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Cuneiform tablet: account of rent payment of pomegranates, Ebabbar archive

Cuneiform tablet: account of rent payment of pomegranates, Ebabbar arc...

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Cuneiform tablet: account of delivery of field rent, Ebabbar archive

Cuneiform tablet: account of delivery of field rent, Ebabbar archive

Mesopotamia, probably from Sippar (modern Tell Abu Habba) Neo-Babylonian (?) Public domain photograph of archaeological object, Mesopotamia, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cuneiform tablet: quittance for rent, Esagilaya archive

Cuneiform tablet: quittance for rent, Esagilaya archive

Mesopotamia, probably from Babylon (modern Hillah) Achaemenid Public domain photograph of archaeological object, Mesopotamia, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cuneiform tablet: record of barley for rent, from year 19 of the reign of Artaxerxes II or Artaxerxes III

Cuneiform tablet: record of barley for rent, from year 19 of the reign...

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Cuneiform tablet: record of barley for rent, from year 19 of the reign of Artaxerxes II or Artaxerxes III

Cuneiform tablet: record of barley for rent, from year 19 of the reign...

Mesopotamia, probably from Babylon (modern Hillah) Achaemenid Public domain photograph of archaeological object, Mesopotamia, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cuneiform tablet: flour deliveries for rent payment, Ebabbar archive

Cuneiform tablet: flour deliveries for rent payment, Ebabbar archive

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Cuneiform tablet: account of delivery of field rent, Ebabbar archive

Cuneiform tablet: account of delivery of field rent, Ebabbar archive

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Cuneiform tablet: quittance for rent, Esagilaya archive

Cuneiform tablet: quittance for rent, Esagilaya archive

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Cuneiform tablet: receipt for rent payment, Egibi archive

Cuneiform tablet: receipt for rent payment, Egibi archive

Mesopotamia, Babylon (modern Hillah) Neo-Babylonian Public domain photograph of archaeological object, Mesopotamia, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cuneiform tablet: quittance for rent, Esagilaya archive

Cuneiform tablet: quittance for rent, Esagilaya archive

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Cuneiform tablet: flour deliveries for rent payment, Ebabbar archive

Cuneiform tablet: flour deliveries for rent payment, Ebabbar archive

Mesopotamia, probably from Sippar (modern Tell Abu Habba) Neo-Babylonian Public domain photograph of archaeological object, Mesopotamia, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cuneiform tablet: account of delivery of field rent, Ebabbar archive

Cuneiform tablet: account of delivery of field rent, Ebabbar archive

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Cuneiform tablet: receipt for rent payment, Egibi archive

Cuneiform tablet: receipt for rent payment, Egibi archive

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Cuneiform tablet: account of delivery of field rent, Ebabbar archive

Cuneiform tablet: account of delivery of field rent, Ebabbar archive

Mesopotamia, probably from Sippar (modern Tell Abu Habba) Neo-Babylonian (?) Public domain photograph of archaeological object, Mesopotamia, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cuneiform tablet: quittance for rent, Esagilaya archive

Cuneiform tablet: quittance for rent, Esagilaya archive

Mesopotamia, probably from Babylon (modern Hillah) Achaemenid Public domain photograph of archaeological object, Mesopotamia, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cuneiform tablet: account of rent payment of pomegranates, Ebabbar archive

Cuneiform tablet: account of rent payment of pomegranates, Ebabbar arc...

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Gezicht op een plein waar een zwarte man met vuurkorf rent

Gezicht op een plein waar een zwarte man met vuurkorf rent

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[Arms] By the Proprietaries of Pennsylvania [Notice of quit rents] By order of the Proprietaries, Richard Peters, Secry. Philadelphia, Nov. 23, 1738. [Philadelphia: Printed by B. Franklin, 1738].

[Arms] By the Proprietaries of Pennsylvania [Notice of quit rents] By ...

[Arms] By the Proprietaries of Pennsylvania [Notice of quit rents] By order of the Proprietaries, Richard Peters, Secry. Philadelphia, Nov. 23, 1738. [Philadelphia: Printed by B. Franklin, 1738].

[Arms] By the Proprietaries of Pennsylvania [Notice of quit rents] By ...

Arms By the Proprietaries of Pennsylvania Notice of quit rents By order of the Proprietaries, Richard Peters, Secry. Philadelphia, Nov. 23, 1738. Philadelphia: Printed by B. Franklin, 1738

Arms By the Proprietaries of Pennsylvania Notice of quit rents By orde...

Franklin coll. 2.; Imprint 3.; Not in Hildeburn. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 1... More

Mr. Timothy Rack Rent, an old miserable landlord, & his neighbour Lease-hold, a country attorney

Mr. Timothy Rack Rent, an old miserable landlord, & his neighbour Leas...

Landlord telling leaseholder he is raising his rent. "Printed for John Spilsbury, engraver, map and print seller, in Russel-Court Covent-Garden." No. 6. Unprocessed in PC 3 - Addenda (A size).

Bill and certification of overdue rent owed by Conrad Wheat to Evan Shelby

Bill and certification of overdue rent owed by Conrad Wheat to Evan Sh...

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Distraining for rent - Print, Library of Congress collection

Distraining for rent - Print, Library of Congress collection

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Raimbach, Abraham. There is a question mark above the title.

To rent, a three story house, on the main street in this City, few doors from the Courthouse. This house is well calculated to accomodate a genteel family, and is in complete repair. The terms may be known by application to John Beale. Richmond,

To rent, a three story house, on the main street in this City, few doo...

Imprint 2. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 181, Folder 21.

The rent day - Print, Library of Congress collection

The rent day - Print, Library of Congress collection

F6984 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Girardet, Paul.

It's cheaper to move than to pay rent. Harriman : Tenn.

It's cheaper to move than to pay rent. Harriman : Tenn.

Photograph shows a man sitting on top of a wagon full of chairs and other furniture; a little boy stands beside the wagon; houses and church in background; name of company obscured on wagon.

[Gertie. Gertie gazing into store with cat and sign "to rent" then holding rental office clerk at gunpoint to get cat out]

[Gertie. Gertie gazing into store with cat and sign "to rent" then hol...

Title devised by cataloger. Preparatory sketches for "Gertie." Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

Rent, Henry - Age [Blank], Year: [Blank] - 14th US Colored Heavy Artillery - United States Colored Troops: Artillery Organizations

Rent, Henry - Age [Blank], Year: [Blank] - 14th US Colored Heavy Artil...

Carded Records Showing Military Service of Soldiers Who Fought in Volunteer Organizations During the American Civil War

A tall building with a green umbrella on top of it. Tenement house summer sun.

A tall building with a green umbrella on top of it. Tenement house sum...

A green building with a yellow umbrella on the balcony / A building with a green and white facade and a yellow umbrella public domain stock photo.

Via Dolorosa, beginning at St. Stephen's Gate. Rent in the Rock of Calvary.

Via Dolorosa, beginning at St. Stephen's Gate. Rent in the Rock of Cal...

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The bones of poor tenants imprisoned for non-payment of rent, Manila, Philippine Islands

The bones of poor tenants imprisoned for non-payment of rent, Manila, ...

Stereo copyrighted by H.C. White Co. No. 3542. This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Discussing East Side rent strike

Discussing East Side rent strike

Group of women standing in circle on sidewalk and talking. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Adeline, 12 years old, earns more than her mother. Get 1 cents a pound for snipping beans[?] at the sheds at Hamburg Canning Factory. Geno was 8 years old, last summer. These two and mother and made 70 to 80 cents a day. Much of this money goes to pay rent for [...] in Buffalo, that is reserved through the summer. All three worked in sheds. They went to the country the last of May returned to Buffalo middle of October, losing about 9 weeks of school. Attend School #2. Location: Buffalo, New York (State)

Adeline, 12 years old, earns more than her mother. Get 1 cents a pound...

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Tessie Sposato, 12 yrs. old girl and her mother picking nuts in attic of tenement, 141 Hudson St., N.Y. She holds the nuts against her dirty apron as she picks them out. Works until 9 p.m. some nights. They live in 2 small rooms; paying $5.00 a month rent. Makes $2.00 a week. A 15 yr. old brother works in factory and sleeps in folding bed in this room. Location: New York, New York (State)

Tessie Sposato, 12 yrs. old girl and her mother picking nuts in attic ...

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A dilapidated "renters" home near West. The Tripp farm. Five in the family. Girl (apparently fifteen years old) is married. The farm contains a hundred and fifty acres now. A larger farm of eight hundred acres was cut up into this and three others - to rent. See Hine report. Location: West, Texas.

A dilapidated "renters" home near West. The Tripp farm. Five in the fa...

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"Renters." Itinerant Texas farmers who rent a farm for a year or so and then move on, giving them nomadic habits and everything is temporary. House unpainted and ill-cared for. The children from five years old up pick cotton and help with the farm work, but get little or no schooling. It is estimated by State University that 300,000 children are thus affected in Texas alone. See Hine report Texas. Beginning with the five year old girl here who picks some, all work including the women. The nine year old girl picks one hundred and fifty pounds a day. Father is in town. Farm comprises fifty acres, and they get about twenty bales of cotton this year, which is not a good year. Been here one year. Farm of J.W. Vaughn. Route 6. Location: Corsicana, Texas.

"Renters." Itinerant Texas farmers who rent a farm for a year or so an...

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Some of the shacks in "St. Petersburg," the district in which the beet-workers live in Sterling. Some have to rent even these poor shacks, but many have their own cottages and some buy their farms in a few years. Location: Sterling, Colorado / Photo by Hine, Oct. 21/15.

Some of the shacks in "St. Petersburg," the district in which the beet...

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[Some of the shacks in "St. Petersburg," the district in which the beet-workers live in Sterling. Some have to rent even these poor shacks, but many have their own cottages and some buy their farms in a few years]. Location: [Sterling, Colorado] / [Photo by Hine, Oct. 21/15]

[Some of the shacks in "St. Petersburg," the district in which the bee...

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Willie Welch, 15 years old, R.D. 3, Box 89, Bowling Green, worming tobacco. Goes to old Union School near Plano (?). Will start school next week (6 weeks late) He works for Jasper Harper, R. 3, Box 90, Bowling Green. Jasper is 21 years old and has 13 acres in tobacco. Gives half the tobacco for rent. Father is a tenant. Location: Warren County, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Willie Welch, 15 years old, R.D. 3, Box 89, Bowling Green, worming tob...

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

Family of C.J. Walker, Route 2, Box 78, Geronimo, Oklahoma. 6-year old Jewel and 5-year old Harold picks 20 to 25 pounds of cotton a day. Father said: "I promised em a little wagon if they'd pick steady, and now they have half a bagful in just a little while." The 3-year old is learning to pick. Father is a renter on shares: gives 1/4 of his cotton for rent, and 1/3 of his corn. Has 20 acres in cotton. Location: Comanche County--[Geronimo], Oklahoma / Lewis W. Hine.

Family of C.J. Walker, Route 2, Box 78, Geronimo, Oklahoma. 6-year old...

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Willie Welch, 15 years old, R.D. 3, Box 89, Bowling Green, worming tobacco. Goes to old Union School near Plano (?). Will start school next week (6 weeks late) He works for Jasper Harper, R. 3, Box 90, Bowling Green. Jasper is 21 years old and has 13 acres in tobacco. Gives half the tobacco for rent. Father is a tenant. Location: Warren County, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Willie Welch, 15 years old, R.D. 3, Box 89, Bowling Green, worming tob...

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Family of L.H. Kirkpatrick, Route 1, Lawton, Okla. Children go to Mineral Wells School #39. Father, mother and five children (5, 6, 10, 11 and 12 years old) pick cotton. "We pick a bale in four days." Dovey, 5 years old, picks 15 pounds a day (average) Mother said: "She jess works fer pleasure." Ertle, 6 years, picks 20 pounds a day (average) Vonnnie, 10 years, picks 50 pounds a day (average) Edward, 11 years, picks 75 pounds a day (average) Otis, 12 years, picks 75 pounds a day (average) Expect to be out of school for two weeks more picking. Father is a renter. Works part of farm on shares (gives 1/4 of cotton for rent) and part of farm he pays cash rent. Location: Comanche County, Oklahoma / Lewis W. Hine.

Family of L.H. Kirkpatrick, Route 1, Lawton, Okla. Children go to Mine...

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Civarro family, 2106 Second Avenue, second floor back, working on patriotic flag pins. They get 3 cents a gross for inserting pin and putting onto card. Mrs. Civarro with her three-months-old baby in her arms is working with four children aged 10, 9, 7 and 5, and a younger child that does not work (2 years). They work irregularly (as Mrs. Civarro does the janitor work for the building which is in fair condition, and receives in return only the rent free of three small rooms), and their net income for this work is $2 a week. 8 members of the family sleep in one small inner room. The tenement is not licensed for homework. Baby was a premature child and very small and frail. "It is so skinny." Husband is a laborer. Location: New York, New York (State) / Lewis W. Hine.

Civarro family, 2106 Second Avenue, second floor back, working on patr...

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Frank Burditt and family. They rent this dilapidated shack and are trying to make a living off the meagre land near by. Location: Sissonville, West Virginia.

Frank Burditt and family. They rent this dilapidated shack and are try...

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Frank Burditt and family. They rent this dilapidated shack and are trying to make a living off the meagre land near by. Oct. 11, 1921. Location: Sissonville, West Virginia / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

Frank Burditt and family. They rent this dilapidated shack and are try...

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Rent Commission, [5/25/22] - Public domain portrait photograph

Rent Commission, [5/25/22] - Public domain portrait photograph

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Rent Commission, 5/25/22 - Public domain portrait photograph

Rent Commission, 5/25/22 - Public domain portrait photograph

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Allen Robinson, rent expert from New York at W.H. [i.e., White House, Washington, D.C.], 1/8/25

Allen Robinson, rent expert from New York at W.H. [i.e., White House, ...

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Showing rental values in greater Tokyo - 1926

Showing rental values in greater Tokyo - 1926

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Capital slums to go under new low rent housing program. Washington, D.C., Nov. 30. Now that President Roosevelt has approved the $15,000,000 low rent housing program for the District of Columbia, such slum scenes as this will disappear from the 'city beautiful.' This picture was made within a stone's throw of the U.S. Capitol

Capital slums to go under new low rent housing program. Washington, D....

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President Roosevelt approves D.C. low rent housing program. Capital slums to go. Washington, D.C., Nov. 30. President Roosevelt's approval of the $15,000,000 low rent housing program for the District of Columbia means that slum sections, such as this one showing the House Office Building in the background, will disappear from the nation's Capital

President Roosevelt approves D.C. low rent housing program. Capital sl...

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[African American(?) woman standing on a street holding a sign reading "Our boss owns 77 houses, we can't pay rent]

[African American(?) woman standing on a street holding a sign reading...

Front of a typical house offering furnished rooms for rent, District of Columbia

Front of a typical house offering furnished rooms for rent, District o...

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Furnished rooms to rent. Typical house which faces government clerk in his search for a home, Washington, D.C.

Furnished rooms to rent. Typical house which faces government clerk in...

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One of few available houses for rent. Washington, D.C. One of the few available houses for rent under the crowded conditions. A study of the structure, however, will explain why there is no one now living in it

One of few available houses for rent. Washington, D.C. One of the few ...

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[Apartment building model: P.W.A. Low Rent Housing]

[Apartment building model: P.W.A. Low Rent Housing]

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A black and white photo of a kitchen. Great Depression and World War Two FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a kitchen. Great Depression and World War T...

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Kitchen of an apartment available for rent in the District of Columbia

Kitchen of an apartment available for rent in the District of Columbia

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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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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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Rustan brothers preparing a "warm drink" for their hogs. Farm is now owned by loan company. Has not been owner-operated for six years. Title is not clear but loan company collects rent and makes very few repairs. Two hundred forty acres, crop share. Near Dickens, Ohio

Rustan brothers preparing a "warm drink" for their hogs. Farm is now o...

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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 ...

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Rustan brothers' farm near Dickens, Iowa. Two hundred forty acres, crop share lease, owned by loan company. Title not clear, but loan company collects the rent and makes a few repairs. This farm was formerly owner-operated until five or six years ago (note equipment standing in open)

Rustan brothers' farm near Dickens, Iowa. Two hundred forty acres, cro...

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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.

Winter migrant camp on the outskirts of Sacramento, California. Each family has to build its own shack; they pay one dollar and twenty-five cents a month ground rent, including water. Eighty families living here in November 1936. They work in the fruit during the summer, migrating from harvest to harvest

Winter migrant camp on the outskirts of Sacramento, California. Each f...

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Your children like these low rent homes Cedar-Central Apts., 2202 East 30th. Street.

Your children like these low rent homes Cedar-Central Apts., 2202 East...

Poster for Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority promoting low income housing development, showing children playing on playground.

Migrant winter camp on outskirts of Sacramento, California. Eighty families, build their own shacks, pay one dollar and twenty-five cents a month ground rent which includes water. One half-mile from American River camp

Migrant winter camp on outskirts of Sacramento, California. Eighty fam...

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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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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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Low rent homes for low income families Valleyview homes, West 7th and Starkweather.

Low rent homes for low income families Valleyview homes, West 7th and ...

Poster for Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority announcing new low income housing development, showing family looking at new homes. Date stamped on verso: Jul 20 1940. Work Projects Administration Poster Co... More

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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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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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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Live here at low rent - Lakeview Terrace, 1340 West 28th St. at Main Avenue bridge

Live here at low rent - Lakeview Terrace, 1340 West 28th St. at Main A...

Poster for Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority promoting low income housing. Public domain photograph - historical image of Ohio, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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.

On the outskirts of a modern Oklahoma City within sight of its gleaming skyscrapers. The rent, one dollar, is collected by the city and the health officer is in charge, although there is no sanitation

On the outskirts of a modern Oklahoma City within sight of its gleamin...

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Low rent - Woodhill Homes, 2567 Woodhill Road

Low rent - Woodhill Homes, 2567 Woodhill Road

Poster for Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority promoting low income housing, showing a construction worker waving with houses in the background.

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...

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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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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Map of the District of Columbia / - Public domain map

Map of the District of Columbia / - Public domain map

"Colors indicate average monthly rental for each block." Also shows number of dwelling units and other statistical data per block. At head of title: Real property inventory, Washington, D.C. Oriented with north... More

Under the "for rent" sign, through the door, one flight up, is the headquarters of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union. Memphis, Tennessee

Under the "for rent" sign, through the door, one flight up, is the hea...

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Housing heads at White House conference Washington D.C., July 14. At the White House yesterday President Roosevelt announced that the government was going to study the possibility of forming limited dividend corporations on the same theory as building and loan associations which would construct apartments for people who rent instead of purchase. Left to right: Isador Lubin, Commissioner of Statistics Dept. of Labor, Secretary of Labor Perkins, and Stewart McDonald Federal Housing Administrator, 7/14/37

Housing heads at White House conference Washington D.C., July 14. At t...

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A tourist camp used by migrant citrus workers. Some migrants cannot afford to rent such houses, and live in tents or crude homemade trailers. Winterhaven, Florida

A tourist camp used by migrant citrus workers. Some migrants cannot af...

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Mrs. Alfred Atkinson with baby and young child in farm home near Shannon City, Iowa. They rent eighty acres from an estate

Mrs. Alfred Atkinson with baby and young child in farm home near Shann...

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Backporch of farmhouse on J.H. and Ellis Cline's one hundred and eight acre farm which they rent from an estate. Northeastern corner of Ringgold County, Iowa

Backporch of farmhouse on J.H. and Ellis Cline's one hundred and eight...

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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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Part of Alfred Atkinson family who rent eighty acres of land from an estate near Shannon City, Iowa

Part of Alfred Atkinson family who rent eighty acres of land from an e...

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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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Housing in a tourist camp occupied by migrant citrus workers. Many migrants, who cannot afford to rent such houses, live in tents or in crude homemade trailers. Winterhaven, Florida

Housing in a tourist camp occupied by migrant citrus workers. Many mig...

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Garage on J.H. and Ellis Cline's farm in northeastern part of Ringgold County, Iowa. They rent one hundred eighty acres of land from an estate

Garage on J.H. and Ellis Cline's farm in northeastern part of Ringgold...

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Lilac Street, Mission District. Rent fifteen dollars a month for three rooms. San Francisco, California

Lilac Street, Mission District. Rent fifteen dollars a month for three...

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Orange pickers camp, Farmersville, Tulare County California. Rent: one dollar per week

Orange pickers camp, Farmersville, Tulare County California. Rent: one...

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Type house at "Garden Homes," Kern County, California. Twenty such homes have been completed and are occupied on a tract adjoining the Arvin Migratory Labor Camp. Rent is eight dollars and twenty cents monthly, which includes electricity and water

Type house at "Garden Homes," Kern County, California. Twenty such hom...

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Looking from the camp to adjoining tract where Farm Security Administration (FSA) has just completed forty homes to be occupied by low income workers. These homes represent a first step in stabilization of this group. Rent is eight dollars and twenty cents monthly, which includes gas and electricity. Shafter migrant camp, California

Looking from the camp to adjoining tract where Farm Security Administr...

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New York, New York. 61st Street between 1st and 3rd Avenues. A sign offering apartments for rent

New York, New York. 61st Street between 1st and 3rd Avenues. A sign of...

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