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Wife and child of day laborers, sugarcane fields near New Iberia, Louisiana

Wife and child of day laborers, sugarcane fields near New Iberia, Loui...

November 1938 Public domain photograph by National Parks Administration, nature conservation, tourism, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cotton hoers (day laborers) move from one field across the highway to another. Mississippi Delta

Cotton hoers (day laborers) move from one field across the highway to ...

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

Ex-tenants, now day laborers. Ellis County, Texas

Ex-tenants, now day laborers. Ellis County, Texas

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

Ex-tenants, now day laborers. Ellis County, Texas

Ex-tenants, now day laborers. Ellis County, Texas

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cotton farmers near Oil City, Oklahoma, day laborers. Carter County, Oklahoma

Cotton farmers near Oil City, Oklahoma, day laborers. Carter County, O...

Public domain photograph of military personnel, army, militia, infantry, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Day laborers hoeing cotton. Many tenant farmers become day laborers on mechanized farms. Near Corsicana, Texas

Day laborers hoeing cotton. Many tenant farmers become day laborers on...

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

Day laborers hoeing cotton. Many tenant farmers become day laborers on mechanized farms. Near Corsicana, Texas

Day laborers hoeing cotton. Many tenant farmers become day laborers on...

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

Cotton hoers (day laborers) move from one field across the highway to another. Mississippi Delta

Cotton hoers (day laborers) move from one field across the highway to ...

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

A black and white photo of a group of men in a field, Arkansas. Farmers during Great Depression.

A black and white photo of a group of men in a field, Arkansas. Farmer...

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

A group of men standing next to each other, Arkansas. Farmers during Great Depression.

A group of men standing next to each other, Arkansas. Farmers during G...

Public domain photograph of military personnel, army, militia, infantry, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a man sitting in front of a truck, Arkansas. Farmers during Great Depression.

A black and white photo of a man sitting in front of a truck, Arkansas...

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

Recording weights of cotton picked by day laborers, Lake Dick Project, Arkansas

Recording weights of cotton picked by day laborers, Lake Dick Project,...

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

A black and white photo of a woman holding a baby, Louisiana. Farmers during Great Depression

A black and white photo of a woman holding a baby, Louisiana. Farmers ...

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

Day laborers, cotton pickers, waiting to be paid off at end of day's work. Lake Dick Project, Arkansas

Day laborers, cotton pickers, waiting to be paid off at end of day's w...

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

Wife and child of day laborers, sugarcane fields near New Iberia, Louisiana

Wife and child of day laborers, sugarcane fields near New Iberia, Loui...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Day laborers, cotton pickers, waiting to be paid off at end of day's work. Lake Dick Project, Arkansas

Day laborers, cotton pickers, waiting to be paid off at end of day's 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

Cotton pickers, day laborers, waiting to be paid at end of day's work.  Lake Dick Project, Arkansas

Cotton pickers, day laborers, waiting to be paid at end of day's work....

Public domain photograph of American farm workers, countryside in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of people in a cotton field, Arkansas. Farmers during Great Depression.

A black and white photo of people in a cotton field, Arkansas. Farmers...

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

Wife and child of day laborers, sugarcane fields near New Iberia, Louisiana

Wife and child of day laborers, sugarcane fields near New Iberia, Loui...

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 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.

Cotton pickers, day laborers, walking in from field with cotton. Lake Dick Project, Arkansas

Cotton pickers, day laborers, walking in from field with cotton. Lake ...

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

Wife and child of day laborers, sugarcane fields near New Iberia, Louisiana

Wife and child of day laborers, sugarcane fields near New Iberia, Loui...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Cotton pickers, day laborers, walking in from field with cotton. Lake Dick Project, Arkansas

Cotton pickers, day laborers, walking in from field with cotton. Lake ...

Additional information on caption card: For M4 use copy negative in series LC-USF331. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division... More

Wife and child of day laborers, sugarcane fields near New Iberia, Louisiana

Wife and child of day laborers, sugarcane fields near New Iberia, Loui...

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

Recording weights of cotton picked by day laborers, Lake Dick Project, Arkansas

Recording weights of cotton picked by day laborers, Lake Dick Project,...

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 group of men in a field, possibly related to: Day laborers, cotton pickers, waiting to be paid off at end of day's work. Lake Dick Project, Arkansas

A black and white photo of a group of men in a field, possibly related...

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 sitting in front of a truck, possibly related to: Recording weights of cotton picked by day laborers, Lake Dick Project, Arkansas

A black and white photo of a man sitting in front of a truck, possibly...

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 woman holding a baby Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information photo.

A black and white photo of a woman holding a baby Farm Security Admini...

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

Day laborers, cotton pickers, in field, Lake Dick Project, Arkansas

Day laborers, cotton pickers, in field, 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

End of hand of poker played by day laborers at home near New Iberia, Louisiana

End of hand of poker played by day laborers at home near New Iberia, L...

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

Day laborers, cotton pickers, in field, Lake Dick Project, Arkansas

Day laborers, cotton pickers, in field, Lake Dick Project, Arkansas

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

Cotton pickers, day laborers, waiting to be paid at end of day's work. Lake Dick Project, Arkansas

Cotton pickers, day laborers, waiting to be paid at end of day's work....

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 group of people in a field, Arkansas. Farmers during Great Depression.

A black and white photo of a group of people in a field, Arkansas. Far...

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

A black and white photo of a group of people in a cotton field, possibly related to: Day laborers, cotton pickers, in field, Lake Dick Project, Arkansas

A black and white photo of a group of people in a cotton field, possib...

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

End of hand of poker played by day laborers at home near New Iberia, Louisiana

End of hand of poker played by day laborers at home near New Iberia, L...

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

Day laborers carrying sacks of cotton from field to cotton house to be weighed, Marcella Plantation, Mileston, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

Day laborers carrying sacks of cotton from field to cotton house to be...

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 group of men standing next to a truck, possibly related to: Day laborers being hired for cotton picking on Mississippi and Arkansas plantations. Between four and six-thirty every morning during the season, near the Hallan Bridge in Memphis, Tennessee, crowds of Negroes in the streets gather and are loaded into trucks by drivers who bid, and offer them anywhere from fifty cents to one dollar per day

A group of men standing next to a truck, possibly related to: Day labo...

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 group of people standing around a train, possibly related to: Day laborers being hired for cotton picking on Mississippi and Arkansas plantations. Between four and six-thirty every morning during the season, near the Hallan Bridge in Memphis, Tennessee, crowds of Negroes in the streets gather and are loaded into trucks by drivers who bid, and offer them anywhere from fifty cents to one dollar per day

A group of people standing around a train, possibly related to: Day la...

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 group of people standing around a train, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A group of people standing around a train, Tennessee. Farm Security Ad...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a truck and a train, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a truck and a train, Tennessee. Farm Securi...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of people riding in a truck, possibly related to: Day laborers being hired for cotton picking on Mississippi and Arkansas plantations. Between four and six-thirty every morning during the season, near the Hallan Bridge in Memphis, Tennessee, crowds of Negroes in the streets gather and are loaded into trucks by drivers who bid, and offer them anywhere from fifty cents to one dollar per day

A black and white photo of people riding in a truck, possibly related ...

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

Day laborers carrying sacks of cotton from field to cotton house to be weighed, Marcella Plantation, Mileston, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

Day laborers carrying sacks of cotton from field to cotton house to be...

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 and white agricultural day laborers picking string beans in field near Muskogee, Oklahoma

Negro and white agricultural day laborers picking string beans in fiel...

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

A group of men standing next to a truck, possibly related to: Day laborers come in cars and trucks to pick cotton on Marcella Plantation, Mileston, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

A group of men standing next to a truck, possibly related to: Day labo...

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 group of people picking cotton in a field, possibly related to: Day laborers picking cotton on Marcella Plantation, Mileston, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

A group of people picking cotton in a field, possibly related to: Day ...

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

Negro and white agricultural day laborers picking string beans in field near Muskogee, Oklahoma

Negro and white agricultural day laborers picking string beans in fiel...

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 group of people picking cotton in a field, Mississippi. Farmers during Great Depression.

A group of people picking cotton in a field, Mississippi. Farmers duri...

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

A black and white photo of three people sitting in a field, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of three people sitting in a field, Great Depr...

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

Corner of living room in home of agricultural day laborers living north of Sallisaw, Oklahoma. Sequoyah County

Corner of living room in home of agricultural day laborers living nort...

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

Clothes of white agricultural day laborers drying on old fence with broken plow in foreground, north of Sallisaw, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma

Clothes of white agricultural day laborers drying on old fence with br...

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 group of people on a street, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a group of people on a street, Tennessee. F...

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

Weighing and picking operations on Nugent cotton plantation, Benoit, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi. The pickers are hired day laborers from Greenville, and receive seventy-five cents per one hundred pounds

Weighing and picking operations on Nugent cotton plantation, Benoit, M...

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

A group of men standing next to a building, possibly related to: Day laborers carrying sack of cotton from field to cotton house to be weighed, Marcella Plantation, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

A group of men standing next to a building, possibly related to: Day l...

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

Day laborers (from nearby towns or migrant) picking string beans among the poles for overhead irrigation, Seabrook Farms, Bridgeton, N.J

Day laborers (from nearby towns or migrant) picking string beans among...

11671-23. 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

A black and white photo of a group of people in a field, possibly related to: Day laborers carrying sacks of cotton from field to cotton house to be weighed, Marcella Plantation, Mileston, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

A black and white photo of a group of people in a field, possibly rela...

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

Family of Negro agricultural day laborers eating lunch in string bean field near Muskogee, Oklahoma

Family of Negro agricultural day laborers eating lunch in string bean ...

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

Local agricultural day laborers, potato workers, after a day's work near Spiro, Oklahoma

Local agricultural day laborers, potato workers, after a day's work ne...

File print misnumbered LC-USF33-012263-M4; corrected Feb. 1998. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division;... More

Family of agricultural day laborers living in tent near Spiro, Oklahoma. This family had farmed in this vicinity for twenty-five years but could no longer find a place to rent. They had no money and no car but hoped to get work in the potato fields and chopping cotton and picking roasting ears. They wanted to buy a car and get on to California but if they couldn't make it the man said they couldn't run him out of Oklahoma

Family of agricultural day laborers living in tent near Spiro, Oklahom...

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

A black and white photo of a group of people riding on the back of a truck, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a group of people riding on the back of a t...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of migrant workers, 1930s car, Great Depression, Dust Bowl refugees, poverty, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Day laborers working on tractors, large farm near Ralls, Texas

Day laborers working on tractors, large farm near Ralls, Texas

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

A group of men standing next to a truck in a field, possibly related to: Day laborers come in cars and trucks to pick cotton on Marcella Plantation, Mileston, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

A group of men standing next to a truck in a field, possibly related t...

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 people in a field Farmers of Great Depression. Dust bowl refugees, Resettlement program.

A black and white photo of people in a field Farmers of Great Depressi...

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 group of people standing around a truck, possibly related to: Weighing and picking operations on Nugent cotton plantation, Benoit, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi. The pickers are hired day laborers from Greenville, and receive seventy-five cents per one hundred pounds

A group of people standing around a truck, possibly related to: Weighi...

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

Day laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Miss.

Day laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Miss.

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

Day laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Miss.

Day laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Miss.

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

A black and white photo of a group of men standing next to a truck, possibly related to: Day laborers being hired for cotton picking on Mississippi and Arkansas plantations. Between four and six-thirty every morning during the season, near the Hallan Bridge in Memphis, Tennessee, crowds of Negroes in the streets gather and are loaded into trucks by drivers who bid, and offer them anywhere from fifty cents to one dollar per day

A black and white photo of a group of men standing next to a truck, po...

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 next to a truck, possibly related to: Day laborers being hired for cotton picking on Mississippi and Arkansas plantations. Between four and six-thirty every morning during the season, near the Hallan Bridge in Memphis, Tennessee, crowds of Negroes in the streets gather and are loaded into trucks by drivers who bid, and offer them anywhere from fifty cents to one dollar per day

A black and white photo of a man standing next to a truck, possibly re...

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 group of people walking down a street One of the tens of thousands untitled images from  FSA/OWI

A black and white photo of a group of people walking down a street One...

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

Day laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Miss.

Day laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Miss.

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

A black and white photo of people in a field, Mississippi. Farmers during Great Depression.

A black and white photo of people in a field, Mississippi. Farmers dur...

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

A black and white photo of people picking cotton, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of people picking cotton, Great Depression. FS...

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

Weighing and picking operations on Nugent cotton plantation, Benoit, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi. The pickers are hired day laborers from Greenville, and receive seventy-five cents per one hundred pounds

Weighing and picking operations on Nugent cotton plantation, Benoit, M...

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 long line of trucks, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a long line of trucks, Tennessee. Farm Secu...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of migrant workers, 1930s car, Great Depression, Dust Bowl refugees, poverty, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Home of Negro agricultural day laborers in Arkansas River bottoms. Near Vian, Oklahoma, Sequoyah County

Home of Negro agricultural day laborers in Arkansas River bottoms. Nea...

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

Two agricultural day laborers eating dinner after spending the morning chopping cotton. Beans are the staple fare of these workers. Near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma

Two agricultural day laborers eating dinner after spending the morning...

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

Mother and child of agricultural day laborers family encamped near Spiro. Sequoyah County, Oklahoma

Mother and child of agricultural day laborers family encamped near Spi...

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

Home of Negro agricultural day laborers in Arkansas River bottoms. Near Vian, Oklahoma, Sequoyah County

Home of Negro agricultural day laborers in Arkansas River bottoms. Nea...

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

A black and white photo of people in a field, Mississippi. Farmers during Great Depression.

A black and white photo of people in a field, Mississippi. Farmers dur...

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

A black and white photo of a group of people riding in a truck, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a group of people riding in a truck, Tennes...

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

A group of people standing around a truck, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A group of people standing around a truck, Tennessee. Farm Security Ad...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a truck and a car, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a truck and a car, Tennessee. Farm Security...

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

Interior of tent of migrant agricultural day laborers camped near Vian, Oklahoma

Interior of tent of migrant agricultural day laborers camped near Vian...

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

A couple of men standing next to a pile of cotton, Mississippi. Farmers during Great Depression.

A couple of men standing next to a pile of cotton, Mississippi. Farmer...

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

Sons of day laborers. Some of their fathers were agricultural workers and some were dispossessed tenant farmers now on WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration). The WPA work is holding many of these former tenant farmers in their communities, but they are all potential migrants. None of these children had ever attended school. The camp was near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma

Sons of day laborers. Some of their fathers were agricultural workers ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a school, preschool, children, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A couple of men sitting next to a horse, possibly related to: Day laborers at work on tractor, large farm near Ralls, Texas

A couple of men sitting next to a horse, possibly related to: Day labo...

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

Day laborers being hired for cotton picking on Mississippi and Arkansas plantations. Between four and six-thirty every morning during the season, near the Hallan Bridge in Memphis, Tennessee, crowds of Negroes in the streets gather and are loaded into trucks by drivers who bid, and offer them anywhere from fifty cents to one dollar per day

Day laborers being hired for cotton picking on Mississippi and Arkansa...

Public domain photograph of train tracks, railroad works, construction workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Day laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Miss

Day laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Miss

11671-8. 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. Addi... More

Mr. Jones, one of owners of Marcella Plantation, talking to one of day laborers who was picking his cotton, Marcella Plantation, Mileston, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

Mr. Jones, one of owners of Marcella Plantation, talking to one of day...

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 three people sitting in a field Farmers of Great Depression. Dust bowl refugees, Resettlement program.

A black and white photo of three people sitting in a field Farmers of ...

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 little girl sitting on a blanket in the grass, possibly related to: Children of agricultural day laborers camped by the roadside near Spiro, Oklahoma. There were no beds and no protection from the profusion of flies

A little girl sitting on a blanket in the grass, possibly related to: ...

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

Day laborers come in cars and trucks to pick cotton on Marcella Plantation, Mileston, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

Day laborers come in cars and trucks to pick cotton on Marcella Planta...

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

Privy of agricultural day laborers living in the Arkansas River bottom near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma. Muskogee County

Privy of agricultural day laborers living in the Arkansas River bottom...

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

Day laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Miss

Day laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Miss

11671-8. 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. Addi... More

Local agricultural day laborers, potato workers, after a day's work near Spiro, Oklahoma

Local agricultural day laborers, potato workers, after a day's work ne...

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

Texas photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Photograph.

Texas photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of War Infor...

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 people in a field, Mississippi. Farmers during Great Depression.

A black and white photo of people in a field, Mississippi. Farmers dur...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A group of men standing around a truck, possibly related to: Day laborers being hired for cotton picking on Mississippi and Arkansas plantations. Between four and six-thirty every morning during the season, near the Hallan Bridge in Memphis, Tennessee, crowds of Negroes in the streets gather and are loaded into trucks by drivers who bid, and offer them anywhere from fifty cents to one dollar per day

A group of men standing around a truck, possibly related to: Day labor...

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 group of people on a street Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information photo.

A black and white photo of a group of people on a street Farm Security...

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

Day laborers carrying sacks of cotton from field to cotton house to be weighed, Marcella Plantation, Mileston, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

Day laborers carrying sacks of cotton from field to cotton house to be...

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 walking down a street, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a group of people walking down a street, Te...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of migrant workers, 1930s car, Great Depression, Dust Bowl refugees, poverty, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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