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A group of men standing next to a truck, Mississippi. Farmers during Great Depression.

A group of men standing next to a truck, Mississippi. Farmers during G...

Public domain photograph of a truck, pickup truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Day laborers being hired for cotton picking on Mississippi and Arkansas plantations. Between four and six-thirty every morning during the season, near the Hallan Bridge in Memphis, Tennessee, crowds of Negroes in the streets gather and are loaded into trucks by drivers who bid, and offer them anywhere from fifty cents to one dollar per day

Day laborers being hired for cotton picking on Mississippi and Arkansa...

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

On the plains west of Fresno, California. Family of seven from Oregon dairy ranch which they lost. "We tried to get too big, I guess. Milk cans are all that's left of the dairy. Now pick bolls to make fifty cents to one dollar a day. We can't work every day or maybe we could get by." Rent for house without water or sanitation -six dollars per month. Plan next to pick fruit. "They say if you come to California, you always come back, but I'm willing to leave it."

On the plains west of Fresno, California. Family of seven from Oregon ...

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

Transient farm laborer in hotel room which he rents for one dollar and fifty cents a week. Dubuque, Iowa

Transient farm laborer in hotel room which he rents for one dollar and...

Public domain photograph of the United States in the 1930s, portraits, people, events, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Working on jigs, with dormitories in the background at the FSA (Farm Security Administration trailer camp for defense workers. The dormitories at this project will accomodate, when finished, 952 single men. Dormitory residents will pay five dollars weekly for single rooms and three dollars and fifty cents weekly for each occupant sharing a double room. San Diego, California

Working on jigs, with dormitories in the background at the FSA (Farm S...

Public domain scan of construction site, excavation, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fifty cents. Shin plaster - Public domain scan / drawing

Fifty cents. Shin plaster - Public domain scan / drawing

Another mock shinplaster (see also nos. 1837-9 and -10 above). Again the artist attributes the shortage of hard money to the successive monetary programs of presidents Jackson and Van Buren, particularly to the... More

Auto camp north of Calipatria, California. Approximately eighty families from the Dust Bowl are camped here. They pay fifty cents a week. The only available work now is agricultural labor

Auto camp north of Calipatria, California. Approximately eighty famili...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of camp, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Woodpiles along the street are a characteristic of Portland, Oregon. Costs five dollars and fifty cents per cord, and must now be hauled thirty-five miles. Portland, Oregon

Woodpiles along the street are a characteristic of Portland, Oregon. C...

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Day laborers being hired for cotton picking on Mississippi and Arkansas plantations. Between four and six-thirty every morning during the season, near the Hallan Bridge in Memphis, Tennessee, crowds of Negroes in the streets gather and are loaded into trucks by drivers who bid, and offer them anywhere from fifty cents to one dollar per day

Day laborers being hired for cotton picking on Mississippi and Arkansa...

Public domain photograph of train tracks, railroad works, construction workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Middle River, a small crossroads in the vicinity of Baltimore, Maryland. FSA (Farm Security Administration) housing project (later administered by the National Housing Agency) for Glenn L. Martin aircraft workers. Mrs. Cecil C. Irp having her child examined by Dr. P.R. Estep, trailer camp doctor who holds regular office hours at two dollars and fifty cents per visit daily

Middle River, a small crossroads in the vicinity of Baltimore, Marylan...

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

Laundress Quarters, Fort Scott national historic site

Laundress Quarters, Fort Scott national historic site

Called the, "red armed women of the west," laundresses scrubbed their way into history as they took on the task of keeping the army their whitest and their brightest. The laundresses were the only offically rec... More

Three related drought refugee families stalled on the highway near Lordsburg, New Mexico. From farms near Claremore, Oklahoma. Have been working as migratory workers in Calfornia and Arizona, now trying to get to Roswell, New Mexico, for work chopping cotton. Have car trouble and pulled up alongside the highway. "Would go back to Oklahoma but can't get along there. Can't feed the kids on what they give you (relief budget) and ain't made a crop there you might say for five years. Only other work there is fifty cents a day wages and the farmers can't pay it anyways." One of these families has lost two babies since they left their home in Oklahoma. The children, seventeen months and three years, died in the county hospital at Shafter California, from typhoid fever, resulting from unsanitary conditions in a labor camp

Three related drought refugee families stalled on the highway near Lor...

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

Migratory laborers' camp. Single-room cabin costs two dollars and fifty cents, double room four dollars per week. Water hauled, usually priced at fifty-five cents for fifty-five gallon tank. Toilet for about 150 people. Near Belle Glade, Florida

Migratory laborers' camp. Single-room cabin costs two dollars and fift...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, warehouse, depot, train station, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a group of people standing in front of a train, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a group of people standing in front of a tr...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A group of men standing next to a truck, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A group of men standing next to a truck, Tennessee. Farm Security Admi...

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Migratory laborers' camp. Single-room cabin costs two dollars and fifty cents, double room four dollars per week. Water hauled, usually priced at fifty-five cents for fifty-five gallon tank. Toilet for about 150 people. Near Belle Glade, Florida

Migratory laborers' camp. Single-room cabin costs two dollars and fift...

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

Working on jigs, with dormitories in the background at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp for defense workers. The dormitories at this project will accommodate, when finished, 952 single men. Dormitory residents will pay five dollars weekly for single rooms and three dollars and fifty cents weekly for each occupant sharing a double room. San Diego, California

Working on jigs, with dormitories in the background at the FSA (Farm S...

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

House on Winter Street, Quincy, Massachusetts. Because of lack of parking facilities, people living in the vicinity of the shipyards are renting car space in their backyards and the lots around their houses for "fifty cents a week."

House on Winter Street, Quincy, Massachusetts. Because of lack of park...

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

Trailer and tent-camp at Mission Valley, California, which is about three miles from San Diego. The charge for pitching tents in this camp is two dollars and fifty cents per week and rental fee entitles campers to electricity and use of sanitary facilities, shower and toilet. Electric washing machines are rented by the camp owner

Trailer and tent-camp at Mission Valley, California, which is about th...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, park architecture, outdoors, romantic atmospheric landscape, cemetery, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Duplex at 3919-21 Utah Street. Rent has been increased from thirty dollars per side to fifty dollars per side. Reality board says top price per side should not be more than forty-two dollars and fifty cents per month. Director of housing surveys says seventy dollars for frontage would be ample. San Diego, California

Duplex at 3919-21 Utah Street. Rent has been increased from thirty dol...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential building, house, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Auto camp north of Calipatria, California. Approximately eighty families from the Dust Bowl are camped here. They pay fifty cents a week. The only available work now is agricultural labor

Auto camp north of Calipatria, California. Approximately eighty famili...

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

A black and white photo of people standing next to a truck, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of people standing next to a truck, Tennessee....

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

Day laborers being hired for cotton picking on Mississippi and Arkansas plantations. Between four and six-thirty every morning during the season, near the Hallan Bridge in Memphis, Tennessee, crowds of Negroes in the streets gather and are loaded into trucks by drivers who bid, and offer them anywhere from fifty cents to one dollar per day

Day laborers being hired for cotton picking on Mississippi and Arkansa...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Arkansas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of people standing on the back of a truck, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of people standing on the back of a truck, Ten...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A group of people standing next to a truck, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A group of people standing next to a truck, Tennessee. Farm Security A...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rural rehabilitation, Tulare County, California. This family had been on relief. They are now re-established on a small farm, where their cash outlay for food is about two dollars and fifty cents a week for a family of seven

Rural rehabilitation, Tulare County, California. This family had been ...

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

Patsy, eight year old newsboy, Newark, N.J. Says he makes fifty cents a day. - Aug. 1, 1924. Location: Newark, New Jersey

Patsy, eight year old newsboy, Newark, N.J. Says he makes fifty cents ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 4949. "118" recorded in pencil in lower right of caption card. Credit line: National Child Labor Committe... More

Woodpiles along the street are a characteristic of Portland, Oregon. Costs five dollars and fifty cents per cord, and must be hauled thirty-five miles. (Shows homeowner on porch.) Portland, Oregon

Woodpiles along the street are a characteristic of Portland, Oregon. C...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential building, house, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

New buildings for use of construction workers on Camp Clairborne job. Eight dollars and fifty cents for lodging and board (several people in one room). Property in this section now priced at two hundred dollars per acre. Gas station attendant says there is a different owner every fifty feet. Alexandria, Louisiana

New buildings for use of construction workers on Camp Clairborne job. ...

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

Mr. Tilly, who is fixing up the basement of his secondhand store to house fifty men at three dollars and fifty cents per week. He will spend one thousand dollars on the place. He expects to get it back in six weeks. Radford, Virginia

Mr. Tilly, who is fixing up the basement of his secondhand store to ho...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Negro slum area between D and C Streets off 1st Street, S.W. Washington, D.C. Most houses have five small rooms renting for twenty dollars and fifty cents a month, with rear wood kitchen shed, cold water, outdoor privy

Negro slum area between D and C Streets off 1st Street, S.W. Washingto...

Public domain photograph of life in the USA during the 1930s-1940s, war, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dangerous work. Charlie McBride. Said twelve years old. This twelve year old boy has a steady job with the Miller & Vidor Lumber Company. He takes slabs out of a chute which has a moving endless chain to carry the wood up the chute. He passes the slabs onto the other boy who saws them on an unguarded circular saw. Charlie runs the saw himself whenever he gets the chance. He is exposed not only to the above danger, but to the weather - no roof even. Has been here for some months. "Get four bits a day." Fifty cents. Works ten hours. This was the only mill that I found around Beaumont that employed boys, likely because they are located some distance out of town. Location: Beaumont, Texas.

Dangerous work. Charlie McBride. Said twelve years old. This twelve ye...

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

Loading truck in sugar beet field. Average wage of field worker: two dollars and fifty cents per day and dinner and supper during topping. Near Ontario, Malheur County, Oregon

Loading truck in sugar beet field. Average wage of field worker: two d...

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

Loading truck in sugar beet field. Average wage of field worker: two dollars and fifty cents per day and dinner and supper during topping. Near Ontario, Malheur County, Oregon

Loading truck in sugar beet field. Average wage of field worker: two d...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Oregon, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a group of people, possibly related to: Day laborers being hired for cotton picking on Mississippi and Arkansas plantations. Between four and six-thirty every morning during the season, near the Hallan Bridge in Memphis, Tennessee, crowds of Negroes in the streets gather and are loaded into trucks by drivers who bid, and offer them anywhere from fifty cents to one dollar per day

A black and white photo of a group of people, possibly related to: Day...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

Sign on highway from Fort Beauregard to Alexandria,in Pineville, Louisiana. Beds, fifty cents, plate lunches and barbecue

Sign on highway from Fort Beauregard to Alexandria,in Pineville, Louis...

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

Williston, North Dakota. Inspecting used tire for sale (eight dollars and fifty cents) in grocery store

Williston, North Dakota. Inspecting used tire for sale (eight dollars ...

Public domain photograph of American working class people in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Williston, North Dakota. Inspecting used tire for sale (eight dollars and fifty cents) in grocery store

Williston, North Dakota. Inspecting used tire for sale (eight dollars ...

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

Dangerous work. Charlie McBride (said twelve years old). This twelve year old boy has a steady job with the Miller & Vidor Lumber Company. He takes slabs out of the chute which has a moving endless chain to carry the wood up the chute. He passes the slabs onto to [sic] other boy who saws them on an unguarded circular saw. Charlie runs the saw himself whenever he gets the chance. He is exposed not only to the above dangers, but to the weather. No roof even. Has been here for some months. "Get four bits a day." (fifty cents) Works ten hours. This was the only mill that I found in Beaumont that employed boys - likely because they are located some distance out of town. Location: Beaumont, Texas.

Dangerous work. Charlie McBride (said twelve years old). This twelve y...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Workers in Miller & Vidor Lumber Co. Dangerous work. Charlie McBride said twelve years old. This twelve year old boy has a steady job. He takes the slabs out of the chute which has a moving endless chain to carry the wood up the chute. He passes the slabs on to the other boy who saws them on an inguarded [i.e., unguarded] circular saw. Charlie runs the saw himself whenever he gets the chance. He is exposed not only to the above dangers, but to the weather - no roof even. Has been here for some months. "Get four bits a day" (fifty cents). Works ten hours. This was the only mill that I found around Beaumont that employed boys likely because they are located some distance out of town. Location: Beaumont, Texas.

Workers in Miller & Vidor Lumber Co. Dangerous work. Charlie McBride s...

Public domain image of personnel, army, group of people in uniform, parade, historic place, military activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a group of people riding on the back of a truck, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a group of people riding on the back of a 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.

A group of people standing around a train, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A group of people standing around a train, Tennessee. Farm Security Ad...

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New buildings for use of construction workers on Camp Clairborne job. Eight dollars and fifty cents for lodging and board (several people in one room). Property in this section now priced at two hundred dollars per acre. Gas station attendant says there is a different owner every fifty feet. Alexandria, Louisiana

New buildings for use of construction workers on Camp Clairborne job. ...

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

House on Winter Street, Quincy, Massachusetts. Because of lack of parking facilities, people living in the vicinity of the shipyards are renting car space in their backyards and the lots around their houses for "fifty cents a week."

House on Winter Street, Quincy, Massachusetts. Because of lack of park...

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

Chevy Chase, Maryland. Mrs. Harper, who runs a tourist home at 5530 Wisconsin Avenue. She charges two dollars to two dollars and fifty cents a night and most guests stay until they find an apartment, because it is cheaper than hotels in town

Chevy Chase, Maryland. Mrs. Harper, who runs a tourist home at 5530 Wi...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Oldest girl, Minnie Carpenter, House 53 Loray Mill, Gastonia, N.C. Spinner. Makes fifty cents a day of 10 hours. Works four sides. Younger girl works irregularly. Location: Gastonia, North Carolina.

Oldest girl, Minnie Carpenter, House 53 Loray Mill, Gastonia, N.C. Spi...

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

Auto camp north of Calipatria, California. Approximately eighty families from the Dust Bowl are camped here. They pay fifty cents a week. The only available work now is agricultural labor

Auto camp north of Calipatria, California. Approximately eighty famili...

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

A black and white photo of men loading a truck, Mississippi. Farmers during Great Depression.

A black and white photo of men loading a truck, Mississippi. Farmers d...

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A black and white photo of a truck and a train, possibly related to: Day laborers being hired for cotton picking on Mississippi and Arkansas plantations. Between four and six-thirty every morning during the season, near the Hallan Bridge in Memphis, Tennessee, crowds of Negroes in the streets gather and are loaded into trucks by drivers who bid, and offer them anywhere from fifty cents to one dollar per day

A black and white photo of a truck and a train, possibly related to: D...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

Negro slum area between D and C Streets off 1st Street, S.W. Washington, D.C. Most houses have five small rooms renting for twenty dollars and fifty cents a month, with rear wood kitchen shed, cold water, outdoor privy

Negro slum area between D and C Streets off 1st Street, S.W. Washingto...

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

Three related drought refugee families stalled on the highway near Lordsburg, New Mexico. From farms near Claremore, Oklahoma. Have been working as migratory workers in Calfornia and Arizona, now trying to get to Roswell, New Mexico, for work chopping cotton. Have car trouble and pulled up alongside the highway. "Would go back to Oklahoma but can't get along there. Can't feed the kids on what they give you (relief budget) and ain't made a crop there you might say for five years. Only other work there is fifty cents a day wages and the farmers can't pay it anyways." One of these families has lost two babies since they left their home in Oklahoma. The children, seventeen months and three years, died in the county hospital at Shafter California, from typhoid fever, resulting from unsanitary conditions in a labor camp

Three related drought refugee families stalled on the highway near Lor...

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

A black and white photo of a group of men standing next to a truck, possibly related to: Day laborers being hired for cotton picking on Mississippi and Arkansas plantations. Between four and six-thirty every morning during the season, near the Hallan Bridge in Memphis, Tennessee, crowds of Negroes in the streets gather and are loaded into trucks by drivers who bid, and offer them anywhere from fifty cents to one dollar per day

A black and white photo of a group of men standing next to a truck, po...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

A group of people standing around a truck, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A group of people standing around a truck, Tennessee. Farm Security Ad...

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A black and white photo of a truck and a car, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a truck and a car, Tennessee. Farm Security...

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

Carl's Cafe and lunchroom tent put up about three months ago. Plate lunch increases from twenty-five cents to thirty-five cents and dinners from thirty-five cents to fifty cents. Alexandria, Louisiana

Carl's Cafe and lunchroom tent put up about three months ago. Plate lu...

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

Mother and child who have moved to San Diego from San Angelo, Texas. The house this family lives in rented for twenty-two dollars and fifty cents per month six months ago. The rent is now forty dollars. Two roomers pay five dollars each per month for use of room. San Diego, California

Mother and child who have moved to San Diego from San Angelo, Texas. T...

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

Wife and child of sharecropper near Gaffney, South Carolina. The farmer does a little day labor for his landlord. He received fifty cents a day in 1936, sixty to seventy-five cents in 1937. He raised seven bales of cotton on thirteen acres; half to his landlord

Wife and child of sharecropper near Gaffney, South Carolina. The farme...

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

A group of men standing around a truck Farmers of Great Depression. Dust bowl refugees, Resettlement program.

A group of men standing around a truck Farmers of Great Depression. Du...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

Meeting opens with taking the collection. Army contributes (about one dollar and fifty cents) again, as well as the audience. Salvation Army, San Francisco, California

Meeting opens with taking the collection. Army contributes (about one ...

Public domain photograph of meeting, discussion, group of people, political event, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Day laborers being hired for cotton picking on Mississippi and Arkansas plantations. Between four and six-thirty every morning during the season, near the Hallan Bridge in Memphis, Tennessee, crowds of Negroes in the streets gather and are loaded into trucks by drivers who bid, and offer them anywhere from fifty cents to one dollar per day

Day laborers being hired for cotton picking on Mississippi and Arkansa...

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

Transient farm laborer in hotel room which he rents for one dollar and fifty cents a week. Dubuque, Iowa

Transient farm laborer in hotel room which he rents for one dollar and...

Public domain photograph of American working class people in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Auto camp north of Calipatria, California. Approximately eighty families from the Dust Bowl are camped here. They pay fifty cents a week. The only available work now is agricultural labor

Auto camp north of Calipatria, California. Approximately eighty famili...

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

Dangerous work. Charlie McBride. Said twelve years old. This twelve year old boy has a steady job with the Miller and Vidor Lumber Company. He takes slabs out of the chute, which has a moving endless chain to carry the wood up the chute. He passes the slabs on to the other boy who saws them off on an unguarded circular saw. Charlie runs the saw himself whenever he gets the chance. He is exposed not only to the above dangers, but to the weather. No roof even. Has been here for some months. "Get four bits a day." (Fifty cents.) Works ten hours. This was the only mill that I found around Beaumont that employed boys. Likely because they are located some distance out of town. Location: Beaumont, Texas.

Dangerous work. Charlie McBride. Said twelve years old. This twelve ye...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The tractor driver is colored. His wages when he works is one dollar and fifty cents a day as long as there is daylight. Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi

The tractor driver is colored. His wages when he works is one dollar a...

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

Rural rehabilitation, Tulare County, California. This family had been on relief. They are now re-established on a small farm, where their cash outlay for food is about two dollars and fifty cents a week for a family of seven

Rural rehabilitation, Tulare County, California. This family had been ...

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

A black and white photo of a group of people walking down a street, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a group of people walking down a street, Te...

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

Migrant camp, Weslaco, Texas. Local employment men say that there was no need for migrant labor to handle the citrus and vegetable crops in the valley, the local supply of labor being ample for this purpose. Most of the local labor is Mexican and the labor contractors favor Mexican labor over white labor, partly because the Mexican will work much cheaper than whites. One white woman who was a permanent resident (her husband was on WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) said that the white people who lived in the valley, had no trouble with the Mexicans. The Mexicans were good neighbors, she said, always willing to share what they had. She said the white migrants who came into the valley and resented and misunderstood the Mexicans caused the trouble between the two races. Some towns in this section permit camping only in trailers. The charge for camping in tents is about fifty cents per week, including water, which in some cases must be carried four city blocks. Privies are tin, very bad condition. Garbage is collected only once a week, with large dumps of decaying fruits and vegetables scattered among the camps. Some of the white migrants in this camp were very suspicious of governmental activity, due to the use by south Texas newspapers of the term "concentration camps" referring to FSA (Farm Security Administration) camps

Migrant camp, Weslaco, Texas. Local employment men say that there was ...

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

A group of men standing next to a truck. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A group of men standing next to a truck. Great Depression FFSA / OWI N...

Public domain photographs related to race relations, African Americans, discrimination, segregation, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Migratory laborers' camp. Single-room cabin costs two dollars and fifty cents, double room four dollars per week. Water hauled, usually priced at fifty-five cents for fifty-five gallon tank. Toilet for about 150 people. Near Belle Glade, Florida

Migratory laborers' camp. Single-room cabin costs two dollars and fift...

Public domain photograph of car garage, repair shop, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A group of men standing next to a truck, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A group of men standing next to a truck, Tennessee. Farm Security Admi...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a group of men standing on the back of a truck. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A black and white photo of a group of men standing on the back of a tr...

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A black and white photo of a group of men standing next to a truck, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a group of men standing next to a truck, Te...

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Day laborers being hired for cotton picking on Mississippi and Arkansas plantations. Between four and six-thirty every morning during the season, near the Hallan Bridge in Memphis, Tennessee, crowds of Negroes in the streets gather and are loaded into trucks by drivers who bid, and offer them anywhere from fifty cents to one dollar per day

Day laborers being hired for cotton picking on Mississippi and Arkansa...

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

A black and white photo of a man standing next to a truck, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a man standing next to a truck, Tennessee. ...

Public domain photograph of Great Depression, farm, farmer, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Flophouse of about thirty-seven beds at fifty cents each, constantly crowded with construction workers sleeping in several shifts. Some of them had flu. Alexandria, Louisiana

Flophouse of about thirty-seven beds at fifty cents each, constantly c...

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

Dangerous work. Charlie McBride. Said twelve years old. This twelve year old boy has a steady job with the Miller and Vidor Lumber Company. He takes slabs out of the chute which has a moving endless chain to carry the wood up the chute. He passes the slabs on to the other boy who saws them on an unguarded circular saw. Charlie runs the saw himself whenever he gets a chance. He is exposed, not only to the above dangers, but to the weather, no roof even. Has been here for some months. "Get four bits a day." (Fifty cents.) Works ten hours. This was the only mill that I found around Beaumont that employed boys - likely because they are located some distance out of town. Location: Beaumont, Texas.

Dangerous work. Charlie McBride. Said twelve years old. This twelve ye...

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First printing of food stamps. Washington, D.C., April 20. Food stamps, the latest in the administration's plans to reduce the farm surplus, came off the presses today at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Of yellow and blue, the stamps will be issued to persons on relief who will be able to cash each one dollar stamp for food worth a dollar and fifty cents. Imogene Stanhope, printer's assistant at the Bureau, is pictured pulling the first batch off the press

First printing of food stamps. Washington, D.C., April 20. Food stamps...

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Patsy, eight year old newsboy, Newark, N.J. Says he makes fifty cents a day. - Aug. 1, 1924. Location: Newark, New Jersey.

Patsy, eight year old newsboy, Newark, N.J. Says he makes fifty cents ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The tractor driver is colored. His wages when he works is one dollar and fifty cents a day as long as there is daylight. Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi

The tractor driver is colored. His wages when he works is one dollar a...

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 people in a truck, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of people in a truck, Tennessee. Farm Security...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a group of people on a street, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a group of people on a street, Tennessee. F...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a military parade, 20th-century armed forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A group of men standing next to a train, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A group of men standing next to a train, Tennessee. Farm Security Admi...

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Jones Trailer Camp where army men and construction workers and their families live. They pay two dollars and fifty cents weekly for space only. One said "It's nothing but a mud hole, only running water, you can't find a decent place to live in Columbus, and nobody will allow children in their homes--it's a shame. We was all children once. Most folks got children."

Jones Trailer Camp where army men and construction workers and their f...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Carl's Cafe (lunchroom tent) put up about three months ago. Plate lunch increased from twenty-five cents to thirty-five cents and dinners from thirty-five cents to fifty cents. Alexandria, Louisiana

Carl's Cafe (lunchroom tent) put up about three months ago. Plate lunc...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a gas station, convenience store, 20th-century small town, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Jones Trailer Camp where Army men and construction workers and their families live. They pay two dollars and fifty cents weekly for space only. One said "It's nothing but a mud hole, only running wate, you can't find a decent place to live in Columbus and nobody will allow children in their homes. It's a shame. We was all children once. Most folks got children."

Jones Trailer Camp where Army men and construction workers and their f...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a tent, camp, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Living room in house rented to Mexican family for twelve dollars and fifty cents per month. San Diego, California

Living room in house rented to Mexican family for twelve dollars and f...

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

Clinton, Iowa. Blackboard in the Disher rooming house for railroad workers. It lists the names and room numbers of the men. This enables the "caller" to find the men and wake them. If men come in very late and go out very early they simply enclose their fifty cents in one of the envelopes, write their name on it, and drop it in the slot in the little box in the corner

Clinton, Iowa. Blackboard in the Disher rooming house for railroad wor...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Dangerous work. Charlie McBride. Said twelve years old. This twelve year old boy has a steady job with the Miller & Vidor Lumber Company. He takes slabs out of a chute which has a moving endless chain to carry the wood up the chute. He passes the slabs onto the other boy who saws them on an unguarded circular saw. Charlie runs the saw himself whenever he gets the chance. He is exposed not only to the above danger, but to the weather - no roof even. Has been here for some months. "Get four bits a day." Fifty cents. Works ten hours. This was the only mill that I found around Beaumont that employed boys, likely because they are located some distance out of town. Location: Beaumont, Texas.

Dangerous work. Charlie McBride. Said twelve years old. This twelve ye...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Dangerous work. Charlie McBride. Said twelve years old. This twelve year old boy has a steady job with the Miller and Vidor Lumber Company. He takes slabs out of the chute, which has a moving endless chain to carry the wood up the chute. He passes the slabs on to the other boy who saws them off on an unguarded circular saw. Charlie runs the saw himself whenever he gets the chance. He is exposed not only to the above dangers, but to the weather. No roof even. Has been here for some months. "Get four bits a day." (Fifty cents.) Works ten hours. This was the only mill that I found around Beaumont that employed boys. Likely because they are located some distance out of town. Location: Beaumont, Texas.

Dangerous work. Charlie McBride. Said twelve years old. This twelve ye...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Day laborers being hired for cotton picking on Mississippi and Arkansas plantations. Between four and six-thirty every morning during the season, near the Hallan Bridge in Memphis, Tennessee, crowds of Negroes in the streets gather and are loaded into trucks by drivers who bid, and offer them anywhere from fifty cents to one dollar per day

Day laborers being hired for cotton picking on Mississippi and Arkansa...

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 group of people riding in a truck, possibly related to: Day laborers being hired for cotton picking on Mississippi and Arkansas plantations. Between four and six-thirty every morning during the season, near the Hallan Bridge in Memphis, Tennessee, crowds of Negroes in the streets gather and are loaded into trucks by drivers who bid, and offer them anywhere from fifty cents to one dollar per day

A black and white photo of a group of people riding in a truck, possib...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

Trailer and tent-camp at Mission Valley, California, which is about three miles from San Diego. The charge for pitching tents in this camp is two dollars and fifty cents per week and rental fee entitles campers to electricity and use of sanitary facilities, shower and toilet. Electric washing machines are rented by the camp owner

Trailer and tent-camp at Mission Valley, California, which is about th...

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

Auto camp north of Calipatria, California. Approximately eighty families from the Dust Bowl are camped here. They pay fifty cents a week. The only available work now is agricultural labor

Auto camp north of Calipatria, California. Approximately eighty famili...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of camp, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Lottery, for raising six thousand six hundred and sixty-seven dollars and fifty cents, by a deduction of fifteen per cent from the prizes and not two blanks to a prize, viz ... By order of the directors of the Society for establishing useful man

Lottery, for raising six thousand six hundred and sixty-seven dollars ...

Together with a strip of 7 lottery tickets.; Not in Evans.; Page Order: Piece 1 is a Leaflet. Page Order: Leaflet Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images a... More

A black and white photo of a group of people on a street Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information photo.

A black and white photo of a group of people on a street Farm Security...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

A group of men standing around a truck, possibly related to: Day laborers being hired for cotton picking on Mississippi and Arkansas plantations. Between four and six-thirty every morning during the season, near the Hallan Bridge in Memphis, Tennessee, crowds of Negroes in the streets gather and are loaded into trucks by drivers who bid, and offer them anywhere from fifty cents to one dollar per day

A group of men standing around a truck, possibly related to: Day labor...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

Flophouse of about thirty-seven beds at fifty cents each, constantly crowded with construction workers sleeping in several shifts. Some of them had flu. Alexandria, Louisiana

Flophouse of about thirty-seven beds at fifty cents each, constantly c...

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

Middle River, a small crossroads in the vicinity of Baltimore, Maryland. FSA (Farm Security Administration) housing project (later administered by the National Housing Agency) for Glenn L. Martin aircraft workers. Mrs. Cecil C. Irp having her child examined by Dr. P.R. Estep, trailer camp doctor who holds regular office hours at two dollars and fifty cents per visit daily

Middle River, a small crossroads in the vicinity of Baltimore, Marylan...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of the 1930s - 1940s, woman, female portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Middle River, a small crossroads in the vicinity of Baltimore, Maryland. FSA (Farm Security Administration) housing project (later administered by the National Housing Agency) for Glenn L. Martin aircraft workers. Mrs. Cecil C. Irp having her child examined by Dr. P.R. Estep, trailer camp doctor, who holds regular office hours at two dollars and fifty cents per visit daily

Middle River, a small crossroads in the vicinity of Baltimore, Marylan...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of the 1930s - 1940s, woman, female portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Lottery, for raising six thousand six hundred and sixty-seven dollars and fifty cents, by a deduction of fifteen per cent from the prizes and not two blanks to a prize, viz ... By order of the directors of the Society for establishing useful man

Lottery, for raising six thousand six hundred and sixty-seven dollars ...

Together with a strip of 7 lottery tickets.; Not in Evans.; Page Order: Piece 1 is a Leaflet. Page Order: Leaflet Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images a... More

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