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Marjory Collins - FSA/OWI Jan 1942 - June 1943

The photographs in the Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection form an extensive pictorial record of American life between 1935 and 1944. Photographer Marjory...

Teddy Roosevelt's Summers at Oyster Bay

Roosevelt offices, Oyster Bay

Portraits of African American Women - 1900 Paris Exposition

African American woman, half-length portrait, left profile

Inside the Kern County FSA Camp

Recreational facilities for the children, Kern migrant camp, California

Loaded Cars Heading West

Migrant family's car near Brownsville, Texas

Bill Snyder and Hattie the Elephant in Central Park, NYC

Hattie (died in 1922) was an elephant in New York City's Central Park Zoo that in 1904 was described as the "most intelligent of all elephants". In 1911 she was described as "nearly human". She wa...

Preparing for a Cycling Race in 1909

Cyclist L. Georget

A Family at the United Nations Service Center - Dec. 1943

Washington, D.C. Lynn Massman, wife of a second class petty officer who is studying in Washington, D.C. puts eight weeks old Joey outside for his afternoon nap every day unless it is raining

Civil War Buildings

Perspective view of Union Arch, Washington Aqueduct, built by Gen. M.C. Meigs. Span of 220 feet

Life at the Blue Blaze Coal Mine in Utah, 1936

Utah coal mining town. Consumers, near Price, Utah. "Dumping grounds of the West"