The donkey party game of putting the tail on the donkey. The funniest ...
Print shows a donkey facing left with 28 tails to be cut out of the bottom half of the print; includes wood engraved illustration of the game in progress with printed "directions", metal pins, and cardboard "me... More
A few of the workers. P. San Martin Cigar Co. Tampa, Fla. Has reputati...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Noon-hour at Riverside Cotton Mills, Danville, Va. All are workers. Th...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a child labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
All these children were working in the sugar beets for Louis Startz, a...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Poster - Uncle Tom's cabin - Public domain lithograph
43307 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Uncle Tom & Eva. Created and "copyright 1899, Courier Litho. Co., Buffalo, N.Y." No. 596. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)
Charles Hopper in Chimmie Fadden by the author of the book, Edward W. ...
Caption: Hully gee! Youse kids'll drive me croizy! Created and "copyright 1896 by The Strobridge Lith Co, Cinti & N.Y." Management of Frank McKee. No. 7386. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library ... More
Italian family crocheting bags. Father sick in bed (not contagious). (...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 3126. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photogr... More
The sidewalks of New York - Public domain portrait painting
Caption: A few of the characters shown on the sidewalks of New York. Created and "copyright 1899 by The Strobridge Litho Co, Cincinnati & New York." N.Y. no. 8614. Vignette captions: Herald Square at midnight ... More
George Thatcher's Greatest Minstrels
Public domain scan of Amerian 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A "Reader" in cigar factory, Tampa, Fla. He reads books and newspapers...
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A "Reader" in cigar factory, Tampa, Fla. He reads books and newspapers...
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Sporting life written by Cecil Raleigh & Seymour Hicks.
Caption: Policeman Doxey's first arrest. Created and "copyright 1898 by The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cin'ti, N.Y." Jacob Litt, proprietor. N.Y. no. 8063. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)
Second edition of the funniest farce in the world, Shantytown everythi...
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Noon Hour at an Indianapolis Meat Packing House. Aug. 1908. Wit. E.N. ...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 108. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More
[Woman holding child on her lap, Old Bight, Cat Island, Bahamas]
Title devised by Library staff based on caption information and inventory lists. Photos taken during Lomax-Hurston-Barnicle recording expedition to Georgia, Florida, and the Bahamas. Handwritten on back: "unkno... More
Food in Britain. In a British hospital, a child is given a drink of mi...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman, nurse, caring, hospital, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Alice Barber Stephens - [She curled the whip-lash sharply round his le...
Title from Harper's. (DLC/PP-1933:0094). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Robinson's donkey" by Mary Densel, Harper's young people, 6:604 (July 21, 1885).
Gilmore & Leonard in their Irish nonsensicality, Hogan's alley by W.H....
"3rd edition." "Piloted by Eugene Wellington, funnier than ever." Caption: It's awful fresh. Created and "copyright 1898 by The H.C. Miner Litho. Co., N.Y." No. 6297. Portrait caption: Ireland's kings. Forms pa... More
[Long line of boys and men at Vaudeville Show. Saturday P.M.] Locatio...
Public domain photograph of theater building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
(For Child Welfare Exhibit 1912-13.) Cigar factory of F. Delloiacono [...
Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, economic conditions, children workers, exploitation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Swiping Behind the Cop's Back. Boston 1915 Exhibit. Location: Boston, ...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 873. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More
Group of workers in Danville, (Va.) Knitting Works, Only a few of them...
Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Poster - Robt. McWade as Rip Van Winkle - Public domain lithograph
K13135 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyright Metropolitan Litho. Studio, 29 Warren St., N.Y., 1879." J.E. Jackson, agent. Signed: R. Muller. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)
Noon Hour at an Indianapolis Meat Packing House. Aug., 1908. Wit., E. ...
Public domain photograph of factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Old woman, Puck, and children with flashlights looking at object]
Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1933:0080). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "A Doctor of Medicine" by Rudyard Kipling, Delineator, 74:296 (Oct. 1909).
[Eliz Austin and children with Cleveland Simmons, Old Bight, Cat Islan...
Public domain photograph - 20th century group portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Noon hour, Singer Mfg. Co., The Boys work there. Location: South Bend,...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 228. Caption card records date as Oct. 1914; surrounding cards would suggest 1908?. Credit line: National... More
Market scene. Location: Boston, Massachusetts.
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of city street market, food vendors, downtown shopping, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
A typical group of workers in the Aragon Mill, Rock Hill,. Location: R...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2958. No text recorded on caption card after final comma. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection,... More
A Union Shop, Cigarmakers Tierra del Laga Cigar Co. Almost no hands un...
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I became David - Drawing. Public domain image.
"The psalms of David, page 17, ms" and "To many a sick person did I say a psalm, page 17, ms." Illustration rejected for "My Starry Solitude" by Elizabeth McCracken, Century magazine, vol. 87 (Dec. 1913). (DLC/... More
[A horrible monster glared at them]
A fierce, ogre-like man with spectacles and a book under his arm clenches his fist at a group of small, frightened children who are seated on the ground before him. Illustration for Chapter XX, "The Woog and th... More
Whole family rolling cigarette cases, the mother was licking the paper...
Picryl description: Public domain image, 19th-century cigarette card, free to use, no copyright restrictions. Cigarette cards are trading cards issued by tobacco manufacturers to stiffen cigarette packaging and... More
George Thatcher's Greatest Minstrels
61763 U.S. Copyright Office Printed on upper right corner: N.Y. no. 8675. Forms part of: Minstrel poster collection (Library of Congress) Pieces missing from edges.
For her children's sake by Theo. Kremer : the companion play to The fa...
Caption: If you strike my mother, I'll shoot! Created and "copyright 1902 by The U.S. Lithograph Co, Russell-Morgan Print, Cincinnati & New York." Management, Sullivan, Harris & Woods. No. 6504. Forms part of: ... More
The season of brotherly love - Drawing. Public domain image.
Title on verso. (DLC/PP-1932:0042). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Life, 8:418 (Dec. 30, 1886).
6:15 P.M., Going home from the Arkwright Mills, Spartenberg [sic], S.C...
Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Judge Landis in trouble
Judge Landis, well-known "boss" of baseball, showing boy the proper way to shoot marbles. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, Chicago. No. CH 14817.
Free neighborhood classes for adults Enroll now : Classes in reading -...
Poster from the Adult Education Program of the Chicago Board of Education announcing free education classes for adults, showing a man, wearing a suit, reading. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Li... More
Poster - Uncle Tom's cabin - Public domain lithograph
43307 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Uncle Tom & Eva. Created and "copyright 1899, Courier Litho. Co., Buffalo, N.Y." No. 596. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)
Ada Gray in the new East Lynne - Drawing. Public domain image.
Z62722 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyright 1894, The Gribler Bank Note Company, Chicago, U.S.A." No. 24. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)
Sol Smith Russell's great play, A poor relation
D15352 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyright 1900 by The Strobridge Litho Co, Cincinnati & New York." Management, Fred. G. Berger. N.Y. no. 9092. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)
Street Kids. Location: Boston, Massachusetts.
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Art - Free neighborhood classes for adults ... enroll now
Poster from the WPA Adult Education program of the Chicago Board of Education announcing free neighborhood art classes, showing men and women working at easels. Date stamped on verso: May 22 1937. Work Projects... More
Immigrant Children Learning to Play on the Roof Garden of the Washingt...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 946. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More
Cigarmakers in factory of Filogamo & Alvarez, Tampa, Fla. Work was sla...
Public domain photograph of people in office, interior, the 1910s-1920s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Charles Frohman's dramatic production, The hand of destiny by Pierre D...
B245724 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: The young pickpocket. Created and "copyright 1896 by The Strobridge Lith Co, Cinti & N.Y." No. 7182. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)
The singing comedian, Andrew Mack in the The last of the Rohans by Ram...
Public domain scan of Amerian 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Long line of boys and men at Vaudeville Show. Saturday P.M. Location:...
Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Some of the adults Payne Cotton Mill, Macon, Ga. Location: Macon, Geo...
Public domain photograph of textile design, fabric pattern, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A Union Shop, Cigarmakers Tierra del Laga Cigar Co. Almost no hands un...
Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
New Trier evening school Classes for adults, Wednesday evenings 7:30 -...
Poster showing a woman wearing an apron with her hand in a bowl of food. Date stamped on verso: Mar 25 1941. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).
Nurse training. "Occupational therapy" for the very young. Convalescen...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a school, preschool, children, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
The sidewalks of New York - Drawing. Public domain image.
Caption: A few of the characters shown on the sidewalks of New York. Created and "copyright 1899 by The Strobridge Litho Co, Cincinnati & New York." N.Y. no. 8614. Vignette captions: Herald Square at midnight ... More
Poster - The war of wealth - Public domain lithograph
A240001 U.S. Copyright Office By C.T. Dazey, author of In old Kentucky. Caption: The child is mine, she shall go with me! Created and "copyright 1895 by The Strobridge Lith Co, Cin'ti & New York." Jacob Litt, p... More
The singing comedian, Andrew Mack in Myles Aroon
A247720 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: The swing song. Created and "copyright 1895 by The Strobridge Lith Co., Cinti - N.Y." Direction of D.W. Truss & Co. No. 6672. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (... More
[African American children with a few adults in a pavilion]
In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 3, no. 282. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in ... More
Going home, Winona (Miss.) Cotton Mills. All work. Location: Winona, M...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2121. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More
These were all working in the Century Cotton Mill, South Boston, Va., ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
A typical group of workers in the Aragon Mill, Rock Hill,. Location: ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Blind beggar. Location: Lawton, Oklahoma. / L.W. Hine.
Public domain photograph of Oklahoma, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Jewish children and adults, one holding a Star of David banner, walki...
Picryl description: Public domain image of an old ancient city, historic place, stone building architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Four year old cotton picker. A regular worker on farm. Scene on farm o...
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Johnnie, a nine-year-old oyster shucker. Man with pipe is a padrone wh...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of street life, food vendor, city market, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
[He pushed on beyond her, calling as he went]
Title from handwritten notation on mat. (DLC/PP-1932:0033). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The Madonna of the Tubs" by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Harper's ma... More
[Woman sitting on sofa talking to child next to rocker]
"... Aunty I am so glad to hear that you are head of your class in geography Dickey, tell me what a peninsula is ... Dickey Well, I don't know that Aunty, but ask me what a mountain is ..." Verso. Title devised... More
Uncle George Washington Bings. "Well, the horse jumped over the sun, h...
Four-frame comic strip in which a toy-like horse bucks off a man (perhaps Uncle George) and two children who land in a pond lily. Inscribed in pencil upper right: The pond lily boat. No copyright information fo... More
The big scenic production, Man's enemy by Chas. A. Longdon & Eric Huds...
D3668 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Only bad men get drunk, don't they? Created and "copyright, 1900, by The U.S. Printing Co., Russell-Morgan Print., Cincinnati & New York." No. 4385. Forms part of: Theatrica... More
[Miss Bradley cheerfully paid ninety cents for the headgear]
Title from mat. (DLC/PP-1933:0080). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "A Soul Above Buttons" by Myra Kelly, McClure's magazine, 27:342 (Aug. 1906).
Speak out, or git out, one or t'other
Title on verso. (DLC/PP-1935:0006). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Daughters of Zion" by Kate Douglas Wiggin, Scribner's, 40:413 (Oct. 1906).
Noon Hour at an Indianapolis Meat Packing House. Aug., 1908. Wit., E. ...
Public domain photograph of factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Groups of girls workers at the gate of the American Tobacco Co., Wilmi...
Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 1559. Hine no. 1563. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prin... More
[Groups of girls workers at the gate of the American Tobacco Co., Wilm...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Going to dinner. See photo and label 2256. Knitting Mill. June 1911. B...
Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
All of the family of Antoinette Pothier, 32 Easton Street. Father and ...
Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 2480. Hine no. 2481. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More
Group of workers in Eclipse Mills. Second boy from right was afraid to...
Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Arthur Sarasin, 7 Acushnet Block. Works in weaving room. At his house ...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2286. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More
Part of the force at Tupelo (Miss.) Cotton Mills. All work. Smallest o...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a child labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
As the whistle blew at the Tidewater Knitting Mill, Portsmouth Va. I w...
Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
As the whistle blew at the Tidewater Knitting Mill, Portsmouth, Va. I ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Force working in West Point (Miss.) Cotton Mills. (See succeeding phot...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2129. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More
Force working in West Point (Miss.) Cotton Mills. (See Succeeding phot...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2130. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More
Dependent Parents (See also 2157) R.L. Witt. He is apparently working ...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2160. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More
Nearly the entire force, Yooona [i.e., Yocona] Mills, Water Valley, Mi...
Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Nearly the entire force, Yooona i.e., Yocona Mills, Water Valley, Miss...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2117. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More
Showing pickers at Swift's Bog. Location: Falmouth vicinity - Swift's ...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 2562. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More
Manuel Thomas, 2 years old. Was picking a little. Location: Falmouth ...
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Joe Mello, 62 Grinnel i.e., Grinell? St., New Bedford. Appeared about ...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2293. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More
(For Child Welfare Exhibit 1912-13.) Exterior of Sprague House Settlem...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 3175. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More
Hard Workers. Grady Carroll, nine year old cotton picker. He picks two...
Picryl description: Public domain image of boy workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Families of Henry and John Miller: boy of eleven years, girl of eleven...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Working boys in foreground. See 4184. Location: Fall River, Massachus...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a picnic in the park, outdoor activity, leisure time, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Blind beggar. Location: Lawton, Oklahoma. L.W. Hine
Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 4786. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the ... More
[Man holding child, standing, facing front, possibly from the visit by...
Title devised by Library staff based on caption information and inventory lists. Photo taken during Lomax-Hurston-Barnicle recording expedition to Georgia, Florida, and the Bahamas. Forms part of: Lomax collect... More
House on road to Goose Creek, Goose Creek vic., Berkeley County, South...
Public domain photograph of a house, cottage, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Home economics and home management class for adults, under supervision...
Public domain photograph of Great Depression, farm, farmer, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Family group in interior of house in Mexican section. This man is an a...
Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
[Two contact sheets showing young adults acting in a medical farce and...
Illus. in album: A city experienced: Pittsburgh, Pa., a photographic interpretation / W. Eugene Smith, v. 2, E5-R184 & E5-R185.
Mount Kisco Library, Mount Kisco, New York. Young adults' room
Public domain photograph of library, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Getting working papers. Location: New York, New York (State)
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 17-A. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More