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Background imageSubsistence Collection: Coconut Seller and a Woman, c1820. Creator: Unknown

Coconut Seller and a Woman, c1820. Creator: Unknown
Coconut Seller and a Woman, c1820

Background imageSubsistence Collection: El Monte federal subsistence Homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

El Monte federal subsistence Homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
El Monte Federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred homes, all occupied, each with nearly an acre of land. Average family income eight hundred dollars per annum

Background imageSubsistence Collection: El Monte federal subsistence Homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

El Monte federal subsistence Homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
El Monte federal homesteads. One hundred occupied homes, each with nearly an acre. Average yearly income eight hundred dollars. California

Background imageSubsistence Collection: El Monte federal subsistence Homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

El Monte federal subsistence Homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Four-bedroom house. Eight in family, six boys, aged one to fourteen. Father is conductor (streetcar), one hundred dollars monthly

Background imageSubsistence Collection: El Monte federal subsistence Homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

El Monte federal subsistence Homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
El Monte federal subsistence homesteads Four-bedroom house. Eight in family, six boys ages one to fourteen, California. Father is streetcar conductor, one hundred dollars a month

Background imageSubsistence Collection: El Monte federal subsistence Homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

El Monte federal subsistence Homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
El Monte federal subsistence Homesteads. One hundred occupied homes, each with three quarters of an acre. Average yearly income eight hundred dollars. California

Background imageSubsistence Collection: El Monte federal subsistence homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred occupied homes, each with three quarters of an acre. Average yearly income eight hundred dollars. California

Background imageSubsistence Collection: El Monte federal subsistence homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Two-bedroom house, three in family. Girl eleven. Father truck driver. Earns ninety-five dollars monthly

Background imageSubsistence Collection: El Monte federal subsistence homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Four in family. Three-room house, seventeen dollars and seventy cents rent to apply on purchase. Father's occupation: carpenter

Background imageSubsistence Collection: El Monte federal subsistence homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred homes, all occupied, each with three quarters of an acre land. Average family income eight hundred dollars per annum

Background imageSubsistence Collection: Children at the El Monte subsistence homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Children at the El Monte subsistence homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Children at the El Monte subsistence homesteads, California

Background imageSubsistence Collection: El Monte federal subsistence homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
El Monte Federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred homes, each with three quarters of an acre land, all occupied. Average family income, eight hundred dollars per annum

Background imageSubsistence Collection: El Monte federal subsistence homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Three-room house seventy dollars and seventy cents monthly. Rent to apply on purchase. Four in family. Father, carpenter, earns seventy dollars monthly

Background imageSubsistence Collection: El Monte federal subsistence homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred homes, all occupied, each with three quarters of an acre land. Average family income, eight hundred dollars per annum

Background imageSubsistence Collection: El Monte federal subsistence homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred homes, all occupied, each with three quarters of an acre land. Average family income, eight hundred dollars per annum

Background imageSubsistence Collection: El Monte federal subsistence homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Seventeen dollars and seventy cents rent to apply on purchase of three-room house. California

Background imageSubsistence Collection: El Monte federal subsistence housing, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

El Monte federal subsistence housing, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
El Monte federal subsistence housing. Three-room house. Seventeen dollars and seventy cents rent applied on purchase. Father: carpenter. California

Background imageSubsistence Collection: El Monte federal subsistence housing - 100 homes all occupied, California, 1936

El Monte federal subsistence housing - 100 homes all occupied, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred homes. All occupied, each with nearly an acre of ground. Average yearly income eight hundred dollars. California

Background imageSubsistence Collection: El Monte federal subsistence housing - 100 homes all occupied, California, 1936

El Monte federal subsistence housing - 100 homes all occupied, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. 100 homes. All occupied, each with nearly an acre. Average yearly income eight hundred dollars. California

Background imageSubsistence Collection: El Monte federal subsistence housing - 100 homes all occupied, California, 1936

El Monte federal subsistence housing - 100 homes all occupied, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
El Monte federal subsistence housing. 100 homes all occupied. Each with nearly an acre. Average yearly income eight hundred dollars. California

Background imageSubsistence Collection: Tom Kod Peluk, Nome, Alaska, between c1903 and 1907. Creator: Lomen Brothers

Tom Kod Peluk, Nome, Alaska, between c1903 and 1907. Creator: Lomen Brothers
Tom Kod Peluk, Nome, Alaska, between c1903 and 1907

Background imageSubsistence Collection: Gathering abalones-Nakoaktok, c1910. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Gathering abalones-Nakoaktok, c1910. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Gathering abalones-Nakoaktok, c1910. Kwakiutl woman gathering abalones, Washington

Background imageSubsistence Collection: Navaho hogan, c1905. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Navaho hogan, c1905. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Navaho hogan, c1905

Background imageSubsistence Collection: Navaho hogan in Cañon del Muerta, c1906. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Navaho hogan in Cañon del Muerta, c1906. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Navaho hogan in Canon del Muerta, c1906

Background imageSubsistence Collection: The mountain sheep hunter-Sioux, c1905. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

The mountain sheep hunter-Sioux, c1905. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
The mountain sheep hunter-Sioux, c1905. Man standing holding a rifle and a bow

Background imageSubsistence Collection: The whaler-Clayoquot, c1910. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

The whaler-Clayoquot, c1910. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
The whaler-Clayoquot, c1910. Nootka Indian standing on shore with spear

Background imageSubsistence Collection: Qahatika women resting in Harvest Field-Qahatika, c1907. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Qahatika women resting in Harvest Field-Qahatika, c1907. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Qahatika women resting in Harvest Field-Qahatika, c1907. Three Qahatika women sitting on ground with kiho carriers and pot nearby, saguaro cacti and mountains in background

Background imageSubsistence Collection: Fishing from a platform, c1923. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Fishing from a platform, c1923. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Fishing from a platform, c1923. Hupa Indian on platform over water using fishing net

Background imageSubsistence Collection: The wokas season-Klamath, c1923. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

The wokas season-Klamath, c1923. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
The wokas season-Klamath, c1923. Photograph shows a Klamath woman in a dugout canoe resting in a field of wokas, or great yellow water lilies (nymphaea polysepala) used as food

Background imageSubsistence Collection: Buffalo berry gatherers-Mandan, c1908. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Buffalo berry gatherers-Mandan, c1908. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Buffalo berry gatherers-Mandan, c1908

Background imageSubsistence Collection: Winnowing wheat, c1905. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Winnowing wheat, c1905. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Winnowing wheat, c1905. Tewa woman winnowing wheat in front of pueblo building

Background imageSubsistence Collection: The fruit gatherers, c1905. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

The fruit gatherers, c1905. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
The fruit gatherers, c1905. Two Tewa girls picking fruit with basket, bowls on the ground

Background imageSubsistence Collection: The smelt fisher-Trinidad Yurok, c1923. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

The smelt fisher-Trinidad Yurok, c1923. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
The smelt fisher-Trinidad Yurok, c1923. Photograph shows a Yurok man fishing with a net, probably in the Trinidad area of California

Background imageSubsistence Collection: Fishing platform on Trinity River-Hupa, c1923. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Fishing platform on Trinity River-Hupa, c1923. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Fishing platform on Trinity River-Hupa, c1923. Photograph shows a Hupa man sitting on a platform on a rocky cliff, handling a fishing net

Background imageSubsistence Collection: Preparing salmon-Wishram, c1910. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Preparing salmon-Wishram, c1910. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Preparing salmon-Wishram, c1910. Tlakluit Indian woman, sitting on ground, placing salmon fillets on wood plank, woven reed mat in background, Washington State

Background imageSubsistence Collection: Quiet waters-Yurok, c1923. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Quiet waters-Yurok, c1923. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Quiet waters-Yurok, c1923. Yurok man standing on rock ledge holding fishing line in one hand and pole down into the water below with the other hand

Background imageSubsistence Collection: Zuni gardens, c1927. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Zuni gardens, c1927. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Zuni gardens, c1927

Background imageSubsistence Collection: Cornfields of Cañon del Muerto, 1906, c1907. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Cornfields of Cañon del Muerto, 1906, c1907. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Cornfields of Canon del Muerto, 1906, c1907. Navajo Indian cornfield, cliffs in background

Background imageSubsistence Collection: Cutting up a beluga-Kotzebue, c1929. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Cutting up a beluga-Kotzebue, c1929. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Cutting up a beluga-Kotzebue, c1929. Three women cutting up a beluga whale

Background imageSubsistence Collection: Acoma water carriers, c1905. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Acoma water carriers, c1905. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Acoma water carriers, c1905. Four Acoma Indians gather to collect water

Background imageSubsistence Collection: Cleaning wheat-San Juan, c1905. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Cleaning wheat-San Juan, c1905. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Cleaning wheat-San Juan, c1905. Two Tewa people processing wheat outside pueblo structure, San Juan Pueblo, New Mexico

Background imageSubsistence Collection: Pounding fish-Wishram, c1910. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Pounding fish-Wishram, c1910. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Pounding fish-Wishram, c1910. Tlakluit woman seated with mortar and pestle

Background imageSubsistence Collection: The piki maker-Hopi, c1906. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

The piki maker-Hopi, c1906. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
The piki maker-Hopi, c1906. Hopi woman making bread inside pueblo

Background imageSubsistence Collection: In the village of Santa Clara, c1905. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

In the village of Santa Clara, c1905. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
In the village of Santa Clara, c1905. Two Pueblo women carrying jugs on their heads; trees, rail fence, stick structure along dirt path in the background

Background imageSubsistence Collection: In camp, 1908, c1908. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

In camp, 1908, c1908. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
In camp, 1908, c1908. Two Dakota Sioux Indians cutting meat and drying it on poles

Background imageSubsistence Collection: Drying whale meat-Hooper Bay, c1929. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Drying whale meat-Hooper Bay, c1929. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Drying whale meat-Hooper Bay, c1929. Eskimo with whale meat on poles, Hooper Bay, Alaska

Background imageSubsistence Collection: Gilyak fishermen, 1865-1871. Creator: VV Lanin

Gilyak fishermen, 1865-1871. Creator: VV Lanin
Gilyak fishermen, 1865-1871. This album contains 154 photographs taken in the second half of the 1860s and 1870s by a local photographer from the Far East, V. V. Lanin. The merchant V. P

Background imageSubsistence Collection: Inhabitants of the island of Sitka (northwest coast of America), 19th century

Inhabitants of the island of Sitka (northwest coast of America), 19th century. One of 65 lithographs that were included in the volume of maps published after the round-the-world voyage of

Background imageSubsistence Collection: Western Washington subsistence farm, whittled out of the... Grays Harbor County, Washington, 1939

Western Washington subsistence farm, whittled out of the... Grays Harbor County, Washington, 1939
Western Washington subsistence farm, whittled out of the stumps. " Eighty per-cent of the forty-five thousand farms in western Washington are inadequate." Farm Security Administration (FSA)

Background imageSubsistence Collection: Possibly: Western Washington subsistence farm, whittled out of the stumps, Grays Harbor County

Possibly: Western Washington subsistence farm, whittled out of the stumps, Grays Harbor County
[Untitled, possibly related to: Western Washington subsistence farm, whittled out of the stumps. " Eighty per-cent of the forty-five thousand farms in western Washington are inadequate."

Background imageSubsistence Collection: Hand irrigation on small rented... farm, Grays Harbor County, Western Washington, 1939

Hand irrigation on small rented... farm, Grays Harbor County, Western Washington, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Western Washington, Grays Harbor County, northeast of Elma. Hand irrigation on small rented subsistence farm. Family have been on place for one year

Background imageSubsistence Collection: Hand irrigation on small rented subsistence farm, Grays Harbor County, Western Washington, 1939

Hand irrigation on small rented subsistence farm, Grays Harbor County, Western Washington, 1939
Western Washington, Grays Harbor County, northeast of Elma. Hand irrigation on small rented subsistence farm. Family have been on place for one year

Background imageSubsistence Collection: Westmoreland project, Pennsylvania, Westmoreland County, 1935. Creator: Walker Evans

Westmoreland project, Pennsylvania, Westmoreland County, 1935. Creator: Walker Evans
Westmoreland project, Pennsylvania. Westmoreland County. Construction worker on the Westmoreland subsistence homestead project

Background imageSubsistence Collection: Reedsville, West Virginia, 1936. Creator: Walker Evans

Reedsville, West Virginia, 1936. Creator: Walker Evans
Reedsville, West Virginia. The Arthurdale subsistence homestead project of the U.S. Resettlement Administration. Vacuum cleaner factory shipping platform

Background imageSubsistence Collection: Eskimos in Alaska: Drying whale meat, Hooper Bay, c1929. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Eskimos in Alaska: Drying whale meat, Hooper Bay, c1929. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Eskimos in Alaska: Drying whale meat, Hooper Bay, c1929

Background imageSubsistence Collection: Drying Piahe-Yakima, 1909, c1910. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Drying Piahe-Yakima, 1909, c1910. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Drying Piahe-Yakima, 1909, c1910. Woman kneeling on ground, blanket spread out and covered with roots

Background imageSubsistence Collection: Fishing camp-Skokomish, c1913. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Fishing camp-Skokomish, c1913. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Fishing camp-Skokomish, c1913. Skokomish couple outside house made of reed mats, one seated beside canoe that has been pulled onto the riverbank, the other standing holding a paddle

Background imageSubsistence Collection: The piyake gatherer, c1910. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

The piyake gatherer, c1910. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
The piyake gatherer, c1910. Woman in long dress and bandana stooped over collecting piyake (roots) with hand scythe, leather basket at waist, trees in background

Background imageSubsistence Collection: Wishham (i.e. Wishram) fishing platform, c1910. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Wishham (i.e. Wishram) fishing platform, c1910. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Wishham (i.e. Wishram) fishing platform, c1910. Tlakluit man, standing at the end of frame platform, holding fishing net containing fish caught in a natural rock weir below

Background imageSubsistence Collection: Washing wheat-San Juan, c1905. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Washing wheat-San Juan, c1905. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Washing wheat-San Juan, c1905. Two San Juan Indians dipping baskets of wheat into an acequia, or irrigation ditch, to dissolve dirt and to float away debris from the wheat kernels

Background imageSubsistence Collection: A load of fuel-Zuni, c1903. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

A load of fuel-Zuni, c1903. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
A load of fuel-Zuni, c1903. Zuni man beside burro laden with firewood

Background imageSubsistence Collection: Shores of Walker Lake-Paviotso, c1924. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Shores of Walker Lake-Paviotso, c1924. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Shores of Walker Lake-Paviotso, c1924. Paviotso man standing on rock, fishing with spear in Walker Lake

Background imageSubsistence Collection: The Bowman-Nootka, c1910. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

The Bowman-Nootka, c1910. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
The Bowman-Nootka, c1910. Rear view of Indian standing on rock in water and aiming arrow

Background imageSubsistence Collection: A Navaho farm, c1906. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

A Navaho farm, c1906. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
A Navaho farm, c1906. Patches of corn in garden between canyon walls

Background imageSubsistence Collection: Winter hunter[s]-Apsaroke, c1908. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Winter hunter[s]-Apsaroke, c1908. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Winter hunter[s]-Apsaroke, c1908. Two Apsaroke men on horseback riding down a snow-covered hillside

Background imageSubsistence Collection: Ready for the throw-Nunivak, c1929. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Ready for the throw-Nunivak, c1929. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Ready for the throw-Nunivak, c1929. Eskimo man seated in a kayak prepares to throw spear

Background imageSubsistence Collection: Home of the Havasupai, c1903. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Home of the Havasupai, c1903. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Home of the Havasupai, c1903. Havasupai woman seated in doorway of wickiup made from small trees, brush, reeds and earth; peach orchard blooms in background, sandstone canyon wall behind

Background imageSubsistence Collection: The brush-gatherers-Arikara, c1908. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

The brush-gatherers-Arikara, c1908. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
The brush-gatherers-Arikara, c1908. Group of Arikara women in single file carrying bundles of sticks

Background imageSubsistence Collection: When winter comes, c1908. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

When winter comes, c1908. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
When winter comes, c1908. Dakota woman, carrying firewood in snow, approaches tipi

Background imageSubsistence Collection: Drying meat, c1908. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Drying meat, c1908. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Drying meat, c1908. Two Dakota women hanging meat to dry on poles, tent in background

Background imageSubsistence Collection: The wood gatherer-Sioux, c1908. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

The wood gatherer-Sioux, c1908. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
The wood gatherer-Sioux, c1908. Dakota woman carrying firewood on her back in snow

Background imageSubsistence Collection: A heavy load, c1908. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

A heavy load, c1908. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
A heavy load, c1908. Dakota woman carrying firewood on her back in snow

Background imageSubsistence Collection: Hupa fisherman, 1923. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Hupa fisherman, 1923. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Hupa fisherman, 1923. Indian with spear lying on bank

Background imageSubsistence Collection: Fishing from canoe-Hupa, 1923. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Fishing from canoe-Hupa, 1923. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Fishing from canoe-Hupa, 1923

Background imageSubsistence Collection: Fish-weir across Trinity River-Hupa, 1923. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Fish-weir across Trinity River-Hupa, 1923. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Fish-weir across Trinity River-Hupa, 1923

Background imageSubsistence Collection: He perceived an earthen vessel, c1908. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

He perceived an earthen vessel, c1908. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
He perceived an earthen vessel, c1908. Hidatsa Indian crouching by stream to get water with a bowl


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