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Lauderdale County, Alabama. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Julien H. Case repairing the transformer which brings TVA electricity to his farm. Case uses 900 kilowatt hours each month

Lauderdale County, Alabama. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Julien H...

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These mechanics servicing a B-17 somewhere in the South Pacific warzone are unsung heroes of the Army Air Force. For every member of the flying crew, there are at least ten ground men who work long hours to keep them flying. Left to right: Sergeant Frank Piotroszer, Hadley, Massachusetts; Corporal William Smith, Woodside, Long Island, New York; Corporal Irvin Andreazza, Weed, Colorado; and Corporal Abe Brodax, Brooklyn, New York

These mechanics servicing a B-17 somewhere in the South Pacific warzon...

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Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. Two maintenance men relax for sandwiches and coffee during their lunch hours at a plant of the Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. Two maintenance m...

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Washington, D.C. Government charwoman cleaning offices. Her working hours are from 5:30 till 1 a.m.

Washington, D.C. Government charwoman cleaning offices. Her working ho...

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Feiner wins Individual Production Merit Certificate. Samuel Mayer Feiner (left), Certificate of Individual Production Merit winner from San Francisco, California, explains his prize-winning suggestion to William E. Warne, acting chief of War Production Drive Headquarters in Washington. Feiner, 50-year old American citizen of Polish birth, devised an elbow-edging machine which tripled the production of elbows at the Bethlehem Steel Company's shipbuilding division. It saves over 1,000 man hours monthly. Feiner was one of 22 men throughout the nation who received certificates in the September judging by the Board for Individual Awards of the War Production Drive Headquarters

Feiner wins Individual Production Merit Certificate. Samuel Mayer Fein...

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Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. Intense heat is needed to melt the inorganic ingredients of the batch from which fiberglass insulating wool is manufactured. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, this gas-fired furnace maintains the temperatures required in the process

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. Intense heat is n...

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Conversion. Floor waxer plant. Formerly producing floor waxing and polishing machines, this small Eastern factory is now one of the America's myriad plants devoted to production of small machine parts for war purposes. Foreseeing possibilities of shortage of aluminum (necessary for polishing equipment), this factory's owner sought defense subcontracts many months ago, he is now operating twenty-two hours a day with a crew of thirty workers, a distinct improvement over his previous eight hours, three-worker days. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. Formerly producing floor waxing and pol...

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Cass Lake, near Pontiac, Michigan. The Westerberg family outside the home which Karl and his son, Eric, built themselves after working hours. Karl Axel Westerberg and his son Eric stand in back of Mrs. Karl Axel Westerberg, Eric's son Karl, and his wife

Cass Lake, near Pontiac, Michigan. The Westerberg family outside the h...

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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. The dietician baking cookies

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

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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. Miss Jane Machmer and some of the children whose mothers are press operators, stenographers, drill operators, inspectors, etc.

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

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Gibson, Indiana. All the facilities of the railroad YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association) including the washroom, are in use at all hours of the day and night because of the 'round the clock work of railroad men. This brakeman is washing up before going to sleep at 4 p.m. He will go to work at midnight

Gibson, Indiana. All the facilities of the railroad YMCA (Young Men's ...

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New York, New York. Miss Anna Rosenberg of the War Manpower Commission, at the exhibition of cartoons concerning lost hours in war production, sponsored by the Office of War Information. She is looking at a cartoon, autographed by Mayor La Guardia of New York City, who submitted the idea for this illustration

New York, New York. Miss Anna Rosenberg of the War Manpower Commission...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of the 1930s - 1940s, woman, female portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

War nursery schools. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Picture books, blocks, modeling clay, story hours, music, for the pre-school children of war working mothers. War nurseries are generally to be under trained supervisory personnel and will be operated in connection with the public schools in communities of intense industrial production

War nursery schools. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Picture books, blocks...

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Baltimore, Maryland. Continuous stream of trolleys carrying workers from the Bethlehem Fairfield shipyard to downtown Baltimore disgorges passengers who rush for other trolleys and buses. Trolleys from other parts of the city are sent to this route at hours of the shift change in order to take care of the traffic and follow each at one minute intervals

Baltimore, Maryland. Continuous stream of trolleys carrying workers fr...

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New York, New York. Children engrossed by a play put on by playmates at Greenwich House where they receive day care after school hours and on Saturdays while their mothers are working

New York, New York. Children engrossed by a play put on by playmates a...

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The water front in business hours, West St. along side the wharves, New York

The water front in business hours, West St. along side the wharves, Ne...

Stereograph showing a bottleneck of horse-drawn wagons loaded with crates on the wharf. J142837 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. U37326. On mount: Works and Studios Arlington, N.J., We... More

[Michael Mero, 2 West 4th St., Bootblack, 12 years of age, working one year of own volition. Don't smoke. Out after 11 P.M. on May 21, Ordinarily works 6 hours per day.] Location: Wilmington, Delaware.

[Michael Mero, 2 West 4th St., Bootblack, 12 years of age, working one...

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Michael Mero, 2 West 4th St. Bootblack, 12 years of age, working one year of own volition. Don't smoke. Out after 11 P.M. on May 21. Ordinarily works 6 hours per day. Location: Wilmington, Delaware.

Michael Mero, 2 West 4th St. Bootblack, 12 years of age, working one y...

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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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Scene on the farm of S.N.[?] Whiteside, near Waxahachie. Children come out here from the town to pick cotton outside of school hours. Ages range from four and six years (ages of the two youngest boys who pick regularly) up to fifteen and more. Two adults. Location: Waxahachie [vicinity], Texas.

Scene on the farm of S.N.[?] Whiteside, near Waxahachie. Children come...

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Scene on the farm of S.N.[?] Whiteside, near Waxahachie. Children come out here from the town to pick cotton, outside of school hours. Ages range from four and six years (ages of the two youngest boys who pick regularly) up to fifteen and more. Two adults. Location: Waxahachie [vicinity], Texas.

Scene on the farm of S.N.[?] Whiteside, near Waxahachie. Children come...

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Trũmerei (Happy hours) - Public domain American sheet music, 1871

Trũmerei (Happy hours) - Public domain American sheet music, 1871

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Scene in the cotton field of the Baptist Orphanage, near Waxahachie. These boys, from seven years and upwards, pick cotton, helping this man, outside of school hours. There are 20 children in this Orphanage, mostly girls, and it is supported by the Baptists of Texas. Location: Waxahachie [vicinity], Texas.

Scene in the cotton field of the Baptist Orphanage, near Waxahachie. T...

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Scene in the cotton field of the Baptist Orphanage, near Waxahachie. These boys, from seven years and upwards, pick cotton, helping this man, outside of school hours. There are 20 children in this Orphanage, mostly girls, and it is supported by the Baptists of Texas. Location: Waxahachie [vicinity], Texas.

Scene in the cotton field of the Baptist Orphanage, near Waxahachie. T...

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Street Bretzau, who is a "Tube-boy" in the mule-room of Richmond Spinning Mill, East Lake. Mule spinning is apparently more dangerous than ring spinning. (See bandaged finger.) Photo during working hours. Location: Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Street Bretzau, who is a "Tube-boy" in the mule-room of Richmond Spinn...

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Rush Merrill, Loray Mill, Gastonia, N.C. 12 years old. Been in mill 3 years Doffer. Gets 75 cents a day. Said sometimes gets 3 to 5 hours a day resting between times. Location: Gastonia, North Carolina.

Rush Merrill, Loray Mill, Gastonia, N.C. 12 years old. Been in mill 3 ...

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The temperance crusade., four hours in a bar room

The temperance crusade., four hours in a bar room

When bachelor dens cast over waking hours a loneliness so deep

When bachelor dens cast over waking hours a loneliness so deep

Young man with opium pipe reclining on a sofa covered with furs. Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. No. 1. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I... More

Going to dinner from Great Falls Mfg. Co., Somersworth, N.H. May 18, 1909. A number of young boys and girls work regularly (during school hours) as "helpers" to mother, father or sister. Location: Somersworth, New Hampshire.

Going to dinner from Great Falls Mfg. Co., Somersworth, N.H. May 18, 1...

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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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A few of the youngsters working in the Cigarette Factory of the American Tobacco Co., Petersburg, Virginia All work. I went through the factory during working hours and saw dozens of little boys and girls working and helping, who were apparently from 11 to 14 years old. Many of the smallest ones would not be photographed. Photo at 6:30 A.M. Location: Petersburg, Virginia.

A few of the youngsters working in the Cigarette Factory of the Americ...

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[Family of Ida Descheues [?], 80 Wear Street. She is the third girl in the front of the picture, her sister--taller than she--next to her said--"13 years old"--but I doubt it. Ida has half hours ride in crowded stuffy cars to and from work each day. Leaving home at 6 A.M. and returning at 6:30 P.M. The doffing work in much of it standing, stooping and reaching. Bad for adolescent girl.] Location: Lawrence, Massachusetts.

[Family of Ida Descheues [?], 80 Wear Street. She is the third girl in...

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A husky tinsmith who works 8 hours a day, much of it out-doors. Compare him with some of our adolescent boys and girls who work in close confinement of the cotton mill 10 hours a day. Location: Northampton, Massachusetts.

A husky tinsmith who works 8 hours a day, much of it out-doors. Compar...

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10 yr. old news-boy selling during school hours, but he said that he only goes to school in the afternoons. The half-day system makes it very hard to check up truants, but a good many of the news-boys freely admit that they skip school to sell extras. Salvatore Pulsatori, first St. and Wonders Court, badge No. 956, 9 A.M., 4/15/12. Goes to Jefferson School. Location: [Washington (D.C.), District of Columbia].

10 yr. old news-boy selling during school hours, but he said that he o...

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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 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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Family of J.H. Burch, Route 1, Rockfield, Ky. Boys 12, 14 and 17 (stripping tobacco) working during school hours. Have been out a good deal. Go to Quarry School (6-12). Two families represented in photo. See special card and Kentucky report. Location: Warren County--Rockfield, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Family of J.H. Burch, Route 1, Rockfield, Ky. Boys 12, 14 and 17 (stri...

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Leroy Raley, 215 Noble St., a 10-year-old truant newsboy, who was photographed during school hours. Said: "Someone stole my clothes so I couldn't go to school." Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma / Lewis W. Hine.

Leroy Raley, 215 Noble St., a 10-year-old truant newsboy, who was phot...

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"The Playground" in Bow, N.H. where Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy enjoyed many happy hours as a child, near the old Baker home

"The Playground" in Bow, N.H. where Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy enjoyed ma...

Three people by stone wall in foreground. J235946, J235947, or J235948 U.S. Copyright Office.

MARINES AVIATION AWARD GIVEN. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT PRESENTS FIRST LIEUTENANT DAVID LORD, COMMANDING OBSERVATION SQUADRON SEVEN OF THE MARINE CORPS, WITH THE HERBERT SCHIFF TROPHY, GIVEN ANNUALLY TO THE SQUADRON OR UNIT WHICH LOGS THE GREATEST NUMBER OF FLIGHT HOURS WITH THE MINIMUM OF ACCIDENTS. STANDING ON THE RIGHT IS COL. H.L. ROOSEVELT, ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE NAVY

MARINES AVIATION AWARD GIVEN. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT PRESENTS FIRST LIEUT...

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When Congress closed. Postmaster General James A. Farley congratulating Sen. Kenneth McKellar of Tenn., on the passing of the resolution to simplify the airmail routes and contracts, during the last hours of Congress. This photo was made shortly after the 73rd Congress ajourned

When Congress closed. Postmaster General James A. Farley congratulatin...

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Pill-Box Fort built 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. Today's demonstration was to show a new and more efficient method of construction for defense purposes under emergencies, 8/25/38

Pill-Box Fort built in four hours. Washington, D.C., Aug. 25. Somethin...

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Cough drop erases throat of Senate filibuster. Washington, D.C., Jan. 26. Senator Allen J. Ellender of Louisiana, has suddenly become fond of cough drops since he spoke for 28 hours in six days during the present filibuster by [...]of Southern Senators against the Anti-Lynching Bill, 1/26/38

Cough drop erases throat of Senate filibuster. Washington, D.C., Jan. ...

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Lend-lease to Britain. Cases of TNT gun powder 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 gun powder shipped from the United...

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Absentee posters. To combat absenteeism, the labor-management committee of the American Screw Company, Providence, displays this chart with daily figures on absentees and translates this loss of man hours in terms of lost production of the company's product

Absentee posters. To combat absenteeism, the labor-management committe...

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Pre-fabricated sheets of asbestos reinforced with gypsum serve as an economical base for plaster walls and ceilings. These sheets, nailed directly to studs, also afford protection against heat and cold. A crew of fourteen men (ten lathers and four laborers) can lathe a four-unit building in a few hours. A crew of plasters moves in as the crew of lathers moves out. Although defense homes are speedily built, they are soundly constructed. Government inspectors keep a rigid check to see that all construction materials live up to government standards

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Pre-fabricated sheets of asbestos...

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Scooping dried hops from drying room to adjacent room were they will be baled. Hops are dried about seventeen hours, lose from twenty to twenty-five percent moisture content in the process. Yakima County, Washington

Scooping dried hops from drying room to adjacent room were they will b...

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.

The girl on the right is removing dried plates from the plaster of Paris moulds after the surveyor has carried them into the drying chamber for several hours. The girl on the left is sponging small imperfections from the surface and trimming the edges. Shenango Pottery Works, Newcastle, Pennsylvania

The girl on the right is removing dried plates from the plaster of Par...

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This battery of ball mills grinds to an extreme fineness the feldspar, white sand and clays which are the basic ingredients of all china. This operation takes twenty-four hours. Shenango Pottery Works, Newcastle, Pennsylvania

This battery of ball mills grinds to an extreme fineness the feldspar,...

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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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I'll carry mine. Waiting for a street car during "off" hours, a soldier gives a helping hand to one of America's patriotic shoppers, who has pledged to help merchants conserve tires and gasoline by carrying her own packages

I'll carry mine. Waiting for a street car during "off" hours, a soldie...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. The pilots fly it, but the ground crew keeps it flying. Every ship, after so many hours in the air must be completely reconditioned. Here, in a hanger of the naval air base at Corpus Christi, Texas, women Civil Service workers of the assembly and repair department are trained to check carefully every part of the plane. Service of a Navy PBY ship

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. The pilots fly it, but the grou...

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

De Land pool. Babcock airplane plant. Earl Gentry was a beverage salesman faced with the loss of his job by the impact of war. He completed 250 hours of training in the De Land, Florida vocational school. Now he's a first-class welder in the Babcock plant in De Land

De Land pool. Babcock airplane plant. Earl Gentry was a beverage sales...

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Women in industry. Aircraft motor workers. Youthful Paderewskis, take note! Her finger made superbly flexible by years of piano practice, this young employee of a Midwest aircraft motor plant finds her musical training of great assistance in her war job. The operation of this drill press demands constant, rapid hand and wrist movement--and that's where those hours of do-re-mi are paying dividends. She's countersinking six holes in a bolt, an operation requiring great precision, speed and skill

Women in industry. Aircraft motor workers. Youthful Paderewskis, take ...

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"Me and the old gent." A citation by Donald Nelson, commending the war production effort of Jake Sparling, sixty, and Percy Fogelsong, seventy-nine-year-old ex-lumberjack, who between them produced 18,000 steel flanges for war equipment in eighteen months. "The old gent and me" have been working fifteen hours daily, seven days a week. "The old gent," hired eighteen months ago to take care of Jake's sick dog, had never before seen a lathe

"Me and the old gent." A citation by Donald Nelson, commending the war...

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Prunes in tin dryer on top of an electric stove where they will stand for twenty-four to thirty-six hours

Prunes in tin dryer on top of an electric stove where they will stand ...

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Lititz, Pennsylvania. Paul Ritz serving his two hours per week as an airplane spotter in the observation post on a hill near Lititz. There are two people here twenty-four hours a day. Ritz' companion was ill this time. He is a candy coater in the local chocolate factory; has a son in the Navy; was in the last war. The American Legion recruited the spotters

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Paul Ritz serving his two hours per week as an a...

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Mrs. Smuda's son. He used to drive a bakery wagon, but now he drives a truck for Uncle Sam. Private Edwin Smuda at camp "somewhere in the South" is one of America's many fighting men with mothers who are working just as hard for Victory as they are. Mrs. Eva Smuda, fifty-five, works eight hours a day in Frankford, Pennsylvania's arsenal where she tapers cartridge cases for 50mm shells. Another mother and son combination that means death to the Axis

Mrs. Smuda's son. He used to drive a bakery wagon, but now he drives a...

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Washington, D.C. The "flying nun" from Ironwood, Michigan, walking down the field at the Washington National Airport after taking her class through the hangars. Sister Aquinas holds a student pilot's license and has many flying hours to her credit

Washington, D.C. The "flying nun" from Ironwood, Michigan, walking dow...

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San Bernardino, California. Cars being precooled at the ice plant. Air at a temperature of twenty degrees Fahrenheit is blown through the cars for twenty minutes in one direction, then in the other. Shippers specify the number of hours precooling required for their product

San Bernardino, California. Cars being precooled at the ice plant. Air...

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Buffalo, New York. United States NYA (National Youth Administration) trainee being trained to use a lathe in preparation for a job in industry. She is under twenty, works eight hours a day and gets paid forty dollars a month during training

Buffalo, New York. United States NYA (National Youth Administration) t...

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Bethlehem Fairfield shipyards, near Baltimore, Maryland. Constructing a Liberty ship. Ten hours after the laying of the first keelplate the bottom of the ship begins to form. Bottom shell plates are added which are bolted at first and will be riveted together later

Bethlehem Fairfield shipyards, near Baltimore, Maryland. Constructing ...

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New York, New York. Children of working mothers who receive day care at Greenwich House on Saturdays and after school hours, enjoying a dancing and singing class at this community center

New York, New York. Children of working mothers who receive day care a...

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Michelle Cannon, owner of the Cannon Quarter Horse ranch near the town of Venus in north-central Texas, spends many hours each week among the horses

Michelle Cannon, owner of the Cannon Quarter Horse ranch near the town...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The large ranch breeds and trains quarter horses for rodeo performing, ranch work, and pleasure riding. Mr. Meador also trains horses ... More

Happy Hours in Camp. G. and B.&M. Engineers Corps and Visitors

Happy Hours in Camp. G. and B.&M. Engineers Corps and Visitors

Small group of men and women and two deer in front of a tent. Some of the men are playing musical instruments. Copyright deposit. Title transcribed from item. Forms part of the John C. H. Grabill Collection.

Dotheboys Hall in session tucked away upstairs over the store. Equipped with antique, dilapidated benches and chairs. The lessons begin at 6 A.M. and last for six hours, and these children who attend in the morning go into the mill in the afternoon and vice versa for the required eight weeks, which the law specifies. Taking everything into consideration it shows what travesty vocational guidance may become, and is in itself the best example of Dotheboys Hall I have ever seen, except that it is not half so practical as was Squeer's school. See Hine report. Location: Huntsville, Alabama.

Dotheboys Hall in session tucked away upstairs over the store. Equippe...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Four year old cotton picker. A regular worker on farm. Scene on farm of S.N.[?] Whiteside. Children come out here from the town to pick cotton outside of school hours. Ages range from four and six years (ages of the two youngest boys who pick regularly) up to fifteen and more. Two adults. Location: Waxahachie [vicinity], Texas.

Four year old cotton picker. A regular worker on farm. Scene on farm o...

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Four year old cotton picker. A regular worker on farm. Scene on farm of S.N.[?] Whiteside. Children come out here from the town to pick cotton outside of school hours. Ages range from four and six years (ages of the two youngest boys who pick regularly) up to fifteen and more. Two adults. Location: Waxahachie [vicinity], Texas.

Four year old cotton picker. A regular worker on farm. Scene on farm o...

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Camilla, or, Twenty-four hours on the Potomac.

Camilla, or, Twenty-four hours on the Potomac.

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Young Driver in Mine, (West Virginia.) Over 10 hours a day, underground. Sept., 1908. Location: West Virginia.

Young Driver in Mine, (West Virginia.) Over 10 hours a day, undergroun...

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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 years old, 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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Around the world in seventy-two days and six hours - reception of Nellie Bly at Jersey City on the completion of her journey

Around the world in seventy-two days and six hours - reception of Nell...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. From sketches by C. Bunnell. Includes two vignettes titled: "Presenting the Globe-Girdler a Golden Globe" and "The Arrival in Philadelphia." Illus. in:... More

Howard's sure cure for the blues in three prescriptions and 180 pleasant doses for direction see below : secure seats for The doctor's warm reception at the Opera House, office hours, 8-to-10:30 p.m.

Howard's sure cure for the blues in three prescriptions and 180 pleasa...

"Russell-Morgan Print." Created and "copyright 1899 by The U.S. Printing Co., Cincinnati & New York." No. 4197. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

For hours far into the night, Wesley sat in his chambers gloating over his treasure

For hours far into the night, Wesley sat in his chambers gloating over...

"Not to be used or paid for, June 1/07" Verso. (DLC/PP-1932:0083). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

[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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Edgar Kitchen 13 yrs. old gets $3.25 a week working for the Bingham Bros. Dairy. Drives 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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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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Aboard a trap fishing boat, the end of the trip. About four hours after they have left (in the dark) fishermen return home. By eight o'clock, sometimes nine o'clock, the day's work is finished. Provincetown, Massachusetts

Aboard a trap fishing boat, the end of the trip. About four hours afte...

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A black and white photo of two women picking grass, New Jersey. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of two women picking grass, New Jersey. Farm S...

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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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A black and white photo of a group of people. Great Depression FSA photogpraph

A black and white photo of a group of people. Great Depression FSA pho...

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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 sight seeing bus. Provincetown, Massachusetts

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

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A black and white photo of two women standing next to a car, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of two women standing next to a car, West Virg...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se... More

Workmen at Umatilla Ordnance Depot at beer party given by contractor in celebration of pouring concrete for twenty-four igloos in twenty-four hours. Hermiston, Oregon

Workmen at Umatilla Ordnance Depot at beer party given by contractor i...

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Production. Diesel engines. Naval lieutenant makes a final official inspection of diesel engine parts that have undergone several hours testing in a Midwest manufacturing plant

Production. Diesel engines. Naval lieutenant makes a final official in...

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I'll carry mine. There's nothing like a husky and willing escort to simplify a shopping expedition, now that deliveries of goods have been curtailed to conserve tires and gasoline. Truly patriotic shoppers not only carry their own packages, but also travel to and from the shopping section during "off" hours to ease the load on public transportation systems

I'll carry mine. There's nothing like a husky and willing escort to si...

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"Share The Meat" recipes. Braised stuffed heart. Brown the hearts on all sides in fat, then place in a covered baking dish or casserole. Add a half of cup of water, cover closely and cook until tender in a very moderate oven (about 300 degrees Fahrenheit). Calf hearts require about one and a half hours, beef hearts will require much longer--four to five hours to cook till tender

"Share The Meat" recipes. Braised stuffed heart. Brown the hearts on a...

Conversion. Automobile plant. All silent in this huge plant where automobiles were manufactured twenty-four hours a day up until a few weeks ago. These giants will soon be converted to production of tanks for Uncle Sam's army. Chevrolet Motors, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Automobile plant. All silent in this huge plant where auto...

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Knox County, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Mr. Bacon adjusts an electric fan for his wife who is using an electric iron. The Bacons use 500 kilowatt hours of TVA electricity a month

Knox County, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Mr. Bacon a...

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Conversion. Soft drink dispenser plant. High speed grinding of a bullet punch goes on twenty-two hours a day in an Eastern manufacturing company converted from the manufacture of civilian items to one hundred percent production for war. Bristol and Martin Company, New York, New York

Conversion. Soft drink dispenser plant. High speed grinding of a bulle...

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Food in Britain. These British lads from Benrose School, Derby, work thirty-nine hours a week to help in growing sugar beets. In 1942 there were more than 500 schoolboy harvest camps in Britain

Food in Britain. These British lads from Benrose School, Derby, work t...

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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. Washing up for lunch

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

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Spring pulpwood drive on the Brown Company timber holdings in Maine. During the evening in the bunkhouse, the woodsmen can hear the news, mend ripped pants, rest their feet after thirteen hours in wet or stiff working boots

Spring pulpwood drive on the Brown Company timber holdings in Maine. D...

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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. For daily indoor play the children have dolls, blocks and climbing apparatus; they do clay work, painting, coloring, music and rhythmic exercise, and listening to stories

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. Playtime in the child care center

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

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Steel-saving glass-top jars recommended by the War Production Board, Containers Division, for home canning of the Victory garden fruits and vegetables in 1943. Let the jar stand for twelve hours by which time it will have cooled thoroughly. After this the screw bands may be removed permanently since the glass lid and the rubber ring provide a complete seal, with no danger of food spoilage

Steel-saving glass-top jars recommended by the War Production Board, C...

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

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 director, Miss Jane Machmer, cleaning a child's dirty face before lunch time

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

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

Spring pulpwood drive on the Brown Company timber holdings in Maine. To tow the full boom down Mooselookmeguntic Lake, the steamer runs ahead a quarter of a mile, casts anchor and pulls the boom up on its winches. By this process, it can make the twelve mile haul in about sixteen hours, with a fair wind. If the wind is too strong in the wrong direction, the steamer casts anchor and just stands still to prevent being blown back up the lake

Spring pulpwood drive on the Brown Company timber holdings in Maine. T...

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The terrible tragedy at Washington. Assassination of President Lincoln. Last hours and death-bed scenes of the President.

The terrible tragedy at Washington. Assassination of President Lincoln...

Printed in English on one side and German on the other. Advertisement for a book that was published by Barclay & Co., Philadelphia, in 1865. (Monaghan768.)

The lone starry hours, serenade - American sheet music, 1870-1885

The lone starry hours, serenade - American sheet music, 1870-1885

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

Street Bretzau, who is a "Tube-boy" in the mule-room of Richmond Spinning Mill, East Lake. Mule spinning is apparently more dangerous than ring spinning. (See bandaged finger.) Photo during working hours. Location: Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Street Bretzau, who is a "Tube-boy" in the mule-room of Richmond Spinn...

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