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High School work shop - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

High School work shop - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Chain gang of convicts engaged in road work. Pitt County, North Carolina. Autumn 1910. The inmates were quartered in the wagons shown in the picture. Wagons were equipped with bunks and move from place to place as labor is utilized. The central figure in the picture is J.Z. McLawhon, who was at that time county superintendent of chain gangs. The dogs are bloodhounds used for running down any attempted escapes

Chain gang of convicts engaged in road work. Pitt County, North Caroli...

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Uzbek collective farmers discussing work of spring sowing in the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)

Uzbek collective farmers discussing work of spring sowing in the USSR ...

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Small boat recreation landing on one of the arms of Pickwick Lake built with work relief labor and lumber cut on the property

Small boat recreation landing on one of the arms of Pickwick Lake buil...

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Small boat recreation landing on one of the arms of Pickwick Lake built with work relief labor and lumber cut on the property

Small boat recreation landing on one of the arms of Pickwick Lake buil...

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Watts Bar steam plant. Partial view of generator hall with one of 60,000 kva turbines in foreground. Gray ceramic tile floor, blue-gray tile walls, exposed steel work designed for maximum simplicity with rigid frame roof arches, precast concrete slabs, continuous glass brick above crane rail level. Units in light cream with a rich tan over portions of the machinery subject to particularly high temperatures. Light color over other portions compels first-class maintenance, also emphasizes importance of units by concentrating attention

Watts Bar steam plant. Partial view of generator hall with one of 60,0...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Miscellaneous design. A view of the Anderson County art center, a simple, homespun institution which represented the first formal recognition of area in the East Tennessee hill country. Exhibits were supplied generally by the Federal Art Project, although the work of local craftsmen, amateur artists, and school children was exhibited as often as possible

Miscellaneous design. A view of the Anderson County art center, a simp...

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

Miscellaneous design. Libraries in rural areas are among the great needs of the Tennessee Valley. The one shown in this photograph was built and equipped with the assistance of work relief labor out of primitive local materials

Miscellaneous design. Libraries in rural areas are among the great nee...

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Picnic shelter, more or less typical of many such structures on TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) recreational properties. All were built with CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) or similar work relief assistance with local materials to minimize cash expense

Picnic shelter, more or less typical of many such structures on TVA (T...

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Bridges. Highway bridge near Soddy, Tennessee, where, in cooperation with work relief agencies and the governing body of the county, TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) developed an arm of Chickamauga Lake for recreational uses

Bridges. Highway bridge near Soddy, Tennessee, where, in cooperation w...

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Farmers resettled on Skyline Farms, Alabama, at work in sand quarry under supervision of project manager

Farmers resettled on Skyline Farms, Alabama, at work in sand quarry un...

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The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been termed an industrial melting pot, since men and women of fifty-eight national origins work side by side in pushing Americas's plane output. S. O. Porter, Douglas director of personnel, recently declared that Negros are doing an outstanding job in all plants. Carol Angel is shown in the El Segundo plant of the Douglas Aircraft Company

The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been term...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Negro men and women work side by side on the production lines at the Saint Louis, Missouri plant of the Airplane Division of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation. The male inspector in the rear checks the accuracy of the completed work of the women in the foreground

Negro men and women work side by side on the production lines at the S...

Image source: Curtiss-Wright photo from OWI. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informa... More

Homesteaders at work in front of their new house at Dallas, Texas

Homesteaders at work in front of their new house at Dallas, Texas

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been termed an industrial melting pot, since men and women of fifty-eight national origins work side by side in pushing Americas's plane output. S. O. Porter, Douglas director of personnel, recently declared that Negros are doing an outstanding job in all plants. Graham Fain works in the El Segundo plant of the Douglas Aircraft Company

The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been term...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been termed an industrial melting pot, since men and women of fifty-eight national origins work side by side in pushing Americas's plane output. S. O. Porter, Douglas director of personnel, recently declared that Negros are doing an outstanding job in all plants. Samuel Wattree works in the El Segundo plant of the Douglas Aircraft Company

The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been term...

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Settlers on McComb Homesteads at work in their garden. Pike County, Mississippi

Settlers on McComb Homesteads at work in their garden. Pike County, Mi...

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been termed an industrial melting pot, since men and women of fifty-eight national origins work side by side in pushing Americas's plane output. S. O. Porter, Douglas director of personnel, recently declared that Negros are doing an outstanding job in all plants. Lucille Little works in the El Segundo Plant of the Douglas Aircraft Company

The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been term...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Homesteaders at work in front of their new house. Dallas, Texas

Homesteaders at work in front of their new house. Dallas, Texas

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Negro men and women work side by side on the production lines at the Saint Louis, Missouri plant of the Airplane Division of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation. The male inspector in the rear checks the accuracy of the completed work of the women in the foreground

Negro men and women work side by side on the production lines at the S...

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The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been termed an industrial melting pot, since men and women of fifty-eight national origins work side by side in pushing Americas's plane output. S. O. Porter, Douglas director of personnel, recently declared that Negros are doing an outstanding job in all plants. Richard Springfield and William Ung are employed in the El Segundo plant of the Douglas Aircraft Company

The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been term...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been termed an industrial melting pot, since men and women of fifty-eight national origins work side by side in pushing Americas's plane output. S. O. Porter, Douglas director of personnel, recently declared that Negros are doing an outstanding job in all plants. Miss Amanda Smith is employed in the Long Beach Plant of the Douglas Aircraft Company

The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been term...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been termed an industrial melting pot, since men and women of fifty-eight national origins work side by side in pushing Americas's plane output. S. O. Porter, Douglas director of personnel, recently declared that Negros are doing an outstanding job in all plants. Kathryn Polinaire and Vivian King are employed in the Long Beach Plant of the Douglas Aircraft Company

The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been term...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been termed an industrial melting pot, since men and women of fifty-eight national origins work side by side in pushing Americas's plane output. S. O. Porter, Douglas director of personnel, recently declared that Negros are doing an outstanding job in all plants. Ruth Miller works in the El Segundo Plant of the Douglas Aircraft Company

The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been term...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been termed an industrial melting pot, since men and women of fifty-eight national origins work side by side in pushing Americas's plane output. S. O. Porter, Douglas director of personnel, recently declared that Negros are doing an outstanding job in all plants. Dora Miles and Dorothy Johnson are employed in the Long Beach Plant of the Douglas Aircraft Company

The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been term...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, meeting, civil rights movement, African Americans, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been termed an industrial melting pot, since men and women of fifty-eight national origins work side by side in pushing Americas's plane output. S. O. Porter, Douglas director of personnel, recently declared that Negros are doing an outstanding job in all plants. Curtis Edwards works in the El Segundo plant of the Douglas Aircraft Company

The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been term...

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

The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been termed an industrial melting pot, since men and women of fifty-eight national origins work side by side in pushing Americas's plane output. S. O. Porter, Douglas director of personnel, recently declared that Negros are doing an outstanding job in all plants. Luedell Mitchell and Lavada Cherry are shown in the El Segundo Plant of the Douglas Aircraft Company

The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been term...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory worker, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been termed an industrial melting pot, since men and women of fifty-eight national origins work side by side in pushing Americas's plane output. S. O. Porter, Douglas director of personnel, recently declared that Negros are doing an outstanding job in all plants. R. B. Santona and L. C. Ross work together in the El Segundo plant of the Douglas Aircraft Company

The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been term...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory worker, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been termed an industrial melting pot, since men and women of fifty-eight national origins work side by side in pushing Americas's plane output. S. O. Porter, Douglas director of personnel, recently declared that Negros are doing an outstanding job in all plants. Dolores Aldrich is employed in the Long Beach Plant of the Douglas Aircraft Company

The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been term...

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

Homegrown food is homegrown health. Exercise, fresh air, sunshine, as well as good things to eat, mean good health for the whole family. Many hands are making light work of this job

Homegrown food is homegrown health. Exercise, fresh air, sunshine, as ...

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

Hot Springs federal shelter. One of the five federal camps for homeless men in California. Year ago enrollment three hundred seventy five men, now one hundred fifty seven. Average age fifty; all physically disabled and not capable of manual or project work. Dining hall, kitchen and hospital. California

Hot Springs federal shelter. One of the five federal camps for homeles...

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Filipino gang labor in pea fields near Pismo Beach, Nipomo, California. Work for Japanese, live on Japanese ranches. Sixty men in this gang

Filipino gang labor in pea fields near Pismo Beach, Nipomo, California...

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Hot Springs federal shelter. One of the five federal camps for homeless men in California. Year ago enrollment three hundred seventy five men, now one hundred fifty seven. Average age fifty; all physically disabled and not capable of manual or project work. Administration building. California

Hot Springs federal shelter. One of the five federal camps for homeles...

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Men coming from work at shipyard. This yard employs approximately seven thousand men. Newport News, Virginia

Men coming from work at shipyard. This yard employs approximately seve...

Public domain photograph of the 1930s, United States, cars, streets, John Kennedy, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Saw sharpener at work. Waterloo project, Michigan

Saw sharpener at work. Waterloo project, Michigan

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Radio used in information work. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Washington, D.C.

Radio used in information work. United States Department of Agricultur...

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

Photography in information work. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Washington, D.C.

Photography in information work. United States Department of Agricultu...

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Cotton hoers loading at Memphis, Tennessee for the day's work in Arkansas

Cotton hoers loading at Memphis, Tennessee for the day's work in Arkan...

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Typewriter used in information work. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Washington, D.C.

Typewriter used in information work. United States Department of Agric...

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Family of Blaze Gallagher, former farmer, now living in Crosby, North Dakota. Doing WPA (Works Progress Administration) work

Family of Blaze Gallagher, former farmer, now living in Crosby, North ...

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Railroad station used as WPA (Work Progress Administration) office. Cooperstown, New York. Otsego County, New York

Railroad station used as WPA (Work Progress Administration) office. Co...

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

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...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a great depression era, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Cotton hoers loading at Memphis, Tennessee for the day's work in Arkansas

Cotton hoers loading at Memphis, Tennessee for the day's work in Arkan...

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

Mexican beet worker family having coffee after a day's work. East Grand Forks, Minnesota

Mexican beet worker family having coffee after a day's work. East Gran...

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

House on farm to which Charles Miller is moving. Northeast of Fowler, Indiana. A hired man for the past twelve years, Miller has now rented a farm to work himself

House on farm to which Charles Miller is moving. Northeast of Fowler, ...

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House in which Charles Miller lived while he worked as a hired man near Fowler, Indiana. He has now rented a farm which he will work himself

House in which Charles Miller lived while he worked as a hired man nea...

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House in the town of Fowler, Indiana, where Tip Estes' employer lives. He rents this house and hires Estes to work one of his farms on a monthly wage basis

House in the town of Fowler, Indiana, where Tip Estes' employer lives....

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The telephone used in information work. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Washington, D.C.

The telephone used in information work. United States Department of Ag...

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Rural arts exhibition held under the auspices of the Farm Security Administration (FSA) in the patio of the U.S. Department of Agriculture building. Chair with untanned hide seat, Extension Service, College Station, Texas; black pottery, Pueblo Indian Service (Marie pottery), San Ildefonso, New Mexico; copper bowl, WPA (Work Progress Administration (secured through WPA, Washington, D.C.); woven rug, WPA Colorado (secured through WPA, Washington, D.C.); horsehair lariat, Mrs. Mary Stilwell Buol,

Rural arts exhibition held under the auspices of the Farm Security Adm...

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Mexican beet worker washing up after a day's work near East Grand Forks, Minnesota

Mexican beet worker washing up after a day's work near East Grand Fork...

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

Cotton hoers loading at Memphis, Tennessee for the day's work in Arkansas

Cotton hoers loading at Memphis, Tennessee for the day's work in Arkan...

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Father of beet worker family resting after a day's work. East Grand Forks, Minnesota

Father of beet worker family resting after a day's work. East Grand Fo...

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County supervisor and home supervisor helping young farm couple work out farm and home plans. Group meeting, York, Nebraska

County supervisor and home supervisor helping young farm couple work o...

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Member of carnival crew at work. Lasses-White traveling show. Sikeston, Missouri

Member of carnival crew at work. Lasses-White traveling show. Sikeston...

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These men are both past sixty. Neither of them expect ever to work again. They ride freight trains from Omaha to Kansas City to St. Louis and back again. Omaha, Nebraska

These men are both past sixty. Neither of them expect ever to work aga...

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

Southeast Missouri Farms. M.O. Layton, resident engineer, at work

Southeast Missouri Farms. M.O. Layton, resident engineer, at work

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, office meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Home in Charleston, West Virginia. Mother has TB, father works on WPA (Work Progress Administration). See 50119-D

Home in Charleston, West Virginia. Mother has TB, father works on WPA ...

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Child of sharecropper in old home. Family will work under the tenant purchase program. Near Caruthersville, Missouri

Child of sharecropper in old home. Family will work under the tenant p...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

In the sewing room, migrant women are instructed in rug-making. Shafter camp for migrants (Farm Security Administration-FSA), California. Recreational, educational, cooperative activities in the camp are aided by Work Projects Administration instructors assigned to the camp programs

In the sewing room, migrant women are instructed in rug-making. Shafte...

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Unemployment benefits aid begins. Line of men inside a division office of the State Employment Service office at San Francisco, California, waiting to register for benefits on one of the first days the office was open. They will receive from six to fifteen dollars per week for up to sixteen weeks. Coincidental with the announcement that the federal unemployment census showed close to ten million persons out of work, twenty-two states begin paying unemployment compensation

Unemployment benefits aid begins. Line of men inside a division office...

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

Home supervisor helping young farm couple work out home plan. Group meeting, York, Nebraska

Home supervisor helping young farm couple work out home plan. Group me...

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Clifford Shorts comes home from work. Aliquippa, Pennsylvania

Clifford Shorts comes home from work. Aliquippa, Pennsylvania

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Unloading stakes and horses. Lasses-White tent show. Note local children at work. Sikeston, Missouri

Unloading stakes and horses. Lasses-White tent show. Note local childr...

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

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

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

Blacksmith at work shaping knife for farm implement. Abbeville, Louisiana

Blacksmith at work shaping knife for farm implement. Abbeville, Louisi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Meeting of Farm Security Administration rehabilitation clients who work out farm and home plans with help of county supervisor and home supervisor. York, Nebraska

Meeting of Farm Security Administration rehabilitation clients who wor...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, group of people, meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Display in store window illustrating harvesting of rice. National Rice Festival, Crowley, Louisiana. These displays were the work of local people using for the most part local and handmade products

Display in store window illustrating harvesting of rice. National Rice...

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Girls who work in apple packinghouse eating lunch. Some of these girls are migratory workers and others come from nearby large cities like Philadelphia and Trenton. Camden County, New Jersey

Girls who work in apple packinghouse eating lunch. Some of these girls...

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Unemployment benefits aid begins. Line of men inside a division office of the State Employment Service office at San Francisco, California, waiting to register for benefits on one of the first days the office was open. They will receive from six to fifteen dollars per week for up to sixteen weeks. Coincidental with the announcement that the federal unemployment census showed close to ten million persons out of work, twenty-two states begin paying unemployment compensation

Unemployment benefits aid begins. Line of men inside a division office...

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John Koltias leaving for work. Aliquippa, Pennsylvania

John Koltias leaving for work. Aliquippa, Pennsylvania

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Wife of sharecropper, with baby in her lap, at sewing machine. Family will work under tenant purchase program. Near Caruthersville, Missouri

Wife of sharecropper, with baby in her lap, at sewing machine. Family ...

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Bedroom in home of sharecropper who will work under tenant purchase program. Near Caruthersville, Missouri

Bedroom in home of sharecropper who will work under tenant purchase pr...

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Members of the Wabash Farms cooperative discussing their work with the project manager

Members of the Wabash Farms cooperative discussing their work with the...

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Farmer at work. Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

Farmer at work. Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

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Unemployment benefits aid begins. Line of men inside a division office of the State Employment Service office at San Francisco, California, waiting to register for benefits on one of the first days the office was open. They will receive from six to fifteen dollars per week for up to sixteen weeks. Coincidental with the announcement that the federal unemployment census showed close to ten million persons out of work, twenty-two states begin paying unemployment compensation

Unemployment benefits aid begins. Line of men inside a division office...

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Clifford Shorts leaving for work. Aliquippa, Pennsylvania

Clifford Shorts leaving for work. Aliquippa, Pennsylvania

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W.E. Smith, farmer near Morganza, Louisiana, doing blacksmith work on plow in his improvised blacksmith shop

W.E. Smith, farmer near Morganza, Louisiana, doing blacksmith work on ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mexican pecan workers waiting in union hall for assignment to work. San Antonio, Texas

Mexican pecan workers waiting in union hall for assignment to work. Sa...

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This man has obtained a government loan (FSA-Farm Security Administration) in Oklahoma. However, he migrated to Arizona two years ago and spent a year and a half there doing day labor in the cotton and sugar beet fields. He still has one son in Arizona doing day laborer work. Another son returned home to his family saying he wanted to be with them all and all would fare alike; the close family feeling is evident in this class of people. This man's main complaint was of the poor condition of his house. He said that owners would do nothing to help the farmer, "Why if I want a piece of wire to fix a fence, I have to steal it. Of course I have not done exactly that yet, but if I knew where there was a piece handy I would"

This man has obtained a government loan (FSA-Farm Security Administrat...

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Blacksmith at work. San Augustine, Texas

Blacksmith at work. San Augustine, Texas

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Calipatria, Imperial Valley. In FSA (Farm Security Administration) emergency migratory labor camp. Left Oklahoma December 11, 1937 with husband and two children and son-in-law. Ex-tenant farmers on third and fourths in cotton. Had fifty dollars when set out. Went to Phoenix, picked cotton and pulled bolls, made eighty cents a day with two people picking bolls. Stayed until school closed. Went to Idaho, picked peas until August, left McCarl with forty dollars "in hand." Went to Cedar City and Parowan, Utah, a distance of 700 miles. Picked peas through September. Went to Hollister, Calipatria. Picked peas through October. Left for Calipatria for early peas which froze. Now receiving FSA food grant and waiting for work to begin. "Back in Oklahoma we was sinkin.' You work your head off for a crop and then see it burn up. You live in debts that you can never get out of. This isn't a good life, but I say it's a better life than that was."

Calipatria, Imperial Valley. In FSA (Farm Security Administration) eme...

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Oldest child of migrant packinghouse worker's family from Tennessee fixing supper. Her mother and father both work during the day and sometimes until two and three in the morning, leaving the children alone. Belle Glade, Florida

Oldest child of migrant packinghouse worker's family from Tennessee fi...

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Interior of home of migrant agricultural workers who have returned to Oklahoma from the west. They are trying to find work in the fields of Oklahoma. McIntosh County

Interior of home of migrant agricultural workers who have returned to ...

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

Calipatria, Imperial Valley, In Farm Security Administration (FSA) emergency migratory labor camp. Daughter of ex-tenant farmers on thirds and fourths in cotton. Had fifty dollars when set out. Went to Phoenix, picked cotton, pulled bolls made eighty cents a day with two people pulling bolls. Stayed until school closed. Went to Idaho, picked peas until August. Left McCall with forty dollars "in hand." Went to Cedar City and Parowan, Utah, a distance of 700 miles. Picked peas through September. Went to Hollister, California. Picked peas through October. Left Hollister for Calipatria for early peas which froze. Now receiving Farm Security Administration food grant and waiting for work to begin. "Back in Oklahoma, we are sinking. You work your head off for a crop and then see it burn up. You live in debts that you can never get out of. This isn't a good life, but I say that it's a better life than it was."

Calipatria, Imperial Valley, In Farm Security Administration (FSA) eme...

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

Family group of farm Negroes. They work on thirds and fourths. Jefferson, Texas

Family group of farm Negroes. They work on thirds and fourths. Jeffers...

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The FSA (Farm Security Administration) home supervisor has helped this woman make her dress of flour sacks and decorate her curtain with splatter work. Osage Farms, Missouri

The FSA (Farm Security Administration) home supervisor has helped this...

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County, state and regional FSA (Farm Security Administration) officials: R.L. Vansant, state Farm Security Administration director; T.H. McGibbony, chairman, County Commission; F.T. Corry, county School Superintendent; Francis Bowen 2nd, county agent E.H. Dows, assistant farm superintendent, Farm Security Administration; R.B. Weil, farmer and chairman, County Commission. FSA planning further work in Greene County, Georgia. At Crawfordville, NYA (National Youth Administration) headquarters

County, state and regional FSA (Farm Security Administration) official...

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Migrant vegetables and packinghouse workers. "The scramble for that rare and valuable commodity--work." The trailer is next to the packinghouse door so that its occupants may by the first on call when work is available, Belle Glade, Florida

Migrant vegetables and packinghouse workers. "The scramble for that ra...

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Rivet work in saddle repair shop. Alpine, Texas

Rivet work in saddle repair shop. Alpine, Texas

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Hand work at Gonzales County Fair, Gonzales Texas. Notice the Bible quilt. This pattern is very popular in all rural sections and is to be seen at every country fair

Hand work at Gonzales County Fair, Gonzales Texas. Notice the Bible qu...

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Mexican pecan workers union work committee assigning a man to work. San Antonio, Texas

Mexican pecan workers union work committee assigning a man to work. Sa...

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Titus Oakley's daughter helping in the grading and tying of tobacco in their bedroom as it had gotten too cold to work in the strip house. She is eight years old and is "taking off" the tobacco. Shoofly, Granville County, North Carolina

Titus Oakley's daughter helping in the grading and tying of tobacco in...

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Consolidated Coal Company, Lake Creek Mine, Johnston City, Illinois. Abandoned. This mine will never work again. Williamson County, Illinois once produced 11,000,000 tons of coal a year and led the state in output. Since 1923, output has steadily declined until now it falls short of 2,000,000 tons. At one time sixteen mine whistles blowing to work could be hard from the center of Herrin. Now only two mines are working and these two will probably be abandoned within the next year

Consolidated Coal Company, Lake Creek Mine, Johnston City, Illinois. A...

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A black and white photo of two men in front of a shack. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A black and white photo of two men in front of a shack. Great Depressi...

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

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

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Camp cook at work with chuck wagon in center and truck for carrying bed rolls at left. Cattle ranch near Marfa, Texas

Camp cook at work with chuck wagon in center and truck for carrying be...

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Children of migrant packing house workers, living in a "lean-to" made of pieces of rusty galvanized tin and burlap. They are left alone all day and often until three a.m. Both parents work when possible. Belle Glade, Florida

Children of migrant packing house workers, living in a "lean-to" made ...

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Migrant packinghouse workers' camp. If there is a frost (freeze-out) or drought, they may have to wait six or eight weeks for work in the next crop. The amount of work depends on quantity of produce available. If many truckloads come in, they may work all night. Otherwise only an hour or two. Belle Glade, Florida

Migrant packinghouse workers' camp. If there is a frost (freeze-out) o...

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WPA (Works Progress/Work Projects Administration) worker and his wife sitting in front of their shack home on the Arkansas River near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma. This man said that last year he thought maybe he would be a little better off when he got the WPA work and had a small amount of cash coming in but that he was worse off now. "Last year I had a cow and some chickens and I had to sell my cow and eat my chickens. I get worse off every year"

WPA (Works Progress/Work Projects Administration) worker and his wife ...

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Blacksmith at work. San Augustine, Texas

Blacksmith at work. San Augustine, Texas

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