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African American cotton plantation workers, hired as day laborers, walking next to cotton field at Hopson Plantation, Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi, August 1940.
Berry pickers, at 5 a.m., waiting for the truck to haul them to work. Earn about 60¢ a day. Memphis, Tennessee.

Berry pickers, at 5 a.m., waiting for the truck to haul them to work. ...

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Negro day laborers brought in by truck from nearby towns, waiting to be paid off for cotton picking and buy supplies inside the plantation store, Friday night, Marcella Plantation, Mileston, Mississippi Delta, November 1939.

Negro day laborers brought in by truck from nearby towns, waiting to b...

Picryl description: Public domain image of industrial or agricultural worker, 1930s, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

Cotton hoers loading at Memphis for the day's work in Arkansas; June, 1937.

Cotton hoers loading at Memphis for the day's work in Arkansas; June, ...

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

African American day laborers standing near and on the back of farm trucks parked on the side of a road near the Hallan Bridge while drivers bid and offer them between 50 cents and one dollar to work as cotton pickers on Mississippi and Arkansas plantations, Memphis, Tennessee, October 1939.

African American day laborers standing near and on the back of farm tr...

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

Children of agricultural day laborers camped by the roadside near Spiro, Oklahoma. There were no beds and no protection from the profusion of flies

Children of agricultural day laborers camped by the roadside near Spir...

Public domain photograph of Great Depression era, artistic, art photography, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

End of hand of poker played by day laborers at home near New Iberia, Louisiana

End of hand of poker played by day laborers at home near New Iberia, L...

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Cotton hoers loading at Memphis, Tennessee for the day's work in Arkansas. June 1937.

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

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

Day laborers working on tractors, large farm near Ralls, Texas

Day laborers working on tractors, large farm near Ralls, Texas

Public domain photograph of Texas during the Great Depression era, artistic, art photography, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Women being transported from Memphis, Tennessee to an Arkansas plantation, July 1937.

Women being transported from Memphis, Tennessee to an Arkansas plantat...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

African American cotton plantation worker, hired as a day laborer, riding a mule and holding down a sack of cotton in the cotton field at Nugent Plantation, Benoit, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi, October 1939.

African American cotton plantation worker, hired as a day laborer, rid...

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

Children of agricultural day laborers sitting on bench in front of small store near Vian, Oklahoma

Children of agricultural day laborers sitting on bench in front of sma...

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Vegetable pickers, migrants, waiting after work to be paid, near Homestead, Florida, February 1939.

Vegetable pickers, migrants, waiting after work to be paid, near Homes...

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

Tin cans and glass jars near camp of agricultural day laborers camped near Spiro. Sequoyah County, Oklahoma

Tin cans and glass jars near camp of agricultural day laborers camped ...

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Clothes of white agricultural day laborers drying on old fence with broken plow in foreground, north of Sallisaw, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma

Clothes of white agricultural day laborers drying on old fence with br...

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Wife and child of day laborers, sugarcane fields near New Iberia, Louisiana

Wife and child of day laborers, sugarcane fields near New Iberia, Loui...

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

Ex-tenant farmer, now a day laborer on large cotton farm near Corsicana, Texas

Ex-tenant farmer, now a day laborer on large cotton farm near Corsican...

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

Memphis, Tennessee. Cotton hoers are transported to the fields daily during the season. Truck drivers are paid by the planters and serve as "runners" to recruit the men. Trucks leave at five o'clock in the morning for the Arkansas Delta plantations

Memphis, Tennessee. Cotton hoers are transported to the fields daily d...

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

Harvesting on almond ranch, local day labor. Near Walnut Creek, Contra Costa County, California

Harvesting on almond ranch, local day labor. Near Walnut Creek, Contra...

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

Cotton hoers leaving Greenville at 5 a.m. for a day's work on the plantations; Wages one dollar a day, one dollar and twenty-five cents on a few plantations; Hoers carry their lunches; They return about 8 p.m. Mississippi.

Cotton hoers leaving Greenville at 5 a.m. for a day's work on the plan...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Harvesting on almond ranch, local day labor. Near Walnut Creek, Contra Costa County, California

Harvesting on almond ranch, local day labor. Near Walnut Creek, Contra...

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

Homes of day laborers on large farm near Ralls, Texas. There are 4900 acres in this farm. Nine tractors are used

Homes of day laborers on large farm near Ralls, Texas. There are 4900 ...

Public domain photograph of Great Depression era, artistic, art photography, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Day laborers, cotton pickers, in field, Lake Dick Project, Arkansas

Day laborers, cotton pickers, in field, Lake Dick Project, Arkansas

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Negro and white agricultural day laborers picking string beans in field near Muskogee, Oklahoma

Negro and white agricultural day laborers picking string beans in fiel...

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

Home of white agricultural day laborers north of Sallisaw, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma

Home of white agricultural day laborers north of Sallisaw, Sequoyah Co...

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

Cotton pickers, day laborers, walking in from field with cotton. Lake Dick Project, Arkansas

Cotton pickers, day laborers, walking in from field with cotton. Lake ...

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

Family of agricultural day laborers living in tent near Spiro, Oklahoma. This family had farmed in this vicinity for twenty-five years but could no longer find a place to rent. They had no money and no car but hoped to get work in the potato fields and

Family of agricultural day laborers living in tent near Spiro, Oklahom...

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Home of Negro agricultural day laborers near Vian, Sequoyah Coounty, Oklahoma

Home of Negro agricultural day laborers near Vian, Sequoyah Coounty, O...

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Local agricultural day laborers, potato workers, after a day's work near Spiro, Oklahoma

Local agricultural day laborers, potato workers, after a day's work ne...

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Cotton farmers near Oil City, Oklahoma, day laborers. Carter County, Oklahoma

Cotton farmers near Oil City, Oklahoma, day laborers. Carter County, O...

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

Day laborers at work on tractor, large farm near Ralls, Texas

Day laborers at work on tractor, large farm near Ralls, Texas

Public domain photograph of Texas during the Great Depression era, artistic, art photography, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Family of agricultural day laborers living in tent near Spiro, Oklahoma. This family had farmed in this vicinity for twenty-five years but could no longer find a place to rent. They had no money and no car but hoped to get work in the potato fields and

Family of agricultural day laborers living in tent near Spiro, Oklahom...

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Family of agricultural day laborers living in tent near Spiro, Oklahoma. This family had farmed in this vicinity for twenty-five years but could no longer find a place to rent. They had no money and no car but hoped to get work in the potato fields and

Family of agricultural day laborers living in tent near Spiro, Oklahom...

Public domain photograph of Great Depression era, artistic, art photography, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Group of agricultural day laborers in the Arkansas River bottoms near Vian. Oklahoma, Sequoyah County

Group of agricultural day laborers in the Arkansas River bottoms near ...

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

Group of agricultural day laborers and their children near Tullahassee, Oklahoma. Wagoner County

Group of agricultural day laborers and their children near Tullahassee...

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Day laborers hoeing cotton. Many tenant farmers become day laborers on mechanized farms. Near Corsicana, Texas

Day laborers hoeing cotton. Many tenant farmers become day laborers on...

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

Relief client near Oil City, Oklahoma. Oil City is a source of heavy immigration to California. Carter County, Oklahoma

Relief client near Oil City, Oklahoma. Oil City is a source of heavy i...

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

Child of agricultural day laborers camped near Spiro, Oklahoma. She is sitting on the bedroll. There was no bed in the camp. Sequoyah County, Oklahoma

Child of agricultural day laborers camped near Spiro, Oklahoma. She is...

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

A family of agricultural day laborers eating dinner after a morning spent in chopping cotton. Though the fare of these people consist of the inexpensive and heavy starches, it is usually well prepared

A family of agricultural day laborers eating dinner after a morning sp...

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A crew of 200 hoers were brought to the Aldridge Plantation to hoe cotton at a dollar a day. Many of these are ex-tenant farmers

A crew of 200 hoers were brought to the Aldridge Plantation to hoe cot...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a farmer, 1930s great depression, dust bowl era, 20th century, 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...

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

Cotton hoers (day laborers) move from one field across the highway to another. Mississippi Delta

Cotton hoers (day laborers) move from one field across the highway to ...

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

Wife and child of day laborers, sugarcane fields near New Iberia, Louisiana

Wife and child of day laborers, sugarcane fields near New Iberia, Loui...

Public domain photograph related to child labor, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Men sitting along railroad platform waiting for work as day laborers, Raymondville, Texas

Men sitting along railroad platform waiting for work as day laborers, ...

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

Part of the nine tractors on large farm near Ralls, Texas. The men working on them are day laborers who, with their families, live in shacks on the place

Part of the nine tractors on large farm near Ralls, Texas. The men wor...

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Homes of day laborers on large farm near Ralls, Texas. There are 4900 acres in this farm. Nine tractors are used

Homes of day laborers on large farm near Ralls, Texas. There are 4900 ...

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Two agricultural day laborers eating dinner after spending the morning chopping cotton. Beans are the staple fare of these workers. Near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma

Two agricultural day laborers eating dinner after spending the morning...

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Harvesting on almond ranch, local day labor. Near Walnut Creek, Contra Costa County, California

Harvesting on almond ranch, local day labor. Near Walnut Creek, Contra...

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

Part of the lineup at paymaster's window at noon. Hop pickers are paid off daily. Near Grants Pass, Josephine County, Oregon. General caption number 45-11

Part of the lineup at paymaster's window at noon. Hop pickers are paid...

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

Day laborers waiting to be assigned to work, Raymondville, Texas

Day laborers waiting to be assigned to work, Raymondville, Texas

Public domain photograph of Texas during the Great Depression era, artistic, art photography, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Family of agricultural day laborers living in tent near Spiro, Oklahoma. This family had farmed in this vicinity for twenty-five years but could no longer find a place to rent. They had no money and no car but hoped to get work in the potato fields and

Family of agricultural day laborers living in tent near Spiro, Oklahom...

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

Homes of day laborers on large farm near Ralls, Texas. There are 4900 acres in this farm. Nine tractors are used

Homes of day laborers on large farm near Ralls, Texas. There are 4900 ...

Public domain photograph of Texas during the Great Depression era, artistic, art photography, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A family of agricultural day laborers eating dinner after a morning spent in chopping cotton. Though the fare of these people consists of the inexpensive and heavy starches, it is usually well prepared

A family of agricultural day laborers eating dinner after a morning sp...

Public domain photograph of Great Depression era, artistic, art photography, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Group of agricultural day laborers in the Arkansas River bottoms near Vian. Oklahoma, Sequoyah County

Group of agricultural day laborers in the Arkansas River bottoms near ...

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

Cotton hoers (day laborers) move from one field across the highway to another. Mississippi Delta

Cotton hoers (day laborers) move from one field across the highway to ...

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

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)

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

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

Group of agricultural day laborers in the Arkansas River bottoms near Vian. Oklahoma, Sequoyah County

Group of agricultural day laborers in the Arkansas River bottoms near ...

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

"Assembly of God" in tent by the roadside, Cache County [?], Oklahoma. Twenty- nine attend this church. Eighteen families of displaced laborers and tenants encamp in this group along the highway

"Assembly of God" in tent by the roadside, Cache County [?], Oklahoma....

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

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

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...

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

Windmill and hog pen and shed on large 4900 acre farm near Ralls, Texas. Path leads through fields from day laborers' homes

Windmill and hog pen and shed on large 4900 acre farm near Ralls, Texa...

Picryl description: Public domain image of field, irrigation, agriculture, water, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Two agricultural day laborers eating dinner after spending the morning chopping cotton. Beans are the staple fare of these workers. Near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma

Two agricultural day laborers eating dinner after spending the morning...

Public domain photograph of Great Depression era, artistic, art photography, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Camp of migrant agricultural day laborers who moved their goods along the road in this push cart. Camp is near Vian, Oklahoma, Sequoyah County

Camp of migrant agricultural day laborers who moved their goods along ...

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

Camp of migrant agricultural day laborers near Vian, Oklahoma. Sequoyah County

Camp of migrant agricultural day laborers near Vian, Oklahoma. Sequoya...

Public domain image of a rural landscape, agriculture, farm animals, livestock, pasture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Family of migrant agricultural day laborers camped near Spiro, Oklahoma. The man and his wife had farmed in this vicinity for many years. However, they had always been renters. They have found it increasingly difficult to find land and house for rent

Family of migrant agricultural day laborers camped near Spiro, Oklahom...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph group portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Day laborer near Oil City, Oklahoma. Carter County, Oklahoma

Day laborer near Oil City, Oklahoma. Carter County, Oklahoma

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

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)

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

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