Rural Life and Agriculture Scenes

A collection of black-and-white images showcasing rural life, including farming, food preservation, and outdoor workspaces from various U.S. states in the early 20th century.

Fruit and vegetable jars stored on Browning farm, Malheur County, Oregon. The family is a FSA (Farm Security Administration) rehabilitation borrower and Mrs. Browning is locally famed for her canned fruit and vegetables 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Oregon , Malheur County

Fruit and vegetable jars stored on Browning farm, Malheur County, Oregon. The family is a FSA (Farm Security Administration) rehabilitation borrower and Mrs. Browning is locally famed for her canned fruit and vegetables 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Oregon , Malheur County

Goat shearing in Kimble County, Texas 1940. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , Kimble County

Crude "wagon sled" on the Bodray farm near Tipler, Wisconsin 1937. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Wisconsin , Tipler, Wisconsin , Florence County

Highway City, California. Near Fresno. See General caption. Also 19553 for complete caption. Family from Oklahoma. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Highway City, California , Fresno County, Migrant laborers, Internal migrants

Outdoor eating place for cranberry pickers, Burlington County, New Jersey 1938. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

A row of houses occupied by fruit and vegetable workers, in a trailer camp near Belle Glade, Florida 1937. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Abandoned mine, Dobra, West Virginia. 1935. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Camps of migrant pea workers. California. 1936. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California, Migrant agricultural laborers

United States government camp for migrants (Farm Security Administration), Farmersville, California. Prefabricated steel dwellings "one step up from a tent" replace the use of tents in the newer California camps. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Farmersville, California , Tulare County, Internal migrants, Migrant agricultural laborers, Labor camps, Housing

Grower provides fourteen such shacks in a row for his hop pickers. Josephine County, Oregon. Near Grants Pass, Josephine County, Oregon. General caption number 45-11. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Oregon , Grants Pass, Oregon , Josephine County, Agricultural laborers, Housing

A row of houses occupied by fruit and vegetable workers, in a trailer camp near Belle Glade, Florida 1937. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Warehouse of farmers' cooperative. White River Junction, Vermont 1936. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Stoves outside the Browning house being repaired for winter use. Dead Ox Flat, Malheur County, Oregon. General caption 67-111. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Oregon , Dead Ox Flat, Oregon , Malheur County

A row of houses occupied by fruit and vegetable workers, in a trailer camp near Belle Glade, Florida 1937. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Entrance to junkyard, Washington, D.C 1938. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Laundry tubs at trailer court. San Diego, California. It is customary for the owner of the trailer courts to furnish laundry facilities with a small additional charge for use of electric washing machines 1940. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , San Diego, California , San Diego County

Barracks housing cranberry pickers, Burlington County, New Jersey 1938. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Barracks housing cranberry pickers, Burlington County, New Jersey 1938. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Toilet for ten cabins, men, women, and children. In Arkansawyers auto camp. Greenfield, California. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Greenfield, California , Monterey County, Migrant laborers, Migrant agricultural laborers, Housing, Housing and health, Outhouses

Housing for migratory workers in cotton, five miles north of Corcoran, California. The famous strikers' concentration camp in 1933 was at Corcoran camp. 1936. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Corcoran, California , Kings County, Migrant agricultural laborers

Home of Mexican land grubber, El Indio, Texas 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , El Indio, Texas , Maverick County

Home of Indian agricultural day laborer, McIntosh County, Oklahoma. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Oklahoma , McIntosh County

Original caption: "Juan R. Tortes, Santa Rosa Res. IR&R repair job #244-B-5. Logs realigned and strengthened with perpendicular shiplap line with heavy building paper and gabled ends sided. New screens and doors painted, interior cream and blue. Print mounted for Wash. Office.". 1936 - 1942. Pacific Region (Riverside, CA). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Office of Indian Affairs. Mission Agency. 11/15/1920-6/17/1946. Photographs

United States government camp for migrants (Farm Security Administration), Farmersville, California. Prefabricated steel dwellings "one step up from a tent" replace the use of tents in the newer California camps. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Farmersville, California , Tulare County, Internal migrants, Migrant agricultural laborers, Labor camps, Housing

Fresno County on U.S. 99. See general caption. The end of the Chisholm Trail. Loading point for cattle shipment, showing cattle chute and part of corral. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Fresno County

Lindsay, California. Houses inhabited by Mexican citrus workers. (Tulare County). 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Lindsay, California , Tulare County, Agricultural laborers, Migrant agricultural laborers, Housing

Millville, New Jersey - Scenes. A view of Whitall Tatum Company houses. Yards looking from Myrtle St. to upper Whitall Tatum plant. Emphasis on lack of sanitation and poor road facilities, 1936, Lewis Hine, 1874 - 1940, was an American photographer, who used his camera as a tool for social reform. US,USA

Well of white tenant farmer who is now on WPA (Work Projects Administration) near Sallisaw, Oklahoma. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Oklahoma , Sallisaw, Oklahoma , Sequoyah County

Farmersville, Tulare County. Migrants' winter quarters. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Farmersville, California , Tulare County, Internal migrants, Migrant agricultural laborers

Tossing fleece into wool bag, sheep shearing time in Malheur County, Oregon. 1941. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Oregon , Malheur County

Shack of agricultural day laborer near Webbers Falls. Muskogee County, Oklahoma 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Oklahoma , Webbers Falls, Oklahoma , Muskogee County

Farming (Goats). 1923 - 1955. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pine Ridge Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Home of Mexican field worker showing water supply. Brawley, Imperial Valley, California. 1935. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Brawley, California , Imperial Valley (Calif. and Mexico), Agricultural laborers, Dwellings

Camp of itinerant statue maker and agricultural day laborer on Poteau Creek near Spiro. Sequoyah County, Oklahoma. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Oklahoma , Spiro, Oklahoma , Poteau Creek

Remains of old Gulf States paper mill, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. 1935. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Abandoned mine, Dobra, West Virginia. 1935. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

High voltage illuminates. System at Hermada.28.8.17. .

Sami offered to buy a bear skin

Evicted sharecroppers along Highway 60, New Madrid County, Missouri 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

The mecca of hundreds of drought refugees seeking work and resettlement. Cotton and potatoes provide employment. Squatter camp in Kern County, California. Photographs. 1937. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Kern County, Internal migrants, Migrant agricultural laborers, Squatter settlements, Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939, Droughts

Crude Products: Ties and Mine Props. - Tennessee. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Fall scene on farm. Notice hay in the mow and sleigh before the door. Farm near Bradford, Vermont, Orange County 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Vermont , Bradford, Vermont , Orange County

Unkept yards are common as farmers' incomes creep lower when they lose markets for their fruit. Placer County, California 1940. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Placer County

Saw Products: Dimensions - Missouri. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Water for irrigation at La Pryor is supplied from underground sources by pumping. La Pryor, Texas. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , La Pryor, Texas , Zavala County

Homes of oyster packinghouse workers, Shellpile, New Jersey 1938. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Winter image on weight tensioners.

Part of family come for work in potatoes. Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California. Left their home in Turkey, Texas, November, 1938. Picked cotton in Arizona till March. Picked fruit in Oregon till June. Picked prunes in Idaho till September 15th. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Tulelake, California , Siskiyou County, Migrant agricultural laborers

Boxes full of peas at vinery near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Wisconsin , Sun Prairie, Wisconsin , Dane County

Housing for Mexican field laborers. Brawley, Imperial Valley, California. 1935. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Brawley, California , Imperial County, Agricultural laborers, Dwellings

Abandoned mine. Goldfield, Nevada 1940. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Trailer houses of pea pickers who travel with a labor contractor and live in camp rented and manage by the contractor. Canyon County, Idaho 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Idaho , Canyon County

Farm Security Administration (FSA) camp for migratory agricultural workers. Farmersville, California. Shows prefabricated steel shelters which have been erected to replace tents as standard camp equipment in two of the California camps. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Farmersville, California , Tulare County, Migrant agricultural laborers, Dwellings

Blacksmith Shop with Broken Windows. 1923 - 1955. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pine Ridge Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Home of Mexican land grubber, El Indio, Texas 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , El Indio, Texas , Maverick County

A family of eight from Tennessee camped near citrus packing plant at Winterhaven, Florida 1937. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Vintage photograph. Farmer and horses getting ready for a corn harvest, Lower Waterford, Vermont. New England

Home in "Little Oklahoma," a community that has grown out of migrant potato and cotton workers. California. 1936. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California, Migration, Internal, Dwellings, Housing, Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939

Shack occupied by transient sugar beet workers near Fisher, Minnesota. 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Minnesota , Fisher, Minnesota , Polk County

Farmer unloading corn, Scioto Farms, Ohio 1938. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Crude Products - Bolts, Staves. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Purakanui Slip and House Shifting, circa 1900-1916, by George Crombie.

Home of sugar beet worker near Chaska, Minnesota. 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Minnesota , Chaska, Minnesota , Carver County

A shanty built of refuse near the Sunnyside slack pile, Herrin, Illinois 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Four of the five units inhabited by Mexican workers. Robstown, Texas. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , Robstown, Texas , Nueces County

Potatoes in storage cellar at end of season. Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Oregon , Merrill, Oregon , Klamath County, Farm produce

Stationary-type mechanical hop picker. The vines are brought to this shed and are fed into the machine picker. Yakima County, Washington 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Washington (State) , Yakima County

Salinas, California. Putting guayule seed into flats for drying at the Intercontinental Rubber Producers 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Salinas, California , Monterey County

Lee Wagoner feeds his dairy cattle, Black Canyon Project, Canyon County, Idaho. Farmers on this project say they depend on their creamery check to pay their 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Idaho , Canyon County

Wachusett Aqueduct, Italian camp, Section 5, Berlin, Mass., Oct. 16, 1897 , waterworks, aqueducts, construction workers, labor camps

Stacking hay. Ouray County, Colorado 1940. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Colorado , Ouray County

Crude Products - Bolts, Staves. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Amos King Home during Repairs / Men Working. 1920 - 1965. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Negative. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Sisseton Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Edsbro Masugn 1942. Part of management and banana from blast furnace to Rostugn

Foresters at Work - New York. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

The construction of a new railway vigor across Norrtullsgatan. Casting of leveling in the Eastern Land, detailed image.

The Woodcutters. William Henry Fox Talbot (English, 1800 - 1877)

United States government camp for migrants (Farm Security Administration), Farmersville, California. Prefabricated steel dwellings "one step up from a tent" replace the use of tents in the newer California camps. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Farmersville, California , Tulare County, Internal migrants, Migrant agricultural laborers, Labor camps, Housing

United States government camp for migrants (Farm Security Administration), Farmersville, California. Prefabricated steel dwellings "one step up from a tent" replace the use of tents in the newer California camps. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , Farmersville, California , Tulare County, Internal migrants, Migrant laborers, Housing, Labor camps

Original caption: "Clark Home - Construction # 244-B-2. June 1937.". 1936 - 1942. Pacific Region (Riverside, CA). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Office of Indian Affairs. Mission Agency. 11/15/1920-6/17/1946. Photographs

Elsevier photo collection. Original caption "A Woman Internney Tjideng Camp, Notorious Sausage Java. Fenced Lowest Slums Batavia Hottest Spot Java, Camp Proved Veritable Hell Unfortunate Women Children Forced exist Japanese Dominitation half "woman women's internal engineering camp Tjideng Batavia, liberation. 1945. Batavia, Cideng, Indonesia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Dutch East Indies, Tjideng

Machinery outside , Machinery, Fences Edgar Sutton Dorr Photograph Collection

Purakanui Slip and House Shifting, circa 1900-1916, by George Crombie.

Cotton pickers in south Texas. 1936. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas, Cotton picking, Cotton pickers, Agricultural laborers, Cotton

Water Use: Electricity - Tennessee. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Original caption: "Santa Rosa - Pumping plant #2 May 15, 1939". 1936 - 1942. Pacific Region (Riverside, CA). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Office of Indian Affairs. Mission Agency. 11/15/1920-6/17/1946. Photographs

Wheelbarrow loaded with crushed rock to be used in bridge construction in Menard County, Texas. 1940. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , Menard County

Serving table in former mess hall. Lumber camp at Craigville, Minnesota. 1937. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Minnesota , Craigville, Minnesota , Koochiching County

Remains of old Gulf States paper mill, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. 1935. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Wachusett Aqueduct, Italian camp, Section 5, Berlin, Mass., Oct. 16, 1897 , waterworks, aqueducts, construction workers, labor camps

Outdoor cookstove for cranberry pickers, Burlington County, New Jersey 1938. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Applying identification stickers to cattle. Auction sale, San Angelo, Texas 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , San Angelo, Texas , Tom Green County

Sawmill Interiors - General. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Mrs. Thomas placing vegetables from her garden into truck which they will use to transport them to California from Muskogee, Oklahoma 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Oklahoma , Muskogee, Oklahoma , Muskogee County

The camp at the "eagle's" landing site. To the left gondola, to the right tent. Between them the boat glimpes. In the tent, provisions and pans are viewed. In the middle coke apparatus and to the left a provisant basket. Production of the pictures was made by Associate Professor John Hertzberg in 1930 in photography, Technical College.

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Timber storage Chinese Toko Isle Nemfoor. 1950. Guinea, Nemfoor

Bathrooms are scarce. Farm of ex mill-worker. Bonner County, Idaho. See general caption 49. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Idaho , Bonner County, Farms

Floor Joist of Community Housing Project Construction. 1920 - 1965. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Sisseton Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Metal Shelters for Agricultural and Packing House Workers, Osceola Migratory Labor Camp, Belle Glade, Florida, USA, Marion Post Wolcott, U.S. Farm Security Administration, February 1941

Laboratory Techniques - All States. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

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