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Spinner. See 4159. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

Spinner. See 4159. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hin...

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[Rhea Quintin - 14 years old. Hand drawing in on Webb frame. Been at it about 3 months. Requires great deal of mental application and accuracy and good oversight. Takes over a year to learn. Seemed very young in certificate office. Miss Smith thought she was a little school girl coming for some other purpose.] Location: Fall River, Massachusetts. / Lewis W. Hine.

[Rhea Quintin - 14 years old. Hand drawing in on Webb frame. Been at i...

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FALL, ALBERT BACON. SENATOR FROM NEW MEXICO, 1912-1921; SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR, 1921-1923. MARCUS SMITH; FALL; SENATOR BRANDEGEE

FALL, ALBERT BACON. SENATOR FROM NEW MEXICO, 1912-1921; SECRETARY OF T...

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

[Albert Fall, right. White House, Washington, D.C.]

[Albert Fall, right. White House, Washington, D.C.]

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Fall wheat near Batesville, Arkansas

Fall wheat near Batesville, Arkansas

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Maryland views. Fall coloration of maple trees along Route 240 I

Maryland views. Fall coloration of maple trees along Route 240 I

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Fall fruits and vegetables at roadside stand near Greenfield, Massachusetts

Fall fruits and vegetables at roadside stand near Greenfield, Massachu...

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A couple of men standing next to a train, Kenntucky. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A couple of men standing next to a train, Kenntucky. Farm Security Adm...

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Greenbelt, Maryland. Aerial view, probably early fall

Greenbelt, Maryland. Aerial view, probably early fall

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Cattle feeding near ranch house after early fall blizzard in the mountains near Aspen, Colorado

Cattle feeding near ranch house after early fall blizzard in the mount...

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Aerial view of mixed mesophytic forest and topography

Aerial view of mixed mesophytic forest and topography

Event: Helicopter tour of Mountaintop Removal and Reclamation on Big Coal River watershed. "To better understand the method of mining known as "mountaintop removal and reclamation," Lyntha Eiler and I visited t... More

Randy Sprouse inspecting the ginseng he's dug

Randy Sprouse inspecting the ginseng he's dug

Since the 17th century, when a Jesuit priest in Canada identified ginseng (Panax quinquefolia) as a root prized in Asia and therefore exportable, ginseng has provided an annual source of cash for people living ... More

Jess Duncan, union organizer, seated in front of a union banner on the first floor of the union hall

Jess Duncan, union organizer, seated in front of a union banner on the...

The Union Hall in Sundial is the meeting place for Union Local 6608 of the United Mine Workers. During the field project there was much discussion of the Massey/Pittston strikes that had occurred in the 1980s, ... More

Dave Bailey, guitar, and Homer Pettry, banjo, playing in Dave's living room

Dave Bailey, guitar, and Homer Pettry, banjo, playing in Dave's living...

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Dark water in drainage ditch at the head of Right-Hand Fork of Rock Creek roped off with red caution tape reading: "Hazardous Materials Do Not Enter"

Dark water in drainage ditch at the head of Right-Hand Fork of Rock Cr...

Event: Visit to Toxic Leak on Rock Creek. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

King Philip Mill - Card Room. Doffer on Jack Speeder. Bertha Bonneau, 15 years, 105 Slade St. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

King Philip Mill - Card Room. Doffer on Jack Speeder. Bertha Bonneau, ...

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Hot Springs National Cemetery, Virginia Medical Center 500 North Fifth Street, Hot Springs, Fall River County, SD

Hot Springs National Cemetery, Virginia Medical Center 500 North Fifth...

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[Union Hospital case - Manuel Costa Maiata. 301 Ferry St. Sweeper in Fall River Iron Works five weeks - 17 years old. Broke wrist while sweeping. Slipped on a banana skin.] Location: Fall River, Massachusetts. / Lewis W. Hine.

[Union Hospital case - Manuel Costa Maiata. 301 Ferry St. Sweeper in F...

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Durfee Mills, Plymouth Avenue & Pleasant Street, Fall River, Bristol County, MA

Durfee Mills, Plymouth Avenue & Pleasant Street, Fall River, Bristol C...

Part of New England Textile Mill Survey, 1967-68, sponsored by HABS, Smithsonian, and Merrimack Valley Textile Museum Significance: The Durfee Mills was the largest single firm of textile manufacturers in Fall ... More

Durfee Mills, Plymouth Avenue & Pleasant Street, Fall River, Bristol County, MA

Durfee Mills, Plymouth Avenue & Pleasant Street, Fall River, Bristol C...

Part of New England Textile Mill Survey, 1967-68, sponsored by HABS, Smithsonian, and Merrimack Valley Textile Museum Significance: The Durfee Mills was the largest single firm of textile manufacturers in Fall ... More

Durfee Mills, Plymouth Avenue & Pleasant Street, Fall River, Bristol County, MA

Durfee Mills, Plymouth Avenue & Pleasant Street, Fall River, Bristol C...

Part of New England Textile Mill Survey, 1967-68, sponsored by HABS, Smithsonian, and Merrimack Valley Textile Museum Significance: The Durfee Mills was the largest single firm of textile manufacturers in Fall ... More

Durfee Mills, Plymouth Avenue & Pleasant Street, Fall River, Bristol County, MA

Durfee Mills, Plymouth Avenue & Pleasant Street, Fall River, Bristol C...

Part of New England Textile Mill Survey, 1967-68, sponsored by HABS, Smithsonian, and Merrimack Valley Textile Museum Significance: The Durfee Mills was the largest single firm of textile manufacturers in Fall ... More

Durfee Mills, Plymouth Avenue & Pleasant Street, Fall River, Bristol County, MA

Durfee Mills, Plymouth Avenue & Pleasant Street, Fall River, Bristol C...

Part of New England Textile Mill Survey, 1967-68, sponsored by HABS, Smithsonian, and Merrimack Valley Textile Museum Significance: The Durfee Mills was the largest single firm of textile manufacturers in Fall ... More

Academy Building, 68-114 South Main Street, Fall River, Bristol County, MA

Academy Building, 68-114 South Main Street, Fall River, Bristol County...

Significance: The Academy Building was constructed by the Borden Family, textile entrepreneurs of Fall River. The prominent structure, with Ruskinian Gothic details, was designed by Hartwell and Swasey of Bost... More

[Civil War envelope showing portrait of Colonel Elmer Ellsworth with quotation "He who noteth even the fall of a sparrow will have some purpose even in the fate of one like me"]

[Civil War envelope showing portrait of Colonel Elmer Ellsworth with q...

Addressed to Mrs. Louisa I. Winters, Crillertown [?], Lancaster Co., Pa.; bears 3 cent stamp; postmarked Harrisburgh, Pa. Notations on verso. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Forms part of: Lilj... More

Nevada Fall. Public domain reproduction.

Nevada Fall. Public domain reproduction.

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[Str. Priscilla, Fall River Line, N.Y.]

[Str. Priscilla, Fall River Line, N.Y.]

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American Fall and Rock of Ages, Niagara

American Fall and Rock of Ages, Niagara

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Pond, South Park, Fall River, Massachusetts.

Pond, South Park, Fall River, Massachusetts.

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American Fall from Goat Island, Niagara

American Fall from Goat Island, Niagara

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Children thrashing corn during school hours on a farm near Dublin. Many such light occupations fall to the lot of the Georgia child. Location: Dublin [vicinity], Georgia.

Children thrashing corn during school hours on a farm near Dublin. Man...

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Union Hospital - Lewis Palmer - 14 years - 455 Peckham St. - Rope hauler in Estes Mill, making mop rope. Began April 25th. Hand cut by rope May 18th. Laid up one month. Wages $4.60 - compensation $4. Goes on Sunday hikes with his crowd. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

Union Hospital - Lewis Palmer - 14 years - 455 Peckham St. - Rope haul...

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Wilfred Levoie - 15 years - 120 Diman St. - Weaver, American Linen Co. Cut leg June 20, 1916. (See Mr. Wagner's schedule.) Was pushing and pulling basket along floor; basket caught a loose board and threw him against loom cutting his leg. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

Wilfred Levoie - 15 years - 120 Diman St. - Weaver, American Linen Co....

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Rock Creek Park. Fall scenes in Rock Creek Park VI

Rock Creek Park. Fall scenes in Rock Creek Park VI

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Displays battle scarred old flag. When the Union forces made their triumphal entry into Washington at the close of the Civil War 65 years ago, Orlando Learned could not come because of a battle wound. But at last the Union veteran has been able to make a trip to the Capital, bringing with him his cherished 36-starred Union flag, which he obtained during a celebration of the fall of Vicksburg and later carried in into battle with him. The picture shows him proudly displaying it to Edward Hudgins, age 2, his great grandson, 1/31

Displays battle scarred old flag. When the Union forces made their tri...

A man sitting on a couch with a little girl. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rock Creek Park. Driveway in Rock Creek Park, fall of 1936

Rock Creek Park. Driveway in Rock Creek Park, fall of 1936

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Trees. Fall foliage II - Color photograph, Kodachrome film transparencies

Trees. Fall foliage II - Color photograph, Kodachrome film transparenc...

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Assumes duties as Assistant Secretary of Treasury. Washington, D.C., July 1. John W. Hanes, Former New York broker and member of the S.E.C., as he assumed his duties today as the newly appointed Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. He succeeds Josephine Roche but will supervise government tax affaris, taking the position undersecretary Roswell Magill will vacate this fall, 7/1/38

Assumes duties as Assistant Secretary of Treasury. Washington, D.C., J...

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Entered California the fall of 1938. En-route to pea harvest in Imperial Valley. Car broke down. "Want to get back to Missouri if they ever get the money." U.S. 99. Tulare, California

Entered California the fall of 1938. En-route to pea harvest in Imperi...

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Young farmer, member of Ola self-help sawmill co-op, plowing in fall of the year. Tractor is used co-operatively. Gem County, Idaho. General caption 48

Young farmer, member of Ola self-help sawmill co-op, plowing in fall o...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century dust bowl era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a man standing next to a fire, Kenntucky. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a man standing next to a fire, Kenntucky. F...

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A black and white photo of a group of people, Kenntucky. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a group of people, Kenntucky. Farm Security...

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Columbia River Packing Association Plant, Astoria, Oregon. This plant canned 2400 tons of salmon this fall

Columbia River Packing Association Plant, Astoria, Oregon. This plant ...

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The four freedoms. Fall flowing, with no prospect of "scorching" the earth. W.B. Patterson of Stony Lake, Pennsylvania, is one of the millions producing the food so vitally needed for the defense of America

The four freedoms. Fall flowing, with no prospect of "scorching" the e...

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Baseball players in war production. "Safe," signals George Stovall, retired manager of the Cleveland Indians as Vince DiMaggio slides home during a lunch-hour softball game in the California Shipbuilding Corporation shipyards. DiMaggio, Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder, has been a warehouseman at the California shipyards since last fall; Stovall has worked as checker in the yards for more than a year

Baseball players in war production. "Safe," signals George Stovall, re...

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Randy Sprouse gathering ginseng ('senging) in Tom's Hollow

Randy Sprouse gathering ginseng ('senging) in Tom's Hollow

Event: Ginsenging in Tom's Hollow. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Coal truck overturned below Pettus and above Montcoal, West Virginia

Coal truck overturned below Pettus and above Montcoal, West Virginia

Event: Driving down Route 3. Public domain photograph of a train accident, railroad, trainwreck, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Examples of ginseng roots laid out on a table in the purchase room at Randy's Recycling

Examples of ginseng roots laid out on a table in the purchase room at ...

People who harvest wild botanicals from the woods can sell their wares to local brokers like Randy Halstead, the proprietor of Randy's Recycling in Peytona, West Virginia. Halstead annually brokers hundreds of ... More

Three large buckets of black walnuts gathered by Dave Bailey and John Russell

Three large buckets of black walnuts gathered by Dave Bailey and John ...

Event: Black walnut harvesting with Dave Bailey and John Russell. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ramp bottoms, in the summer after the leaves have dried

Ramp bottoms, in the summer after the leaves have dried

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Hot Springs National Cemetery, Virginia Medical Center 500 North Fifth Street, Hot Springs, Fall River County, SD

Hot Springs National Cemetery, Virginia Medical Center 500 North Fifth...

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Hot Springs National Cemetery, Virginia Medical Center 500 North Fifth Street, Hot Springs, Fall River County, SD

Hot Springs National Cemetery, Virginia Medical Center 500 North Fifth...

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Avery-Bartholomew Patent Railroad Iron Bridge, Town park south of Route 222, west of Owasco Inlet (moved from Elm Street Extension spanning Fall Creek, Nubia, NY), Groton, Tompkins County, NY

Avery-Bartholomew Patent Railroad Iron Bridge, Town park south of Rout...

Significance: The Avery-Bartholomew Patent Railroad Iron Bridge in Groton, New York, is a single-span tied arch iron bridge incorporating railroad rails for its upper and lower chords. The bridge is one of a v... More

Union Hospital case - Estelle Poiriere, 137 Robeson St., 15 years old. Doffer at Granite No. 1 mill. Laceration of index and middle finger of right hand. Caught in card machine. Injured Dec. 21, 1915 and finger grew stiff and had to have cord cut. Still an outpatient in June and not working yet. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

Union Hospital case - Estelle Poiriere, 137 Robeson St., 15 years old....

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Durfee Mills, Plymouth Avenue & Pleasant Street, Fall River, Bristol County, MA

Durfee Mills, Plymouth Avenue & Pleasant Street, Fall River, Bristol C...

Part of New England Textile Mill Survey, 1967-68, sponsored by HABS, Smithsonian, and Merrimack Valley Textile Museum Significance: The Durfee Mills was the largest single firm of textile manufacturers in Fall ... More

Academy Building, 68-114 South Main Street, Fall River, Bristol County, MA

Academy Building, 68-114 South Main Street, Fall River, Bristol County...

Significance: The Academy Building was constructed by the Borden Family, textile entrepreneurs of Fall River. The prominent structure, with Ruskinian Gothic details, was designed by Hartwell and Swasey of Bost... More

[Long line of boys and men at Vaudeville Show. Saturday P.M.] Location: [Fall River, Massachusetts].

[Long line of boys and men at Vaudeville Show. Saturday P.M.] Locatio...

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Rock Creek Park. Fall scenes in Rock Creek Park III

Rock Creek Park. Fall scenes in Rock Creek Park III

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Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas. A family of six alongside the road. An example of how they fall between the relief agencies. The father, aged thirty-five, is an intelligent fellow, a painter by trade. Advanced tuberculosis, victim of an occupational disease. Ineligible for WPA (Works Progress Administration), rated as totally disabled. As a state charge under Oklahoma relief standards, the family were told the maximum relief would be seven dollars every two weeks. They lost their home, their furniture, took to the road a year ago and when the photographs were made they were found to be without money, shelter, and without food for the four children

Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas. A family of six alongside the r...

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U.S. Capitol exteriors. U.S. Capitol with fall foliage in foreground, horizontal III

U.S. Capitol exteriors. U.S. Capitol with fall foliage in foreground, ...

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U.S. Capitol exteriors. U.S. Capitol with fall foliage in foreground, horizontal II

U.S. Capitol exteriors. U.S. Capitol with fall foliage in foreground, ...

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In the early fall during "syrupping off" time many of the children stay home from school to eat the freshly boiled down sorghum cane syrup. The cook usually goes to the various farms in the neighborhood and for his work takes a share of the syrup. On the highway between Jackson and Campton, Kentucky

In the early fall during "syrupping off" time many of the children sta...

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General view of Fall River, Massachusetts

General view of Fall River, Massachusetts

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Desert Ranch. This man is waiting for irrigation water which will be supplied by the Black Canyon irrigation project. Canyon County, Idaho. He has spent about three thousand dollars for buildings and is ready to start farming when, he hopes, he gets water in the fall of 1942

Desert Ranch. This man is waiting for irrigation water which will be s...

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The rich and the poor crowded into the Berkshires to enjoy the fall coloring. Mohawk Trail, Massachusettsachusetts

The rich and the poor crowded into the Berkshires to enjoy the fall co...

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Production. Veneer for aircraft and other war essentials. Veneer for combat planes. In the "half-round method," a half log, after being heated in water to the proper temperature, is bolted on a stay log and revolved against a stationary knife. The sheets, as they fall from the knife, are stacked in proper sequence just as they were in the log. Louisville, Kentucky

Production. Veneer for aircraft and other war essentials. Veneer for c...

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Production. Parachute making. Not gowns for a bal, but chutes for a fall are these yards and yards of silk, here being stitched together in an Eastern parachute manufacturing plant. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Production. Parachute making. Not gowns for a bal, but chutes for a fa...

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Fall detail, Vermont - Drawing. Public domain image.

Fall detail, Vermont - Drawing. Public domain image.

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Late fall day in New England - Drawing. Public domain image.

Late fall day in New England - Drawing. Public domain image.

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

John Flynn's home in the John Rorrer Hollow, where his grandparents, John and Lessie Rorrer lived, and where Flynn spent so much of his boyhood

John Flynn's home in the John Rorrer Hollow, where his grandparents, J...

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Joe Aliff's farm, including the house, barn, an outbuilding wherein he keeps samples of trees with symptoms induced by air pollution, and squirrel meat marinating, next to jars of mint and sassafras root

Joe Aliff's farm, including the house, barn, an outbuilding wherein he...

Event: Visit with Joe Ailff. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

John Bowman, ex-miner and ex-moonshiner, now self-employed seller of antiques, used coal and wood stoves, and tools from his garage

John Bowman, ex-miner and ex-moonshiner, now self-employed seller of a...

When the Beckley Mines closed down in the 1980s, John Bowman entered the flea market business. Flea markets in the region span a gamut from large, more formal sites like the Beckley Flea Market (open on Wednesd... More

Musicians jamming at the Sophia Firehouse

Musicians jamming at the Sophia Firehouse

Throughout southern West Virginia one can find regular jam sessions, which occur in public spaces like the Sophia Fire Hall, the Coal City Barber Shop, and the Beckley Flea Market, as well as in private buildin... More

Coal river. American Folklife Center: John Flynn. Southern West Virginia.

Coal river. American Folklife Center: John Flynn. Southern West Virgin...

During black walnut season in 1995, we visited the home of Wesley Scarbrough's uncle, Herman Williams, Sr. on Buffalo Fork of Clear Fork. Wesley's cousin Herman, Jr. was there with his son, Nicholas, who cracke... More

"Big John," the dragline, shoveling coal at the Samples mountaintop removal mine on Cabin Creek

"Big John," the dragline, shoveling coal at the Samples mountaintop re...

Event: Aerial tour of mountaintop removal and reclamation. The Samples mine covers eleven miles of the Cabin Creek Plateau. Writing in The Virginias, a 19th century industrial magazine, D.T. Ansted praised the ... More

Aerial view of Shumate's Branch sludge pond

Aerial view of Shumate's Branch sludge pond

Event: Helicopter tour of Mountaintop Removal and Reclamation on Big Coal River watershed. "Shumate's Branch was settled in the 19th century by Green Clay (son of Charles and Aura Clay) and his wife Betsy Ann, ... More

Dennis Dickens in the dining room of his home. He made the cabinets out of cherry.

Dennis Dickens in the dining room of his home. He made the cabinets o...

Dennis Dickens lives on Williams' Branch of Peachtree Creek. Williams' Branch is named for Dennis Dickens' grandfather. William was the son of John Dickens, who was the son of Thomas Dickens, who obtained a dee... More

Paw-paw on chair on the back porch of the Dickens' home

Paw-paw on chair on the back porch of the Dickens' home

Event: Visit to the home of Cody Dickens. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Coal river. UMWA display on Peachtree Road. Southern West Virginia.

Coal river. UMWA display on Peachtree Road. Southern West Virginia.

Event: Visit to the home of Kenny Lively. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Political race course - Union Track - fall races 1836

Political race course - Union Track - fall races 1836

A figurative portrayal -- clearly sympathetic to the Whig party -- of the 1836 presidential election contest as a horse race between four candidates. The four are identified in the legend as (left to right): "O... More

Avery-Bartholomew Patent Railroad Iron Bridge, Town park south of Route 222, west of Owasco Inlet (moved from Elm Street Extension spanning Fall Creek, Nubia, NY), Groton, Tompkins County, NY

Avery-Bartholomew Patent Railroad Iron Bridge, Town park south of Rout...

Significance: The Avery-Bartholomew Patent Railroad Iron Bridge in Groton, New York, is a single-span tied arch iron bridge incorporating railroad rails for its upper and lower chords. The bridge is one of a v... More

The fall of Washington--or Maddy in full flight, British Cartoon Print

The fall of Washington--or Maddy in full flight, British Cartoon Print

Cartoon showing President James Madison and probably John Armstrong, his secretary of war, both with bundles of papers, fleeing from Washington, with burning buildings behind them. Forms part of :British Cartoo... More

Durfee Mills, Plymouth Avenue & Pleasant Street, Fall River, Bristol County, MA

Durfee Mills, Plymouth Avenue & Pleasant Street, Fall River, Bristol C...

Part of New England Textile Mill Survey, 1967-68, sponsored by HABS, Smithsonian, and Merrimack Valley Textile Museum Significance: The Durfee Mills was the largest single firm of textile manufacturers in Fall ... More

Fall View, Niagara, Ontario, Canada, mammoth plate negative

Fall View, Niagara, Ontario, Canada, mammoth plate negative

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Niagara, Horseshoe Fall from Goat Island

Niagara, Horseshoe Fall from Goat Island

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Bella Roy, said 11 years old. "Been comin' here 7 years, been pickin' since I was 5 years old." Lives 44 Bowler St., Fall River. Sister Jeanette said 6 years old beginning to pick now. Also their cousin Anita (on right hand) 7 years old regular picker. Began last year. Location: South Carver [vicinity] - Smart's Bog, Massachusetts.

Bella Roy, said 11 years old. "Been comin' here 7 years, been pickin' ...

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Joseph Lepage, 84 Boutwell St., (apparent[ly] 12 years old). Said he is a sweeper on first floor cotton mill, but I am not sure w[h]ether it is the Flint Mill or not. Location: [Fall River, Massachusetts]

Joseph Lepage, 84 Boutwell St., (apparent[ly] 12 years old). Said he i...

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Doffers in Granite Mill #1. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

Doffers in Granite Mill #1. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lew...

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[Louis Pelissier, 29 8th St., 16 year old (May 16, 1916) applicant 2nd grade - deficient mentality. Doesn't know name of place where he is going to work. Made it out for Small's mill, they weren't sure. Had been a sweeper but work was too hard for him. Didn't know how much he was to get. (Miss Smith to see what kind of card he got.) Worked at Union Mill, $3.27, as a sweeper.] Location: Fall River, Massachusetts. / Lewis W. Hine.

[Louis Pelissier, 29 8th St., 16 year old (May 16, 1916) applicant 2nd...

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William Berupe - 15 years. 36 Assonat [i.e., Assonet?] Settlement boy. Sweeper and cleaner. Sunday clothes. French. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

William Berupe - 15 years. 36 Assonat [i.e., Assonet?] Settlement boy....

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Vocational Printing. Math. class. See 4168. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

Vocational Printing. Math. class. See 4168. Location: Fall River, Mas...

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[Going to School. About 14-16 years. Watson School - Flint Village.] Location: Fall River, Massachusetts. / Lewis W. Hine.

[Going to School. About 14-16 years. Watson School - Flint Village.] ...

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[Scenes from "The Twig of Thorn" given by a club of working girls in King Philip Settlement. Most of them are weavers. All girls.] Location: Fall River, Massachusetts. / [Lewis W. Hine]

[Scenes from "The Twig of Thorn" given by a club of working girls in K...

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Toting wood - Scavenger. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

Toting wood - Scavenger. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis ...

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White House exteriors. Fall scene in grounds of White House

White House exteriors. Fall scene in grounds of White House

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[Albert Fall and James J. Davis outside White House, Washington, D.C.]

[Albert Fall and James J. Davis outside White House, Washington, D.C.]

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Harvesting fall wheat in Arkansas near Little Rock

Harvesting fall wheat in Arkansas near Little Rock

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Borah and Nye want to form new national party. Washington, D.C., May 6. There have been new rumors that Senator Borah of Idaho and Senator Nye of North Dakota and other insurgent Republicans want to start a new National party with the purpose of unhorsing the present Republican National Committee. The leadership will fall to Senators William E. Borah and Gerald P. Nye caught as they were confering together at the Capitol today, 5/6/1937

Borah and Nye want to form new national party. Washington, D.C., May 6...

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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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Young Idaho farmer plowing in the fall of the year while the other members of the Ola self-help sawmill co-op are working in the sawmill. The tractor does work for five member families. Gem County, Idaho

Young Idaho farmer plowing in the fall of the year while the other mem...

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