1935 Arkansas

No longer sharecroppers, they had to become day workers - cotton pickers on a plantation. This photo was taken at 6:30 in the morning.
WPA Administrator, 1938

Testifying about the millions of people who need help. Doesn't he look distressed? It must have been a very difficult job with so many out of work.
California, 1937

The caption says that Mexicans used to do this work but during the Depression, the jobs went to "white workers".
Working in the pea fields, 1937

This woman wasn't young and it was hard work! Or maybe the work made her look older?
1939 "roadside camp"

Tending the fire and putting lard in a frying pan. Life of many people who lived on the road or in migrant camps during the Depression.
1937: Kentucky coal miners

Workers were protesting and being shot by Harland County deputy sheriffs. This is the bloody shirt of one of the miners who was shot.
Congress cutting WPA funds

1939 SF - workers at a protest to the cutting of WPA funds. The WPA had been established by the Federal government to provide jobs.