Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information photos from the 1940s

Migrant field worker, Tulare migrant camp, Visalia, California, 8b15939

Migrant field worker, Tulare migrant camp, Visalia, California, 8b15851

Million Dollar Highway pass

w:Mike Cowles (Gardner Cowles, Jr.)

Million Dollar Highway Ouray County, CO 1a34176u original

Million Dollar Highway Ouray County, CO 1a34174u original

Mill District - Pittsburgh

Mill at the Camp Bird Mine. Ouray County, Colorado, October 1940

Mill at the Camp Bird Mine, Ouray County, Colorado

Million dollar highway U.S. 550 is cut through massive rocks in Ouray County, Colorado

Migratory workers from Georgia washing clothes. Thirty-five people stay in this house. Near Belcross, North Carolina

Mogollon Mine 1940

Mogollon NM main street 1940

Montrose Station 1940

Mother and child at Okeechobee migratory labor camp, 8c30445

Mother and child at Okeechobee migratory labor camp, 8c30443

Mountain farm along the Skyline Drive, Virginia

Mountain farm along Skyline Drive, Va.

Mountain farms along the Skyline Drive in Virginia

Mother of migrant fruit picking family doing family wash in roadside camp where fifteen farmers are living. Berrien County, Michigan

Mother and children working in garden Door County

Mountain farms along the Skyline Drive, Va.

Mountaineers and farmers trading mules and horses on "Jockey St.," near the Court House, Campton, Wolfe County, Ky.

Mountaineers and farmers trading mules and horses on "Jockey St.," near the Court House, Campton, Wolfe County, Ky.

Mountain streams in Ouray County, Colorado run yellow because of the tailings from the gold mills

Mountains along the Skyline Drive in Virginia

Mr. Leatherman, homesteader, tying up cauliflower, Pie Town, New Mexico

Mr. Leatherman, homesteader, coming out of his dugout home, Pie Town, New Mexico

Mr. Leatherman, homesteader, with his work burros in front of his barn, Pie Town, New Mexico

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Lyman, Polish tobacco farmers near Windsor Locks, Connecticut

Mr. Leatherman, homesteader, shooting hawks which have been carrying away his chickens, Pie Town, New Mexico

Mrs. Bill Stagg with state quilt which she made, Pie Town, New Mexico

Mrs. Bill Stagg with state quilt, Pie Town, New Mexico

Mrs. Bill Stagg with state quilt that she made, Pie Town, New Mexico. A community settled by about 200 migrant Texas and Oklahoma farmers who filed homestead claims. Mrs. Stagg helps her husband in the field with plowing planting, weeding corn and harvesting beans. She quilts while she rests duri

Mrs. Jim Norris with homegrown cabbage, one of the many vegetables which the homesteaders grow in abundance, Pie Town, New Mexico

Mrs. Bettenhausen ironing. McIntosh County, North Dakota

Mr. Merritt Bundy, miner and farmer, member of the Tri-County Farmers Co-op Market at Du Bois, Pennsylvania, 8c03085

Mrs. Faro Caudill ironing. Pie Town, New Mexico. Mrs. Caudill was born and finished high school at Sweetwater, Texas, before coming with her husband to Pie Town, New Mexico, to homestead

Mrs. D'Annunzio. She is the wife of one of the farmers living in the submarginal farm area of Rumsey Hill, near Erin, New York

Mrs. Hutton opens electric washing machine. Her son put in all the electric equipment. Pie Town, New Mexico

Mrs. J. Webster ironing while her sons look on. Tehama County, California

Mrs. Marie R. Turner, and David Donoho at a pie and box supper

Mrs. Norris with homegrown cabbage, one of the many vegetables which the homesteaders grow in abundance, Pie Town, New Mexico

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Mrs. R.W. (Elizabeth) Almoney in her living room, with pictures of her relatives in the service. She has one son in the U.S. Army Air Corps in Mississippi, one in a tank division in Texas, another in the Engineer Corps in Hawaii

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Mrs. R.W. (Elizabeth) Almoney, forty-seven (center rear), has had eleven children. She works as a gauge inspector at the Animal Trap Company and on Sunday does the washing. Her husband (left) works in the local chocolate factory. Daughter Arline, twenty (right), who also works

Mulatto ex-slave in her house near Greensboro, Alabama, May.

Mulattoes Nachitoches July 1940

Narrow gauge Quadricycle 1940

Natchez, Miss.

Natchez, Miss.

Natchez, Miss.

Natchez, Miss.

Near Coolidge, Arizona. Migratory cotton picker with his cotton sack slung over his shoulder

Negro tenant's home beside the Mississippi River levee, near Lake Providence, La.

Newsboy iowa city 1940

Oil field, Marion County, Illinois, 8a13148

Oil field, Marion County, Illinois, 8a13148a

Old slave quarters on one of the plantations which is now pa.

Old company house on wash day. Swepsonville, North Carolina

One room school