Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information photos from the 1930s
1,439 photos, in date order; 1,321–1,380 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
Near Meloland, Imperial Valley, California, 8b33211
1939-02
Negro going in colored entrance of movie house on Saturday afternoon, Belzoni, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi
1939-10
Negro day laborers brought in by truck from nearby towns, wa.
1939-10
Negro day laborers brought in by truck from nearby towns, wa.
1939-11
Negro section of town, Saturday noon Belzoni, Miss., Nov. 19.
1939-11
Negro domestic servant, Atlanta, Georgia. May 1939.
1939-05
Negro section of town, Saturday afternoon, Belzoni, Mississi.
1939-11
Negro picnic at Beaufort, South Carolina, July 1939.
1939-07
Negro drinking at "Colored" water cooler in streetcar terminal, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
1939-07
Negro going in colored entrance of movie house on Saturday afternoon, Belzoni, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi
1939-10
Negro mother with children in town Saturday afternoon, San Augustine, Texas
1939-04
Negro sisters in town shopping, San Augustine, Texas
1939-04
Negro drinking at "Colored" water cooler in streetcar terminal, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma by Russell Lee - Original
1939-07
Negro drinking at "Colored" water cooler in streetcar terminal, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma by Russell Lee
1939-07
Negroes fishing in creek near cotton plantations outside Belzoni, Miss.
1939-10
Negroes fishing in creek near cotton plantations outside Belzoni, Miss. Delta
1939-10
New home of Cube Walker, Negro tenant purchase client. Belzoni, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi
1939-09
New barn under construction at Pembroke Farms, North Carolina
1939
Night street scene, Butte, Montana, 8a11342
1939
Night street scene, Butte, Montana, 8a11342a
1939
Northern Pacific train on Bozeman Pass, June 1939
1939-06
Oak Street at the railroad tracks, Carrier Mills, Illinois, 8b17311
1939-01
Old African American, near Camden, Alabama, 8a40056
1939-05
Old Ben number eight locomotive
1939-01
Old Freedman with old slave horn Texas 1939
1939-04
Old farm couple in town on Saturday afternoon. San Augustine, Texas
1939-04
One of the sharecropper's houses with sweet potatoes and cot.
1939-10
One of the tenant houses which has electricity on Marcella Plantation. Mileston, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi
1939-10
Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber, Tennessee ( ) - Flickr - The
1939
Orchestra at square dance. McIntosh County, Oklahoma, 1939 or 1940
1939–1940
Orchestra during intermission at square dance; notice sweated shirt of host, McIntosh County, Oklahoma
1939–1940
Oregon sheriff deputy 1939
1939-08
Palm Beach, Florida, March 1939.
1939
Part of cotton gin with wagonloads of cotton waiting in back.
1939-10
Pauline Clyburn, rehabilitation client at Manning, Clarendon.
1939-06
Pauline Clyburn, rehabilitation client, and her children str.
1939-06
Pea Pickers Line Up on Edge of Field at Weigh Scale, near Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California, February
1939–1972
Pea picker camp. This family had been farm owners in Oklahoma, lost their farm and for the last three years "have been draggin' our children around California. We're a have-to case." Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California
1939-02
Picking cotton on plantation outside Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi, 8a41338
1939-10
Picking cotton on plantation outside Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi, 8a41348
1939-10
Post office inside plantation store, Mileston, Mississippi D.
1939-11
Untitled photo, possibly related to: Explaining the REA program to farm women, Central Iowa 4-H Club fair, Marshalltown, Iowa
1939-09
President Quezon with high rank officials
1939-07-30
Project family picking peas in their garden, Flint River Far.
1939
Railway express agency office in station. San Augustine, Texas #
1939-04
Railroad Yard Workers, Windsor Lakes, CT
1939-10
Railway Station, Mileston, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi
1939-10
Railroad yards, Elkins, West Virginia
1939-06
Removing the seed from cotton gin on Hopson Plantation; Clar.
1939-11
Repairing tire on road near Knowlton Plantation, Perthshire,.
1939
Relief at Greenhills, Ohio
1939-10
Round dance between squares at dance in McIntosh County, Oklahoma
1939
Ruins of packing plant established by Marquis De Mores, a wealthy French nobleman who ranched in the valley of Little Missouri. Medor (Billings County, North Dakota)
1939-06
RugMakingWomanPassesShuttle (cropped)
1939-09
Sacks of feathers and bloody overalls 8b23460v
1939-11
Saturday afternoon in a negro beer and juke joint, Clarksdal.
1939-11
Saturday afternoon, Lexington, Holmes County, Mississippi De.
1939-10
Saturday afternoon, Lexington, Holmes Co., Mississippi, Oct.
1939-10
Saturday night juke joint outside of Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta 1939
1939-11
Scene at square dance in rural home in McIntosh County, Oklahoma
1939–1940