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Migrants getting truck ready to leave Belcross, N.C. for Onley, Va., J...

Grandmother and grandchild. Greenfield, Salinas Valley, California. Fr...

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Laundry facilities for migratory workers in Farm Security Administrati...

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Fourth of July, near Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Rural filling statio...

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Annual cleansing day at Wheeley's Church. Person County, North Carolin...

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Young girl, daughter of small pear farmer tends her calf. She belongs ...

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In Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant labor camp during pea ha...

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Seven of the eight farmers shown with their cooperatively owned ensila...

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Threshing red clover for seed on older settler's ranch. Near Ontario, ...

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Oklahoman, worked three years as farm laborer, starts next year on his...

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Emergency defense office construction work; Washington, D. C.; Decembe...

Mrs. Wardlow getting dinner after church in her basement dugout home. ...

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Children playing in the Defrees Alley, NE Washington, D.C.; Near Capit...

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Post office in company lumber town. Gilchrist, Oregon. See general cap...

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Shows character of land which new settlers are buying in the Priest Ri...

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Washstand in house occupied by married hired hand and his wife. Harry ...

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Livestock on a levee. A flooded farm. Cache, Illinois

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View of the Greenhills project, Ohio

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Sando Evanoff, farmer of the cut-over regions, Iron County, Michigan, ...

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Children playing in the gutter on 139th Street just east of St. Anne's...

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Parading a mule to be auctioned at country auction near Aledo, Illinoi...

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Man reading to fellow inmates, homeless men's bureau, Sioux City, Iowa

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Earl Pauley's home near Smithland, Iowa

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Woman and child, flood refugees in schoolhouse, Sikeston, Missouri

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Corner of general store, Ericsburg, Minnesota

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Old resident of Winton, Minnesota. He was formerly connected with the ...

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Loading topped beets onto truck, East Grand Forks, Minnesota

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Pupil in rural school. Williams County, North Dakota

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Drugstore, Ray, North Dakota North Dakota

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House plant. Precutting materials. Southeast Missouri Farms Project

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Ferry to Tennessee from New Madrid County, Missouri

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Child studying in school, Southeast Missouri Farms

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Child of people living on river side of levee, Caruthersville, Missour...

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Group of farmers in town, Saturday afternoon, Steele, Missouri

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Member of Lake Dick Cooperative Association, Lake Dick Project, Arkans...

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Drinking at the bar, saloon, Raceland, Louisiana

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Two men at National Rice Festival, Crowley, Louisiana

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Privy adjacent to barroom, Pilottown, Louisiana

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Proprietor of small grocery store, Jeanerette, Louisiana

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Mexican grapefruit worker near Weslaco, Texas

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A couple of men standing next to each other in a field, Tying carrots,...

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Mexican citrus worker near Weslaco, Texas

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Migrant father and son cooking meal over campfire, Edinburg, Texas

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Men sitting on car, street of Raymondville, Texas

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Twelve-year-old girl keeps house in trailer for her three brothers who...

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Migrants car and tent, Edinburg, Texas

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Closeup of Mexican girl cutting spinach, La Pryor, Texas

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Sign in front of baby clothes manufacturers, San Antonio, Texas

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Mexican leather goods peddler, San Antonio, Texas

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Proprietor of credit clothing store, Mexican district, San Antonio, Te...

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A black and white photo of a baseball game, Night baseball, Marshall, ...

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A black and white photo of a baseball game, Night baseball, Marshall, ...

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Cutting out heel of the upper from piece of leather. Bootmaking shop, ...

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Tourists waiting to go into Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico

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Front porch of tenant farmer's house near Warner, Oklahoma

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Pushing a car belonging to agricultural day laborer to start it, near ...

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

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Strapping horse's ankles before polo match, Abilene, Texas

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Interior of diesel engine motor plant in oil refinery, Seminole, Oklah...

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Riding a buffalo, Bean Day, Wagon Mound, New Mexico

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Spanish-American FSA client picking chili peppers in her garden, Taos ...

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Farmer moving in wagon from farm to a new farm. He had stopped for res...

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Along the banks of the Port of Houston are several crushing plants for...

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Sign in front of post office, Taylor, Texas

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Man in front of movie theater. Waco, Texas

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Wife and child of rehabilitation borrower in Tom Greene County, Texas

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Sodapop peddler getting his supply from the main stand, rodeo at the S...

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Wheelbarrow loaded with crushed rock to be used in bridge construction...

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Josie Caudill helping set out cabbage plants, Pie Town, New Mexico

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Detail of farmer's blue jeans, boots and spurs. This man was once a co...

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Crowd of men sitting on board walk in front of bar at Mogollon, New Me...

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Watching the Labor Day parade, Silverton, Colorado

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Children at Mineral King Cooperative Farm, Visalia, California

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Fighting grass fire on the Fourth of July, Vale, Oregon

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Mrs. Hale and her oldest son in front of their home near Black River F...

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Interior of the Hale house near Black River Falls, Wisconsin

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Small son of Earl Taylor in his home near Black River Falls, Wisconsin

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An old black and white photo of a building, Store buildings, Gheen, Mi...

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Entrance to consolidated school, now boarded up, Gemmel, Minnesota

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Family of Olaf Fugelberg, farmer, Williams County, North Dakota

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Mrs. Baker, wife of farmer, kneading dough near Ambrose, North Dakota

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Dining room in the Jorgenson farm home, Divide County, North Dakota

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Southeast Missouri Farms. Customers examining yard goods in cooperativ...

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Fisherman's family returning from early morning's fishing near Akers, ...

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Negro children playing with chalk in nursery school. Lakeview Project,...

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Wife and daughter of FSA client in front of fireplace of temporary hom...

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The Scarbrough family. Laurel Mill, Laurel, Mississippi

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Cotton seed storage warehouse near Lake Providence, Louisiana

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Cotton thread-making machinery. Laurel cotton mill, Laurel, Mississipp...

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Tenant purchase clients at home. Hidalgo County, Texas

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Cans are fed by gravity to a sterilizer and they are then filled in a ...

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Son of former labor contractor, now a migrant worker. Weslaco, Texas

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Domino game in beer parlor. Sebastian, Texas

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Domino game in beer parlor. Sebastian, Texas

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Bed in Mexican home. In practically all Mexican homes the beds consist...

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Row of houses along the railroad track. Mexican quarter, San Antonio, ...

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Clothing and personal belongings outside of house in Mexican quarter. ...

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Mexican boy sitting on bedroll. These rolls are used on the floor for ...

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Cowbells, hardware store. San Augustine, Texas

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In the shoe repair shop. San Augustine, Texas

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