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14 men seated around a table -- Camp Council Meeting, February 1939

14 men seated around a table -- Camp Council Meeting, February 1939

a) F.S.A. camp for migratory agricultural workers, Visalia, California. Meeting of the camp council. February 1939. (typed and attached)

In trailer clinic. The nurse consults the migrant mother whose small boy is ailing. Merrill FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp, Klamath County, Oregon. See general caption 62

In trailer clinic. The nurse consults the migrant mother whose small b...

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, one month from South Dakota, now on the road in California. Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California. See general caption number 65

Family, one month from South Dakota, now on the road in California. Tu...

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Between Tulare and Fresno, California. See general caption one. Dairy barn

Between Tulare and Fresno, California. See general caption one. Dairy ...

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Adjutant and his wife sing. Salvation Army, San Francisco, California

Adjutant and his wife sing. Salvation Army, San Francisco, California

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The Nieman farm showing cleared land on which the bulldozer is clearing more land. Western Washington, Lewis County, near Vader. See general caption number 41

The Nieman farm showing cleared land on which the bulldozer is clearin...

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Gang of migratory carrot pullers in field. Wages: fourteen cents per crate of forty eight bunches. Imperial Valley, California

Gang of migratory carrot pullers in field. Wages: fourteen cents per c...

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Infirmary. Nyssa farm family labor camp. Mobile unit at opening of beet campaign. Malheur County, Oregon. FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp

Infirmary. Nyssa farm family labor camp. Mobile unit at opening of bee...

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Abandoned church in cut-over area. Boundary County, Idaho. Two miles south of Canadian line

Abandoned church in cut-over area. Boundary County, Idaho. Two miles s...

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Student audience listening to Peace Day address of General Smedley Butler. Berkeley, California, University of California

Student audience listening to Peace Day address of General Smedley But...

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

On U.S. 99 between Bakersfield and the Ridge, en route to San Diego. Migrant man shaving by roadside. See general caption 1

On U.S. 99 between Bakersfield and the Ridge, en route to San Diego. M...

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A black and white photo of a group of people - FSA / Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a group of people - FSA / Office of War Inf...

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Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven children without food. Mother aged thirty-two. Father is a native Californian. Nipomo, California

Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven children without food. Mot...

Photograph shows Florence Thompson with two of her children as part of the "Migrant Mother" series. For background information, see "Dorothea Lange's M̀igrant Mother' photographs ..." http://www.loc.gov/rr/prin... More

Along the highway near Bakersfield, California. Dust bowl refugees

Along the highway near Bakersfield, California. Dust bowl refugees

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Housing for Mexican field laborers. Brawley, Imperial Valley, California

Housing for Mexican field laborers. Brawley, Imperial Valley, Californ...

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Japanese relocation, California. Baggage belonging to evacuees of Japanese ancestry at an assembly center in Salinas, California, prior to a War Relocation Authority center

Japanese relocation, California. Baggage belonging to evacuees of Japa...

Caption card lists some of the printing history for image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Adobe school. Bosque Farms Project, New Mexico. 1935.

Adobe school. Bosque Farms Project, New Mexico. 1935.

Public domain photograph of Mexico, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Camp of California "fruit tramp." The car has done duty on the fruit route for 16 years. Outskirts of Marysville, California.

Camp of California "fruit tramp." The car has done duty on the fruit r...

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

A black and white photo of a baby sitting on the ground, In a migratory camp. California.

A black and white photo of a baby sitting on the ground, In a migrator...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a tractor, farming equipment, agriculture, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

San Fernando homesteads, Cal. Feb. 1936.

San Fernando homesteads, Cal. Feb. 1936.

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

At the Self Help Association, dairy farm unit, California.

At the Self Help Association, dairy farm unit, California.

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

An old black and white photo of a farm, Migrant camp. California.

An old black and white photo of a farm, Migrant camp. California.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural landscape, farmhouse, pasture, farm field, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

An old black and white photo of a shack, California housing for Oklahoma refugees.

An old black and white photo of a shack, California housing for Oklaho...

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

The children from Dead Ox Flat get off the bus at the school yard. Ontario, Malheur County, Oregon. General caption number 67-1V.

The children from Dead Ox Flat get off the bus at the school yard. Ont...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children, kids, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged thirty-two. Father is a native Californian. Destitute in pea picker's camp, Nipomo, California, because of the failure of the early pea crop. These people had just sold their tent in order to buy food. Of the twenty-five hundred people in this camp most of them were destitute

Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother ag...

Photograph shows Florence Thompson with two of her children as part of the "Migrant Mother" series. For background information, see "Dorothea Lange's M̀igrant Mother' photographs ..." http://www.loc.gov/rr/pri... More

Peach pickers. They earn seventy-five cents a day in the orchards. Muscella, Georgia

Peach pickers. They earn seventy-five cents a day in the orchards. Mus...

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

A black and white photo of a man sitting on a porch, "Old age" near Washington, Pennsylvania

A black and white photo of a man sitting on a porch, "Old age" near Wa...

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

Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged thirty-two. Father is native Californian. Nipomo, California

Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother ag...

Photograph shows Florence Thompson with one of her children as part of the "Migrant Mother" series. For background information, see "Dorothea Lange's M̀igrant Mother' photographs ..." http://www.loc.gov/rr/pri... More

Colored boys playing on top of Coca Cola stand. Little Rock, Arkansas

Colored boys playing on top of Coca Cola stand. Little Rock, Arkansas

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

Western Pacific line runs through unclaimed desert of northern Oregon. Ten miles from railroad station at Irrigon. Morrow County, Oregon

Western Pacific line runs through unclaimed desert of northern Oregon....

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

Old time professional migratory laborer camping on the outskirts of Perryton, Texas at opening of wheat harvest. With his wife and growing family, he has been on the road since marriage, thirteen years ago. Migrations include ranch land in Texas, cotton and wheat in Texas, cotton and timber in New Mexico, peas and potatoes in Idaho, wheat in Colorado, hops and apples in Yakima Valley, Washington, cotton in Arizona. He wants to buy a little place in Idaho

Old time professional migratory laborer camping on the outskirts of Pe...

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

Rural electrification in Pulaski County, Arkansas

Rural electrification in Pulaski County, Arkansas

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

Part of the daily lineup outside the State Employment Service Office. Memphis, Tennessee

Part of the daily lineup outside the State Employment Service Office. ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Family, one month from South Dakota, now on the road in California. Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California. See general caption number 65

Family, one month from South Dakota, now on the road in California. Tu...

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A black and white photo of a man standing in front of a building, Taos, New Mexico. Indian reservation.

A black and white photo of a man standing in front of a building, Taos...

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

A black and white photo of a man on a horse, Taos Indian Reservation, New Mexico.

A black and white photo of a man on a horse, Taos Indian Reservation, ...

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

Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California

Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thi...

Photograph shows Florence Thompson with three of her children in a photograph known as "Migrant Mother." For background information, see "Dorothea Lange's M̀igrant Mother' photographs ..." http://www.loc.gov/rr... More

Eagle Cafe, 2566 Powell Street (moved to Pier 39), San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA

Eagle Cafe, 2566 Powell Street (moved to Pier 39), San Francisco, San ...

Significance: The Eagle Cafe was constructed as the first steamship passenger waiting room in San Francisco. It currently serves as a maritime worker's cafe noted for its authentic atmosphere. Survey number: H... More

Dorothea Lange, Resettlement Administration photographer, in California

Dorothea Lange, Resettlement Administration photographer, in Californi...

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

Highway U.S. 101 which runs the full length of California. A main artery on which all travel [California, near King City]

Highway U.S. 101 which runs the full length of California. A main arte...

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

El Monte Federal Subsistence Homesteads. 100 homes, all occupied. Each with nearly an acre of ground. Average family income $800 year. Calif. 1936

El Monte Federal Subsistence Homesteads. 100 homes, all occupied. Each...

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

Icon "Food." Southern California, public domain photograph

Icon "Food." Southern California, public domain photograph

Public domain photograph of Dorothea Lange, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, widely recognized for ... More

New York City. Post office, Lower East Side

New York City. Post office, Lower East Side

Public domain photograph of Dorothea Lange, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, widely recognized for ... More

A black and white photo of a group of people in front of a truck, Potato harvesters. Kern County, California

A black and white photo of a group of people in front of a truck, Pota...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). File print is reversed; printed backwards. File print misnumbered LC-USF343-003807-ZE; corrected 1998. Title and other information from caption card. T... More

Tom Collins, manager of Kern migrant camp talking with drought refugee and her four sons. California

Tom Collins, manager of Kern migrant camp talking with drought refugee...

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

Migrant cotton pickers. Texas. Farm Security Administartion 1930s public domain photo.

Migrant cotton pickers. Texas. Farm Security Administartion 1930s publ...

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

Squatters' camp near Farmersville. Tulare County, California

Squatters' camp near Farmersville. Tulare County, California

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Soil erosion at Arroyo Grande, California. Soil Conservation has one of its principal stations here

Soil erosion at Arroyo Grande, California. Soil Conservation has one o...

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Wife and five children of migratory fruit worker. American River camp on outskirts of Sacramento, California. Have worked in the fruit since 1931. "We don't make a living, but we live on what we make"

Wife and five children of migratory fruit worker. American River camp ...

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

A black and white photo of a snow covered field, Widtsoe Valley purchase area. Utah

A black and white photo of a snow covered field, Widtsoe Valley purcha...

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Camp of migratory fruit pickers. Farmington, California

Camp of migratory fruit pickers. Farmington, California

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'Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California'

'Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California'

Dorothea Lange (1895-1965); Gelatin Silver..This iconic portrait of a mother and her three children was taken in the USA in 1936. The family lived in a tent in a pea-pickers camp in Nipomo Valley, California. ... More

On the highway. Riverside County, California

On the highway. Riverside County, California

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

A black and white photo of a man sitting on a porch with pigs, Turpentine worker's home. Georgia

A black and white photo of a man sitting on a porch with pigs, Turpent...

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Desert agriculture. Brushed chili field. Replanting chili plants on a Japanese-owned ranch. Imperial Valley, California

Desert agriculture. Brushed chili field. Replanting chili plants on a ...

Additional information on caption card: See card 16168-C [i.e. LC-USF34-016168-C] for details. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture... More

Texas tenant farmer's house. He operated this farm on thirds and fourths; that is, he supplies teams and tools, feed and seed to the owner's land. He has made no crop for four years but survives because of government checks for participation in crop reduction program. He has farmed for twenty years but plans to abandon farm in fall of 1937

Texas tenant farmer's house. He operated this farm on thirds and fourt...

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

Cotton hoers on the Mississippi Delta. They worked from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. for one dollar

Cotton hoers on the Mississippi Delta. They worked from 6 a.m. to 7 p....

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Pea harvest. Family at work. Nipomo, California

Pea harvest. Family at work. Nipomo, California

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Ditch bank camp for migrant agricultural workers. California

Ditch bank camp for migrant agricultural workers. California

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Waiting for relief checks. Calipatria, California

Waiting for relief checks. Calipatria, California

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Fruit jars being sterilized on old lady Graham's back fence in berry season. Near Conway, Arkansas. "We just gather and can peas, beans, berries, and sausage when we butcher the hogs in the winter. We put up seventy-five quarts of berries, sixty of beans, sixty of kraut, thirty of grapes and twenty of peaches. I swapped two bushels of grapes and got two bushels of peaches and I swapped one bushel of grapes for one bushel of apples"

Fruit jars being sterilized on old lady Graham's back fence in berry s...

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

Camp talent provides music for dancing at Shafter camp for migrants. Halloween party, Shafter, California

Camp talent provides music for dancing at Shafter camp for migrants. H...

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Migrant pea pickers from many states line up with their filled hampers on the edge of the field. They wait their turn for weighing. Near Westley, California

Migrant pea pickers from many states line up with their filled hampers...

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

Arkansas mother come to California for a new start, with husband and eleven children. Now a rural rehabilitation client. Tulare County, California

Arkansas mother come to California for a new start, with husband and e...

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

Migratory laborer's wife with three children (not in photo). Near Childress, Texas

Migratory laborer's wife with three children (not in photo). Near Chil...

Photo shows Nettie Featherston. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is ava... More

During the cotton strike, the father, a striking picker, has left his wife and child in the car while he applies to the Farm Security Administration for an emergency food grant. Shafter, California

During the cotton strike, the father, a striking picker, has left his ...

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

Evanson new home, looking across land which has recently been cleared by bulldozer. Priest River Valley, Bonner County, Idaho. See general caption 49, 54

Evanson new home, looking across land which has recently been cleared ...

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Labor contractor's truck with gang of pea pickers, pulled up for gas. Near Westley, California

Labor contractor's truck with gang of pea pickers, pulled up for gas. ...

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

Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp. Brawley, California. Father is home after a day in the pea fields. Note tent platform, standard equipment in Farm Security Administration camps

Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp. Brawley, Cali...

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

The Fairbanks home (FSA - Farm Security Administration). Willow Creek area, Malheur County, Oregon. General caption number 66

The Fairbanks home (FSA - Farm Security Administration). Willow Creek ...

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

Fresno. On U.S. 99. Storefront of San Joaquin Valley town. California

Fresno. On U.S. 99. Storefront of San Joaquin Valley town. California

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Wife of tobacco sharecropper cleaning butter churn. Person County, North Carolina

Wife of tobacco sharecropper cleaning butter churn. Person County, Nor...

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

Was Nebraska farmer, now migrant farm worker in the West. Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon. General caption 62-111

Was Nebraska farmer, now migrant farm worker in the West. Merrill, Kla...

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Girls of Lincoln Bench School study their reading lesson. Near Ontario, Malheur County, Oregon

Girls of Lincoln Bench School study their reading lesson. Near Ontario...

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Tulare County, California. Farm Security Administration (FSA) camp for migratory agricultural workers at Farmersville. Nurse of Agricultural Workers' Health and Medical Association attends sick migrant woman while awaiting doctor

Tulare County, California. Farm Security Administration (FSA) camp for...

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

Wood stacked up preliminary to firing the tobacco. Person County, North Carolina

Wood stacked up preliminary to firing the tobacco. Person County, Nort...

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Mr. Wardlow, drought area farmer, adjusting to a Western farm. Dead Ox Flat, Malheur County, Oregon

Mr. Wardlow, drought area farmer, adjusting to a Western farm. Dead Ox...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information ... More

Pregnant woman, the daughter of a migrant family. Imperial Valley, California

Pregnant woman, the daughter of a migrant family. Imperial Valley, Cal...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information ... More

In front of city hall, San Francisco, California. The Worker's Alliance, Works Progress Administration (WPA) organize simultaneous demonstrations in the large cities of the nation cut in the relief appropriation by the United States Congress

In front of city hall, San Francisco, California. The Worker's Allianc...

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

Salvation Army, San Francisco, California. General view of army and crowds

Salvation Army, San Francisco, California. General view of army and cr...

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Partially completed homes for agricultural workers to enable them to settle permanently. These houses rent for eight dollars and twenty cents per month, which includes water and electricity. This tract adjoins the migratory labor camp, Farmersville, California. (compare 19550 and 19546)

Partially completed homes for agricultural workers to enable them to s...

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Mother and two children, husband, his brother and brother's wife shown. Near Klamath Falls, Oregon. Rural shack community on outskirts of town. General caption number 47

Mother and two children, husband, his brother and brother's wife shown...

File print and print in microfilmed lot misnumbered LC-USF34-21308-C; file print corrected Mar. 1999. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas ... More

The new Gilchrist mill, open a week. Lumber mill. Gilchrist, Oregon. See general caption 62

The new Gilchrist mill, open a week. Lumber mill. Gilchrist, Oregon. S...

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

Father's farm in foreground, son's place adjoining. Note cleared land. FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrowers on land clearing loan. Boundary County, Idaho. See general caption 56

Father's farm in foreground, son's place adjoining. Note cleared land....

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

Imperial Valley, California. Old Mexican laborer saying "I have worked all my life and all I have now is my broken body"

Imperial Valley, California. Old Mexican laborer saying "I have worked...

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Camp of single men by the roadside. They have come in to work in the pea fields. Nipomo, California

Camp of single men by the roadside. They have come in to work in the p...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). File print is reversed; printed backwards. File print misnumbered LC-USF343-003806-ZE; corrected 1998. Title and other information from caption card. T... More

Once a prosperous Texas farmer, near Bakersfield, California, now come to California looking for work and work for his family in cotton. No work, and no money

Once a prosperous Texas farmer, near Bakersfield, California, now come...

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Self Help Association, dairy farm, California.

Self Help Association, dairy farm, California.

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

Young family, penniless, hitchhiking on U.S. Highway 99, California. The father, twenty-four, and the mother, seventeen, came from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, early in 1935. Their baby was born in the Imperial Valley, California, where they were working as field laborers.

Young family, penniless, hitchhiking on U.S. Highway 99, California. T...

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

Member of the Hightstown farm group says: "Who says Jews can't farm?" Hightstown, New Jersey

Member of the Hightstown farm group says: "Who says Jews can't farm?" ...

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

New York City. Post office, Lower East Side.

New York City. Post office, Lower East Side.

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

Migrants. California. - An old photo of a man holding a child

Migrants. California. - An old photo of a man holding a child

Public domain image of infant, child, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

An old black and white photo of a shack, Migrant's home, California.

An old black and white photo of a shack, Migrant's home, California.

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

Farmers mixing grasshopper bait with assistance of the county supervisor. Outskirts of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Farmers mixing grasshopper bait with assistance of the county supervis...

Public domain photograph of Dorothea Lange, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, widely recognized for ... More

A black and white photo of a dirt road, Cleveland County, Oklahoma.

A black and white photo of a dirt road, Cleveland County, Oklahoma.

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

Women of the congregation of Wheeley's Church on steps with brooms and buckets on annual clean up day. Gordonton, North Carolina

Women of the congregation of Wheeley's Church on steps with brooms and...

Annotation on original negative jacket: DL. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. More information about the FSA/OWI Colle... More

The Pueblo at Taos, New Mexico.

The Pueblo at Taos, New Mexico.

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

Refreshment stand on US highway 99 in Oregon ppmsc.00116u

Refreshment stand on US highway 99 in Oregon ppmsc.00116u

Refreshment stand on U.S. highway 99 in Oregon photographed by Dorothea Lange, 1939. Novelty building shaped like giant dog. "On U.S. 99 as it continues through Oregon. Lane County, Williamette Valley, Oregon"

Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California

Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thi...

Photograph shows Florence Thompson with three of her children in a photograph known as "Migrant Mother." For background information, see "Dorothea Lange's M̀igrant Mother' photographs ..." http://www.loc.gov/rr... More

Eagle Cafe, 2566 Powell Street (moved to Pier 39), San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA

Eagle Cafe, 2566 Powell Street (moved to Pier 39), San Francisco, San ...

Significance: The Eagle Cafe was constructed as the first steamship passenger waiting room in San Francisco. It currently serves as a maritime worker's cafe noted for its authentic atmosphere. Survey number: H... More

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