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Pennsylvania: An old black and white photo of a man and a woman. Great Depression

Pennsylvania: An old black and white photo of a man and a woman. Great...

Public domain photograph of Great Depression, farm, farmer, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a person laying on a bench, Georgia. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a person laying on a bench, Georgia. Farm S...

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

A group of women working in a factory, Florida. Farm Security Administration photograph

A group of women working in a factory, Florida. Farm Security Administ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

An old black and white photo of a man picking apples, Florida. Farm Security Administration photograph

An old black and white photo of a man picking apples, Florida. Farm Se...

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

Miners starting home after work. Part of coal tipple shown at left. West Virginia

Miners starting home after work. Part of coal tipple shown at left. We...

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

Farmers during Great Depression: A black and white photo of a man picking corn.

Farmers during Great Depression: A black and white photo of a man pick...

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 man standing next to a grill, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a man standing next to a grill, West Virgin...

Picryl description: Public domain image of industrial or agricultural worker, 1930s, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

Coal miner (Italian) resting and smoking his pipe after coming home from work. "The Patch," Chaplin, West Virginia

Coal miner (Italian) resting and smoking his pipe after coming home fr...

Picryl description: Public domain image of industrial or agricultural worker, 1930s, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

A couple of men standing on a train track, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A couple of men standing on a train track, West Virginia. Farm Securit...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of coal miners, workers, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Brawley, Imperial Valley. In Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp. Family of mother, father and eleven children, originally from near Mangrum, Oklahoma, where he had been tenant farmer. Came to California in 1936 after the drought. Since then has been traveling from crop to crop in California, following the harvest. Six of the eleven children attend school wherever the family stops long enough. Five older children work along with the father and mother. February 23, two of the family have been lucky and "got a place" (a day's work) in the peas on the Sinclair ranch. Father had earned about one dollar and seventy-three cents for ten-hour day. Oldest daughter had earned one dollar and twenty-five cents. Form these earnings had to provide their transportation to the fields twenty miles away. Mother wants to return to Oklahoma, father unwilling.She says, "I want to go back to where we can live happym live decent, and grow what we eat." He says, "We can't go the way I am now. We've got nothing in the world to farm with. I made my mistake when I came out here."

Brawley, Imperial Valley. In Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrat...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a tent, military, or refugee camp, temporary settlement, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a bunch of skis. War Poduction. Office of War Information.

A black and white photo of a bunch of skis. War Poduction. Office of W...

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

Migratory boy, aged eleven, and his grandmother work side by side picking hops. Started work at five a.m. Photograph made at noon. Temperature 105 degrees. Oregon, Polk County, near Independence. See general caption number 45

Migratory boy, aged eleven, and his grandmother work side by side pick...

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

Family of six in tent after supper. Came to potato harvest after father was laid off of WPA (Work Projects Administration) in Boise, Idaho. Oldest child is twelve. Little boy has dysentery. Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon. In FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile unit

Family of six in tent after supper. Came to potato harvest after fathe...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a child of a farmer, migrant worker, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Calipatria, Imperial Valley, In Farm Security Administration (FSA) emergency migratory labor camp. Daughter of ex-tenant farmers on thirds and fourths in cotton. Had fifty dollars when set out. Went to Phoenix, picked cotton, pulled bolls made eighty cents a day with two people pulling bolls. Stayed until school closed. Went to Idaho, picked peas until August. Left McCall with forty dollars "in hand." Went to Cedar City and Parowan, Utah, a distance of 700 miles. Picked peas through September. Went to Hollister, California. Picked peas through October. Left Hollister for Calipatria for early peas which froze. Now receiving Farm Security Administration food grant and waiting for work to begin. "Back in Oklahoma, we are sinking. You work your head off for a crop and then see it burn up. You live in debts that you can never get out of. This isn't a good life, but I say that it's a better life than it was."

Calipatria, Imperial Valley, In Farm Security Administration (FSA) eme...

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

Agriculture workers during Great Depression. A man wearing a hat and holding a pipe.

Agriculture workers during Great Depression. A man wearing a hat and h...

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

A man standing in a doorway of a building. Great Depression Era, New Mexico

A man standing in a doorway of a building. Great Depression Era, New M...

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

Alabama. Farmers during Great Depression. A black and white photo of two men digging in the dirt.

Alabama. Farmers during Great Depression. A black and white photo of t...

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

Alabama. Farmers during Great Depression. A black and white photo of two men digging.

Alabama. Farmers during Great Depression. A black and white photo of t...

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

Alabama. Farmers during Great Depression. A black and white photo of a man with a hammer.

Alabama. Farmers during Great Depression. A black and white photo of a...

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

Washington, D.C. Preparing the defense bond sales photomural to be installed in the Grand Central terminal, New York, in the photographic laboratory of the FSA (Farm Security Administration). Copying the exact scale paste-up to produce the negative for the final enlargements; this work was done in the laboratory of the United States Coast and Geodetic Society

Washington, D.C. Preparing the defense bond sales photomural to be ins...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Indian girls peddled charms, bead work and commercial Indian curios at the local Indian association sponsored Indian fair. Windsor Locks, Connecticut

Indian girls peddled charms, bead work and commercial Indian curios at...

Picryl description: Public domain image of ethnic group, people gathering, anthropology, colonies, exotic, indigenous people, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Day laborers to pick string beans are brought by truck from nearby towns. Some even come in their own cars from Philadelphia to work at Seabrook Farms. Bridgeton, New Jersey

Day laborers to pick string beans are brought by truck from nearby tow...

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

Employees reporting for work at the Phillips Packing Company. Cambridge, Maryland

Employees reporting for work at the Phillips Packing Company. Cambridg...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of a factory, warehouse, commercial or industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Detroit, Michigan. Jitterbug dancing as part of the entertainment at a scrap salvage rally sponsored by the Work Projects Adminstration (WPA) at the state fairgrounds

Detroit, Michigan. Jitterbug dancing as part of the entertainment at a...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a New Deal program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 as a response to the high unemployment during the Great Depression. The program put people t... More

Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by the Work Projects Administration (WPA) at the state fairgrounds

Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Richwood, West Virginia. Boys waiting at the station to board train for upper New York state to work in the harvest

Richwood, West Virginia. Boys waiting at the station to board train fo...

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

NYA (National Youth Administration) work center, Brooklyn, New York. Two bench workers, who are receiving training in machine shop practice, removing the burrs from a side piece for a metal pulley block

NYA (National Youth Administration) work center, Brooklyn, New York. T...

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

Training. Work Projects Administration (WPA) vocational school. The flame of the welder's torch is today's flame of freedom! At this WPA vocational training school in Washington, D.C., welding trainees keep their torches blazing day and night, preparing for jobs in war industries

Training. Work Projects Administration (WPA) vocational school. The fl...

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

Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California. Arriving for work

Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California. Arriving for work

Picryl description: Public domain image of a mine, mining, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a man in a store, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a man in a store, West Virginia. Farm Secur...

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

Vallejo, California. FSA (Farm Security Administration) defense housing project. Vernon DeMars, left, district architect and Garrett Eskbo district landscape architect for the FSA, work on the site model

Vallejo, California. FSA (Farm Security Administration) defense housin...

Public domain scan of architectural drawing, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Nurse training. A student nurse explains to diabetic patient how orange juice in her diet can limit sugar to the proper amount. In this type of work student nurses relieve graduate nurses for military duty

Nurse training. A student nurse explains to diabetic patient how orang...

Public domain photograph of nurses, hospital, medical care, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph of nurses, hospital, free to use, no copyright restriction... More

Burlington, Iowa. Sunnyside unit FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp. Sunday evening card game with neighbors in the trailer of the Heller family, who work at the Burlington ordnance plant

Burlington, Iowa. Sunnyside unit FSA (Farm Security Administration) tr...

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

Nurse training. Nurses as well as teachers are needed in the hospital schoolroom where convalescing youngsters keep up with their school work

Nurse training. Nurses as well as teachers are needed in the hospital ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman, nurse, caring, hospital, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Training. Work Projects Administration (WPA) vocational school. This small cabin plane is being completely overhauled by students in an airplane mechanics class at a WPA training school in the District of Columbia. The overhaul job includes replacing fabric on the fuselage, wings, and tail surfaces. When these students finish the course, they will be qualified for jobs as expert airplane maintenance men

Training. Work Projects Administration (WPA) vocational school. This s...

Public domain photograph of car garage, repair shop, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A group of men sitting on top of a wooden bench. Office of War Information Photograph

A group of men sitting on top of a wooden bench. Office of War Informa...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Nurse training. At the ping pong table in the game room, Susan Petty, student nurse, enjoys a bit of relaxation after a busy day's work in the wards

Nurse training. At the ping pong table in the game room, Susan Petty, ...

Public domain photograph of nurses, hospital, medical care, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

NYA (National Youth Administration) work center, Brooklyn, New York. Two welders, who are receiving training in machine shop practice, building up an undersize shaft by arc welding to be re-machined to size

NYA (National Youth Administration) work center, Brooklyn, New York. T...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by the Work Projects Administration (WPA) at the state fairgrounds

Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a New Deal program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 as a response to the high unemployment during the Great Depression. The program put people t... More

Training. Work Projects Administration (WPA) vocational school. Competent instructors and well-equipped shops make for a successful vocational training school. This experienced Negro machinist is teaching a young Negro trainee the intricacies of lathe operation. After completion of the course in the WPA vocational training school, the student will be qualified for a job in one of our great arsenals of democracy

Training. Work Projects Administration (WPA) vocational school. Compet...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a New Deal program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 as a response to the high unemployment during the Great Depression. The program put people t... More

Batavia, New York (vicinity). Elba FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm labor camp. West Virginia folks applying for work at the United States employment service

Batavia, New York (vicinity). Elba FSA (Farm Security Administration) ...

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

Training. Work Projects Administration (WPA) vocational school. This young lady is training to work on the assembly line of one of our great war plants. In preparation for this task, she devotes six nights a week to a WPA vocational training school where experienced instructors show her the technique of modern welding

Training. Work Projects Administration (WPA) vocational school. This y...

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

Batavia, New York. Elba FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm labor camp. An old man who has lived all of his life near Broadway, New York City, and who was taken off relief and sent to the Elba FSA camp to work in the harvest. He said, "There is so much suffering in the world today that mine doesn't seem so much and I'm doing my best to help bring in Uncle Sam's crops"

Batavia, New York. Elba FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm labor ...

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

Training. Work Projects Administration (WPA) vocational school. Well-equipped machine shops and competent teachers help make competent war workers at this WPAd vocational training school in Washington, D.C. A large percentage of the students of this school are absorbed by war industries immediately after completing the course

Training. Work Projects Administration (WPA) vocational school. Well-e...

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

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Learning to fight the Axis with an electric lathe. Mabel Carmen left her home in Mississippi to join the National Youth Administration (NYA) group at the naval air base in Corpus Christi, Texas. After receiving eight weeks training under Donald Bantert (right), Mabel will go to work under civil service as a machinist

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Learning to fight the Axis with...

Public domain photograph of a woman, female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chicago, Illinois. Brakeman going on the late afternoon shift, waiting to hop an engine to take him to his place of work in an Illinois Central Railraod yard

Chicago, Illinois. Brakeman going on the late afternoon shift, waiting...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Negroes speed war work for Tennessee Valley Authority. (left to right) Paul L. Imes, Samuel C. Watkins, and George W. Richardson are employed as laboratory technicians by TVA at its plant at Muscle Shoals. They are doing high-grade sub-professional work and are in training for professional positions

Negroes speed war work for Tennessee Valley Authority. (left to right)...

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

Nyssa, Oregon. Japanese-American mother and child at a baseball game. They were evacuated from a coastal area, volunteered to do farm work and now live at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp

Nyssa, Oregon. Japanese-American mother and child at a baseball game. ...

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

Women in industry. Gas mask production. Flower in hair, Betty Gumbetter adds glamour to the assembly line of a Midwest gas mask factory which formerly made vacuum cleaners. Operating a riveting press, which attaches cloth tabs to the face pieces of gas masks, this young worker is one of the many company employees who switched over from work on vacuums when the plant was converted. Betty likes her new job better than the old one. "It bears a lot more relationship to my American Women's Voluntary Services work," she says. Eureka Vacuum, Detroit, Michigan

Women in industry. Gas mask production. Flower in hair, Betty Gumbette...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory worker, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

Detroit, Michigan. Jitterbug dancing as part of the entertainment at a scrap salvage rally sponsored by the Work Projects Adminstration (WPA) at the state fairgrounds

Detroit, Michigan. Jitterbug dancing as part of the entertainment at a...

Public domain photograph of a crowd, event, meeting, demonstration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fuel oil conservation. An experienced serviceman checks the efficiency of the family heating plant. This man measures the draft, the amount of heat lost through the chimney, and the carbon dioxide content of the flue gases. His work resulted in cutting down fuel consumption more than nineteen per cent. All heating contractors and many coal and fuel-oil dealers are prepared to give this valuable service

Fuel oil conservation. An experienced serviceman checks the efficiency...

Picryl description: Public domain image of workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California. Arriving for work

Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California. Arriving for work

Public domain photograph of California industry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Arlington, Virginia. The main lounge in Idaho Hall, Arlington Farms, a residence for women who work in the United States government for the duration of the war

Arlington, Virginia. The main lounge in Idaho Hall, Arlington Farms, a...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a living room, salon, office, late 19th-century interior, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Arlington, Virginia. A new girl arriving at Idaho Hall, Arlington Farms, a residence for women who work in the U.S. government for the duration of the war

Arlington, Virginia. A new girl arriving at Idaho Hall, Arlington Farm...

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.

Moreno Valley, Colfax County, New Mexico. William Heck after a day's work

Moreno Valley, Colfax County, New Mexico. William Heck after a day's w...

Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Baltimore, Maryland. Employees of the paint shop playing checkers during lunch at the Washington terminal of the Baltimore Transit Company where trolleys and buses are maintained and repaired. Employees who work on trolleys are noticeably older than those on buses because trolleys have been in existence so much longer

Baltimore, Maryland. Employees of the paint shop playing checkers duri...

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

Arlington, Virginia. A girl washing her hair in a laundry tub at Arlington Farms, a residence for women who work in the government for the duration of the war

Arlington, Virginia. A girl washing her hair in a laundry tub at Arlin...

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.

Arlington, Virginia. The main desk in Idaho Hall, Arlington Farms, a residence for women who work in the United States government for the duration of the war

Arlington, Virginia. The main desk in Idaho Hall, Arlington Farms, a r...

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.

Arlington, Virginia. Girls in two of the long line of showers at Idaho Hall, Arlington Farms, a residence for women who work in the U.S. government for the duration of the war

Arlington, Virginia. Girls in two of the long line of showers at Idaho...

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.

Freight operations on the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad between Chicago, Illinois and Hammond, Indiana. The conductor's work desk in the caboose. The dial on the wall is an air pressure gauge

Freight operations on the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad between Chicago...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Arlington, Virginia. Girls entertaining their guests in one of the two card rooms, at a residence for the women who work in the U.S. government for the duration of the war. More privacy is afforded here than in the main lounge

Arlington, Virginia. Girls entertaining their guests in one of the two...

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.

Arlington, Virginia. Rear view of Idaho Hall, Arlington Farms, a residence for women who work in the U.S. government for the duration of the war

Arlington, Virginia. Rear view of Idaho Hall, Arlington Farms, a resid...

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.

Baltimore, Maryland. Rushing to catch the trackless trolleys home from work at four p.m.

Baltimore, Maryland. Rushing to catch the trackless trolleys home from...

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

Arlington, Virginia. A satisfied customer in Idaho Hall, Arlington Farms, a residence for women who work in the United States government for the duration of the war. There's always something doing here, never a dull moment

Arlington, Virginia. A satisfied customer in Idaho Hall, Arlington Far...

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.

Reciprocal aid. Close cooperation exists between members of the British and U.S. air forces in Britain. Two U.S. sergeants are here shown at work in a coding room with a British WAAF (Women's Auxiliary Air Force) section officer

Reciprocal aid. Close cooperation exists between members of the Britis...

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.

Arlington, Virginia. Girls entertaining their guests in one of the two card rooms, at a residence for the women who work in the U.S. government for the duration of the war. More privacy is afforded here than in the main lounge

Arlington, Virginia. Girls entertaining their guests in one of the two...

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.

Arlington, Virginia. Girls entertaining their guests in one of the two card rooms, at a residence for the women who work in the U.S. government for the duration of the war. More privacy is afforded here than in the main lounge

Arlington, Virginia. Girls entertaining their guests in one of the two...

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.

A black and white photo of a small house, Georgia. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a small house, Georgia. Farm Security Admin...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a man cooking food, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a man cooking food, Tennessee. Farm Securit...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rural arts exhibition held under the auspices of the Farm Security Administration (FSA) in the patio of the U.S. Department of Agriculture building. Chair with untanned hide seat, Extension Service, College Station, Texas; black pottery, Pueblo Indian Service (Marie pottery), San Ildefonso, New Mexico; copper bowl, WPA (Work Progress Administration (secured through WPA, Washington, D.C.); woven rug, WPA Colorado (secured through WPA, Washington, D.C.); horsehair lariat, Mrs. Mary Stilwell Buol,

Rural arts exhibition held under the auspices of the Farm Security Adm...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of 3d object, pottery, ceramics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

A black and white photo of a man and a woman, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a man and a woman, Great Depression. FSA/OW...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Coal miners going home from work. Omar, West Virginia

Coal miners going home from work. Omar, West Virginia

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a man in overalls and a cowboy hat. Ohio during Great Depression.

A black and white photo of a man in overalls and a cowboy hat. Ohio du...

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

Farmers during Great Depression: An old black and white photo of a man and a child.

Farmers during Great Depression: An old black and white photo of a man...

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

A black and white photo of a man standing on a porch, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a man standing on a porch, West Virginia. F...

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

A group of men standing next to a truck, Arkansas. Farmers during Great Depression.

A group of men standing next to a truck, Arkansas. Farmers during Grea...

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

Miner looking at daily reports (company work sheets) checking number of tons of slate he loaded during shift. Also to find out whether or not they work the next day. Caples, West Virginia

Miner looking at daily reports (company work sheets) checking number o...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a man standing next to a car. Farmers during Great Depression

A black and white photo of a man standing next to a car. Farmers durin...

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

A black and white photo of a hospital room, Arizona. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a hospital room, Arizona. Farm Security Adm...

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

A couple of men standing next to a train, Kenntucky. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A couple of men standing next to a train, Kenntucky. Farm Security Adm...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, 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...

Public domain photograph of public works, FDR administration, New Deal, Great Depression, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

An old black and white photo of a farmer and his dog, Iowa. Farm Security Administration photograph

An old black and white photo of a farmer and his dog, Iowa. Farm Secur...

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

Jack Cutter, who came from Fort Worth, Indiana for work in General Electric plant, in his trailer at FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp. Erie, Pennsylvania

Jack Cutter, who came from Fort Worth, Indiana for work in General Ele...

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

Team of work horses. Scottsbluff Farmsteads, FSA (Farm Security Administration) project. Nebraska

Team of work horses. Scottsbluff Farmsteads, FSA (Farm Security Admini...

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

Bulldozer at work at Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California

Bulldozer at work at Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California

Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, mine, excavation, or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

In the sewing class which is a WPA (Work Projects Administration) project at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) labor camp. The women are shown how to make overgarments

In the sewing class which is a WPA (Work Projects Administration) proj...

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Farm worker who lives at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm family migratory labor camp. Yakima, Washington. He is attending the WPA (Work Projects Administration) apple packing school at the camp

Farm worker who lives at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm f...

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Boys looking for work wait for the Washington State Employment Service office to open in the morning, Yakima, Washington

Boys looking for work wait for the Washington State Employment Service...

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Decorated for gallantry in action. Private Bukaro Frafra, Gold Coast Regiment, Royal West African Frontier Force, who has been awarded the Imperial Distinguished Conduct Medal for gallantry in the East African campaign. In April, 1941, as a member of a patrol sent out to find its way over a ravine and across a tank trap, he work his Bren gun forward to within fifty yards of the tank trap, inflicting seven casualties on an enemy party working beyond it. On April 1941, under very heavy fire, he was wounded but refused to give in. He stuck to his gun until it was knocked out of action and he was wounded a second time. He is one of the first three African soldiers to receive the Imperial Distinguished Conduct Medal

Decorated for gallantry in action. Private Bukaro Frafra, Gold Coast R...

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G.F. Bailey, scientific aide, at work on carotene test of dehydrated vegetables at the regional agricultural research laboratory. Albany, California

G.F. Bailey, scientific aide, at work on carotene test of dehydrated v...

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Ontario, Oregon (vicinity). Farmhouse of Japanese-Americans who were evacuated from coastal area and now work for a local farmer

Ontario, Oregon (vicinity). Farmhouse of Japanese-Americans who were e...

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Auction followed the dinner at the fiesta of the Holy Ghost. Santa Clara, California. Rather than distributing food to the needy of the community during the fiesta of the Holy Ghost, proceeds from the auction are used for this work. It is not unusual for a single egg or lemon to sell at auction for one dollar

Auction followed the dinner at the fiesta of the Holy Ghost. Santa Cla...

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Manpower. Handicapped workers. Despite physical handicaps, these women are doing work that's vital to Uncle Sam's war effort. At the Maryland League for Crippled Children, they're hand-burring Y's for airplane engines, on subcontract to a Baltimore engineering company. White Engineering Company, Baltimore, Maryland

Manpower. Handicapped workers. Despite physical handicaps, these women...

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Nyssa, Oregon. (vicinity). Japanese-American family was evacuated from a coastal area to a reception center. Subsequently they volunteered for farm work and moved to the FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp. From there they were hired as a group by a local white farmer. They will be allowed to remain on this farm for the duration of the war. When such an arrangement is made the U.S. Employment Service must inspect and approve housing facilities and wage standards

Nyssa, Oregon. (vicinity). Japanese-American family was evacuated from...

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Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by the WPA (Work Projects Administration) at the state fairgrounds

Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a New Deal program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 as a response to the high unemployment during the Great Depression. The program put people t... More

National Youth Adminstration work center (NYA), Brooklyn, New York. Two men, white and Negro, who are receiving training in machine shop practice, shown setting up shaper work to cut forty-five degree angles at base for surface gauge

National Youth Adminstration work center (NYA), Brooklyn, New York. Tw...

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Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. From musical instruments to instruments of death. Edward Groe, Nowegian-born employee of a Chicago piano factory, has been regulating the pneumatic motors of trainer planes since the firm's conversion to war production. Employed by this same company since 1909, Groe is an expert mechanic whose pre-war work included regulating the keys of electric organs. Gulbransen Company

Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. From musical instruments to ins...

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Women in industry. Gas mask production. Formerly employed in a vacuum cleaner plant, these young women are now making gas masks for America's soldiers and civilians. Margaret Reed, left, who used to work in the vacuum brush department, now operates a precrimping machine which attaches eye rings to the mask proper. Note the "V" chalked on her machine. Eureka Vacuum, Detroit, Michigan

Women in industry. Gas mask production. Formerly employed in a vacuum ...

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San Benito, California. Japanese-Americans work in field while they wait for final evacuation orders

San Benito, California. Japanese-Americans work in field while they wa...

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