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Our holdings include hundreds of glass and film negatives/transparencies that we've scanned ourselves; in addition, many other photos on this site were extracted from reference images (high-resolution tiffs) in the Library of Congress research archive. (To query the database click here.) They are adjusted, restored and reworked by your webmaster in accordance with his aesthetic sensibilities before being downsized and turned into the jpegs you see here. All of these images (including "derivative works") are protected by copyright laws of the United States and other jurisdictions and may not be sold, reproduced or otherwise used for commercial purposes without permission.
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July 1940. "Near Shawboro, North Carolina. Group of Florida migrants on their way to Cranberry [i.e., Cranbury], New Jersey, to pick potatoes." Some of the folks last seen here -- 12 years ago! Photo by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
July 1940. "Negroes from Florida and Georgia who travel by car and truck, following the potato crop northward. Migratory agricultural worker has his supper (a nickel pie and a glass of milk) at the railroad crossing at Camden, North Carolina." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
January 1939. "Migrant packinghouse workers. Belle Glade, Florida." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
January 1939. "Migrant packinghouse workers' living quarters. Belle Glade, Florida." Acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
April 1939. "Miami Beach, Florida. Home in a wealthy residential section." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
April 1939. "Part of Florida home in wealthy residential section. Miami Beach, Florida." Acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
January 1939. "Migratory laborers' camp. Single-room cabin costs $2.50, double room $4 per week. Water hauled, 55 cents for 55-gallon tank. Toilet for about 150 people. Near Belle Glade, Florida." Photo by Marion Post Wolcott, Farm Security Administration. View full size.
January 1939. "Migratory packinghouse worker's child playing 'school' near Canal Point, Florida." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.
April 1939. "Front of hardware store. Enterprise, Alabama." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
January 1939. "Migratory packinghouse workers' camp near Canal Point, Florida." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
April 1939. "Old plantation home. Greene County, Georgia." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
April 1939. "A whirling plough used by United States Sugar Corporation in soft powdery muck to prepare soil for planting sugarcane. Near Pahokee, Florida." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
The Times Square Cafeteria, William Penn Hotel and Washington Avenue -- all located far south of their namesakes, in Miami Beach.
April 1939. "One of Miami's streets showing varied small shops, signs, and tourist bureaus. Miami Beach, Florida." Acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.
April 1939. "Mosquito Crossing, near Greensboro. Greene County, Georgia." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
June 1939. "Daughter of Frederick Oliver, tenant purchase client, sewing in living room of new home. Summerton, South Carolina." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.