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Indiana Mfg. Co., Boy taking boards away from "double cut-off" machine. A Suggestive Name!. Location: Peru, Indiana

Noon Hour, Bosse Furniture Co., Evansville, Ind. Oct. 1908. Location: Evansville, Indiana

A couple of men standing next to each other, possibly related to: Men spiking logs to go up ramp into sawmill. It was working only halftime and was even slower in winter. "It's kinder hard them times. Concrete and steel's taking the place of lumber nowadays. Erwin, West Virginia

Group outside Pittman Handle Factory. A fifteen year old boy operating a dangerous boring machine at which he said a boy recently bored half his hand off. To operate this machine (which bores a large hole in the spade handle) the boy has to throw his whole weight onto the lever which pushes the handle (and himself) up against the unprotected borer. A slip might easily result fatally. Boy earns $1.65 a day. This factory has a number of unprotected belts and dangerous machines. One other boy, about the age of this one, was doing all kinds of work, taking away the handles from a huge rip saw, etc., and constantly exposed to danger. Pittman Handle Factory, Denison, Tex. Location: Denison, Texas

General Utility Boy at Lutcher & Moore Lumber Co. "I'm fourteen years old; been here one year. Get $1.00 a day." He runs errands and helps around. I saw him pushing some of these empty cars. Exposed to the weather and some dangers. In the saw mills, planing mills of this company I saw several boys who might be under fifteen,. Location: Orange, Texas

Boy working at double circular saws. N.Y. Dimension Supply Co. Location: Evansville, Indiana

Noon Hour in a Furniture Factory, Indianapolis. Aug. 1908. Wit. E.N. Clopper. Location: Indianapolis, Indiana

Lincoln Cotton Mill, Evansville, Ind. Boy sweeping small boy picking up and carrying away. (Bad light and shaking floors.) Location: Evansville, Indiana.

Grant County, Oregon. Malheur National Forest. Lumberjack making a "rubberman". This rubberman is used when a lumberjack who is sawing down a tree does not have a partner. The cross-saw is attached to the heavy rubber belt which holds saw secure while one man saws

World Furniture Company noon hour, Evansville, Ind. Boy at left hand end was running Machine Composed of two Unguarded Circular Saws. The board he was pushing stuck and he gave it an impatient shove. Had he slipped, both hands and arms would have gone into the edges of the saws, (full force) which were turned toward him. Location: Evansville, Indiana.

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boys men laborers furniture industry rest periods indiana evansville photographic prints evansville ind world furniture company noon hour world furniture company noon hour boy hand end hand end machine circular saws circular saws board both hands arms edges force 1900 s commoners 1900 s library of congress
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01/01/1908
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Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
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Evansville (Ind.) ,  37.97472, -87.55583
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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.

Chief Hanson will not meet with the gay community, so we must take our demands to him -- end assaults on gays ...

Grant County, Oregon. Malheur National Forest. Lumberjack making a "rubberman". This rubberman is used when a lumberjack who is sawing down a tree does not have a partner. The cross-saw is attached to the heavy rubber belt which holds saw secure while one man saws

Citizens' Glass Co., Evansville, Ind. Over ten small boys on day shift in one department, were counted. Location: Evansville, Indiana.

Noon Hour, Bosse Furniture Co., Evansville, Ind. Oct. 1908. Location: Evansville, Indiana.

Master prints. Mrs. R. Boyer Miller, residence in Wenham, Massachusetts, library, noon

Willard Carpenter House, 413 Carpenter Street, Evansville, Vanderburgh County, IN

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Evansville, Vanderburgh County, Indiana

Sawing a log, Alaska - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Palestine disturbances 1936. Disabled locomotive near Ras el-Ain. Loose rail buckelled [i.e., buckled] into S shape by force of weighty engine

All of these are workers in the Stearns Silk Factory, Petersburg, Virginia Not all of the youngsters would get into the photo. I went through the factory during working hours and saw many others like these. A neighbor's testimony corroborated the foregoing. Noon hour. Location: Petersburg, Virginia.

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boys men laborers furniture industry rest periods indiana evansville photographic prints evansville ind world furniture company noon hour world furniture company noon hour boy hand end hand end machine circular saws circular saws board both hands arms edges force 1900 s commoners 1900 s library of congress