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African American men, women and children pick cotton in fields, Southern United States.

Southern United States: Eroded land, barren fields during the Great Depression. An African American farmer woman dries clothes on a line in a cotton field. Loss of soil from fields in dust bowl. A young African American boy, men and women farmers pick cotton. Dilapidated farm houses, shacks, and falling down houses and huts. A poor African American woman with her children. A sign reads 'Prepare to Meet God'.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1939
Duration: 1 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021569
Young girls at a farm house or dilapidated plantation house in the southern United States.

Farm houses and former grand plantation houses, now in disrepair, seen among trees during time of poverty in Great Depression. A clothes line outside a house. Entrance to a house with large columns. Plaster and paint have peeled from the columns revealing the bricks. Young girls stand by a pillar at the entrance. Eroded land near an abandoned house.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1939
Duration: 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021570
Continued struggle after Dust Bowl: Winds blow away top soil; Desperate migrant farmers during Great Depression

U.S. Department of Agriculture documentary depicts how rural America used machines to achieve production at a terrible cost to the land and people including erosion and poverty. The Dust Bowl in the Great Plains. Top soil is blown away in a storm. Barren land. Soil washed into the Arkansas River. Layers of soil in the river. Wasted land and rivers due to sheet erosion. Soil destruction, barren land and farms. Texas: A town called "Go Forth" or "Goforth" founded by cotton farmers long ago. Abandoned houses, damaged roads, and unemployed desperate farmers are seen. Emaciated cows search for food. On the edge of the town, migrant landless farmers sit by a fire near a car. Rains and water erode the soil. A sign in a barren eroded patch reads 'Abernathy Furniture Co.'. The wind blows away the top soil.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1939
Duration: 3 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021572
A poor migrant farming family packs up their belongings and moves westward in the United States.

A poverty stricken migrant farming family lives in make shift shelters and tent camps during the Great Depression in the United States. A girl sleeps in a tent while a woman washes utensils nearby. A man and a young boy cook food on a stove. An unemployed family lives in a trailer. The man with his wife and children. The woman with her children. The man loads their belongings into a horse wagon. A young boy near his bicycle. Other farmers watch as the family gets on and they begin their journey westward.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1939
Duration: 3 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021573
A young boy and a woman from a poor farm family live in poverty and dilapidated shacks, United States.

Destitute children from poor migrant farm families play near dilapidated houses and tent communities and shacks during the Great Depression in America. A poverty stricken woman stitches and sews in a tent. A sick young boy moves his hands in his sleep as he thinks he's picking peas, while his mother watches over him at his bedside in a tent or shack.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1939
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021575
African American and foreign migrant workers climb into trailers to pick cotton; a farmer operates an automated cotton picker

Wide views of cotton fields with hills in the background, in the United States. Tents in the field for migrant farm labor workers during the Great Depression. Automobiles and carts nearby. A truck with trailers attached halts on a road. African American and foreign migrants, (Mexican and/or Latin American, primarily) climb into the trailers. Men, women and children cotton pickers picking cotton by hand. A farmer operates an automated cotton picker in a cotton field, showing how automation is displacing hand labor for cotton picking. The picked cotton held in the machine.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1939
Duration: 1 min 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021576
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