Oklahoma Historic photos, documents, and people

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Associated Charities. See Joffe report. Location: Lawton, Oklahoma / Lewis W. Hine.

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FSA borrower and member of Yauco tomato cooperative, planting tomatoes on his farm in the hills, vicinity of Yauco, Puerto Rico

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School store almost ready to open. Location: Lawton, Oklahoma / Lewis W. Hine.

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Young boy driving cattle to town. Location: Lawton, Oklahoma / Lewis W. Hine.

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Farm Security Administration borrowers harvesting sugar cane cooperatively on a farm, vicinity of Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico

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Main street storefront, Chickasaw, Oklahoma. This is a region from which hundreds of farm families have fled to the west

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Good eats at popular prices, the home of better ice cream, City Café, 209 East Grand, Hibdon & Son, McAlester, Okla.

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Neglected children. Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. / L.W. Hine.

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Burning a field of sugar cane, vicinity of Guanica. This destroys the leaves and makes it easier to cut the cane