Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information photos from the 1930s
1,439 photos, in date order; 1,261–1,320 on this page. The photos were taken for US government agencies, so they are US government works and not under copyright. About the collection
- 1930s
- 1940s
Jazz drummer
1939-10
Jitterbug Wolcott FSA
1939-11
Jitterbugging in a juke in Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta 8c10917v
1939-11
Josh Taylor, Negro Foreman who has been on place for fifty t.
1939-10
Jitterbugging in Negro juke joint, Saturday evening, outside Clarksdale, Mississippi
1939-11
Jitterbugging in juke joint, Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta 8c11034v
1939-11
Jitterbugging in juke joint in Memphis, Tennessee 8c11028v
1939-11
Jorena Pettway making flower decorations for her home in Gee's Bend, Alabama
1939-05
Joe Jones, artist. Saint Louis, Missouri
1939-09
July 4, 1939
1939-07-04
Keota, Colorado Dust Bowl2
1939-10
Keota, Colorado Dust Bowl3
1939-10
Juke joint drummer
1939-10
Keota, Colorado, 8b18577a
1939-10
Keota, Colorado, 8b18577
1939-10
Lathe operator machining parts for transport planes at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas
1939
Lexington MS
1939–2006
Lighthearted kids in Merrill FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp, Klamath County, Oregon. See general caption 62.
1939-10
Loading hay into barn on tobacco farm of A. B. Douglas, Blai.
1939-09
Looking northeast over Southwest Washington DC - July 1939
1939-07
Lonny Smith's wife and daughter doing laundry by new smoke and washhouse in their yard. Flint River Farms
1939-05
Low leafy plants growing in rows, with leaves like grape leaves, Oklahoma
1939–1940
Wheat near Muskogee, Oklahoma
1939–1940
Marcella Plantation, Mileston, Miss.
1939-11
Marcella, Mississippi
1939-10
Marion Post Wolcott - Gambling with their cotton money
1939-11
Marion Post Wolcott Blairs Virginia
1939-09
Marion Post Wolcott - Old cable ferry between Camden and Gees Bend, Alabama
1939
Maypole festivity, Alabama
1939-05
Mary Louise Stepan, 21, used to be a waitress. She has a brother in the air corps. She is working on transport parts in the hand mill, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas ( ) - Flickr - The
1939
Meeting of camp council, FSA camp for migratory agriculture workers, Farmersville, California, 8b33545
1939-05
Memphis Cotton Exchange
1939-11
Memphis, Tennessee, Beale Street, October 1939.
1939-10
Mexican woman and children looking over side of truck fsa.3c29778u
1939-10
Mexican and negro cotton pickers inside plantation store, Kn.
1939-10
Mexican boy sitting on door step, San Antonio, Texas
1939-03
Mexican boy standing under certificate of baptism. San Antonio, Texas
1939
Mexican boy drinking out of water faucet. There were five of these faucets to supply water for about fifty Mexican families averaging five members each. They live in five units. Robstown, Texas
1939-02
Mexican and negro cotton pickers inside plantation store, Knowlton Plantation, Perthshire, Miss. Delta. This transient labor is contracted for and brought in trucks from Texas each season. October 1939
1939-10
Mexican woman washing clothes, San Antonio, Texas
1939-03
Mexican woman washing clothes in back of house. San Antonio, Texas
1939-03
Mexican woman washing in front of house in corral. Mexican section, San Antonio, Texas
1939-03
Migrant Family in Salinas, CA
1939-04
Migratory boy in squatter camp. Has come to Yakima Valley for the third year to pick hops. Mother "You'd be surprised what that boy can pick." Washington, Yakima Valley
1939-08
Migrant white mother washing clothes in front of tent home. Weslaco, Texas. See general caption
1939-02
Migrant man and wife camped near Sebastian, Texas, 8a25356
1939-02
Migrant potato pickers, Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California, 8b34817
1939-09
Migratory labor workers. Brawley, Imperial Valley, California, 8b33265
1939-02
Migratory workers fishing to eat, Belle Glade, Florida, Janu.
1939-01
Mother and child in town, Saturday afternoon, San Augustine, Texas
1939-04
Mother teaching children numbers and alphabet in home of sharecropper, Transylvania, Louisiana 1939
1939-01
Mother teaching children numbers and alphabet in home of sharecropper, Transylvania, Louisiana, 8b37034
1939-01
Mother teaching children numbers and alphabet in home of sharecropper, Transylvania, Louisiana, 8b37034
1939-01
Mrs. Compton and her four year old son Billy taking sticks of tobacco out of the barn to the strip house
1939-09
Mr. R. B. Whitley visiting in his general store, Wendell. Wake County, North Carolina, 8c30356
1939-09
Mr. R. B. Whitley visiting in his general store, Wendell. Wake County, North Carolina, 8c11136
1939-09
Mrs. Lloyd, ninety-one year-old victim of pellagra, 8a40805
1939-09
Mrs. Lloyd, ninety-one year-old victim of pellagra, 8e07249
1939-09
Mrs. Lloyd, ninety-one year-old victim of pellagra, mother of Miss Nettie Lloyd, 8c10528
1939-09
Negro boy sitting by the stove on a cold in the strawberry picking season near Independence, La. April 1939
1939-04