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Home of Ernest W. Kirk Jr., FSA (Farm Security Administration) client near Ordway, Colorado. He runs an irrigated forty-acre farm which he rented from his landlord, a judge. His landlord is purchasing the eighty acres next to him, so that he may have 120 acres altogether

Farmstead on land which owner of the farm, Ernest W. Kirk Jr., FSA (Farm Security Administration) client, rents at present and is contemplating buying, so that he may add these eight acres to those forty which are already cultivated by Mr. Kirk. Mr. Kirk is a very successful FSA client. Near Ordway, Colorado

Farmstead on land which owner of the farm, Ernest W. Kirk Jr., FSA (Farm Security Administration) client, rents at present and is contemplating buying, so that he may add these eight acres to those forty which are already cultivated by Mr. Kirk. Mr. Kirk is a very successful FSA client. Near Ordway, Colorado

Haystack and barn of Jo Webster, farmer in El Camino district, Tehema County, California. He owns 25 acres but owes money on irrigation bonds. He rents an additional 15 acres. He has about 20 dairy cows, poultry and raises his own alfalfa

Newton County, Missouri. Camp Crowder area. James Mallory, Ozark farmer whose land has been bought by the Army for construction. With the aid of FSA (Farm Security Administration), he will move to a farm in Bates County one hundred miles north, in the corn belt

Newton County, Missouri. Camp Crowder area. James Mallory, Ozark farmer whose land has been bought by the Army for construction. With the aid of FSA (Farm Security Administration), he will move to a farm in Bates County one hundred miles north, in the corn belt

Newton County, Missouri. Camp Crowder area. James Mallory, Ozark farmer whose land has been bought by the Army for construction. With the aid of FSA (Farm Security Administration), he will move to a farm in Bates County one hundred miles north, in the corn belt

Newton County, Missouri. Camp Crowder area. James Mallory in his Ozark farmhouse. His land has been bought by the Army for construction of Camp Crowder, and next week, with the aid of the FSA (Farm Security Administration), he is moving to 160 acres of land and an entirely new type of farming

House of farmer from Oklahoma who has bought farm through the Federal Land Bank. Placer County, California. His son and daughter-in-law and their two children live in a better house on the same farm and they farm jointly

Home of Ernest W. Kirk Jr., FSA (Farm Security Administration) client near Ordway, Colorado. He runs an irrigated forty-acre farm which he rented from his landlord, a judge. His landlord is purchasing the eighty acres next to him, so that he may have 120 acres altogether

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

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01/01/1939
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Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, photographer
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No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html

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Ernest W. Kirk Jr., successful FSA (Farm Security Administration) client of Ordway, Colorado, standing in the midst of his field of hybrid corn

Haystack and barn of Jo Webster, farmer in El Camino district, Tehema County, California. He owns twenty-five acres but owes money on irrigation bonds. He rents an additional fifteen acres. He has about twenty dairy cows, poultry and raises his own alfalfa

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Resident of "Eighty Acres" with load of firewood, Glassboro, New Jersey

Donald Cooksey, Robert Sproul, and Ernest Orlando Lawrence. Photo taken 3/19/1943

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Mr. Ernest W. Kirk Jr., FSA (Farm Security Administration) client, with honeydew melons grown on his farm near Ordway, Colorado

Privy behind church at "Eighty Acres." Glassboro, New Jersey

Rural rehabilitation, Tulare County, California. In 1936 this family was on relief. With a Farm Security Administration (FSA) loan of seven hundred and eighty dollars, they were able to purchase and install an irrigating pump for the vineyard, a team, and the balance gave them subsistence and operating expenses for the first grape season

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Rehabilitation client and wife. Custer County, Nebraska

Repaired barn and two mares belonging to George Johnson, tenant purchase client. Pike County, Alabama

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colorado crowley county ordway farming safety film negatives home ernest ernest w kirk kirk jr fsa farm security administration farm security administration client forty acre forty acre farm landlord judge eighty acres eighty acres great depression photographs great depression american farmers library of congress