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Central Park Skate Emporium. Skates to suit everybody, from 50 cents to $25

Central Park Skate Emporium. Skates to suit everybody, from 50 cents t...

Advertisement for Conover & Walker ice skates. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1860 Jan. 14, p. 111.

Young spinners in Elk Cotton Mills. Youngest girl hardly knew her name. Youngest boy runs two sides at ten cents each a day. Location: Fayetteville, Tennessee.

Young spinners in Elk Cotton Mills. Youngest girl hardly knew her name...

Picryl description: Public domain image of girl workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Barney Goldstein, 83 W. 5th St. Newsboy, 10 years of age. Selling newspapers 1 year. Average earnings 50 cents per week. Selling papers own choice. Don't smoke. Visits saloons. Works 5 hours per day. Investigator, Edward F. Brown. Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Lewis W. Hine., May, 1910.

Barney Goldstein, 83 W. 5th St. Newsboy, 10 years of age. Selling news...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bellenti Family. Crosoria, 10 years, Joe 9, Sam, 7, Tony, 4. Live on Garcia Avenue. All commence selling 6 A.M. and sell until late at night. Two oldest make 50 cents each, and two youngest make 25 cents each day. Sam been selling 2 years. Know little English. Illiterate. Do not go to school. Tony youngest newsy in Florida. Bury i.e., buy candy and go to movies. Location: Tampa, Florida

Bellenti Family. Crosoria, 10 years, Joe 9, Sam, 7, Tony, 4. Live on G...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 3324. Date not recorded on caption card. March 1913 based on caption for #3333. Credit line: National Chi... More

Interior of tobacco shed, Hawthorn Farm. Girls in foreground are 8, 9, and 10 years old. The 10 yr. old makes 50 cents a day. 12 workers on this farm are 8 to 14 years old, and about 15 are over 15 yrs. Location: Hazardville, Connecticut. / L.W. Hine.

Interior of tobacco shed, Hawthorn Farm. Girls in foreground are 8, 9,...

Picryl description: Public domain image of girl workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Three-room house seventy dollars and seventy cents monthly. Rent to apply on purchase. Four in family. Father, carpenter, earns seventy dollars monthly. California

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Three-room house seventy doll...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tractor operator on the Aldridge Plantation near Leland Mississippi. These young Negroes drive tractors for one dollar and twenty-five cents a day and cabin

Tractor operator on the Aldridge Plantation near Leland Mississippi. T...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Mississippi, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cost $2,000,000 to write U.S. checks. Washington, D.C., March 17. Reflecting the widening range of federal activity, the Treasury, as the Nation's Paymaster, issed 35,735,746 checks in 1936, as compared with 28,509,924 in 1935. Guy F. Allen, Chief Disbursing Officer of the Treasury says to make these payments cost about $2,000,000 or close to 6 cents a check

Cost $2,000,000 to write U.S. checks. Washington, D.C., March 17. Refl...

Public domain photograph of a machine part, motor, equipment, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Wife and child of sharecropper near Gaffney, South Carolina. The farmer does a little day labor for his landlord. He received fifty cents a day in 1936, sixty to seventy-five cents in 1937. He raised seven bales of cotton on thirteen acres; half to his landlord

Wife and child of sharecropper near Gaffney, South Carolina. The farme...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of two men standing in front of a building, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of two men standing in front of a building, We...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

An old photo of two men standing outside of a building, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

An old photo of two men standing outside of a building, West Virginia....

Picryl description: Public domain image of a great depression era, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Type house at Garden Homes, Arvin (Kern County) California. This is an Farm Security Administration housing project for low income farm workers. Rent of eight dollars and twenty cents monthly includes electricity and water

Type house at Garden Homes, Arvin (Kern County) California. This is an...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Water peddler in community camp. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He is paid fifteen cents a barrel for delivering water to the shack homes. See general caption no. 21

Water peddler in community camp. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He is paid f...

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Farm wagehand (day laborer, seventy-five cents per day) and his young wife looking at remains of their home (on three acre piece of land owned by his mother) which had just burned to the ground. Greene County, Georgia

Farm wagehand (day laborer, seventy-five cents per day) and his young ...

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Texas photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Photograph.

Texas photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of War Infor...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Meeting opens with taking the collection. Army contributes (about one dollar and fifty cents) again, as well as the audience. Salvation Army, San Francisco, California

Meeting opens with taking the collection. Army contributes (about one ...

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Young migrant worker brings his hops to weigh scales. From five a.m. until noon, when photograph was made, he had picked eighty pounds, which equals eighty cents. Temperature 105 degrees. Oregon, Polk County, near Independence

Young migrant worker brings his hops to weigh scales. From five a.m. u...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farm, farmer, agriculture, early 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of people in a field, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of people in a field, Great Depression. FSA/OW...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Transient farm laborer in hotel room which he rents for one dollar and fifty cents a week. Dubuque, Iowa

Transient farm laborer in hotel room which he rents for one dollar and...

Public domain photograph of American working class people in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Interior of one-room cabin for migratory fruit workers. Rent is one dollar and seventy-five cents a week. Berrien County, Michigan

Interior of one-room cabin for migratory fruit workers. Rent is one do...

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Washington, D.C. Modeling blue dress made from sugar sacks worked out for a high school girl on a low income by graduate students of the Department of Clothing and Textiles, School of Home Economics, University of Alabama. Total cost of materials was three dollars and eighteen cents

Washington, D.C. Modeling blue dress made from sugar sacks worked out ...

Public domain photograph of Washington DC, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

These women work in nearby packing house and live in company-owned one-room cabins. Rent one dollar and seventy-five cents a week. Berrien County, Michigan

These women work in nearby packing house and live in company-owned one...

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Guanica, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Farm laborer employed in cutting sugar cane at one dollar and fifty-one cents per day

Guanica, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Farm laborer employed in cutting suga...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farm, farmer, agriculture, early 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Daytona Beach, Florida. Students at Bethune-Cookman College, chopping and piling wood for thirty-five cents per hour

Daytona Beach, Florida. Students at Bethune-Cookman College, chopping ...

Public domain photograph of America during the Great Depression, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New Britain, Connecticut. Miss Ida Hicks, Lithuanian, twenty-eight years old, employed at the American Railway Express, Company, sorting packages, weighting them., etc., earns seventy-nine and one-half cents an hour. She formerly worked in a defense plant

New Britain, Connecticut. Miss Ida Hicks, Lithuanian, twenty-eight yea...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

On right-hand end is Marie ---, eight years old, who shucks 6 or 7 pots of oysters a day (30 or 35 cents) at a canning company. At left end of photo is Johnnie ---, eight years old, who earns 45 cents a day. Been shucking for three years. Location: Bayou La Batre, Alabama.

On right-hand end is Marie ---, eight years old, who shucks 6 or 7 pot...

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.

Left to right: Florence Lieto, 10 years old. Jennie Macola, 10 years old (hidden) Mamie Macola, 8 years old. Nicholas Macola, 6 years old. Picking coffee sweepings. The sweepings cost 25 cents a sack at the warehouse, and picked-over coffee sells at about 12 cents lb. Man working with sore hand tied up in bandage. Children work after school hours and on Saturdays. 10 A.M. Saturday. 36 Laight St. Location: New York, New York (State)

Left to right: Florence Lieto, 10 years old. Jennie Macola, 10 years o...

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Interior of a cutting shed in Maine. Young cutters at work, Clarence, 8 years, and Minnie, 9 years. Photo does not show the salt water in which they often stand, not [i.e., nor?] the refuse they handle. On the low shelf are two of the "boxes" used as measures, and for which they get 5 cents a box. Location: Eastport, Maine.

Interior of a cutting shed in Maine. Young cutters at work, Clarence, ...

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Coal gatherer at Nanty Glo, Pennsylvania. He receives ten cents per 100 pounds and makes between one and two dollars a day

Coal gatherer at Nanty Glo, Pennsylvania. He receives ten cents per 10...

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Susie Fava. Picks 8 pails a day. Said 8 years old. Gets 8 cents a pail. Location: Rochester [vicinity] Eldridge Bog, Massachusetts.

Susie Fava. Picks 8 pails a day. Said 8 years old. Gets 8 cents a pail...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Some of the youngest workers in Laurel Cotton Mills, Miss. Tallest man is Mr. Hollingworth. Two of his boys in front row. Sylvester, ten years old, "Only helps in the mill afternoons and Saturdays." "But if I was twelve," he said, "I'd go to work to-morrow." The other boy, Floyd, said he was thirteen, but he doesn't seem to be. He said, "I sweeps. Get thirty cents a day. Sweepin' keeps you at it right steady. Not much chance to rest. You have to be twelve to work." Location: Laurel, Mississippi.

[Some of the youngest workers in Laurel Cotton Mills, Miss. Tallest ma...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Maple Mills, Dillon, S.C. Soarbar Seris, has worked off and on in the mill for 5 years. Winds. Gets 70 cents and up. "Recon I'm about 14." Didn't look it. Has worked more nights than day time. Location: Dillon, South Carolina.

Maple Mills, Dillon, S.C. Soarbar Seris, has worked off and on in the ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of boy workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Dangerous work. Charlie McBride. Said twelve years old. This twelve year old boy has a steady job with the Miller and Vidor Lumber Company. He takes slabs out of the chute, which has a moving endless chain to carry the wood up the chute. He passes the slabs on to the other boy who saws them off on an unguarded circular saw. Charlie runs the saw himself whenever he gets the chance. He is exposed not only to the above dangers, but to the weather. No roof even. Has been here for some months. "Get four bits a day." (Fifty cents.) Works ten hours. This was the only mill that I found around Beaumont that employed boys. Likely because they are located some distance out of town. Location: Beaumont, Texas.

Dangerous work. Charlie McBride. Said twelve years old. This twelve ye...

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The saving properties of the solar system! The law of necessity the law of all laws. One thousand billion dollars sun for 25 cents. Six thousand years war with the natural laws. Editor, author and orator, Daniel Pratt, the great American travell

The saving properties of the solar system! The law of necessity the la...

Title. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 76, Folder 12.

Lanier Hotel -- rooms, .25 cents (exterior)

Lanier Hotel -- rooms, .25 cents (exterior)

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Lanier Hotel -- rooms, .25 cents (interior)

Lanier Hotel -- rooms, .25 cents (interior)

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[Miss Bradley cheerfully paid ninety cents for the headgear]

[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).

Orley Shrouce, 8 Ozark Mill. 10 years old. Said he worked a year, but when new law came in a while ago the mill people turned him off,--too young. "Then they came again and hired me back." Doffer--60 cents a day. Location: Gastonia, North Carolina.

Orley Shrouce, 8 Ozark Mill. 10 years old. Said he worked a year, but ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Boy on left is Arthur Pugh. Said he made bands (25 cents a day) in Starkville, (Miss.) Cotton Mill. Boy on right worked some time ago. Location: Starkville, Mississippi.

Boy on left is Arthur Pugh. Said he made bands (25 cents a day) in Sta...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children, kids, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Brush-making late at night. Photo taken at 9:00 P.M., and they work later. Girls are 12 and 14 years old and go to school working in the morning before school and at night after studying is finished. Mother said, "It is better for children to learn something useful to do." The three average one dozen brushes a day. (30 cents.) One of the girls said she would rather work then [i.e., than?] study. Shultz family, 476 Third Ave., Brooklyn. February 5, 1912. Location: New York--Brooklyn, New York (State)

Brush-making late at night. Photo taken at 9:00 P.M., and they work la...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, economic conditions, children workers, exploitation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Some of the younger workers in the Beaumont Mills, Spartenberg [sic], S.C. The youngest boy on the right hand end is Bob Cook, works in spinning room #2. Said he had been working about a year. Began at 35 cents a day now makes 50 cents. Their family bible gave his birth day June 25th, 1901, making him 10 years old. Small boy on left end Emmett Capps been doffing one year. Doesn't seem to be 12 years old. The other boys are questionable. Location: Spartanburg, [South Carolina]

Some of the younger workers in the Beaumont Mills, Spartenberg [sic], ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph group portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

People who desire a rest in the parks of Constantinople can always obtain chairs for ten cents Posters go about with a dozen chairs tied to their backs and are always willing to dispose of them for ten cents. The renter can have th[e] chaire [sic] for an hour or all afternoon the price is always the same. This picture shows one of the chair owners on the island of Proti, where the American Red Cross is main[t]aining a colony for the care of more than a thousand Russian refugees brought from Odessa and other Black Sea ports.

People who desire a rest in the parks of Constantinople can always obt...

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Migrant winter camp on outskirts of Sacramento, California. Eighty families, build their own shacks, pay one dollar and twenty-five cents a month ground rent which includes water. One half-mile from American River camp

Migrant winter camp on outskirts of Sacramento, California. Eighty fam...

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Two hangman's nooses hang as a grim warning to prospective bidders on this foreclosed farm. In this way many farms sold for only a few cents until the Farm Debt Adjustment Committee came into being

Two hangman's nooses hang as a grim warning to prospective bidders on ...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to politics, political campaigns, committee, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Background photo for Hightstown project. Sixth Street and Avenue C, New York City, where the Solomon family do their shopping. In the street and displayed on newspaper. All socks for sale at ten cents the pair

Background photo for Hightstown project. Sixth Street and Avenue C, Ne...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph related to mass media, press, newspaper, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Auto camp north of Calipatria, California. Approximately eighty families from the Dust Bowl are camped here. They pay fifty cents a week. The only available work now is agricultural labor

Auto camp north of Calipatria, California. Approximately eighty famili...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pennsylvania: A black and white photo of men working on a hill. Great Depression

Pennsylvania: A black and white photo of men working on a hill. Great ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a child of a farmer, migrant worker, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

One of a Mexican gang of migratory laborers thinning and weeding cantaloupe plants at thirty cents an hour; the young plants are capped with wax paper spread over a wire wicket to protect against cold and accelerate growth. Imperial Valley, California

One of a Mexican gang of migratory laborers thinning and weeding canta...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farm, farmer, agriculture, early 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Kern County, California. Undernourished cotton picker's child listening to speeches of organizer at strike meeting to raise wages from seventy-five cents to ninety cents a hundred pounds. Strike unsuccessful

Kern County, California. Undernourished cotton picker's child listenin...

Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of people standing next to a truck, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of people standing next to a truck, Tennessee....

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Partially completed homes for agricultural workers to enable them to settle permanently. These houses rent for eight dollars and twenty cents per month which includes water and electricity. This tract adjoins the migratory labor camp. Farmersville, California. Compare 19550 and 19546

Partially completed homes for agricultural workers to enable them to s...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A group of people standing around a truck, Mississippi. Farmers during Great Depression.

A group of people standing around a truck, Mississippi. Farmers during...

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Day laborers being hired for cotton picking on Mississippi and Arkansas plantations. Between four and six-thirty every morning during the season, near the Hallan Bridge in Memphis, Tennessee, crowds of Negroes in the streets gather and are loaded into trucks by drivers who bid, and offer them anywhere from fifty cents to one dollar per day

Day laborers being hired for cotton picking on Mississippi and Arkansa...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Arkansas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of people standing on the back of a truck, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of people standing on the back of a truck, Ten...

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Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, Mexican and white, from the Southwest. Pull, clean, tie and crate carrots for the eastern market for eleven cents per crate of forty-eight bunches. Many can make barely one dollar a day. Heavy oversupply of labor and competition for jobs is keen

Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, M...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A group of people standing next to a truck, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A group of people standing next to a truck, Tennessee. Farm Security A...

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Day labor is used almost exclusively on Hopson plantation, displacing the old tenants on the place. Cotton choppers are hired in nearby towns for seventy-five cents to one dollar a day and trucked to the plantation. Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

Day labor is used almost exclusively on Hopson plantation, displacing ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Finnish Lagation deluged with donations to aid fight with Soviet. Washington, D.C., March 7. Mail from all parts of the nation and from all classes is deluging the Finnish Legation to the extent that its staff has jumped from 3 to 30, and a new building has been rented to handle contributions to aid Finland's fight with Soviet Russia. Money, comes in in letters addressed to Minister Procope, The Finnish Government, The Finnish Government in care of Uncle Sam, etc., and contain contributions ranging from five cents to thousands of dollars. Here, Eero Lappalainen, attache at the legation, is shown packing a box with contributions of goods to be sent to Helsinki, 3-7-40

Finnish Lagation deluged with donations to aid fight with Soviet. Wash...

Public domain photograph of Washington DC, 1910s-1920s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Agriculture chart. One of a series of ten charts released by the Bureau of Home Economics, Department of Agriculture. A limited number are on sale at twenty-five cents for a set of ten at the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office (GPO), Washington, D.C.

Agriculture chart. One of a series of ten charts released by the Burea...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fishing boat coming into the Columbia River Packing Association docks, Astoria, Oregon. This plant paid from five to eight cents per pound for salmon this year

Fishing boat coming into the Columbia River Packing Association docks,...

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A black and white photo of a small town. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a small town. Office of War Information Pho...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More

A black and white photo of a small town. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a small town. Office of War Information Pho...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More

Guanica, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Farm laborer employed in cutting sugar cane at one dollar and fifty-one cents per day

Guanica, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Farm laborer employed in cutting suga...

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Guanica, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Farm laborer employed in cutting sugar cane at one dollar and fifty-one cents per day

Guanica, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Farm laborer employed in cutting suga...

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Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Miss Helen Gusmerotti, twenty-nine, and Miss Mary Mignogna, employed as car repairmen's helpers at the steel car shop in the Pennsylvania Railroad yards, earning seventy-two cents per hour. Miss Gusmerotti and Miss Mignogna are burning holes in the hopper car sides

Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Miss Helen Gusmerotti, twenty-nine, and Miss M...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Katie Sablejack, forty-five, a Hungarian, employed as a blacksmith's helper in the Pennsylvania Railroad yards, earning seventy-two cents per hour. She is operating a half-ton steam hammer. Mrs. Sablejack is a widow and mother of two children

Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Katie Sablejack, forty-five, a Hungarian,...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Jeffersontown, Kentucky. The Jefferson County ommunity cannery, started by the WPA (Work Projects Administration), now conducted by the state (?) vocational education department. Women pay three cents each for cans and two cents per can for use of the pressure cooker. Left to right; Mrs. J. Payater Holt and Mrs. Hampden Lawsen of Louisville preparing string beans for canning. The beans were raised by Mrs. Holt in her victory garden

Jeffersontown, Kentucky. The Jefferson County ommunity cannery, starte...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Harry Cherkos, 435 Catherine St, 7 years of age, sells papers, from 2:30 to 8 P.M. daily. 10 A.M. to midnight on Saturday. Income, 50 cents per day. This boy was caught gambling on Chestnut & 11th Streets. When asked if he gambles said no. Said all earnings go home. This boy has the appearance of being a bit feeble minded. Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Harry Cherkos, 435 Catherine St, 7 years of age, sells papers, from 2:...

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Marie Kriss, seven years old, shucks oysters and picks shrimp at Biloxi Canning Co., when not tending the baby. Makes 25 cents some days. Biloxi, Mississippi.

Marie Kriss, seven years old, shucks oysters and picks shrimp at Bilox...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Nick Pilisotta, ten years old, 899 Fayard St. Works some in the Biloxi Canning Co. "I want to quit school and work steady. Make 50 cents a day. Made $1.30 one day last year when shrimp was big." Location: Biloxi, Mississippi.

Nick Pilisotta, ten years old, 899 Fayard St. Works some in the Biloxi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of boy workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Some of the young workers in Laurel Cotton Mills, Laurel, Miss. Tallest man is Mr. Hollingsworth. Two of his boys in front row. Sylvester, ten years old, "Only helps in the mill afternoons and Saturdays." "But if I was twelve," he said, "I'd go to work to-morrow." The other boy, Floyd, said he was thirteen, but he doesn't seem to be. He said, "I sweeps. Get thirty cents a day. Sweepin' keeps you at it right steady. Not much time to rest. You have to be twelve to work." Location: Laurel, Mississippi.

Some of the young workers in Laurel Cotton Mills, Laurel, Miss. Talles...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Johns Lewis. Springstein Mill. A typical cotton mill boy. 12 years old --1 year in mill. Weaver--4 looms. Got 40 cents at start--60 cents now. Brother and Pa, in mills. Witness S.R. Hine. Location: Chester, South Carolina.

Johns Lewis. Springstein Mill. A typical cotton mill boy. 12 years old...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Laura Petty, a 6 year old berry picker on Jenkins farm, Rock Creek near Baltimore, Md. "I'm just beginnin'. Picked two boxes yesterday. (2 cents a box). (See my report July 10, 1909.) July 8, 1909. Location: Baltimore, Maryland.

Laura Petty, a 6 year old berry picker on Jenkins farm, Rock Creek nea...

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Artificial flower making at 8 cents a gross. Youngest child working is 5 years old. Location: New York, New York (State)

Artificial flower making at 8 cents a gross. Youngest child working is...

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James Lequlla, newsboy, 12 years of age. Selling newspapers 3 years. Average earnings 50 cents per week. Selling newspapers own choice. Earnings not needed at home. Don't smoke. Visits saloons. Works 7 hours per day. Investigator, Edward F. Brown. Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Lewis W. Hine., May 1910.

James Lequlla, newsboy, 12 years of age. Selling newspapers 3 years. A...

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This boy has worked in Payne Cotton Mill, for 2 yrs Macon, Ga. Runs 4 sides and earns 52 cents a day. Overseer has hand on boy' s shoulder. He said this mill made 70% profit last year and excepts to make 100% this year. This is owned by Bibb Mfg. Co. Location: Macon, Georgia.

This boy has worked in Payne Cotton Mill, for 2 yrs Macon, Ga. Runs 4 ...

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Rush Merrill, Loray Mill, Gastonia, N.C. 12 years old. Been in mill 3 years Doffer. Gets 75 cents a day. Said sometimes gets 3 to 5 hours a day resting between times. Location: Gastonia, North Carolina.

Rush Merrill, Loray Mill, Gastonia, N.C. 12 years old. Been in mill 3 ...

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Shall I vote for ten cents a day?

Shall I vote for ten cents a day?

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These boys (and one other small one, who is not present) and their father, work in Monongah Glass Works. Father gets $1.75 a day - one boy 125 a day 4 get 80 cents a day. Total 6.20 a day. Live in a tumble down house. What is the trouble?. Location: Fairmont, West Virginia.

These boys (and one other small one, who is not present) and their fat...

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Joseph Buonasari, 207 7th Street, Buffalo, N.Y. Second Grade, School #1. 12 years old last summer. Worked on beans and apples and tomatoes in sheds and factory, getting 50 cents a day, sometimes until 8 P.M. Parents sometimes work all night until 5 A.M. Entered School #1, January 11th from School #2. Location: Buffalo, New York (State)

Joseph Buonasari, 207 7th Street, Buffalo, N.Y. Second Grade, School #...

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Five cranberry pickers - all cousins. Smallest is Joe Sylva, 618 Water St., New Bedford, said 10 years old. Picks 10 pails a day at 7 cents. Arthur Sylva, said 13 years, picks 30 pails a day. Carrie Maderyos, 618 Water Street, New Bedford, said 12 years - second year picking. The group expects to be picking here four weeks more which will cause loss of New Bedford schooling at least 6 weeks. (See photos of them picking next day). Location: Falmouth [vicinity] - Swift's Bog, Massachusetts.

Five cranberry pickers - all cousins. Smallest is Joe Sylva, 618 Water...

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A view of the American Red Cross Canteen #13, at Champs de Mars, Paris, France. This is one of the largest canteens in France, being made up of fifty tents, which were formerly used as a hospital at Chateau Thierry. There are 1,400 beds and a large canteen which is operated 24 hours a day. An enlisted man can get a nice, clean bed for one franc (about 18 cents) which includes a hot or cold bath, towels, soap, baggage checked and a shoeshine. The meals are supplied at the following rates: Breakfast: 50 centimes (about 9 cents); dinner: 75 centimes (about 14 cents) and supper: 50 centimes

A view of the American Red Cross Canteen #13, at Champs de Mars, Paris...

Caption from negative sleeve: Champ de Mars. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card; part of title based on information in related, adjacent negatives. Photographer name or source of original from ca... More

Why call a taxi when you can be wheeled around in royal state in this victoria with the velvet robed driver for twenty cents an hour. Every one can be a prince or princess for an hour Type of Roumanian peasant girl. Upon her wedding day an olive twig must be held over her head by one of the men attendants and if once it is dropped, even during the dancing and feasting, bad luck will be her lot and the gaiety will be dispelled in a jiffy.

Why call a taxi when you can be wheeled around in royal state in this ...

Photographs show scenes in Romania including: a horse-drawn carriage driver in his carriage, Bucharest; and a young woman wearing a head scarf. Negative series code stamped on page: LC-C26. On page: no. 1265 ... More

Plowboy in Alabama earns seventy-five cents daily

Plowboy in Alabama earns seventy-five cents daily

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A black and white photo of a man in overalls. Great Depression FSA photogpraph

A black and white photo of a man in overalls. Great Depression FSA pho...

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Woman and child picking coal from a slag heap. They are paid ten cents for each 100 pound sack, Nanty Glo, Pennsylvania

Woman and child picking coal from a slag heap. They are paid ten cents...

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Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico. "We come from all states and we can't make a dollar in this field noways. Working from seven in the morning until twelve noon, we earn an average of thirty-five cents." California

Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico. "W...

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Pennsylvania motor police on duty at the King Farm during the strike of workers against seventeen cents an hour wages. Near Morrisville, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania motor police on duty at the King Farm during the strike o...

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Pennsylvania motor police on duty at the King Farm during the strike of workers against seventeen cents and twenty cents an hour. Near Morrisville, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania motor police on duty at the King Farm during the strike o...

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Noonday dinner, family-style, at restaurant in Muskogee, Oklahoma. The price of this dinner was fifteen cents. It included a medium-sized serving of meat, sliced tomatoes and corn on the cob, potatoes, dumplings, corn bread and butter, tea and coffee, various jellies and preserves and onions. All you wanted of everything except the meat

Noonday dinner, family-style, at restaurant in Muskogee, Oklahoma. The...

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Migratory laborers' camp. Single-room cabin costs two dollars and fifty cents, double room four dollars per week. Water hauled, usually priced at fifty-five cents for fifty-five gallon tank. Toilet for about 150 people. Near Belle Glade, Florida

Migratory laborers' camp. Single-room cabin costs two dollars and fift...

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A black and white photo of a group of people standing in front of a train, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a group of people standing in front of a tr...

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A group of men standing next to a truck, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A group of men standing next to a truck, Tennessee. Farm Security Admi...

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Near Shafter, California. Family from Oklahoma lives in old cow-barn and picks cotton for seventy-five cents a 100 pounds. During cotton strike

Near Shafter, California. Family from Oklahoma lives in old cow-barn a...

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Packing fresh prunes at night on Produce Row during busy season, wages two cents per box. Washington, Yakima

Packing fresh prunes at night on Produce Row during busy season, wages...

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Gang of migratory carrot pullers in field. Wages: fourteen cents per crate of forty eight bunches. Imperial Valley, California

Gang of migratory carrot pullers in field. Wages: fourteen cents per c...

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An old black and white photo of a man and a woman standing next to an elephant, Mississippi. Farmers during Great Depression.

An old black and white photo of a man and a woman standing next to an ...

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Noonday dinner, family style, at restaurant in Muskogee, Oklahoma. The price of this dinner was fifteen cents. It included a medium-sized serving of meat, sliced tomatoes, beans, corn on the cob, potatoes, dumplings, corn bread and butter, tea and coffee, various jellies and preserves and onions. All you wanted of everything except the meat

Noonday dinner, family style, at restaurant in Muskogee, Oklahoma. The...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Builds own Jalopy. Washington, D.C., Feb. 2. Thirty dollars was all it cost Robert Preston, 16-year-old high school senior, to build this midget automobile. Weighing approximately 250 pounds, the 'jalopy' is powered with a washing machine motor of 3-4 horsepower and has a maximum speed of 20 miles an hour. His license tags for this year will cost 32 cents, 2-2-39

Builds own Jalopy. Washington, D.C., Feb. 2. Thirty dollars was all it...

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Working on jigs, with dormitories in the background at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp for defense workers. The dormitories at this project will accommodate, when finished, 952 single men. Dormitory residents will pay five dollars weekly for single rooms and three dollars and fifty cents weekly for each occupant sharing a double room. San Diego, California

Working on jigs, with dormitories in the background at the FSA (Farm S...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of migrant workers, 1930s car, Great Depression, Dust Bowl refugees, poverty, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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