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Group of cash boys in Holmes Department Store showing the youngest workers there and typical type of conditions in New Orleans department stores. Location: New Orleans, Louisiana.

Group of cash boys in Holmes Department Store showing the youngest wor...

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[Kerr Thread Mill. All over 16. Having fun with camera man. Good conditions in this mill. Caps to protect hair from dust and to keep hair from getting tangled in machinery. These girls worked in an operating room - not the cloth room. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

[Kerr Thread Mill. All over 16. Having fun with camera man. Good condi...

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

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...

Picryl description: Public domain image of girl workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, 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...

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

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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Southeast Missouri Farms. Crowded conditions in sharecropper's shack. La Forge, Missouri

Southeast Missouri Farms. Crowded conditions in sharecropper's shack. ...

Public domain photograph of pharmacy, convenience store, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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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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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

Typical workers in Barker Cotton Mill where good conditions prevail. See Alabama report. Location: Mobile, Alabama.

Typical workers in Barker Cotton Mill where good conditions prevail. S...

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

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'...

A group of men standing next to each other. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Anne Morgan, center, daughter of J.P. Morgan, half-length, standing, facing left, investigating the working conditions of coal miners in western Pennsylvania]

[Anne Morgan, center, daughter of J.P. Morgan, half-length, standing, ...

J154743 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Coolidge & Sec. Work with Com. on Patent Office conditions, 10/6/24

Coolidge & Sec. Work with Com. on Patent Office conditions, 10/6/24

A group of men standing in front of a white house. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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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Public forum - H. Duncan Hall, former high official of the League of Nations, will discuss the essential conditions of any lasting peace / designed & made by Iowa Art Program, W.P.A.

Public forum - H. Duncan Hall, former high official of the League of N...

Poster announcing a public forum in Des Moines, Iowa. Date stamped on verso: Nov 8 1940. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

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...

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

Crowded conditions in home of small farm owner in Arkansas River bottoms. Near Vian, Oklahoma

Crowded conditions in home of small farm owner in Arkansas River botto...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

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

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

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...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

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...

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

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...

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

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...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a fort tower, stone walls, fortification, 18th-19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Foods such as these--turnips, pumpkins, onions, potatoes, apples, pears--can be kept for several months if stored right. The best type of storage depends upon the climate, the soil conditions, and the materials you have to work with. Now you will see pictures of many different types of storage, and perhaps they will help you decide which type would be best for your farm

Foods such as these--turnips, pumpkins, onions, potatoes, apples, pear...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, 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.

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.

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Mrs. Elouise J. Ellis has been appointed by the civil service to be senior supervisor in the assembly and repairs department at the Naval air base in Corpus Christi, Texas. She buoys up feminine morale in her department by arranging suitable living conditions for out-of-state employees and by helping them with their personal problems

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Mrs. Elouise J. Ellis has been ...

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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.

Housing conditions in the settlement of Dunbar. They are better than the average. See church in distance. Have their own jail. Houses and wood furnished. Location: Dunbar, Louisiana.

Housing conditions in the settlement of Dunbar. They are better than t...

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

George W. Brown to Abraham Lincoln, Thursday, April 18, 1861 (Conditions in Baltimore; with endorsement from Thomas Hicks)

George W. Brown to Abraham Lincoln, Thursday, April 18, 1861 (Conditi...

9 year old cash girl in Gafer Department store. At first glance the home conditions with a one-armed father and several children in the family would indicate that her small wages were needed, but when we found that the father is able to do certain kinds of work, and that they have relatives who are well-to-do, there was no doubt that the family could get along without her working. In almost all the cases investigated, the need for the child's earning was very small. Location: Mobile, Alabama.

9 year old cash girl in Gafer Department store. At first glance the ho...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Group of boys who work in Suncock (N. H.) Mills. It is a large corporation, employing 1200 hands, but in all the three mills, I found only 1 girl and three boys that seemed to be under 14. Unusual conditions for a large N.H. Mill. Sanitary conditions here are exceptionally good, for this section. I investigated all three mills freely and was unknown and usually unattended by anyone. Location: Suncock, New Hampshire.

Group of boys who work in Suncock (N. H.) Mills. It is a large corpora...

Public domain image of personnel, army, group of people in uniform, parade, historic place, military activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Housing conditions, Floyd Cotton Mill. Location: Rome, Georgia.

Housing conditions, Floyd Cotton Mill. Location: Rome, Georgia.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a tavern, pub, or small restaurant, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Sandy Beach. Two girls in foreground about 15. Mr. Tebbutt says dance hall bad conditions. Saturday evening dancing would be about the same as this. Penny picture machine attracting crowds. See 4184. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

Sandy Beach. Two girls in foreground about 15. Mr. Tebbutt says dance ...

Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Elgin Six ... reporting road conditions for benefit of tourists to all national associations, clubs & newspapers

Elgin Six ... reporting road conditions for benefit of tourists to all...

Group of people, in Elgin Six official scout car, stopped in front of A.A.A. Chicago Motor Club. J226977 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Kaufmann & Fabry. No. 11-8483-9.

A committee of unemployed wives fron West Virginia fields called on Pres. Harding & explained the conditions that now exist at their homes. Pres. Harding is trying to do all he can to better conditions. [...] called on Secy. of Labor Davis. Left to right: Lawrence Dwyer, Mrs. Alice Underwood, Alex Martin, Ed Williams, Hattie Underwood, Secy. Davis, Dorothy Underwood & Carl Brown (in back)

A committee of unemployed wives fron West Virginia fields called on Pr...

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Bur. of Engraving and Printing Executives who waited on Pres. Harding. They left without seeing the Pres. A letter was received later by John J. Deviny from the Pres. Secy. expressing regret that the Pres. was out when they called, but it did not clear the clouded conditions surrounding the dismsalls [sic]

Bur. of Engraving and Printing Executives who waited on Pres. Harding....

Public domain photograph of building interior, office, room, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Once with happier surroundings, this section now houses a large crowded Negro population living in most unsanitary conditions, Washington, D.C.

Once with happier surroundings, this section now houses a large crowde...

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Will the gentleman yield? The senator from Virginia, Carter Glass, left, apparently has the right-of-way over Sen. Duncan U. Fletcher, D. of Fla., as the two meet at a corner of a hallway in the Senate office building. Sen. Glass has been busy lately baiting Marriner Eccles, governor of the Federal Reserve Board, and he may have more thoughts for financial affairs than traffic conditions. 2/5/35

Will the gentleman yield? The senator from Virginia, Carter Glass, lef...

A group of men standing next to each other. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Some of the operators at the Jersey Homesteads garment factory working at their machines for union wages and under union conditions. Hightstown, New Jersey

Some of the operators at the Jersey Homesteads garment factory working...

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

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

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

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

Great Depression: A black and white photo of people standing around a ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

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

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, 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...

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

Greater need for rural relief. Washington, D.C., Jan. 11. A bleak picture of rural districts accompanied by inadequacy of federal relief facilities was presented by Sec. of Agriculture Henry Wallace today before the Senate Unemployment Committee. Tying the rural economic conditions to those of industry and labor, the Secretary emphasized that, "it is especially important to hold up the truth that the welfare of all these groups moves together," 1/11/38

Greater need for rural relief. Washington, D.C., Jan. 11. A bleak pict...

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

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...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

One-room school house showing overcrowded conditions and need for repairs and equipment. Breathitt County, Kentucky

One-room school house showing overcrowded conditions and need for repa...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a small school, cabin, education facility, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Men on car by tents. Construction workers in front of tents. Names: William Allen Jones, Fort Benning, Paul Knight, Fort Benning, J.F. Goza, C.D. Brownlee and B.I. Juhan. For space only in W.T. Mullis' backyard they pay two dollars a week. Two of them are now working at Fort Benning and others the Williams Construction Company, building foundations for new barracks, got laid off couple of weeks ago for indefinite time. They all came from Stone Mountain, Atlanta, Georgia, where they worked on WPA (Work Projects Administration). Some have been here one month. One said "There's something crooked in this here job--some men have worked every day seven days a week and others get no work at all. It's a dirty shame and the government ought to know about these conditions and see what goes on. It's awful bad."

Men on car by tents. Construction workers in front of tents. Names: Wi...

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One-room schoolhouse showing overcrowded conditions and the need for repairs and equipment. Breathitt County, Kentucky

One-room schoolhouse showing overcrowded conditions and the need for r...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a classroom, college auditorium, school, students, teacher, teaching, studying, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

One-room schoolhouse showing overcrowded conditions and need for repairs and equipment. Breathitt County, Kentucky

One-room schoolhouse showing overcrowded conditions and need for repai...

Public domain photograph of life in the United States in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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 ...

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

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

Detroit, Michigan. Negro residence. These are conditions under which f...

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

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

Detroit, Michigan. Negro family at dinner. These are conditions under ...

Public domain photographs related to race relations, African Americans, discrimination, segregation, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

ODT system of port control. Joseph B. Eastman, Defense Transportation director (seated), checks a traffic channels map with Henry F. McCarthy (left), director of the Division of Traffic Movement, and V.V. Boatner, director of the Division of Railway Transport. These maps, changed daily, show nation-wide railway traffic conditions

ODT system of port control. Joseph B. Eastman, Defense Transportation ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, group of people, meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. A lieutenant in the United States Army Air Transport Command calling the airport to check on flight conditions before checking out at the United Nations service center

Washington, D.C. A lieutenant in the United States Army Air Transport ...

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

United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration training center, University of Maryland. College Park, Maryland. In a section of the University for students who are working on problems and conditions which they will encounter while serving newly-liberated areas overseas

United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration training cente...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, group of people, meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

John Pope to Abraham Lincoln, Sunday, January 27, 1861 (Conditions in the army)

John Pope to Abraham Lincoln, Sunday, January 27, 1861 (Conditions in...

George Denny to William H. Randall, Friday, December 11, 1863 (Conditions in Kentucky)

George Denny to William H. Randall, Friday, December 11, 1863 (Condit...

Housing conditions Adelaide Mill. The village is run down and greatly in need of sanitary improvements. Location: Anniston, Alabama.

Housing conditions Adelaide Mill. The village is run down and greatly ...

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Housing conditions at Roanoke (Virginia) Cotton Mills are not very good. Houses run down and not well kept. Location: Roanoke, Virginia.

Housing conditions at Roanoke (Virginia) Cotton Mills are not very goo...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power station, dam, electric generator, industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Dust storm. It was conditions of this sort which forced many farmers to abandon the area. Spring 1935. New Mexico

Dust storm. It was conditions of this sort which forced many farmers t...

Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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...

Public domain vintage artistic photograph, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Group of workers in Lane Cotton Mill, New Orleans, showing the youngest workers, and typical of conditions in New Orleans. Violations of the law are rare. Location: New Orleans, Louisiana.

Group of workers in Lane Cotton Mill, New Orleans, showing the younges...

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.

Dr. Sillengings warm weather clime out of doors at the ARC children's dispensary in a ruined Roman tower at Marseilles. This work is especially necessary in Marseilles because of the wretched sanitary conditions. Since the war began the population of Marseilles is practically doubled by the influx of foreigners from all the Mediterranean countries. The resultant conditions are unspeakable

Dr. Sillengings warm weather clime out of doors at the ARC children's ...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Commission to France. Group title: France, Children, Dispensary. Data: Red Cr... More

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

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

Picryl description: Public domain image of girl workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, 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...

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

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....

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

Corner of bedroom of farm family who are now on WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration). Near Sallisaw, Oklahoma. Notice crowded conditions

Corner of bedroom of farm family who are now on WPA (Works Progress Ad...

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Mrs. Eloise J. Ellis has been appointed by civil service to be senior supervisor in the Assembly and Repairs Department at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. She buoys up feminine morale in her department by arranging suitable living conditions for out-of-state employees and by helping them with their personal problems

Mrs. Eloise J. Ellis has been appointed by civil service to be senior ...

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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...

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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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One-room school showing overcrowded conditions and need for repairs and equipment. Breathitt County, Kentucky

One-room school showing overcrowded conditions and need for repairs an...

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Overcrowded conditions in a rural school near Morehead, Kentucky

Overcrowded conditions in a rural school near Morehead, Kentucky

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One-room schoolhouse showing overcrowded conditions and need for repairs and equipment. Breathitt County, Kentucky

One-room schoolhouse showing overcrowded conditions and need for repai...

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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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Dyer Nick Velardo matches dyed silk with color specified in customer's order; use of incandescent and florescent bulbs seen in this frame allows him to assess color under different lighting conditions.

Dyer Nick Velardo matches dyed silk with color specified in customer's...

Forms part of a group of images taken in the dye house adjacent to the main Joseph Teshon, Inc. building on September 12, 1994.

John E. Tallon to Abraham Lincoln, Saturday, December 26, 1863 (Conditions in Louisiana)

John E. Tallon to Abraham Lincoln, Saturday, December 26, 1863 (Condi...

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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New 'Mosquito Boat' ready for action. Washington, D.C., June 19. The PT-9, first of the American Motor Torpedo Boats to be delivered to the U.S. Navy under the President's $15,000,000 experimental small craft program had a preview showing for the press today. The 'Mosquito Boat' and eight other ones will be based at the naval operating base, Norfolk, Virginia, where they will undergo service tests under various sea conditions to determine their capabilities and limitations. This is the same type of boat that the government is in the process of releasing to the British Navy. Chairman David L. Walsh of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee expressed indignation over the Navy's action in this respect in view of the fact that this government is trying to build up its own sea power

New 'Mosquito Boat' ready for action. Washington, D.C., June 19. The P...

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