November 1911. Chicopee, Massachusetts. Henry Fritz, 56 Cheever Street, has worked in the spinning room at Dwight Manufacturing two or three months. Peter Pluta lives at 2 Bertha Avenue. Works in the spinning room, two years there. Photograph and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size.

October 1939. The Unruf family. Mennonite wheat farmers from Kansas, now developing a stump ranch in Boundary County, Idaho. The mother, father and hardworking 15-year-old son with other children in yard before the barn. Father and son have cleared 30 acres of raw stump land in three years. Medium-format nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange for the FSA. View full size.

March 1943. Santa Fe trip from Chicago to California. Trains on the Santa Fe tracks through Cajon Pass in the San Bernardino Mountains. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information.

August 1938. "Farmpeople at the county fair in Central Ohio." View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Ben Shahn for the Farm Security Administration.

July 1939. "Noontime chores: feeding chickens on Negro tenant farm. Granville County, North Carolina." View full size. Medium-format nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration.

October 1935. Red House, West Virginia. Youngsters on the way to school. 35mm negative by Ben Shahn for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

February 1940. "Snowstorm in Parkersburg, West Virginia." View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration.