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Man washing hands in bowl, woman in background, n.d.
In a ruined world, still the ritual ablutions
Woman plunges and scrubs, n.d.
Through the wringer
Girl in doorway holding unlit lamp, n.d. (Resettlement Administration)
Night must fall
Federal/state old-age assistance provides for those who are now old and needy, 1935 (Farm Security Administration/Works Progress Administration)
Been here since before you were born, sonny
Unemployed men eating in Volunteers of America soup kitchen, Washington, D.C. June 1935 (Farm Security Administration/Works Progress Administration)
Nothing left over
Migrant family looking for work in the pea fields of California, 1935
Dust to dust, mud to mud
Eighteen-year-old mother from Oklahoma now a California migrant, March 1937
Tomorrow looks a lot like yesterday
Guard at company town, Jefferson County, Alabama, February 1937 (Farm Security Administration)
Discourage trouble before it starts
Arkansas squatter for three years in California, near Bakersfield, California, 1935: photo by D. Lange (Farm Security Administration)
A ramshackle version of works progress
Migrant worker on California highway, 1935 (Farm Security Administration)
Seventeen miles to go before sundown
Chief of police in Oklahoma town, 1935 (Farm Security Administration)
A precarious stability
Vernon Evans family leaving South Dakota drought area for the West, 1935 (Farm Security Administration/Resettlement Administration)
Oregon or Bust
Depression: Bread lines: long line of people waiting to be fed, New York City, February 1932
A dollar will feed twenty hungry mouths
Labor strikes, San Francisco: police and strikers battle, 1934
A disagreement in principle
Labor strike, Ford Motor Company: men in physical altercation, May 26, 1937
Don't let him get away
Dust storm in Amarillo, Texas, 1936: photo by Arnold Rothstein (Farm Security Administration)
It blinds you and penetrates your skin
Soil erosion, 1935
All quiet now but for the prairie wind
Photographs from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library