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The Last Hours of Lincoln. Key. You are cordially invited to call and examine the great historical painting of "The Last Hours of Lincoln," designed by John Batchelder, painted by Alonzo Chappel

The Last Hours of Lincoln. Key. You are cordially invited to call and ...

Broadside adv. with key to 47 persons in painting. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Publ. Ind.(2); Death; Keys; Pres.; Adv.

Majority Leader at the press conference. Washington, D.C. Jan. 2. Senator Joe Robinson of Arkansas who is the majority leader of the Senate telling the reporters that Congress is going to regulate wages and hours even if necessary to pass a Constitutional amendment. Is this the rebirth of the N.R.A.?

Majority Leader at the press conference. Washington, D.C. Jan. 2. Sena...

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Aven Mill, Gastonia, N.C. Work 12 hours without any stop for lunch. "Eat a-workin." 8:30 P.M. Friday. Mill running nights. Location: Gastonia, North Carolina / Photo by Lewis W. Hine., Nov. 6, 1908.

Aven Mill, Gastonia, N.C. Work 12 hours without any stop for lunch. "E...

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Young girl working 9 to 10 hours a day in Inland Type Foundry. Location: St. Louis, Missouri.

Young girl working 9 to 10 hours a day in Inland Type Foundry. Locati...

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A young truant newsie, during school hours. Location: Nashville, Tennessee.

A young truant newsie, during school hours. Location: Nashville, Tenn...

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[Selling during school hours, 2 P.M.] Location: Rochester, New York (State)

[Selling during school hours, 2 P.M.] Location: Rochester, New York (...

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Barney Goldstein, 83 W. 5th St. Newsboy, 10 years of age. Selling newspapers 1 year. Average earnings 50 cents per week. Selling papers own choice. Don't smoke. Visits saloons. Works 5 hours per day. Investigator, Edward F. Brown. Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Lewis W. Hine., May, 1910.

Barney Goldstein, 83 W. 5th St. Newsboy, 10 years of age. Selling news...

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All of these are workers in the Stearns Silk Factory, Petersburg, Virginia Not all of the youngsters would get into the photo. I went through the factory during working hours and saw many others like these. A neighbor's testimony corroborated the foregoing. Noon hour. Location: Petersburg, Virginia.

All of these are workers in the Stearns Silk Factory, Petersburg, Virg...

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Some results of messenger and newsboy work. For nine years this sixteen year old boy has been newsboy and messenger for drug stores and telegraph companies. He was recently brought before the Judge of the Juvenile Court for incorrigibility at home. Is now out on parole, and was working again for drug company when he got a job carrying grips in the Union Depot. He is on the job from 6:00 A.M. to 11:00 P.M. (seventeen hours a day) for seven days in the week. His mother and the Judge think[s] he uses cocaine, and yet they let him put in these long hours every day. He told me "There ain't a house in 'The Acre,' (Red Light) that I ain't been in. At the drug store, all my deliveries were down there." Says he makes from $15.00 to $18.00 a week. Eugene Dalton. Location: Fort Worth, Texas.

Some results of messenger and newsboy work. For nine years this sixtee...

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All these children five years, six years, seven years, nine years and two a little older, were picking cotton on H.M. Lane's farm Bells, Tex. Only one adult, an aunt was picking. Father was plowing. Edith five years, (see preceding photo) picks all day. "Hughie," six years old, girl, picks all day. Alton, seven year old boy picks fifty pounds a day. Ruth, nine years old, picks seventy-five pounds a day. Rob and Lee are about ten or eleven years old. The very young children like to pick, but before long they detest it. Sun is hot, hours long, bags heavy. Location: Bells, Texas.

All these children five years, six years, seven years, nine years and ...

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[Rader Copeland (Lake Park). He was plowing during school hours and will lose 10 weeks of schooling. His father said that he needed the boy's help. He plows, plants, chops cotton, picks cotton. The father said: "He ain't very fast." Said he was 10 years old. The sister said he was 12 years old.] Location: Valdosta, Georgia.

[Rader Copeland (Lake Park). He was plowing during school hours and wi...

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[Case of Frank Wiegel, 3916 - # Ave., Brooklyn N.Y., injured after working 18 hours a day. He was injured at 1:55 A.M. January 18, 1914. Age 15 years. Employed by the Henry Bosch Paper Co., makers of wallpaper sample books. On Saturday, or rather Sunday morning at 1:55, Frank must have fallen asleep and in some way he knocked against the controlling pedal, and the next thing he knew his hand was caught in the machine. He sued the Co. for damages and after 2 years' litigation he received an award of $10,000 - $5,000 for each of 2 fingers which were amputated. The lawyer's fee has not yet been decided upon by the court.] Location: [New York--Brooklyn, New York (State)].

[Case of Frank Wiegel, 3916 - # Ave., Brooklyn N.Y., injured after wor...

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Waiting in line for tickets for the opening game of the World Series. Picture snapped at 10 P.M. tonight October 3rd, twenty four hours before the tickets will be placed on sale

Waiting in line for tickets for the opening game of the World Series. ...

Men sleeping in chairs. National Photo Company Collection. No. 32449. Public domain scan of the vintage baseball memorabilia, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A tractor pioneer of the Mississippi Delta. In 1927 he had 160 colored tenant families working his land, in 1936 he won thirty Farmall tractors and employs thirty families on day labor basis. He says, "Now I can make money. Hours are nothing to us. You can't industrialize farming. We in Mississippi know how to treat our niggers"

A tractor pioneer of the Mississippi Delta. In 1927 he had 160 colored...

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Jenin. Deserted under 22 hours curfew, May 1, 1938

Jenin. Deserted under 22 hours curfew, May 1, 1938

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3,000 hours on the air waves. Washington, D.C., June 27. Sec. of Agriculture Henry Wallace, speaking over the Farm and Home Hour today, todays broadcast marks the 3,000th hour on the air and makes it the world oldest radio program from the standpoint of hours on the air, 62738

3,000 hours on the air waves. Washington, D.C., June 27. Sec. of Agric...

A man in a suit sitting at a table with a microphone, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. ... More

Pill-Box Fort finished in four hours. Washington, D.C., Aug. 25. Something new in speedy-built forts was built on the grounds of the Bureau of Standards today in four hours. Karl P. Billner, Swedish Inventor, supervised the building of the pill box which was done by his new invention as the vacuum concrete invention. Mr. Billner, is looking over the finished product, 8/25/38

Pill-Box Fort finished in four hours. Washington, D.C., Aug. 25. Somet...

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A faded mural on the wall of a building in Dallas, Texas, advertising the Texas and Pacific Railroad's passenger service to Saint Louis in what at the time was apparently the expeditious time of 23 hours

A faded mural on the wall of a building in Dallas, Texas, advertising ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This was a featured route for that railroad as early as 1872, though this advertisement probably dates to the 1930s or 1940s, when pa... More

Mules are taken into the yard for a couple of hours at noon during mid-summer to cool and water them. King and Anderson Plantation, near Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

Mules are taken into the yard for a couple of hours at noon during mid...

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Steam bath on Cheyenne Indian Tongue River Reservation. A hot fire is made in the center, bricks are heated, water is poured over them. After the Indian gets inside is well covered with many blankets and the outside is also covered with cloths and blankets. He stays in there for several hours, sweats, and becomes very weak. A skull in front, outside, is their "medicine." Other Indians watch and stand around and smoke. Near Lame Deer, Montana

Steam bath on Cheyenne Indian Tongue River Reservation. A hot fire is ...

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Steam bath on Cheyenne Indian Tongue River Reservation. A hot fire is made in the center, bricks are heated, water is poured over them. After the Indian gets inside is well covered with many blankets and the outside is also covered with cloths and blankets. He stays in there for several hours, sweats, and becomes very weak. A skull in front, outside, is their "medicine." Other Indians watch and stand around and smoke. Near Lame Deer, Montana

Steam bath on Cheyenne Indian Tongue River Reservation. A hot fire is ...

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Women at war (Mrs. Smuda). There's no household task too arduous for this 1942-style American mother who spends eight hours a day working at the Frankford Arsenal to smash the Axis. When those banisters need cleaning and polishing, they get cleaned and polished by the lady of the house

Women at war (Mrs. Smuda). There's no household task too arduous for t...

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Dante Electric Company, Bantam, Connecticut. The shop is busy, so Anna, oldest of the five Dante girls lends a hand with a drill press. Anna operates the Bantam Beauty Salon, but because she has difficulty with hot water during the winter, she closes the shop from early January through March. Her "boyfriend" (Anna says they are not engaged) works regularly at the American Brass Company in Torrington. If he puts in an eight-hour day there, he works for another four hours at the Dante Electric. Often now, however, he puts in a twelve-hour day in Torrington, and on those days does not work for Dante

Dante Electric Company, Bantam, Connecticut. The shop is busy, so Anna...

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Washington, D.C. Government charwoman cleaning after regular working hours

Washington, D.C. Government charwoman cleaning after regular working h...

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Manpower. Veteran boring mill worker. Seventy-five-year-old George Shoemaker has worked at this same vertical boring mill for the past fifty-four years. The boring mill, built in 1865, made pump parts in the last year of the Civil War and worked through the Spanish-American War and World War I. In this war, it is kept busy seventy-six hours a week. The machine can handle castings up to eleven feet square

Manpower. Veteran boring mill worker. Seventy-five-year-old George Sho...

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Charlotte Court House, Virginia. Central High School band every month or so marches up Main Street to give drills and a concert. Players must buy their own instruments and costumes and pay for their own lessons. Lessons are given during school hours

Charlotte Court House, Virginia. Central High School band every month ...

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Blue Island, Illinois. Jerry Senise spends two hours every afternoon working at a butcher store to help out the family and earn his spending money

Blue Island, Illinois. Jerry Senise spends two hours every afternoon w...

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Washington, D.C. Servicemen who must wait several hours between trains sleeping in one of the lounges at the United Nations service center

Washington, D.C. Servicemen who must wait several hours between trains...

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New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 1942, for thirty children, aged two to five, of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., six days per week. Children having lunch with a trained assistant

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 19...

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New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 1942, for thirty children, age two to five, of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. six days per week. The visiting nurse who examines the children every morning. There is always a doctor on call, and once a month he gives each child a thorough examination

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 19...

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Calumet City, Illinois. Part of the Calumet Park stockyards, run by the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad as a stock watering, feeding and resting point. The law requires that stock be watered, fed, and rested every thirty-six hours of a journey

Calumet City, Illinois. Part of the Calumet Park stockyards, run by th...

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Same group as #2595. These boys and many others work late every week night, they said, usually until midnight. On Saturday most of the day and also night. Air is bad; associations are bad, the long hours and confinement are bad. One of the boys told me he was 10 yrs. old, five boys told me 11 years old, three boys told me 12 years old and I could not question many. Late Saturday night, I counted one boy of 10 years, five of 11 years, nineteen boys apparently 12 and 13 years old. Location: Lowell, Massachusetts.

Same group as #2595. These boys and many others work late every week n...

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Left to right: Florence Lieto, 10 years old. Jennie Macola, 10 years old (hidden) Mamie Macola, 8 years old. Nicholas Macola, 6 years old. Picking coffee sweepings. The sweepings cost 25 cents a sack at the warehouse, and picked-over coffee sells at about 12 cents lb. Man working with sore hand tied up in bandage. Children work after school hours and on Saturdays. 10 A.M. Saturday. 36 Laight St. Location: New York, New York (State)

Left to right: Florence Lieto, 10 years old. Jennie Macola, 10 years o...

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Glass Blower and Mold Boy. Boy has 4 1/2 hours of this at a stretch, then an hour's rest and 4 1/2 more: cramped position. Day shift one week: night shift next. (see label on photo 162.) Grafton, West Virginia. Location: Grafton, West Virginia.

Glass Blower and Mold Boy. Boy has 4 1/2 hours of this at a stretch, t...

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Dangerous work. Charlie McBride. Said twelve years old. This twelve year old boy has a steady job with the Miller and Vidor Lumber Company. He takes slabs out of the chute, which has a moving endless chain to carry the wood up the chute. He passes the slabs on to the other boy who saws them off on an unguarded circular saw. Charlie runs the saw himself whenever he gets the chance. He is exposed not only to the above dangers, but to the weather. No roof even. Has been here for some months. "Get four bits a day." (Fifty cents.) Works ten hours. This was the only mill that I found around Beaumont that employed boys. Likely because they are located some distance out of town. Location: Beaumont, Texas.

Dangerous work. Charlie McBride. Said twelve years old. This twelve ye...

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Trade unions foster education and uproot ignorance. Shorten hours and lengthen life. Raise wages and lower usury .... Make the world better. All wage-workers should be union men. Their progress is limited only by them to hold aloof ... Organizin

Trade unions foster education and uproot ignorance. Shorten hours and ...

On verso: [Stamp] P. Amer. Fed. Of Labor. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 209, Folder 7.

Happy autumn hours - Print, Library of Congress collection

Happy autumn hours - Print, Library of Congress collection

S1972 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Hatch.

Happy childhood--delightful hours in the nursery playroom

Happy childhood--delightful hours in the nursery playroom

Small children playing in nursery school classroom. Highlights two girls riding hobby horses. H108313 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 5267.

[Groups of girls workers at the gate of the American Tobacco Co., Wilmington, Delaware, noon period, May 24, 1910. Young girls obviously under 14 years of age, who work about 10 hours a day every day except Saturday. Investigator, Edward F. Brown]. Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Louis [i.e. Lewis] W. Hine, May, 1910]

[Groups of girls workers at the gate of the American Tobacco Co., Wilm...

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Noon May 12th, 1910. Girls working in Inland Type Factory. 9 to 10 hours a day. Location: St. Louis, Missouri.

Noon May 12th, 1910. Girls working in Inland Type Factory. 9 to 10 hou...

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Walter Ray, 400 Walnut St. 8 years of age. Selling papers 1 year. Average earnings 35 cents per week. Selling papers own choice. Don't smoke. Earnings not needed at home. Visits saloons. Works 5 hours per day. Investigator, Edward F. Brown. Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Lewis W. Hine., May, 1910.

Walter Ray, 400 Walnut St. 8 years of age. Selling papers 1 year. Aver...

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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...

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12 yr. old truant, selling extras during school hours, 4/15/12. "Thought I'd rather sell extras to-day than go to school. I go to St. Patrick's School." At 2 A.M. April 19, I found him still selling Extras, with several other boys not much older. Joseph O'Connor, 922 Twenty-second St., N.W. Is a truant. Did not get along in public school. Location: [Washington (D.C.), District of Columbia]

12 yr. old truant, selling extras during school hours, 4/15/12. "Thoug...

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After school hours - Drawing. Public domain image.

After school hours - Drawing. Public domain image.

1 boy seated on wooden fence and another boy carving on birch tree. J172515 U.S. Copyright Office This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Trees; Children Playing outd... More

[Cleo Campbell, 9 years old, picks 75 to 100 pounds of cotton a day. Expects to start school soon. Said: "I'd ruther go to school and then I wouldn't have ter work." Father said she and her sister begin about 6 A.M. and work until 6 or 7 P.M. with 1 1/2 hours off at noon. Lewis W. Hine. See 4590. See W.H. Swift Report.] Location: Potawotamie, Oklahoma.

[Cleo Campbell, 9 years old, picks 75 to 100 pounds of cotton a day. E...

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A pair of truants, tending their father's mules. Photo taken during school hours, near Oklahoma City. Boys are 9 and 11 yrs. old. Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. / L.W. Hine.

A pair of truants, tending their father's mules. Photo taken during sc...

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

Serbian peasant women. In the early hours of the morning these Serbian peasant women walk over the rough roads for ten or fifteen miles on their way to the public markets of Belgrade where they sell their meager produce from small push carts. The markets open very early and close at noon to enable them to get back to their homes by the evening. The miserable existence that the peasant population of this war-torn country leads shows in the lined faces of the women, for in years they are much younger than they appear to be. After the Armistice when they were almost naked, it was the American Red Cross that rescued many thousands of them and helped them through some of the darkest hours that over beset their grief stricken country

Serbian peasant women. In the early hours of the morning these Serbian...

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: Markets, Serbia. Gift; American National Red Cross 194... More

American Industrial Basketball champions--The Fisk Red Tops ... winning five straight games within 24 hours in the recent Industrial Basketball Championship Tournament at Akron, Ohio

American Industrial Basketball champions--The Fisk Red Tops ... winnin...

Eight men posed, standing, full length, wearing basketball uniforms. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood.

American Industry will be benefited if labor wage-and-hour bill is passed, says Mme. Perkins. Washington, D.C., June 4. American industry will be a principal beneficiary of federal legeslation to stabilize wages, hours and working conditions, Secretary of Labors Perkins told the Senate and House Labor Committees today before whom she appeared to endorse the Black-Connery Wage and Hour Bill. Removal of sweatshop conditions is the object of this pending bill, 6/4/37

American Industry will be benefited if labor wage-and-hour bill is pas...

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No rest for a weary filibuster. Washington, D.C., Jan. 27. Senator Claude A. Pepper, Democrat of Florida who spoke for 11 hours during the current filibuster against the Anti-lynching bill, points out to pretty Mrs. Pepper the interesting sections of his long winded talk as he printed in the Congressional Record, 1/27/38

No rest for a weary filibuster. Washington, D.C., Jan. 27. Senator Cla...

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Small cotton farm, Kern County, California. The farmer keeps accounts. Each picker weighs his sack of cotton. In this case the sack weighs approximately fifty pounds. Took three hours to pick, for which, on basis of seventy-five cents per one hundred pounds of picked cotton, he will be paid thirty-eight cents

Small cotton farm, Kern County, California. The farmer keeps accounts....

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Potato trucks outside a starch factory in Caribou, Maine. Some of them had been waiting over twenty-four hours for the potatoes to be graded and weighed. See general caption Aroostook number 1

Potato trucks outside a starch factory in Caribou, Maine. Some of them...

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Lend-Lease to Britain. Cases of TNT gunpower shipped from the United States under lend-lease are stacked in the dump in a tunnel one hundred feet underground dug out of solid rock in western England. The staff here works twenty-four hours a day handling Lend-Lease materials arriving from the United States

Lend-Lease to Britain. Cases of TNT gunpower shipped from the United S...

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Carrying sacks of hop into the drying room at the kiln. Yakima County, Washington. Hops stay in kiln drying for about seventeen hours

Carrying sacks of hop into the drying room at the kiln. Yakima County,...

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Civilian protection. The fire watcher must wait long and tedious hours, ever on the alert for falling incendiary bombs which he must then reach quickly with his crew to dispose of them before they have had a chance to start a major blaze

Civilian protection. The fire watcher must wait long and tedious hours...

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Merchandise display in retail sales class at the San Diego Vocational School. Day students at this school attend classes in the morning and must work in some local store for at least fifteen hours a week. San Diego, California

Merchandise display in retail sales class at the San Diego Vocational ...

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"Me and the old gent." Jake Sparling, sixty, head of the two-man shop of the Sparling Pulley Manufacturing Company, Bay City, Michigan. He and his seventy-nine-year-old ex-lumberjack helper were recognized by Donald Nelson as the only two-man labor- management war production drive committee in the United States. The two work fifteen hours a day, seven days a week, and, unaided, have produced 18,000 steel flanges for war equipment in eighteen months

"Me and the old gent." Jake Sparling, sixty, head of the two-man shop ...

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Women at war (Mrs. Smuda). Although she's one of America's vital production workers eight hours each day, fifty-five-year-old Eva Smuda still finds plenty of time to devote to home and family. Before the rest of the household is up, she has breakfast on the stove

Women at war (Mrs. Smuda). Although she's one of America's vital produ...

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Nyssa, Oregon. FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp. Japanese-Americans dumping garbage. All occupants of the camp spend two hours a week in maintenance work

Nyssa, Oregon. FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp. Japanes...

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Bantam, Connecticut. Defense homes. The heating unit is in the kitchen of Fred Heath's four-room apartment in the new federally-financed homes for eighty families just a few minutes from the Warren McArthur factory in Bantam. The well-insulated coal fire puts steam in the radiators and provides the heat for cooking. The tenants are well-pleased although on several nights when the temperature dropped to ten degrees below zero they were forced to replenish the fuel every two or three hours. That cigarette Fred Heath holds is not tailor-made, by the way--he likes to roll his own

Bantam, Connecticut. Defense homes. The heating unit is in the kitchen...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Denver, Colorado. Twenty-four hours a day the sparks from acetylene torches of steel workers in eight Denver fabricating plants are flying thick and fast that the U.S. Navy may carry the battle to the enemy in all parts of the world. Here in secluded Denver, the world's largest city not on a navigable waterway, this war production worker, who has never seen a battleship or an ocean, fashions the steel hull parts which are being assembled at Mare Island Navy Yard--1,200 miles from where he and his fellow wokers are on the job to help "keep 'em sailling."

Denver, Colorado. Twenty-four hours a day the sparks from acetylene to...

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Nyssa, Oregon. FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp. The sugar beet companies who sponsored the Japanese-Americans who moved to the camp send trucks one night a week to take them into town for a few hours in a supervised group

Nyssa, Oregon. FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp. The sug...

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Washington, D.C. Servicemen who must wait several hours between trains sleeping in one of the lounges at the United Nations service center

Washington, D.C. Servicemen who must wait several hours between trains...

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New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center opened September 15, 1942 for thirty children, ages two through five of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., six days per week. Rest period

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center opened September 15, 194...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Albuquerque, New Mexico. At the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad tie treating plant. Black ties have just come out of the retort where they were treated for eight hours. Light colored ties are about to go into the retort

Albuquerque, New Mexico. At the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad...

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Victory Gardens--for family and country. Sunday morning in many U.S. communities finds all the neighbors getting together for a good workout at the community Victory Garden. Through cooperation of local organizations, thousands of vacant lots in thousands of cities are being transformed into fruitful gardens, where everyone from grandpa to the youngster down the block puts in hours of patriotic labor

Victory Gardens--for family and country. Sunday morning in many U.S. c...

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New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 1942, for thirty children, aged two to five, of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., six days per week. Children having lunch with a trained assistant

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 19...

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Hamilton Family, sardine works, Eastport. Father earns $15 to $25 a week irregularly during the work season for three months. Said that 20 years ago he made $5 a day as a boy, cutting. The mother is a packer makes $10 a week and upward, during the active season. Another boy, not in the photo, works also. In the front row are George Hamilton, 11 years old, who cuts regularly--made a dollar in three hours the day before; Byron, with a badly cut finger, earns 25 cents a day; little Erna 8 years old works at cartoning. The father is dissatisfied with the irregular income, but cannot see the connection between his early boyhood work and his present stagnation. He is putting his little ones through the same process. Location: Eastport, Maine.

Hamilton Family, sardine works, Eastport. Father earns $15 to $25 a we...

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Truant hanging around boats in the harbor during school hours. Location: Boston, Massachusetts.

Truant hanging around boats in the harbor during school hours. Locati...

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Pullman porter checking the list of hours he is to wake people in the morning aboard the "Capitol Limited" bound for Chicago, Illinois

Pullman porter checking the list of hours he is to wake people in the ...

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Group of workers in Danville, (Virginia) Knitting Works, Only a few of them would pose. I watched them going to and coming from work; also went through the factory during working hours. One morning I counted eighteen that I judged to be under fourteen, several of them were under twelve, and one about nine years. I saw them working and helping. The youngest ones dodged the camera. Location: Danville, Virginia.

Group of workers in Danville, (Virginia) Knitting Works, Only a few of...

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Left to right: Florence Lieto, 10 years old. Jennie Macola, 10 years old (hidden) Mamie Macola, 8 years old. Nicholas Macola, 6 years old. Picking coffee sweepings. The sweepings cost 25 cents a sack at the warehouse, and picked-over coffee sells at about 12 cents lb. Man working with sore hand tied up in bandage. Children work after school hours and on Saturdays. 10 A.M. Saturday. 36 Laight St. Location: New York, New York (State)

Left to right: Florence Lieto, 10 years old. Jennie Macola, 10 years o...

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The big farce comedy, Hello Bill by Frank J. Hallo & Marie Madison : a whole lot of fun - in 3 hours.

The big farce comedy, Hello Bill by Frank J. Hallo & Marie Madison : a...

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Selling on Main Street in the afternoon hours. The majority sell no later than 7 P.M. Location: Buffalo, New York (State)

Selling on Main Street in the afternoon hours. The majority sell no la...

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Scene is a cotton field of the Baptist Orphanage near Waxahachie. These boys from seven years old upward pick cotton helping this man outside of school hours. There are twenty children, mostly girls, and it is supported by the Baptists of Texas. Location: Waxahachie [vicinity], Texas.

Scene is a cotton field of the Baptist Orphanage near Waxahachie. Thes...

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Hours there were - Public domain American sheet music

Hours there were - Public domain American sheet music

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form) In bound volumes: Copyright Deposits 1820-1860

Washington, D.C. Government charwoman cleaning after regular working hours

Washington, D.C. Government charwoman cleaning after regular working h...

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[Third series of experiments with board trusses-shows appearance of bridge, after 168,000 lbs., in addition to the weight of the bridge, had stood on it for nine hours]

[Third series of experiments with board trusses-shows appearance of br...

No. 38 (handwritten) and 2539 (stamped) on mount. Forms part of Civil War photos, military construction and transportation in Northern Virginia and elsewhere / United States Military Railway Department (Librar... More

U.S.S. Yankee, crew after 48 hours coaling

U.S.S. Yankee, crew after 48 hours coaling

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Final check, weather device. Washington, D.C., Sept. 13. L.L. Stockman, also of the Bureau of Standards, Radium Division, uses a wave meter to check the radiometeorograph before attaching it to the parachute and the balloon. When the inflated bag breaks, which it usually does after several hours flying, the instrument is parachuted to the ground. Many times the instrument is found and returned to the bureau. The radiometeorograph contains two radio tubes, a miniature dry cell battery and devices which record and send the weather signals which, in turn, are recorded on a chronograph in Dr. Astin's bood [?] radio room.

Final check, weather device. Washington, D.C., Sept. 13. L.L. Stockman...

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Majority Senate leaders press conference. Washington, D.C. Jan. 2. Joe Robinson, the Senator from Arkansas who is the majority leader of the Senate held the first press conference this year. Sen. Robinson said that the principle problems confronting the coming session of Congress are neutrality, budget balancing, and regulation of hours and wages, the latter by constitutional amendment if necessary

Majority Senate leaders press conference. Washington, D.C. Jan. 2. Joe...

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Selling at 12:30 P.M., between school hours, on Main Street. Location: Rochester, New York (State)

Selling at 12:30 P.M., between school hours, on Main Street. Location...

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All these I saw regularly at work during work hours in Richmond Spinning Mills. Tiny girl on left, five years old, is Goldie, who helps her sister, girl back of her. When I tried to get a photo of her at work at her machine, the Overseer said, "Don't put her in. A photo of that might get me into a lot of trouble." I said, "But she isn't working, she's only helping." All the same" he replied, "if they caught her in here, they might fine me a hundred dollars." Location: Chattanooga, Tennessee.

All these I saw regularly at work during work hours in Richmond Spinni...

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William Lynch, 11 years of age, and Cornelius Lynch, 9 years of age, 607 ["606" crossed out] E. 6th Street. Newsboys. William has been selling papers 4 years, average earnings 25 cents per week. Sells from choice. Don't smoke. Visits saloons. Works 5 hours a day. Cornelius selling 3 years, average earnings 35 cents a week. Earnings not needed at home. Sells from choice. Don't smoke. Visits saloons. Works 7 hours a day. Edward F. Brown, Investigator. Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

William Lynch, 11 years of age, and Cornelius Lynch, 9 years of age, 6...

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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 12 and 13, and the older ones, who said 15 years old. Location: Yazoo City, Mississippi.

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

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Woodrow Wilson a few hours after nomination, July 2, 1912

Woodrow Wilson a few hours after nomination, July 2, 1912

Photo shows President Woodrow Wilson after being nominated as the Democratic Party candidate for the 1912 elections. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008)

Edgar Kitchen 13 yrs. old gets $3.25 a week working for the Bingham Bros. Dairy. Drives a dairy wagon from 7 A.M. to noon. Works on farm in afternoon (10 hours a day) seven days a week--half day on Saturday. Thinks he will work steady this year and not go to school. See previous labels in June. Not in Div. 5 or 6. Lives in Bowling Green. Location: Bowling Green [vicinity], Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Edgar Kitchen 13 yrs. old gets $3.25 a week working for the Bingham Br...

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Case of Frank Wiegel, 3916 - # Ave., Brooklyn N.Y., injured after working 18 hours a day. He was injured at 1:55 A.M. January 18, 1914. Age 15 years. Employed by the Henry Bosch Paper Co., makers of wallpaper sample books. On Saturday, or rather Sunday morning at 1:55, Frank must have fallen asleep and in some way he knocked against the controlling pedal, and the next thing he knew his hand was caught in the machine. He sued the Co. for damages and after 2 years' litigation he received an award of $10,000 - $5,000 for each of 2 fingers which were amputated. The lawyer's fee has not yet been decided upon by the court. Location: New York--Brooklyn, New York (State)

Case of Frank Wiegel, 3916 - # Ave., Brooklyn N.Y., injured after work...

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Charlie Scott, who lives at 19 Third St. is 9 years old and a truant newsboy. Said: "I dunno where the school is." Has been in the city 2 months. Photographed during school hours. Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma / Lewis W. Hine.

Charlie Scott, who lives at 19 Third St. is 9 years old and a truant n...

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3,000 hours on the air waves. Washington, D.C., June 27. Sec. of Agriculture Henry Wallace, speaking over the Farm and Home Hour today, todays broadcast marks the 3,000th hour on the air and makes it the world oldest radio program from the standpoint of hours on the air, 6/27/38

3,000 hours on the air waves. Washington, D.C., June 27. Sec. of Agric...

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Potato trucks outside a starch factory in Caribou, Maine. There were almost fifty trucks in the line; some had been waiting for twenty-four hours for the potatoes to be graded and weighed. See general caption Aroostook number 1

Potato trucks outside a starch factory in Caribou, Maine. There were a...

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Tourists fresh off the boat from Boston. With only two hours in town, they buy seashells, dinners, trinkets, and rides on the sightseeing bus. Provincetown, Massachusetts

Tourists fresh off the boat from Boston. With only two hours in town, ...

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Food, with no time lost! That's the purpose of this Red Cross canteen unit. This unit of the New York Red Cross chapter is so organized that it can feed victims of any disaster anywhere in New York City within two hours

Food, with no time lost! That's the purpose of this Red Cross canteen ...

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. This excavator can dig foundation for two four-unit buildings in eight hours, an operation that would require several days by hand. Foundations go down five feet for cement support blocks. The ground between the foundation blocks is later forked preparatory to receiving a cinder filling. Since there is no basement, the cinders afford a solid base for concrete flooring

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. This excavator can dig foundation...

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Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). These Webendorger automatic offset presses are the largest of the types of offset presses in the WPB's duplicating department. These machines are in operation twenty-four hours a day and turn out 5,000 prints an hour

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). These Webendo...

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Nyssa, Oregon. FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp. The sugar beet companies who sponsored the Japanese-Americans who moved to the camp send trucks one night a week to take them into town for a few hours in a supervised group

Nyssa, Oregon. FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp. The sug...

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To harness the earth for the defense of democracy these chimneys, at an Etna, Pennsylvania, steel mill are belching forth smoke twenty-four hours a day. American steel mills have pushed production up to the very limit of their capacity

To harness the earth for the defense of democracy these chimneys, at a...

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Requiring only sixty hours to build, this homemade machine enables an operator to ream simultaneously, two specially located holes in a twenty-millimeter shell booster. It would have required two months to buy a similar reaming machine on a market pressed for war orders

Requiring only sixty hours to build, this homemade machine enables an ...

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Conversion. Food machinery plant. It was a matter of only a couple of hours to change this block adapter from its former work, on the production of cube steak machinery, to spout cutting for war subcontracts. Cube Steak Machinery Company, Boston, Massachusetts

Conversion. Food machinery plant. It was a matter of only a couple of ...

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Dante Electric Company, Bantam, Connecticut. Mrs. Arthur Shaw is another resident of Bantam. Her husband is a private chauffeur in Litchfield. Mr. Dante is watching her operate a small drill press. Mrs. Shaw has volunteered to serve as one of Bantam's air raid watchers, puts in several early morning hours at the local observation post before reporting to work in the morning

Dante Electric Company, Bantam, Connecticut. Mrs. Arthur Shaw is anoth...

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