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Some of the girls who work in Amoskeag Mills, Manchester, N.H. Location: Manchester, New Hampshire.

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01/01/1909
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Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
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Manchester ,  42.99564, -71.45479
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Production. Parachute making. There is far more to hemming this parachute than running the sewing machine. The operator must match pencil marks on the braid with pencil marks on the seams to turn out infallible parachutes for men in the Air Force. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Adrian Lornager, 8 Bowditch St. (Apparently 13.) Has been sweeper in Grinnell Mill Nearly a year. Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Employees' noon restaurant at the plant of the Cheney Bros. Silk Manufactory, So. Manchester, Conn., U.S.A.

Every one of these was working in the cotton mill at North Pormal [i.e., Pownal], Vt. and they were running a small force. Rosie Lapiare, 15 years; Jane Sylvester, 15 years; Runie[?] Cird, 12 years; R. Sylvester, 12 years; E. [H.?] Willett, 13 years; Nat. Sylvester, 13 years; John King, 14 years; Z. Lapear, 13 years. Standing on step. Clarence Noel 11 years old, David Noel 14 years old. Location: No[rth] Pownal, Vermont / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

Squatters' shacks along the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon. Many of the men living here during the winter work in the nearby orchards of the Williamette and Yakima Valley in the summer

Payne Cotton Mill, Macon, Ga. See photo and label 538. Girl with dropping eyes and hands on hips has been helping one year. Jan. 20, 1909. Location: Macon, Georgia.

View across the Merrimack River of one of what were once dozens of mammoth textile mills on the edge of Manchester, New Hampshire

A black and white photo of a city, New Hamshire. Farm Security Organization photograph

Two of the workers in Merrimack Mills. See Hine report. Location: Huntsville, Alabama.

Notre Dame Bridge, Spanning Merrimack River on Bridge Street, Manchester, Hillsborough County, NH

Detroit, Michigan. Little girls at a drinking fountain in the zoological park

Food in Britain. All factories in Britain engaged in munitions or other government work are directed to provide canteens if they employ more than 250 workers. There are thousands of such canteens serving the major industries and other thousands in the smaller factories

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