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Alien Property Custodian - Sale of Property - Tobacco for Austria confiscated by U.S. Nearly four and a half million pounds of tobacco, purchased by Austria before the break in friendly relations, was confiscated by the U.S. Gov. and sold at public auction. The sale was held at the old tobacco exchange at Richmond, VA. The photograph shows prospective buyers on the scene of the sale. This is the first public sale of enemy property by the Alien Property Custodian, May 20, 1918. International Film Service

Alien Property Custodian - Sale of Property - Tobacco for Austria conf...

Date Taken: 5/20/1918 Photographer: International Film Service Alien Property Custodian - Sale of Property

Balloons - Equipment - Balloons. Ensign Standing by aerial bomb weighing 250 pounds. The U Type Dirigible carries six of these

Balloons - Equipment - Balloons. Ensign Standing by aerial bomb weighi...

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American Red Cross - Salvage - Red Cross Salvage Campaign. There is a use for everything no matter how old or how worn it is; this is the motto of the Red Cross Salvage Campaign which is now in progress over the entire country. Old clothes, clothes, tinfoil, books, and other discards are in the collection. Part of 10,000 pounds of tinfoil collected in one month, valued at $1,700

American Red Cross - Salvage - Red Cross Salvage Campaign. There is a ...

Photographer: Stagg American Red Cross - Salvage

American Red Cross - Supplies - American Red Cross Activities. Supervising the loading of Red Cross supplies at an English port. 400,000 pounds of Red Cross comforts for the troops were carroed on this ship, which sailed under sealed orders, for an unannounced destination

American Red Cross - Supplies - American Red Cross Activities. Supervi...

Date Taken: 1918 Photographer: American Red Cross, England American Red Cross - Supplies

Airplanes - Instruments - Aeroplane Instruments. Oil Gauge, pounds sp. Inc. The Foxboro Co., Foxboro, Mass

Airplanes - Instruments - Aeroplane Instruments. Oil Gauge, pounds sp....

Airplanes - Instruments Public domain photograph related to the United States in World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

War savings stamps. Make your sixpences grow into pounds / J.R. & C.

War savings stamps. Make your sixpences grow into pounds / J.R. & C.

Poster showing savings stamps, how to collect 31 of them on a card, and how to use the card to purchase a War Savings Certificate redeemable for £1 after five years. Poster no. 107. (2276) Wt. 19080/2721 50125 ... More

War saving stamps. Make your sixpences grow into pounds / J.R. & C.

War saving stamps. Make your sixpences grow into pounds / J.R. & C.

Poster showing savings stamps, how to collect 31 of them on a card, and how to use the card to purchase a War Savings Certificate redeemable for £1 after five years. Poster no. 108. (2276) Wt. 19080/2721 20125 ... More

Stiff Leg Derrick, Test Weight, 3400 Pounds, Suspended

Stiff Leg Derrick, Test Weight, 3400 Pounds, Suspended

Photographs of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard

Eugene S., came to the open air school 12 pounds underweight. 3 pounds more will put him "over the top"

Eugene S., came to the open air school 12 pounds underweight. 3 pounds...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Southern Division. Data: Miss Sawyer December, 1921. Classification: Nutrition Se... More

RFC Head tells House Committee 10% down payment on purchase of house is adequate. Washington, D.C., Dec. 1. RFC Chairman Jesse Jones pounds his fist to emphasize a point as he assures the House Banking and Currency Committee that the 10% down payment on the purchase of a home contemplated under President Roosevelt's recommended housing amendments is not too low. Rep. Henry B. Steagall, Chairman of the Committee, is shown in the background, 12/1/27

RFC Head tells House Committee 10% down payment on purchase of house i...

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President Hoover greets youthful football team from Kent, Ohio. The Kent Bearcats, youthful football team avenging 90 pounds from Kent, Ohio, were received by President Hoover at the White House today. The boys are on their way home after playing a game in Charlottesville, Virginia, earlier in the week. In the center of group, left to right: Billy Bullock, Captain of the team; President Hoover; and Rob Graham, Quarterback

President Hoover greets youthful football team from Kent, Ohio. The Ke...

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Largest perfect sphere of crystal in world now in National Museum. The National Museum in Washington has been presented with a perfect sphere of flawless crystal, believed to be the largest in the world. It is 12 and seve and seven eighths inches in diameter and weighs 106 pounds. Captain George Johnson, of the museum guards, is shown in photograph

Largest perfect sphere of crystal in world now in National Museum. The...

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Observing work of the busy bee. E.L. Sechrist, associate agriculturist of the bee culture laboratory, U.S. Department of Agriculture, makes tests of how much work the bees accomplish under different weather conditions be checking the weight of the colonies. During a good honey flow under favorable weather conditions, a colony increases in weight as much as 20 pounds in a single day, 1/20/30

Observing work of the busy bee. E.L. Sechrist, associate agriculturist...

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New aviation safety test made. Tests conducted by the Bureau of Standards have indicated than an aviator may exert a pull of approximately 1,000 pounds on his safety belt without breaking it. The photograph shows M.M. Kiley of the Bureau standing beside the machine used in stretching the belts still they were broken

New aviation safety test made. Tests conducted by the Bureau of Standa...

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Gathering meteorological data from stratosphere. Dr. L.F. Curtiss, of the U.S. Bureau of Standards, is shown here with part of the equipment he uses in experiments using radio to gather meteorological data at great altitudes. The complete radio apparatus for attachment to a balloon weighs less than two pounds, and preliminary trials show that the signals can be heard clearly at altitudes of 14 miles and at distances of 80 miles. A direction finder [...]bles experimenters to determine the location [...] he balloon the instant the radio wave is [...] out. 10/17/35

Gathering meteorological data from stratosphere. Dr. L.F. Curtiss, of ...

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Finished products. Synthetic rubber somes from the drier and is fed to an automatic weighing machine which delivers seventy-five pounds of material to the baler at the plant operated by United States Rubber Company at Institute, West Virginia. Thousands of these rubber loaves will be produced every day

Finished products. Synthetic rubber somes from the drier and is fed to...

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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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Drying. Synthetic rubber is dried by passing back and forth three times in giant driers, each capable of handling 3,000 pounds of rubber an hour, at the Institute plant. Each drier is equipped with thirty-three fans, and 140 tons of water are evaporated every day

Drying. Synthetic rubber is dried by passing back and forth three time...

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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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Cotton pickers at work in the southern San Joaquin Valley, California. They receive one dollar and one dollar and twenty-five cents per hundred pounds

Cotton pickers at work in the southern San Joaquin Valley, California....

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Tubercular mother from Oklahoma now living in the Kern migrant camp (resettlement), California. She receives daily visits from the county nurse. Her husband works in the cotton field and can pick one hundred pounds a day

Tubercular mother from Oklahoma now living in the Kern migrant camp (r...

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Cotton pickers bringing in their "pick" to be weighed. They receive one dollar and one dollar and twenty-five cents per hundred pounds. San Joaquin Valley, California

Cotton pickers bringing in their "pick" to be weighed. They receive on...

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Cotton pickers who receive fifty cents a hundred pounds. Kaufman County, Texas

Cotton pickers who receive fifty cents a hundred pounds. Kaufman Count...

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

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

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Aboard a trap fishing boat, pulling the net into the boat. The trap, which is nothing but a gigantic net, is pulled into the boat on one side and thrown overboard on the other until finally a small pocket is made where fish mill around by the thousands. Sometimes several big tuna, locally called horse mackerel, must be gaffed and brought aboard. This is a struggle because tuna weigh between 300 and 800 pounds. The rest of the fish, whiting, mackerel, and squid are dipped aboard with a hand net. Provincetown, Massachusetts

Aboard a trap fishing boat, pulling the net into the boat. The trap, w...

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

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

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

A couple of people on a boat with a net, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A couple of people on a boat with a net, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Pho...

Picryl description: Public domain image of fishing, fishing boat, river, lake, nature, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

An old black and white photo of a man picking onions, Minnesota. Farm Security Administration photograph.

An old black and white photo of a man picking onions, Minnesota. Farm ...

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

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

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

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

A black and white photo of a woman picking apples, Minnesota. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a woman picking apples, Minnesota. Farm Sec...

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

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

A black and white photo of a group of men on a boat, Great Depression....

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

, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

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

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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Bureau of Standards puts ruge insulator through pressure tests. Washington, D.C., Nov. 30. H.L. Whitemore, (left), chief of the Engineering Mechanics section, National Bureau of Standards, and Dr. A.H. Stand, make a final check of the huge 1600? pound porcelain insulator before subjecting it to 2,180,000 pounds pressure in the Bureau's hydraulic jack. The insulator, one of the few of its size in existence, will serve as a base for a 640 foot mast at Radio Station WGY, Schenectady, New York. One of the insulators successfully stood the pressure to 800,000 pounds while the second broke when the pressure was boosted to 2,180,000 pounds. The hydraulic jack is capable of exerting 10,000,000 pounds pressure

Bureau of Standards puts ruge insulator through pressure tests. Washin...

Two men working on a machine in a factory, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. Gener... More

Emptying potatoes from baskets into bags. Each bag takes two baskets and weighs about seventy pounds, ten pounds of which are calculated as culls. Near East Grand Forks, Minnesota

Emptying potatoes from baskets into bags. Each bag takes two baskets a...

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Smallest member A.E.F. pickets Capitol. Washington, D.C., May 26. The world's smallest "doughboy", Nicholas Casele, of Newark, N.J., began to picket the U.S. Capitol today and announced he would continue until congress grants him a medal as compensation for his allged illegal draft into the army. Casele served more than a year overseas, fighting in seven major battles. He contends the draft law provided for a minimum height 5 feet 3 inches and 110 pounds of weight while scaled only 4 feet 10 inches and weighed only 104 pounds, 52637

Smallest member A.E.F. pickets Capitol. Washington, D.C., May 26. The ...

A man holding a sign in front of a building, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. Gen... More

Two men on a boat in the water, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

Two men on a boat in the water, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

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

A couple of men standing on top of a boat, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A couple of men standing on top of a boat, Great Depression. FSA/OWI P...

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

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

A black and white photo of a group of men on a boat, Great Depression....

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

Farmers during Great Depression: A couple of men standing next to each other in a field.

Farmers during Great Depression: A couple of men standing next to each...

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

Smallest member A.E.F. pickets Capitol. Washington, D.C., May 26. The world's smallest "doughboy", Nicholas Casele, of Newark, N.J., began to picket the U.S. Capitol today and announced he would continue until congress grants him a medal as compensation for his allged illegal draft into the army. Casele served more than a year overseas, fighting in seven major battles. He contends the draft law provided for a minimum height 5 feet 3 inches and 110 pounds of weight while scaled only 4 feet 10 inches and weighed only 104 pounds, 5/26/37

Smallest member A.E.F. pickets Capitol. Washington, D.C., May 26. The ...

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Bending huge steel girders. Washington, D.C., Sept. 23. At the U.S. Bureau of Standards officials were witnessing the testing of rigid steel frame knees that are used in grade eliminations such as over-passes, under-passes, bridges, etc. This photo shows the girder or knee placed into the huge 600,000 lb. testing machine in preparation for the test. This welded rigid steel frame knee which was designed to withstand 50,000 pounds had a maximum load of 153,600 lbs placed on it before it buckled.

Bending huge steel girders. Washington, D.C., Sept. 23. At the U.S. Bu...

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A black and white photo of two people picking onions, Minnesota. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of two people picking onions, Minnesota. Farm ...

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

A black and white photo of a man sitting on a boat. Great Depression FSA photogpraph

A black and white photo of a man sitting on a boat. Great Depression F...

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

Ex-Oklahoma farmer, one of the leaders in the strike of cotton pickers. Kern County, California. The growers set price of cotton at seventy-five cents per one hundred pounds picked, and the pickers refused to enter the fields

Ex-Oklahoma farmer, one of the leaders in the strike of cotton pickers...

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Cotton picker in fields of Lake Dick Cooperative Association. He is paid by the day and lives in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Rate of pay: seventy-five cents per one hundred pounds

Cotton picker in fields of Lake Dick Cooperative Association. He is pa...

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Small cotton farm, Kern County, California. The farmer keeps accounts. Each picker weighs his sack of cotton. In this case the sack weighs approximately fifty pounds. Took three hours to pick, for which, on basis of seventy-five cents per one hundred pounds of picked cotton, he will be paid thirty-eight cents

Small cotton farm, Kern County, California. The farmer keeps accounts....

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Migratory field worker picking cotton in San Joaquin Valley, California. These pickers are paid seventy-five cents per hundred pounds of picked cotton. Strikers organizing under CIO union (Congress of Industrial Organizations) are demanding one dollar. A good male picker, in good cotton, under favorable weather conditions, can pick about two hundred pounds in a day's work

Migratory field worker picking cotton in San Joaquin Valley, Californi...

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

Testing strength of glass panels. Washington, D.C., June 21. With glass blocks being used more and more these days in the construction [of] buildings, The National Bureau of Standards is conducting extensive tests to determine how much wind pressure the panels will stand. So far the panels have resisted 633 pounds wind load. Pictured conducting the tests are, left to right: Dr. C.H. Hahner, R.C. Carter, and A.S. Endler, all of the Bureau, 6/21/38

Testing strength of glass panels. Washington, D.C., June 21. With glas...

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Migratory cotton pickers on small cotton farm, Kern County, California. They are paid senty-five cents per one hundred pounds of picked cotton

Migratory cotton pickers on small cotton farm, Kern County, California...

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Migratory field worker picking cotton in San Joaquin Valley, California. These cotton pickers are being paid seventy-five cents per one hundred pounds. Strikers organizing under the Congress of Industrial Organizations union (CIO) demand one dollar. A good male picker, in good cotton, under favorable weather conditions, can pick about two hundred pounds in a day's work

Migratory field worker picking cotton in San Joaquin Valley, Californi...

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

Kern County, California. Undernourished cotton picker's child listening to speeches of organizer at strike meeting to raise wages from seventy-five cents to ninety cents a hundred pounds. Strike unsuccessful

Kern County, California. Undernourished cotton picker's child listenin...

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Migratory field worker picking cotton in San Joaquin Valley, California. These cotton pickers are being paid seventy-five cents per one hundred pounds. Strikers organizing under the Congress of Industrial Organizations union (CIO) demand one dollar. A good male picker, in good cotton, under favorable weather conditions, can pick about two hundred pounds in a day's work

Migratory field worker picking cotton in San Joaquin Valley, Californi...

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

Shenandoah (vicinity), Pennsylvania. A compressed air engine approaching with a train of cars in the Maple Hill mine. The pipes beside the track carry eight hundred pounds and there are valves for refueling every quarter mile. Compressed air is piped down from the surface

Shenandoah (vicinity), Pennsylvania. A compressed air engine approachi...

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Cheese party for statesmen. Washington, D.C., June 4. The famous swiss cheese from The Star Valley of Wyoming was the piece of resistance at the Capitol today for the members of Congress and other high government officials hailing from the state. The cheese weighed 250 pounds. Left to right: Rep. Paul R. Greener; Sen. Joseph D. O'Mahoney; Thurman Arnold, Assistant Attorney General; Fred W. Johnson, Commisioner, General Land office; and Senator H.H. Schwartz, 6/4/38

Cheese party for statesmen. Washington, D.C., June 4. The famous swiss...

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Migratory field worker picking cotton in San Joaquin Valley, California. These pickers are paid seventy-five cents per hundred pounds of picked cotton. Strikers organizing under CIO union (Congress of Industrial Organizations) are demanding one dollar. A good male picker, in good cotton, under favorable weather conditions, can pick about two hundred pounds in a day's work

Migratory field worker picking cotton in San Joaquin Valley, Californi...

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Plane with cruising radius of 11,000 miles at 380 miles per hour plan of Glenn Martin. Washington, D.C., Feb. 28. Glenn L. Martin, Baltimore airplane manufacturer, today told amazed members of the House Naval Affairs Committee when he told he is studying plans for a new super ship capable of cruising 11,000 miles at 380 miles per hour with 4,000 pounds of bombs. The ship he is planning to build will dwarf even the biggest planes now in use, Martin added. Martin was testifying on President Roosevelt's billion- dollar Naval Expansion Program, 2/28/38

Plane with cruising radius of 11,000 miles at 380 miles per hour plan ...

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

Migratory field worker picking cotton in San Joaquin Valley, California. These pickers are paid seventy-five cents per hundred pounds of picked cotton. Strikers organizing under CIO union (Congress of Industrial Organizations) are demanding one dollar. A good male picker, in good cotton, under favorable weather conditions, can pick about two hundred pounds in a day's work

Migratory field worker picking cotton in San Joaquin Valley, Californi...

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

"Miss Washington" Washington, D.C., Aug. 4. Miss Dorothy Parker has been selected as Miss Washington and will compete for the title of "Miss America" at the Atlantic City beauty pageant to be held during Labor Day week. 18 Years old, she weighs 112 pounds and is 5 feet, 4 inches in height. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. Albert Parker of Washington, 8/4/38

"Miss Washington" Washington, D.C., Aug. 4. Miss Dorothy Parker has be...

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Photograph of Overhanging Cliff in Pounds Hollow Recreation Unit

Photograph of Overhanging Cliff in Pounds Hollow Recreation Unit

Original caption: Overhanging cliff, Pounds Hollow Recreation Unit. Historic Photographs Public domain photograph of forest, trees, US government forestry agency, free to use, no copyright restrictions image -... More

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

A black and white photo of a man in a field, Mississippi. Farmers duri...

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Mrs. Watkins, FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower, Coffee County, Alabama, has two milk cows. She sells eight to ten pounds of butter each week

Mrs. Watkins, FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower, Coffee Coun...

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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...

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Farmers in warehouse during the auction sale. Two bookmen on each side of the row follow the auctioneer and buyers calculating the amount of the sale by multiplying the price times the number of pounds. Mebane, Orange County, North Carolina. See subregional notes (Odum) November 9, 1939

Farmers in warehouse during the auction sale. Two bookmen on each side...

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Farmers in warehouse during the auction sale. Two bookmen on each side of the row follow the auctioneer and buyers calculating the amount of the sale by multiplying the price times the number of pounds. Mebane, Orange County, North Carolina. See subregional notes (Odum) November 9, 1939

Farmers in warehouse during the auction sale. Two bookmen on each side...

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Mrs. Watkins, FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower, and her helper, milking cows. She sells from eight to ten pounds of butter each week. Coffee County, Alabama

Mrs. Watkins, FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower, and her hel...

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Eugene Crouse, champion cornhusker who husked 3300 pounds in eighty minutes--a world's record. Grundy County, Iowa

Eugene Crouse, champion cornhusker who husked 3300 pounds in eighty mi...

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"Riders" bring in the sacks of cotton on mule's back from the field to the wagon where it is unloaded and weighed. This is day labor brought in from Greenville, and the pickers receive seventy-five cents per one hundred pounds, on Nugent Plantation, Benoit, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

"Riders" bring in the sacks of cotton on mule's back from the field to...

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

Mrs. Watkins, FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower, Coffee County, Alabama, has two milk cows. She sells eight to ten pounds of butter each week

Mrs. Watkins, FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower, Coffee Coun...

Picryl description: Public domain image of cow, cattle, livestock, farm animals, agriculture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A couple of men standing on top of a wall, Mississippi. Farmers during Great Depression.

A couple of men standing on top of a wall, Mississippi. Farmers during...

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 a man standing on top of a truck, Mississippi. Farmers during Great Depression.

A black and white photo of a man standing on top of a truck, Mississip...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train tracks, rail transportation, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mrs. Watkins has two milk cows. She sells eight to ten pounds of butter each week. FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower, Coffee County, Alabama

Mrs. Watkins has two milk cows. She sells eight to ten pounds of butte...

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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

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...

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Near Shafter, California. Family from Oklahoma lives in old cow-barn and picks cotton for seventy-five cents a 100 pounds. During cotton strike

Near Shafter, California. Family from Oklahoma lives in old cow-barn a...

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A woman milking a cow on a farm, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A woman milking a cow on a farm, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

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An old black and white photo of a man and a woman standing next to an elephant, Mississippi. Farmers during Great Depression.

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Builds own Jalopy. Washington, D.C., Feb. 2. Thirty dollars was all it cost Robert Preston, 16-year-old high school senior, to build this midget automobile. Weighing approximately 250 pounds, the 'jalopy' is powered with a washing machine motor of 3-4 horsepower and has a maximum speed of 20 miles an hour. His license tags for this year will cost 32 cents, 2-2-39

Builds own Jalopy. Washington, D.C., Feb. 2. Thirty dollars was all it...

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A group of people standing around a truck, Mississippi. Farmers during Great Depression.

A group of people standing around a truck, Mississippi. Farmers during...

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Oregon, Marion County, near West Stayton. Weighing beans at scales on edge of field. Rate: one dollar per 100 pounds. General caption 46

Oregon, Marion County, near West Stayton. Weighing beans at scales on ...

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In a good mine a man can dig a thousand pounds of tiff ore a day. Washington County, Missouri

In a good mine a man can dig a thousand pounds of tiff ore a day. Wash...

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A black and white photo of men loading a truck. War Poduction. Office of War Information.

A black and white photo of men loading a truck. War Poduction. Office ...

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Alabama. Farmers during Great Depression. A black and white photo of a woman milking a cow.

Alabama. Farmers during Great Depression. A black and white photo of a...

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Paymaster on edge of pea fields pays a quarter for every hamper of thirty pounds brought to the scale. Near Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California

Paymaster on edge of pea fields pays a quarter for every hamper of thi...

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"Riders" bring in the sacks of cotton on mule's back from the field to the wagon where it is unloaded and weighed. This is day labor brought in from Greenville, and the pickers receive seventy-five cents per one hundred pounds, on Nugent Plantation, Benoit, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

"Riders" bring in the sacks of cotton on mule's back from the field to...

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Kern County, California. Night street meeting of cotton strikers near end of defeated strike. Strikers received seventy-five cents per 100 pounds; demanded one dollar. In 1910 cotton growers in Imperial County advertised for pickers in the Southwest to come to Imperial Valley to pick for one dollar per 100 pounds

Kern County, California. Night street meeting of cotton strikers near ...

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A black and white photo of a man on a horse, Mississippi. Farmers during Great Depression.

A black and white photo of a man on a horse, Mississippi. Farmers duri...

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"Riders" bring in the sacks of cotton on mule's back from the field to the wagon where it is unloaded and weighed. This is day labor brought in from Greenville, and the pickers receive seventy-five cents per one hundred pounds, on Nugent Plantation, Benoit, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

"Riders" bring in the sacks of cotton on mule's back from the field to...

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Mrs. Watkins, FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower, Coffee County, Alabama, has two milk cows. She sells eight to ten pounds of butter each week

Mrs. Watkins, FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower, Coffee Coun...

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Method for preserving sweet cream indefinitely discovered by Government expert. Washington, D.C., Jan. 26. Dairymen the world over will benefit from a method discovered by Owen E. Williams, of the Bureau of Dairy Industry, U.S. Department of Agriculture, whereby sweet cream can be preserved indefinitely in sodium chloride, common table salt. To 100 pounds of cream testing 40 per cent butterfat, 7 pounds of salt are added. When the cream is to be delivered once a week from the farm to the creamery, enough salt is placed in the cream jar at the beginning of the week to preserve the week's supply. As more cream is added after each milking, it must be carefully mixed with the salt solution already in the jar. The salt prevents souring and acts as an anti-freeze. To remove the salt, Williams dilutes the thick cream with fresh skim milk and runs the mixture through an ordinary cream separator. The cream may then be used as coffee cream or it may be used in the manufacture of sweet cream butter or in the manufacture of ice cream. 1. Mr. Williams weighs out 7 pounds of sodium chloride - common table salt - which is sufficient to preserve 100 pounds of 40 per cent cream, 12639

Method for preserving sweet cream indefinitely discovered by Governmen...

A black and white photo of a man in a lab, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. Gener... More

Mrs. Watkins milking cows. They sell from eight to ten pounds of butter each week. Coffee County, Alabama

Mrs. Watkins milking cows. They sell from eight to ten pounds of butte...

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Young migrant worker brings his hops to weigh scales. From five a.m. until noon, when photograph was made, he had picked eighty pounds, which equals eighty cents. Temperature 105 degrees. Oregon, Polk County, near Independence

Young migrant worker brings his hops to weigh scales. From five a.m. u...

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Rubber keeps them flying. This bomber needs thousands of pounds of rubber for the landing wheels and bullet-proof fuel tanks. The flyers and ground crews can do none of the important work entrusted to them unless we keep their planes supplied with the prodigious amounts of rubber they require

Rubber keeps them flying. This bomber needs thousands of pounds of rub...

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Cairo's A.R.P at practice and in training. Britain has presented Egypt with the sum of 1,000,000 pounds for the general protection of the city from air attack. All work is carried out by the Ministry of Civil Defence, which in cooperation with police and military authorities has now organized A.R.P measures so well that the city is thoroughly organized to meet any eventuality. Medical services are controlled by Dr. Sidi Bey Araf, director of government hospitals in Egypt and Dr. Fanous, assistant medical liaison officer to the Ministry of Civil Defence. Over 100,000 persons have been trained in auxiliary fire service work and additional training is constantly in progress at the Cairo Fire Brigade Headquarters where a special emergency section exists under the leadership of Steffel Bey. A mobile canteen has been presented to Cairo by the American Red Cross. In the event of air raids it would be used to supply hot drinks and food in bombed area

Cairo's A.R.P at practice and in training. Britain has presented Egypt...

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Aircraft. Naval. The Navy's "Coronado" (PB2Y-2) was designed by Consolidated for long-range patrol and transport missions. It is an all-metal, high-wing flying boat powered by four Pratt and Whitney engines of 1,200 horsepower each. Its speed is over 200 miles per hour, its range over 3,000 miles, its service ceiling approximately 20,000 feet, its load capacity 30,000 pounds. It carries a crew of ten men armed with 50-caliber machine guns and bombs

Aircraft. Naval. The Navy's "Coronado" (PB2Y-2) was designed by Consol...

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Aircraft. Naval. The Navy's "Coronado" (PB2Y-2) was designed by Consolidated for long-range patrol and transport missions. It is an all-metal, high-wing flying boat powered by four Pratt and Whitney engines of 1,200 horsepower each. Its speed is over 200 miles per hour, its range over 3,000 miles, its service ceiling approximately 20,000 feet, its load capacity 30,000 pounds. It carries a crew of ten men armed with 50-caliber machine guns and bombs

Aircraft. Naval. The Navy's "Coronado" (PB2Y-2) was designed by Consol...

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

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

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Make your scrap tires save lives. Life rafts like this, standard equipment on American war planes that fly over stretches of open water, have saved the lives of many air crews. Men have been rescued after floating in them for weeks. The ten pounds of rubber in one of these vitally important rafts is about the amount of rubber in a worn automobile tire ready for scrapping

Make your scrap tires save lives. Life rafts like this, standard equip...

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Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Ready for installation in Chrysler M-3 tanks, these routh turret castings, which weigh 4,000 pounds each, have just been received at the huge Detroit tank arsenal where 10,000 men are turning out these twenty-eight ton rolling arsenals

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Ready for installation in Chrysler M-3 ta...

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Packages for prisoners of war and internees. Americans taken prisoners of war or interned by Germany and Italy regularly receive standard American Red Cross food packages, shown here stacked like bricks in the International Red Cross warehouse at Geneva, Switzerland. U.S. prisoners of war receive one package a week as soon as the Red Cross is notified of their capture and location. Internees receive one package every two weeks. As of December 9, 1942, Germany and Italy had reported 243 American prisoners of war and 1512 interned civilians. Each package weighs eleven pounds and contains evaporated milk, buscuits, cheese, cocoa, sardines, pork, beef, chocolate bars, sugar, coffee, powered orange concentrate, prunes, cigarettes and smoking tobacco

Packages for prisoners of war and internees. Americans taken prisoners...

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