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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...

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Housing conditions, Lindale, Ga. Not a thing neglected, except the child. Massachusetts[achusetts] Mills. Location: Lindale, Georgia.

Housing conditions, Lindale, Ga. Not a thing neglected, except the chi...

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Housing Conditions of the white workers in Varn & Platt. Location: Bluffton, South Carolina.

Housing Conditions of the white workers in Varn & Platt. Location: Bl...

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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...

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Anniston Mfg. Co. Not so good as it looks. Sanitation is bad, and child labor conditions worst in town. Location: Anniston, Alabama.

Anniston Mfg. Co. Not so good as it looks. Sanitation is bad, and chil...

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President Harding with his Secty. George Christian, makes a personal inspection of conditions on the streets of the National Capitol

President Harding with his Secty. George Christian, makes a personal i...

Walking along slushy street. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. In album: Washington, D.C., 1922, v. 2, Herbert E. French, National Photo Company. National Photo Company Collect... 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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Discusses agricultural conditions with president. Mrs. Asle J. Gronna, wife of the late United States Senator from North Dakota and admitted expert on farm matters, snapped leaving the White House today. Mrs. Gronna discussed agricultural matters at length with President Coolidge stating that with proper legislative support the farmers of the northwest could again show a profit in place of a loss. Mrs. Gronna is the directing head of the Gronna Investment Company controlling thousands of acres of North Dakota wheat, cattle and sheep land

Discusses agricultural conditions with president. Mrs. Asle J. Gronna,...

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Grand jury "killed" union-sponsored program in Harlan County, Ky. Washington, D.C., April 27. Appearing before the Senate Civil Liberties Committee today, former Rep. John Young Brown related how a union-sponsored radio program, designed to give publicity to the conditions in "Bloody Harlan" County, was destroyed because the Harlan grand jury threaten to summon all participants in the program. Brown added, "the man scheduled to make the next speech on the program, which was sponsored by the United Mine Workers, suddenly developed business in Chicago, another lost his way while coming to the studio, and another didn't get there on time," 4/27/1937

Grand jury "killed" union-sponsored program in Harlan County, Ky. Wash...

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Family of Cajun farmer living near New Iberia, Louisiana. Mr. De Buis and wife have six children. They own twenty acres of ground on which there is a small, plainly furnished, but comfortable house. He is a young, enterprising farmer. He raises cane and some corn for feed. He has about 200 chickens, two cows and several hogs. He is very pessimistic over farm conditions, commenting "What we going to do if they keep on cutting us down?"

Family of Cajun farmer living near New Iberia, Louisiana. Mr. De Buis ...

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Former coal miner, worked twelve years for Chaplin Coal Company as hand coal loader. He and several others complained to company about conditions not being up to NRA (National Recovery Administration) standards. All lost jobs. He's now on WPA (Works Progress Administration) at thirty-eight dollars and twenty-five cents per month. Scotts Run, West Virginia

Former coal miner, worked twelve years for Chaplin Coal Company as han...

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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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Migratory field worker picking cotton in San Joaquin Valley, California. These pickers are paid seventy-five cents per hundred pounds of picked cotton. Strikers organizing under CIO union (Congress of Industrial Organizations) are demanding 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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And fall. Washington, D.C., April 9. Weather Bureau observers stationed along the principal rivers of the United States soon will be able to follow the rise and fall of nearby river merely by picking up a telephone and dialing a given number. Preliminary trials for the last few months here show that a new automatic sound river gauge effectively and economically supplies the facts weathermen need in forecasting floods and supplying other information on river conditions for many interests. More weather bureau stations will install the new gages as fast as possible. (1)A river gauge on the Potomac River in the Capitol, where formerly a U.S. Weather Bureau Scientist had to go to this gauge box to take a reading on the river's height, all he has to do now is to pick up his telephone, dial the number of Potomac River, listen for a gong, then a buzz and at last another buzz, and then he will know whether the river is rising or falling, 4/9/38

And fall. Washington, D.C., April 9. Weather Bureau observers statione...

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Mexican girl removing shells from small pieces of pecan meats. This is done with the finger tips. Lighting conditions are very poor. San Antonio, Texas

Mexican girl removing shells from small pieces of pecan meats. This is...

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Sampling and grading cotton as to length and staple and grade under daylight conditions. Compress, Houston, Texas

Sampling and grading cotton as to length and staple and grade under da...

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

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

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Mexican girl removing shells from small pieces of pecan meats. This is done with the finger tips. Lighting conditions are very poor. San Antonio, Texas

Mexican girl removing shells from small pieces of pecan meats. This is...

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Car in which school superintendent and photographer went up South Fork of the Kentucky River to take pictures of conditions in rural schools. Breathitt County, Kentucky

Car in which school superintendent and photographer went up South Fork...

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Housing conditions in one house in Negro quarter of New Brighton, Pennsylvania

Housing conditions in one house in Negro quarter of New Brighton, Penn...

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A black and white photo of a city street, Washington DC. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a city street, Washington DC. Farm Security...

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 Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se... More

The victory on the household front. The above poster, designed by the Consumer Division of the Office of Price Administration (OPA) , is being used as part of the national campaign to conserve materials which are no longer available or have become scarce as a result of war conditions

The victory on the household front. The above poster, designed by the ...

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In Breathitt County, Kentucky, the children must travel such long distances over poor roads and up creek beds that they bring their lunches in pails. Mrs. Marie R. Turner, the county superintendent is trying to institute a hot lunch program in all the schools to give them a more well-balanced diet and improve health conditions

In Breathitt County, Kentucky, the children must travel such long dist...

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Fruit farmer and his wife in their living room. Placer County, California. These people have raised fruit on four hundred acres for twenty-five years but because of changed market conditions are now heavily in debt to the Federal Land Bank. This year they didn't even pick many of their pears, knowing they couldn't sell them

Fruit farmer and his wife in their living room. Placer County, Califor...

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Overcrowded conditions and poor equipment in rural mountain school. In Breathitt County, Kentucky

Overcrowded conditions and poor equipment in rural mountain school. In...

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Veteran Polish weather expert joins staff of Smithsonian Institution. Washington, D.C. March 14. With home, laboratory, and invaluable records of years presumably lost in the recent Polish War, Dr. Henryk Arctowski, of the University of Lvov, one of Poland's foremost scientists and former Antarctic explorer, has started at the Smithsonian Institution the monumental job of determining direct effects of changes in the Sun's radiation on weather conditions on Earth. Recognized in all countries as one of the greatest living authorities on world weather, Dr. Arctowski is continuing his studies in efforts to find relationships between solar conditions and rainfall, barometric pressure, etc., at various places on Earth. His earliest meteorlogical observation began as a young geologist on the Antarctic exploring ship Belgica in 1897-99. For release morning papers of March 18 - 40

Veteran Polish weather expert joins staff of Smithsonian Institution. ...

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A black and white photo of a man sitting on a chair. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man sitting on a chair. Office of War Inf...

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. William McCarthy. He works at Arrow Hart-Hageman Electric Company and they are natives of Hartford, Connecticut. His wife broke her leg and they have to find another apartment, as rents are so high and conditions so crowded

Home of Mr. and Mrs. William McCarthy. He works at Arrow Hart-Hageman ...

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A man sitting at a table in a doorway. Office of War Information Photograph

A man sitting at a table in a doorway. Office of War Information Photo...

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

Detroit, Michigan. Back view of a Negro's home. These are conditions under which families originally lived before moving to the Sojourner Truth housing project

Detroit, Michigan. Back view of a Negro's home. These are conditions u...

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Nyssa, Oregon. FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp now inhabited by Japanese-Americans who volunteered to do farm work. The U.S. Employment Service and the local sugar beet companies made agreements as to wages, working conditions, transportation, recreational facilities and medical care

Nyssa, Oregon. FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp now inha...

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Detroit, Michigan. Negro father playing with baby daughter. Old style burner in the foreground. These are conditions under which families originally lived before moving to the Sojourner Truth housing project

Detroit, Michigan. Negro father playing with baby daughter. Old style ...

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Millie, four years old and Nellie five years old. Cotton pickers on a farm near Houston, Millie picks eight pounds a day and Nellie thirty pounds. This is nearly every day. Home conditions bare and bad. Location: Houston [vicinity], Texas.

Millie, four years old and Nellie five years old. Cotton pickers on a ...

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Newsie in cellar-room of a paper office in alley back of Main Street, waiting for evening papers, 4 P.M. Conditions here vile. Location: Rochester, New York (State)

Newsie in cellar-room of a paper office in alley back of Main Street, ...

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Boy Sweeper, Lincoln Cotton Mills, Evansville, Ind. Carding Machines: Floor Slippery. (See report for conditions.) Location: Evansville, Indiana.

Boy Sweeper, Lincoln Cotton Mills, Evansville, Ind. Carding Machines: ...

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A Union Shop, Cigarmakers Tierra del Laga Cigar Co. Almost no hands under 20 years of age. (60 employees.) These are the conditions the labor organizations strive for. One third of the cigarmakers in Tampa are Union men. Location: Tampa, Florida.

A Union Shop, Cigarmakers Tierra del Laga Cigar Co. Almost no hands un...

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Wadsworth Wainwright to Josiah Simpson, Wednesday, October 22, 1862 (Conditions at Ft. McHenry hospital)

Wadsworth Wainwright to Josiah Simpson, Wednesday, October 22, 1862 (...

Lincoln Cotton Mills, Evansville, Ind. Girl at Stafford Loom. Boys sprinkling floor. (See report of conditions under which they work.) Location: Evansville, Indiana.

Lincoln Cotton Mills, Evansville, Ind. Girl at Stafford Loom. Boys spr...

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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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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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[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 h...

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

[Typical workers in Barker Cotton Mills where good conditions prevail....

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Housing conditions of families working in Woodstock Mills. Much improvement needed. Location: Anniston, Alabama.

Housing conditions of families working in Woodstock Mills. Much improv...

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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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Living conditions among the migrant fruit workers, in a tourist camp near Belle Glade, Florida

Living conditions among the migrant fruit workers, in a tourist camp n...

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Quotes history in voicing objections to wage and hour bill. Washington, D.C. June 11. Appearing before the Senate and House and Labor Committee today, Guy L. Harrington, Chairman of the Labor Committee of the National Publishing Association, charged that the Black-Connery Wage-and-Hour Bill was an attempt to impose conditions of wage and price fixing wich led to the fall of French and Roman empires. If desired, he promised the Committee he would supply necessary historical references to prove his contention Harrington is also Assistant to Bernard MacFadded, head of MacFadden Publications. 6/11/37

Quotes history in voicing objections to wage and hour bill. Washington...

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Migratory field worker picking cotton in San Joaquin Valley, California. These pickers are paid seventy-five cents per hundred pounds of picked cotton. Strikers organizing under CIO union (Congress of Industrial Organizations) are demanding 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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New machine to test brake linings designed by Bureau of Standards. Washington, D.C., March 16. A new machine, both in design and operations, has been installed at the National Bureau of Standards for the testing of brake linings. The machine permits the study of brake linings under conditions closely approaching those of actual sevice and yet which can be accurately controlled. It will make less difficult the complex job of revising the Federal Government's specification for auto brake linings. Wil. Holt of the Bureau is shown in the photograph, 3/16/38

New machine to test brake linings designed by Bureau of Standards. Was...

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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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Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Army trucks must be capable of getting through, even in the worst possible operating conditions. Above is shown a Dodge Army truck climbing a tremendously steep grade over soft ground that gives the poorest kind of traction

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Army trucks must be capable of getting...

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Mail boxes near Auburn, California. Notice the Japanese name. The Japanese are moving into this section on a subsistence farming basis as the older settlers who have not adjusted themselves to changing market conditions move out. Placer County, California

Mail boxes near Auburn, California. Notice the Japanese name. The Japa...

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Executives who helped to conceive the trailer idea for relieving overcrowded housing conditions in certain defense areas sit in the dining alcove of a trailer on its way to be put into use in Wilmington, North Carolina. The men are, left to right: Charles F. Palmer, cooridnator of Defense Housing, OEM, Major John Walker, Assistant Administrator, Farm Security Administration; James Cramer, Acting Regional Coordinator for Region 1, Division of Defense Housing Coordination; Carl Bradt, Special Assistant to the Coordinator in Charge of Temporary Shelters, Division of Defense Housing Coordination, Office of Emergency Management

Executives who helped to conceive the trailer idea for relieving overc...

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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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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...

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Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. All-glass yarns in this photographs are being woven on standard textile machinery into tape that subsequently will be used to insulate electrical equipment. Inorganic fiberglass electrical insulation makes possible the building of electrical equipment capable of standing up under overloads and other severe operating conditions

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. All-glass yarns i...

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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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Dyer Nick Velardo matches dyed silk with color specified in customer's order; use of incandescent and florescent bulbs 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.

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

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

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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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Millie, four years old and Nellie five years old. Cotton pickers on a farm near Houston, Millie picks eight pounds a day and Nellie thirty pounds. This is nearly every day. Home conditions bare and bad. Location: Houston [vicinity], Texas.

Millie, four years old and Nellie five years old. Cotton pickers on a ...

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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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Three related drought refugee families stalled on the highway near Lordsburg, New Mexico. From farms near Claremore, Oklahoma. Have been working as migratory workers in Calfornia and Arizona, now trying to get to Roswell, New Mexico, for work chopping cotton. Have car trouble and pulled up alongside the highway. "Would go back to Oklahoma but can't get along there. Can't feed the kids on what they give you (relief budget) and ain't made a crop there you might say for five years. Only other work there is fifty cents a day wages and the farmers can't pay it anyways." One of these families has lost two babies since they left their home in Oklahoma. The children, seventeen months and three years, died in the county hospital at Shafter California, from typhoid fever, resulting from unsanitary conditions in a labor camp

Three related drought refugee families stalled on the highway near Lor...

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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

Mill Village, Winona Cotton Mills, Miss. Fairly good conditions generally, but many very slovenly houses. Location: Mill Village, Mississippi.

Mill Village, Winona Cotton Mills, Miss. Fairly good conditions genera...

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(For Child Welfare Exhibit 1912-13.) Housing conditions, Elm Street, Pawtucket, R.I. Nov 25, 1912. Location: Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

(For Child Welfare Exhibit 1912-13.) Housing conditions, Elm Street, P...

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

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

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Observing work of the busy bee. E.L. Sechrist, associate agriculturist of the bee culture laboratory, U.S. Department of Agriculture, makes tests of how much work the bees accomplish under different weather conditions be checking the weight of the colonies. During a good honey flow under favorable weather conditions, a colony increases in weight as much as 20 pounds in a single day, 1/20/30

Observing work of the busy bee. E.L. Sechrist, associate agriculturist...

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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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Child walking up improvised stairway on back of his home near Jefferson, Texas. Housing conditions are bad throughout this section

Child walking up improvised stairway on back of his home near Jefferso...

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Donald Gill, Cache County, Utah beekeeper needed bees, sugar and equipment to weather a series of bad seasons caused by weather conditions. A Farm Security Administration rehabilitation loan put him on his feet again

Donald Gill, Cache County, Utah beekeeper needed bees, sugar and equip...

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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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Bridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural workers' camp. The camp doctor has a large practice in Bridgeton, but also gives his time to the migrant camp, where he works to curb venereal disease, malnutrition, and general rundown conditions of health

Bridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural...

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Detroit, Michigan. Interior of a bathroom, with a Negro boy washing his hands. These are conditions under which families originally lived before moving to the Sojourner Truth housing project

Detroit, Michigan. Interior of a bathroom, with a Negro boy washing hi...

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Nyssa, Oregon. FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp now inhabited by Japanese-Americans who volunteered to do farm work. The U.S. Employment Service and the local sugar beet companies made agreements as to wages, working conditions, transportation, recreational facilities and medical care

Nyssa, Oregon. FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp now inha...

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Office of Civilian Defense worker help protect nation's capital. Volunteer auxiliary firemen must learn to master the control of the water stream from their fire hoses. Certain conditions call for spray, others for a steady stream of water. These volunteers in Washington, D.C., are trained to know just how best to handle the hose nozzles

Office of Civilian Defense worker help protect nation's capital. Volun...

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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 ...

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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.

(For Child Welfare Exhibit 1912-13.) Housing conditions, Elm Street, Pawtucket, R.I. Nov 25, 1912. Location: Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

(For Child Welfare Exhibit 1912-13.) Housing conditions, Elm Street, P...

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Three related drought refugee families stalled on the highway near Lordsburg, New Mexico. From farms near Claremore, Oklahoma. Have been working as migratory workers in Calfornia and Arizona, now trying to get to Roswell, New Mexico, for work chopping cotton. Have car trouble and pulled up alongside the highway. "Would go back to Oklahoma but can't get along there. Can't feed the kids on what they give you (relief budget) and ain't made a crop there you might say for five years. Only other work there is fifty cents a day wages and the farmers can't pay it anyways." One of these families has lost two babies since they left their home in Oklahoma. The children, seventeen months and three years, died in the county hospital at Shafter California, from typhoid fever, resulting from unsanitary conditions in a labor camp

Three related drought refugee families stalled on the highway near Lor...

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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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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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One of the labor camps for workers in Peerless Oyster Co. About 18 families live here. While conditions are not so bad here as I have seen them in their Maryland and Delaware quarters, they are not far from ideal. Location: Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.

One of the labor camps for workers in Peerless Oyster Co. About 18 fam...

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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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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....

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Housing conditions of the white workers in Varn & Platt Canning Co. Location: Bluffton, South Carolina.

Housing conditions of the white workers in Varn & Platt Canning Co. L...

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