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

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S S President at Lake Providence, Louisiana 1940

Saloon. Silver Peak, Nevada. 1940

Saying grace before the barbeque dinner at the New Mexico Fair. Pie Town, New Mexico, October 1940

Saying grace before the barbeque dinner at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair

School children singing, Pie Town, New Mexico

School children singing. Pie Town, New Mexico, October 1940

School at Pie Town, New Mexico is held at the Farm Bureau Building

School children singing, Pie Town, New Mexico

Schoolchildren reading with teacher 1940

Schriever Louisiana House Cistern 1940

Schriever LA Jackson Plantation House 1940

Sewing sign advertisement during Great Depression - Chapel Hill, NC

Serving pinto beans at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair barbeque

Serving up the barbeque at the Pie Town, New Mexico, Fair

Service station on Connecticut Avenue. Washington, D.C.

Shooting game carnival Sturgeon Bay Wisconsin

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Sign along U.S. 1 a few miles north of Laurel, Maryland

Sign outside a tourist court near Laurel, Maryland, along U.S. 1.

Sign on road into Sturgeon Bay, Door County, Wisconsin

Sign outside a tourist court near Laurel, Maryland, along U.S. 1

Skating, vicinity of Brockton, Mass.

Signpost at Industry, Pennsylvania (fsa.8c04468)

Silver Peak, Nevada. 1940

Snow drifts and driveway along main highway near Rockville, Maryland. Montgomery County, Maryland

Southeastern Georgia?

Southern U.S. Louisiana?

South-western Colorado

Son of Jim Norris, homesteader, tying corn into bundles, Pie Town, New Mexico

Southern U.S., Mississippi?

Spanish-American girl washing wool, Chamisal, New Mexico

St Thomas Church and Rectory (Bardstown, Kentucky)

St Thomas Church and Rectory (Bardstown, Kentucky) wide view

Spreading fertilizer from 4-mule team wagon, Georgia

Stable hand and trainer eating picnic lunch before the Shelb.

Staytonville bullpen

State capitol from backyard, Des Moines, Iowa

Street scene, Mystic, Connecticut

Sylvia Sweets Tea Room, corner of School and Main streets, Brockton, Mass.

Synagogue in the Huntington District near Newtown, Connecticut

Sylvia Sweets Tea Room, corner of School and Main streets, Brockton, Mass.

Taking Burley tobacco in from the fields, after it has been cut, to dry and cure in the barn, Russell Spears' farm, vicinity of Lexington, Ky.

Taking Burley tobacco in from the fields after it had been cut, to dry and cure in the barn, on the Russell Spears' farm, vicinity of Lexington, Ky.

Taking burley tobacco in from the fields, after it has been cut to dry and cure in the barn, on the Russell Spears' farm, vicinity of Lexington, Ky.

Telluride Colorado 1940

Team pulling a car out of the mud; the roads near Pie Town, New Mexico are not improved

The Burlington Zephyr. East Dubuque, Illinois, image

The barbed-wire enclosed camp for migratory workers at the Cannon Company of Bridgeville, Delaware

The barbed-wire enclosed camp for migratory workers at the C.

The Faro Caudill family eating dinner in their dugout. Pie Town, New Mexico, October 1940

The Faro Caudill family eating dinner in their dugout, Pie Town, New Mexico

The - (Sylvia Sweets Tea Room, corner of School and Main streets, Brockton, Mass.) ( )

The - Children in the tenement district, Brockton, Mass. ( ) (pd)

The - Hay stack and automobile of peach pickers, Delta County, Colorado ( )

The mill town of Versailles, Connecticut

The mill town of Versailles, Connecticut (cropped)

The road along the Skyline Drive, with a light snowfall in the rocks beside, Virginia

The school at Pie Town, New Mexico is held in the Farm Bureau building, which was constructed by cooperative effort

The ushers of a negro church have their photograph taken to.