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Man who worked in Fullerton, Louisiana lumber mill for fifteen years. He is now left stranded in the cut-over area

Man who worked in Fullerton, Louisiana lumber mill for fifteen years. ...

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

Packing fruit in the packinghouse at Fort Pierce, Florida

Packing fruit in the packinghouse at Fort Pierce, Florida

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.

A black and white photo of a man in a field, Minnesota. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a man in a field, Minnesota. Farm Security ...

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

Dalton (vicinity), Allegany County, New York. Fred Ess, a submarginal farmer

Dalton (vicinity), Allegany County, New York. Fred Ess, a submarginal ...

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

A black and white photo of a man in a field, Minnesota. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a man in a field, Minnesota. Farm Security ...

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

Greasing sugar beet piling machine near East Grand Forks, Minnesota

Greasing sugar beet piling machine near East Grand Forks, Minnesota

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

Empty cans are filled with peas and lids placed on them. Canning factory, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin

Empty cans are filled with peas and lids placed on them. Canning facto...

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

A migrant packinghouse worker shaving. Deerfield Florida

A migrant packinghouse worker shaving. Deerfield Florida

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

Exactly what happens to each of the millions of Social Security Account applicants during each working shift is recorded daily. At any minute of the day or night it is possible to locate any application through the records maintained in the production and control section of the Social Security Board Records Office. This is the nerve center of the "greatest bookkeeping job in the world". The photograph above shows workers in the records office running off daily production report, which accurately pictures details of the ebb and flow of each of the several operations necessary to set up an individual ledger account for each worker and the various indexes prepares to insure acccuracy and ready reference

Exactly what happens to each of the millions of Social Security Accoun...

A man working on a machine in a factory, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Date based on date of negatives in same ... More

Operator making repairs on back of switchboard panel. Forest Products laboratory. Madison, Wisconsin

Operator making repairs on back of switchboard panel. Forest Products ...

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

Potato workers with sacked potatoes, near East Grand Forks, Minnesota

Potato workers with sacked potatoes, near East Grand Forks, Minnesota

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

One of a Mexican field gang of migratory laborers thinning and weeding cantaloupe plants. The young plants are "capped" with wax paper spread over a wire wicket to protect against cold and accelerate growth. The laborers' wages are thirty cents an hour. Imperial Valley, California

One of a Mexican field gang of migratory laborers thinning and weeding...

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

A black and white photo of a group of people in a room. Ohio during Great Depression.

A black and white photo of a group of people in a room. Ohio during Gr...

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

Shack occupied by transient sugar beet workers near Fisher, Minnesota

Shack occupied by transient sugar beet workers near Fisher, Minnesota

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

Labor chieftain. Washington D.C., March 6. John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers and organizer of the CIO, snapped at his press conference in Washington yesterday, 3/6/1937

Labor chieftain. Washington D.C., March 6. John L. Lewis, President of...

A man sitting in a chair thinking or listening. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Children of migratory Mexican field workers. The older one helps tie carrots in the field. Coachella Valley, California

Children of migratory Mexican field workers. The older one helps tie c...

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

Chopping beans in the canning plant at Dania, Florida. Youthful workers are allowed to use dangerous machinery without safeguards

Chopping beans in the canning plant at Dania, Florida. Youthful worker...

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

Lumberjack with stake which he has been shaping with broadaxe, at camp near Effie, Minnesta

Lumberjack with stake which he has been shaping with broadaxe, at camp...

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

A.F. of L. Head endorses Wagner Housing Bill. Washington, D.C., April 14. President William Green of the A.F. of L. discusses various phases of the Wagner $1,040,000,000 Housing Bill with Senator Robert F. Wagner (left) author of the bill, and Senator David [...] Walsh, Chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Education and Labor. Green appeared before the Committee today to give his endorsement of the bill. Besides believing unemployment and eliminating slums, the measure will provide low-rent housing for the workers of the country in order that their purchasing power may not be curtailed as rents rise under an "acute" housing shortage, Green told the Committee, 4/14/1937

A.F. of L. Head endorses Wagner Housing Bill. Washington, D.C., April ...

A group of men standing next to each other. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sitdown strikers in the Fisher body plant factory number three. Flint, Michigan

Sitdown strikers in the Fisher body plant factory number three. Flint,...

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

Filling cellophane sacks from automatic weighing machines. Abbeville, Louisana

Filling cellophane sacks from automatic weighing machines. Abbeville, ...

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

Handbill distributed among cotton workers during strike. California

Handbill distributed among cotton workers during strike. California

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

A black and white photo of a man in a barn. Ohio during Great Depression.

A black and white photo of a man in a barn. Ohio during Great Depressi...

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

Resident of Tin Town, Caruthersville, Missouri, in his shack home

Resident of Tin Town, Caruthersville, Missouri, in his shack home

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

Near Manteca, California. November 1938. Farm Security Administration (FSA) tenant purchase clients, Greeks, from Isle of Crete, formerly rehabilitation clients. Taken from ditch-bank. Had fifteen cows, now have fifty-five

Near Manteca, California. November 1938. Farm Security Administration ...

Title and other information from caption card. Photo shows William (Greek name: Vasilos), an immigrant from Crete who was born April 1890 in Cambous, Crete, and died 5 June 1967. He originally went to Utah whe... More

Outbuilding plant. Stacking precast concrete mud sills for privies. Precast house piers at left. Southeast Missouri Farms Project

Outbuilding plant. Stacking precast concrete mud sills for privies. Pr...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a construction site, wooden frame, timber, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Gold miner working in sluice box, Two Bit Creek, South Dakota

Gold miner working in sluice box, Two Bit Creek, South Dakota

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

Steel worker. Midland, Pennsylvania

Steel worker. Midland, Pennsylvania

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

Morris Pingry in his garden. Decatur Homesteads, Indiana

Morris Pingry in his garden. Decatur Homesteads, Indiana

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

Cook of El Rito in galley of packet boat on lower Mississippi River

Cook of El Rito in galley of packet boat on lower Mississippi River

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

Running for Governor of Pennsylvania. Washington, D.C., March 23. Lt. Gov. Thomas Kennedy of Pennsylvania stopped of in Washington today to transact business of the United Mine Workers of which he is Sec. and Treas. Kennedy is running for Governor of his state on the Democratic ticket, 3/23/38

Running for Governor of Pennsylvania. Washington, D.C., March 23. Lt. ...

A black and white photo of a man sitting at a desk. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Napa Valley, California. More than twenty-five years a bindle-stiff. Walks from the mines to the lumber camps to the farms. The type that formed the backbone of the Industrial Workers of the World in California before the war. Subject of Carleton Parker's studies on Industrial Workers of the World

Napa Valley, California. More than twenty-five years a bindle-stiff. W...

Picryl description: Public domain image of byciclyst, bike, bicycle wheel, sport event, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Pennsylvania: A black and white photo of a man holding a baseball bat. Great Depression

Pennsylvania: A black and white photo of a man holding a baseball bat....

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

Home of agricultural workers in Arizona. Two families live in this house. They have been in Arizona for six months. Before that they worked in south Texas, picking cotton. "Blair had a farm near Blair, Texas but didn't get it paid for so we started our moving." Near the Casa Grande project, Arizona

Home of agricultural workers in Arizona. Two families live in this hou...

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

Removing bales of cotton from gin press, Lehi, Arkansas

Removing bales of cotton from gin press, Lehi, Arkansas

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

Southeast Missouri Farms Project. Field house erection. Fitting gable ends in place

Southeast Missouri Farms Project. Field house erection. Fitting gable ...

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

Southeast Missouri Farms. Wife of FSA (Farm Security Administration) client, former sharecropper, sweeping floor in shack home

Southeast Missouri Farms. Wife of FSA (Farm Security Administration) c...

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

Ponce (vicinity), Puerto Rico. Sugar workers on a plantation

Ponce (vicinity), Puerto Rico. Sugar workers on a plantation

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farm, farmer, agriculture, early 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Street meeting at night in Mexican town outside of Shafter, California. Organizer for United Cannery Agricultural Packing and Allied Workers of America (Congress of Industrial Organizations-CIO) talks to mixed crowd. The strike failed

Street meeting at night in Mexican town outside of Shafter, California...

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

House plant. Precutting materials. Southeast Missouri Farms Project

House plant. Precutting materials. Southeast Missouri Farms Project

Public domain photograph of industrial workers, factory building, work, assembly line, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a man working on a piece of wood, Louisiana. Farmers during Great Depression

A black and white photo of a man working on a piece of wood, Louisiana...

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

A black and white photo of a man working on a machine. Ohio during Great Depression.

A black and white photo of a man working on a machine. Ohio during Gre...

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

Farm Security Administration camp for migrant agricultural workers at Shafter, California

Farm Security Administration camp for migrant agricultural workers at ...

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

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

A black and white photo of a man standing in a corn field, West Virgin...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farm, farmer, agriculture, early 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Negro stevedores handling drum, New Orleans, Louisiana

Negro stevedores handling drum, New Orleans, Louisiana

Public domain photograph related to race relations, African Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Wife of tenant farmer who will participate under tenant purchase drawing water near Morganza, Louisiana. While they live in the outskirts of a city and have access to city facilities, this is the only tap in the house

Wife of tenant farmer who will participate under tenant purchase drawi...

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

Migratory field workers picking cotton in the San Joaquin Valley, California. Negroes, Mexicans, and refugee whites pick cotton together in this field. These pickers are being paid seventy-five cents per one hundred poounds of picked cotton. Strikers, organizing under the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), are demanding one dollar

Migratory field workers picking cotton in the San Joaquin Valley, Cali...

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

Southeast Missouri Farms Project. Drainage ditch

Southeast Missouri Farms Project. Drainage ditch

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 man working on a pile of wood, possibly related to: Manipulating scissors crane used for loading sugarcane in field near New Iberia, Louisiana

A black and white photo of a man working on a pile of wood, possibly r...

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

Wives of "duster pilots" recover plane which has been damaged. In this dangerous occupation crashes are common but rarely fatal because of low speed, low altitude and high operating skill. Note farm machinery in background. Seabrook Farms, between Bridgeton and Vineland, New Jersey

Wives of "duster pilots" recover plane which has been damaged. In this...

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

Protest to president on Japanese silk boycott. Washington, D.C., Jan. 28. Following a parade to the White House in protest against the Japanese silk boycott these members of the American Federation of Hosiery Workers presented an Anti-Boycott Memorial to President Roosevelt. Left to right: Lillian [...]earer, Lucille Numbers, Teresa Motz, Clare Schutt, [...]ide Omlor, Ethel Gillies, 1/28/38

Protest to president on Japanese silk boycott. Washington, D.C., Jan. ...

A group of women standing next to each other. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a train on a track, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a train on a track, West Virginia. Farm Sec...

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

Barn plant. Panels are framed in wooden jigs simply but effectively of precut and marked pieces. Southeast Missouri Farms Project

Barn plant. Panels are framed in wooden jigs simply but effectively of...

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

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

A black and white photo of a man wearing a hat, West Virginia. Farm Se...

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

Barto, Berks County, Pennsylvania. Threshing on the farm of Thomas G. Evans, a FSA (Farm Security Administration) client

Barto, Berks County, Pennsylvania. Threshing on the farm of Thomas G. ...

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

Napa Valley, California. More than twenty-five years a bindle-stiff. Walks from the mines to the lumber camps to the farms. The type that formed the backbone of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in California before the war

Napa Valley, California. More than twenty-five years a bindle-stiff. W...

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

Interior of country store in the hills. Puerto Rico

Interior of country store in the hills. Puerto Rico

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Madame Dronet weaving. Erath, Louisiana

Madame Dronet weaving. Erath, Louisiana

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

Rehabilitation client and canned goods. Lancaster County, Nebraska

Rehabilitation client and canned goods. Lancaster County, Nebraska

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

Workers repairing Route 40, Central Ohio

Workers repairing Route 40, Central Ohio

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

Pennsylvania: A black and white photo of a man working in a factory. Great Depression

Pennsylvania: A black and white photo of a man working in a factory. G...

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

A couple of men standing next to each other, possibly related to: Street scene, Charleston, West Virginia

A couple of men standing next to each other, possibly related to: Stre...

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.) Negative has a hole punch made by FSA st... More

A black and white photo of a man carrying a wooden cross, possibly related to: Spiking and guiding logs up ramp into mill where they are sawed. Erwin, West Virginia

A black and white photo of a man carrying a wooden cross, possibly rel...

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

A black and white photo of a man standing on a porch, Louisiana. Farmers during Great Depression

A black and white photo of a man standing on a porch, Louisiana. Farme...

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

Sewing filled sack of rice, Crowley, Louisiana

Sewing filled sack of rice, Crowley, Louisiana

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

Factory workers' homes, Camden, New Jersey

Factory workers' homes, Camden, New Jersey

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

Farmer making molasses from sugarcane. Racine, West Virginia

Farmer making molasses from sugarcane. Racine, West Virginia

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

Southeast Missouri Farms Project. Driving shallow well with heavy pipe

Southeast Missouri Farms Project. Driving shallow well with heavy pipe

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

A black and white photo of a group of men, New Jersey. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a group of men, New Jersey. Farm Security A...

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

News reporter before the Dies Committee. Washington, D.C., Oct. 22. Hungry college students brought an end to last year's "labor holiday" at Lansing, Mich. Donald W. Gardenor, Detroit Times Reporter, told the House Committee investigating Un-American affairs. Students at the Michigan State Agricultural College at East Lansing entered the picture Gardener said, when Union pickets attempted to close restaurants. The pickets, acting on behalf of the local automobile workers union, had declared a labor holiday in protest against the Sheriff's arrest of eight persons who had been picketing a trecking company, 10/22/38

News reporter before the Dies Committee. Washington, D.C., Oct. 22. Hu...

A black and white photo of a man in a suit. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a small town, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a small town, West Virginia. Farm Security ...

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

Making a purchase in cooperative stores. Lake Dick Project, Arkansas

Making a purchase in cooperative stores. Lake Dick Project, Arkansas

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 worker at cotton gin, Lehi, Arkansas

Negro worker at cotton gin, Lehi, Arkansas

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

[Car in front of Shulman's Market on N at Union St. S.W., Washington, D.C.

[Car in front of Shulman's Market on N at Union St. S.W., Washington, ...

Public domain photograph of car, historic place, automobile, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

A black and white photo of a man on a boat, Great Depression. FSA/OWI ...

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

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

A black and white photo of a man milking a cow, Great Depression. FSA/...

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

An old black and white photo of a woman and a child, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

An old black and white photo of a woman and a child, Great Depression....

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

Wife of evicted sharecropper in tent along highway cooking beans obtained from surplus commodities. New Madrid County, Missouri

Wife of evicted sharecropper in tent along highway cooking beans obtai...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Wages [an] Hour Div. of Apparel Industry Committee met today at Raleigh Hotel to try to establish a minimum wage above the present 25 cents an hour. Lft. to rt. Joseph P. McCurdy, President of Maryland Fed. of Labor. Arthur J. Patton, retired employer. Charles Ray, retired manufacturer and former member of Conn. Minimum Wage Board. David Dubinsky, President of International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Sumner H. Slichter, Professor of Business Economics at Harvard. Louis B. Hopkins, Pres. of Wabash College. S.L. Hoffman, active employer. Seated: Burton E. Oppenheim, Chief of Industry Committee Division; Louis E. Kirstein, Chairman of Committee and Vice Pres. of William Filenes Sons Co. Inc. Delos Walker, Vice Chairman, and Vice Pres. of R.H. Macy and Co.

Wages [an] Hour Div. of Apparel Industry Committee met today at Raleig...

A group of men standing around a table. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Setting up the front page. Office of the Valley News. Browns Valley, Minnesota

Setting up the front page. Office of the Valley News. Browns Valley, M...

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

Migratory packinghouse workers camp near Canal Point, Florida

Migratory packinghouse workers camp near Canal Point, Florida

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

Oil field workers squatting down while talking to bit salesman, Kilgore, Texas

Oil field workers squatting down while talking to bit salesman, Kilgor...

Public domain photograph of worker, people working, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A migrant day laborer from North Carolina running a tractor near Lake Harbor, Florida

A migrant day laborer from North Carolina running a tractor near Lake ...

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

Packing broccoli. Elsa, Texas. Farm Security Administartion 1930s public domain photo.

Packing broccoli. Elsa, Texas. Farm Security Administartion 1930s publ...

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

Enola O'Connell, age 32, widow and mother of one child. Ex-housewife, now [she is the] only woman welder at Heil and Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Enola O'Connell, age 32, widow and mother of one child. Ex-housewife, ...

Public domain photograph of family portrait, mother and child, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lucile Mazurek, age 29, ex-housewife, husband going into the service. Working on black-out lamps to be used on the gasoline trailers in the Air Force, Heil and Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Lucile Mazurek, age 29, ex-housewife, husband going into the service. ...

12002-22. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

Gist inspector, Mrs. Mary Betchner inspecting one of the 25 cutters for burrs before inserting it in the inside of a 105mm. howitzer at the Milwaukee, Wis. plant of the Chain Belt Co. Her son is in the army; her husband is in war work

Gist inspector, Mrs. Mary Betchner inspecting one of the 25 cutters fo...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an artillery gun, cannon, weapon, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A couple of men sitting next to each other, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A couple of men sitting next to each other, Great Depression. FSA/OWI ...

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

Migrant packinghouse workers crating celery. The amount of work depends on quantity of produce available. If many truckloads come in, they may work all night; otherwise, only an hour or two. If there is a frost (freeze-out) or drought, they may have to wait six or eight weeks for work in the next crop. Belle Glade, Florida

Migrant packinghouse workers crating celery. The amount of work depend...

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

Bootmaker at work showing his workbench. Cowboy boot shop, Alpine, Texas

Bootmaker at work showing his workbench. Cowboy boot shop, Alpine, Tex...

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.

Grain sampler opening door of car of wheat after breaking seal. Minneapolis, Minnesota

Grain sampler opening door of car of wheat after breaking seal. Minnea...

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.

Home of Mexican family. Migratory workers. Across the road from the Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp (emergency). Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California

Home of Mexican family. Migratory workers. Across the road from the Fa...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a tractor, farming equipment, agriculture, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mrs. Helms making dress. She does all her family sewing on new machine. FSA (Farm Security Administration) client. Coffee County, Alabama

Mrs. Helms making dress. She does all her family sewing on new machine...

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 group of people working in a field. Great Depression FSA photogpraph

A black and white photo of a group of people working in a field. Great...

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

Mexican pecan workers waiting in union hall for assignment to work. San Antonio, Texas

Mexican pecan workers waiting in union hall for assignment to work. Sa...

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

Cowboys of the SMS Ranch washing up for dinner. Ranch near Spur, Texas

Cowboys of the SMS Ranch washing up for dinner. Ranch near Spur, Texas

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.

Cook handling bread which has been baked in dutch oven. Roundup near Marfa, Texas

Cook handling bread which has been baked in dutch oven. Roundup near M...

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

Putting grappling hooks on bale of cotton. The bale will be weighed as it swings in the air, suspended by these hooks. Cotton compress, Houston, Texas

Putting grappling hooks on bale of cotton. The bale will be weighed as...

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

International cotton picker in cotton field on Hopson Plantation, near Clarksdale. Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

International cotton picker in cotton field on Hopson Plantation, near...

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Loading diffusion chamber at sugar beet factory. Brighton, Colorado

Loading diffusion chamber at sugar beet factory. Brighton, Colorado

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