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3. A New Deal for Farmers: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Rural America
Helping Small Farmers, Tenant Farmers, and Sharecroppers on Page 4
Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933
First page image linking of the full document of the AAA in 1933.
Breaker Boys at the Woodward Coal Mines in Kingston, Pennsylvania, ca. 1900
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…
Jewel and Harold Walker, 6 and 5 years old, pick 20 to 25 pounds of cotton a day. Father said: "I promised em a little wagon if they'd pick steady, and now they have half a bagful in just a little while." See 4564. Location: Comanche County--[Geronimo], Oklahoma / Lewis W. Hine.
Jewel and Harold Walker, 6 and 5 years old, pick 20 to 25 pounds of cotton a day.
Orphan asylum boys picking currants
Orphan asylum boys picking currants
A grain elevator built by German immigrants - who brought with them the winter wheat grown locally
A grain elevator built by German immigrants - who brought with them the winter wheat grown locally
Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co., 157 US 429 - Supreme Court 1895
A Supreme Court case and ruling between a farmer and a loan company over grain elevators.
Stone Chapel
The illustration of a church in Maryland by George C. M Roberts, 1866
Modern America and The Gilded Age and Progressive Era Books
Sources also used in the exhibit.
