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Background imageEconomics Collection: Mrs. Cleaver is raising five sons on new farm, Malheur County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Mrs. Cleaver is raising five sons on new farm, Malheur County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Mrs. Cleaver is raising five sons on new farm. Malheur County, Oregon

Background imageEconomics Collection: George Cleaver who is trying to develop 177 acres of raw land, Malheur County, Oregon, 1939

George Cleaver who is trying to develop 177 acres of raw land, Malheur County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
George Cleaver who is trying to develop 177 acres of raw land. He has five sons. Malheur County, Oregon

Background imageEconomics Collection: 'Pit and tools for rent--work on your own', U. S. 99, Fresno County, California, 1939

"Pit and tools for rent--work on your own", U. S. 99, Fresno County, California, 1939
U.S. 99. Fresno County. " Pit and tools for rent--work on your own." California. [ Garage; Electric Welding ]

Background imageEconomics Collection: Grain elevator along railroad yard, North Platte, Nebraska, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Grain elevator along railroad yard, North Platte, Nebraska, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Grain elevator along railroad yard. North Platte, Nebraska. [Sign: T.B. Hord Grain Co. Coal Hay and Feed. Union Pacific steam locomotive]

Background imageEconomics Collection: Deficiency. - Surplus. 1836. Creator: John Doyle

Deficiency. - Surplus. 1836. Creator: John Doyle
Deficiency. - Surplus. 1836. Satirical caricature of British politicians Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon (1790-1866), Chancellor of the Exchequer, and James Pattison (1786-1849)

Background imageEconomics Collection: Federal Republic of Germany joining the International Monetary Fund (IMF), 1952

Federal Republic of Germany joining the International Monetary Fund (IMF), 1952. Dr Hans Riesser of the German Diplomatic Mission in the US signs the document making West Germany the 53rd member of

Background imageEconomics Collection: The Cotton Famine: meeting of the central relief committee...Manchester townhall..., 1862

The Cotton Famine: meeting of the central relief committee...Manchester townhall..., 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Cotton Famine: meeting of the central relief committee in the mayor's parlour at the Manchester townhall - Earl Derby in the chair, 1862

Background imageEconomics Collection: Cartoon on the Tiercering of 1810, 1810-1812. Creator: Jacob Smies

Cartoon on the Tiercering of 1810, 1810-1812. Creator: Jacob Smies
Cartoon on the Tiercering of 1810, 1810-1812. Two men in wigs throw bags of money into a well marked La France, flanked by soldiers and a hussaar on a rocking horse

Background imageEconomics Collection: The Sun Rises in the West, Los Angeles, 1938. Creator: Unknown

The Sun Rises in the West, Los Angeles, 1938. Creator: Unknown
The Sun Rises in the West, Los Angeles, 1938. "The Sun Rises in the West"...written & produced by the Southwest Theatre Unit...Mayan Theatre'

Background imageEconomics Collection: Life and Death of an American, New York, 1939. Creator: Unknown

Life and Death of an American, New York, 1939. Creator: Unknown
Life and Death of an American, New York, 1939. The Federal Theatre Project, created by the U.S. Works Progress Administration in 1935

Background imageEconomics Collection: A Modern Hercules, published November 17, 1795. Creator: Unknown

A Modern Hercules, published November 17, 1795. Creator: Unknown
A Modern Hercules, published November 17, 1795....Or, a Finishing Blow for Poor John Bull'. British prime minister William Pitt, brandishing a club inscribed Convention Bill

Background imageEconomics Collection: W. R. Pettiford; A business-like Minister in Alabama, 1921. Creator: Unknown

W. R. Pettiford; A business-like Minister in Alabama, 1921. Creator: Unknown
W. R. Pettiford; A business-like Minister in Alabama, 1921

Background imageEconomics Collection: Theron Akin, Rep. from New York; with Full Dinner Pail Placard, 1913. Creator: Harris & Ewing

Theron Akin, Rep. from New York; with Full Dinner Pail Placard, 1913. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Theron Akin, Rep
Theron Akin, Rep. from New York; with Full Dinner Pail Placard, 1913. [US politician: Representative 1911-1913. Served as Mayor of Amsterdam, New York]

Background imageEconomics Collection: Theron Akin, Rep. from New York; with Full Dinner Pail Placard, 1913. Creator: Harris & Ewing

Theron Akin, Rep. from New York; with Full Dinner Pail Placard, 1913. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Theron Akin, Rep
Theron Akin, Rep. from New York; with Full Dinner Pail Placard, 1913. [US politician: Representative 1911-1913. Served as Mayor of Amsterdam, New York]

Background imageEconomics Collection: Portrait de Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619-1683), homme politique, c1665. Creator: Ecole Francaise

Portrait de Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619-1683), homme politique, c1665. Creator: Ecole Francaise
Portrait de Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619-1683), homme politique, c1665

Background imageEconomics Collection: Portrait de Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619-1683), homme politique, c1665. Creator: Ecole Francaise

Portrait de Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619-1683), homme politique, c1665. Creator: Ecole Francaise
Portrait de Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619-1683), homme politique, c1665

Background imageEconomics Collection: Portrait du docteur François Quesnay (1694-1774), médecin et économiste, after 1743

Portrait du docteur François Quesnay (1694-1774), médecin et économiste, after 1743. Creator: Ecole Francaise
Portrait du docteur Francois Quesnay (1694-1774), medecin et economiste, After 1743

Background imageEconomics Collection: Filipinos cutting lettuce, near Westmorland, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Filipinos cutting lettuce, near Westmorland, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Near Westmorland. Filipinos cutting lettuce. California

Background imageEconomics Collection: Farm woman, Tenant Purchase applicant, Stockton, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Farm woman, Tenant Purchase applicant, Stockton, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Farm woman. Stockton, California. Tenant Purchase applicant

Background imageEconomics Collection: Horse and wagon is still a common means of transportation... Southeast Missouri Farms, 1938

Horse and wagon is still a common means of transportation... Southeast Missouri Farms, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Horse and wagon is still a common means of transportation. Family coming from town on a Saturday afternoon. Southeast Missouri Farms

Background imageEconomics Collection: Large-scale pea fields, near San Juan Bautista, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Large-scale pea fields, near San Juan Bautista, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Near San Juan Bautista, California. Large-scale pea fields

Background imageEconomics Collection: Itinerant worker on U.S. 101 near San Luis Obispo, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Itinerant worker on U.S. 101 near San Luis Obispo, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
On U.S. 101 near San Luis Obispo, California. Itinerant worker. Not the old "Bindle-Stiff" type

Background imageEconomics Collection: Cotton pickers emptying sacks, Kern County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Cotton pickers emptying sacks, Kern County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Kern County, California. Cotton pickers emptying sacks at eleven a.m. Stopped from further work for the day by rain

Background imageEconomics Collection: Warehouse used as distributing office for FSA relief grants, Bakersfield, California, 1938

Warehouse used as distributing office for FSA relief grants, Bakersfield, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Warehouse used as distributing office for Farm Security Administration (FSA) relief grants of commodities to destitute farm labor families. Bakersfield, California

Background imageEconomics Collection: Wife of Farm Security Administration rural rehabilitation client, Tulare County, California, 1938

Wife of Farm Security Administration rural rehabilitation client, Tulare County, California, 1938
Wife of Farm Security Administration rural rehabilitation client. Tulare County, California

Background imageEconomics Collection: Main street storefront, Chickasaw, Oklahoma, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Main street storefront, Chickasaw, Oklahoma, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Main street storefront, Chickasaw, Oklahoma. This is a region from which hundreds of farm families have fled to the west. ['Loans - We Buy & Sell Clothing Luggage Guns etc - Used Clothing']

Background imageEconomics Collection: Well, Center County, Oklahoma, belonging to tenant farmer, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Well, Center County, Oklahoma, belonging to tenant farmer, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Well, Center County, Oklahoma, belonging to tenant farmer

Background imageEconomics Collection: Corn, Washington County, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Corn, Washington County, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Corn. Washington County, Mississippi

Background imageEconomics Collection: Farmers sack mixed grasshopper bait...Oklahoma, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Farmers sack mixed grasshopper bait...Oklahoma, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Farmers sack mixed grasshopper bait for use on their farms to control the pest. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Background imageEconomics Collection: Woman in pea picker's camp, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Woman in pea picker's camp, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Woman in pea picker's camp. California. "I seen our corn dry up and blow over the fence back there in Oklahoma"

Background imageEconomics Collection: Home of a dust bowl refugee in California, Imperial County, California, 1937

Home of a dust bowl refugee in California, Imperial County, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Home of a dust bowl refugee in California. Imperial County

Background imageEconomics Collection: Replanting chili plants on a Japanese-owned ranch, desert agriculture, Imperial Valley, CA, 1937

Replanting chili plants on a Japanese-owned ranch, desert agriculture, Imperial Valley, CA, 1937
Desert agriculture. Brushed chili field. Replanting chili plants on a Japanese-owned ranch. Imperial Valley, California

Background imageEconomics Collection: Replanting chili plants on a Japanese-owned ranch, desert agriculture, Imperial Valley, CA, 1937

Replanting chili plants on a Japanese-owned ranch, desert agriculture, Imperial Valley, CA, 1937
Desert agriculture. Brushed chili field. Replanting chili plants on a Japanese-owned ranch. Imperial Valley, California

Background imageEconomics Collection: Capped cantaloupe, Imperial Valley, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Capped cantaloupe, Imperial Valley, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Capped cantaloupe. Imperial Valley, California

Background imageEconomics Collection: Family between Dallas and Austin, Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Family between Dallas and Austin, Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Family between Dallas and Austin, Texas. The people have left their home and connections in South Texas, and hope to reach the Arkansas Delta for work in the cotton fields. Penniless people

Background imageEconomics Collection: Cradling wheat near Sperryville, Virginia, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Cradling wheat near Sperryville, Virginia, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cradling wheat near Sperryville, Virginia. A hand binder follows the mower. These men had never heard of a combine harvester. "Sure would like to see that." Their father used a reap hook

Background imageEconomics Collection: Cherry pickers near Millville, New Jersey, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Cherry pickers near Millville, New Jersey, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cherry pickers near Millville, New Jersey. The cherry crop is harvested by local families, men, women and children

Background imageEconomics Collection: Once a Missouri farmer, now a migratory farm laborer on the Pacific Coast, California, 1936

Once a Missouri farmer, now a migratory farm laborer on the Pacific Coast, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Once a Missouri farmer, now a migratory farm laborer on the Pacific Coast. California

Background imageEconomics Collection: Filipinos cutting lettuce, near Westmorland, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Filipinos cutting lettuce, near Westmorland, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Near Westmorland. Filipinos cutting lettuce. California

Background imageEconomics Collection: Farm Security Administration rural rehabilitation client, Tulare County, California, 1938

Farm Security Administration rural rehabilitation client, Tulare County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Farm Security Administration rural rehabilitation client, Tulare County, California, consulting with county supervisor. He and his family of seven were on relief

Background imageEconomics Collection: Tractors on Lake Dick project, Arkansas, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Tractors on Lake Dick project, Arkansas, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Tractors on Lake Dick project, Arkansas

Background imageEconomics Collection: Sharecropper family near Hazlehurst, Georgia, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Sharecropper family near Hazlehurst, Georgia, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Sharecropper family near Hazlehurst, Georgia

Background imageEconomics Collection: Careyville, northern Florida, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Careyville, northern Florida, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Careyville, northern Florida. The mill closed down January 1, 1937 and the occupants of these houses were dispersed

Background imageEconomics Collection: Migrants tents...along the right of way of the southern pacific, near Fresno, California, 1939

Migrants tents...along the right of way of the southern pacific, near Fresno, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Near Fresno, California. Migrants tents are a common sight along the right of way of the Southern Pacific. [Signs: Railroad Crossing, End of Double Track']

Background imageEconomics Collection: Drought refugees stopped along the highway near Lordsburg, New Mexico, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Drought refugees stopped along the highway near Lordsburg, New Mexico, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Drought refugees stopped along the highway near Lordsburg, New Mexico

Background imageEconomics Collection: Car of drought refugee on edge of carrot field in the Coachella Valley, California, 1937

Car of drought refugee on edge of carrot field in the Coachella Valley, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Car of drought refugee on edge of carrot field in the Coachella Valley. California

Background imageEconomics Collection: Migrant family on U.S. Highway 99 between Bakersfield and Famoso, California, 1936

Migrant family on U.S. Highway 99 between Bakersfield and Famoso, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant family on U.S. Highway 99 between Bakersfield and Famoso, California. Note: the photographer passed twenty-eight cars of this type while driving thirty-five miles between 9:00 and 9

Background imageEconomics Collection: Cotton picking in south Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Cotton picking in south Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cotton picking in south Texas



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