on spouts to catch the sap from maple sugar trees from...

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The driver is Sam Cooper, the leader of a crew of thirty-five Florida migratory agricultural workers. They have just finished picking potatoes near Belcross, North Carolina and he has found them another job at Onley, Virginia

The driver is Sam Cooper, the leader of a crew of thirty-five Florida ...

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

Madison, Wisconsin. Farm short course school at the University of Wisconsin. Lawrence A. Soulier, who studied for several years in the Flandreau Indian Vocational School in South Dakota, has a French father and a Chippewa Indian mother. The family lives in a wooded area about thirty-five miles from Ashland, Wisconsin and does no farming. His father at present is a construction worker on the Alaskan Highway

Madison, Wisconsin. Farm short course school at the University of Wisc...

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Frank H. Shurtleff drilling the hole for the spout while tapping sugar maple tree for gathering sap to make syrup. The Shurtleff farm has about 400 acres and was originally purchased by grandfather in 1840. He raises sheep, cows, cuts lumber and has been making maple syrup for about thirty-five years. Sugaring brings about one thousand dollars annually. Because of the deep snow this year he only tapped 1000 of his 2000 trees. He expects to make about 300 to 500 gallons this year. North Bridgewater, Vermont

Frank H. Shurtleff drilling the hole for the spout while tapping sugar...

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Klamath Basin potato farmer. He remembers when the first carload of potatoes left this valley in 1910. In 1934 he lost thirty-five hundred dollars on forty-eight acres of potatoes. His present acreage is eleven acres in potatoes, the rest in hay and soil-building crops. Has eleven milking cows. "I'm gonna eat." Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California

Klamath Basin potato farmer. He remembers when the first carload of po...

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

Belcross (vicinity), North Carolina. A girl sleeping in an old farmhouse which she shares with thirty-five other people

Belcross (vicinity), North Carolina. A girl sleeping in an old farmhou...

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Carl's Cafe (lunchroom tent) put up about three months ago. Plate lunch increased from twenty-five cents to thirty-five cents and dinners from thirty-five cents to fifty cents. Alexandria, Louisiana

Carl's Cafe (lunchroom tent) put up about three months ago. Plate lunc...

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Bringing in maple sap to the sugar house. Frank H. Shurtleff farm, North Bridgewater, Vermont. He has a 400 acre farm originally purchased by his grandfather in 1840. He raises sheep, cows, cuts lumber. He has been making maple syrup for about thirty-five years, and "sugaring" usually brings in about one thousand dollars annually. Because of the deep snow, this year he only tapped 1000 trees, instead of 2000. He expects to make about 300 to 500 gallons this year

Bringing in maple sap to the sugar house. Frank H. Shurtleff farm, Nor...

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

Pipe line, through which sap runs to sugar house. The sap from sugar maple trees is piped into the house where it is boiled down into maple syrup. Mad River Valley, Waitsfield, Vermont. Walter Gaylord place. He averages about 150 gallons of syrup annually, but this year tapped only 600 out of his 1000 trees, becaue of unusually deep snow and late spring. He owns several farms; in this particular unit there are eighty acres. It has been in family for three generations. Has about thirty-five or forty head of cattle, raises poultry and potatoes

Pipe line, through which sap runs to sugar house. The sap from sugar m...

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Verona, Wisconsin. Loren Mead, sixteen, from Soyer County, Wisconsin, was placed on the Fleming farm after completing the farm short course at the University of Wisconsin and can do only light work for which he gets thirty-five dollars per month. He comes from a 160-acre farm which is nearly all woodland. His father works in a sawmill. He has three younger brothers and two sisters

Verona, Wisconsin. Loren Mead, sixteen, from Soyer County, Wisconsin, ...

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At the Danube ports in Romania little men carry huge trunks on their backs and have never been on strike Roumanians claim Roman ancestry and proudly speak of the good old days when Trajan built roads and aqueducts in their country. In Bucharest is the Roman Atheaneum ; With hard work and little play the peasant women age early. This woman looks fifty-five and is thirty-five.

At the Danube ports in Romania little men carry huge trunks on their b...

Photographs show scenes in Romania including: a porter carrying a large load from a boat on the Danube River, the Romanian Athenaeum concert hall, Bucharest, and two women wearing kerchiefs on their heads. Neg... More

Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico. Coachella Valley, California. "We come from all states and we can't make a dollar a day in the field no ways. Working in the field from seven in the morning till twelve noon we earn an average of thirty-five cents"

Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico. Co...

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

Bucket for gathering sap from maple sugar tree and stack of wood needed in boiling sap into syrup on Frank Shurtleff farm. The Shurtleff farm has about 400 acres, and was originally purchased by grandfather in 1840. He raises sheep, cows, cuts lumber and has been making maple syrup for about thirty-five years. Sugaring brings about one thousand dollars annually. Because of the deep snow this year he only tapped 1000 of his 2000 trees. He expects to make about 300 to 500 gallons this year. North Bridgewater, Vermont

Bucket for gathering sap from maple sugar tree and stack of wood neede...

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

Young neighbor (Julia Fletcher) of Frank H. Shurtleff resting while gathering sap from sugar trees for making maple syrup. Sugaring is a social event and is enjoyed by all the young people and children of the neighborhood. The Shurtleff farm has about 400 acres and was originally purchased by grandfather in 1840. He raises sheep, cows, cuts lumber and has been making maple syrup for about thirty-five years. Sugaring brings in about one thousand dollars annually. Because of the deep snow this year he only tapped 1000 of his 2000 trees. He expects to make about 300 to 500 gallons this year. North Bridgewater, Vermont

Young neighbor (Julia Fletcher) of Frank H. Shurtleff resting while ga...

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

Thirty-five migratory potato pickers live in this house near Belcross, North Carolina

Thirty-five migratory potato pickers live in this house near Belcross,...

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Fruit farmer and his wife, Placer County, California. He owns four hundred acres and has farmed this land for about thirty-five years. He started work in this section freighting ore out. Next he went into cattle raising and about twenty-five years ago into fruit. Last good year for him was ten years ago, but now there is no market for the variety of pears and plums he grows. He has a large loan from Federal Land Bank, he will probably not be able to pay out and will lose his farm

Fruit farmer and his wife, Placer County, California. He owns four hun...

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Hired man and son of Frank H. Shurtleff returning to sugar house with vat of maple sap to be boiled down into maple syrup. The Shurtleff farm has about 400 acres and was originally purchased by grandfather in 1840. He raises sheep, cows, cuts lumber and has been making maple syrup for about thirty-five years. Sugaring brings about one thousand dollars annually. Because of the deep snow this year he only tapped 1000 of his 2000 trees. He expects to make about 300 to 500 gallons this year. North Bridgewater, Vermont

Hired man and son of Frank H. Shurtleff returning to sugar house with ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a cart, carriage, wagon, chariot, 18th-19th century design, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a small cabin in the snow, Vermont. Farm Security Administration photogrpaph.

A black and white photo of a small cabin in the snow, Vermont. Farm Se...

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A man standing next to a tree in the snow, Vermont. Farm Security Administration photogrpaph.

A man standing next to a tree in the snow, Vermont. Farm Security Admi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of people, meeting, eating, drinking, food, beverage, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Daytona Beach, Florida. Bethune-Cookman College. This boy, who is a NYA (National Youth Administration) student, receives thirty-five cents an hour for chopping wood. By doing this he is able to pay his tuition fees

Daytona Beach, Florida. Bethune-Cookman College. This boy, who is a NY...

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.

Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Lunch hour in the women's locker at the yards of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Left to right: Bertha Carlotta, twenty-nine, a machinist testing axles; Anna Plecenik, twenty-four, a machinist's helper, working a drill press; Mary Stefanski, thirty-seven, a blacksmith's helper; Cecelia Wadkowski, thirty-five, a machinist operating a turret lathe; and Susan Topolosky, thirty-two, a machinist's helper operating a radial dial press

Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Lunch hour in the women's locker at the yards ...

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

Daytona Beach, Florida. Bethune-Cookman College. Students chopping and piling wood for thirty-five cents an hour

Daytona Beach, Florida. Bethune-Cookman College. Students chopping and...

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Spring pulpwood drive on the Brown Company timber holdings in Maine. Camp handy man is conveniently handy with the scissors; the nearest professional barber is thirty-five miles away

Spring pulpwood drive on the Brown Company timber holdings in Maine. C...

Walter Gaylord drilling hole in maple tree to get sap which is boiled down into maple syrup. Mud River Valley, Waitsfield, Vermont. He averages about 150 gallons of syrup annually, this year tapped only 600 out of his 1000 trees, because of unusually deep snow and late spring. He owns several farms; in this particular farm unit there are eightty acres. It has been in family three generations. Has about thirty-five to forty head of cattle; raises poultry and potatoes

Walter Gaylord drilling hole in maple tree to get sap which is boiled ...

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Ruby Hollingsworth, seven year old cotton picker. Works all day, early and late, in the hot sun. Picks about thirty-five pounds a day. Father, mother and several brothers and sisters pick. They get only five or six months of schooling. "It's not 'nuff," the father said. The children said "We'd ruther go to school." Address Box 18, R.F.D. Location: Denison, Texas.

Ruby Hollingsworth, seven year old cotton picker. Works all day, early...

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Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico. "We come from all states and we can't make a dollar in this field noways. Working from seven in the morning until twelve noon, we earn an average of thirty-five cents." California

Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico. "W...

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

The molten stream pouring from the thirty-five ton electric furnace is slag-waste material melted down during the process of refining. It is composed largely of limestone, which carries with it various other impurities in the metal. In the foreground is a huge ladle into which the molten steel will be poured after the slag has run off

The molten stream pouring from the thirty-five ton electric furnace is...

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A black and white photo of a man sitting on a horse drawn sleigh, Vermont. Farm Security Administration photogrpaph.

A black and white photo of a man sitting on a horse drawn sleigh, Verm...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania. Thirty-five ton electric arc melting furnace in operation. These furnaces convert scrap iron and steel into high quality steel alloys. This type of furnace gives much faster heating and permits the accurate temperature control so necessary in the processing of the high quality steels. The alloying elements are being added to the bath of molten steel

Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenri...

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. White-hot steel pours like water from a thirty-five ton electric furnace. The finest quality steels and alloys are produced in these furnaces, which allow much greater control of temperature than other conversion furnaces. The proportion of electric furnace steel is rising steadily, even though this process is the most expensive. The furnace is tiled for the pourings. The flying sparks indicate the fluidity of the steel

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. White-hot steel pours like water ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Hired man and Frank H. Shurtleff shovelling out sled with vat for gathering maple sap for making maple syrup. The Shurtleff farm has about 400 acres, and was originally purchased by grandfather in 1840. He raises sheep, cows, cuts lumber and has been syrup for about thirty-five years. Sugaring brings in about one thousand dollars annually. Because of the deep snow this year he only tapped 1000 of his 2000 trees. He expects to make about 300 to 500 gallons this year. North Bridgewater, Vermont

Hired man and Frank H. Shurtleff shovelling out sled with vat for gath...

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This workman's son is taking gingerbread out of kitchen stove which cost his father one hundred thirty-five dollars and he lives in a shack-house in the Mexican section of town because the father couldn't find anything better for the family. Corpus Christi, Texas

This workman's son is taking gingerbread out of kitchen stove which co...

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India in the war. Girl workers in a booming Bombay textile mill. Thirty-five percent of India's great cotton textiles production, amounting to some 5,000,000,000 yards a year, is going into war materials for India and United Nations

India in the war. Girl workers in a booming Bombay textile mill. Thirt...

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Daytona Beach, Florida. This boy, who is a NYA (National Youth Administration) student, receives thirty-five cents an hour for chopping wood. By doing this he is able to pay his tuition fees

Daytona Beach, Florida. This boy, who is a NYA (National Youth Adminis...

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.

Student nurse, Frances Bullock adjusts an eye shield for a post-operative patient after the dressing has been changed. Thousands of additional young women between the ages of seventeen and thirty-five must be recruited this year to relieve the storage of graduate trained nurses

Student nurse, Frances Bullock adjusts an eye shield for a post-operat...

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Hightstown, New Jersey. Homes under construction. Thirty-five of these homes are to be completed and ready for occupancy by July 15, 1936

Hightstown, New Jersey. Homes under construction. Thirty-five of these...

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Drought refugee's car on U.S. Highway 99 between Bakersfield and Famoso, California. Note: the photographer passed twenty-eight cars of this type (drought refugees) between Bakersfield and Famoso, thirty-five miles, between 9:00 and 9:45 in the morning

Drought refugee's car on U.S. Highway 99 between Bakersfield and Famos...

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Girl striker in kitchen of house occupied by thirty-five people. King Farm near Morrisville, Pennsylvania

Girl striker in kitchen of house occupied by thirty-five people. King ...

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Bedroom in house occupied by thirty-five to forty people at King's Farm near Morrisville, Pennsylvania

Bedroom in house occupied by thirty-five to forty people at King's Far...

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Walter Gaylord adjusting cover on bucket that catches the sap from sugar maple tree from which is made maple syrup. Mad River Valley, Waitsfield, Vermont. He averages about 150 gallons of syrup annually, this year tapped only 600 out of his 1000 trees because of unusually deep snow and late spring. He owns several farms; in this particular farm unit there are eighty acres. It has been in family three generations. Has about thirty-five to forty head of cattle; raises poultry and potatoes

Walter Gaylord adjusting cover on bucket that catches the sap from sug...

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

A black and white photo of a man carrying a bucket, Vermont. Farm Security Administration photogrpaph.

A black and white photo of a man carrying a bucket, Vermont. Farm Secu...

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Thirty-five migrants use this farmhouse as their home. Near Old Trap, North Carolina

Thirty-five migrants use this farmhouse as their home. Near Old Trap, ...

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Steel alloy manufacture. America builds for its Arsenals of Democracy. Workers ramming in the bottom of a new thirty-five ton electric melting furnace which two days later was placed in operation to produce steel alloys from scrap iron and steel. This plant is being expanded at record speed to keep up with the even increasing needs of the national defense production program. Allegheny Ludlum, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania

Steel alloy manufacture. America builds for its Arsenals of Democracy....

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Part of a crew of thirty-five migrants who come up in this truck and who stay in the farmhouse in background. It is Sunday and they are going into town for the day

Part of a crew of thirty-five migrants who come up in this truck and w...

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Southington, Connecticut. Southington's nine-hole country club golf course. Membership fee in the club is purposely low (thirty-five dollars a year) so that everyone who enjoys the game may have a chance to play

Southington, Connecticut. Southington's nine-hole country club golf co...

Picryl description: Public domain image of park architecture, palace, chateau, open space, 18th, and 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A man in a hat is cutting a tree, Vermont. Farm Security Administration photogrpaph.

A man in a hat is cutting a tree, Vermont. Farm Security Administratio...

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Two horses pulling a sleigh in the snow, Vermont. Farm Security Administration photogrpaph.

Two horses pulling a sleigh in the snow, Vermont. Farm Security Admini...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania. The huge carbon electrodes of the thirty-five ton electric melting furnaces used in converting scrap iron and steel into high quality alloy steels. A worker is adjusting the rings that guide the electrodes into the arc furnace. This is just one of the new furnaces under construction at this plant to meet the expanding need for alloy steels under the emergency created by the national defenseproduction program

Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenri...

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Stone on which cooking is done for a crew of thirty-five Florida migrants. Old Trap, North Carolina

Stone on which cooking is done for a crew of thirty-five Florida migra...

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A black and white photo of two people on skis, Vermont. Farm Security Administration photogrpaph.

A black and white photo of two people on skis, Vermont. Farm Security ...

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Repairing tire of a truck carrying thirty-five migratory agricultural workers from North Carolina to pick beans near Easton, Maryland

Repairing tire of a truck carrying thirty-five migratory agricultural ...

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. This is a four-high hot rolling mill, which reduces hot steel into ribbons about thirty-five inches wide, to be used either in coils or cut lengths. The steel enters the first of these electrically driven rollers at a thickness of about six inches and emerges, three times as fast, from the fourth only about two inches thick

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. This is a four-high hot rolling m...

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Men of Walter Gaylord place connecting pipe line from the vat through which will run the sap from sugar maple trees. The line leadds to the sugar house where sap is boiled down into maple syrup. Mad River Valley, Waitsfield, Vermont. Gaylord averages about 150 gallons of syrup annually but this year tapped only 600 out of his 1000 trees, because of unusually deep snow and late spring. He owns several farms; in this particular farm unit there are eighty acres. It has been in family three generations. Has about thirty-five or forty head of cattle, raises poultry and potatoes

Men of Walter Gaylord place connecting pipe line from the vat through ...

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Southington, Connecticut. Southington's nine-hole country club golf course. Membership fee in the club is purposely low (thirty-five dollars a year) so that everyone who enjoys the game may have a chance to play

Southington, Connecticut. Southington's nine-hole country club golf co...

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Spring pulpwood drive on the Brown Company timber holdings in Maine. Camp handy man is conveniently handy with the scissors; the nearest professional barber is thirty-five miles away

Spring pulpwood drive on the Brown Company timber holdings in Maine. C...

Young son of Frank H. Shurtleff gathering sap from sugar trees for making maple syrup. Sugaring is a social event and is enjoyed by all the young people and children in the neighborhood. The Shurtleff farm has about 400 acres and was originally purchased by grandfather in 1840. He raises sheep, cows, cuts timber and has been making maple syrup for the last thirty-five years. Sugaring brings in about one thousand dollars annually. Because of the deep snow this year he only tapped 1000 of his 2000 trees. He expects to make about 300 to 500 gallons this year. North Bridgewater, Vermont

Young son of Frank H. Shurtleff gathering sap from sugar trees for mak...

Photo shows Irving Thomas Shurtleff, age 10, gathering sap from sugar trees, as identified by daughter Brenda Shurtleff, 2006.

Frank H. Shurtleff drilling the hole for the spout while tapping sugar maple tree for gathering sap to make syrup. The Shurtleff farm has about 400 acres and was originally purchased by grandfather in 1840. He raises sheep, cows, cuts lumber and has been making maple syrup for about thirty-five years. Sugaring brings about one thousand dollars annually. Because of the deep snow this year he only tapped 1000 of his 2000 trees. He expects to make about 300 to 500 gallons this year. North Bridgewater, Vermont

Frank H. Shurtleff drilling the hole for the spout while tapping sugar...

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Elbert Hollingsworth, ten year old cotton picker. Picks 125 pounds a day. Also Ruby Hollingsworth, seven year old cotton picker. Works all day, early and late, in the hot sun. Picks about thirty-five pounds a day. Father, mother, and several brothers and sisters pick. They get only five or six months of schooling. "It's not 'nuff," the father said. The children said "We'd ruther go to school." Address Box 18, R.F.D. Location: Denison, Texas.

Elbert Hollingsworth, ten year old cotton picker. Picks 125 pounds a d...

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Eleanor, West Virginia. Four-room houses occupied by workers at the Plymouth mines, five miles east of the Red House Farms project, on highway number thirty-five. New York Central Railroad water is carried from a well across the railroad tracks

Eleanor, West Virginia. Four-room houses occupied by workers at the Pl...

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Mumby Lumber Mill, closed in 1938 after thirty-five years operation. Now being dismantled. Western Washington, Grays Harbor County, Malone, Washington

Mumby Lumber Mill, closed in 1938 after thirty-five years operation. N...

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Basque sheep herder leading pack train down from summer camp in Bear Valley. Trip takes thirty-five days going up, twenty days coming down. Adams County, Idaho

Basque sheep herder leading pack train down from summer camp in Bear V...

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Woodpiles along the street are a characteristic of Portland, Oregon. Costs five dollars and fifty cents per cord, and must be hauled thirty-five miles. (Shows homeowner on porch.) Portland, Oregon

Woodpiles along the street are a characteristic of Portland, Oregon. C...

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Mr. Ellis and Miss Christian making farm and home plans with Mr. & Mrs. E.H. Wise, RR (Rural Rehabilitation) family. There are six members in this family; their monthly food check is eight dollars. Total farm and home operating expenses for year is four hundred thirty-five dollars and ninety-five cents (435.95). They have about forty-two hens and take care of part of family expenses by selling eggs, chickens and other farm produce. Coffee County, Alabama

Mr. Ellis and Miss Christian making farm and home plans with Mr. & Mrs...

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Belcross (vicinity), North Carolina. Migratory farm workers sleeping in a house where thirty-five persons are housed

Belcross (vicinity), North Carolina. Migratory farm workers sleeping i...

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A black and white photo of a man carrying a bucket, Vermont. Farm Security Administration photogrpaph.

A black and white photo of a man carrying a bucket, Vermont. Farm Secu...

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A couple of men standing next to a pile of snow, Vermont. Farm Security Administration photogrpaph.

A couple of men standing next to a pile of snow, Vermont. Farm Securit...

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Hired man on Frank H. Shurtleff farm gathering sap from sugar trees for making maple syrup. Sugaring is a social event and is enjoyed by all the young people in the neighborhood. The Shurtleff farm has about 400 acres, and was originally purchased by grandfather in 1840. He raises sheep, cuts lumber and has been making maple syrup for about thirty-five years. Sugaring brings in about one thousand dollars annually. Because of the deep snow this year he tapped only 100 of his 2000 trees. He expects to make about 300 to 500 gallons this year. North Bridgewater, Vermont

Hired man on Frank H. Shurtleff farm gathering sap from sugar trees fo...

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The hired man on Frank H. Shurtleff farm gathering maple sap from sugar maple trees to make syrup. The Shurtleff farm has about 400 acres and was originally purchased by grandfather in 1840. He raises sheep, cows, cuts lumber and has been making maple syrup for about thirty-five years. Sugaring brings in about one thousand dollars annually. Because of the deep snow this year he only tapped 1000 of his 2000 trees. He expects to make about 300 to 500 gallons this year. North Bridgewater, Vermont

The hired man on Frank H. Shurtleff farm gathering maple sap from suga...

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A couple of men standing next to each other in the snow, Vermont. Farm Security Administration photogrpaph.

A couple of men standing next to each other in the snow, Vermont. Farm...

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Shenandoah Valley. Paul Fletcher's tiny factory in Harrisburg, which turns out fifteen bottle washing machines a year, selling at thirty-five hundred dollars a piece. This was an invention of Mr. Fletcher's under the spur of necessity

Shenandoah Valley. Paul Fletcher's tiny factory in Harrisburg, which t...

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Houses at 3677 Jackdaw Street. Rent has been increased from twenty-eight dollars per month to fifty dollars for house in front and twelve to thirty-five dollars for house in rear. San Diego, California

Houses at 3677 Jackdaw Street. Rent has been increased from twenty-eig...

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War nursery schools. Providence, Rhode Island. Mothers who work in war plants call for their children at a war nursery in the Chalkstone Avenue School in Providence. This Chalkstone Avenue war nursery is one of thirty-five in Rhode Island for pre-school children whose mothers are employed in war work

War nursery schools. Providence, Rhode Island. Mothers who work in war...

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Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas. A family of six alongside the road. An example of how they fall between the relief agencies. The father, aged thirty-five, is an intelligent fellow, a painter by trade. Advanced tuberculosis, victim of an occupational disease. Ineligible for WPA (Works Progress Administration), rated as totally disabled. As a state charge under Oklahoma relief standards, the family were told the maximum relief would be seven dollars every two weeks. They lost their home, their furniture, took to the road a year ago and when the photographs were made they were found to be without money, shelter, and without food for the four children

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

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Hightstown, New Jersey. Home under construction. Thirty-five of these homes to be completed and ready for occupancy by July 15, 1936

Hightstown, New Jersey. Home under construction. Thirty-five of these ...

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Woodpiles along the street are a characteristic of Portland, Oregon. Costs five dollars and fifty cents per cord, and must now be hauled thirty-five miles. Portland, Oregon

Woodpiles along the street are a characteristic of Portland, Oregon. C...

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A.E. Blum, proprietor of thirty-five cents a night hotel. Dubuque, Iowa

A.E. Blum, proprietor of thirty-five cents a night hotel. Dubuque, Iow...

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Frank H. Shurtleff hanging the bucket on the spout while tapping sugar maple tree for gathering sap to make syrup. The Shurtleff farm has about 400 acres and was originally purchased by grandfather in 1840. He raises sheep, cows, cuts lumber and has been making maple syrup for about thirty-five years. Sugaring brings about one thousand dollars annually. Because of the deep snow this year he only tapped 1000 of his 2000 trees. He expects to make about 300 to 500 gallons this year. North Bridgewater, Vermont

Frank H. Shurtleff hanging the bucket on the spout while tapping sugar...

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