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Conversion. Floor waxer plant. The sugar shortage brought this worker back to the lathe. Employed now by a small Eastern manufacturing firm which used to make floor waxers but is now completely converted to war production, this worker had only a trade school course in mechanics taken fifteen years ago as background for his new job. He operated his own confectionery business until the sugar shortage forced him into a new field. But he's glad to be aiming gun-sight parts at the Axis. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. The sugar shortage brought this worker ...

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

One hundred and fifteen years have failed to dim the keen eyesight of [Mammy Prater] this ex-slave

One hundred and fifteen years have failed to dim the keen eyesight of ...

Photograph shows elderly woman wearing heavy shawl and cap sitting outside in rocking chair sewing.

T.J. Schenermann, driller from Oklahoma, worked in Kansas oil fields about fifteen years; by oil well being drilled in Goodrich field of Continental oil field near Wichita, Kansas

T.J. Schenermann, driller from Oklahoma, worked in Kansas oil fields a...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a worker, construction, carpenter, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

T.J. Schenermann, driller from Oklahoma. Worked in Kansas oil fields about fifteen years. By oil well being drilled in Goodrich field of Continental oil field near Wichita, Kansas

T.J. Schenermann, driller from Oklahoma. Worked in Kansas oil fields a...

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

Minneapolis, Minnesota. Mr. Authur Sven Brink and his family. Mr. Brink is a welder at an important war factory in the Minneapolis area. He lives in a medium-sized house with his wife Hilda and their four children: Mary Jane, four, Gloria, seven, Caren, ten, and Ruth twelve. Mr. Brink was born in Skara, a province of Vesterjutland, Sweden. His wife was born in Minnesota but her father came from Vastmanland and her mother from Varmland. They have been married thirteen years and have lived in Minneapolis all that time. Mr. Brink goes to work at six o'clock in the nmorning and hie earnings average ninety dollars per week. He has been a welder for fifteen years and has been on his new job for two months

Minneapolis, Minnesota. Mr. Authur Sven Brink and his family. Mr. Brin...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty during the Great Depression, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Twelve year old Selina Wall working at spooling room in the Brazos Valley Cotton Mill, West, Tex. Their Family Record says she was born, March 23, 1901. Her mother said: "She's just taking the place of her sister (fifteen years old). Selina could earn a dollar a day. She was raised up in a cotton mill over in Belton, but she has to stay home and do the cookin." The mother and the fifteen year old girl work regularly in the mill. Several older boys work. Selina keeps house. Nine in the family. Location: West, Texas.

Twelve year old Selina Wall working at spooling room in the Brazos Val...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory worker, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

Man who worked in Fullerton, Louisiana lumber mill for fifteen years. He is now left stranded in the cut-over area

Man who worked in Fullerton, Louisiana lumber mill for fifteen years. ...

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

Waiting for the semimonthly relief checks at Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California. Typical story: fifteen years ago they owned farms in Oklahoma. Lost them through foreclosure when cotton prices fell after the war. Became tenants and sharecroppers. With the drought and dust they came West, 1934-1937. Never before left the county where they were born. Now although in California over a year they haven't been continuously resident in any single county long enough to become a legal resident. Reason: migratory agricultural laborers

Waiting for the semimonthly relief checks at Calipatria, Imperial Vall...

Annotation on original negative jacket: DL. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

Waiting for the semimonthly relief checks at Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California. Typical story: fifteen years ago they owned farms in Oklahoma. Lost them through foreclosure when cotton prices fell after the war. Became tenants and sharecroppers. With the drought and dust they came West, 1934-1937. Never before left the county where they were born. Now although in California over a year they haven't been continuously resident in any single county long enough to become a legal resident. Reason: migratory agricultural laborers

Waiting for the semimonthly relief checks at Calipatria, Imperial Vall...

Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Washington, D.C. Sister Aquinas, "flying nun," applying a little glue to the model P-38 which hangs from the ceiling of her classroom at Catholic University. A veteran of fifteen years' teaching experience, the Sister is giving a summer Civil Aeronautics Authority course for instruction

Washington, D.C. Sister Aquinas, "flying nun," applying a little glue ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Son of Fannie Corbin, fifteen years old, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia

Son of Fannie Corbin, fifteen years old, Shenandoah National Park, Vir...

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

Erosion near Lawrenceville, Georgia. This field has been terraced, but not cultivated in the last fifteen years

Erosion near Lawrenceville, Georgia. This field has been terraced, but...

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

Erosion near Lawrenceville, Georgia. This field has been terraced, but not cultivated in the last fifteen years

Erosion near Lawrenceville, Georgia. This field has been terraced, but...

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

High school boys and girls in trucks going to pick peas. Nampa, Canyon County, Idaho. No one under fifteen years of age was hired

High school boys and girls in trucks going to pick peas. Nampa, Canyon...

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Picryl description: Public domain image of byciclyst, bike, bicycle wheel, sport event, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Picryl description: Public domain image of byciclyst, bike, bicycle wh...

Picryl description: Public domain image of bicyclist, bike, bicycle wheel, sport event, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

High school boys and girls going out to pick peas. Canyon County, Idaho. There was a labor shortage in county and the growers advertized for pickers over the radio. They picked up the pickers in trucks. They hired none under fifteen years of age

High school boys and girls going out to pick peas. Canyon County, Idah...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph group portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. Sister Aquinas, "flying nun," applying a little glue to the model P-38 which hangs from the ceiling of her classroom at Catholic University. A veteran of fifteen years' teaching experience, the Sister is giving a summer Civil Aeronautics Authority course for instruction

Washington, D.C. Sister Aquinas, "flying nun," applying a little glue ...

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

A dilapidated "renters" home near West. The Tripp farm. Five in the family. Girl (apparently fifteen years old) is married. The farm contains a hundred and fifty acres now. A larger farm of eight hundred acres was cut up into this and three others - to rent. See Hine report. Location: West, Texas.

A dilapidated "renters" home near West. The Tripp farm. Five in the fa...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Man who worked in Fullerton, Louisiana lumber mill for fifteen years. He is now left stranded in the cut-over area

Man who worked in Fullerton, Louisiana lumber mill for fifteen years. ...

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

High school boys and girls in trucks going to pick peas. Nampa, Canyon County, Idaho. No one under fifteen years of age was hired

High school boys and girls in trucks going to pick peas. Nampa, Canyon...

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

Some of the younger boys working in the Brazos Valley Cotton Mill at West. One, Charlie Lott was thirteen years old according to Family Record, another Norman Vaughn apparently twelve years old was under legal age according to one of the other boys there, Calvin Caughlin who did not appear to be fifteen years old himself. These and two girls that I proved to be under legal age were all working in this small mill. It was an exceptional case, but it it i.e., is likely that as the children become tired of school later in the year, there will be many more at work. Location: West, Texas

Some of the younger boys working in the Brazos Valley Cotton Mill at W...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 3653. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Some of the younger boys working in Brazos Valley Cotton Mills at West. One Charlie Lott was thirteen years old according to Family Record. Another Norman Vaughn apparently twelve year old was under legal age according to one of the boys there, Calvin Caughlin who did not appear to be fifteen years old himself. These and two girls that I proved to be under legal age were all working in this small mill. It was an exceptional case, but it is likely that as the children become tired of school later in the year, there will be many more at work. Location: West, Texas.

Some of the younger boys working in Brazos Valley Cotton Mills at West...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a child labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Twelve year old Selina Wall working at spooling room in the Brazos Valley Cotton Mill, West, Tex. Their Family Record says she was born, March 23, 1901. Her mother said: "She's just taking the place of her sister (fifteen years old). Selina could earn a dollar a day. She was raised up in a cotton mill over in Belton, but she has to stay home and do the cookin." The mother and the fifteen year old girl work regularly in the mill. Several older boys work. Selina keeps house. Nine in the family. Location: West, Texas

Twelve year old Selina Wall working at spooling room in the Brazos Val...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 3640. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Putting in new flues in tobacco barn. The fire burns out the bricks and furnaces have to be replaced every ten or fifteen years. Orange County, North Carolina

Putting in new flues in tobacco barn. The fire burns out the bricks an...

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

Picture of the Hutton family taken about fifteen years ago in Oklahoma. Pie Town, New Mexico

Picture of the Hutton family taken about fifteen years ago in Oklahoma...

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

Mr. Albert W. Williams, president of the Unity Life Insurance Company, dictating to secretary DeAcklin. Mr. Williams was born in Georgia, studied at the University of Pennsylvania, worked for eight years for an insurance company in Washington, D.C. then went to New Orleans, and for the last fifteen years has lived in Chicago. The company has about five million dollars worth of business in force. Chicago, Illinois

Mr. Albert W. Williams, president of the Unity Life Insurance Company,...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bureau, office furniture, desk, chair, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

"Ring around the rosy." Supt. and overseers with the "Relief Crowd," in Yazoo City (Miss.) Yarn Mills. The Supt. said, "We relieve all children under sixteen for two hours a day except the doffers. They go out and play." Then turning to the children he said, "Now play." They eyed him blankly, "Play wot?" "Oh, play anything." Before they could do it, however, he had to pose them himself (see photo 2106) which was especially posed for the occasion. In this photo, note the disparity between the (alleged) ages of the younger ones who said that they were 12 and thirteen, and the older ones, who said fifteen years old. Location: Yazoo City, Mississippi.

"Ring around the rosy." Supt. and overseers with the "Relief Crowd," i...

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

Abraham Lincoln. One hundred and fifteen years ago.

Abraham Lincoln. One hundred and fifteen years ago.

The above 'Tribute to Abraham Lincoln' was written by Col. George M Bailey, editor of the Houston (Texas) Daily Post and was published in that paper on Feb. 12, 1923. This information courtesy Seneca C. Beach. ... More

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. Through the skill and ingenuity of the entire personnel of this small Eastern manufacturing firm, machinery formerly used in production of floor waxers has been converted to production of war essentials. Pictured here is the night foreman employed by the company for fifteen years, who was instrumental in executing the changeover. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. Through the skill and ingenuity of the ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Man who worked in Fullerton, Louisiana lumber mill for fifteen years. He is now left stranded in the cut-over area

Man who worked in Fullerton, Louisiana lumber mill for fifteen years. ...

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

"Ring around the rosy." Supt. and overseers with the "Relief Crowd," in Yazoo City (Miss.) Yarn Mills. The Supt. said, "We relieve all children under sixteen for two hours a day except the doffers. They go out and play." Then turning to the children he said, "Now play." They eyed him blankly, "Play wot?" "Oh, play anything." Before they could do it, however, he had to pose them himself (see photo 2106) which was especially posed for the occasion. In this photo, note the disparity between the (alleged) ages of the younger ones who said that they were 12 and thirteen, and the older ones, who said fifteen years old. Location: Yazoo City, Mississippi.

"Ring around the rosy." Supt. and overseers with the "Relief Crowd," i...

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

Front porch of house on Elmer Nelson farm. This farm has been in hands of loan company for at least fifteen years. Buildings have not been painted for fifteen years. Crop share lease. Farm full of cockleburrs

Front porch of house on Elmer Nelson farm. This farm has been in hands...

Public domain photograph of farm, farmer, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Some of the younger boys working in the Brazos Valley Cotton Mill at West. One, Charlie Lott was thirteen years old according to Family Record, another Norman Vaughn apparently twelve years old was under legal age according to one of the other boys there, Calvin Caughlin who did not appear to be fifteen years old himself. These and two girls that I proved to be under legal age were all working in this small mill. It was an exceptional case, but it it i.e., is likely that as the children become tired of school later in the year, there will be many more at work. Location: West, Texas

Some of the younger boys working in the Brazos Valley Cotton Mill at W...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 3653. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Minneapolis, Minnesota. Mr. Arthur Sven Brink and his family. Mr. Brink is a welder at an important war factory in the Minneapolis area. He lives in a medium-sized house with his wife Hilda and their four children: Mary Jane, four, Gloria, seven, Caren, ten, and Ruth, twelve. Mr. Brink was born in Skara, province of Vesterjutland, Sweden. His wife was born in Minnesota, but her father came from Vastmanland and her mother from Varmland. They have been married thirteen years and have lived in Minneapolis all that time. Mr. Brink goes to work at six o'clock in the morningand his earnings average ninety dollars per week. He has been a welder for fifteen years and has been on his new job for two months

Minneapolis, Minnesota. Mr. Arthur Sven Brink and his family. Mr. Brin...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty during the Great Depression, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Shenandoah Valley. Claude Spitzer at the 24-inch lathe. "I have been in and out of the shop for fifteen years--I am more of a blacksmith than I am a machinist"

Shenandoah Valley. Claude Spitzer at the 24-inch lathe. "I have been i...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War... More

"Ring around the rosy." Supt. and overseers with the "Relief Crowd," in Yazoo City (Miss.) Yarn Mills. The Supt. said, "We relieve all children under sixteen for two hours a day except the doffers. They go out and play." Then turning to the children he said, "Now play." They eyed him blankly, "Play wot?" "Oh, play anything." Before they could do it, however, he had to pose them himself (see photo 2106) which was especially posed for the occasion. In this photo, note the disparity between the (alleged) ages of the younger ones who said that they were 12 and thirteen, and the older ones, who said fifteen years old. Location: Yazoo City, Mississippi

"Ring around the rosy." Supt. and overseers with the "Relief Crowd," i...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2106. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

A dilapidated "renters" home near West. The Tripp farm. Five in the family. Girl (apparently fifteen years old) is married. The farm contains a hundred and fifty acres now. A larger farm of eight hundred acres was cut up into this and three others - to rent. See Hine report. Location: West, Texas

A dilapidated "renters" home near West. The Tripp farm. Five in the fa...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3646. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Man who worked in Fullerton, Louisiana lumber mill for fifteen years. He is now left stranded in the cut-over area

Man who worked in Fullerton, Louisiana lumber mill for fifteen years. ...

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

Old hand. Drawer-in for fifteen years. See 4159. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts Lewis W. Hine

Old hand. Drawer-in for fifteen years. See 4159. Location: Fall River,...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Mills. Hine no. 4253. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the National... More

A black and white photo of a woman using a calculator. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a woman using a calculator. Office of War I...

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

Supt. and overseers with the "Relief Crowd," in Yazoo City (Miss.) Yarn Mills. The Supt. said, "We relieve all children under sixteen for two hours a day except the doffers, who get plenty of time off. They go out and play." Then turning to the children he said, "Now play." They eyed him blankly, "Play wot?" "Oh, play anything." Before they could do it, however, he had to pose them himself (see photo 2106) which was especially posed for the occasion. In this photo, note the disparity between the (alleged) ages of the younger ones who said that they were twelve and thirteen, and the older ones, who said fifteen years old. Location: Yazoo City, Mississippi

Supt. and overseers with the "Relief Crowd," in Yazoo City (Miss.) Yar...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2102. The words "do it" are crossed out on the caption card; "pose them" handwritten along the side as substitute... More

A black and white photo of a group of people. Pie Town, New Mexico. Farm Security Administartion photograph.

A black and white photo of a group of people. Pie Town, New Mexico. Fa...

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

Mary and Minnie Gillim, fourteen and fifteen years old. They were commencing to attend the Mill School at Avondale, and had been to school but two weeks in their lives. Were in the low first grade in company with a child of six years. At that time (Nov. 30/10) their father was trying to take them out of school and put them back into the cotton mill. He has no obvious occupation. Location: Birmingham, Tennessee.

Mary and Minnie Gillim, fourteen and fifteen years old. They were comm...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mary and Minnie Gillim, fourteen and fifteen years old. They were commencing to attend the Mill School at Avondale, and had been to school but two weeks in their lives. Were in the low first grade in company with a child of six years. At that time (Nov. 3010) their father was trying to take them out of school and put them back into the cotton mill. He has no obvious occupation. Location: Birmingham, Tennessee

Mary and Minnie Gillim, fourteen and fifteen years old. They were comm...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 1742-A. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divis... More

Front porch of house on Elmer Nelson farm. This farm has been in hands of loan company for at least fifteen years. Buildings have not been painted for fifteen years. Crop share lease. Farm full of cockleburrs

Front porch of house on Elmer Nelson farm. This farm has been in hands...

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

Some of the younger boys working in the Brazos Valley Cotton Mill at West. One, Charlie Lott was thirteen years old according to Family Record, another Norman Vaughn apparently twelve years old was under legal age according to one of the other boys there, Calvin Caughlin who did not appear to be fifteen years old himself. These and two girls that I proved to be under legal age were all working in this small mill. It was an exceptional case, but it it [i.e., is] likely that as the children become tired of school later in the year, there will be many more at work. Location: West, Texas.

Some of the younger boys working in the Brazos Valley Cotton Mill at W...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Supt. and overseers with the "Relief Crowd," in Yazoo City (Miss.) Yarn Mills. The Supt. said, "We relieve all children under sixteen for two hours a day except the doffers, who get plenty of time off. They go out and play." Then turning to the children he said, "Now play." They eyed him blankly, "Play wot?" "Oh, play anything." Before they could do it, however, he had to pose them himself (see photo 2106) which was especially posed for the occasion. In this photo, note the disparity between the (alleged) ages of the younger ones who said that they were twelve and thirteen, and the older ones, who said fifteen years old. Location: Yazoo City, Mississippi.

Supt. and overseers with the "Relief Crowd," in Yazoo City (Miss.) Yar...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph group portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Putting in new flues in tobacco barn. The fire burns out the bricks and furnaces have to be replaced every ten or fifteen years. Orange County, North Carolina

Putting in new flues in tobacco barn. The fire burns out the bricks an...

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

A man sitting at a table with a pipe in his mouth. Office of War Information Photograph

A man sitting at a table with a pipe in his mouth. Office of War Infor...

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

Arkansas-Texas state line to Gurdon, Arkansas. War emergency pipeline from Longview, Texas to Norris City, Illinois. An electric welder who has been in pipeline business for fifteen years

Arkansas-Texas state line to Gurdon, Arkansas. War emergency pipeline ...

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

Picryl description: Public domain image of byciclyst, bike, bicycle wheel, sport event, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Picryl description: Public domain image of byciclyst, bike, bicycle wh...

Picryl description: Public domain image of byciclyst, bike, bicycle wheel, sport event, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Group of workers in Waxahachie Cotton Mill. Small boy apparently under fifteen years. Would not tell me his age. I saw no others so young. Even when I went through the mill after work started. Location: Waxahachie, Texas.

Group of workers in Waxahachie Cotton Mill. Small boy apparently under...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph group portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Messenger boy in the heart of the Reservation delivering messages. Prostitutes run back and forth. Business beginning at mid-day. I saw messenger boys and delivery boys for drug stores from fifteen years upward. Some still younger told me that they go there. This was in spite of a strong agitation being waged to close up the resorts. Location: Dallas, Texas.

Messenger boy in the heart of the Reservation delivering messages. Pro...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Old hand. Drawer-in for fifteen years. See 4159. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

Old hand. Drawer-in for fifteen years. See 4159. Location: Fall River...

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

High school boys and girls going out to pick peas. Canyon County, Idaho. There was a labor shortage in county and the growers advertized for pickers over the radio. They picked up the pickers in trucks. They hired none under fifteen years of age

High school boys and girls going out to pick peas. Canyon County, Idah...

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

T.J. Schenermann, driller from Oklahoma. Worked in Kansas oil fields about fifteen years. By oil well being drilled in Goodrich field of Continental oil field near Wichita, Kansas

T.J. Schenermann, driller from Oklahoma. Worked in Kansas oil fields a...

This image in a jacket marked "Killed." Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information ... More

A black and white photo of a man in a hard hat. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man in a hard hat. Office of War Informat...

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

Arkansas-Texas state line to Gurdon, Arkansas. War emergency pipeline from Longview, Texas to Norris City, Illinois. An electric welder who has been in pipeline business for fifteen years

Arkansas-Texas state line to Gurdon, Arkansas. War emergency pipeline ...

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

Mr. Albert W. Williams, president of the Unity Life Insurance Company, dictating to secretary DeAcklin. Mr. Williams was born in Georgia, studied at the University of Pennsylvania, worked for eight years for an insurance company in Washington, D.C. then went to New Orleans, and for the last fifteen years has lived in Chicago. The company has about five million dollars worth of business in force. Chicago, Illinois

Mr. Albert W. Williams, president of the Unity Life Insurance Company,...

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

Some of the younger boys working in Brazos Valley Cotton Mills at West. One Charlie Lott was thirteen years old according to Family Record. Another Norman Vaughn apparently twelve year old was under legal age according to one of the boys there, Calvin Caughlin who did not appear to be fifteen years old himself. These and two girls that I proved to be under legal age were all working in this small mill. It was an exceptional case, but it is likely that as the children become tired of school later in the year, there will be many more at work. Location: West, Texas

Some of the younger boys working in Brazos Valley Cotton Mills at West...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 3652. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Messenger boy in the heart of the Reservation delivering messages. Prostitutes run back and forth. Business beginning at mid-day. I saw messenger boys and delivery boys for drug stores from fifteen years upward. Some still younger told me that they go there. This was in spite of a strong agitation being waged to close up the resorts. Location: Dallas, Texas

Messenger boy in the heart of the Reservation delivering messages. Pro...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 3624. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Son of Fannie Corbin, fifteen years old, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia

Son of Fannie Corbin, fifteen years old, Shenandoah National Park, Vir...

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

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. Through the skill and ingenuity of the entire personnel of this small Eastern manufacturing firm, machinery formerly used in production of floor waxers has been converted to production of war essentials. Pictured here is the night foreman employed by the company for fifteen years, who was instrumental in executing the changeover. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. Through the skill and ingenuity of the ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory worker, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

"Ring around the rosy." Supt. and overseers with the "Relief Crowd," in Yazoo City (Miss.) Yarn Mills. The Supt. said, "We relieve all children under sixteen for two hours a day except the doffers. They go out and play." Then turning to the children he said, "Now play." They eyed him blankly, "Play wot?" "Oh, play anything." Before they could do it, however, he had to pose them himself (see photo 2106) which was especially posed for the occasion. In this photo, note the disparity between the (alleged) ages of the younger ones who said that they were 12 and thirteen, and the older ones, who said fifteen years old. Location: Yazoo City, Mississippi

"Ring around the rosy." Supt. and overseers with the "Relief Crowd," i...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2106. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Some of the younger boys working in the Brazos Valley Cotton Mill at West. One, Charlie Lott was thirteen years old according to Family Record, another Norman Vaughn apparently twelve years old was under legal age according to one of the other boys there, Calvin Caughlin who did not appear to be fifteen years old himself. These and two girls that I proved to be under legal age were all working in this small mill. It was an exceptional case, but it it [i.e., is] likely that as the children become tired of school later in the year, there will be many more at work. Location: West, Texas.

Some of the younger boys working in the Brazos Valley Cotton Mill at W...

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