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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 ...

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

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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Charlie and Ollie Allen. Been working in Harriet Cotton Mills 2 years. Charlie is probably of age, but Ollie is a violation according to both his brother and life insurance policy which say he is 12 years old now. These statements are based on the parents' statement, which is probably high. He appears to be 10 years old, and has been working 2 years. His father and older brother are in the mill. They have a house full of children, and the sanitary conditions are frightful. Location: Henderson, North Carolina.

Charlie and Ollie Allen. Been working in Harriet Cotton Mills 2 years....

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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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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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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.

U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain reports to State Department. Washington, D.C. Aug. 31. U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, Robert W. Bingham, entering secretary of State Hull's office today where he discussed conditions in Europe and the Orient with the Secretary. Bingham said he will go to Hyde Park tomorrow to confer with President Roosevelt and will return here for further discussions before returning to London in about two weeks. He denied he had any intention of resigning his post. 8/31/37

U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain reports to State Department. Washingt...

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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...

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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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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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Auction sales in Greene County are frequent because as farm conditions became worse families move into smaller houses and sell excess furniture. Owensburg, Indiana

Auction sales in Greene County are frequent because as farm conditions...

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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...

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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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Baby of family living on relief. Notice the homemade cradle. Near Jefferson, Texas. Housing conditions in this section are particularly bad

Baby of family living on relief. Notice the homemade cradle. Near Jeff...

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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...

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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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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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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 ...

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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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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.

Some of the housing conditions of the workers in Cannon Mills, Concord, N.C., to contrast with the homes and gardens sometimes shown from the "show mills" of the state. Location: Concord, North Carolina.

Some of the housing conditions of the workers in Cannon Mills, Concord...

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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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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...

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Samuel R. Curtis to Abraham Lincoln, Sunday, February 28, 1864 (Report on conditions in the Indian Territory)

Samuel R. Curtis to Abraham Lincoln, Sunday, February 28, 1864 (Repor...

View of the Washington Cotton Mills, Fries, Virginia Housing conditions are fairly good, but housekeeping not very good. Working conditions in the mill are very good. Good light, fresh air. Location: Fries, Virginia.

View of the Washington Cotton Mills, Fries, Virginia Housing condition...

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Making willow plumes under unsanitary conditions. A dirty home, the father and several friends had been rushing the growler and booze was literally flowing around over table and floor. The father is a truck-driver out of work. The mother, Freddie (11yrs. old) and Antoinette (8 yrs. old) all work $1.50 to $2.00 a week now, "but we make $3.00 a week in summer when we can work all day and not go to school." Vincent Tranutolo, 309 E. 110th St., ground floor. Location: New York, New York (State)

Making willow plumes under unsanitary conditions. A dirty home, the fa...

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Mrs. Helems, Leeds, Massachusetts., putting bristles into tooth brushes in an untidy kitchen. She makes about $4.65 a week usually. The sanitary conditions in most of these homes are pretty good, but some times filthy rooms are found and often tuberculosis with the work still going on. The company really seems to be trying to reduce the amount of home work. See also home work report. Location: Leeds, Massachusettsachusetts.

Mrs. Helems, Leeds, Massachusetts., putting bristles into tooth brushe...

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[Dr. Francis E.] Townsend thanks president for pardon. Washington, D.C., April 21. Scheduled for only a five-minute appointment, Dr. Francis E. Townsend, pardoned old-age pension planner, spent over half an hour with President Roosevelt at the White House today. He thanked the president for the pardon from a 30-day jail sentence and then discussed economic conditions in the nation with the chief executive

[Dr. Francis E.] Townsend thanks president for pardon. Washington, D.C...

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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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Dun & Bradstreet head says small businesses are stabilizers in the national economy. Washington, D.C., May 25. Arthur Whitside, President of Dun & Bradstreet of New York City, told the Monopoly Committee today that small businesses were the 'stabilizers' in the nation's economy because they could readily change their financial structure to meet conditions. 'Sound economy,' he said, 'is utterly impossible unless a man can go into business with a little money.' He defined 'small business' as one being worth from $25,000 to $75,000

Dun & Bradstreet head says small businesses are stabilizers in the nat...

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PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND JAPANESE DELEGATION IN CONFERENCE AT WHITE HOUSE. TO EXCHANGE VIEWS ON ECONOMIC CONDITIONS AND STUDY THE FOREIGN EXCHANGE SITUATION, PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT TODAY CONFERRED WITH VISCOUNT ISHII AND MEMBERS OF HIS DELEGATION AT THE WHITE HOUSE. IN THE PHOTOGRAPH, L TO R: VISCOUNT ISHII; PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT; MRS. EIGO FUKAI, VICE GOVERNOR OF THE BANK OF JAPAN; AND AMBASSADOR KATSUJI DEBUCHI

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND JAPANESE DELEGATION IN CONFERENCE AT WHITE HOU...

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Receives National Geographic Society award. Washington, D.C., April 27. Dr. Thomas C. Poulter, senior scientist and second in command of the Byrd Antarctic expedition of 1933-35, was awarded a special cold medal of the National Geographic Society at a ceremony today at the society's headquarters in Washington. On the Byrd expedition, Dr. Poulter's scientific work included geophysical investigations, studies of ice conditions and movement, the making of magnetic soundings, and observations of meteors and auroral phenomena. In the photograph, left to right: Dr. John Oliver La Gorce, vice president of the National Geographic Society, Dr. Golbert Grosvenor, president of the society who presented the award, Dr. Thomas C. Poulter, and Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd

Receives National Geographic Society award. Washington, D.C., April 27...

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Standing room only at Capitol labor hearing. Washington, D.C. June 4. The S.R.O sign was hung out today as Secretary of Labor Perkins appeared before the House and Senate Labor Committee Hearing. Mme. Secretary gave her flat endorsement of the Black-Connery Wage. and - Hour Bill which was introduced in congress in efforts to curtail sweatshop conditions and abolition of child labor in American industry. 6/4/37

Standing room only at Capitol labor hearing. Washington, D.C. June 4. ...

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In spotlight at U.S. Maritime commission hearing. Washington, D.C. Aug. 23. The U.S. Maritime Commission opened a general hearing on maritime labor conditions in an attempt to determine methods of avoiding costly industrial disputes which have hampered the American Merchant Marine and discouraged investment of Capital in shipbuilding. Among the first to be heard were, left to right, John W. Meal, of Marine Cooks and Stewards Association of the Pacific Coast; Mervyn Rathbone, President of the American Radio Telegraphists Association; and Francis J. Goodall, National Maritime Union of Cooks and Stewards. Rathbone told the commission that minimum wages fixed by the government become the maximum rates paid by ship operators. Many telegraphists have thrown out of work [...] the adoption of the automatic alarm system appro[...] [...] F.C.C., Rathbone also told the commission. 8/23/37

In spotlight at U.S. Maritime commission hearing. Washington, D.C. Aug...

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Auction sales in Greene County are frequent because as farm conditions became worse families move into smaller houses and sell excess furniture. Owensburg, Indiana

Auction sales in Greene County are frequent because as farm conditions...

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A group of men standing around a piano. Great Depression Era, Indiana.

A group of men standing around a piano. Great Depression Era, Indiana.

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

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

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

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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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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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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Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas Island, Virgin Islands. One of the inmates of the insane asylum at the hospital. He is an alien of Indian nationality, but cannot be sent back to India because of the expense and war conditions

Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas Island, Virgin Islands. One of the inmate...

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Nyssa, Oregon. FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp. Ordinarily electricity is not supplied to the tents of migrant families living in the FSA camps. These Japanese-Americans, who were accustomed to better living conditions, wanted the electricity and the sugar beet companies and the town of Nyssa arranged for the wiring. Some of the wiring is the Christmas tree light wiring from Nyssa

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

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Greenville, South Carolina. Air Service Command. Enlisted men of the signal company of the 25th service group operating a telephone switchboard during a problem under simulated field conditions

Greenville, South Carolina. Air Service Command. Enlisted men of the s...

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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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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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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...

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Discuss business conditions. Washington, D.C., May 13. Averill Harriman (left), chairman of the President's Business Advisory Council, and Secretary of Commerce Daniel A. Roper snapped just before they went into the metting of the Business Advisory Council today at the Department of Commerce

Discuss business conditions. Washington, D.C., May 13. Averill Harrima...

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Legal dodge on Walsh-Healy Act. Washington, D.C., May 13. L. Metcalfe Walling, Administrator of the Public Contracts Division of the Labor Department, told the Senate Labor Committee today that subcontractors had used a 'legal dodge' to avoid compliance with the Walsh-Healy Act. He advocated amendment to the law to prevent 'evasion,' and said that 'the purpose of Congress to promote good labor conditions and equal competition on government contracts has been thwarted'

Legal dodge on Walsh-Healy Act. Washington, D.C., May 13. L. Metcalfe ...

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

(For Child Welfare Exhibit 1912-13.) Housing conditions, Elm St., Pawt...

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Marching to supper, Training School for Deaf Mutes. Crowded conditions. See Gibbons report. Location: Sulphur, Oklahoma / Lewis W. Hine.

Marching to supper, Training School for Deaf Mutes. Crowded conditions...

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Something New in Taxing Line. A scene at Podgoritza, Montenegro, showing the housing conditions. Note that there is not a chimney in sight. As there was a tax on chimney in the country under the old regime, the people preferred to let the smoke from their fires find an outlet through the windows. This led to a prevalence of eye and other diseases. American Red Cross doctors doing relief work in Montenegro say that the chimney tax scheme led to conditions that have made 60 percent of the civilian population tubercular. To combat this the Red Cross has inaugurated an educational campaign on sanitary living conditions

Something New in Taxing Line. A scene at Podgoritza, Montenegro, showi...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Paris Office. Group title: Gen. Montenegro. On caption card: (11695) Gift; Americ... More

The Bitter truth--actual conditions in the Russian starvation area

The Bitter truth--actual conditions in the Russian starvation area

A group of children, deserted by their parents when they could no longer stand the sorry plight of their young, standing, most of them barefooted, in the Volga district, the center of Russia's starvation area. ... 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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One of few available houses for rent. Washington, D.C. One of the few available houses for rent under the crowded conditions. A study of the structure, however, will explain why there is no one now living in it

One of few available houses for rent. Washington, D.C. One of the few ...

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

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

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Baby Senator quizzes labor leader. Washington, D.C., June 7. Senator Rush D. Holt, West Virginia, frequently interrupted the testimony of John L. Lewis today to ask questions of the C.I.O Chief as he appeared before the Senate and House labor Committees. Lewis gave his flat endorsement of the Black-Connery bill which is aimed to curtail sweatshop conditions and setting of a wage and hour law for American industry, 6/7/37

Baby Senator quizzes labor leader. Washington, D.C., June 7. Senator R...

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Public Roads Chief gropes for answers. Washington, D.C., Feb. 24. Thomas H. McDonald, Chief of the Bureau of Public Roads, Department of Agriculture, seemed to grope for the answers to questions asked him today by the Senate Banking and Currency Subcommittee. First witness before the committee bearing on the Bulkley Bill providing for $6,000,000,000 system of superhighways in the U.S., financed by tolls, McDonald declared that toll systems had proved unsuccessful as a means of financing European superhighways. At the same time, he said: "Because of different conditions there is nothing to indicate that a toll system would not be successful here," 2/24/38

Public Roads Chief gropes for answers. Washington, D.C., Feb. 24. Thom...

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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...

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

Living conditions of the migrant agricultural workers on whom depend t...

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Union organizer attempts to better working conditions amongst tiff miners. Washington County, Missouri

Union organizer attempts to better working conditions amongst tiff min...

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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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A few crowded, dirty, expensive camps, with bad sanitary conditions, no light, insufficient and poor water supply, exist near Belle Glade, Florida, for transient migrant labor. One toilet for 150 people

A few crowded, dirty, expensive camps, with bad sanitary conditions, n...

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Ball game in cherry pickers' camp. Housing conditions are very good. Most of the pickers are young boys and girls, sixteen to twenty-four, who come up for a three-week season. Door County, Wisconsin

Ball game in cherry pickers' camp. Housing conditions are very good. M...

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Ranger battalions train with commando troops. Troops of the ranger battalions, America's special service soldiers, are now in training somewhere in the United Kingdom. They have been attached to combined operations, commanded by Vice Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten. Training under commando instructors and an opposed landing operation with British Naval instructors. Live ammunitionand trench mortor bombs are used to create a realistic effect and prepare the men for combat conditions

Ranger battalions train with commando troops. Troops of the ranger bat...

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New Capitol Police go on duty. Washington, D.C., July 1. Danger of subversive activities increased by the war conditions in Europe, has resulted in the appointment of 20 experienced policemen to augment the Capitol police force. Some of the new men who were recruited from the FBI, Secret Service and Metropolitan police force, are shown in this photograph as they went on their first tour of duty today, 7-1-40

New Capitol Police go on duty. Washington, D.C., July 1. Danger of sub...

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