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  1. Woman living with her family of four in an old street car... Photograph by Jack Delano, March 1941. (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection. Reproduction Number: LC-USF34-043326-D).

  2. Farmer woman with homemade jelly near Northampton, Massachusetts. Photograph by Russell Lee, October 1939. (Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection. Reproduction Number: LC-USF33-012450-M1).

  3. Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Lunch time. Photograph by Arthur S. Siegel, May 1943. (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection. Reproduction Number: LC-USW3-023627-D).

  4. Turkey Pond, near Concord, New Hampshire. Women workers employed by U.S. Department of Agriculture... Photograph by John Collier, June 1943. (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection. Reproduction Number: LC-USW3-034072-E).

  5. Saturday afternoon in Franklin, Heard County, Georgia. Photograph by Jack Delano, April-May 1941. (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection. Reproduction Number: LC-USF331-020841-M2).

  6. Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Twins Amy and Mary Rose Lindich, twenty-one, employed at the Pennsylvania Railroad... Photograph by Marjory Collins, May 1943. (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection. Reproduction Number: LC-USW3-030027-E).

  7. Spanish muskrat trapper in doorway of his marsh camp. Delacroix Island, Saint Bernard Parish, Louisiana. Photograph by Marion Post Wolcott, January 1941. (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection. Reproduction Number: LC-USF34-056826-D).

  8. Bridgeton, New Jersey. Seabrook Farm. Cannery workers. Photograph by John Collier, June 1942. (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection. Reproduction Number: LC-USF34-083260-C).

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