202 Free Images of Great Depression

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Fire & Ice: A long stairway in the mill district of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, January, 1940.
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Far Bright Star: Son of an illiterate sharecropper. He wants a high school education. Near Earle, Arkansas. July 1936.
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Corner Lunch: Townspeople discussing the severe winter on the street corner in center of town in Woodstock, Vermont, 1940.
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"Roofing Barracks" Pt. 1
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"Roofing Barracks" Pt. 2
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Ain't No Crystal Stair: Wife and child of tractor driver. Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi, 1937.
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Shelling snap beans in the Biscoe kitchen. John Biscoe farmhouse near Ridge, Maryland. Saint Mary's County, July 1941.
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Madonna and Child: Migrant Cotton Picker with her baby. Maricopa County, Arizona, 1940.
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"Preparing to become an air mechanic"
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"Mathematics, surveying and blueprint reading"
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"Preparing wall for new screens"
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The Things They Carried: In the new home of a group of Florida migrant workers just arrived in Onley, Virginia, July 1940.
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We Don't Discriminate: Lunchroom near Belle Glade, Florida. January 1939.
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Little Light of Mine: Part of Pomp Hall's family eating supper by lamplight, Creek County, Oklahoma. February 1940.
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Low-Rent Dive: Scene in a nightclub along the riverfront. Saint Louis, Missouri, January 1939.
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The Day Dreamer: Son of Nat Williamson. Guilford County, North Carolina, April 1938.
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The Searchers: Long lines outside of an employment agency on Sixth Avenue, New York, New York 1937.
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"Girls working on metal lathes"
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"The project short wave radio transmitter"
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Kern County, California. Migrant youth in potato field. This is a characteristic costume of women in the potato... - NARA - 532140
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Life's Other Side: Two men head toward Los Angeles, California looking for work. March 1937.
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Desperate Times: Shack of war veteran and family with view along Nueces Bay. Corpus Christi, Texas, 1939.
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Group of men on 7th Avenue and 28th Street, New York City, November 1936.
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Waiting on Roosevelt: North Dakota farmers waiting for their assistance grants in a Resettlement Administration Office. North Dakota, 1936.
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Berichtkaart Amsterdam 26-11-1937
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Kern County, California. Migrant youth in potato field. Stoop labor by a migratory youth - NARA - 532141
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Kern County, California. Migrant youth in potato field. Okie in a California potato field - NARA - 532142
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Bleak Harvest: Outside Farm Security Administration (FSA) grant office during the pea harvest. Calipatria, California. February 1939.
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A young girl, daughter of a farmer, watching and waiting. Ridge well project. Saint Mary's County, Maryland, June 1941.
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Ag Academy: Farm Security Admnistration county supervisor at farmers field day at United States Dry Land Experiment Station, Akron, Colorado. October 1939.
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View of the Elba FSA (Farm Security Administration) co-op cannery. Elba, Coffee County, Alabama August 1941.
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We of the Long Road: Example of self-resettlement in California. Oklahoma farm family on highway between Blythe and Indio, August 1936.
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Santa Clause Lane: Corner on main street, Spencer, Iowa, December 1936
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Migrant shed worker. Northeast Florida in Suwanee county, 1936.
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No Place to Sleep: Unemployed men sleeping in the park in the Gateway District, Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 1939.
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San Joaquin Valley, California. Contract Labor. The youngest migrant agricultural workers of American stock, and an... - NARA - 532159
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San Joaquin Valley, California. Contract Labor. The youngest migrant agricultural workers of American stock, and an... - NARA - 532160
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Kern County, California. Migrant youth in potato field. Waiting for the potato digger to come around again. This... - NARA - 532143
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John Fredrick's son says "We sure hate pullin' water." The New Deal well project will help imrove the quality of life for this family. Saint Mary's County, Maryland July 1941.
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Niles, California. Miscellaneous. Migrant youth ripping up the boards of an old tent platform in a contractor's camp.... - NARA - 532136
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Crowd near the shelter shed of Kurri Kurri Superior Public School with a banner "[Workers'] International Relief, [n.d.0
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Rear view of an Okie's car, passing through Amarillo, Texas, on its way west, 1941 - NARA - 532820
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Kern County, California. Migrant youth in potato field. Potatoes are picked, the dirt rubbed off, and put in a sack... - NARA - 532139
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Freezing Down: Stevedores along the riverfront in Saint Louis, Missouri, January 1939.
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There and Back Again: An elderly woman awaits the international streetcar at a corner in El Paso, Texas to return across the bridge after a day of business, June 1938.
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Kern County, California. Migrant youth in potato field. By the time this digging machine comes down the next row in... - NARA - 532137
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Farm Aid: A Home supervisor writing out a check for a FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower. Saint Mary's County, Maryland. September 1940.
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The 70th Birthday of Commercial Councilor Valentin Manheimer, Anton von Werner, 1887
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Near Eloy, Pinal County, Arizona. Weighing the cotton of a migrant boy. - NARA - 522216
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Any Questions: Miss Eleanor Nelson, Secretary and Treasurer of the United Federal Workers of America, teaches the class in union organization at the federal workers school. 1937.
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Packed House: Listening to the speaker at the Conference to Aid Agricultural Organization during the cotton strike (Steinbeck Committee). Bakersfield, Kern County, California. November 1938.
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City Vines: An avenue of clothes washings between 138th and 139th Street apartments, just east of St. Anne's Avenue, Bronx, New York. November 1936.
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"1000 horsepower motor"
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Miners at the American Radiator Mine, Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania Digital ID- (digital file from original neg.) fsa 8a00958 http- hdl.loc.gov loc.pnp fsa.8a00958
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Miners at American Radiator Mine, Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania Digital ID- (digital file from original neg.) fsa 8a00946 http- hdl.loc.gov loc.pnp fsa.8a00946
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Jimmy The Iceman Cometh: All heating and cooking is done with coal oil in the FSA (Farm Security Administration) housing project. Hartford, Connecticut. September 1941.
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Children of migrant field worker. Bridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural workers' camp. 1942
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Urban Heartbeat: New York City street scene June 1936.
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Children on the steps of Mrs. Brown's home. FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower on Prairie Farms, Montgomery, Alabama, 1939.
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Rear view of an Okie's car, passing through Amarillo, Texas, on its way west, 1941 - NARA - 532820
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A FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower building a new gate for his yard. Prairie Farms, Montgomery, Alabama, 1939.
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Evicted: State highway officials moving evicted Black sharecroppers away from roadside to area between the levee and the Mississippi River. New Madrid County, Missouri, 1938.
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Near Yuba City, California. Children of migrant workers in Yuba City Agricultural Farm Workers Commu . . . - NARA - 521752
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Working Class Hearths: A Syrian neighborhood near the shipyards. Slum area where many shipyard workers live. Winter Street, Quincy, Massachusetts. December 1940.
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Flop House: Impoverished farmers sleeping in a white camp room in a warehouse. They often must remain several days before their tobacco is sold. Durham, North Carolina, 1939.
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A Dollar a Day: Turpentine worker's family near Cordele, Alabama. Father's wages one dollar a day. This is the standard of living the turpentine trees support July 1936.
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The Three of Us: Two of the Dumond children at the back door of their home in Lille, Maine. The family are French-Canadian potato farmers and Farm Security Administration clients, October 1940.
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Shuffle With Tired Feet: 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. January 1938.
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New Found Land: El Monte Federal subsistence homesteads in California, 1936. One hundred homes, each with three quarters of an acre land, all occupied. Average family income, eight hundred dollars per year.
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So Long the Road: Portrait of an elderly cotton sharecropper in Mississippi, June 1937. She was born 'two years before the surrender' (In 1863, two years before the end of the Civil War).
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Large crowd in the playground of Kurri Kurri Superior Public School [K-3rd Form]. Two gentlemen in front holding a banner: "Workers' International Relief, Sth Maitland District. Relief for Miners and Dependents", [1932]
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A World Apart: Mrs. Dukes, wife of tenant farmer and FSA borrower. She has nine children and has been to the hospital suffering from cancer. Heard County, Georgia. April 1941.
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San Leandro, California. Youth on Relief. Everytime they got something good, 'ya don't get a chance to get any. He... - NARA - 532130
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Oakland, California. Lockheed Testing Program. Crowding in the doorway of the room where Lockheed is testing - NARA - 532196
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Oakland, California. Lockheed Testing Program. Waiting for routine interview before being tested for employment at... - NARA - 532194
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Sacramento, California. Close-up view of squatter camp. This family lives in the car without a tent. - NARA - 521748
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Oakland, California. Lockheed Testing Program. Standing outside the Oakland office of the State Department of... - NARA - 532192
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Hayward, California. Youth on Relief. Looking in his pocket for his surplus commodities card. Not having a job is... - NARA - 532121
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Hayward, California. Youth on Relief. Waiting for surplus commodities - NARA - 532123
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San Leandro, California. Youth on Relief. Relief clients stand in line to get their allotment of surplus commodities.... - NARA - 532127
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Oakland, California. Lockheed Testing Program. Standing outside the Oakland office of the State Department of... - NARA - 532191
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Talking Hard Times: Scene outside the Farm Security Administration grant office during the pea harvest. Calipatria, California, February 1939. During spring 1938 for the first time, the labor surplus had grown so large that relief grants were necessary.
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Four-Wreath'd Ammonites Less Flat and More Thinly Striated, Michael Vandergucht, 1712
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Oakland, California. Lockheed Testing Program. One brief newspaper article and youth of all ranges of mechanical... - NARA - 532195
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San Leandro, California. Hitch-Hiking. High school boys thumbing for a local ride to visit friends on a Saturday - NARA - 532091
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Oakland, California. Lockheed Testing Program. Standing outside the Oakland office of the State Department of... - NARA - 532193
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Oakland, California. Lockheed Testing Program. This young mechanic is stuck with a question in the Humm-Wadsworth... - NARA - 532197
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Hayward, California. Youth on Relief. Getting his surplus commodities card okayed. He came to California two year ago... - NARA - 532122
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San Leandro, California. Youth on Relief. Youth stands in line with oldsters to collect their surplus commodities - NARA - 532129
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Eloy District, Pinal County, Arizona. Migrant cotton pickers dumping their sacks into the field wago . . . - NARA - 522519
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San Leandro, California - Youth on Relief - NARA - 532131
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Feldpost von Hans 1944-04-18 2, 18 April 1944
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Hayward, California. Youth on Relief. High School student calling for surplus commodities for his family on relief.... - NARA - 532126
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Bakersfield on Highway 466. Private auto camp, better than the average. There are a score of private . . . - NARA - 521795
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Sacramento, California. Squatter camp of agricultural labor migrants one-eighth mile outside city li . . . - NARA - 521744
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Oakland, California. Youth on Relief. This young agricultural migrant is buying a second hand hat and shoes in the... - NARA - 532144
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Hayward, California. Youth on Relief. High School student calling for surplus commodities for his family on relief.... - NARA - 532125
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San Leandro, California. Youth on Relief. Waiting in line for surplus commodities - NARA - 532133
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San Leandro, California. Hanging Around. Twenty years old, his high school education is over and college was never... - NARA - 532243
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