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The belle of poverty flats - Public domain sheet music scan
Children of Oklahoma drought refugees on highway near Bakersfield, California. Family of six; no shelter, no food, no money and almost no gasoline. The child has bone tuberculosis

Children of Oklahoma drought refugees on highway near Bakersfield, Cal...

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

Child of an impoverished family from Iowa stranded in New Mexico

Child of an impoverished family from Iowa stranded in New Mexico

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

If I only had a dollah of my own
Boy, fourteen, in eighth grade. Now unable to attend because of insufficient food and clothing. Subsisted two days on frozen tomatoes from field nearby

Boy, fourteen, in eighth grade. Now unable to attend because of insuff...

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

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.

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

Children of Oklahoma drought refugees on highway near Bakersfield, California. Family of six; no shelter, no food, no money and almost no gasoline. The child has bone tuberculosis

Children of Oklahoma drought refugees on highway near Bakersfield, Cal...

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

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

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

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

Son of destitute migrant, American River camp, near Sacremento [sic], California. The boy has dysentery

Son of destitute migrant, American River camp, near Sacremento [sic], ...

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

I love my dolly best - Public domain sheet music scan
Poverty on the march, a destitute Ozark family, Arkansas

Poverty on the march, a destitute Ozark family, Arkansas

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

Stryd tuszen de smullende bubbel heeren, en de aanstaande armoede

Stryd tuszen de smullende bubbel heeren, en de aanstaande armoede

Public domain scan of 16th-17th-century Dutch print, engraving, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged thirty-two. Father is a native Californian. Destitute in pea picker's camp, Nipomo, California, because of the failure of the early pea crop. ...

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

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

Missouri family of five, seven months from the drought area. "Broke, baby sick, car trouble." U.S. 99 near Tracy, California

Missouri family of five, seven months from the drought area. "Broke, b...

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

I love my dolly best - Public domain sheet music scan
Henry George, when writing "Progress and Poverty", San Francisco, 1879.

Henry George, when writing "Progress and Poverty", San Francisco, 1879...

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

Baby playing on the front porch of the family home. Gibbs City, Michigan.

Baby playing on the front porch of the family home. Gibbs City, Michig...

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

Poverty on the march, a destitute Ozark family, Arkansas

Poverty on the march, a destitute Ozark family, Arkansas

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

Bedroom in farm home in Minnesota cut-over lands, near Northome.

Bedroom in farm home in Minnesota cut-over lands, near Northome.

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

Son of destitute migrant, American River camp, near Sacremento [sic], California. The boy has dysentery

Son of destitute migrant, American River camp, near Sacremento [sic], ...

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

People living in miserable poverty. Elm Grove, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma

People living in miserable poverty. Elm Grove, Oklahoma County, Oklaho...

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

I love my dolly best - Public domain sheet music scan
"Cleanliness." Southern California. Oklahoma refugees camping in Imperial Valley, California

"Cleanliness." Southern California. Oklahoma refugees camping in Imper...

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

Oklahoma migrant, Texas. An example of how they fall between the relief agencies. The father, aged thirty-five, is an intelligent fellow, a painter by trade. Advanced tuberculosis, victim of an occupational disease ...

Oklahoma migrant, Texas. An example of how they fall between the relie...

Public domain photograph of picnic, leisure time, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Child of an impoverished family from Iowa stranded in New Mexico

Child of an impoverished family from Iowa stranded in New Mexico

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

Missouri family of five, seven months from the drought area. "Broke, baby sick, car trouble." U.S. 99 near Tracy, California

Missouri family of five, seven months from the drought area. "Broke, b...

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

Tracy (vicinity), California. Missouri family of five who are seven months from the drought area on U.S. Highway 99. "Broke, baby sick, and car trouble!"

Tracy (vicinity), California. Missouri family of five who are seven mo...

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

On U.S. 99. Near Brawley, Imperial County. Homeless mother and youngest child of seven walking the highway from Phoenix, Arizona where they picked cotton. Bound for San Diego, where the father hopes to get on relief "because he once lived there."

On U.S. 99. Near Brawley, Imperial County. Homeless mother and younges...

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

I love my dolly best - Public domain sheet music scan
Granny and me - Public domain sheet music scan
You'll get all dat's acomin' to you
My gal's got lucky at last - Public domain sheet music scan
I love my dolly best - Public domain sheet music scan
I love my dolly best - Public domain sheet music scan
Maggie Murphy's home - Public domain sheet music scan
Negro slum area between D and C Streets off 1st Street, SW, Washington, D.C.; Most houses have five small rooms renting for $20.50 a month, with rear wood kitchen shed, cold water, outdoor privy.

Negro slum area between D and C Streets off 1st Street, SW, Washington...

Public domain photograph related to race relations, African Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Granny and me - Public domain sheet music scan
When wealth and poverty met - Public domain sheet music scan
Calling to her boy just once again
Don't send the organ man away ; words and music by Jas. Thonton.
Don't send the organ man away ; words and music by Jas. Thonton.
I love my dolly best - Public domain sheet music scan
Chink Chink  (Don't talk to me of marriage)
Maggie Murphy's home - Public domain sheet music scan
Coon's paradise - Public domain sheet music scan
The shanty of tumble down alley or don't pull the shanty down
Life's game of see-saw - Public domain sheet music scan
Maggie Murphy's home - Public domain sheet music scan
Maggie Murphy's home - Public domain sheet music scan
Date picker's home. Coachella Valley, California

Date picker's home. Coachella Valley, California

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

Health Department physicians to the poor [Washington D.C.]

Health Department physicians to the poor [Washington D.C.]

Public domain image of the vintage map from NYPL Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division is one of the wo... More

Mickey, the pum pum man - Public domain sheet music scan
Poverty on the march, a destitute Ozark family, Arkansas

Poverty on the march, a destitute Ozark family, Arkansas

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

Maggie Murphy's home - Public domain sheet music scan
Down in Poverty Row - Public domain sheet music scan
In the pale moonlight - Public domain sheet music scan
My gal's got lucky at last - Public domain sheet music scan
The belle of poverty flats - Public domain sheet music scan
Two sweethearts of mine - Public domain sheet music scan
Calling to her boy just once again
If I only had a dollah of my own
Don't send the organ man away ; words and music by Jas. Thonton.
In the pale moonlight - Public domain sheet music scan
In the pale moonlight - Public domain sheet music scan
My gal's got lucky at last - Public domain sheet music scan
Mary, all our own - Public domain sheet music scan
I love my dolly best - Public domain sheet music scan
Gold will buy 'most anything but a true girl's heart
Look in my eyes dear and tell me - love song
The shanty of tumble down alley or don't pull the shanty down
If I only had a dollah of my own
"Cleanliness." Southern California. Oklahoma refugees camping in Imperial Valley, California

"Cleanliness." Southern California. Oklahoma refugees camping in Imper...

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

Boy, fourteen, in eighth grade. Now unable to attend because of insufficient food and clothing. Subsisted two days on frozen tomatoes from field nearby

Boy, fourteen, in eighth grade. Now unable to attend because of insuff...

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

"Skid Row." Howard Street, San Francisco, California. The hock shop

"Skid Row." Howard Street, San Francisco, California. The hock shop

Picryl description: Public domain image of military personnel, army, group photograph, armed people in uniform, war inspection, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

"Skid Row." Howard Street, San Francisco, California

"Skid Row." Howard Street, San Francisco, California

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

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 historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Tracy (vicinity), California. Missouri family of five who are seven months from the drought area on U.S. Highway 99. "Broke, baby sick, and car trouble!"

Tracy (vicinity), California. Missouri family of five who are seven mo...

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

In the pale moonlight - Public domain sheet music scan
Coon's paradise - Public domain sheet music scan
Maggie Murphy's home - Public domain sheet music scan
Oklahoma migrant, Texas. An example of how they fall between the relief agencies. The father, aged thirty-five, is an intelligent fellow, a painter by trade. Advanced tuberculosis, victim of an occupational disease ...
Tubercular father of a family of nine who are stranded in New Mexico with no money
When wealth and poverty met - Public domain sheet music scan
Granny and me - Public domain sheet music scan
Maggie Murphy's home - Public domain sheet music scan
Life's game of see-saw - Public domain sheet music scan
When wealth and poverty met - Public domain sheet music scan
Gold will buy 'most anything but a true girl's heart
Look in my eyes dear and tell me - love song
When wealth and poverty met - Public domain sheet music scan
The shanty of tumble down alley or don't pull the shanty down
Life's game of see-saw - Public domain sheet music scan
Granny and me - Public domain sheet music scan
Calling to her boy just once again
The pawn-shop-man (my onliest dollie.)
Life's game of see-saw - Public domain sheet music scan
The shanty of tumble down alley or don't pull the shanty down
In the pale moonlight - Public domain sheet music scan
Down in Poverty Row - Public domain sheet music scan
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