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Wilson Dry Goods Company, large department store. Employs large number of youngsters as cash-boys and wrappers. Counted seven apparently 9 to 12 years old, one 9 and other 10. Week's work consists of nearly 65 hours, usually. Location: Jacksonville, Florida

Mood of the country: Iowa

Some of the men and boys in Newton (N.C.) Cotton Mills. Plenty of youngsters here. Out of 150 employees, there were about 20 who looked to be 12 years old and under. Location: Newton, North Carolina

Every one of these youngsters went into work when the whistle blew, noon June 15, 1911, in the Chesapeake Knitting Mills, Berkley, Virginia See also photos and labels 2245 to 2249. Following are some of their names; (youngest refused to give names): Otto, Lowe, 78 Seaboard Ave. Finishing Room. D.M. Deschields, 25 Phillip St. So, Norfolk, Winding Room. Oscar Weston, 1320 Berkley Ave. Totes work. Lonnie Wommack, Hawthorn Ave., So. Norfolk, Winding Room. Jack Harrell, 66 Perry St., So. Norfolk, Finishing Room. Waverley Roseberry, 250 St. James St., So. Norfolk, Winding Room. Charlie McHorney, 4 Poindexter St., So. Norfolk, Winding Room. Location: Berkley, Virginia

A group of men sitting on top of a wooden structure. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A group of men standing around a tractor. America during Great Depression and World War Two. FSA / OWI Photograph.

Construction workers around stove after work in new craftsmen's barracks. Camp Blanding, Florida

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Construction workers around stove after work in new craftsmen's barracks. Camp Blanding, Florida

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Carpenters constructing new Army barracks at Camp Blanding. Starke, Florida

Carpenters constructing new Army barracks at Camp Blanding. Starke, Florida

Construction of Army barracks at Camp Blanding. Starke, Florida

Carpenters constructing new Army barracks at Camp Blanding. Starke, Florida

Soldier's Joy Cafe, newly constructed for construction workers near Camp Blanding, Florida

Soldier's Joy Cafe, newly constructed for construction workers near Camp Blanding, Florida

Carpenters constructing new Army barracks at Camp Blanding. Starke, Florida

Construction workers around stove after work in new craftsmen's barracks. Camp Blanding, Florida

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Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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01/01/1940
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Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990, photographer
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No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html

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Richmond, California. Permanente Metals Corporation, shipbuilding division, yard number two. Pietro Cressano worked at the yard for seven months, and was in building construction work before that. He was born in America but both parents were born in Italy

Rushing the SS George Washington Carver to completion. Negro skilled workers played an important part in the construction of the SS George Washington Carver, second Liberty Ship named for a Negro, in the Richmond Shipyard No. 1 of the Kaiser Company. Mack Hayes, journeyman welder, graduated from the Richmond welding school before beginning work for Kaiser eight months ago

Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California. Pipe fitter

Poker game of construction workers at canteen. Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California

Carpenters and construction workers waiting outside Florida state employment office trying to get jobs on Camp Blanding. Starke, Florida

Production. War housing trailers. War housing trailers under construction at the Los Angeles plant of Western Trailer Company. The cabinet work of this trailer is nearly completed. Drawers, locker doors, sink top and other prefinished parts will be installed after the trailer has gone through the final painting and bake oven processes

White migrant woman cooking cabbage in tent home. Edinburg, Texas

Construction workers around stove after work in new craftsmen's barracks. Camp Blanding, Florida

Battery A, Jefferson Barracks, Mo. - stereocsopic card

BRIDGES, G.T.M. MAJOR GENERAL, BRITISH ARMY. SPEAKING. WASHINGTON BARRACKS

Emergency defense office construction work. Washington, D.C.

Potomac Electric Power Co. Buzzard Point plant. Construction work inside Buzzard Point plant VIII

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