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Battered railroad yards at Foggia. So accurate was the bombardment by planes of the Mediterranean Allied Air Forces that eight months after the Allied occupation the Foggiayards were still not useable for marshalling freight

Battered railroad yards at Foggia. So accurate was the bombardment by ...

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John Huggins. Said he is fourteen years old and has been doffing for eight months in the Guadalupe Valley Cotton Mills. Violation of law. Gets a dollar a day now. Before he came here, he worked in the cotton mill at West, Tex., for five or six years. Said boys work in the Cuero mill under age. "They don't even bother to ask your age. Didn't ask mine. Easy 'nuff to git a job." The mills were not running on account of floods this week. I found only one other boy under age, "Spider" Estes said he is fourteen years old and been working here, doffing one year. Location: Cuero, Texas.

John Huggins. Said he is fourteen years old and has been doffing for e...

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At the Santa Fe R.R. tie plant, Albuquerque, N[ew] Mex[ico]. The ties made of pine and fir, are seasoned for eight months. The steaming black ties in the center have just come from the retort where they have been impregnated with creosote for eight hours. This plant has a capacity of 100,000 ties per month; is currently producing 80,000

At the Santa Fe R.R. tie plant, Albuquerque, N[ew] Mex[ico]. The ties ...

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Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Guayule planter. Seeds mixed with sawdust are planted by this machine which also distributes a thin stream of sand over the seeds. This is a nursery operation. Seedlings sprout in a few days, grow in the nursery about eight months before being transplanted into the field

Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Guayule plante...

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Robert Magee (smallest), 270 Suffolk St., apparently 12 years, been working in Mule Room #1 Merrimac Mill, Lowell, one year. Michael Keefe (next in size) 32 Marion St., been at work in #1 Mule Room, Merrimac Mill, Lowell, for eight months; apparently 13 years old. Cornelius Hurley, 298 Adams St., been at work in #1 Mule Room, Merrimac Mill, Lowell, for six months; about 13 or 14 probably. Location: Salem, Massachusetts.

Robert Magee (smallest), 270 Suffolk St., apparently 12 years, been wo...

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The Ford Motor Company has constructed and equipped, in eight months an airplane engine building. It covers 17.8 acres, will employ over 14,000 men, will turn out Pratt and Whitney engines at the rate of one an hour for sixteen hours a day. Building and machinery cost twenty-three million dollars. Photo shows three machines on truck, on their way to be installed in the new aircraft building

The Ford Motor Company has constructed and equipped, in eight months a...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train tracks, rail transportation, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

John Huggins. Said he is fourteen years old and has been doffing for eight months in the Guadalupe Valley Cotton Mills. Violation of law. Gets a dollar a day now. Before he came here, he worked in the cotton mill at West, Tex., for five or six years. Said boys work in the Cuero mill under age. "They don't even bother to ask your age. Didn't ask mine. Easy 'nuff to git a job." The mills were not running on account of floods this week. I found only one other boy under age. - "Spider" Estes said he is fourteen years old and been working here, doffing, one year. Location: Cuero, Texas.

John Huggins. Said he is fourteen years old and has been doffing for e...

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Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Guayule planter. Seeds mixed with sawdust are planted by this machine which also distributes a thin stream of sand over the seeds. This is a nursery operation. Seedlings sprout in a few days, grow in the nursery about eight months before being transplanted into the field

Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Guayule plante...

Title and other information from print in lot. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

American Flyers superior to those of other nations senate committee told. Washington, D.C., March 10. Albert J. Baumler of Trenton, N.J., a 24-year-old American aviator who served eight months with Loyalist Forces in Spain, today told the House Military Affairs Subcommittee that American trained fliers were superior to those of other nations engaged in the civil war. He was testifying in connection with an inquiry into the efficiency of the U.S. Army Air Corps by a group headed by Rep. Dow Harter, 3/10/38

American Flyers superior to those of other nations senate committee to...

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When Madeline was eight months old she and her mother had to fly from their little town when the Germans came. In 1915 her soldier father died. Her mother writes "Pray accept, dear protectors of my child, my profound gratitude"

When Madeline was eight months old she and her mother had to fly from ...

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: Children, France. Data: 50279, MS. 329. Gi... More

At the Santa Fe R.R. tie plant, Albuquerque, New Mexico. The ties made of pine and fir, are seasoned for eight months. The steaming black ties in the center have just come from the retort where they have been impregnated with creosote for eight hours. This plant has a capacity of 100,000 ties per month; is currently producing 80,000

At the Santa Fe R.R. tie plant, Albuquerque, New Mexico. The ties made...

12002-7. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Addi... More

Battered railroad yards at Foggia. So accurate was the bombardment by planes of the Mediterranean Allied Air Forces that eight months after the Allied occupation the Foggiayards were still not useable for marshalling freight

Battered railroad yards at Foggia. So accurate was the bombardment by ...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

The children's hospitals of Budapest lack sufficient milk, medicine and clothes for their patients. This shows a group of four babies, who have not grown a pound in weight in eight months through a lack of proper diet. The American Red Cross is trying to relieve this suffering among the children of the old Hungarian capital by the shipment of medical supplies and supplementary food

The children's hospitals of Budapest lack sufficient milk, medicine an...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: A.R.C. Paris Office. Group title: Hungary. On caption card: (10389) Used in: Cred... More

The old rip of the "SHENANDOAH." Captain Waddell (as Rip Van Winkle) [saying to another man], "Law! Mr. Pilot, you don't say so! The war in America over these eight months? Dear! dear! Who'd ever a' thought it!"

The old rip of the "SHENANDOAH." Captain Waddell (as Rip Van Winkle) [...

Illus. in: Harper'sWeekly, v. 9, (1865 December 9), p. 781. Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Caption card tracings: Waddell, Capt.; C.W.; Ships Shenandoah.