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LABOR MEETING, 1930s. A labor organizer, lower right, at a community center meeting, 1930s

LABOR MEETING, 1930s.
A labor organizer, lower right, at a community center meeting, 1930s. Photograph by Lewis W. Hine for the National Research Project of the Works Progress Administration

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1930, 1930s, Activist, African American, America, Black, Center, Early, Group, Hine, Labor Leader, Labor Movement, Lewis, Meeting, Men, Photograph, Wickes, Worker, Working Class

SALVATION ARMY, 1939. Power of the Lord preaching by a soldier saved twelve years before

SALVATION ARMY, 1939.
Power of the Lord preaching by a soldier saved twelve years before, and with army ever since. Salvation Army, San Francisco, California. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, April 1939

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1939, Accordion, American, April, Band, Charity, City, Dorothea, Drum, Early, Entertainment, Exterior, Farm Security Administration, Fsa, Great Depression, Guitar, Guitarist, Lange, Men, Minister, Musician, New Deal, Photograph, Playing, Preacher, Preaching, San Francisco, Street, Street Scene, Uniform, Volunteer, West, Women

RUN DOWN FARMHOUSE, 1938. Two African American children, one with deformed legs caused by rickets

RUN DOWN FARMHOUSE, 1938.
Two African American children, one with deformed legs caused by rickets, walking in front of a run down farmhouse on badly eroded land near Wadesboro, North Carolina. Photographed by Marion Post Wolcott, December 1938

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1938, African American, Black, Bowlegged, Building, Children, Daily Life, December, Dirt, Early, Erosion, Exterior, Farm, Farm Security Administration, Farmer, Farmhouse, Farming, Field, Fsa, Great Depression, House, Marion, New Deal, North Carolina, Photo, Post, Poverty, Rickets, Rural, Southeast, Wadesboro, Walking, Wolcott