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Rehabilitation client and food canned at the suggestion of Resettlement Administration rehabilitation supervisor. Near Batesville, Arkansas. June 1936.

"Damned if we’ll work for what they pay folks hereabouts.” Crittenden County, Arkansas. Cotton workers on the road, carrying all they possess in the world. May 1936.

Rehabilitation Administration client standing in opening of storm cellar which is also used to store hundreds of cans of food. Near Batesville, Arkansas. June 1936.

All photographs on this page are courtesy of the Prints & Photographs Division,
Library of Congress, FSA Collection.

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