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HIGH COST OF LIVING. INVESTIGATORS AT LABOR DEPT. MISS DORTHEA C. DAVIS; MRS. MINNIE E.PATTERSON; MISS MABEL E. WINSLOW; MISS IDA M. PECK; MISS ETHEL M. SMITH; MISS ELIZABETH CHAMBERLAIN; MISS RUTH R. ALLEN; MISS JESSE R. HAVER; MISS HELEN M. DART; MISS IRENE J. GRAHAM; MISS MARJORIE E. LYON; MRS. ARENE

HIGH COST OF LIVING. INVESTIGATORS AT LABOR DEPT. MISS DORTHEA C. DAVI...

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American Red Cross - Refugees - Stock room showing types of furniture sold at a low cost to refugees by the A.R.C. Grenoble, Isire, France

American Red Cross - Refugees - Stock room showing types of furniture ...

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Salary Increase Deadlocked - Cost of Living Marches On

Salary Increase Deadlocked - Cost of Living Marches On

This illustration entitled, "Salary Increase Deadlocked - Cost of Living Marches On", by cartoonist Clifford Berryman, which appeared in the Washington Evening Star on February 23, 1917, depicts a government cl... More

Squash Center Discusses the High Cost of Living

Squash Center Discusses the High Cost of Living

This illustration entitled, "Squash Center Discusses the High Cost of Living", by cartoonist Clifford Berryman, which appeared in the Washington Evening Star on February 25, 1917, shows the locals of the Squash... More

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Public domain photograph of weaving textile, free to use, no copyright...

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CONGRESS, WILSON BEFORE... ON HIGH COST OF LIVING

CONGRESS, WILSON BEFORE... ON HIGH COST OF LIVING

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GOVERNORS OF STATES. GOVERNORS AND ATORNEYS GENERAL OF SEVEN STATES AT WHITE HOUSE TO DISCUSS HIGH COST OF LIVING. FRONT: GOV. SPROUL, PA.; ATTY. GEN. OF U.S., M.A. PALMER; PRESIDENT WILSON; GOV. GARDNER, MO. BACK RO

GOVERNORS OF STATES. GOVERNORS AND ATORNEYS GENERAL OF SEVEN STATES AT...

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Get what you really want! Don't buy what you don't need. Think first how many hours of work each purchase will cost you. Steady saving will bring a home, a business, or something else worth while within your reach. Saving money is easy with War

Get what you really want! Don't buy what you don't need. Think first h...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 242, Folder 3b.

HIGH COST OF LIVING. WILSON SPEAKING BEFORE CONGRESS ON HIGH COST OF LIVING

HIGH COST OF LIVING. WILSON SPEAKING BEFORE CONGRESS ON HIGH COST OF L...

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Prices versus Cost of Living - Drawing. Public domain image.

Prices versus Cost of Living - Drawing. Public domain image.

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Cost of Living Bandit - Political cartoon, public domain image

Cost of Living Bandit - Political cartoon, public domain image

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Electric Institute of Washington, Potomac Electric Power Co. Building. Cost of operation II

Electric Institute of Washington, Potomac Electric Power Co. Building....

Potomac Electric Power Company (PEPCO) is a publicly traded utility company that provides electric service to customers in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area, including the District of Columbia and parts of ... More

Electric Institute of Washington, Potomac Electric Power Co. Building. Gauge to measure electricity cost I

Electric Institute of Washington, Potomac Electric Power Co. Building....

Potomac Electric Power Company (PEPCO) is a publicly traded utility company that provides electric service to customers in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area, including the District of Columbia and parts of ... More

"Grandma's spinning wheel helps reduce high cost of living"

"Grandma's spinning wheel helps reduce high cost of living"

Woman standing, outdoors, with spinning wheel. J240324 U.S. Copyright Office This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Spinning wheels; Shelf.

Electric Institute of Washington, Potomac Electric Power Co. Building. Gauge to measure electricity cost II

Electric Institute of Washington, Potomac Electric Power Co. Building....

Potomac Electric Power Company (PEPCO) is a publicly traded utility company that provides electric service to customers in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area, including the District of Columbia and parts of ... More

Electric Institute of Washington, Potomac Electric Power Co. Building. Cost of operation I

Electric Institute of Washington, Potomac Electric Power Co. Building....

Potomac Electric Power Company (PEPCO) is a publicly traded utility company that provides electric service to customers in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area, including the District of Columbia and parts of ... More

2230 California St., [Washington, D.C.], (Cost Rica-moved)

2230 California St., [Washington, D.C.], (Cost Rica-moved)

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Cost of Last War ... Never Again!

Cost of Last War ... Never Again!

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President Harding should wo[rry?] about the high cost of turkey--[ano]ther Thanksgiving gobbler arrived [a]t the White House today

President Harding should wo[rry?] about the high cost of turkey--[ano]...

Two men lifting large crate containing turkey. Caption continues: This one the gift of H.W. Mason of Crystal Springs Miss. In album: Washington, D.C., 1 Nov. 1921 to 30 Nov. 1921, v. 2, Herbert E. French, Natio... More

No Thanks for the High Cost of Living on Thanksgiving

No Thanks for the High Cost of Living on Thanksgiving

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Kosta - Lessebo Järnväg, KLJ Kosta 1922

Kosta - Lessebo Järnväg, KLJ Kosta 1922

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Kosta station., Svenska Järnvägarna

Kosta station., Svenska Järnvägarna

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JvmKBEB03998, Svenska Järnvägarna

JvmKBEB03998, Svenska Järnvägarna

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Kosta station sedd från spårsidan.

Kosta station sedd från spårsidan.

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Naval leaders ask Congress for more armament. Washington, D.C., Jan. 8. Photographed today at the initial meeting of the House Naval Affairs Committee are, left to right: Lewis Compton, Assistant to Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison, Secretary Edison, with Admiral Harold R. Stark, Chief of Naval Operations standing in rear. Following a brief statement by Secretary Edison, Admiral Stark urged the Committee to approve a bill by Chairman of the Committee Carl Vinson to give the Navy 25 percent more tonnage, 6,000 more planes at a cost of $1,300,000,000. Without such increase, he said, the U.S. will be 'relatively weak in naval power at the end of the year'

Naval leaders ask Congress for more armament. Washington, D.C., Jan. 8...

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Biggest and costliest yet. This is the radio room on the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Chelan, the newest cutter of the service now anchored at the Navy Yard, Washington D.C. This radio room houses three transmitters and three receiving sets. On the maiden trip she picked up an SOS and towed a schooner 1,500 miles, a record tow. The cutter cost approximately $1,000,000. Ensign Leslie B. Tollaksen, is shown in the photograph

Biggest and costliest yet. This is the radio room on the U.S. Coast Gu...

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Before Monopoly Committee. Washington, D.C., June 29. R.R. Rogers, left, Vice President of the Prudential Life Insurance Co., today told the Monopoly Committee Investigating Insurance Company Setups that reduction of interest and amortization rates on homes would stimulate sale of houses but would not necessarily mean a lower ultimate cost to the purchaser. Lower housing costs, he said, must be effected in the fields of construction, materials, and labor. He is pictured with H.W. Fitzgerald, statistician for Prudential

Before Monopoly Committee. Washington, D.C., June 29. R.R. Rogers, lef...

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Glasbruket i Kosta., Svenska Järnvägarna

Glasbruket i Kosta., Svenska Järnvägarna

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Flygfoto över Kosta glasbruk. Sverige. Public domain image.

Flygfoto över Kosta glasbruk. Sverige. Public domain image.

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Flyfoto över Kosta glasbruk. Sverige. Public domain image.

Flyfoto över Kosta glasbruk. Sverige. Public domain image.

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Electric Institute of Washington. How much does it cost to operate? display

Electric Institute of Washington. How much does it cost to operate? di...

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Kosta station., Svenska Järnvägarna

Kosta station., Svenska Järnvägarna

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Electric Institute of Washington. What does it cost display

Electric Institute of Washington. What does it cost display

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Kosta glasbruk och spår. Sverige. Public domain image.

Kosta glasbruk och spår. Sverige. Public domain image.

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Kosta glasbruk., Svenska Järnvägarna

Kosta glasbruk., Svenska Järnvägarna

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Cost House, Keedysville Road, Sharpsburg, Washington County, MD

Cost House, Keedysville Road, Sharpsburg, Washington County, MD

Significance: This building is significant as an example of vernacular log construction and for its proximity to the Civil War Battle of Antietam. Survey number: HABS MD-957 National Register of Historic Plac... More

Electrical cooperatives. The wholesale power of the Authority is distributed among rural consumers by cooperatives formed and managed by the farmers. The headquarters buildings of the cooperatives, usually located in small towns or in open country, are for many of the local residents the first contact with modern construction, architecture and interior appointments, as well as with electrical power and modern business methods. The buildings contain reception rooms, which also accommodate the display of appliances; offices; garages; warehouses; and meeting rooms, usually in the second story. They are built within strict cost limitations and perform a much needed service as clubs or minor cultural centers for the rural population. This one is located at Murfreesburo, Tennessee

Electrical cooperatives. The wholesale power of the Authority is distr...

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Demountable employee housing.This brand new type of housing accommodation was developed through several intermediate steps and experiments in prefabrication, in answer to the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority's) need for housing for temporary use on construction projects in remote localities. The scheme permits fabrication at a distance from the job (about 600 miles in this instance), thus reducing dependence on overtaxed accommodations at the construction project. After completion of the project, the demountable housing is quickly removed elsewhere. Some of the earlier TVA demountables have been moved three times from project to project. The design shown here is particularly light in weight due to full use of the recently developed stressed-skin system of plywood construction. It is built largely of weatherproof plywood. The large bay across the front greatly enhances the size of the living room. The trailer houses, on the basis of experience to date, are entirely competitive in cost with traditionally constructed housing of the same floor area. On account of being constructed in shops rather than in the field, they are produced with much closer tolerances, considerably better finish, and with equipment designed and constructed with greater detail and superior utilization of space

Demountable employee housing.This brand new type of housing accommodat...

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Employee housing. Interior typical of some of the very lowest cost semi-temporary houses with walls in number two common tongue-and-groove pine boards

Employee housing. Interior typical of some of the very lowest cost sem...

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This is another assembled trailer house constructed on the same principle but designed more along the lines of a house than a trailer. It was also reduced in cost somewhat by substitution of a simple wide window for the bay window on the front of the living room

This is another assembled trailer house constructed on the same princi...

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Starts electric ball rolling. Morris L. Cooke, head of Rural Electrification Administration, puts his approval on seven rural projects which will place electricity in about 7,000 [...] farm [...] homes at a cost of $1,274,000. These homes, in the most part, have never been lighted by electricity. The projects are in Indiana, Tennessee, Ohio, Texas, Iowa, and Nebr. About 1,125 miles of lines will be constructed. 11/4/35

Starts electric ball rolling. Morris L. Cooke, head of Rural Electrifi...

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Hero's funeral. Funeral rites for Maj. General Adolphus Washington Greely, 91-year-old hero of battlefield and Arctic exploration, held at Arlington National Cemetery. General Greely headed the tragic expedition into the north which cost the lives of 18 men in a party of 25. He later was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. 10/22/35

Hero's funeral. Funeral rites for Maj. General Adolphus Washington Gre...

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[Washington, D.C. September 8. Mr. Tervay, Cost Accountant (at back) overlooking preparation of food for the banquet to be held in honor of the delegates to the Thrid World Power Conference which is being held here. The banquet is slated to be held next Thursday night at Union station here, and the number of guests is to be over three thousand]

[Washington, D.C. September 8. Mr. Tervay, Cost Accountant (at back) o...

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This Negro client of Dixon's Mill community, Marengo County, Alabama, had come to town for groceries and feed with his steer hitched to his homemade wagon. The cost of this wagon was effort only, it having wooden axles, wooden wheels and wooden pins

This Negro client of Dixon's Mill community, Marengo County, Alabama, ...

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"Bryan" barn on rural resettlement farm unit in Irwinville Farms, Georgia. This barn, designed and built under supervision of W.P. Bryan, project manager, cost one hundred forty-five dollars. This compared with the cost of three hundred fifty dollars of Rural Resettlement Administration-specified barn

"Bryan" barn on rural resettlement farm unit in Irwinville Farms, Geor...

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Shack in "Little Oklahoma." Lots 50 x 150, cost one hundred and twenty to two hundred dollars. Bought on hope and sold on promises. No work since last fall. A few get relief and "welfare," but they say they are not eligible in California

Shack in "Little Oklahoma." Lots 50 x 150, cost one hundred and twenty...

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A black and white photo of a tractor plowing a field, New Jersey. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a tractor plowing a field, New Jersey. Farm...

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Luke Weldon, small farmer, and his son using ancient Buick (transformed by cutting down the chassis) as improvised tractor. Automobile bought in second hand car lot. Cost fifteen dollars. New Bridgeton, New Jersey

Luke Weldon, small farmer, and his son using ancient Buick (transforme...

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JvmKBEB04000, Svenska Järnvägarna

JvmKBEB04000, Svenska Järnvägarna

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Two men working on a tractor in a field, New Jersey. Farm Security Administration photograph

Two men working on a tractor in a field, New Jersey. Farm Security Adm...

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"What no spinach?????" Washington, D.C. September 8. It looks like hard work for Chef Joe Teophile (left) and J. Tervay (right). For theirs is the job of getting up the food for the banquet to be held in honor of the delegates to the Thrid World Power Conference which is being held here. The banquet is slated to be held next Thursday night at Union station here, and the number of guests is to be over three thousand. Mr. Tervay is the Cost Accountant and Mr. Teophile is the Head Chef

"What no spinach?????" Washington, D.C. September 8. It looks like har...

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A black and white photo of a man on a tractor spraying water, New Jersey. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a man on a tractor spraying water, New Jers...

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Cost $2,000,000 to write U.S. checks. Washington, D.C., March 17. Reflecting the widening range of federal activity, the Treasury, as the Nation's Paymaster, issed 35,735,746 checks in 1936, as compared with 28,509,924 in 1935. Guy F. Allen, Chief Disbursing Officer of the Treasury says to make these payments cost about $2,000,000 or close to 6 cents a check

Cost $2,000,000 to write U.S. checks. Washington, D.C., March 17. Refl...

A man in a suit standing next to a machine, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection on the negative or negative sleeve. Date (year... More

Uncle Sam spending $3,000,000 to make one map. Washington D.C. July 28. A huge photographic map which when completed will have cost $3,000,000, is being put together by the Agriculture Adjustment Administration, Department of Agriculture, in Washington. Approximately one-thrid of the entire land surface of the United States is being photographed from the air from a distance of three to five miles up. The idea behind this gigantic job is to determine compliance in the Agricultural Conservation Program, plan soil conservation or Public Works projects, lay out roads, forests and public parks, drainage ditches, dams and lakes and also to seek to improve National Defense. (1) C.E. Kowalczyk, AAA worker, is shown making a stereoscopic examination of the finished photographic prints to determine the relief or elevation of land surface. 7/28/37

Uncle Sam spending $3,000,000 to make one map. Washington D.C. July 28...

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Senate quizzes Wabash R.R. head. Washington, D.C., Dec. 20. Before the Senate Rail Inquiry today, A.K. Atkinson, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer of the Wabash Railroad, testified that from January 1926 through January 1927, the road secretly purchased 231,319 shares of Lehigh Valley stock at a cost of $23,263,571. These purchases were made, Atkinson said, without authority of the Board of Directors. Chairman Wheeler indicated the transactions a "shocking revelation" and urged immediate legislative action to curtail the "juggling of books," 12/20/37

Senate quizzes Wabash R.R. head. Washington, D.C., Dec. 20. Before the...

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Wants dependant children cared for thru Social Security. Washington, D.C. June 8. Senator James P. Pope, Democrat of Idaho, has introduced a bill in the Senate to increase the Federal Government's contribution, through the Social Security Board, to care of dependent children from third the maintenance cost to one half. At present the government contributes half the cost of old age pensions and aid to the blind. The Pope proposal would bring the law with reference to dependent children in conformity to the provisions relating to other beneficiaries of the act. 6/8/37

Wants dependant children cared for thru Social Security. Washington, D...

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Old auto and Advance Rumley tractor in junkyard at Wildrose, North Dakota. Tractor cost six or seven thousand dollars and burned. A mixture of about fifty percent kerosene and fifty percent water. The water was added to keep the valves from overheating

Old auto and Advance Rumley tractor in junkyard at Wildrose, North Dak...

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Housing heads get together. Washington, D.C., Nov. 17. Attending the Annual Conference of Mayors today, were left to right: Mayor La Guardia of New York, Nathan Straus, of the United States Housing Authority; and Langdon Post, Chairman of the New York Housing Authority, who spoke on slum clearance and low cost housing. 11/17/37

Housing heads get together. Washington, D.C., Nov. 17. Attending the A...

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Meeting of New York's mayor and housing administrator ends in love feast. Washington, D.C., Dec. 11. What promised to be a red-hot meeting between U.S. Housing Administrator Nathan Straus (left) and New York Mayor Fiorella La Guardia took the form of a love feast before the confab ended. Straus said he had always considered Mayor La Guardia the best New York had had in his memory. While he noted New York's Housing Authority was starting two weeks late because it had not sent representatives to exploratory conferences, Administrator Straus promised La Guardia that they would receive the "same prompt consideration" of low cost housing project as any other community. 12/1/37

Meeting of New York's mayor and housing administrator ends in love fea...

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S.W. Sparlin: "This scale cost me

S.W. Sparlin: "This scale cost me

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Cost $2,000,000 to write U.S. checks. Washington, D.C., March 17. Reflecting the widening range of federal activity, the Treasury, as the Nation's Paymaster, issed 35,735,746 checks in 1936, as compared with 28,509,924 in 1935. Guy F. Allen, Chief Disbursing Officer of the Treasury says to make these payments cost about $2,000,000 or close to 6 cents a check

Cost $2,000,000 to write U.S. checks. Washington, D.C., March 17. Refl...

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Congratulations new U.S. Housing chief. Washington, D.C., Oct. 20. Secretary Of Interior Harold Ickes (left) congratulates Nathan Straus, New York Housing expert, on his appointment as Head of the new U.S. Housing Administration. Straus will be responsible for carrying out provisions of the $526,000,000 Wagner Act whereby the new deal hopes to clear city slums and make low cost housing available. Ickes and Straus are shown as they left the White house following a conference with President Roosevelt. 10/20/37

Congratulations new U.S. Housing chief. Washington, D.C., Oct. 20. Sec...

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"Rail Wages have increased 37 percent since 1929"-- facts finding commission told. Washington, D.C., Oct. 4. Dr. Wilfort I. King, Professor of economics at New York University, told the President's fact finding commission today that the average wages of railroad employees, measured in terms of buying power, increased 37 percent since 1929. He added, hourly earnings of railroad men have increased 15 percent while cost of living has fallen 16 percent in the same time, 10/4/38

"Rail Wages have increased 37 percent since 1929"-- facts finding comm...

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Harvesting milo maize, Tulare County, California. Cost of harvesting by this method totals ten dollars per acre. Cost of harvesting by cooperative harvester bought by Farm Security Administration (FSA) in this county, six dollars per acre

Harvesting milo maize, Tulare County, California. Cost of harvesting b...

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

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. This house which the family has just finished building is made of adobe bricks, made from clay on the farm. The cash cost in building the house was about six hundred dollars

Rural rehabilitation, Tulare County, California. In 1936 this family w...

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Putting fly in ointment of "McNutt-for -president" boom. Washington, D.C., April 21. If he continues the pace he is setting to date, Rep. Albert J. Engel, Republican of Michigan, appears certain to throw the "monkey wrench" into the gears of the "McNutt-for-President" boom which got underway during the past winter. Rep. Engel is pictured studying plans he dug up for the two palaces, "Summer" and "Regular" which as high commissioner of the Philippines, McNutt wants built as Commissioner's residences in islands. The proposed palaces are to cost $500,000 and $250,000 respectively. Rep. Engel takes great pride in pointing out that plans for the palaces include 18 lavatories and bathrooms with a seating capacity of 43, 4/21/38

Putting fly in ointment of "McNutt-for -president" boom. Washington, D...

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Harvesting milo maize, Tulare County, California. Cost of harvesting by this method totals ten dollars per acre. Cost of harvesting by cooperative harvester bought by Farm Security Administration (FSA) in this county, six dollars per acre

Harvesting milo maize, Tulare County, California. Cost of harvesting b...

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House at La Forge project, Missouri. A five-room house, this will cost approximately one thousand dollars

House at La Forge project, Missouri. A five-room house, this will cost...

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Declares TVA yardstick is sound. Washington, D.C., Dec. 15. Appearing before the Joint Congressional TVA Committee today, Leland Olds, Executive Secretary of the New York Power Authority and nationally recognize authority on utilities, declared the TVA yardstick is sound and worth '50 to 100 times a loss of $2,000,000 a year.' He condemned as a 'high cost' producer of electricity the commonwealth and southern corp., 12/15/38

Declares TVA yardstick is sound. Washington, D.C., Dec. 15. Appearing ...

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Asks $2,000,000,000 for super highway. Washington, D.C., Feb. 14. Sen. Robert Bulkley, D. of Ohio, who introduced a bill authorizing a bond issue of $2,000,000,000 to begin construction of a national system of ten superhighways, the entire cost when completed will cost about $8,000,000,000, the system will be self liquidating through reasonable toll charges and sale of highway frontage, the Senator is shown with ruler mapping the proposed highways, 2/14/38

Asks $2,000,000,000 for super highway. Washington, D.C., Feb. 14. Sen....

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Envoy and wife break ground for new Venezuelan Legation building. Washington, D.C., Dec. 29. Charge d'Affairs of Venezuela and Senora Jacinto Fombona-Pachano work the controls of shovel used in breaking ground today for erection of a new legation building at Massachusetts Ave. and California Street. The building will cost @200,000 and be completed within six months. The State Department recently announced that this country's legation in Venezuela and the Venezuelan Legation here will soon be elevated to the status of Embassies, 12/29/38

Envoy and wife break ground for new Venezuelan Legation building. Wash...

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U.S. to have world's greatest ship-testing basin. Carderock, MD., March 21. Work is rapidly going forward on the new U.S. Navy ship- testing basin now under construction here. It will be the largest ship-testng basin in the world and will have cost three million dollars when completed, 3/21/38

U.S. to have world's greatest ship-testing basin. Carderock, MD., Marc...

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Cooperatively owned stallion bought with an Farm Security Administration loan. Cost seven hundred dollars. In 1938 bred sixty-four mares. Dawson County, Nebraska

Cooperatively owned stallion bought with an Farm Security Administrati...

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Navy opens bids for battle wagons. Washington, D.C., Nov. 2. The Navy opened bids today on construction of three 35,000 ton battleships today, all bids specified that the dreadnaughts be completed within 52 months. The guns, armor plate, and other accessories to be furnished by the Government cost an estimated 15,000,000 dollars per ship. The ships are the first of that size to be built in 15 years. Seated, left. Admiral William Leahy, Chief of Naval Operations, and Sec. of the Navy Claude Swanson, right. Standing - left- Rear Admiral William G. Du Bose, Chief of the Bureau of Construction and Repair and right- Rear Admiral Charles Conard, Chief of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, 11/2/38

Navy opens bids for battle wagons. Washington, D.C., Nov. 2. The Navy ...

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Harvesting milo maize, Tulare County, California. Cost of harvesting by this method totals ten dollars per acre. Cost of harvesting by cooperative harvester bought by Farm Security Administration (FSA) in this county, six dollars per acre

Harvesting milo maize, Tulare County, California. Cost of harvesting b...

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This pumping plant for irrigation is powered by a natural gas engine which operates at about half the cost of electricity. Tulare County, California. Butane (natural gas in tanks) as a source of power on small farms is in Tulare, Kern, San Luis Obispo, and Santa Barbara Counties, California

This pumping plant for irrigation is powered by a natural gas engine w...

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Harvesting milo maize, Tulare County, California. Cost of harvesting by this method totals ten dollars per acre. Cost of harvesting by cooperative harvester bought by Farm Security Administration (FSA) in this county, six dollars per acre

Harvesting milo maize, Tulare County, California. Cost of harvesting b...

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

This pumping plant for irrigation is powered by a natural gas engine which operates on cost of about 12 the cost of electricity, Tulare County, California. Butane (natural gas in tanks) as a source of power on small farms is being developed by the Farm Security Administration Rural Rehabilitation Program in Tulare, Kern, San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties, California

This pumping plant for irrigation is powered by a natural gas engine w...

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

Harvesting milo maize, Tulare County, California. Cost of harvesting by this method totals ten dollars per acre. Cost of harvesting by cooperative harvester bought by Farm Security Administration (FSA) in this county, six dollars per acre

Harvesting milo maize, Tulare County, California. Cost of harvesting b...

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

Kitchen with stove bought last winter from Denver salesman. Great Western Sugar Company's beet sugar workers colony at Hudson, Colorado. The housewife says, "The man told me it would save its cost in food, but the roof leaks so bad it's getting all rusted up" (Notice hole in adobe wall above stove; this stove cost the earnings of about three months' work of all the workers in this family)

Kitchen with stove bought last winter from Denver salesman. Great West...

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6,750 airplanes equal 15 Battleships--Cook. Washington, D.C., Feb. 25. Testifying before the House Naval Affairs Committee today, Rear Admiral Arthur B. Cook, Chief of the Navy Department Bureau of Aeronautics, declared that it would take 6,750 airplanes to give the same volume of fire in one hour of 15 battleships. The cost of the 6,750 planes would be approximately seven times that of the 15 battleships if replacement requirements of the airplanes were considered, 2/25/38

6,750 airplanes equal 15 Battleships--Cook. Washington, D.C., Feb. 25....

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Harvesting milo maize, Tulare County, California. Cost of harvesting by this method totals ten dollars per acre. Cost of harvesting by cooperative harvester bought by Farm Security Administration (FSA) in this county, six dollars per acre

Harvesting milo maize, Tulare County, California. Cost of harvesting b...

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Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Enos Royer and the poultry buyer figuring the cost of chickens by weight. The chickens brought 14 1/2 cents per pound

Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Enos Royer and the poultry buyer figur...

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This pumping plant for irrigation is powered by a natural gas engine which operates on cost of about 1/2 the cost of electricity, Tulare County, California. Butane (natural gas in tanks) as a source of power on small farms is being developed by the Farm Security Administration Rural Rehabilitation Program in Tulare, Kern, San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties, California

This pumping plant for irrigation is powered by a natural gas engine w...

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Asks $2,000,000,000 for super highway. Washington, D.C., Feb. 14. Sen. Robert Bulkley, D. of Ohio, who introduced a bill authorizing a bond issue of $2,000,000,000 to begin construction of a national system of ten superhighways, the entire cost when completed will cost about $8,000,000,000, the system will be self liquidating through reasonable toll charges and sale of highway frontage, the Senator is shown with ruler mapping the proposed highways, 21438

Asks $2,000,000,000 for super highway. Washington, D.C., Feb. 14. Sen....

A man in a suit pointing at a map, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General infor... More

Kitchen with stove bought last winter from Denver salesman. Great Western Sugar Company's beet sugar workers colony at Hudson, Colorado. The housewife says, "The man told me it would save its cost in food, but the roof leaks so bad it's getting all rusted up" (Notice hole in adobe wall above stove; this stove cost the earnings of about three months' work of all the workers in this family)

Kitchen with stove bought last winter from Denver salesman. Great West...

Negative edge-numbered 44 V. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the F... More

Hired man on farm near Woodstock, Vermont, usually empties the radiator in his car every evening and refills it again with water in the morning to save the cost of antifreeze

Hired man on farm near Woodstock, Vermont, usually empties the radiato...

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PRESIDENT LAYS CORNERSTONE OF NEW JEFFERSON MEMORIAL. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT LAYING THE CORNERSTONE OF THE NEW JEFFERSON MEMORIAL ON THE BANKS OF THE POTOMAC RIVER. THE EDIFICE WHEN COMPLETED WILL HAVE COST $13,000,000. WITH THE PRESIDENT IS CAPT. DANIEL CALLAGHAN, WHITE HOUSE NAVAL AIDE

PRESIDENT LAYS CORNERSTONE OF NEW JEFFERSON MEMORIAL. PRESIDENT ROOSEV...

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Hired man on farm near Woodstock, Vermont, usually empties the radiator in his car every evening and refills it again with water in the morning to save the cost of antifreeze

Hired man on farm near Woodstock, Vermont, usually empties the radiato...

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On Saturday afternoon many high school students come to Dickinson's farm to ski. Mr Dickenson built a ski tow on his farm three years ago at a cost of one thousand dollars. This is the first year he had made any money, although business is increasing rapidly now. He has a small dairy farm and until the hurricane last year destroyed his entire grove of maple trees he made and sold maple syrup. Lisbon near Franconia, New Hampshire

On Saturday afternoon many high school students come to Dickinson's fa...

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A group of people riding skis down a snow covered slope, New Hamshire. Farm Security Organization photograph

A group of people riding skis down a snow covered slope, New Hamshire....

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Son of J.D. Smith, rural rehabilitation borrower on undeveloped government land. The water is carried from neighbor's house. He has a new mule and fertilizing distributor bought with FSA (Farm Security Administration) funds, Coffee County, Alabama. The mule cost one hundred and sixty-five dollars. They have thirty-eight acres in cultivation and have been planting corn

Son of J.D. Smith, rural rehabilitation borrower on undeveloped govern...

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A man standing in the snow with two buckets, Vermont. Farm Security Administration photogrpaph.

A man standing in the snow with two buckets, Vermont. Farm Security Ad...

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A black and white photo of a man in the back of a truck, Vermont. Farm Security Administration photogrpaph.

A black and white photo of a man in the back of a truck, Vermont. Farm...

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A black and white photo of a man standing next to a car in the snow, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a man standing next to a car in the snow, G...

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Monopoly Committee told price of auto wheels reduced 20 per cent in last five years. Washington, D.C., Jan. 20. Clarence C. Carlton, President of the Motor Wheel Corp. of Detroit, today told the Monopoly Committee that the patent system had engendered competitive conditions in the auto industry and lowered the cost of the product. He said, for example, that the cost of wheels had been reduced 20 percent during the last five years, 1/20/39

Monopoly Committee told price of auto wheels reduced 20 per cent in la...

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Harold Spivacke's recommendation that the Library authorize the recording expedition, with an estimate of the cost

Harold Spivacke's recommendation that the Library authorize the record...

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Home of old couple who have moved to tent home out of Sallisaw, Oklahoma, in order to save cost of rent and wood in town

Home of old couple who have moved to tent home out of Sallisaw, Oklaho...

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One of the county-constructed roads, eleven miles, without cost to the government, through Flint River Farms, Georgia

One of the county-constructed roads, eleven miles, without cost to the...

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Hired man on farm near Woodstock, Vermont, usually empties the radiator in his car every evening and refills it again with water in the morning to save the cost of antifreeze

Hired man on farm near Woodstock, Vermont, usually empties the radiato...

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