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Textile factory built by Work Projects Administration (WPA) and leased to private industry to bring payroll to Brookhaven, Mississippi

Textile factory built by Work Projects Administration (WPA) and leased...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Textile factory built by Work Projects Administration (WPA) and leased to private industry to bring payroll to Brookhaven, Mississippi

Textile factory built by Work Projects Administration (WPA) and leased...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of a factory, warehouse, commercial or industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Exhibition Oil paintings from the easel division : N.Y.C. WPA Art Project, Work Projects Administration.

Exhibition Oil paintings from the easel division : N.Y.C. WPA Art Proj...

Poster for Federal Art Project exhibition of oil paintings. Date stamped on verso: Mar 24 1941. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

Exhibition of housing photographs Produced by Federal Art Project, Work Projects Administration / / M.A.

Exhibition of housing photographs Produced by Federal Art Project, Wor...

Poster for Federal Art Project exhibition of photographs. Date stamped on verso: Aug 26 1939. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

Sculpture exhibition New York City art project : Work Projects Administration.

Sculpture exhibition New York City art project : Work Projects Adminis...

Poster announcing exhibit of sculpture from the New York City Art Project, showing sculpture of a seated woman. Date stamped on verso: Mar 24 1941. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

The Work Projects Administration is cooperating in the national campaign to stamp out syphilis! Please let us have your help!

The Work Projects Administration is cooperating in the national campai...

Poster encouraging cooperation in eradicating syphilis. Date stamped on verso: May 28 1940. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

Monument dedicated to the copper miners of Arizona. Work of a local sculptor sponsored by Work Projects Administration. Bisbee, Arizona

Monument dedicated to the copper miners of Arizona. Work of a local sc...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a statue, monument, sculpture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Monument dedicated to the copper miners of Arizona. Work of a local sculptor sponsored by Work Projects Administration. Bisbee, Arizona

Monument dedicated to the copper miners of Arizona. Work of a local sc...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Families are left stranded without means of support when the lumber mill "cuts out." This family lives on a cut-over area. The mill has closed, and the father does WPA (Work Projects Administration) work. Near Kiln, Mississippi

Families are left stranded without means of support when the lumber mi...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a New Deal program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 as a response to the high unemployment during the Great Depression. The program put people t... More

Families are left stranded without means of support when the lumber mill "cuts out." This family lives on a cut-over area. The mill has closed, and the father does WPA (Work Projects Administration) work. Near Kiln, Mississippi

Families are left stranded without means of support when the lumber mi...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A black and white photo of a man and a child. Ohio during Great Depression.

A black and white photo of a man and a child. Ohio during Great Depres...

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

Children of ex-farmer who is now working on W.P.A. (Work Projects Administration), central Ohio

Children of ex-farmer who is now working on W.P.A. (Work Projects Admi...

General caption for this series of images: Circleville, county seat of Pickaway County. Average small Ohio city, depending upon surrounding rich farmlands for its livelihood. Because of its non-industrial surro... More

Work Projects Administration, Omaha, Nebraska

Work Projects Administration, Omaha, Nebraska

Public domain photograph of a post office building, postal service, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A couple of young boys sitting on top of a wooden chair. Great Depression FSA photogpraph

A couple of young boys sitting on top of a wooden chair. Great Depress...

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

Son of ex-farmer now on W.P.A. (Work Projects Administration), central Ohio

Son of ex-farmer now on W.P.A. (Work Projects Administration), central...

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

"Scratch Hill," outside Atoka, Oklahoma. Atoka County, Oklahoma. "Most of the people here have farmed, now they're on Work Projects Administration at twenty-three dollars and ten cents a month. Their hold to this country used to be timber work, but that's cut out"

"Scratch Hill," outside Atoka, Oklahoma. Atoka County, Oklahoma. "Most...

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Native Texas tenant farmer. Near Goodliet, 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. Another son was tractored out in 1937. Has moved to town and remains temporarily off relief by selling his livestock. "What are my boys going to do? It's not a question of what they're going to do. It's a question of what they're going to have to do. They're not any up there in Congress but what are big landowners and they're going to see that the program is in their interest. As long as the government is paying the landowner more to let the land out than they make by renting it, they won't rent it."

Native Texas tenant farmer. Near Goodliet, Texas. Aged seventy; sevent...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a New Deal program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 as a response to the high unemployment during the Great Depression. The program put people t... More

Casa Grande project (Farm Security Administration), Arizona. Large scale-corporate farming by sixty-two families who divide the profits. Most of them are from Oklahoma and Texas. They get to where the land wouldn't make them anything so they left and came out here. Many were on Work Projects Administration

Casa Grande project (Farm Security Administration), Arizona. Large sca...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

One of a group of western Oklahoma wheat farmers congregated at crossroads service station. "In 1934 I had four renters, and I didn't make anything. I bought tractors on the money the government give me, and I got shet of my renters. Right about half the people in these little towns used to be renters. They've got their choice--go to California or Work Projects Administration (WPA)"

One of a group of western Oklahoma wheat farmers congregated at crossr...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A black and white photo of a man and a little girl. Ohio during Great Depression.

A black and white photo of a man and a little girl. Ohio during Great ...

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

A black and white photo of a man and a child, possibly related to: Ex-farmer and children, now on W.P.A. (Work Projects Administration), central Ohio

A black and white photo of a man and a child, possibly related to: Ex-...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

A little girl standing in the doorway of a building. Ohio during Great Depression.

A little girl standing in the doorway of a building. Ohio during Great...

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

Son of ex-farmer now on W.P.A. (Work Projects Administration), central Ohio

Son of ex-farmer now on W.P.A. (Work Projects Administration), central...

General caption for this series of images: Circleville, county seat of Pickaway County. Average small Ohio city, depending upon surrounding rich farmlands for its livelihood. Because of its non-industrial surro... More

Ex-farmer now on W.P.A. (Work Projects Administration), central Ohio

Ex-farmer now on W.P.A. (Work Projects Administration), central Ohio

Public domain photograph - historical image of Ohio, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ex-farmer and child, now on W.P.A. (Work Projects Administration), central Ohio

Ex-farmer and child, now on W.P.A. (Work Projects Administration), cen...

General caption for this series of images: Circleville, county seat of Pickaway County. Average small Ohio city, depending upon surrounding rich farmlands for its livelihood. Because of its non-industrial surro... More

Work Projects Administration, Omaha, Nebraska

Work Projects Administration, Omaha, Nebraska

Public domain photograph - historical image of Nebraska, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Farmers during Great Depression: An old black and white photo of a man and a child.

Farmers during Great Depression: An old black and white photo of a man...

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

A black and white photo of a fireman with a hose, Work Projects Administration, Omaha, Nebraska

A black and white photo of a fireman with a hose, Work Projects Admini...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A black and white photo of a group of men, Work Projects Administration, Omaha, Nebraska

A black and white photo of a group of men, Work Projects Administratio...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Children of ex-farmer who is now working on W.P.A. (Work Projects Administration), central Ohio

Children of ex-farmer who is now working on W.P.A. (Work Projects Admi...

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

One of a group of western Oklahoma wheat farmers congregated at crossroads service station. "In 1934 I had four renters, and I didn't make anything. I bought tractors on the money the government give me, and I got shet of my renters. Right about half the people in these little towns used to be renters. They've got their choice--go to California or Work Projects Administration (WPA)"

One of a group of western Oklahoma wheat farmers congregated at crossr...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a New Deal program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 as a response to the high unemployment during the Great Depression. The program put people t... More

Child of ex-farmer now on W.P.A. (Work Projects Administration), central Ohio

Child of ex-farmer now on W.P.A. (Work Projects Administration), centr...

General caption for this series of images: Circleville, county seat of Pickaway County. Average small Ohio city, depending upon surrounding rich farmlands for its livelihood. Because of its non-industrial surro... More

A couple of young boys sitting on top of a wooden chair, possibly related to: Children of ex-farmer who is now working on W.P.A. (Work Projects Administration), central Ohio

A couple of young boys sitting on top of a wooden chair, possibly rela...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

Refugee agricultural laborer on the roadside in Arizona, near the Casa Grande project (Farm Security Administration). "I was on this here project, Work Projects Administration, at twenty-three dollars and ten cents in Durant, Oklahoma. I sold a cow to get here. I'd go back tomorrow if I could. The project over there? I wouldn't like it. Your chickens would get all mixed up with the other peoples, and then there'd be trouble. It's kind of socialism over there"

Refugee agricultural laborer on the roadside in Arizona, near the Casa...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Ex-farmer and child, now on W.P.A. (Work Projects Administration), central Ohio

Ex-farmer and child, now on W.P.A. (Work Projects Administration), cen...

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

An old black and white photo of a man and a child, possibly related to: Ex-farmer and children, now on W.P.A. (Work Projects Administration), central Ohio

An old black and white photo of a man and a child, possibly related to...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

Child of ex-farmer now on W.P.A. (Work Projects Administration), central Ohio

Child of ex-farmer now on W.P.A. (Work Projects Administration), centr...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Ohio, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

"Scratch Hill," outside Atoka, Oklahoma. Atoka County, Oklahoma. "Most of the people here have farmed, now they're on Work Projects Administration at twenty-three dollars and ten cents a month. Their hold to this country used to be timber work, but that's cut out"

"Scratch Hill," outside Atoka, Oklahoma. Atoka County, Oklahoma. "Most...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Refugee agricultural laborer on the roadside in Arizona, near the Casa Grande project (Farm Security Administration). "I was on this here project, Work Projects Administration, at twenty-three dollars and ten cents in Durant, Oklahoma. I sold a cow to get here. I'd go back tomorrow if I could. The project over there? I wouldn't like it. Your chickens would get all mixed up with the other peoples, and then there'd be trouble. It's kind of socialism over there"

Refugee agricultural laborer on the roadside in Arizona, near the Casa...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ex-farmer and children, now on W.P.A. (Work Projects Administration), central Ohio

Ex-farmer and children, now on W.P.A. (Work Projects Administration), ...

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

A black and white photo of a man and a little girl, possibly related to: Child of ex-farmer now on W.P.A. (Work Projects Administration), central Ohio

A black and white photo of a man and a little girl, possibly related t...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

Ex-farmer now on W.P.A. (Work Projects Administration), central Ohio

Ex-farmer now on W.P.A. (Work Projects Administration), central Ohio

General caption for this series of images: Circleville, county seat of Pickaway County. Average small Ohio city, depending upon surrounding rich farmlands for its livelihood. Because of its non-industrial surro... More

Chicken coop belonging to a WPA (Works Progress AdministrationWork Projects Administration) worker who was a farmer until five years ago. Near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma

Chicken coop belonging to a WPA (Works Progress AdministrationWork Pro...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

WPA (Works Progress AdministrationWork Projects Administration) weaving project supervisor making skeins of thread. Costilla, New Mexico

WPA (Works Progress AdministrationWork Projects Administration) weavin...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Massachusetts meeting called to discuss ways and means for raising county fund in order to continue WPA (Works Progress AdministrationWork Projects Administration) roadwork. San Augustine, Texas

Massachusetts meeting called to discuss ways and means for raising cou...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information ... More

Groups of San Augustine County residents gathered to discuss means of raising funds to continue WPA (Work Projects Administration) roadwork, San Augustine, Texas

Groups of San Augustine County residents gathered to discuss means of ...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a New Deal program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 as a response to the high unemployment during the Great Depression. The program put people t... More

A large group of people sitting in a room Farmers of Great Depression. Dust bowl refugees, Resettlement program.

A large group of people sitting in a room Farmers of Great Depression....

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

Washington, western, Thurston County. Malone Company house in abandoned mill village now occupied by Work Projects Administration (WPA) worker. General caption number 39

Washington, western, Thurston County. Malone Company house in abandone...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Recreation evening at community school under direction of WPA (Work Projects Administration) recreational supervisor. Coffee County, Alabama

Recreation evening at community school under direction of WPA (Work Pr...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Spanish-American woman carding wool at WPA (Works Progress AdministrationWork Projects Administration) project. Costilla, New Mexico

Spanish-American woman carding wool at WPA (Works Progress Administrat...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Home of Negro WPA (Works Progress AdministrationWork Projects Administration) worker. Muskogee County, Oklahoma

Home of Negro WPA (Works Progress AdministrationWork Projects Administ...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

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. Now on way north looking for work. Doesn't want to go on Work Projects Administration (WPA)

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

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Lunchtime for young migrants at Shafter Camp, California. The nursery school for migrant children is conducted in camp under nursery school teachers trained by WPA (Work Projects Administration), and assigned to work in the camp under WPA project

Lunchtime for young migrants at Shafter Camp, California. The nursery ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of children, kids, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A large group of people sitting in a room, Texas, during Great Depression

A large group of people sitting in a room, Texas, during Great Depress...

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

Ingredients used for dying of wool used at WPA (Works Progress AdministrationWork Projects Administration) weaving project. Costilla, New Mexico. They are indigo, nitric acid, powdered alum, bark, burdock root, cochineal and walnut husks

Ingredients used for dying of wool used at WPA (Works Progress Adminis...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Wife of farmer now on WPA (Works Progress AdministrationWork Projects Administration) roadwork making blackberry pie. Near Sallisaw, Oklahoma

Wife of farmer now on WPA (Works Progress AdministrationWork Projects ...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Lunchtime for young migrants at Shafter Camp, California. The nursery school for migrant children is conducted in camp under nursery school teachers trained by WPA (Work Projects Administration), and assigned to work in the camp under WPA project

Lunchtime for young migrants at Shafter Camp, California. The nursery ...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A large group of people sitting in a room, possibly related to: Groups of San Augustine County residents gathered to discuss means of raising funds to continue WPA (Work Projects Administration) roadwork, San Augustine, Texas

A large group of people sitting in a room, possibly related to: Groups...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

Children of WPA (Works Progress AdministrationWork Projects Administration) workers living in Arkansas River bottoms near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma

Children of WPA (Works Progress AdministrationWork Projects Administra...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Spanish-American woman weaving rag rug at WPA (Works Progress AdministrationWork Projects Administration) project. Costilla, New Mexico

Spanish-American woman weaving rag rug at WPA (Works Progress Administ...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Itinerant statue maker putting together the pieces of a mold for one of his statues. He had been at one time an oil field worker. He said that the WPA (Work Projects Administration) had reduced the possibility of the man on the road getting a job. He said he believed he could farm if he could get a chance. Near Spiro, Oklahoma

Itinerant statue maker putting together the pieces of a mold for one o...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

President of bank speaking to a group of San Augustine county residents at a meeting held to discuss raising of funds to continue WPA (Work Projects Administration) roadwork, San Augustine, Texas

President of bank speaking to a group of San Augustine county resident...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Watering trough of tenant farmer now on WPA (Work Projects Administration) near Sallisaw, Oklahoma

Watering trough of tenant farmer now on WPA (Work Projects Administrat...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Spanish-American woman spinning woolen thread at WPA (Works Progress AdministrationWork Projects Administration) project. Costilla, New Mexico

Spanish-American woman spinning woolen thread at WPA (Works Progress A...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Lunchtime for young migrants at Shafter Camp, California. The nursery school for migrant children is conducted in camp under nursery school teachers trained by WPA (Work Projects Administration), and assigned to work in the camp under WPA project

Lunchtime for young migrants at Shafter Camp, California. The nursery ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a school, preschool, children, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, western, Thurston County. Malone Company house in abandoned mill village now occupied by Work Projects Administration (WPA) worker. General caption number 39

Washington, western, Thurston County. Malone Company house in abandone...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a New Deal program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 as a response to the high unemployment during the Great Depression. The program put people t... More

Family of six in tent after supper. Came to potato harvest after father was laid off of WPA (Work Projects Administration) in Boise, Idaho. Oldest child is twelve. Little boy has dysentery. Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon. In FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile unit

Family of six in tent after supper. Came to potato harvest after fathe...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Well of white tenant farmer who is now on WPA (Work Projects Administration) near Sallisaw, Oklahoma

Well of white tenant farmer who is now on WPA (Work Projects Administr...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a New Deal program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 as a response to the high unemployment during the Great Depression. The program put people t... More

Part of RR  (Rural Rehabilitation) family, now dropped, children have hookworm, mother pellagra and milk leg, according to nurse's report. Father works on WPA (Work Projects Administration). Coffee County, Alabama

Part of RR (Rural Rehabilitation) family, now dropped, children have ...

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

Wife of WPA (Works Progress AdministrationWork Projects Administration) worker and her child who live in the Arkansas River bottoms near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma

Wife of WPA (Works Progress AdministrationWork Projects Administration...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Sons of day laborers. Some of their fathers were agricultural workers and some were dispossessed tenant farmers now on WPA (Works Progress AdministrationWork Projects Administration). The WPA work is holding many of these former tenant farmers in their communities, but they are all potential migrants. None of these children had ever attended school. The camp was near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma

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

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Recreation evening at community school under direction of WPA (Work Projects Administration) recreational supervisor. Coffee County, Alabama

Recreation evening at community school under direction of WPA (Work Pr...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to dance, dancing, music, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Spanish-American girl makes skein of woolen thread at WPA (Works Progress AdministrationWork Projects Administration) project. Costilla, New Mexico

Spanish-American girl makes skein of woolen thread at WPA (Works Progr...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Lunchtime for young migrants at Shafter Camp, California. The nursery school for migrant children is conducted in camp under nursery school teachers trained by WPA (Work Projects Administration), and assigned to work in the camp under WPA project

Lunchtime for young migrants at Shafter Camp, California. The nursery ...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Washington, Yakima Valley. Drought refugee, aged sixty three, from Bismark, North Dakota. "Come to Washington three years ago in that Chevy coupe you see over there and twenty-five dollars cash. Had 480 acres back there. I dried out after thirty years, lost it, and walked out." With help of Work Projects Administration (WPA) and supplementary work on ranches is buying three quaters of an acre in shacktown near Yakima, has it nearly paid for, has good garden. "On my own place I can't starve."

Washington, Yakima Valley. Drought refugee, aged sixty three, from Bis...

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

Corner of bedroom of farm family who are now on WPA (Works Progress AdministrationWork Projects Administration). Near Sallisaw, Oklahoma. Notice crowded conditions

Corner of bedroom of farm family who are now on WPA (Works Progress Ad...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

The new WPA (Work Projects Administration) courthouse alongside the old county courthouse. Bonners Ferry, Idaho. See general caption 49

The new WPA (Work Projects Administration) courthouse alongside the ol...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Recreation evening at community school under direction of WPA (Work Projects Administration) recreational supervisor. Coffee County, Alabama

Recreation evening at community school under direction of WPA (Work Pr...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a New Deal program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 as a response to the high unemployment during the Great Depression. The program put people t... More

Migratory worker in auto camp. Single man, speaks his mind. "Them WPAs are keeping us from a living. They oughtn't to do it. It ain't fair in no way. The government lays them off (that is in Work Projects Administration - 1939) and they come in because they're locals and take the jobs away from us that never had no forty-four dollars a month. I came out of Pennsylvania, used to be an oil worker. I'm getting along in years now and I seen lots of presidents and lots of systems. Voted for Roosevelt both times and I don't know of any president that ever leaned toward the laboring man like him, but this system they've got here in the fruit is a rotten system the way they work it." Yakima Valley, Washington

Migratory worker in auto camp. Single man, speaks his mind. "Them WPAs...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A large group of people sitting in a room, Texas, during Great Depression

A large group of people sitting in a room, Texas, during Great Depress...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a New Deal program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 as a response to the high unemployment during the Great Depression. The program put people t... More

Washington, Yakima Valley. Drought refugee, aged sixty three, from Bismark, North Dakota. "Came to Washington three years ago in that Chevy coupe you see over there and twenty-five dollars cash. Had 480 acres back there. I dried out after thirty years, lost it, and walked out." With help of Work Projects Administration (WPA) and supplementary work on ranches is buying three quarters of an acre in shacktown near Yakima, has it nearly paid for, has good garden. "On my own place I can't starve."

Washington, Yakima Valley. Drought refugee, aged sixty three, from Bis...

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

The new WPA (Work Projects Administration) courthouse alongside the old county courthouse. Bonners Ferry, Idaho. See general caption 49

The new WPA (Work Projects Administration) courthouse alongside the ol...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a historic courthouse building, court, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Itinerant statue maker putting together the pieces of a mold for one of his statues. He had been at one time an oil field worker. He said that the WPA (Work Projects Administration) had reduced the possibility of the man on the road getting a job. He said he believed he could farm if he could get a chance. Near Spiro, Oklahoma

Itinerant statue maker putting together the pieces of a mold for one o...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a New Deal program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 as a response to the high unemployment during the Great Depression. The program put people t... More

Spanish-American girl threading the loom at WPA (Works Progress AdministrationWork Projects Administration) weaving project. Costilla, New Mexico

Spanish-American girl threading the loom at WPA (Works Progress Admini...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Part of RR (Rural Rehabilitation) family, now dropped, children have hookworm, mother pellagra and milk leg, according to nurse's report. Father works on WPA (Work Projects Administration). Coffee County, Alabama

Part of RR (Rural Rehabilitation) family, now dropped, children have h...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Spanish-American women, members of the WPA (Works Progress AdministrationWork Projects Administration) weaving project at Costilla, New Mexico

Spanish-American women, members of the WPA (Works Progress Administrat...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

WPA (Works Progress AdministrationWork Projects Administration) supervisor instructing Spanish-American woman in weaving of rag rug. WPA project. Costilla, New Mexico

WPA (Works Progress AdministrationWork Projects Administration) superv...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Son of WPA (Works Progress AdministrationWork Projects Administration) worker swinging. The father is a former tenant farmer, now on WPA. These are potential and probable migrants. Webbers Falls, Oklahoma

Son of WPA (Works Progress AdministrationWork Projects Administration)...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Porch of WPA (Work Projects Administration) worker who was tenant farmer until a few years ago, near Sallisaw, Oklahoma

Porch of WPA (Work Projects Administration) worker who was tenant farm...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a New Deal program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 as a response to the high unemployment during the Great Depression. The program put people t... More

Spanish-American woman weaving rag rug at WPA (Works Progress AdministrationWork Projects Administration) project. Costilla, New Mexico

Spanish-American woman weaving rag rug at WPA (Works Progress Administ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Electronic surrogate made from item with the same number in the LC-USF34 series. Transfer; United States... More

Lunchtime for young migrants at Shafter Camp, California. The nursery school for migrant children is conducted in camp under nursery school teachers trained by WPA (Work Projects Administration), and assigned to work in the camp under (WPA) project

Lunchtime for young migrants at Shafter Camp, California. The nursery ...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Recreation evening at community school under direction of WPA (Work Projects Administration) recreational supervisor. Coffee County, Alabama

Recreation evening at community school under direction of WPA (Work Pr...

Public domain photograph of Alabama in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Detail of construction of house occupied by WPA (WorksProgress AdministrationWork Projects Administration) worker and his family near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma

Detail of construction of house occupied by WPA (WorksProgress Adminis...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Washington, Yakima Valley. Drought refugee, aged sixty three, from Bismark, North Dakota. "Come to Washington three years ago in that Chevy coupe you see over there and twenty-five dollars cash. Had 480 acres back there. I dried out after thirty years, lost it, and walked out." With help of Work Projects Administration (WPA) and supplementary work on ranches is buying three quaters of an acre in shacktown near Yakima, has it nearly paid for, has good garden. "On my own place I can't starve."

Washington, Yakima Valley. Drought refugee, aged sixty three, from Bis...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Lunchtime for young migrants at Shafter Camp, California. The nursery school for migrant children is conducted in camp under nursery school teachers trained by WPA (Work Projects Administration), and assigned to work in the camp under (WPA) project

Lunchtime for young migrants at Shafter Camp, California. The nursery ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children, kids, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mr. Roberts saying, "They're on WPA (Work Projects Administration) and I'm out here." Malheur County, Oregon. General caption number 73

Mr. Roberts saying, "They're on WPA (Work Projects Administration) and...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Massachusetts meeting of San Augustine County residents gathered to discuss methods of raising funds to continue WPA (Work Projects Administration) roadwork, San Augustine, Texas

Massachusetts meeting of San Augustine County residents gathered to di...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Recreation evening at community school under direction of WPA (Work Projects Administration) recreational supervisor. Coffee County, Alabama

Recreation evening at community school under direction of WPA (Work Pr...

Public domain photograph of Alabama in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Spanish-American woman spinning woolen thread at WPA (Works Progress AdministrationWork Projects Administration) project. Costilla, New Mexico

Spanish-American woman spinning woolen thread at WPA (Works Progress A...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Electronic surrogate made from item with the same number in the LC-USF34 series. Transfer; United States... More

Well of white tenant farmer who is now on WPA (Work Projects Administration) near Sallisaw, Oklahoma

Well of white tenant farmer who is now on WPA (Work Projects Administr...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

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