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Negro slum area between D and C Streets off 1st Street, S.W. Washington, D.C. Most houses have five small rooms renting for twenty dollars and fifty cents a month, with rear wood kitchen shed, cold water, outdoor privy

Negro slum area between D and C Streets off 1st Street, S.W. Washingto...

Public domain photograph of life in the USA during the 1930s-1940s, war, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Migratory family from Louisiana, been in California eighteen months now on Works Progress Administration (WPA), receives fifty-five dollars a month. No house available in nearest town under twenty dollars a month

Migratory family from Louisiana, been in California eighteen months no...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military vehicle, automobile, tractor truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Frank Robbins of Wareham, Massachusetts, employed at United Aircraft, East Hartford, Connecticut, lives in trailer near plant, with wife and four children because of housing shortage. He works nights, so he can sleep days in a bed used at night by the children. He makes forty dollars a week, his trailer payment is twenty dollars per month, and twelve dollars rent for the campsite

Frank Robbins of Wareham, Massachusetts, employed at United Aircraft, ...

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

Columbus, Georgia. Metal shelters and tents of Army men and construction workers in backyard of W.T. Mullis, who owns home and property and has grocery store on main highway about three miles from Fort Benning. For the shelters they pay ten dollars a month. For trailer or tent space two dollars a week. Mrs. R.M. Davis, whose husband is a First Sergeant at Fort Benning, now occupying metal shelter, used to live in hallway space in local home nearby and paid twenty dollars a month and had to furnish own bed. Her neighbor said "I hope these real estate men and people in Columbus who are charging so much and stealing from the poor people have to sit in their empty homes and shacks and starve when the defense program is over and finished."

Columbus, Georgia. Metal shelters and tents of Army men and constructi...

Public domain photograph of 3d object museum collection, metal, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

East Hartford, Connecticut. Frank Robbins of Wareham, Massachusetts, employed at the United Aircraft plant, lives in trailer near the plant, with his wife and four children, because of the housing shortage. He works nights, so he can sleep during the day in a bed used at night by two of the children. He makes forty dollars a week, his trailer payment is twenty dollars per month and his rent for the campsite is twelve dollars

East Hartford, Connecticut. Frank Robbins of Wareham, Massachusetts, e...

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

Twenty dollars. This bill entitles the bearer to receive twenty Spanish milled dollars or the value thereof in gold or silver, according to a resolution passed by congress at Philadelphia, Sept. 26th, 1778

Twenty dollars. This bill entitles the bearer to receive twenty Spanis...

Picryl description: Public domain image of banknote, paper money, numismatic catalog, free to use, no copyright restrictions

The Hermiston, Oregon post office sends out eight thousand money orders monthly now that the defense boom is at its height; money orders average twenty dollars each. Postmaster said "They are mostly going back home to pay bills, to finance companies, banks, for household equipment, trailers and cars."

The Hermiston, Oregon post office sends out eight thousand money order...

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 on "Scratch Hill," outside Atoka, Oklahoma. "I was offered twenty dollars for that house. I pay six dollars rent a year, and have some chickens and a garden"

Home on "Scratch Hill," outside Atoka, Oklahoma. "I was offered twenty...

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

Hay costing twenty dollars a ton being unloaded to feed stock. East of Dickinson, North Dakota

Hay costing twenty dollars a ton being unloaded to feed stock. East of...

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

Three boys from Los Angeles who are looking for work. San Diego, California. A friend told them that they could make twenty dollars a week as laborers and they plan to save some money to go to school in hopes of getting in an airplane factory

Three boys from Los Angeles who are looking for work. San Diego, Calif...

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

Negro slum area between D and C Streets off 1st Street, S.W. Washington, D.C. Most houses have five small rooms renting for twenty dollars and fifty cents a month, with rear wood kitchen shed, cold water, outdoor privy

Negro slum area between D and C Streets off 1st Street, S.W. Washingto...

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

Migratory family from Louisiana, been in California eighteen months now on Works Progress Administration (WPA), receives fifty-five dollars a month. No house available in nearest town under twenty dollars a month

Migratory family from Louisiana, been in California eighteen months no...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a great depression era, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

East Hartford, Connecticut. Frank Robbins of Wareham, Massachusetts, employed at the United Aircraft plant, lives in trailer near the plant, with his wife and four children, because of the housing shortage. He works nights, so he can sleep during the day in a bed used at night by two of the children. He makes forty dollars a week, his trailer payment is twenty dollars per month and his rent for the campsite is twelve dollars

East Hartford, Connecticut. Frank Robbins of Wareham, Massachusetts, 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

Frank Robbins of Wareham, Massachusetts, employed at United Aircraft, East Hartford, Connecticut, lives in trailer near plant, with wife and four children because of housing shortage. He works nights, so he can sleep days in a bed used at night by the children. He makes forty dollars a week, his trailer payment is twenty dollars per month, and twelve dollars rent for the campsite

Frank Robbins of Wareham, Massachusetts, employed at United Aircraft, ...

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

Cashier receiving rent from Joseph Griswold, who has a three-room apartment at the Ida B. Wells Housing Project, Chicago, Illinois. This rent is twenty dollars a month

Cashier receiving rent from Joseph Griswold, who has a three-room apar...

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

Frank Robbins of Wareham, Massachusetts, employed at United Aircraft, East Hartford, Connecticut, lives in trailer near the plant, with wife and four children because of housing shortage. He works nights, so he can sleep days in a bed used at night by two of the children. He makes forty dollars a week, his trailer payment is twenty dollars per month and twelve dollars rent for the campsite

Frank Robbins of Wareham, Massachusetts, employed at United Aircraft, ...

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

Twenty dollars. This bill entitles the bearer to receive twenty Spanish milled dollars or the value thereof in gold or silver, according to a resolution passed by congress at Philadelphia, Sept. 26th, 1778

Twenty dollars. This bill entitles the bearer to receive twenty Spanis...

Picryl description: Public domain image of banknote, paper money, numismatic catalog, free to use, no copyright restrictions

[4 stock certificates of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal company for five, ten and twenty dollars printed on 1 page] [Washington 183-].

[4 stock certificates of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal company for fiv...

Public domain illustrated book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hay costing twenty dollars a ton being unloaded to feed stock. East of Dickinson, North Dakota

Hay costing twenty dollars a ton being unloaded to feed stock. East of...

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

Three boys from Los Angeles who are looking for work. San Diego, California. A friend told them that they could make twenty dollars a week as laborers and they plan to save some money to go to school in hopes of getting in an airplane factory

Three boys from Los Angeles who are looking for work. San Diego, Calif...

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 on "Scratch Hill," outside Atoka, Oklahoma. "I was offered twenty dollars for that house. I pay six dollars rent a year, and have some chickens and a garden"

Home on "Scratch Hill," outside Atoka, Oklahoma. "I was offered twenty...

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

Negro slum area between D and C Streets off 1st Street, S.W. Washington, D.C. Most houses have five small rooms renting for twenty dollars and fifty cents a month, with rear wood kitchen shed, cold water, outdoor privy

Negro slum area between D and C Streets off 1st Street, S.W. Washingto...

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

Migratory family from Louisiana, been in California eighteen months now on Works Progress Administration (WPA), receives fifty-five dollars a month. No house available in nearest town under twenty dollars a month

Migratory family from Louisiana, been in California eighteen months no...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Interior of one of the group labor homes built by FSA (Farm Security Administration) in New Madrid County, Missouri for agricultural day labor. This house cost about seven hundred twenty dollars

Interior of one of the group labor homes built by FSA (Farm Security A...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information ... More

Negro slum area between D and C Streets off 1st Street, S.W. Washington, D.C. Most houses have five small rooms renting for twenty dollars and fifty cents a month, with rear wood kitchen shed, cold water, outdoor privy

Negro slum area between D and C Streets off 1st Street, S.W. Washingto...

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

Frank Robbins of Wareham, Massachusetts, employed at United Aircraft, East Hartford, Connecticut, lives in trailer near the plant, with wife and four children because of housing shortage. He works nights, so he can sleep days in a bed used at night by two of the children. He makes forty dollars a week, his trailer payment is twenty dollars per month and twelve dollars rent for the campsite

Frank Robbins of Wareham, Massachusetts, employed at United Aircraft, ...

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

[4 stock certificates of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal company for five, ten and twenty dollars printed on 1 page] [Washington 183-].

[4 stock certificates of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal company for fiv...

Public domain illustrated book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Twenty dollars. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Twenty dollars. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Verso of a twenty dollar bill with a picture of a leaf. Illus. in: Rare Book Division - Colonial Currency Collection. Ref. copy may be in LOT 4412. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

"Twenty dollars, this bill entitles the bearer to receive twenty spanish milled dollars ... Sept. 26, 1778"

"Twenty dollars, this bill entitles the bearer to receive twenty spani...

This certifies that blank having paid to the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church the sum of twenty dollars is thereby constituted a member during life conformably to the seventh article of the constitution. New York blank 183blank. Blank Chairman Blank Clerk

This certifies that blank having paid to the Missionary Society of the...

Alternate title showing the name of the member, the chairman, and the clerk, as well as the date inscribed in ink represents the Library's copy. Attributed to artist Benjamin H. Day, Jr. in "Currier & Ives : a... More

Negro slum area between D and C Streets off 1st Street, S.W. Washington, D.C. Most houses have five small rooms renting for twenty dollars and fifty cents a month, with rear wood kitchen shed, cold water, outdoor privy

Negro slum area between D and C Streets off 1st Street, S.W. Washingto...

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

The Hermiston, Oregon post office sends out eight thousand money orders monthly now that the defense boom is at its height; money orders average twenty dollars each. Postmaster said "They are mostly going back home to pay bills, to finance companies, banks, for household equipment, trailers and cars."

The Hermiston, Oregon post office sends out eight thousand money order...

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

Negro slum area between D and C Streets off 1st Street, S.W. Washington, D.C. Most houses have five small rooms renting for twenty dollars and fifty cents a month, with rear wood kitchen shed, cold water, outdoor privy

Negro slum area between D and C Streets off 1st Street, S.W. Washingto...

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