October 1940. "Mr. Lawrence J. Brown, Aroostook potato farmer, operates a small seed foundation unit in Eagle Lake, Maine. His three sons and one hired man do all the work. The little boy on the left picked fourteen barrels of potatoes before lunch." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

September 1939. "Kimberley farm, Jasper County, Iowa. Corn fight between Margaret and Howard Kimberley." Photo by Arthur Rothstein, Farm Security Administration. View full size.

February 1942. "Meeker County, Minnesota. Three generations of the McRaith family on their farms. One of the McRaith grandchildren." Photo by John Vachon. View full size.

February 1942. "Meeker County, Minnesota. Mike McRaith and family. He farms eighty acres." Acetate negative by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size.

August 1941. Froid, Montana. "Scandinavian tractor combine driver drinking water out of a jug in the field where they were harvesting wheat on the Schnitzler Corporation ranch. This boy came to the Schnitzler ranch from South Dakota, where he lives and first harvested their earlier wheat crop before coming up here for the Montana harvest season." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

March 1940. "Part of the parade which opened the Fat Stock Show. San Angelo, Texas." Acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

March 1940. San Angelo, Texas. "Watching the parade which opened the Fat Stock Show." Acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

March 1940. "Entrance to farm in San Patricio County, Texas." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

November 1937. "Radio microphone used in information work. United States Department of Agriculture." The subject here seems to be soil conservation. Medium format acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

May 1941. Malheur County, Oregon. "Glory hole of the Owyhee Reservoir. Water for the Vale-Owyhee irrigation project is impounded here." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

January 1942. "Guanica, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Burning a sugar cane field. This is a process that destroys the leaves and makes the sugar cane easier to harvest." Acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. View full size.

August 6, 1917. "10 year old picker on Gildersleeve Tobacco Farm. Gildersleeve, Connecticut." Photo by Lewis Wickes Hine for the National Child Labor Committee. View full size.

April 1939. "U.S. 99 on ridge over Tehachapi Mountains. Heavy truck route between Los Angeles and San Joaquin Valley over which migrants travel back and forth." 4x5 inch nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

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.