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Views of the White Oak Cotton Mills, Greensboro, N.C., showing the beautiful location of the mill, its well-kept grounds, and the good housing conditions. Location: Greensboro, North Carolina.

Views of the White Oak Cotton Mills, Greensboro, N.C., showing the bea...

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Cheney Silk Mills. Favorable working conditions. Location: [South Manchester, Connecticut].

Cheney Silk Mills. Favorable working conditions. Location: [South Man...

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Cheney Silk Mills. Favorable working conditions. Location: [South Manchester, Connecticut]

Cheney Silk Mills. Favorable working conditions. Location: [South Man...

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Slums near the Capitol, Washington, D.C. With the Capitol clearly in view, these houses exist under the most unsanitary conditions; outside privies, no inside water supply and overcrowded conditions

Slums near the Capitol, Washington, D.C. With the Capitol clearly in v...

The Architect of the Capitol (AOC) is the federal agency responsible for the maintenance, operation, development, and preservation of the United States Capitol Complex, which includes the U.S. Capitol building,... More

A black and white photo of a group of people sewing. War Production FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a group of people sewing. War Production FS...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of workers, war production, aircraft, airfield, the 1930s -1940s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Veterans head urges change in pension plan. Washington, D.C., May 20. General Frank T. Hines, Director of the U.S. Veterans Administration, appearing before the Senate Finance Committee today to urge increase of veterans pensions under certain conditions, 5/20/38

Veterans head urges change in pension plan. Washington, D.C., May 20. ...

A black and white photo of a man reading a book. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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....

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Negroes in bunkhouse in strawberry fields near Hammond, Louisiana. Note crude bunks, straw mattresses, and crowded conditions

Negroes in bunkhouse in strawberry fields near Hammond, Louisiana. Not...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, meeting, civil rights movement, African Americans, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mother and three children living in abandoned church because of acute housing conditions. Near Laurel, Mississippi

Mother and three children living in abandoned church because of acute ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Living conditions were so crowded in Erie, Pennsylvania, that a defense worker and his family of three were found to be living in this attic room. One of the defense industries there, which holds large contracts for the Navy, expects an increase of 4,000 workers during the coming year. Practically all vacancies are already taken, and even the contemplated construction of new homes will fill only a fraction of the need. Realizing the urgency of this need, the Division of Defense Housing has programmed 300 homes in this area, 60 of which are already completed (July 1941). In the meantime, trailers are being used by the Division as a temporary expedient until the more permanent homes are completed

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Living conditions were so crowded...

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Production. Aircraft. A test engineer in the laboratories of a large Western aircraft plant. This hydraulic test equipment, with a capacity of 80,000 pounds, is used to squeeze, bend, stretch, or break every type of part used in aircraft construction. These tests assure that the part will stand the terrific strain of aerial combat conditions

Production. Aircraft. A test engineer in the laboratories of a large W...

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Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Guayule shrub in blossom. If growing conditions are good, the plant is a prolific seeder and the seeds have relatively high visability. Guayule plantings will produce a estimated 600 tons of rubber in 1943, provide a crop in 1944 which should yield 33,000 tons and a harvest in 1945 to yield 47,000 tons. An annual production of 70,000 tons to 80,000 tons will materialize if full capacity of nurseries now being built is utilized. Addition: This program is part of the Department of Agriculture's Emergency Rubber Project administered by the Forest Service under congressional authorization "to make available a source of crude rubber for emergency and defense uses"

Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Guayule shrub in blossom. If growing...

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Detroit, Michigan. Negro baby in a crib. These are conditions under which families originally lived before moving to the Sojourner Truth housing project

Detroit, Michigan. Negro baby in a crib. These are conditions under wh...

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Detroit, Michigan. Negro doing embroidery work in her bedroom. These are conditions under which families originally lived before moving to the Sojourner Truth housing project

Detroit, Michigan. Negro doing embroidery work in her bedroom. These a...

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Harvesting embryos containing yellow fever vaccine virus. Tops of eggs are removed by means of acetylene torch under completely sterile conditions. USPHS (United States Public Health Service) Rocky Mountain Laboratory, Hamilton, Montana

Harvesting embryos containing yellow fever vaccine virus. Tops of eggs...

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Parke, Davis and Company, manufacturing chemists, Detroit, Michigan. Filling ampoules with an arsenical drug under protected conditions

Parke, Davis and Company, manufacturing chemists, Detroit, Michigan. F...

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Daytona Beach, Florida. Low rent housing erected to make better living conditions available

Daytona Beach, Florida. Low rent housing erected to make better living...

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Negroes, descendants of former slaves of the Pettway Plantation. They are living under primitive conditions on the plantation. Gees Bend, Alabama

Negroes, descendants of former slaves of the Pettway Plantation. They ...

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The "East Side" of Pocahontas Country. The Aldrich home, - Buckeye, near Marlinton, West Virginia. This is one of the worst homes in the county. Note the duck-coop, made out of an old trunk, - in front yard. Mother said "The colt kicked the winders out." She is a no-'count mountaineer from Kentucky and her husband is a shiftless farmer who has let this farm run down to worthlessness. His father ran a prosperous farm here and owned hundreds of acres but the son has run thro[ugh] it all. Typical of worst conditions in the country. Oct 6, 1921. Location: Pocahontas County--Marlinton, West Virginia / Photo by L.W. Hine.

The "East Side" of Pocahontas Country. The Aldrich home, - Buckeye, ne...

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Cheney Silk Mills. Favorable working conditions. Location: [South Manchester, Connecticut]

Cheney Silk Mills. Favorable working conditions. Location: [South Man...

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Cheney Silk Mills. Favorable working conditions. Location: [South Manchester, Connecticut].

Cheney Silk Mills. Favorable working conditions. Location: [South Man...

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Cheney Silk Mills. Favorable working conditions. Location: [South Manchester, Connecticut].

Cheney Silk Mills. Favorable working conditions. Location: [South Man...

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U.S. Flyers win Mackay Award. Washington, D.C., May 8. Nine officers and enlisted men of the U.S. Air Corps were today presented with the Mackay trophy for 1936 as a reward for the heroic flight under unfavorable weather conditions from Langley Field, Virginia, to Allecan, Mich., last August. The trophy, which is awarded annually for the most meritorious air plane flight of the year, was presented to the flyers at Bolling Field, D.C., by Maj. General Malin Craig, U.S. Chief of Staff. In the photograph, left to right: Sergt. Frank B. Connor; Capt. Richard D. Nugent; Lieut. Edwin G. Simenson; Charles F. Horner, President of the National Aeronautic Association; Maj. General Malin Craig; Lieut. Burton W. Armstrong; Lieut. Herbert Morgan, Jr.; and Lieut. William P. Ragsdale, 5/8/1937

U.S. Flyers win Mackay Award. Washington, D.C., May 8. Nine officers a...

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Housing conditions in Ambridge, Pennsylvania, home of the American Bridge Company

Housing conditions in Ambridge, Pennsylvania, home of the American Bri...

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An old photo of a man standing in a door way, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

An old photo of a man standing in a door way, West Virginia. Farm Secu...

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MRS. ROOSEVELT FIRST PRESIDENT'S WIFE TO TESTIFY BEFORE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE. WASHINGTON, D.C. FEBRUARY 9. MRS. ROOSEVELT TODAY BECAME THE FIRST PRESIDENT'S WIFE TO TESTIFY BEFORE A CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE. SHE APPEARED BEFORE A HOUSE DISTRICT SUBCOMMITTEE TO TESTIFY CONCERNING CONDITIONS IN THE THREE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA WELFARE INSTITUTIONS, THE BLUE PLAINS HOME FOR AGED, THE CHILDREN'S RECEIVING HOME, AND THE INDUSTRIAL HOME SCHOOL FOR BOYS. A SHORT TIME AGO MRS. ROOSEVELT CONDEMNED CONDITIONS IN THESE INSTITUTIONS AFTER VISITING THEM

MRS. ROOSEVELT FIRST PRESIDENT'S WIFE TO TESTIFY BEFORE CONGRESSIONAL ...

A woman sitting at a table in front of a microphone. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Detroit, Michigan. A typical Negro worker's family. These are conditions under which families originally lived before moving to the Sojourner Truth housing project

Detroit, Michigan. A typical Negro worker's family. These are conditio...

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Detroit, Michigan. Bathroom of a Negro family. These are conditions under which families originally lived before moving to the Sojourner Truth housing project

Detroit, Michigan. Bathroom of a Negro family. These are conditions un...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Detroit, Michigan, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. The U.S. Weather Bureau station at the National Airport. Atmospheric conditions are transmitted by a weather radio instrument attached to the balloon which ascends to heights of fifteen to twenty miles

Washington, D.C. The U.S. Weather Bureau station at the National Airpo...

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And a Tommyhawk to you, Mr. Gurney.' Washington, D.C., May 13. Representing the Rosebud Tribe of the Sioux Indians of South Dakota, Chief Joe Thin Elk and Chief Steven Brave Bird were in Washington today to describe conditions at Rosebud So. Dakota, before the Senate Committee. Enroute, they dropped in on Senator Chan Gurney, So. Dakota. Left to right shows: Senator Chan Gurney, So. Dakota, Chief Joe Thin Elk, Rep. Francis H. Case, So. Dakota, and Chief Steven Brave Bird

And a Tommyhawk to you, Mr. Gurney.' Washington, D.C., May 13. Represe...

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Housing conditions at Lynchburg Cotton Mills are not very good. Houses are ill-kept and out of repair. Location: Lynchburg, Virginia.

Housing conditions at Lynchburg Cotton Mills are not very good. Houses...

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Public domain photograph of weaving textile, free to use, no copyright...

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Cheney Silk Mills. Favorable working conditions. Location: [South Manchester, Connecticut]

Cheney Silk Mills. Favorable working conditions. Location: [South Man...

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Cheney Silk Mills. Favorable working conditions. Location: [South Manchester, Connecticut].

Cheney Silk Mills. Favorable working conditions. Location: [South Man...

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Migrant workers' camp, outskirts of Marysville, California. The new migratory camps now being built by the Resettlement Administration will remove people from unsatisfactory living conditions such as these and substitute at least the minimum of comfort and sanitation

Migrant workers' camp, outskirts of Marysville, California. The new mi...

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Ideal grazing conditions are afforded by this area if it is properly utilized. Overgrazing has depleted natural forage until feeding scenes like this are common. Mew Mexico

Ideal grazing conditions are afforded by this area if it is properly u...

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New Public Contracts Board, Washington, D.C. Oct. 6. Members of the new public contracts board of the Department of Labor met today for the first time shortly after they were appointed by the Secretary Perkins. Hearings will be held immediately by the Board to make findings upon questions arrising under the Walsh-Healey law which went into effect last week and requires that manufacturers and dealers who make future contracts in excess of $10,000 with the Government shall comply with certain minimum wage, maximum hour and other labor conditions in the performance of the contract. In the photograph, left to right; Telfair Knight, Counsel for the Textile Labor Relations Division, Frank Healey of the office of the Solicitor of the Labor Department; and Hugh L.Kerwin, Director of Conciliation, Textile Labor Relations Division

New Public Contracts Board, Washington, D.C. Oct. 6. Members of the ne...

A black and white photo of three men sitting at a table. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Negroes at Gees Bend, Alabama. Descendants of former slaves of the Pettway Plantation. They are still living under very primitive conditions on the plantation

Negroes at Gees Bend, Alabama. Descendants of former slaves of the Pet...

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A couple of men standing next to each other, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A couple of men standing next to each other, West Virginia. Farm Secur...

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Constructing new elevated board walks, Pilottown, Louisiana. Variation of water level caused by tides and swampy conditions made these walks necessary

Constructing new elevated board walks, Pilottown, Louisiana. Variation...

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Migrant laborer from Ohio, picking beans. He said "This is some profession for a man isn't it? Freud and Adler should come around here and study living conditions and they'd have a lot more to say about the reasons for human beings' behavior. Four of us guys live in a palace in these Glades." Near Homestead, Florida

Migrant laborer from Ohio, picking beans. He said "This is some profes...

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Manuel Zorra, known as one of the best fishermen on the Cape, who in spite of bad fishing conditions, still keeps himself going by running a small boat with a minimum of crew, frequently by himself. Provincetown, Massachusetts

Manuel Zorra, known as one of the best fishermen on the Cape, who in s...

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Rolfe Lawrence Chickering, farmboy from Saint Johnsbury, Vermont, who came to work at Pratt and Whitney United Aircraft in January 1941. Because of congested housing conditions, he commutes twenty miles each way daily from East Hartford to Suffield, Connecticut, where he lives with a private family, pays eight dollars weekly for room and board. He is single, about twenty years old

Rolfe Lawrence Chickering, farmboy from Saint Johnsbury, Vermont, who ...

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An old man sitting on a bench next to a dog. Office of War Information Photograph

An old man sitting on a bench next to a dog. Office of War Information...

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

Parke, Davis and Company, manufacturing chemists, Detroit, Michigan. Filling ampoules with an arsenical drug under protected conditions

Parke, Davis and Company, manufacturing chemists, Detroit, Michigan. F...

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Australia in the war. An American tank, manned by Australian troops is subjected to conditions it is likely to encounter in actual battle during training exercises of the Australian armored forces

Australia in the war. An American tank, manned by Australian troops is...

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Cheney Silk Mills. Favorable working conditions. Location: [South Manchester, Connecticut].

Cheney Silk Mills. Favorable working conditions. Location: [South Man...

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Housing conditions are not very good in Matoaca, Virginia Ebb-tide in industry. Location: Matoaca, Virginia.

Housing conditions are not very good in Matoaca, Virginia Ebb-tide in ...

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Cheney Silk Mills. Favorable working conditions. Location: [South Manchester, Connecticut].

Cheney Silk Mills. Favorable working conditions. Location: [South Man...

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Uncle Sam's monetary brains. Washington, D.C., Jan. 7. The government's experts on money matters met with Senate and House leaders today to discuss legislation to be submitted to the 75th session of Congress. A discussion was made at the conference to extend the life of important federal monetary lending agencies, and also, to move in giving the President authority to discontinue the R.F.C. at anytime the conditions warrant. In the photograph, left to right: Jesse Jones, Chairman of the Treasury; Senator Pat Harrison, Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee; and Marriner Eccles, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board

Uncle Sam's monetary brains. Washington, D.C., Jan. 7. The government'...

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Cheney Silk Mills. Favorable working conditions. Location: [South Manchester, Connecticut]

Cheney Silk Mills. Favorable working conditions. Location: [South Man...

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Cheney Silk Mills. Favorable working conditions. Location: [South Manchester, Connecticut].

Cheney Silk Mills. Favorable working conditions. Location: [South Man...

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In spotlight at show hearing before tariff commission. Washington, D.C., Oct. 26. Charles F. Johnson, (right) first President of the Endicott- Johnson Corp., today told the Reciprocity Committee at the Tariff Commission that the Roosevelt Administration was being inconsistent in urging higher wages and shorter hours and at the same time encouraging influx of competitive products manufactured under sub-standard labor conditions. Also in picture are Rep. Bert Lord, of New York (left) and B.H. Crompton, of the H.C. Godman Company. (center)

In spotlight at show hearing before tariff commission. Washington, D.C...

A black and white photo of three men in suits. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ruins of old brick structures, Washington, D.C. Sections of these buildings are still inhabited. The Government Printing Office is shown in the background. This section of Washington has some of the worst housing conditions in the District and for the most part, is completely Negro. None of these houses has inside toilets or water supply

Ruins of old brick structures, Washington, D.C. Sections of these buil...

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Howard Hughes speaking before the Press Club. Washington, D.C., July 21. Howard Hughes, speaking at the National Press Club today, before hundreds of government officials and representatives of foreign governments. Hughes today envisioned a future in aviation when giant flying boats, almost as large as modern ocean liners, will fly the Atlantic under conditions in which the element of luck will play no part, speaking at the luncheon in his honor, he described in detail the type of flying craft and equipment he believes the future will see but which is now nothing more than an aeronautical engineers dream, 7/21/38

Howard Hughes speaking before the Press Club. Washington, D.C., July 2...

A black and white photo of a man in a suit. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tarpaper shacks on outskirts of town are a result of overcrowded conditions in existing homes for steel workers. Midland, Pennsylvania

Tarpaper shacks on outskirts of town are a result of overcrowded condi...

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Tulare County, California. Living conditions of migrant agricultural workers on whom the crops of California depend

Tulare County, California. Living conditions of migrant agricultural w...

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Living conditions for migrant potato pickers. Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California

Living conditions for migrant potato pickers. Tulelake, Siskiyou Count...

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Manuel Zorra, known as one of the best fishermen on the Cape, who in spite of bad fishing conditions, still keeps himself going by running a small boat with a minimum crew, frequently by himself. Provincetown, Massachusetts

Manuel Zorra, known as one of the best fishermen on the Cape, who in s...

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Signs in front of private home, evidence of boom town and crowded housing conditions. Hartford, Connecticut

Signs in front of private home, evidence of boom town and crowded hous...

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Rolfe Lawrence Chickering, farmboy from Saint Johnsbury, Vermont, who came to work at Pratt and Whitney United Aircraft in January 1941. Because of congested housing conditions, he commutes twenty miles each way daily from East Hartford to Suffield, Connecticut, where he lives with a private family, pays eight dollars weekly for room and board. He is single, about twenty years old

Rolfe Lawrence Chickering, farmboy from Saint Johnsbury, Vermont, who ...

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Housing conditions have been so acute at Hermiston, Oregon that authorities at the Umatilla ordnance depot have experimentally converted some igloos into housing quarters Satisfactory comment has been received from single workmen so housed

Housing conditions have been so acute at Hermiston, Oregon that author...

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Housing conditions have been so acute at Hermiston, Oregon, that authorities at the Umatilla ordnance depot have experimentally converted some igloos into housing quarters. Satisfactory comment has been received from single workmen so housed

Housing conditions have been so acute at Hermiston, Oregon, that autho...

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Detroit, Michigan. Typical Negro residence. These are conditions under which families originally lived before moving to the Sojourner Truth housing project

Detroit, Michigan. Typical Negro residence. These are conditions under...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Detroit, Michigan, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Detroit, Michigan. Looking towards downtown from the slum area. These are conditions under which families originally lived before moving to the Sojourner Truth housing project

Detroit, Michigan. Looking towards downtown from the slum area. These ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Detroit, Michigan, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Detroit, Michigan. Typical Negro residence. These are conditions under which families originally lived before moving to the Sojourner Truth housing project

Detroit, Michigan. Typical Negro residence. These are conditions under...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Detroit, Michigan, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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Public domain photograph of weaving textile, free to use, no copyright...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of weaving textile, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Cheney Silk Mills. Favorable working conditions. Location: [South Manchester, Connecticut]

Cheney Silk Mills. Favorable working conditions. Location: [South Man...

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A black and white photo of an old house. Great Depression FSA photogpraph

A black and white photo of an old house. Great Depression FSA photogpr...

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

An old black and white photo of two men and a woman, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

An old black and white photo of two men and a woman, West Virginia. Fa...

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

Housing conditions in Ambridge, Pennsylvania. Home of the American Bridge Company

Housing conditions in Ambridge, Pennsylvania. Home of the American Bri...

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Pennsylvania: A black and white photo of a group of children. Great Depression

Pennsylvania: A black and white photo of a group of children. Great De...

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Migratory field worker picking cotton in San Joaquin Valley, California. These cotton pickers are being paid seventy-five cents per one hundred pounds. Strikers organizing under the Congress of Industrial Organizations union (CIO) demand one dollar. A good male picker, in good cotton, under favorable weather conditions, can pick about two hundred pounds in a day's work

Migratory field worker picking cotton in San Joaquin Valley, Californi...

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A black and white photo of a man and two children, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a man and two children, West Virginia. Farm...

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

Great Depression: A black and white photo of a group of people. Farm Security Administration photogrpaph.

Great Depression: A black and white photo of a group of people. Farm S...

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Living conditions for migratory laborers in private auto camp. Tent space fifty cents per week. Calipatria, Imperial County

Living conditions for migratory laborers in private auto camp. Tent sp...

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Mother and three children living in abandoned church because of acute housing conditions. Near Laurel, Mississippi

Mother and three children living in abandoned church because of acute ...

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Monopoly Committee told price of auto wheels reduced 20 per cent in last five years. Washington, D.C., Jan. 20. Clarence C. Carlton, President of the Motor Wheel Corp. of Detroit, today told the Monopoly Committee that the patent system had engendered competitive conditions in the auto industry and lowered the cost of the product. He said, for example, that the cost of wheels had been reduced 20 percent during the last five years, 1/20/39

Monopoly Committee told price of auto wheels reduced 20 per cent in la...

A black and white photo of a man in a suit and tie. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A couple of women standing next to each other. Office of War Information Photograph

A couple of women standing next to each other. Office of War Informati...

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

Home of Mr. and Mrs. George Callahan, whose husband works at Hartford Linen Supply. They have four children and have always lived in Hartford, but now find conditions so overcrowded and congested, and with the rent gauging and discriminating against families with children so severe it is impossible for them to locate adequate housing

Home of Mr. and Mrs. George Callahan, whose husband works at Hartford ...

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Detroit, Michigan. Looking towards downtown from the slum area in the early morning. These are conditions under which families originally lived before moving to the Sojourner Truth housing project

Detroit, Michigan. Looking towards downtown from the slum area in the ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Detroit, Michigan, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Detroit, Michigan. Seven Negro families live in this di lapidated house. These are conditions under which families originally lived before moving to the Sojourner Truth housing project

Detroit, Michigan. Seven Negro families live in this di lapidated hous...

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Greenville, South Carolina. Men of the medical unit of the 25th service group demonstrating a blood plasma transfusion under simulated field conditions

Greenville, South Carolina. Men of the medical unit of the 25th servic...

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Smallest boy is Dorris Fabanks[?], been working in Yocona Mill, Water Valley Miss., one year. Larger boy (brother) been there six years. Housing conditions bad. Location: Water Valley, Mississippi.

Smallest boy is Dorris Fabanks[?], been working in Yocona Mill, Water ...

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Housing conditions in the settlement of workers in Alabama Canning Co. Two families to a house, but they are separated. Housing conditions fairly good. Location: Bayou La Batre, Alabama

Housing conditions in the settlement of workers in Alabama Canning Co....

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 1996. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div... More

Cheney Silk Mills. Favorable working conditions. Location: [South Manchester, Connecticut]

Cheney Silk Mills. Favorable working conditions. Location: [South Man...

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Cheney Silk Mills. Favorable working conditions. Location: [South Manchester, Connecticut].

Cheney Silk Mills. Favorable working conditions. Location: [South Man...

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Cheney Silk Mills. Favorable working conditions. Location: [South Manchester, Connecticut].

Cheney Silk Mills. Favorable working conditions. Location: [South Man...

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Cheney Silk Mills. Favorable working conditions. Location: [South Manchester, Connecticut].

Cheney Silk Mills. Favorable working conditions. Location: [South Man...

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Big talk on little houses. These high officials of the New Deal's housing family photographed as they concluded a conference with President Roosevelt. From the left: Stewart McDonald, head of the [FHA?]; Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Morris L. Coske, head of Rural Electrification, and Peter Grimm, housing expert working in the Treasury Department. Grimm and his associates from New York are concluding a report on housing conditions east of the Mississippi which is expected to show only from 2 to 4 percent vacancies. His report to the President is expected to have a bearing on the future policy of both Federal Housing, Works Progress Administration, the Rural Electrification program and Rural Resettlement, 10/29/35

Big talk on little houses. These high officials of the New Deal's hous...

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Street in Bound Brook, New Jersey, showing crowded conditions

Street in Bound Brook, New Jersey, showing crowded conditions

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Slum housing conditions on the outskirts of a steel mill. Ensley, Alabama

Slum housing conditions on the outskirts of a steel mill. Ensley, Alab...

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American Industry will be benefited if labor wage-and-hour bill is passed, says Mme. Perkins. Washington, D.C., June 4. American industry will be a principal beneficiary of federal legeslation to stabilize wages, hours and working conditions, Secretary of Labors Perkins told the Senate and House Labor Committees today before whom she appeared to endorse the Black-Connery Wage and Hour Bill. Removal of sweatshop conditions is the object of this pending bill, 6/4/37

American Industry will be benefited if labor wage-and-hour bill is pas...

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Flame propogation in gas engines photographed. Washington, D.C., Aug. 26. A study of the mechanism of the flame propogation in the cylinder of a internal combustion engine is being made at the U.S. Bureau of Standards for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. A secial bomb made of steel, shown in the foreground, and designed to withstand pressures up to 500 lbs. to the square inch is used to show the progress of the flame and the rise in pressure which may be recorded photographically during the gas explosions under carefully controlled conditions. The camera, where the recordings are made, is in front of Dr. Ernest F. Flock of the Bureau of Standards, carries its film on a drum which may be revolved up to 4,000 revolutions per minute, this camera also records a neon light flashing at a thousandth of a second. The independent effects of pressure, temperature and charge composition upon flame speed and explosion ratio may be made with this equipment, 8/26/37

Flame propogation in gas engines photographed. Washington, D.C., Aug. ...

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Housing conditions in Ambridge, Pennsylvania, home of the American Bridge Company

Housing conditions in Ambridge, Pennsylvania, home of the American Bri...

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Privies. Onward march the crusaders of rural sanitary conditions. Southeast Missouri Farms Project

Privies. Onward march the crusaders of rural sanitary conditions. Sout...

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Improvements impossible unless rail wage cut - fact finding committee told. Washington, D.C., Oct. 7. Charles Donnelly, President of the Northern Pacific Railroad, today told the fact finding committee that it would be impossible for any railroad to spend money for improvements under present conditions. He urged approval of the wage cut, 10/7/38

Improvements impossible unless rail wage cut - fact finding committee ...

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Living conditions for migrant potato pickers. Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California. General caption number 63-1

Living conditions for migrant potato pickers. Tulelake, Siskiyou Count...

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Trail's End trailer court. This is one of the trailer courts which will probably be condemned by the board of health because of overcrowding and unsanitary conditions. The number of such undesirable courts in San Diego is, however, relatively small. San Diego, California

Trail's End trailer court. This is one of the trailer courts which wil...

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First Chinese seamen granted shore leave in wartime America. Chinese seamen on United Nations' vessels may now obtain shore leave in American ports. Heretofore, because of the large number of desertions by Chinese crew members, alien seamen of Chinese nationality have been detained on board when their ships touched American ports. As a result of conferences between representatives of the Chinese Embassy, the Recruitment and Manning Organization of War Shipping Administration, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the Department of Justice, Chinese seamen may now be granted shore leave if guarantees are given that they will not desert. After delivering the captain's laundry, this Chinese messboy aboard a British vessel will have his first visit in New York. He is one of a number of Chinese seamen who were recently permitted shore leave for the first time in the United States under wartime conditions

First Chinese seamen granted shore leave in wartime America. Chinese s...

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