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 "Cherished customer." Negro buying gas, near Atlanta, Georgia, June 1939

  

 A portable cane mill. The owner gets every sixth gallon for making the sorghum syrup. This is on the property of a Negro owner, Wess Cris, a tobacco farm of about 165 acres in a prosperous Negro settlement near Carr, Orange County, North Carolina. September 1939

 

 Bohemian miners (coal loaders) unemployed since mechanization of mines. Jere, West Virginia. They live together in one house with a woman housekeeper. All on relief. Spend most of their time fighting about politics. Call their dog "Hitler" because he's so mean and nasty. To the left is an outdoor oven for baking bread. September 1938

  

 Carrying home groceries and supplies across 

the swinging bridge, Breathitt County, Jackson, Kentucky, 1940

  

 Children shining shoes on street corner, Hartford, Connecticut, May-June 1941

  

 Children's favorite playground, around coal mine tipples. 

Pursglove, Scotts Run, West Virginia, September 1938

  

 Farmer who comes to town on Saturday afternoon to sell 

his chickens from door to door. Greene County, Georgia, Spring 1939

  

 Home of old and sick mine foreman and WPA (Works Progress Administration) workers and families, Charleston, West Virginia, September 1938

  

 Juice from sugarcane being poured into barrel. It is cooked in vat or still, 

into sorghum molasses. Racine, West Virginia, September 1938

  

Kewpie doll bathing girls for sale along main highway 

near Charleston, West Virginia, September 1938

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 "Settin' around." Mining town, Davey, West Virginia, Sept 1938

  

 Boiling juice of sugarcane into sorghum molasses. Racine, West Virginia, Sept 1938

  

 Card gambling in center of town, Osage, West Virginia, Sept 1938

  

 Children of Pauline Clyburn, rehabilitation borrower, 

Manning, Clarendon County, South Carolina, June 1939

   

 Coal miner waiting to go home in friend's truck. Caples, West Virginia, Sept 1938

  

 Coal miner's shack and some of his family, Pursglove, West Virginia, Sept 1938

  

 Former coal miner, worked twelve years for Chaplin Coal Company as hand coal loader. He and several others complained to company about conditions not being up to National Recovery Administration standards. All lost jobs. He's now on WPA (Works Progress Administration) at thirty-eight dollars and twenty-five cents per month. Scotts Run, West Virginia , Sept 1938

  

 Children of riverboat family, Charleston, West Virginia, Sept 1938

  

 

 Family on front porch of houseboat on river in Charleston, West Virginia, Sept 1938

  

Many families live on riverboats in Charleston, West Virginia, Sept 1938

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 At right, pressing juice from sugarcane. At left boiling it into sorghum molasses.

Racine, West Virginia, 1938

 Corn shucking on Uncle Henry Garrett's place, Negro tenant of Mr. Fred Wilkins, 

Tally Ho, Near Stem, Granville County, North Carolina, 1939

 Corn shucking on farm near the Fred Wilkins place, 

Granville County, North Carolina, 1939

 Family of Italians who came from nearby towns to pick beans as day laborers 

on Seabrook Farms. Bridgeton, New Jersey, 1941

Project family picking peas in their garden, Flint River Farms, Georgia, 1939

FSA color photos

Here are some more of the color photos from the 1940s. Corrected and uncorrected images are shown.

 Marion Post Wolcott: A store with live fish for sale, vicinity of Natchitoches, Louisiana, 1940

 Marion Post Wolcott: Bayou Bourbeau plantation, a FSA cooperative, 

Natchitoches, Louisiana. A Negro family seated on the porch of a house, 1940

 Marion Post Wolcott: Cutting Burley tobacco and putting it on sticks to wilt before taking it into the curing and drying barn on the Russell Spears' farm, vicinity of Lexington, Kentucky, 1940

 Marion Post Wolcott: Day laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta, 1940

 Marion Post Wolcott: Migratory laborers outside of a "juke joint" during a slack season, 

Belle Glade, Florida, 1941

 Marion Post Wolcott: Natchez, Mississippi, 1940

   

Two little girls in a park near Union Station, Washington, DC, 1943

[photographer unknown]

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 Picnic at Irwinville Farms, Georgia, on May Day, 1939

 Project family in new wagon, Flint River Farms, Georgia, 1939

 Skimming the boiling cane juice to make sorghum syrup at cane mill 

near Carr, Orange County, North Carolina, 1939

 Son of Walter Gaylord pouring sap into container, to be boiled down into maple syrup, 

Mad River Valley, Waitsfield, Vermont, 1940

 Student with recreational director during basketball game, 

Prairie Farms, Montgomery, Alabama, 1939

 Sunday school picnic brought into abandoned mining town of Jere, West Virginia, 

by neighboring parishoners, 1938

 WPA worker's wife washing clothes in front yard. South Charleston, West Virginia, 1938

Women and children on porch near Burton's Fork, Kentucky River, 

near Jackson, Kentucky, 1940

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Here's another set of photos by Marion Post Wolcott.

 Lee Betties, rural rehabilitation client, with sack of horse and mule feed on rear of his wagon, leaving general store at Woodville, Greene County, Georgia, 1939

 Living quarters, store, and "juke joint" for migratory laborers 

near Canal Point, Florida, 1941

 Migratory laborers playing checkers in front of jook joint during slack season for vegetable pickers. Belle Glade, Florida, 1941

 Mountain people carrying a coffin up the creek bed to the family graveyard where it will be buried. Up South Fork of the Kentucky River, 1940

 Mrs. Ellis Adkins and her youngest child. The family are rehabilitation borrowers.

Coffee County, Alabama, 1938

 One of the sharecropper's houses with sweet potatoes and cotton on the porch, 

Knowlton Plantation, Perthshire, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi, 1939

 Pauline Clyburn, rehabilitation borrower, and two of her children. 

Manning, Clarendon County, South Carolina, 1939

Picnic at Ashwood Plantation, South Carolina, May Day health day, 1939