Voting in the Primary - 1942

Arthur Rothstein, Dunklin County, Missouri. Voting in the primary election at the county courthouse. July 1942.  FSA-OWI Collection, Library of Congress. 

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/owi2001008873/PP/

Arthur Rothstein, "Fruit tramps from California who have come to the Yakima Valley for apple thinning. Yakima, Washington." July 1936. FSA-OWI Collection, Library of Congress. 

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/fsa/item/fsa1998019470/PP/

Apple Picking

Picking apples. Camden County, New Jersey.

Rothstein, Arthur, 1915-1985, photographer. October 1938.

FSA-OWI collection, Library of Congress.

fsa 8b17177 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8b17177

In our course in American Rhetoric in the New Deal Era, 1932-1945, we have recently read John Steinbeck's In Dubious Battle, which describes a strike in California apple orchards in the period.