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[Loss of the Central America--Two illustrations: Mrs. Ellis and her four children in the berth, known as the "birdsnest"; the rescued female passengers of the Central America in the cabin of the brig Marine]

[Loss of the Central America--Two illustrations: Mrs. Ellis and her fo...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1857 Oct. 10, title page.

Mrs. Shotbang with her four children she delivered herself. Husband broke his foot early this spring. About time baby was to be born they ran short of coal and bed clothing, Mrs. Shotbang had to take care of the newly-born baby and the rest of the family, cutting fence posts for fuel. The family almost froze; no mattresses on the beds this past winter, only quilts over the hard springs

Mrs. Shotbang with her four children she delivered herself. Husband br...

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

C. & N.W. R.R. Cloe Weaver, mother of four children, employed as a helper at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa. She is learning to operate the turntable. Her husband works for a structural steel company

C. & N.W. R.R. Cloe Weaver, mother of four children, employed as a hel...

12002-13. 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. Add... More

[Theodore Roosevelt, full-length portrait, standing on porch, facing front, holding cup and saucer, with older man, older woman, and four children]

[Theodore Roosevelt, full-length portrait, standing on porch, facing f...

Copyright by H. Schervee. Public domain photograph related to President Theodore Roosevelt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Family of Louis Rizzo, a laborer who works some. The wife and four children (none could speak English at all) work on feathers and make about $3.00 a week. Been in U.S. five months. Do not go to school yet. Through an interpreter they said Peter is 15, Jimmie 14, Carbo 9 and John 7 years old; but those seemed to me too high. They were working in a very dim light. Location: New York, New York (State)

Family of Louis Rizzo, a laborer who works some. The wife and four chi...

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Shack home of woman and her four children who were subsisting on what she could make in the fields nearby. The father had deserted the family. Shack was near Vian, Oklahoma

Shack home of woman and her four children who were subsisting on what ...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of camp, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Woman migrant packinghouse worker from Tennessee with four children and two relatives eating supper. Belle Glade, Florida

Woman migrant packinghouse worker from Tennessee with four children an...

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

East Hartford, Connecticut. Frank Robbins of Wareham, Massachusetts, employed at the United Aircraft plant, lives in trailer near the plant, with his wife and four children, because of the housing shortage. He works nights, so he can sleep during the day in a bed used at night by two of the children. He makes forty dollars a week, his trailer payment is twenty dollars per month and his rent for the campsite is twelve dollars

East Hartford, Connecticut. Frank Robbins of Wareham, Massachusetts, e...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty during the Great Depression, migrant workers, 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.

[Four children in hay field, Russia] - Frank G. Carpenter collection

[Four children in hay field, Russia] - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection. No. 351. Public domain photograph - historical image of Russian Empire, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Hampton Institute, Hampton, Virginia - children of Indian students educated at Hampton - four children and two adults posed seated]

[Hampton Institute, Hampton, Virginia - children of Indian students ed...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Reproduced in: To Lead and to Serve: American Indian Education at Hampton Institute, 1878-1923. [Charlottesville] : Virginia... More

Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Anna Matecko, a Lithuanian, mother of four children, employed as a stower of freight at the transfer service of the Pennsylvania Railroad, earns seventy cents per hour. Her husband, of Russian descent, is a coal miner

Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Anna Matecko, a Lithuanian, mother of fou...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

C. & N.W. R.R. Cloe Weaver, mother of four children, employed as a helper at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa. She is learning to operate the turntable. Her husband works for a structural steel company

C. & N.W. R.R. Cloe Weaver, mother of four children, employed as a hel...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a railway worker, railroad, locomotive repair shop, industrial facility, early 20th-century industry, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Woman packinghouse worker from Tennessee with three of her four children eating supper of fried potatoes and cornbread and canned milk. Belle Glade, Florida

Woman packinghouse worker from Tennessee with three of her four childr...

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

Americans all. Building planes in an Eastern aircraft factory is Lew Orne, Chinese, who has a mother, father, wife and four children still in China. Orne feels that the planes he builds will hasten the day of victory and bring about a reunion with his family. Republic Aircraft Corporation

Americans all. Building planes in an Eastern aircraft factory is Lew O...

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

Civarro family, 2106 Second Avenue, second floor back, working on patriotic flag pins. They get 3 cents a gross for inserting pin and putting onto card. Mrs. Civarro with her three-months-old baby in her arms is working with four children aged 10, 9, 7 and 5, and a younger child that does not work (2 years). They work irregularly (as Mrs. Civarro does the janitor work for the building which is in fair condition, and receives in return only the rent free of three small rooms), and their net income for this work is $2 a week. 8 members of the family sleep in one small inner room. The tenement is not licensed for homework. Baby was a premature child and very small and frail. "It is so skinny." Husband is a laborer. Location: New York, New York (State) / Lewis W. Hine.

Civarro family, 2106 Second Avenue, second floor back, working on patr...

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

"Griffin children" of west Alabama land use demonstration project near Greensboro, Alabama. They are all third or fourth generation resulting from, it is believed, a white woman and a Negro. They are mostly white and refused to be placed with the Negroes, but the whites will not have them. Note carefully the closeup of the four children; all are from the same family and yet differ greatly in appearance

"Griffin children" of west Alabama land use demonstration project near...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

San Bernardino, California. Women "suppliers" who work at the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad roundhouse. Their job is replacing lamps and oil cans on incoming locomotives. Left to right: Trinidad Gutierrez and Molly Alcanto. Mrs. Gutierrez has four children. Her husband is in the hospital after an injury at the Kaiser Fontana steel mill. Miss Alcanto's boyfriend is in the army

San Bernardino, California. Women "suppliers" who work at the Atchison...

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

Four children - about 3 to 6 years old. Home all alone and settlement deserted. Mother and father working on Five-acre Bog. Location: Makepeace Bog near Wareham, Massachusetts.

Four children - about 3 to 6 years old. Home all alone and settlement ...

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

[Woman and four children waving good-bye to a man in a car]

[Woman and four children waving good-bye to a man in a car]

Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1939:0060). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

Mrs. Streety (a widow) and family. West Point, Miss. The four children on the ground work in the mill. Oldest makes 90 cents a day, - the next, 70 cents, - the boy 30 cents, ("He's slow," they said.) and Eva makes 28 cents a day. Eva is learning to spin. Can run two sides soon. She is 12 now (which is doubtful) but said that she learned [to] spin before she was 12. Location: West Point, Mississippi.

Mrs. Streety (a widow) and family. West Point, Miss. The four children...

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

The Speaker's Secretary. Margaret M. Robertson, Secretary to Speaker Joe Byrns for the past 13 years, is one of the most obliging persons on Capitol Hill. She interviews all members of Congress who call upon the Speaker. She is the wife of Lieut. W.A.R. Robertson, U.S. Army Air Corps. They have four children, three girls and a boy. 1/25/35

The Speaker's Secretary. Margaret M. Robertson, Secretary to Speaker J...

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

Family of Louis Rizzo, a laborer who works some. The wife and four children (none could speak English at all) work on feathers and make about $3.00 a week. Been in U.S. five months. Do not go to school yet. Through an interpreter they said Peter is 15, Jimmie 14, Carbo 9 and John 7 years old; but those seemed to me too high. They were working in a very dim light. Location: New York, New York (State)

Family of Louis Rizzo, a laborer who works some. The wife and four chi...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 2688. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photogr... More

When I told him I had four children he cried, Great Scott! four hostages to fortune

When I told him I had four children he cried, Great Scott! four hostag...

(DLC/PP-1939:0060). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The Smith Family Robinson," Ladies home journal, 43:28 (Jan. 1926).

Frank Robbins of Wareham, Massachusetts, employed at United Aircraft, East Hartford, Connecticut, lives in trailer near plant, with wife and four children because of housing shortage. He works nights, so he can sleep days in a bed used at night by the children. He makes forty dollars a week, his trailer payment is twenty dollars per month, and twelve dollars rent for the campsite

Frank Robbins of Wareham, Massachusetts, employed at United Aircraft, ...

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

[African American mother and her four children in their tenement appartment] / Stanley Kubrick.

[African American mother and her four children in their tenement appar...

Image from Look photograph assignment: Chicago city of contrasts. Frame 34 of a contact sheet. LOOK Magazine Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Teresa Lerre, 5 years old, cranberry picker. 1024 S. 9th St., Philadelphia. The father and four children are picking. A "carrier" may be seen at one side. Whites Bog, Browns Mills, N.J. This is the fourth week of school in Philadelphia and the people expect to remain here two weeks more. Location: Browns Mills, New Jersey.

Teresa Lerre, 5 years old, cranberry picker. 1024 S. 9th St., Philadel...

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Three men, one of them holding an axe, a woman, and four children standing at two doorways of a log cabin]

[Three men, one of them holding an axe, a woman, and four children sta...

H29165 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mrs. Shotbang and baby she delivered herself. She has had no aid in the births of her four children. Near Williston, North Dakota

Mrs. Shotbang and baby she delivered herself. She has had no aid in th...

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

Frank Robbins of Wareham, Massachusetts, employed at United Aircraft, East Hartford, Connecticut, lives in trailer near the plant, with wife and four children because of housing shortage. He works nights, so he can sleep days in a bed used at night by two of the children. He makes forty dollars a week, his trailer payment is twenty dollars per month and twelve dollars rent for the campsite

Frank Robbins of Wareham, Massachusetts, employed at United Aircraft, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Four children - about 3 to 6 years old. Home all alone and settlement deserted. Mother and father working on Five-acre Bog. Location: Makepeace Bog near Wareham, Massachusetts.

Four children - about 3 to 6 years old. Home all alone and settlement ...

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

Teresa Lerre, 5 years old, cranberry picker. 1024 S. 9th St., Philadelphia. The father and four children are picking. A "carrier" may be seen at one side. Whites Bog, Browns Mills, N.J. This is the fourth week of school in Philadelphia and the people expect to remain here two weeks more. Location: Browns Mills, New Jersey.

Teresa Lerre, 5 years old, cranberry picker. 1024 S. 9th St., Philadel...

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Four children dancing beneath blossoming cherry trees] / Bertha Lum.

[Four children dancing beneath blossoming cherry trees] / Bertha Lum.

K66799 U.S. Copyright Office. Signed in pencil. Alternate title published in: American prints in the Library of Congress, p. 272, #7. American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection / ... More

East Hartford, Connecticut. Frank Robbins of Wareham, Massachusetts, employed at the United Aircraft plant, lives in trailer near the plant, with his wife and four children, because of the housing shortage. He works nights, so he can sleep during the day in a bed used at night by two of the children. He makes forty dollars a week, his trailer payment is twenty dollars per month and his rent for the campsite is twelve dollars

East Hartford, Connecticut. Frank Robbins of Wareham, Massachusetts, e...

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

Frank Robbins of Wareham, Massachusetts, employed at United Aircraft, East Hartford, Connecticut, lives in trailer near plant, with wife and four children because of housing shortage. He works nights, so he can sleep days in a bed used at night by the children. He makes forty dollars a week, his trailer payment is twenty dollars per month, and twelve dollars rent for the campsite

Frank Robbins of Wareham, Massachusetts, employed at United Aircraft, ...

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

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 ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Refugees from the Pas-de-Calais. The father, a miner with his wife and four children fled losing all they possessed. Illness added to their misery: the mother died of tuberculosis laryngitis. Although the man is in poor health himself, he works in a mind, but as the place is exposed to shelling, he was worried about his children, so the Comite pour la Protection des Enfants de la Frontiere two took of the young ones

Refugees from the Pas-de-Calais. The father, a miner with his wife and...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Davis. Group title: Refugees, France, Children. Data: H.E. 9858 Gift; American Na... More

Woman migrant packinghouse worker from Tennessee with four children and two relatives eating supper. Belle Glade, Florida

Woman migrant packinghouse worker from Tennessee with four children 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

Shack home of woman and her four children who were subsisting on what she could make in the fields nearby. The father had deserted the family. Shack was near Vian, Oklahoma

Shack home of woman and her four children who were subsisting on what ...

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

Oklahoma sharecropper entering California stalled on desert with his wife and four children

Oklahoma sharecropper entering California stalled on desert with his w...

File print misnumbered LC-USF34-16112-E and LC-USF34-16509-E; corrected May 1998. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Wa... More

A family in the house of 102 children, the father (paralysed) the mother and four children living in one room

A family in the house of 102 children, the father (paralysed) the moth...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC, R.C. Commission to France. Group title: Civilian relief, France. On caption ... 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.

The Red Cross found conditions shown in the photograph of a room occupied by a mother and four children. It is now repairing and putting in sanitary conditions, to save the children for France. Evacues

The Red Cross found conditions shown in the photograph of a room occup...

Room showing a typical insanitary conditions from which the American Red Cross has rescued many refugees. Houses have been put in good shape to receive these unfortunate people and they are enabled to begin lif... More

Americans all. Building planes in an Eastern aircraft factory is Lew Orne, Chinese, who has a mother, father, wife and four children still in China. Orne feels that the planes he builds will hasten the day of victory and bring about a reunion with his family. Republic Aircraft Corporation

Americans all. Building planes in an Eastern aircraft factory is Lew O...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Four children standing outside in the snow

Four children standing outside in the snow

Forms part of: Visual Materials from the Rosa Parks Papers (Library of Congress).

[Theodore Roosevelt, full-length portrait, standing on porch, facing front, holding cup and saucer, with older man, older woman, and four children]

[Theodore Roosevelt, full-length portrait, standing on porch, facing f...

Copyright by H. Schervee. Public domain photograph related to President Theodore Roosevelt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Teresa Lerre, 5 years old, cranberry picker. 1024 S. 9th St., Philadelphia. The father and four children are picking. A "carrier" may be seen at one side. Whites Bog, Browns Mills, N.J. This is the fourth week of school in Philadelphia and the people expect to remain here two weeks more. Location: Browns Mills, New Jersey

Teresa Lerre, 5 years old, cranberry picker. 1024 S. 9th St., Philadel...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 1126. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Gypsy children of Macedonia. A gypsy mother and her four children in Straimlja, the mountain region of Macedonia. Babies are rocked in poor imitation of the American cradle. It is made of rough boards and filled with straw. Most of the gypsy children of this region have their heads shaved. It insures better health and avoids work for their mothers. These people live in one-story huts made of mud and rough timbers. They are good farmers

Gypsy children of Macedonia. A gypsy mother and her four children in S...

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: Children. Greece. Gift; American National Red Cross 19... 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 discrimination 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 ...

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

Frank Robbins of Wareham, Massachusetts, employed at United Aircraft, East Hartford, Connecticut, lives in trailer near the plant, with wife and four children because of housing shortage. He works nights, so he can sleep days in a bed used at night by two of the children. He makes forty dollars a week, his trailer payment is twenty dollars per month and twelve dollars rent for the campsite

Frank Robbins of Wareham, Massachusetts, employed at United Aircraft, ...

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

Woman packinghouse worker from Tennessee with three of her four children eating supper of fried potatoes and cornbread and canned milk. Belle Glade, Florida

Woman packinghouse worker from Tennessee with three of her four childr...

Annotation on original negative jacket. 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 woman in a warehouse. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a woman in a warehouse. Office of War Infor...

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

Mother Goose on Parade: Mother Goose; Simple Simon; Yankee Doodle; Crooked Man; Old Woman in Shoe; Four Children; King; Four Guards; Two Maid

Mother Goose on Parade: Mother Goose; Simple Simon; Yankee Doodle; Cro...

Part of the Dance Program for Young Folk (Content) The Federal Theatre Project (FTP) was a New Deal program created in 1935 as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Its goal was to provide employmen... More

Mrs. Streety (a widow) and family. West Point, Miss. The four children on the ground work in the mill. Oldest makes 90 cents a day, - the next, 70 cents, - the boy 30 cents, ("He's slow," they said.) and Eva makes 28 cents a day. Eva is learning to spin. Can run two sides soon. She is 12 now (which is doubtful) but said that she learned to spin before she was 12. Location: West Point, Mississippi

Mrs. Streety (a widow) and family. West Point, Miss. The four children...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2133. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

These four children of H.T. Thompson, 267 A Street all work in the Merrimack Mill. The youngest, a girl, has been there three years. See Hine report. Location: Huntsville, Alabama

These four children of H.T. Thompson, 267 A Street all work in the Mer...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 3738. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Teresa Lerre, 5 years old, cranberry picker. 1024 S. 9th St., Philadelphia. The father and four children are picking. A "carrier" may be seen at one side. Whites Bog, Browns Mills, N.J. This is the fourth week of school in Philadelphia and the people expect to remain here two weeks more. Location: Browns Mills, New Jersey

Teresa Lerre, 5 years old, cranberry picker. 1024 S. 9th St., Philadel...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 1126. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Family of Louis Rizzo, a laborer who works some. The wife and four children (none could speak English at all) work on feathers and make about $3.00 a week. Been in U.S. five months. Do not go to school yet. Through an interpreter they said Peter is 15, Jimmie 14, Carbo 9 and John 7 years old; but those seemed to me too high. They were working in a very dim light. Location: New York, New York (State)

Family of Louis Rizzo, a laborer who works some. The wife and four chi...

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Roumania, Land of Bare Feet. All the clothes that this Roumanian war widow and her four children own, they have on their backs. All are barefoot as shoes are so scarce that few people wear them. These four children were pathetic "starvation" patients in one of the American Red Cross hospitals in Bucharest, and although they are now on the road to recovery they still show the after effects of mal-nutrition. All of them look aged beyond their years and their mentality is entirely retarded and torpid. Roumania is fast straightening out her economic situation but the was has left thousands of destitute people

Roumania, Land of Bare Feet. All the clothes that this Roumanian war w...

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: Refugees, Roumania. Gift; American National Red Cross ... More

The Speaker's Secretary. Margaret M. Robertson, Secretary to Speaker Joe Byrns for the past 13 years, is one of the most obliging persons on Capitol Hill. She interviews all members of Congress who call upon the Speaker. She is the wife of Lieut. W.A.R. Robertson, U.S. Army Air Corps. They have four children, three girls and a boy. 12535

The Speaker's Secretary. Margaret M. Robertson, Secretary to Speaker J...

A black and white photo of a woman sitting at a desk, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data on negative or negative sleeve. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General... More

San Bernardino, California. Women "suppliers" who work at the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad roundhouse. Their job is replacing lamps and oil cans on incoming locomotives. Left to right: Trinidad Gutierrez and Molly Alcanto. Mrs. Gutierrez has four children. Her husband is in the hospital after an injury at the Kaiser Fontana steel mill. Miss Alcanto's boyfriend is in the army

San Bernardino, California. Women "suppliers" who work at the Atchison...

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.

Family of J. M. Payne, Route 1, Lawton, Okla. Mrs. Payne and four children picking cotton. Mart, 5 years, picks from 10 to 20 pounds a day (average) Harley, 7 years, picks 40 pounds a day (average) Grandison, 10 years, pickes 75 pounds a day (average) Hubert, 15 years, picks 200 pounds and over. Go to Fairview School. Mother said: "Mart, he haint old nuff to go to school much, but he kin pick his 20 pounds a day. Mostly 10 or 15 pounds." Father is a renter. Location: Comanche County, Oklahoma / Lewis W. Hine.

Family of J. M. Payne, Route 1, Lawton, Okla. Mrs. Payne and four chil...

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

Family of Louis Rizzo, a laborer who works some. The wife and four children (none could speak English at all) work on feathers and make about $3.00 a week. Been in U.S. five months. Do not go to school yet. Through an interpreter they said Peter is 15, Jimmie 14, Carbo 9 and John 7 years old; but those seemed to me too high. They were working in a very dim light. Location: New York, New York (State)

Family of Louis Rizzo, a laborer who works some. The wife and four chi...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 2688. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photogr... More

Mother Goose on Parade: Mother Goose; Simple Simon; Yankee Doodle; Crooked Man; Old Woman in Shoe; Four Children; King; Four Guards; Two Maid

Mother Goose on Parade: Mother Goose; Simple Simon; Yankee Doodle; Cro...

Part of the Dance Program for Young Folk (Content) Public domain image of theatrical costume design, theater, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

These four children of H.T. Thompson, 267 A Street all work in the Merrimack Mill. The youngest, a girl, has been there three years. See Hine report. Location: Huntsville, Alabama.

These four children of H.T. Thompson, 267 A Street all work in the Mer...

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

Mrs. Shotbang with her four children she delivered herself. Husband broke his foot early this spring. About time baby was to be born they ran short of coal and bed clothing, Mrs. Shotbang had to take care of the newly-born baby and the rest of the family, cutting fence posts for fuel. The family almost froze; no mattresses on the beds this past winter, only quilts over the hard springs

Mrs. Shotbang with her four children she delivered herself. Husband br...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Oklahoma sharecropper entering California stalled on the desert with his wife and four children

Oklahoma sharecropper entering California stalled on the desert with h...

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