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Eroded cotton farm near Jackson, Mississippi

Eroded cotton farm near Jackson, Mississippi

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

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

Peach pickers being driven to the orchards. They earn seventy-five cen...

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

A black and white photo of a person sitting on the ground, Sharecropper boy. Chesnee, South Carolina

A black and white photo of a person sitting on the ground, Sharecroppe...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Services for Negroes in a Mississippi Delta town. Leland, Mississippi

Services for Negroes in a Mississippi Delta town. Leland, Mississippi

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

Cotton sharecropper. She was born "two years before the surrender." Mississippi

Cotton sharecropper. She was born "two years before the surrender." Mi...

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.

Remains of dry kiln shed. Fullerton, Louisiana. Abandoned lumber town

Remains of dry kiln shed. Fullerton, Louisiana. Abandoned lumber town

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a road works, construction, excavation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of barrels on a conveyor belt, Turpentine still. Georgia

A black and white photo of barrels on a conveyor belt, Turpentine stil...

Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lumber mill which is being dismantled. Careyville, Florida

Lumber mill which is being dismantled. Careyville, Florida

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

The one inhabitant remaining in Fullerton, Louisiana, an abandoned lumber town

The one inhabitant remaining in Fullerton, Louisiana, an abandoned lum...

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

Cotton field and plantation house. Macon County, Georgia

Cotton field and plantation house. Macon County, Georgia

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

Washing facilities on a Greene County, Georgia, tenant farm

Washing facilities on a Greene County, Georgia, tenant farm

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

Decaying antebellum plantation house in Greene County, Georgia

Decaying antebellum plantation house in Greene County, Georgia

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

Well and old plantation smokehouse. Chesnee, South Carolina

Well and old plantation smokehouse. Chesnee, South Carolina

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

Native Texas tenant farmer. Near Goodliet [sic], Texas. Aged seventy; seventeen years on the same farm. Is to be "tractored out" at the end of 1938. One son has been tractored out and has been on WPA (Work Projects Administration) for two years

Native Texas tenant farmer. Near Goodliet [sic], Texas. Aged seventy; ...

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

Abandoned tenant house seen across tractored fields. Hall County, Texas. Many tenants who have filled the land on the family-farm basis are made landless, forced by the machine into the towns, or reduced to day labor on the farms

Abandoned tenant house seen across tractored fields. Hall County, Texa...

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

Lemon picking in southern California. Riverside County

Lemon picking in southern California. Riverside County

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

Boot and shoemaker shop in small California town

Boot and shoemaker shop in small California town

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

Camp of migrant agricultural workers along the highway in California. This signboard is used as a windbreak

Camp of migrant agricultural workers along the highway in California. ...

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

Sunday morning, Kern County, California. Many Texans, Oklahomans, Arkansans are settling in this country. Their cultures and forms of religious expression are being transferred with them

Sunday morning, Kern County, California. Many Texans, Oklahomans, Arka...

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

Home of rural rehabilitation client. Tulare County, California. They bought twenty acres of raw unimproved land with a first payment of fifty dollars which was money saved out of relief budget (August 1936)

Home of rural rehabilitation client. Tulare County, California. They b...

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

Harvesting milo maize, Tulare County, California. Cost of harvesting by this method totals ten dollars per acre. Cost of harvesting by cooperative harvester bought by Farm Security Administration (FSA) in this county, six dollars per acre

Harvesting milo maize, Tulare County, California. Cost of harvesting b...

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

Rural rehabilitation client talking with county supervisor, Farm Security Administration (FSA), Tulare County, California. She says: "Someday I'm going to build my house. Right over there by that garden."

Rural rehabilitation client talking with county supervisor, Farm Secur...

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

Home of rural rehabilitation client, Tulare County, California. They bought twenty acres of raw unimproved land with a first payment of fifty dollars which was money saved out of relief budget (August 1936)

Home of rural rehabilitation client, Tulare County, California. They b...

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

Looking from the camp to adjoining tract where Farm Security Administration (FSA) has just completed forty homes to be occupied by low income workers

Looking from the camp to adjoining tract where Farm Security Administr...

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

Prefabricated steel dwellings (one step up from a tent) replace the use of a tent in the newer California camps. United States goverment camp for migrants, Farm Security Administration. Farmersville, California

Prefabricated steel dwellings (one step up from a tent) replace the us...

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

Mississippi Delta, on Mississippi Highway No. 1 between Greenville and Clarksdale. Negro laborer's family being moved from Arkansas to Mississippi by white tenant

Mississippi Delta, on Mississippi Highway No. 1 between Greenville and...

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

An old photo of a tractor in a field, Cultivating potato field. California

An old photo of a tractor in a field, Cultivating potato field. Califo...

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

Filipinos waiting for the signal to start cutting lettuce. Near Westmorland, Imperial Valley, California

Filipinos waiting for the signal to start cutting lettuce. Near Westmo...

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

Salvation Army, San Francisco, California. Unemployed young men pause a moment to loiter and watch, and then pass on

Salvation Army, San Francisco, California. Unemployed young men pause ...

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

Pea field during harvest on Sinclair Ranch, near Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California. Cars between the fields belong to field bosses, weighers, packers, and pickers, of whom there were 500 in the field on the day this photograph was made

Pea field during harvest on Sinclair Ranch, near Calipatria, Imperial ...

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

A couple of men standing next to a train, Yardmen. Grand Island, Nebraska

A couple of men standing next to a train, Yardmen. Grand Island, Nebra...

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

Outskirts of Fresno. On U.S. 99. Many small second businesses and stores on U.S. 99. Approaching Fresno. See general caption

Outskirts of Fresno. On U.S. 99. Many small second businesses and stor...

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

Tulare County, California. Camp for migratory agricultural workers at Farmersville. Sons, migratory workers, bring father, who is sick and old to the camp clinic

Tulare County, California. Camp for migratory agricultural workers at ...

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

Sign on camp site opposite potato packing sheds. Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California. General caption number 63-1

Sign on camp site opposite potato packing sheds. Tulelake, Siskiyou Co...

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

Seven of the eight farmers shown with their cooperatively owned ensilage cutter on the Miller farm, where they are working filling the silo. West Carlton, Yamhill County, Oregon. General caption number 58

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

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

Below the bench, showing condition of road which leads up to the new farm due to seepage of irrigation water. Family who lives in shack have been in the country one year. "We're getting along, but it's awful slow." Dead Ox Flat, Malheur County, Oregon

Below the bench, showing condition of road which leads up to the new f...

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

Mrs. Cleaver is raising five sons on new farm. Malheur County, Oregon

Mrs. Cleaver is raising five sons on new farm. Malheur County, Oregon

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.

Home of one of the Stephens brothers, farmers from Nebraska. Nyssa Heights district, Malheur County, Oregon

Home of one of the Stephens brothers, farmers from Nebraska. Nyssa Hei...

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

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...

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

Young migrant mother has just finished washing. Merrill FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp, Klamath County, Oregon. See general caption 62

Young migrant mother has just finished washing. Merrill FSA (Farm Secu...

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

View of first FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp unit in Klamath Basin, Oregon. See general caption 62

View of first FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp unit in K...

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

Young mother brings her child to the trailer clinic on the day when the doctor will be in camp to examine some of the children. FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp. Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon

Young mother brings her child to the trailer clinic on the day when th...

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

Services for Negroes in a Mississippi Delta town. Leland, Mississippi

Services for Negroes in a Mississippi Delta town. Leland, Mississippi

Public domain reproduction of illuminated book page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mrs. Howard shows the beginning of a garden to a neighbor.

Mrs. Howard shows the beginning of a garden to a neighbor.

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

Squatters' camp on highway. Characters in scene from Resettlement film. Near Bakersfield, Calif. 1935.

Squatters' camp on highway. Characters in scene from Resettlement film...

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

Portrait of a Mexican-American child. Imperial Valley, California.

Portrait of a Mexican-American child. Imperial Valley, California.

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a child of a farmer, migrant worker, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Temporary home of a resettled family. Each farm comprises 40 acres of land leveled and suitable for irrigation. Bosque Farms Project.

Temporary home of a resettled family. Each farm comprises 40 acres of ...

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

Portrait of an unidentified man with glasses

Portrait of an unidentified man with glasses

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 woman standing outside of a hut, Migrant workers' shack. California. 1935.

A black and white photo of a woman standing outside of a hut, Migrant ...

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

Midway Dairy cooperative, near Santa Ana, California.

Midway Dairy cooperative, near Santa Ana, California.

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

Migrant camp on the outskirts of Sacramento on the American River. Approximately 30 families lived in this camp in November 1936.

Migrant camp on the outskirts of Sacramento on the American River. App...

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

A black and white photo of a trailer and horse trailer, Migrants camped. So. Calif. 1936.

A black and white photo of a trailer and horse trailer, Migrants campe...

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

Midway Dairy cooperative, near Santa Ana, California.

Midway Dairy cooperative, near Santa Ana, California.

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

Background photograph for Hightstown project. Play street for children. Sixth Street and Avenue C, New York City. The Solomon family who are to be resettled at Hightstown, live in this neighborhood. This Resettlement Administration project includes two hundred and fifty homes, four hundred and fourteen acres of farmland, a modern factory, utilities, including water system, recreation area and lake. Each family will have a modern home and an opportunity to work in a cooperative factory. Also a small plot of land for raising garden vegetables

Background photograph for Hightstown project. Play street for children...

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

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.

The town of Mills, New Mexico. The grain elevator in background at right has been long ago abandoned. The bank is closed

The town of Mills, New Mexico. The grain elevator in background at rig...

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

Typical Teutonic farm wife and child of Mills, New Mexico, area. Client for resettlement

Typical Teutonic farm wife and child of Mills, New Mexico, area. Clien...

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

Dust bowl refugees living in camps in California

Dust bowl refugees living in camps in California

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

Mexican quarter of Los Angeles. One quarter mile from the City Hall. California

Mexican quarter of Los Angeles. One quarter mile from the City Hall. C...

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

Mexican quarter of Los Angeles, California. Average rental eight dollars. Some houses have plumbing

Mexican quarter of Los Angeles, California. Average rental eight dolla...

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

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

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

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

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...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Background photo for Hightstown project. Sixth Street and Avenue C, New York City, where the Solomon family do their shopping. In the street and displayed on newspaper. All socks for sale at ten cents the pair

Background photo for Hightstown project. Sixth Street and Avenue C, Ne...

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

The threshing of oats. Clayton, Indiana, south of Indianapolis

The threshing of oats. Clayton, Indiana, south of Indianapolis

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

Migratory woman, Greek, living in a cotton camp near Exeter, California

Migratory woman, Greek, living in a cotton camp near Exeter, Californi...

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.

Howard Street, called "Skid Row," the street of the unemployed in San Francisco, California

Howard Street, called "Skid Row," the street of the unemployed in San ...

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

Cabbage cutting and hauling by new Vessey (flat truck) system, now also used in carrots and lettuce. Imperial Valley, California

Cabbage cutting and hauling by new Vessey (flat truck) system, now als...

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

Dusting cauliflower plants near Santa Maria, California

Dusting cauliflower plants near Santa Maria, California

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

Filipino boys cutting cauliflower (gang labor) near Santa Maria, California

Filipino boys cutting cauliflower (gang labor) near Santa Maria, Calif...

Public domain photograph of rural landscape, California, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Family of four to be returned to Oklahoma by the Relief Administration. "They won't go until they get so hungry that there's nothing else for them to do. They won't go--not twenty-five percent will go" said a transient case worker in Imperial County

Family of four to be returned to Oklahoma by the Relief Administration...

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

Eighteen year-old mother from Oklahoma, now a California migrant

Eighteen year-old mother from Oklahoma, now a California migrant

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

Plant quarantine inspectors examining plane at the Glendale Airport, California

Plant quarantine inspectors examining plane at the Glendale Airport, C...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of workers, war production, aircraft, airfield, the 1930s -1940s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mexican picking melons in the Imperial Valley, California

Mexican picking melons in the Imperial Valley, California

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 man with a donkey, Sign entering Tombstone, Arizona

A black and white photo of a man with a donkey, Sign entering Tombston...

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

Abandoned cafe in Carey, Texas. Carey is fast becoming a ghost town of the Texas plains

Abandoned cafe in Carey, Texas. Carey is fast becoming a ghost town of...

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

Old Negro. He hoes, picks cotton and is full of good humor. Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi

Old Negro. He hoes, picks cotton and is full of good humor. Aldridge P...

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

Old Episcopal private church, now closed. Louisiana

Old Episcopal private church, now closed. Louisiana

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

Remains of dry kiln shed. Fullerton, Louisiana. Abandoned lumber town

Remains of dry kiln shed. Fullerton, Louisiana. Abandoned lumber town

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a road works, construction, excavation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Stranded residents of Careyville, Florida, who formerly obtained a livelihood from the lumber industry

Stranded residents of Careyville, Florida, who formerly obtained a liv...

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

Loading cured tobacco for market. Georgia

Loading cured tobacco for market. Georgia

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

Home of sharecropper family near Chesnee, South Carolina

Home of sharecropper family near Chesnee, South Carolina

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

Grandfather of fifty-six children. Chesnee, South Carolina. He left a 300 acre farm in the North Carolina mountains when his parents died fifty-five years ago. The farm afforded insufficient living and there was no work

Grandfather of fifty-six children. Chesnee, South Carolina. He left a ...

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

Field of young corn near Mescalero Apache Reservation. New Mexico

Field of young corn near Mescalero Apache Reservation. New Mexico

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

Sunday morning revival of the Victory through Christ Society. Dos Palos, California

Sunday morning revival of the Victory through Christ Society. Dos Palo...

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

Drying prunes of small California farm. Family labor. Sonoma County, California

Drying prunes of small California farm. Family labor. Sonoma County, C...

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

This pumping plant for irrigation is powered by a natural gas engine which operates on cost of about 1/2 the cost of electricity, Tulare County, California

This pumping plant for irrigation is powered by a natural gas engine w...

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

Listening to the speaker at the Conference to Aid Agricultural Organization during the cotton strike (Steinbeck Committee). Bakersfield, Kern County, California

Listening to the speaker at the Conference to Aid Agricultural Organiz...

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Barns of the old Mineral King Ranch seen across alfalfa field. New buildings suited to cooperative farming will soon be erected here. Tulare County, California

Barns of the old Mineral King Ranch seen across alfalfa field. New bui...

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Arvin camp for migrant workers (Farm Security Administration-FSA) California. A small library in camp with Works Progress Administration (WPA) librarian in charge is now available to agricultural workers

Arvin camp for migrant workers (Farm Security Administration-FSA) Cali...

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

Camper receives help in fitting a coat from Works Progress Administration (WPA) sewing instructor. Shafter camp for migratory agricultural workers (Farm Security Administration-FSA), California

Camper receives help in fitting a coat from Works Progress Administrat...

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

Rural rehabilitation, Tulare County, California. In 1936 this family was on relief. With a Farm Security Administration (FSA) loan of seven hundred and eighty dollars, they were able to purchase and install an irrigating pump for the vineyard, a team, and the balance gave them subsistence and operating expenses for the first grape season

Rural rehabilitation, Tulare County, California. In 1936 this family w...

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

Migratory field worker, leader of the cotton strike of October 1938, which took place just before the election. Kern County, California

Migratory field worker, leader of the cotton strike of October 1938, w...

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

Contra Costa County, California. Bringing cattle in from the range. Common sight on California highways

Contra Costa County, California. Bringing cattle in from the range. Co...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural farming landscape, agriculture, farm animals, livestock, farmers, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

On U.S. 101 near San Luis Obispo, California. Itinerant worker. Not the old "Bindle-Stiff" type

On U.S. 101 near San Luis Obispo, California. Itinerant worker. Not th...

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

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.

Kern County, California. Camp of two related families seen from U.S. 99. Oil field beyond. Came to California in 1920 from Missouri. Father had job for eight years. Was gang foreman on Los Angeles Aqueduct; laid off two months ago

Kern County, California. Camp of two related families seen from U.S. 9...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of workers, war production, aircraft, airfield, the 1930s -1940s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Near Santa Maria, California. Large-scale pea fields. These peas must be handpicked by gangs of laborers for fresh table use. Frozen food process is not used in marketing California peas, although it may be introduced

Near Santa Maria, California. Large-scale pea fields. These peas must ...

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

Calipatria, Imperial County. Living conditions for migratory laborers in private auto camp. Tent space fifty cents a week

Calipatria, Imperial County. Living conditions for migratory laborers ...

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

Children of migratory pea pickers in Brawley camp

Children of migratory pea pickers in Brawley camp

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

Brawley, Imperial Valley. In Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp. Family father, mother and eleven children originally from Mangrum, Oklahoma. See 19201

Brawley, Imperial Valley. In Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrat...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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