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We've all got to retrench! / F. Opper.
Print shows how members of the upper class have made efforts to cut-back during the business panic of 1893; vignettes show a clothing auction of dresses worn by socialites, former streetcar-horses finding a sec... More
![Part of the family of George Padroni, near Sterling, Colo. They have 9 children and some hired help. Only one child in school (see 4042). This is 6 yr. old Lena, who works some too. The 8 yr. old boy pulls and piles beets. 9 and 12 yr. old boys run the pulling machine, (the mother said, "We all got to do all we can.") 11 yr. old girl piles and tops and does housework. 13 yr. old girl piles and tops. Says she hasn't hurt herself with the knife this year, but did last year. The whole family begins work from 5 to 6 A.M. and works until 6 P.M. and after, with time off for dinner. Pedroni has been living here for 20 yrs., owns several hundred acres, about 100 in beets. Is said to be well-to-do. Location: Sterling [vicinity], Colorado / Photo by Hine, Oct. 25/15.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MTUvMDEvMDEvcGFydC1vZi10aGUtZmFtaWx5LW9mLWdlb3JnZS1wYWRyb25pLW5lYXItc3RlcmxpbmctY29sby10aGV5LWhhdmUtOS1jaGlsZHJlbi0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/27/webp "Part of the family of George Padroni, near Sterling, Colo. They have 9 children and some hired help. Only one child in school (see 4042). This is 6 yr. old Lena, who works some too. The 8 yr. old boy pulls and piles beets. 9 and 12 yr. old boys run the pulling machine, (the mother said, \"We all got to do all we can.\") 11 yr. old girl piles and tops and does housework. 13 yr. old girl piles and tops. Says she hasn't hurt herself with the knife this year, but did last year. The whole family begins work from 5 to 6 A.M. and works until 6 P.M. and after, with time off for dinner. Pedroni has been living here for 20 yrs., owns several hundred acres, about 100 in beets. Is said to be well-to-do. Location: Sterling [vicinity], Colorado / Photo by Hine, Oct. 25/15.")
Part of the family of George Padroni, near Sterling, Colo. They have 9...
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Lottie and Dottie. It was like this Lottie, Molly and me and Milly all...
Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Dottie and Lottie : in the street car."
![He who gott [i.e. got] slapped - Public domain dedication image](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MjIvMDEvMDEvaGUtd2hvLWdvdHQtaWUtZ290LXNsYXBwZWQtNjQwLmpwZw%3D%3D/40/38/webp "He who gott [i.e. got] slapped - Public domain dedication image")
He who gott [i.e. got] slapped - Public domain dedication image
Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Life, 79:6 (April 20, 1922).