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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
Trees are felled to clear land during massive expansion of farming and a carrot harvester at work in the United States.

A man drives a bulldozer to fell trees during the Great Depression in America. A woman with children watches the logging operation. The bulldozer clears trees and rocks from the land. Trees are felled and uprooted to create more farm land (ultimately leading to overproduction of crops, drops in prices, and depression conditions for farmers). Boxes full of carrot in a truck. A carrot harvester picks carrots in a field. Men tie up the carrots together. Men and women workers stand and watch the machine at work. Workers seated on and around boxes of carrots. An African American worker lights a cigarette. An elderly migrant from the Cumberland Mountains. Expansive views of the Cumberland Mountains and a farm house on a mountain side. A house, horses, hens, ducks and a cow with her calf on the farm. A stern wheel paddle steamer steam ship or river boat moves up a river. Two workers operate machines at a grinding mill or grist mill with water wheel running. A man operates a horse wheel. Elevated views of a river flowing in a valley between mountains and nearby farmland. Tall grass in a field.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1939
Duration: 3 min 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021577
Corn and wheat harvesters at work, and poor tenant farmers line up for government distributed food in the United States.

Over supply of produce due to mechanization causes crisis for tenant farmers during the Great Depression in the United States. In Iowa: Farmland with a farm house, haystacks, cows and pigs. American farmer brings hay stacked in a wagon. A woman pulls a horse to haul the load up through an opening into the barn. Horses work on a farm, machines on a farm. A corn field. Farmers operate a corn harvester. A wheat harvester at work in a wheat field. Poor farmers and women of farm families wait outside a building to get government distributed food, due to Great Depression and glut in wheat and corn prices due to overproduction. Men, women and children stand in line. Close up views of tired and desperate farming men and women. They fill their containers, sacks and bags with food and leave.

Location: Iowa United States USA
Date: 1939
Duration: 4 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021578
Farmers sort wheat yield transported in cargo ships. and work to stock pile corn in a ever-normal granary in the United States.

Factories on river banks during late 1930s in the Great Depression. Wheat yield from 15000 acres of field in a single cargo ship underway. Men operate machines to sort and separate wheat. Wheat harvesters at work. Smoke from stacks. Close up views of faces of young girl and boy children from poverty stricken farming families. Farmers work at a ever-normal granary where they stock pile corn to store their crop and to stabilize farm crop prices as part of a buffer stock scheme. Vast reserves in the ever-normal granary stored by farmers to preserve a market for their crop in the face of overproduction and glut in the market for wheat driving down prices. A farmer inspects and tastes corn that is being loaded by machine belt into top of a storage granary silo.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1939
Duration: 2 min 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021579
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