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Barn and machine shed of G.H. West, owner-operator of three hundred twenty acres near Estherville, Iowa. He does a great deal of thoroughbred cattle breeding

Barn and machine shed of G.H. West, owner-operator of three hundred tw...

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

Home of rural rehabilitation client, Tulare County, California. They bought twenty acres of raw unimproved land with a first payment of fifty dollars which was money saved out of relief budget (August 1936). They received a Farm Security Administration (FSA) loan of seven hundred dollars for stock and equipment. Now they have a one-room shack, seven cows, three sows, and homemade pumping plant, along with ten acres of improved permanent pasture. Cream check approximately thirty dollars per month. Husband also works about ten days a month outside the farm. Husband is twenty-six years old, wife twenty-two, three small children. Been in California five years. "Piece by piece this place gets put together. One more piece of pipe and our water tank will be finished."

Home of rural rehabilitation client, Tulare County, California. They b...

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

House on William Keefe's owner-operated farm near Boswell, Benton County, Indiana. Three hundred twenty acres, heavily mortgaged. Note rotting roof on the two porches

House on William Keefe's owner-operated farm near Boswell, Benton Coun...

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

Barn and silo on William Keefe's owner-operated farm near Boswell, Benton County, Indiana. Three hundred twenty acres, heavily mortgaged

Barn and silo on William Keefe's owner-operated farm near Boswell, Ben...

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

Family of Cajun farmer living near New Iberia, Louisiana. Mr. De Buis and wife have six children. They own twenty acres of ground on which there is a small, plainly furnished, but comfortable house. He is a young, enterprising farmer. He raises cane and some corn for feed. He has about 200 chickens, two cows and several hogs. He is very pessimistic over farm conditions, commenting "What we going to do if they keep on cutting us down?"

Family of Cajun farmer living near New Iberia, Louisiana. Mr. De Buis ...

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

Home of rural rehabilitation client, Tulare County, California. They bought twenty acres of raw unimproved land with a first payment of fifty dollars which was money saved out of relief budget (August 1936). They received a Farm Security Administration (FSA) loan of seven hundred dollars for stock and equipment. Now they have a one-room shack, seven cows, three sows, and homemade pumping plant, along with ten acres of improved permanent pasture. Cream check approximately thirty dollars per month. Husband also works about ten days a month outside the farm. Husband is twenty-six years old, wife twenty-two, three small children. Been in California five years. "Piece by piece this place gets put together. One more piece of pipe and our water tank will be finished."

Home of rural rehabilitation client, Tulare County, California. They b...

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

Negro sharecropper with twenty acres. He receives eight cents a day for hoeing cotton. Brazos riverbottoms, near Bryan, Texas. "Some of 'em don't get nothin'. They just make these niggers chop that cotton." Few leave the bottoms. "They ain't got nothin' to go on"

Negro sharecropper with twenty acres. He receives eight cents a day fo...

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

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

House on William Keefe's owner-operated farm near Boswell, Benton County, Indiana. Three hundred twenty acres, heavily mortgaged. Note rotting roof on the two porches

House on William Keefe's owner-operated farm near Boswell, Benton Coun...

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

Home of rural rehabilitation client. Tulare County, California. They bought twenty acres of raw unimproved land with a first payment of fifty dollars which was money saved out of relief budget (August 1936). They received a FSA (Farm Security Administration) loan of seven hundred dollars for stock and equipment. Now they have a one-room shack, seven cows, three sows, and homemade pumping plant, along with ten acres of improved permanent pasture. Cream check approximately thirty dollars a month. Husband also works about ten days a month on odd jobs outside the farm. Husband is twenty-six years old, wife twenty-two. Three small children. Been in California five years. "Piece by piece this place gets put together. One more piece of pipe and our water tank will be finished."

Home of rural rehabilitation client. Tulare County, California. They b...

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

Family of Cajun farmer living near New Iberia, Louisiana. Mr. De Buis and wife have six children. They own twenty acres of ground on which there is a small, plainly furnished, but comfortable house. He is a young, enterprising farmer. He raises cane and some corn for feed. He has about 200 chickens, two cows and several hogs. He is very pessimistic over farm conditions, commenting "What we going to do if they keep on cutting us down?"

Family of Cajun farmer living near New Iberia, Louisiana. Mr. De Buis ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty during the Great Depression, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Negro sharecropper with twenty acres. He receives eight cents a day for hoeing cotton. Brazos riverbottoms, near Bryan, Texas. "Some of 'em don't get nothin'. They just make these niggers chop that cotton." Few leave the bottoms. "They ain't got nothin' to go on"

Negro sharecropper with twenty acres. He receives eight cents a day fo...

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

Corn crib on William Keefe's owner-operated farm near Boswell, Benton County, Indiana. Three hundred twenty acres, heavily mortgaged

Corn crib on William Keefe's owner-operated farm near Boswell, Benton ...

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

Barn and machine shed of G.H. West, owner-operator of three hundred twenty acres near Estherville, Iowa. He does a great deal of thoroughbred cattle breeding

Barn and machine shed of G.H. West, owner-operator of three hundred tw...

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

Corn crib on William Keefe's owner-operated farm near Boswell, Benton County, Indiana. Three hundred twenty acres, heavily mortgaged

Corn crib on William Keefe's owner-operated farm near Boswell, Benton ...

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

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...

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