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Ceremonies - Ohio thru Wisconsin - Cleveland honors Red Cross Workers. Thousands of residents of Cleveland, O., lined the streets when the Red Cross workers of the city marched in review before the Mayor and other officials. The event was Red Cross Day and thousands of dollars were contributed to aid the cause. Floats representing different branches of the Red Cross service were a feature of the parade. 1917

Ceremonies - Ohio thru Wisconsin - Cleveland honors Red Cross Workers....

Date Taken: 1917. - Photographer: International Film Service Ceremonies - Ohio thru Wisconsin

American Red Cross - Soliciting Funds - Public Gatherings - American Red Cross Campaign, June 18-25, New York. Photo shows a sign which was moved one block for every million dollars raised nationally for the Red Cros. The appeal is for one hundred million dollars. June 18-25, 1917

American Red Cross - Soliciting Funds - Public Gatherings - American R...

Date Taken: 06/0/1918 Photographer: N.Y. Herald American Red Cross - Soliciting Funds - Public Gatherings

American Red Cross - Soliciting Funds - Entertainments - Efforts of Red Cross workers helps to well Red Cross Fund. Red Cross workers who have helped to collect over a quarter of a million dollars for the new York County Chapter of the American Red Cross. Marines also aided the cause

American Red Cross - Soliciting Funds - Entertainments - Efforts of Re...

Photographer: Kadel & Herbert American Red Cross - Soliciting Funds - Entertainments Public domain photograph related to the United States in World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picry... More

Ceremonies - Salutes and Parades - Ohio - John Philip Sousa and his Naval Band led the Electrical League flag through the streets of Cleveland, Ohio; thousands of dollars were thrown in the flag from the buildings as they passed

Ceremonies - Salutes and Parades - Ohio - John Philip Sousa and his Na...

Date Taken: 5/1/1918 Photographer: Cleo. Leader News Ceremonies - Salutes and Parades - Ohio

American Red Cross - Soliciting Funds - Public Gatherings - This float moves a block every time Red Cross Fund gains a million dollars. Starting at Fifth Avenue and Eight Street this little Red Cross float moved a block every time the Red Cross War Fund in the United States gained a million dollars

American Red Cross - Soliciting Funds - Public Gatherings - This float...

Date Taken: 5/20/1918 Photographer: Underwood & Underwood American Red Cross - Soliciting Funds - Public Gatherings

American Red Cross - War Work - Wells River, Vt., War Activities. Miss Catherine Dow, sixteen years old, standing beside cord of wood which she cut, piled and sold, realizing fifty dollars for the Red Cross

American Red Cross - War Work - Wells River, Vt., War Activities. Miss...

Photographer: U.S. Fuel Admin. American Red Cross - War Work Public domain photograph related to the United States in World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

"The first three!" Give till it hurts - they gave till they died War fund week--One hundred million dollars / / Kidder.

"The first three!" Give till it hurts - they gave till they died War f...

Poster showing three portraits of soldiers, captioned Hay, Enright, and Gresham, against an American flag. Form N.Y. 19 Second War Fund.

All we'll have to do for the rest of our lives will be to get away with our thousand dollars a month

All we'll have to do for the rest of our lives will be to get away wit...

(DLC/PP-1934:0045). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The High Heart" by Basil King, Saturday evening post, 190:19 (July 21, 1917).

Banish lonely hours in camp! Help provide libraries filled with books for soldiers A million dollars for a million books for a million men--Leave your money at the public library or at any bank.

Banish lonely hours in camp! Help provide libraries filled with books ...

Poster is text only. Text continues: The Library War Council - appointed by the War Department through the American Library Association - is raising one million dollars during Camp Library Week, Sept. 24-30, to... More

American Red Cross - Groups - Red Cross Workers, Miss Grace Barker and Caroline Blackwell, who have collected over a quarter of a million dollars for the New York County Chapter of the American Red Cross

American Red Cross - Groups - Red Cross Workers, Miss Grace Barker and...

Photographer: Kadel & Herbert American Red Cross - Groups Public domain photograph related to the United States in World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

American Red Cross - "Second Aid" - American Red Cross "Dollar Exchange" at Liverpool Docks, England. Here homeward bound soldiers can change French, Italian, and English money into real American money at normal rate of exchange. Fifty thousand dollars is average day's work of cashiers at this point. Similar exchanges are run by the Red Cross at various points in England

American Red Cross - "Second Aid" - American Red Cross "Dollar Exchang...

Photographer: American Red Cross American Red Cross - "Second Aid" Public domain photograph related to the United States in World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

American Red Cross - Soliciting Funds - Miscellaneous - American Red Cross painting being auctioned off in front of N.Y. Public Library. One hundred dollars was the price this painting brought

American Red Cross - Soliciting Funds - Miscellaneous - American Red C...

Photographer: Kadel & Herbert American Red Cross - Soliciting Funds - Miscellaneous Public domain photograph related to the United States in World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl... More

Hold up your end! War fund week - one hundred million dollars / W. B. King.

Hold up your end! War fund week - one hundred million dollars / W. B. ...

Poster showing a Red Cross nurse holding up one end of a stretcher, with the other end extended toward the viewer. Form N.Y. 18 Second War Fund.

If you only knew! - how much joy your dollars bring "Over there" you'd give and give and give!!!! United War-Work Campaign, Nov. 11th to 18th.

If you only knew! - how much joy your dollars bring "Over there" you'd...

Poster showing a soldier standing in snow, holding a mug from which steam is rising and eating a piece of pie, he has a big smile on his face. Also shown are emblems from the following organizations: War Camp C... More

"Shall we be more tender with our dollars than with the lives of our sons?" W.G. McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury Buy a United States government bond of the 2nd Liberty Loan of 1917 / / Edwards & Deutsch Litho. Co. Chicago.

"Shall we be more tender with our dollars than with the lives of our s...

Poster showing a soldier with a flag and a sailor with a sign, "We depend on you." No. 4.

Boy's Activities - War Work - Boy Scouts of Brooklyn, N.Y., starting out to help raise one hundred million dollars for the American Red Cross. June 1917

Boy's Activities - War Work - Boy Scouts of Brooklyn, N.Y., starting o...

Date Taken: 06/0/1917 Photographer: Paul Thompson Boy's Activities - War Work

Keep this hand of mercy at its work one hundred million dollars : War fund week / / P.G. Morgan.

Keep this hand of mercy at its work one hundred million dollars : War ...

American Red Cross campaign poster promoting the war fund showing large arm coming down from the sky. Form N.Y. 17 Second War Fund. Issued(?) by: American Red Cross.

The heaven that Sir Oliver and Sir Arthur report is the heaven imagined by fat-headed old women who love the dark and two dollars

The heaven that Sir Oliver and Sir Arthur report is the heaven imagine...

(DLC/PP-1934:0068). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The Case against Spiritualism" by Ruper Hughes, Metropolitan magazine, 47:29 (April 1918).

Hello! This is Liberty Speaking – Billions of Dollars Needed and Needed NOW

Hello! This is Liberty Speaking – Billions of Dollars Needed and Neede...

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Stock certificate for one share (five dollars) of the Black Star Line, Inc. dated November 21, 1919.

Stock certificate for one share (five dollars) of the Black Star Line,...

Monopoly Committee learns that five states hold 67 percent of U.S. savings. Washington, D.C., May 23. Dr. Donald Davenport, special economic consultant for the S.E.C., told the Monopoly Committee yesterday, with the aid of large charts, that New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut have 37.8 billions of dollars laid up in savings, this amount being 67 percent of the total savings of the United States

Monopoly Committee learns that five states hold 67 percent of U.S. sav...

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Asks 110,000 dollars for the death of her husband

Asks 110,000 dollars for the death of her husband

Photograph shows Katherine Imbrie, wife of slain American Vice Consul, Major Robert W. Imbrie, half-length portrait, standing, facing front, outside the U.S. Capitol after appearing before the House of Represen... More

Bridges. Simple, dignified design in the construction of a footbridge in a small town, necessitated by backflooding of the town creek when it became part of a reservoir. This bridge, located at Murphy, North Carolina, received the annual award of the American Steel Institute for all bridges under two hundred thousand dollars for 1939

Bridges. Simple, dignified design in the construction of a footbridge ...

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Photograph of Crowds Gathered as Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars in “Scrip Money” are Burned

Photograph of Crowds Gathered as Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars in “...

Photographic File of the Paris Bureau of the New York Times

Texas tenant farmer in Marysville, California, migrant camp during the peach season. 1927 made seven thousand dollars in cotton. 1928 broke even. 1929 went in the hole. 1930 still deeper. 1931 lost everything. 1932 hit the road. 1935, fruit tramp in California

Texas tenant farmer in Marysville, California, migrant camp during the...

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DALLAS, TEXAS TEACHER WINS TEN GRAND. TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS WORTH OF RADIO ESSAY CONTEST PRIZE MONEY GOES TO MISS MARGARET S. SPENCER, 37-YEAR-OLD DALLAS, TEXAS, SCHOOL TEACHER. THE CONTEST WAS AN OUTGROWTH OF A SERIES OF RADIO TALKS BY MRS. FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT. FROM THE LEFT: MRS. P.H. DEFFENDAHL, ST. LOUIS, SECOND PRIZE WINNER; MRS. ROOSEVELT; MISS SPENCER, THE WINNER, AND ROGER SELBY, OWNER OF [...] SHOE COMPANY SPONSORING THE RADIO TALKS

DALLAS, TEXAS TEACHER WINS TEN GRAND. TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS WORTH OF RA...

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The giant "King Crab" of the Bering Sea, which before the war supplied a substantial amount of the canned crab meat which the Japanese sold to the United States, will be canned commercially by Americans for the first time this year. Prior to the war the Japanese were taking the "King Crab" in sight of American territory, canning it on floating canneries, and shipping it to the United States for sale. In one pre-war year alone we imported 10,720,000 pounds of crab meat valued at 4,582,000 dollars from Japan and ninety-five percent of our canned crab meat came from this source

The giant "King Crab" of the Bering Sea, which before the war supplied...

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Two dollars a mile on China airmail. PMG James A. Farley, left, receives a bid from Warren Juan Trippe, President of Pan American Airways, for $2 a mile for an 800 pound loan of mail from San Francisco to China. The route is via Honolulu and Manila covering 16,000 miles. 10/21/35

Two dollars a mile on China airmail. PMG James A. Farley, left, receiv...

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The giant "King Crab" of the Bering Sea, which before the war supplied a substantial amount of the canned crab meat which the Japanese sold to the United States, will be canned commercially by Americans for the first time this year. Prior to the war the Japanese were taking the "King Crab" in sight of American territory, canning it on floating canneries, and shipping it to the United States for sale. In one pre-war year alone we imported 10,720,000 pounds of crab meat valued at 4,582,000 dollars from Japan and ninety-five percent of our canned crab meat came from this source

The giant "King Crab" of the Bering Sea, which before the war supplied...

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Mexican quarter of Los Angeles. One quarter mile from City Hall. Area has been condemned and will be torn down shortly to make space for the new Union Railroad station. Average rent is eight dollars

Mexican quarter of Los Angeles. One quarter mile from City Hall. Area ...

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El Monte federal subsistence housing. Three-room house. Seventeen dollars and seventy cents rent applied on purchase. Father: carpenter. California

El Monte federal subsistence housing. Three-room house. Seventeen doll...

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El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Seventeen dollars and seventy cents rent to apply on purchase of three-room house. California

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Seventeen dollars and seventy...

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El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Four in family. Three-room house, seventeen dollars and seventy cents rent to apply on purchase. Father's occupation: carpenter. Earns seventy dollars a month. California

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Four in family. Three-room ho...

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New barn which rehabilitation built with loan of four hundred and fifty dollars. Old barn in background. Ada County, Idaho

New barn which rehabilitation built with loan of four hundred and fift...

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...

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

An electric pump, one of the newest type water pumps in Arkansas. Rice farming business near Harrisburg. This farm figures expenses of sixty dollars a day, covering everything from electricity to labor, from the day of tilling the soil until the reaping of the rice

An electric pump, one of the newest type water pumps in Arkansas. Rice...

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El Monte Federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred homes, each with three quarters of an acre land, all occupied. Average family income, eight hundred dollars per annum

El Monte Federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred homes, each with ...

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Barn on J.E. Herbrandson farm near Estherville, Iowa. Owner-operated. This farm is under heavy mortgage. It was bought originally at two hundred dollars per acre in fall of 1919. Pressure to keep up payments has resulted in general disrepair. Payments made up to April, 1936. Owner had to sell this year's crop to make payment. He is one year behind because of poor crops and high interest

Barn on J.E. Herbrandson farm near Estherville, Iowa. Owner-operated. ...

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San Fernando federal subsistence homesteads. Forty homes, all occupied, each with nearly an acre of ground. Average income eight hundred dollars yearly. California

San Fernando federal subsistence homesteads. Forty homes, all occupied...

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San Fernando federal subsistence homesteads. Forty homes all occupied, each with nearly an acre land. Average yearly income eight hundred dollars. California

San Fernando federal subsistence homesteads. Forty homes all occupied,...

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San Fernando Federal Subsistence Homesteads. Forty homes, each with three quarters of an acre land. Average family income eight hundred dollars per annum. All of the homes are occupied

San Fernando Federal Subsistence Homesteads. Forty homes, each with th...

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El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred homes. All occupied, each with nearly an acre of ground. Average yearly income eight hundred dollars. California

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred homes. All occupi...

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El Monte federal subsistence housing. 100 homes all occupied. Each with nearly an acre. Average yearly income eight hundred dollars. California.

El Monte federal subsistence housing. 100 homes all occupied. Each wit...

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Winter fuel supply on Edgar Allen farm. They hauled old stumps from highway construction, being too poor to buy fuel. This family is being helped by Resettlement Administration, one hundred sixty acres, two-fifths crop, two hundred dollars rent. Allen has had poor crops and has been ill with bronchitis. Near Milford, Iowa

Winter fuel supply on Edgar Allen farm. They hauled old stumps from hi...

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Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas. A family of six alongside the road. An example of how they fall between the relief agencies. The father, aged thirty-five, is an intelligent fellow, a painter by trade. Advanced tuberculosis, victim of an occupational disease. Ineligible for WPA (Works Progress Administration), rated as totally disabled. As a state charge under Oklahoma relief standards, the family were told the maximum relief would be seven dollars every two weeks. They lost their home, their furniture, took to the road a year ago and when the photographs were made they were found to be without money, shelter, and without food for the four children

Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas. A family of six alongside the r...

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El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Four-bedroom house. Eight in family, six boys, aged one to fourteen. Father is conductor (streetcar), one hundred dollars monthly. Pays sixteen dollars and twenty cents a month rent on purchase. California

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Four-bedroom house. Eight in ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a garden, gardening, agriculture, plants, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. 100 homes. All occupied, each with nearly an acre. Average yearly income eight hundred dollars. California

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. 100 homes. All occupied, each...

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El Monte federal homesteads. One hundred occupied homes, each with nearly an acre. Average yearly income eight hundred dollars. California

El Monte federal homesteads. One hundred occupied homes, each with nea...

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El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred homes, all occupied, each with three quarters of an acre land. Average family income, eight hundred dollars per annum

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred homes, all occupi...

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El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred homes, all occupied, each with three quarters of an acre land. Average family income, eight hundred dollars per annum

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred homes, all occupi...

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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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Mexican quarter of Los Angeles. One quarter mile from City Hall. Areas have been condemned and will be torn down shortly to make space for the new Union Railroad station. Average rental eight dollars. Some of the houses have plumbing

Mexican quarter of Los Angeles. One quarter mile from City Hall. Areas...

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Oklahoma migrant, Texas. An example of how they fall between the relief agencies. The father, aged thirty-five, is an intelligent fellow, a painter by trade. Advanced tuberculosis, victim of an occupational disease. Ineligible for WPA (Works Progress Administration), rated as totally disabled. As a state charge under Oklahoma relief standards, the family were told the maximum relief would be seven dollars every two weeks. They lost their home, their furniture,

Oklahoma migrant, Texas. An example of how they fall between the relie...

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Migrant family in Kern County. This family was sent back at the state line by Los Angeles police. Refused entrance into California, and it was only after they had wired back to Arkansas to borrow fifty dollars cash to show at the border that they were permitted to enter

Migrant family in Kern County. This family was sent back at the state ...

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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...

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

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...

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

San Fernando federal subsistence homesteads. Forty occupied homes, each with nearly an acre. Average yearly income eight hundred dollars

San Fernando federal subsistence homesteads. Forty occupied homes, eac...

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Housing. Los Angeles. Within five minutes walk of City Hall. Rent eight dollars to twelve dollars monthly

Housing. Los Angeles. Within five minutes walk of City Hall. Rent eigh...

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Negro tenant family who barely lives on the earnings of fifty dollars a year. They pay a standing rent. There are five children working; ages from seven to fourteen. The older children cultivating, the younger children hoeing and chopping. Eutaw, Alabama

Negro tenant family who barely lives on the earnings of fifty dollars ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty during the Great Depression, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Two-bedroom house, three in family. Girl eleven. Father truck driver. Earns ninety-five dollars monthly, pays fifteen dollars and twenty cents rent to apply on purchase. California

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Two-bedroom house, three in f...

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Mission District. San Francisco, California. Rent twenty to twenty-two dollars a month for three or four rooms

Mission District. San Francisco, California. Rent twenty to twenty-two...

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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...

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

Background photo for Hightstown project. The present home of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Solomon and family, 133 Avenue D, New York City. This family is included in the first unit of thirty-five families to be resettled at Hightstown in July, 1936. For four very small rooms in tenement they pay eighteen dollars monthly

Background photo for Hightstown project. The present home of Mr. and M...

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Consumers, near Price, Utah. Company housing. Rent approximately eight dollars monthly in Utah coal town

Consumers, near Price, Utah. Company housing. Rent approximately eight...

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El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred occupied homes, each with three quarters of an acre. Average yearly income eight hundred dollars. California

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred occupied homes, e...

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Housing. City of Los Angeles. Within five minutes walk of City Hall. Rent eight dollars monthly

Housing. City of Los Angeles. Within five minutes walk of City Hall. R...

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El Monte federal subsistence homesteads Four-bedroom house. Eight in family, six boys ages one to fourteen, California. Father is streetcar conductor, one hundred dollars a month. Pays sixteen dollars and twenty cents a month rent to apply on purchase

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads Four-bedroom house. Eight in ...

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Mexican quarter of Los Angeles, California. Average rental is eight dollars. Some houses have plumbing. See card 1799-C for detailed information

Mexican quarter of Los Angeles, California. Average rental is eight do...

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El Monte federal subsistence homesteads Four-bedroom house. Eight in family, six boys ages one to fourteen, California. Father is streetcar conductor, one hundred dollars a month. Pays sixteen dollars and twenty cents a month rent to apply on purchase

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads Four-bedroom house. Eight in f...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc... More

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Four-bedroom house. Eight in family, six boys, aged one to fourteen. Father is conductor (streetcar), one hundred dollars monthly. Pays sixteen dollars and twenty cents a month rent on purchase. California

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Four-bedroom house. Eight in ...

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Coorperative sugarcane processing plant taken from Mississippi River levee costing approximately one hundred and seventeen thousand dollars. Growing 2819 cane in foreground. Capacity is one thousand tons per day. Serves territory in twenty mile radius. Works October through December. St. Charles Parish, Louisiana

Coorperative sugarcane processing plant taken from Mississippi River l...

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Edgar Allen, wife, and children. They are tenants of private party on one hundred sixty acre farm near Milford, Iowa. Crop share lease, two-fifths of all crops and two hundred dollars rent. This is an extreme case of poverty in northwest Iowa. Children are very smart and seemingly very happy

Edgar Allen, wife, and children. They are tenants of private party on ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

El Monte federal subsistence Homesteads. One hundred occupied homes, each with three quarters of an acre. Average yearly income eight hundred dollars. California

El Monte federal subsistence Homesteads. One hundred occupied homes, e...

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El Monte Federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred homes, all occupied, each with nearly an acre of land. Average family income eight hundred dollars per annum

El Monte Federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred homes, all occupi...

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Hay costing twenty dollars a ton being unloaded to feed stock. East of Dickinson, North Dakota

Hay costing twenty dollars a ton being unloaded to feed stock. East of...

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El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred homes, all occupied, each with three quarters of an acre land. Average family income eight hundred dollars per annum

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred homes, all occupi...

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Street scene in the mining settlement of Zookspur, Iowa, where part of the occupants of the Granger Homestead formerly lived. Each pump services four houses. Rent four dollars per month

Street scene in the mining settlement of Zookspur, Iowa, where part of...

San Fernando federal subsistence homesteads. Forty homes, all occupied, each with nearly an acre of ground. Average income eight hundred dollars yearly. California

San Fernando federal subsistence homesteads. Forty homes, all occupied...

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El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Three-room house seventy dollars and seventy cents monthly. Rent to apply on purchase. Four in family. Father, carpenter, earns seventy dollars monthly. California

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Three-room house seventy doll...

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Tarpapered shack formerly occupied by Max Sparks and his family near Tipler, Wisconsin. Sparks could not meet the payments of three dollars per month and lost this property after paying about one hundred dollars

Tarpapered shack formerly occupied by Max Sparks and his family near T...

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

Sharecropper. Receives five dollars a month "furnish" from the landowner. Macon County, Georgia

Sharecropper. Receives five dollars a month "furnish" from the landown...

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Slums of East El Centro, California. Typical of housing and sanitary conditions of Mexican field workers of the Imperial Valley. The houses rent for eight dollars a month

Slums of East El Centro, California. Typical of housing and sanitary c...

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Family of James Strunk, farmer. Works for WPA (Works Progress Administration), earns forty-four dollars per month, drives twenty-six miles to work fourteen days per month. Car expense comes out of the forty-four dollars. Has eight children, four of them at home. Wheelock, North Dakota

Family of James Strunk, farmer. Works for WPA (Works Progress Adminis...

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Henry Lotz closing the gate to the barns at the Midway City Dairy Association, near Santa Ana. Orange County, California. Seven families obtained a loan of seven thousand eight hundred fifty dollars from the Resettlement Administration payable in installments over a period of five years and and started a cooperative. From their earnings and wages they have met every payment when due. Henry Lotz says "This Resettlement loan, it's a future to us from the bidding platform for old age labor"

Henry Lotz closing the gate to the barns at the Midway City Dairy Asso...

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The home of Max Sparks and family near Long Lake, Wisconsin. The family was forced to move from the place they were buying to this shack because of inability to pay three dollars monthly which was the basis of the contract. In moving from one county to another they have jeopardized their qualifications for receiving relief

The home of Max Sparks and family near Long Lake, Wisconsin. The famil...

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Landless family of cotton sharecroppers, Macon County, Georgia. For their labor they receive half the crop they produce, and the equivalent of ten dollars a month "furnish" (credit) from the landlord. Their vegetable garden failed this year for lack of rain

Landless family of cotton sharecroppers, Macon County, Georgia. For th...

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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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John Today, an old miner now receiving six dollars and sixty-five cents a month on relief. He is a single shacker in Iron County, Michigan

John Today, an old miner now receiving six dollars and sixty-five cent...

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Tarpapered shack formerly occupied by Max Sparks and his family near Tipler, Wisconsin. Sparks could not meet the payments of three dollars per month and lost this property after paying about one hundred dollars

Tarpapered shack formerly occupied by Max Sparks and his family near T...

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Sharecropper's child whose father receives five dollars a month "furnish" from the landowners. Macon County, Georgia

Sharecropper's child whose father receives five dollars a month "furni...

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Slums of East El Centro, California. Housing for Mexican field workers. They rent for eight dollars a month. Imperial Valley

Slums of East El Centro, California. Housing for Mexican field workers...

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DEMOCRATIC VICTORY DINNER. WASHINGTON, D.C. MARCH 4. WITH PRESIDENT AND MRS. ROOSEVELT AS HONORED GUESTS, THOUSANDS OF LOYAL DEMOCRATS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE COUNTRY SAT DOWN TO THE HUNDRED-DOLLAR-A-PLATE DINNER TONIGHT IN WASHINGTON TO CELEBRATE THE OVERWHELMING DEMOCRATIC VICTORY IN LAST NOVEMBER'S ELECTIONS. ACTUALLY ONLY FIVE DOLLARS WENT FOR FOOD, THE OTHER NINETY-FIVE DOLLARS WAS STORED AWAY IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY WAR CHEST. PRESIDENT AND MRS. ROOSEVELT ARE SHOWN WITH POSTMASTER GENERAL JAMES A. FARLEY, CHAIRMAN OF THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE

DEMOCRATIC VICTORY DINNER. WASHINGTON, D.C. MARCH 4. WITH PRESIDENT AN...

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Pennsylvania: A black and white photo of a man with a bucket. Great Depression

Pennsylvania: A black and white photo of a man with a bucket. Great De...

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Autoworkers' houses. These houses rent for twenty-five to thirty dollars and have stoves, but water is drawn from a commercial well. Flint, Michigan

Autoworkers' houses. These houses rent for twenty-five to thirty dolla...

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Man salvaging coal; they receive ten cents per hundred pound sack or two dollars a ton, one man can make from ten to twenty sacks a day, Nanty Glo, Pennsylvania

Man salvaging coal; they receive ten cents per hundred pound sack or t...

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Mrs. Hale and her oldest son in front of their home near Black River Falls, Wisconsin. This farm house was built with a total expenditure of three dollars in money

Mrs. Hale and her oldest son in front of their home near Black River F...

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U.S. Expert on burnt and mutilated currency. Washington, D.C., Oct. 8. For years it has been the duty of Miss Bertha M. Sherfy to pass on the genuineness of the burnt and mutilated currency which is sent to the U.S. Treasury for Redemption. Miss Sherfy says she finds the most difficult currency to identify is that which has been buried underground, expose to water, dampness, etc. Charred money is too easy to identify but currency burned to a gray ash can never be distinguished. An average of three million dollars of this type of money is forwarded to the Treasury for redemption every [...]

U.S. Expert on burnt and mutilated currency. Washington, D.C., Oct. 8....

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Pennsylvania: A black and white photo of a man sitting on top of a hill. Great Depression

Pennsylvania: A black and white photo of a man sitting on top of a hil...

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Scramble for Roosevelt pitch. Washington D.C., July 7. Risking millions of dollars of arms and limbs players from both All-Star teams stage a mad scramble to the first ball pitched by President Roosevelt to start the 1937 game today. Joe Moore, N.Y. Giants outfielder, caught the much coveted souvenir, 7/7/37

Scramble for Roosevelt pitch. Washington D.C., July 7. Risking million...

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