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Children of white migrants from west Texas sitting on mattresses just unloaded from trailer. Harlingen, Texas

Children of white migrants from west Texas sitting on mattresses just ...

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

Desert plants in West Texas - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Desert plants in West Texas - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Dust bowl farmers of west Texas in town

Dust bowl farmers of west Texas in town

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

Carol M. Highsmith - Cowboys relax in west Texas

Carol M. Highsmith - Cowboys relax in west Texas

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Large metal chicken, a curiously favorite outdoor decoration in many parts of West Texas. This one stands in little Fabens, near El Paso, Texas

Large metal chicken, a curiously favorite outdoor decoration in many p...

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

Colorful "pumpjack," a type of small oil pump that's a common sight in West Texas, along U.S. 83 near the town of Winters in Runnels County, Texas

Colorful "pumpjack," a type of small oil pump that's a common sight in...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. A pumpjack (also called donkey pumper, nodding donkey, pumping unit, horsehead pump, rocking horse, beam pump, dinosaur, sucker rod p... More

Boy riding freight. West Texas. Great Depression public domain photograph.

Boy riding freight. West Texas. Great Depression public domain photogr...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A couple of men sitting on top of a pile of luggage, Texas, during Great Depression

A couple of men sitting on top of a pile of luggage, Texas, during Gre...

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

Twelve year old Selina Wall working at spooling in the Brazos [?] Valley Cotton Mill, West Texas. Their family Record says she was born, March 23, 1901. Her mother said: "She's just taking the place of her sister fifteen years old. Selina could earn a dollar a day. She was raised up in a cotton mill over in Belton, but she has to stay home and do the cookin." The mother and the fifteen year old girl work regularly in the mill. Several older boys work. Selina keeps house. Nine in the family.  Location: West, Texas.

Twelve year old Selina Wall working at spooling in the Brazos [?] Vall...

Picryl description: Public domain image of girl workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Couple dancing the polka at a dance during the San Angelo Fat Stock Show. San Angelo, Texas. The Fat Stock Show is not only attended by the cattlemen but also by their entire families and is an important social occasion in West Texas. The younger members in the families who are attending school in Dallas or Austin or College Station take a holiday to come to the show

Couple dancing the polka at a dance during the San Angelo Fat Stock Sh...

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

Mr. Keele, merchant and president of the Farm Bureau. Pie Town, New Mexico. Mr. Keele was a merchant in West Texas, went broke during the dust storm years, and came to Pie Town and went into partnership with Mr. Craig in the general store

Mr. Keele, merchant and president of the Farm Bureau. Pie Town, New Me...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Dust bowl farmers of west Texas in town

Dust bowl farmers of west Texas in town

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

Sign at laundry, Brownwood, Texas. Most towns in west Texas have hard gypsum water

Sign at laundry, Brownwood, Texas. Most towns in west Texas have hard ...

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

Dust bowl farmers of west Texas in town

Dust bowl farmers of west Texas in town

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

Twelve year old Selina Wall working at spooling in the Brazos [?] Valley Cotton Mill, West Texas. Their family Record says she was born, March 23, 1901. Her mother said: "She's just taking the place of her sister fifteen years old. Selina could earn a dollar a day. She was raised up in a cotton mill over in Belton, but she has to stay home and do the cookin." The mother and the fifteen year old girl work regularly in the mill. Several older boys work. Selina keeps house. Nine in the family.  Location: West, Texas.

Twelve year old Selina Wall working at spooling in the Brazos [?] Vall...

Picryl description: Public domain image of girl workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

West Texas parading his horse before the judges and spectators at the San Angelo Fat Stock Show, San Angelo, Texas

West Texas parading his horse before the judges and spectators at the ...

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

Mexican migrant housing. Edcouch, Texas. These units are owned by a labor contractor who rents them for a nominal sum to his group of workers. They remain in the lower valley working in the vegetable and citrus fields for about nine months of the year. The contractor takes them in trucks to west Texas for cotton picking. The Mexicans have in some cases gone into Mississippi and Louisiana for the cotton picking

Mexican migrant housing. Edcouch, Texas. These units are owned by a la...

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

West Texas parading his horse before the judges and spectators at the San Angelo Fat Stock Show, San Angelo, Texas

West Texas parading his horse before the judges and spectators at the ...

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

The Hi Way Cafe in little Valentine in Jeff Davis County, west Texas

The Hi Way Cafe in little Valentine in Jeff Davis County, west Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

West Texas "family farm." On edge of the Dust Bowl

West Texas "family farm." On edge of the Dust Bowl

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

The Big Texan Steak Ranch in Amarillo in the Texas Panhandle is more than a restaurant. It's a tourist attraction. Billboards throughout West Texas tout its "free" 72-ounce steaks. But there's a catch. To truly enjoy the hunk of meat, the size of a small roast, for free, the diner must finish the steak and several trimmings, including bread and dessert, in an hour. Hundreds of people have done it; amazingly, most have been women or slightly built men. Thousands have tried, failed, and paid for the meal

The Big Texan Steak Ranch in Amarillo in the Texas Panhandle is more t...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Desert plants in West Texas - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Desert plants in West Texas - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Dust bowl farmers of west Texas in town

Dust bowl farmers of west Texas in town

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

Children of white migrants from west Texas sitting on mattresses just unloaded from trailer. Harlingen, Texas

Children of white migrants from west Texas sitting on mattresses just ...

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

Mexican migrant housing. Edcouch, Texas. These units are owned by a labor contractor who rents them for a nominal sum to his group of workers. They remain in the lower valley working in the vegetable and citrus fields for about nine months of the year. The contractor takes them in trucks to west Texas for cotton picking. The Mexicans have in some cases gone into Mississippi and Louisiana for the cotton picking

Mexican migrant housing. Edcouch, Texas. These units are owned by a la...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A black and white photo of a woman serving food. Pie Town, New Mexico. Farm Security Administartion photograph.

A black and white photo of a woman serving food. Pie Town, New Mexico....

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

Mexican migrant housing. Edcouch, Texas. These units are owned by a labor contractor who rents them for a nominal sum to his group of workers. They remain in the lower valley working in the vegetable and citrus fields for about nine months of the year. The contractor takes them in trucks to west Texas for cotton picking. The Mexicans have in some cases gone into Mississippi and Louisiana for the cotton picking

Mexican migrant housing. Edcouch, Texas. These units are owned by a la...

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

Ring of people watching the judging of horses at the San Angelo Fat Stock Show. San Angelo, Texas. Many polo ponies are bred and raised in West Texas

Ring of people watching the judging of horses at the San Angelo Fat St...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A pitched-metal-roof structure, common in rural West Texas, north of Alpine

A pitched-metal-roof structure, common in rural West Texas, north of A...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Dust bowl farmers of west Texas in town

Dust bowl farmers of west Texas in town

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A couple of people sitting on top of a pile of luggage Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information photo.

A couple of people sitting on top of a pile of luggage Farm Security A...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

Couple sitting out a dance at a dance during the San Angelo Stock Show. San Angelo, Texas. The stock show is an important social occasion in west Texas

Couple sitting out a dance at a dance during the San Angelo Stock Show...

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

Eastbound freight train approaches Sierra Blanca, now virtually a ghost town in Hudspeth County, west Texas

Eastbound freight train approaches Sierra Blanca, now virtually a ghos...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

A black and white photo of a man in a kitchen. Pie Town, New Mexico. Farm Security Administartion photograph.

A black and white photo of a man in a kitchen. Pie Town, New Mexico. F...

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

Harrowing. West Texas. Farm Security Administartion 1930s public domain photo.

Harrowing. West Texas. Farm Security Administartion 1930s public domai...

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

Couple dancing the polka at a dance during the San Angelo Fat Stock Show. San Angelo, Texas. The Fat Stock Show is not only attended by the cattlemen but also by their entire families and is an important social occasion in West Texas. The younger members in the families who are attending school in Dallas or Austin or College Station take a holiday to come to the show

Couple dancing the polka at a dance during the San Angelo Fat Stock Sh...

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

Distant view of two facilities at the McDonald Observatory on Mount Locke, above the city of Fort Davis in the Davis Mountains of West Texas

Distant view of two facilities at the McDonald Observatory on Mount Lo...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The observatory is now controlled by the University of Texas at Austin. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in... More

Texas delegation at W.H. to invite Coolidge to West Texas C. of C. meeting, 2425

Texas delegation at W.H. to invite Coolidge to West Texas C. of C. mee...

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve for LC-F... More

Mrs. Leatherman, homesteader from West Texas taking up chicken and dressing at dinner during the all day community sing. Pie Town, New Mexico

Mrs. Leatherman, homesteader from West Texas taking up chicken and dre...

Picryl description: Public domain image of 1930s woman, female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Dust bowl farmers of west Texas in town

Dust bowl farmers of west Texas in town

Picryl description: Public domain image of a gas station, convenience store, 20th-century small town, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

White migrant and his wife in trailer home near Sebastian, Texas. He is from west Texas and she from Virginia. These migrants around Sebastin expressed a fear of regimentation under various governmental projects, saying that they had heard that under FSA (Farm Security Administration) all food bought and eaten was prescribed by the government

White migrant and his wife in trailer home near Sebastian, Texas. He i...

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

Sign at laundry, Brownwood, Texas. Most towns in west Texas have hard gypsum water

Sign at laundry, Brownwood, Texas. Most towns in west Texas have hard ...

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

Mexican migrant housing. Edcouch, Texas. These units are owned by a labor contractor who rents them for a nominal sum to his group of workers. They remain in the lower valley working in the vegetable and citrus fields for about nine months of the year. The contractor takes them in trucks to west Texas for cotton picking. The Mexicans have in some cases gone into Mississippi and Louisiana for the cotton picking

Mexican migrant housing. Edcouch, Texas. These units are owned by a la...

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

Highway leading into Junction, Texas, which is in the center of the goat and sheep raising country of west Texas

Highway leading into Junction, Texas, which is in the center of the go...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Electronic surrogate made from item with the same number in the LC-USF34 series. Transfer; United States... More