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A Supreme Court case and ruling between a farmer and a loan company over grain elevators.

A grain elevator built by German immigrants - who brought with them the winter wheat grown locally

Orphan asylum boys picking currants

Jewel and Harold Walker, 6 and 5 years old, pick 20 to 25 pounds of cotton a day.

Breaker boys worked in the coal mines. Their main job was to separate chunks of coal by hand. As coal came down the conveyor belt, they would break up the coal into common sized pieces and also separate out any things like rocks, clay and soil. Boys…

First page image linking of the full document of the AAA in 1933.

Helping Small Farmers, Tenant Farmers, and Sharecroppers on Page 4

A woman has just given birth to a child and is surrounded by the women who helped her

Impact: How the New Deal Changed Rural America on Page 6

A mannequin wearing a maternity dress that was common during the late 1800s