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Bridges. Simple, dignified design in the construction of a footbridge in a small town, necessitated by backflooding of the town creek when it became part of a reservoir. This bridge, located at Murphy, North Carolina, received the annual award of the American Steel Institute for all bridges under two hundred thousand dollars for 1939

Bridges. Simple, dignified design in the construction of a footbridge ...

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The giant "King Crab" of the Bering Sea, which before the war supplied a substantial amount of the canned crab meat which the Japanese sold to the United States, will be canned commercially by Americans for the first time this year. Prior to the war the Japanese were taking the "King Crab" in sight of American territory, canning it on floating canneries, and shipping it to the United States for sale. In one pre-war year alone we imported 10,720,000 pounds of crab meat valued at 4,582,000 dollars from Japan and ninety-five percent of our canned crab meat came from this source

The giant "King Crab" of the Bering Sea, which before the war supplied...

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The giant "King Crab" of the Bering Sea, which before the war supplied a substantial amount of the canned crab meat which the Japanese sold to the United States, will be canned commercially by Americans for the first time this year. Prior to the war the Japanese were taking the "King Crab" in sight of American territory, canning it on floating canneries, and shipping it to the United States for sale. In one pre-war year alone we imported 10,720,000 pounds of crab meat valued at 4,582,000 dollars from Japan and ninety-five percent of our canned crab meat came from this source

The giant "King Crab" of the Bering Sea, which before the war supplied...

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Negro tenant family who barely lives on the earnings of fifty dollars a year. They pay a standing rent. There are five children working; ages from seven to fourteen. The older children cultivating, the younger children hoeing and chopping. Eutaw, Alabama

Negro tenant family who barely lives on the earnings of fifty dollars ...

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Mission District. San Francisco, California. Rent twenty to twenty-two dollars a month for three or four rooms

Mission District. San Francisco, California. Rent twenty to twenty-two...

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Hay costing twenty dollars a ton being unloaded to feed stock. East of Dickinson, North Dakota

Hay costing twenty dollars a ton being unloaded to feed stock. East of...

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Tarpapered shack formerly occupied by Max Sparks and his family near Tipler, Wisconsin. Sparks could not meet the payments of three dollars per month and lost this property after paying about one hundred dollars

Tarpapered shack formerly occupied by Max Sparks and his family near T...

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Family of James Strunk, farmer. Works for WPA (Works Progress Administration), earns forty-four dollars per month, drives twenty-six miles to work fourteen days per month. Car expense comes out of the forty-four dollars. Has eight children, four of them at home. Wheelock, North Dakota

Family of James Strunk, farmer. Works for WPA (Works Progress Adminis...

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The home of Max Sparks and family near Long Lake, Wisconsin. The family was forced to move from the place they were buying to this shack because of inability to pay three dollars monthly which was the basis of the contract. In moving from one county to another they have jeopardized their qualifications for receiving relief

The home of Max Sparks and family near Long Lake, Wisconsin. The famil...

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Landless family of cotton sharecroppers, Macon County, Georgia. For their labor they receive half the crop they produce, and the equivalent of ten dollars a month "furnish" (credit) from the landlord. Their vegetable garden failed this year for lack of rain

Landless family of cotton sharecroppers, Macon County, Georgia. For th...

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Old auto and Advance Rumley tractor in junkyard at Wildrose, North Dakota. Tractor cost six or seven thousand dollars and burned. A mixture of about fifty percent kerosene and fifty percent water. The water was added to keep the valves from overheating

Old auto and Advance Rumley tractor in junkyard at Wildrose, North Dak...

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Tarpapered shack formerly occupied by Max Sparks and his family near Tipler, Wisconsin. Sparks could not meet the payments of three dollars per month and lost this property after paying about one hundred dollars

Tarpapered shack formerly occupied by Max Sparks and his family near T...

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Lilac Street, Mission District. Rent fifteen dollars a month for three rooms. San Francisco, California

Lilac Street, Mission District. Rent fifteen dollars a month for three...

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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.

Unemployment benefits aid begins. Line of men inside a division office of the State Employment Service office at San Francisco, California, waiting to register for benefits on one of the first days the office was open. They will receive from six to fifteen dollars per week for up to sixteen weeks. Coincidental with the announcement that the federal unemployment census showed close to ten million persons out of work, twenty-two states begin paying unemployment compensation

Unemployment benefits aid begins. Line of men inside a division office...

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Presenting L.H. Adams with check for five thousand dollars. Adams was the first farmer in Region I to receive a loan under the tenant purchase program. Burlington, New Jersey

Presenting L.H. Adams with check for five thousand dollars. Adams was ...

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Cooperatively owned stallion bought with an Farm Security Administration loan. Cost seven hundred dollars. In 1938 bred sixty-four mares. Dawson County, Nebraska

Cooperatively owned stallion bought with an Farm Security Administrati...

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Unemployment benefits aid begins. Line of men inside a division office of the State Employment Service office at San Francisco, California, waiting to register for benefits on one of the first days the office was open. They will receive from six to fifteen dollars per week for up to sixteen weeks. Coincidental with the announcement that the federal unemployment census showed close to ten million persons out of work, twenty-two states begin paying unemployment compensation

Unemployment benefits aid begins. Line of men inside a division office...

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Unemployment benefits aid begins. Line of men inside a division office of the State Employment Service office at San Francisco, California, waiting to register for benefits on one of the first days the office was open. They will receive from six to fifteen dollars per week for up to sixteen weeks. Coincidental with the announcement that the federal unemployment census showed close to ten million persons out of work, twenty-two states begin paying unemployment compensation

Unemployment benefits aid begins. Line of men inside a division office...

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Calipatria, Imperial Valley. In FSA (Farm Security Administration) emergency migratory labor camp. Left Oklahoma December 11, 1937 with husband and two children and son-in-law. Ex-tenant farmers on third and fourths in cotton. Had fifty dollars when set out. Went to Phoenix, picked cotton and pulled bolls, made eighty cents a day with two people picking bolls. Stayed until school closed. Went to Idaho, picked peas until August, left McCarl with forty dollars "in hand." Went to Cedar City and Parowan, Utah, a distance of 700 miles. Picked peas through September. Went to Hollister, Calipatria. Picked peas through October. Left for Calipatria for early peas which froze. Now receiving FSA food grant and waiting for work to begin. "Back in Oklahoma we was sinkin.' You work your head off for a crop and then see it burn up. You live in debts that you can never get out of. This isn't a good life, but I say it's a better life than that was."

Calipatria, Imperial Valley. In FSA (Farm Security Administration) eme...

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Interior of Negro agricultural day laborer's home in Muskogee County, Oklahoma. These houses rent from two to five dollars per month

Interior of Negro agricultural day laborer's home in Muskogee County, ...

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Home of Negro agricultural day laborer's home in Muskogee County, Oklahoma. These houses rent from two to five dollars per month. Muskogee County, Oklahoma

Home of Negro agricultural day laborer's home in Muskogee County, Okla...

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Character of a strip of land which is about twenty miles long and five miles wide. This land has an ample supply of underground water. It is sold for one hundred dollars an acre uncleared. Shallow wells supply water for irrigation. Truck farming will do well, according to the country agent. Tom Green County, Texas

Character of a strip of land which is about twenty miles long and five...

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Migrant packinghouse workers living quarters. Just enough land to set up camp rents for five dollars per month; they have to clear it themselves. No water, lights or sanitary facilities. Near Canal Point, Florida

Migrant packinghouse workers living quarters. Just enough land to set ...

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Ernest W. Kirk Jr. with his two sons on their farm near Ordway, Colorado. Fruits of their farm, coming from their labor, which has placed them in a few months from almost hopeless condition to a family with net worth approaching a thousand dollars

Ernest W. Kirk Jr. with his two sons on their farm near Ordway, Colora...

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When Fred Wilfang received his rehabilitation loan in the spring of 1938 he owed money on his farm machinery and his only livestock were two hogs and 100 chickens. He has been loaned 967.00 dollars. Black Hawk County, Iowa

When Fred Wilfang received his rehabilitation loan in the spring of 19...

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Wife of FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower keeps account of loan of seven hundred and forty-eight dollars. Dead Ox Flat, Malheur County, Oregon. General caption 67

Wife of FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower keeps account of l...

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John Dixon's rehabilitation loan of 400 dollars in 1937 helped him buy a horse, cow, feed, seed and membership in a medical cooperative and a jack cooperative. Saint Charles County, Missouri

John Dixon's rehabilitation loan of 400 dollars in 1937 helped him buy...

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Jerry Vardiman, a typical coop member, averaged 480 dollars in 1938. In addition his share in the profit dividend of the cooperative was about ninety dollars. Osage Farms, Missouri

Jerry Vardiman, a typical coop member, averaged 480 dollars in 1938. I...

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Negro strawberry sharecropper on front porch of his home near Hammond, Louisiana. He said that in a good year he came out with maybe two hundred dollars

Negro strawberry sharecropper on front porch of his home near Hammond,...

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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...

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Mr. Shoenfeldt and son, FSA (Farm Security Administration) client in Sheridan County, Kansas, at entrance to fruit cellar which they built for six dollars and twenty cents

Mr. Shoenfeldt and son, FSA (Farm Security Administration) client in S...

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Nurse Shamburg gives Viola Pettway instructions and help about her diet in treatment of pellagra. She has been sick about four years and is a little better now. Her mother has thirteen children and twenty-five dollars a month for all. Table top is made from cheese box. Gee's Bend, Alabama

Nurse Shamburg gives Viola Pettway instructions and help about her die...

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Migrant vegetable pickers and packing houseworkers living quarters. This shack rents for eight dollars per month. No water, light, or sanitary facilities (see 51158-D and 51162-D). Eleven people sleep in it. Near Canal Point, Florida

Migrant vegetable pickers and packing houseworkers living quarters. T...

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Since becoming rehabilitation clients the value of the Dixon family's possessions has risen from 500 dollars to 1500 dollars. Saint Charles County, Missouri

Since becoming rehabilitation clients the value of the Dixon family's ...

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Inside of rolling store with tank of kerosene on back (at left). Coffee County, Alabama. Average daily sale is sixty dollars and they take in lots of produce

Inside of rolling store with tank of kerosene on back (at left). Coffe...

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Home of Negro agricultural day laborer's home in Muskogee County, Oklahoma. These houses rent from two to five dollars per month. Muskogee County, Oklahoma

Home of Negro agricultural day laborer's home in Muskogee County, Okla...

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Company doctor (West Virginia coal town) examining patient. Miners pay two dollars a month for medical care. Kempton, West Virginia

Company doctor (West Virginia coal town) examining patient. Miners pay...

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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...

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Migrant packinghouse workers living quarters. Just enough land to set up camp rents for five dollars per month. They have to clear it themselves. No water, lights, or sanitary facilities. Near Canal Point, Florida

Migrant packinghouse workers living quarters. Just enough land to set ...

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Migrant vegetable pickers and packinghouse workers living quarters. This shack rents for eight dollars a month: no water, light, or sanitary facilities. Eleven people sleep in it. Near Canal Point, Florida

Migrant vegetable pickers and packinghouse workers living quarters. Th...

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Small sawmill, Childs, Florida, owned by "wealthy" man, Mr. Warren in Fort Meade, Florida. Negro workers build their own shacks out of old lumber from around there, work ten hours a day for two dollars, six days a week. The children don't go to school

Small sawmill, Childs, Florida, owned by "wealthy" man, Mr. Warren in ...

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Since becoming rehabilitation clients the value of the Dixon family's possessions has risen from 500 dollars to 1500 dollars. Saint Charles County, Missouri

Since becoming rehabilitation clients the value of the Dixon family's ...

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Calipatria, Imperial Valley, In Farm Security Administration (FSA) emergency migratory labor camp. Daughter of ex-tenant farmers on thirds and fourths in cotton. Had fifty dollars when set out. Went to Phoenix, picked cotton, pulled bolls made eighty cents a day with two people pulling bolls. Stayed until school closed. Went to Idaho, picked peas until August. Left McCall with forty dollars "in hand." Went to Cedar City and Parowan, Utah, a distance of 700 miles. Picked peas through September. Went to Hollister, California. Picked peas through October. Left Hollister for Calipatria for early peas which froze. Now receiving Farm Security Administration food grant and waiting for work to begin. "Back in Oklahoma, we are sinking. You work your head off for a crop and then see it burn up. You live in debts that you can never get out of. This isn't a good life, but I say that it's a better life than it was."

Calipatria, Imperial Valley, In Farm Security Administration (FSA) eme...

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Mr. Ellis and Miss Christian making farm and home plans with Mr. & Mrs. E.H. Wise, RR (Rural Rehabilitation) family. There are six members in this family; their monthly food check is eight dollars. Total farm and home operating expenses for year is four hundred thirty-five dollars and ninety-five cents (435.95). They have about forty-two hens and take care of part of family expenses by selling eggs, chickens and other farm produce. Coffee County, Alabama

Mr. Ellis and Miss Christian making farm and home plans with Mr. & Mrs...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, office meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Jerry Vardiman, a typical coop member, averaged 480 dollars in 1938. In addition his share in the profit dividend of the cooperative was about ninety dollars. Osage Farms, Missouri

Jerry Vardiman, a typical coop member, averaged 480 dollars in 1938. I...

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Negro tenant farmer who grew strawberries on shares near Hammond, Louisiana. The husband said that in a good year they came out with maybe two hundred dollars

Negro tenant farmer who grew strawberries on shares near Hammond, Loui...

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West Mine, West Frankfort, Illinois. Now abandoned. This mine has been down about a year. General caption: Many of the miners displaced by machinery in the larger mines are left stranded after mines are abandoned; have opened shallow primitive workings on the coal seam where it occurs close to the surface. The output of these shallow mines, known locally as gopher holes, is processed by a crude method and sold to truckers at about half the price of deep-vein coal. Many of the gopher holes have no storage in the tipple, and the miners underground are idle when no truck is waiting at the chute to load coal. Wages of gopher hole miners run from seventy-five cents to five dollars per day, and many miners earn less than WPA (Works Progress Administration) workers. Some of the larger gopher holes, such as Blue Ribbon Number 2 at Spillertown, Williamson County, are better equipped, pay better wages, and produce as high as 40,000 tons a year

West Mine, West Frankfort, Illinois. Now abandoned. This mine has been...

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Small sawmill, Childs, Florida. Owned by "wealthy" man, Mr. Warren, in Fort Meade, Florida. Negro workers build their own shacks out of old lumber from around there, work ten hours a day for two dollars, six days a week. The children don't go to school

Small sawmill, Childs, Florida. Owned by "wealthy" man, Mr. Warren, in...

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Fred Maschman received a TP loan of 10,895 dollars, which paid for his farm and extensive repairs to his house. Iowa County, Iowa

Fred Maschman received a TP loan of 10,895 dollars, which paid for his...

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Columbus, Georgia. Metal shelters and tents of Army men and construction workers in backyard of W.T. Mullis, who owns home and property and has grocery store on main highway about three miles from Fort Benning. For the shelters they pay ten dollars a month. For trailer or tent space two dollars a week. Mrs. R.M. Davis, whose husband is a First Sergeant at Fort Benning, now occupying metal shelter, used to live in hallway space in local home nearby and paid twenty dollars a month and had to furnish own bed. Her neighbor said "I hope these real estate men and people in Columbus who are charging so much and stealing from the poor people have to sit in their empty homes and shacks and starve when the defense program is over and finished."

Columbus, Georgia. Metal shelters and tents of Army men and constructi...

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Miner with gold and silver brick worth about 2,000 dollars. El Dorado Canyon, Clark County, Nevada

Miner with gold and silver brick worth about 2,000 dollars. El Dorado ...

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Lots for sale, new cafe and cabins Forest Hill, near Alexandria, Louisiana. Land near Camp Claiborne which was formerly of very little value and difficult to sell is now in great demand at two hundred dollars per acre

Lots for sale, new cafe and cabins Forest Hill, near Alexandria, Louis...

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Construction workman, his sister and her little girl in rented house. San Diego, California. They live together. He supports all three. They have this house for three weeks because a friend of theirs moved out; at the end of the week they will join the hordes of house hunters. This frame house consisting of four rooms and bath, rents for twenty-five dollars per month

Construction workman, his sister and her little girl in rented house. ...

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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. ...

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Interior of four-room scattered labor home built by FSA (Farm Security Administration) at cost of five hundred dollars. New Madrid County, Missouri

Interior of four-room scattered labor home built by FSA (Farm Security...

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Trailer and car belonging to Paul Knight, construction worker at Fort Benning building new barracks. He pays two dollars for trailer space (only) in W.T. Willis' backyard, is from Stone Mountain, Atlanta, Georgia. He said the bad roads were one of the worst problems around there and agreed that things generally were bad and the government had better do something about it soon

Trailer and car belonging to Paul Knight, construction worker at Fort ...

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Dickinson farm and ski town tow, which costs him about one thousand dollars to install three years ago. This is the first season he has made money on it, but business in increasing rapidly now. He has a small dairy, and until last year when the hurricane wiped out his entire grove of sugar maple, he used to make and sell syrup. Lisbon, New Hampshire

Dickinson farm and ski town tow, which costs him about one thousand do...

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Men on car by tents. Construction workers in front of tents. Names: William Allen Jones, Fort Benning, Paul Knight, Fort Benning, J.F. Goza, C.D. Brownlee and B.I. Juhan. For space only in W.T. Mullis' backyard they pay two dollars a week. Two of them are now working at Fort Benning and others the Williams Construction Company, building foundations for new barracks, got laid off couple of weeks ago for indefinite time. They all came from Stone Mountain, Atlanta, Georgia, where they worked on WPA (Work Projects Administration). Some have been here one month. One said "There's something crooked in this here job--some men have worked every day seven days a week and others get no work at all. It's a dirty shame and the government ought to know about these conditions and see what goes on. It's awful bad."

Men on car by tents. Construction workers in front of tents. Names: Wi...

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Ghost mining town once produced over eighty million dollars in gold, silver and load. Eureka, Nevada

Ghost mining town once produced over eighty million dollars in gold, s...

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WPB (War Production Board) poster. This is the official poster which may be displayed on all construction work costing over five hundred thousand dollars with certain exceptions, to show that the work has been authorized by the WPA (Work Projects Administration)

WPB (War Production Board) poster. This is the official poster which m...

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"We're living in a tent because we wouldn't pay anyone thirty or thirty-five dollars for a two-room bug trap." Mission Valley, California, which is about three miles from San Diego

"We're living in a tent because we wouldn't pay anyone thirty or thirt...

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Mr. and Mrs. C. Farnsworth live in a trailer which they bought about three months ago. He works at the Bath Iron Works. They originally come from Boston and lived in the town of Bath until they found the rents too much for them to meet. In Bath they had rented two small rooms in an attic for six dollars a week (unheated). When their rent was raised they decided to move into a trailer. Their trailer is next to a gas station from which they get their electricity, water and toilet facilities for one dollar fifty cents a week. They do not expect to move into a house but want to continue living in trailers so as to save their money "while the BOOM lasts."

Mr. and Mrs. C. Farnsworth live in a trailer which they bought about t...

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Children looking out of trailer window. Trailer where C.E. Childre and family live in highway about three miles from Fort Benning. He is an auto mechanic and came up to Columbus, Georgia two weeks ago from Albany, Georgia and now works at Columbus Motor Company. They couldn't find any other place to live so had to get a trailer. They pay two dollars a week for space in W.T. Mullis' backyard. Never lived in a trailer before, don't like it, difficult with children and wet weather

Children looking out of trailer window. Trailer where C.E. Childre and...

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Fruit farmer and his wife, Placer County, California. This couple have changed the varieties of fruit which they grow to meet changed market conditions; they also have garden, pigs, cows, etc. He paid seventy-four thousand dollars for his one hundred fifty acres today and is in fair conditions today

Fruit farmer and his wife, Placer County, California. This couple have...

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Organs and other relics on display at the Bird Cage Theater museum. Tombstone, Arizona. The Bird Cage Theater boasted such performers as Lilly Langtry and Anna Held. Seats on the main floor were ten dollars, in the boxes thirty dollars. Whiskey, beer and champagne was served to the audience during the shows at correspondingly high prices

Organs and other relics on display at the Bird Cage Theater museum. To...

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H.C. Richardson, Ozark farmer, with goat skin which has been bleached and washed. He sells these in town, three dollars. Oregon County, Missouri

H.C. Richardson, Ozark farmer, with goat skin which has been bleached ...

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Combination living and bedroom in one of the four-room scattered labor homes built by FSA (Farm Security Administration) at a cost of five hundred dollars. New Madrid County, Missouri

Combination living and bedroom in one of the four-room scattered labor...

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Bringing in maple sap to the sugar house. Frank H. Shurtleff farm, North Bridgewater, Vermont. He has a 400 acre farm originally purchased by his grandfather in 1840. He raises sheep, cows, cuts lumber. He has been making maple syrup for about thirty five years, and "sugaring" usually brings in about one thousand dollars annually. Because of the deep snow, this year he only tapped 1000 trees, instead of 2000. He expects to make about 300 to 500 gallons this year

Bringing in maple sap to the sugar house. Frank H. Shurtleff farm, Nor...

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Washington, D.C. Modeling blue dress made from sugar sacks worked out for a high school girl on a low income by graduate students of the Deptartment of Clothing and Textiles, School of Home Economics, University of Alabama. Total cost of materials was three dollars and eighteen cents

Washington, D.C. Modeling blue dress made from sugar sacks worked out ...

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Mr. Luigi De Angelis, who works in Belair Construction job building defense housing project. He came from Lexington, Virginia and lives alone in trailer and pays two dollars a week for space and electricity in yard of local boarding house on highway near Fort Benning, Georgia

Mr. Luigi De Angelis, who works in Belair Construction job building de...

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Board of keys and names of occupants of tourist court, San Diego, California. The tourist courts are filled with workers who pay from five to eight dollars a week for one small room and kitchenette furnished with a two-burner gas plate. These courts have private bath

Board of keys and names of occupants of tourist court, San Diego, Cali...

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New cafe with trailers and tents in the rear near Forrest Hill. Lots are for sale everywhere and land near Camp Claiborne, which was formerly of very little value and difficult to sell is now in great demand at two hundred dollars per acre. Near Alexandria, Louisiana

New cafe with trailers and tents in the rear near Forrest Hill. Lots a...

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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 different people own every fifty feet. Alexandria, Louisiana

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

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Mr. Dickerson, farmer, who owns and runs a ski tow on hill in back of his farmhouse. It cost him about one thousand dollars to install three years ago and this is the first year he has made money on it, but business is increasing rapidly now. He has small dairy, and until last year when the hurricane wiped out his entire grove of sugar maples he used to make and sell syrup. Lisbon, New Hampshire

Mr. Dickerson, farmer, who owns and runs a ski tow on hill in back of ...

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Three boys from Los Angeles who are looking for work. San Diego, California. A friend told them that they could make twenty dollars a week as laborers and they plan to save some money to go to school in hopes of getting in an airplane factory

Three boys from Los Angeles who are looking for work. San Diego, Calif...

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Mr. Dickinson, farmer and his ski tow, which he installed on his property three years ago, at cost of about one thousand dollars. This past winter was the first time he made money on it but business is increasingly rapidly now. Lisbon, near Franconia, New Hampshire

Mr. Dickinson, farmer and his ski tow, which he installed on his prope...

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Construction workers on porch of local boarding house on highway near Fort Benning, Columbus, Georgia. They pay six dollars a week, several in a room. They are employed on Belair Construction job building defense housing project

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Sign costing thirty dollars at Tri-County Farmers Co-op Market in Du Bois, Pennsylvania

Sign costing thirty dollars at Tri-County Farmers Co-op Market in Du B...

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Piping the maple sap from the vat into the sugar house after gathering. There it is boiled down into syrup in an evaporator. Frank Shurtleff's farm of about 400 acres, originally purchased by grandfather in 1840. He raises sheep, cows cuts lumber and has been making maple syrup for about thirty five years. Sugaring brings in about one thousand dollars nnually. Because of the deep snow this year he only tapped 1000 of his 2000 trees. He expects to make about 200 to 500 gallons this year. North Bridgewater, Vermont

Piping the maple sap from the vat into the sugar house after gathering...

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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...

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Mr. Dickerson, farmer, who owns and runs a ski tow on hill in back of his farmhouse. It cost him about one thousand dollars to install three years ago and this is the first year he has made money on it, but business is increasing rapidly now. He has small dairy, and until last year when the hurricane wiped out his entire grove of sugar maples he used to make and sell syrup. Lisbon, New Hampshire

Mr. Dickerson, farmer, who owns and runs a ski tow on hill in back of ...

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New sign in front of trailer park, and Itinerant photographer's trailer on highway near Fort Benning, Columbus, Georgia. Mr. W.T. Mullis owns property and grocery store and rents trailer space for two dollars a week to construction workers and Army men

New sign in front of trailer park, and Itinerant photographer's traile...

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Bringing in maple sap to the sugar house. Frank H. Shurtleff farm, North Bridgewater, Vermont. He has a 400 acre farm originally purchased by his grandfather in 1840. He raises sheep, cows, cuts lumber. He has been making maple syrup for about thirty-five years, and "sugaring" usually brings in about one thousand dollars annually. Because of the deep snow, this year he only tapped 1000 trees, instead of 2000. He expects to make about 300 to 500 gallons this year

Bringing in maple sap to the sugar house. Frank H. Shurtleff farm, Nor...

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One of the scattered labor homes built by FSA (Farm Security Administration) at a cost of five hundred dollars. New Madrid County, Missouri

One of the scattered labor homes built by FSA (Farm Security Administr...

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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...

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Gathering sap for maple syrup on Frank Schutleff's farm of about 400 acres originally purchased by grandfather in 1840. He raised sheep, cows, cuts lumber and has been making maple syrup for about thirty five years. Sugaring brings in about one thousand dollars annually. Because of the deep snow this year he only tapped 1000 of his 2000 trees. He expects to make about 200 to 500 gallons this year. North Bridgewater, Vermont

Gathering sap for maple syrup on Frank Schutleff's farm of about 400 a...

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Part of Bull tract near Marysville, California. Houses set on half and one acre lot are sold to workers who build their houses on them. No payment on principal are made for the first four years; interest payments start at three percent and go up to six percent by one percent increase yearly. At the end of four years payments on principal are due at rate of twenty to twenty-five percent annually. Land sells from two nudred to five hundred dollars per acre. Many migrants are settling in such tracts as these

Part of Bull tract near Marysville, California. Houses set on half and...

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This workman's son is taking gingerbread out of kitchen stove which cost his father one hundred thirty-five dollars and he lives in a shack-house in the Mexican section of town because the father couldn't find anything better for the family. Corpus Christi, Texas

This workman's son is taking gingerbread out of kitchen stove which co...

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Negro housing in North Memphis, Tennessee. Some of the occupants of these houses work at powder plant in Millington. Rent of twelve dollars a month was recently raised to fourteen dollars

Negro housing in North Memphis, Tennessee. Some of the occupants of th...

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The Million Dollar Stope from which a million dollars worth of silver was taken in Tombstone's initial boom. Stope mining is carried on in timber- supported passages. The passages lead for miles under the surrounding county and connect with other mines. Tombstone, Arizona

The Million Dollar Stope from which a million dollars worth of silver ...

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Sunset Trailer Camp, San Diego, California. The majority of the workers who have come into San Diego are apparently living in trailers. The county passed stringent sanitary laws when migratory agriculture workers came into the section some years ago and these laws prevent the Hooverville type of settlement. Rent for trailer space here is ten dollars per month with electricity and sanitary facilities, including showers and toilets, furnished

Sunset Trailer Camp, San Diego, California. The majority of the worker...

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Negro housing in North Memphis, Tennessee. Some of the occupants of these houses work at powder plant in Millington. Rent of twelve dollars a month was recently raised to fourteen dollars

Negro housing in North Memphis, Tennessee. Some of the occupants of th...

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Tourist court which caters to employees of defense industries. San Diego, California. Rental fees at these courts are from five to ten dollars a week, usually eight dollars, and include small room, bath and kitchenette equipped with two burner gas plates. No vacancy signs are frequent

Tourist court which caters to employees of defense industries. San Die...

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Woodpiles outside of sugar house on Frank Shurtliffs farm, North Bridgewater, Vermont. Large supply of wood is needed for fuel in boiling the maple sap. Sugaring brings in about one thousand dollars annually. Because of the deep snow this year he only tapped 1000 of his 2000 trees. He expects to make about 300 to 500 gallons this year

Woodpiles outside of sugar house on Frank Shurtliffs farm, North Bridg...

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Kitchen of one of the scattered labor homes built by FSA (Farm Security Administration) in New Madrid County, Missouri, at a cost of about five hundred dollars

Kitchen of one of the scattered labor homes built by FSA (Farm Securit...

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Kitchen in one of the scattered labor homes built by FSA (Farm Security Administration) at a cost of five hundred dollars. New Madrid County, Missouri

Kitchen in one of the scattered labor homes built by FSA (Farm Securit...

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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...

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Chart for the sanitary units of a trailer court which is under construction, San Diego, California. The owner-builder estimates that it will cost him about two thousand dollars to put in this court which will accommodate seventy-five trailers. Rental fee will be near ten dollars a month

Chart for the sanitary units of a trailer court which is under constru...

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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...

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