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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

A few small temples still retain their lines of classic beauty. With the recollection of Greece's ancient glory one may spend pleasant hours in the Acropolis The prime minister, Colonel Gonatas of the Revolutionary Government tells Mr. Carpenter what fun it is to boss generals about when only a colonel.

A few small temples still retain their lines of classic beauty. With t...

Photographs show ruins of the Acropolis and Frank Carpenter with the Prime Minister of Greece, Colonel Stylianos Gonatas, Athens, Greece.

[Harry Silverstein, Newsboy, 703 W. 6th St., 7 years old. Sells papers, (selling 3 months average earnings 25 cents per week). Father working Morocco Mills, earns $18 weekly. Boy's earnings not needed at home. Don't smoke. Visits saloons. Works 8 hours per day. Edward F. Brown, Investigator. ]. Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

[Harry Silverstein, Newsboy, 703 W. 6th St., 7 years old. Sells papers...

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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 (St...

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Harvey Nailling, delivery boy for Kutterer Printing Co. 300 Olive St. Works 9 1/2 hours a day. Location: St. Louis, Missouri.

Harvey Nailling, delivery boy for Kutterer Printing Co. 300 Olive St. ...

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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...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 2222. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Dangerous work. Charlie McBride (said twelve years old). This twelve year old boy has a steady job with the Miller & 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 onto to [sic] other boy who saws them 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 in 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 y...

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Workers in Miller & Vidor Lumber Co. Dangerous work. Charlie McBride said twelve years old. This twelve year old boy has a steady job. He takes the 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 on an inguarded [i.e., 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.

Workers in Miller & Vidor Lumber Co. Dangerous work. Charlie McBride s...

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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...

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[B.F. Howell, Route 4, Bowling Green, Ky. and part of his family stripping tobacco. The 8 and 10-year old boys in photo "tie up waste"; his 12-year old boy and 14-year old girl (not in photo but they lose a good deal of schooling for work) are regular strippers. Photo taken during school hours.] Location: [Bowling Green, Kentucky] / [Lewis W. Hine]

[B.F. Howell, Route 4, Bowling Green, Ky. and part of his family strip...

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Le Mans, France. The exterior of the American Red Cross Casual Canteen at Le Mans (Sarthe) France. There are 47 beds for Officers and 250 for Enlisted Men. The Canteen serves between five and six thousand meals every 24 hours, in the dining room which seats 250 men. There are shower baths, check rooms, tailors to sew on truant buttons, and do general mending, an Officers' Recreation Room, and large Recreation Hut for enlisted men, and a lunch counter where hot chocolate, coffee, and sandwiches are served between meal hours

Le Mans, France. The exterior of the American Red Cross Casual Canteen...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Canteens. U.S. France. 3 May 1919 [date received] Used in: Exclusive Atlantic Div. May, 15. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. Gener... More

Senate listeners. Washington, D.C., June 3. The Senate Chamber was practically empty today as most of the members "listened in" on the Joint Hearing of the Senate and House Labor Committees. Prominent business men testified on the Black-Connery Bill proposed to curtail sweatshop working conditions as concerns wages, hours, and child labor. Left to right: Senator Robert F. Lafollette; Senator Sherman Minton; and Senator James Murray, 6/3/37

Senate listeners. Washington, D.C., June 3. The Senate Chamber was pra...

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California state quarantine inspection station at Yuma, Arizona. The station is open twenty-four hours a day with one senior and three junior inspectors on duty each shift

California state quarantine inspection station at Yuma, Arizona. The s...

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Cranberry pickers have long hours of back-breaking toil during which they crawl on their hands and knees across muddy bogs, Burlington County, New Jersey

Cranberry pickers have long hours of back-breaking toil during which t...

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The Dept. of Health, Mobile Ophthalmic Clinic. Operating in Arab villages of the South Country, N.E. of Gaza. After clinic hours, villagers are leaving, many for their distant homes in outlying villages

The Dept. of Health, Mobile Ophthalmic Clinic. Operating in Arab villa...

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At the Santa Fe R.R. tie plant, Albuquerque, N[ew] Mex[ico]. The ties made of pine and fir, are seasoned for eight months. The steaming black ties in the center have just come from the retort where they have been impregnated with creosote for eight hours. This plant has a capacity of 100,000 ties per month; is currently producing 80,000

At the Santa Fe R.R. tie plant, Albuquerque, N[ew] Mex[ico]. The ties ...

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The four freedoms. All out for defense is this Eastern steel mill. The furnaces are running twenty-four hours a day as American labor and American industry cooperate in the greatest armament effort of all time

The four freedoms. All out for defense is this Eastern steel mill. The...

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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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At the testing chamber for motors at the Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Corporation. After the engine is set up inside the chamber the door is sealed tight and the engine run at full blast for hours on end as an engineer watches it thru the window, records its performance as indicated by the instruments on the panel. East Hartford, Connecticut

At the testing chamber for motors at the Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Co...

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A black and white photo of a woman bending over, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a woman bending over, Great Depression. FSA...

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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.

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

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Student nurses spend many fascinating hours in the laboratory. Attractive young student, above, measures liquid for chemistry experiment

Student nurses spend many fascinating hours in the laboratory. Attract...

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Floating laundries and general stores pull up alongside of boats which may be in port only a few hours. Allouez, Wisconsin

Floating laundries and general stores pull up alongside of boats which...

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Steel. Ford plant. A blast furnace being cast. Here the iron ore starts on its way to becoming an automobile part. The metal travels down sanded trenches; the trench to the left is conveying molten metal to giant ladles; trench on the right carries the slag off. Blast furnaces are cast in this manner about every six hours. Ford River Rouge plant, May 1941

Steel. Ford plant. A blast furnace being cast. Here the iron ore start...

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Ready for trouble from the conning tower of the United States submarine. A crew swings a fifty caliber machine gun skyward to safeguard the underseas craft against a possible surprise air attack. Submarine rarely comes to surface during daylight hours. The man in the left background is scanning the horizon through binoculars

Ready for trouble from the conning tower of the United States submarin...

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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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Bantam, Connecticut. The Bantam airplane observation post is on a hill in the northern part of town, an old shack moved there from the property of Bernard C. Roeberg, real estate man and principal of Bantam School. Insulation of the walls and other work on the interior was not yet completed when this picture was taken. Watcher is Charles D. Kilbourne, a local dairy farmer and construction man. The post is manned twenty-four hours daily, and many of the watchers are workers in Bantam war industries

Bantam, Connecticut. The Bantam airplane observation post is on a hill...

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Wahington, D.C. Washington tire shop. Removing truck from vulcanizing mould after "cooking" for three hours

Wahington, D.C. Washington tire shop. Removing truck from vulcanizing ...

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Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). Here are a few of the twelve automatic mimeographs in the WPB's duplicating section. Each of these machines runs twenty-four hours a day and turns out 6,000 copies in an hour

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). Here are a fe...

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Bantam, Connecticut. One of the busiest sections of the Warren McArthur plant is the toolroom, with lathes turning for sixteen, and sometimes twenty-four hours daily. At the extreme left is Creighton Blanchard, who learned to operate a lathe at trade school in his hometown of Rutland, Vermont. Blanchard married a Rutland girl when he came to Bantam in July, 1941, and they have moved into a three-room unit of the new government housing project near the plant. Most popular reading matter in their comfortably furnished new home is the Rutland Herald, for Creighton insists that "You just can't get along without your hometown paper."

Bantam, Connecticut. One of the busiest sections of the Warren McArthu...

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Washington, D.C. Washington tire store. Settling tire in vulcanizing mould where it will "cook" for three hours to "cure" the recap onto the old tire

Washington, D.C. Washington tire store. Settling tire in vulcanizing m...

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Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Work goes on twenty-four hours a day

Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Work goes on twenty-fo...

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Prunes after standing twenty four to thirty six hours in the dryer

Prunes after standing twenty four to thirty six hours in the dryer

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Ben Bow chromite mine, Stillwater County, Montana. A concerted effort is made to keep down numbers of hours lost

Ben Bow chromite mine, Stillwater County, Montana. A concerted effort ...

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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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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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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. "Story hour"

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

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San Bernardino, California. Precooling Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad refrigerator cars at the ice plant. Precooling lasts from four to eight hours depending upon the shippers request. Air at twenty degrees Farenheit is blown in one end and out the other. This action is reversed every fifteen minutes. 1000 cubic feet of air goes through the car per minute

San Bernardino, California. Precooling Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe R...

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Buffalo, New York. United States NYA (National Youth Administration) trainees between the ages of seventeen and twenty-one learning to use lathes in preparation for jobs in the war industry. They work eight hours a day and get paid forty dollars a month while training

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

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New York, New York. Mayor La Guardia, speaking at the opening of the exhibition of cartoons concerning lost hours in war production sponsored by the OWI (Office of War Information)

New York, New York. Mayor La Guardia, speaking at the opening of the e...

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But there was one knight--the White Knight--a descendant of the house of Waldenses who knew she would win. And he said so even in the darkest of hours ... Who's who--The princess: Clare Boothe Luce--the opposition: Maggie Connors--the Red Dragons: Earl Browder, Rex Stout, Leigh Denenberg ...

But there was one knight--the White Knight--a descendant of the house ...

List of people involved in Clare Boothe Luce's 1944 re-election campaign for US representative from the 4th district of Connecticut (Fairfield County) against Margaret E. Connors, Deputy Secretary of State of C... More

New York, New York. Children of working mothers, who receive day care at the Greenwich House on Saturdays and after school hours, returning to this community center after a trip to the zoo or some other place of interest. A marked sense of group responsibility is manifest as they go through New York City's densest traffic zone safely

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

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The American woman spends 33.6 hours per week in personal grooming, 99.6 hours per week performing household duties ..

The American woman spends 33.6 hours per week in personal grooming, 99...

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Childhood's happy hours / Wilhelm Pister.

Childhood's happy hours / Wilhelm Pister.

Boy blowing bubbles with dog. E10509 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by W.E. Caldwell.

Sanitary Ice Cream Cone Co., 116 S. Dewey St. (Cisar, Manager). John Myers, 14 years old, who is in Grade 6 in Franklin School works after school and Saturday. He has been there 7 months. Can bake cones as well as pack them. For a month in the Fall, after school started, he went to school and worked from 4 p.m. to midnight. Expects to do it again soon. Gets $4 a week for part time and $8 a week when working 8 hours a day. Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma / Lewis W. Hine.

Sanitary Ice Cream Cone Co., 116 S. Dewey St. (Cisar, Manager). John M...

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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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Oscar Reynolds, 47 Benjamin St. 15 years - Sweeper. 2 years in Osborne - was in 4185 crap game. Note posture. [Working hours?]: 6.45 - 12; 1 - 5.50; 8 - 12; 1.30 - 5. Works overtime nearly every week. Had rather go to school. Does not like the mill. Has been sweeper two years and one shoulder droops. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

Oscar Reynolds, 47 Benjamin St. 15 years - Sweeper. 2 years in Osborne...

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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 (str...

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Hours of pleasure - Public domain American music sheet

Hours of pleasure - Public domain American music sheet

Positions of sun at hours 10 and 11 a.m., 12 m., and 1 and 2 p.m. on Dec. 28th, 1910 from Nome, Alaska

Positions of sun at hours 10 and 11 a.m., 12 m., and 1 and 2 p.m. on D...

Photograph shows five positions of the sun at various times on the horizon. Copyright registration title: Positions of the sun at hours 10 and 11 a.m., 12 m. and 1 and 2 p.m. on Dec. 28, 1910. Copyright 1911 b... More

National Child Labor Committee. No. 92. Main entrance Gary West Virginia. Mine. Miners going into mine 7 A.M. Boy beginning career as "picker." Will be in mine over 10 hours consecutively. 7 A.M. to 5:30 P.M. Location: Gary, West Virginia.

National Child Labor Committee. No. 92. Main entrance Gary West Virgin...

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Golden hours - Public domain American sheet music, 1876

Golden hours - Public domain American sheet music, 1876

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)

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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Family of Mrs. Mette making flowers in a very dirty tenement, 302 Mott St, top floor. Josephine, 13 yrs. old, helps out side school hours until 9 P.M. sometimes. She is soon to be 14 and expects to go to work in an embroidery factory. Says she worked in that factory all last summer. Nicholas, 6 yrs. old and Johnnie, 8 yrs. Old work some. So does Rosie, 11 yrs. old (not in photo) who has been sick a good deal. All together earn only 40 to 50 cents a day. Baby (20 months old) plays with the flowers, and they expect he can help a little before long. The father drives a coach (or hack) irregularly. Location: New York, New York (State)

Family of Mrs. Mette making flowers in a very dirty tenement, 302 Mott...

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Joseph Severio. Peanut vendor. 11 years of age. Pushing cart 2 years. Out after midnight on May 21, 1910. Ordinarily works 6 hours per day. Works of own volition. Don't smoke. All earnings go to father. Location: Wilmington, Delaware.

Joseph Severio. Peanut vendor. 11 years of age. Pushing cart 2 years. ...

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Nine of these children from 8 years old up go to school half a day, and shuck oysters for four hours before school and three hours after school on school days, and on Saturday from 4 A.M. to early afternoon. Maggioni Canning Co. Location: Port Royal, South Carolina.

Nine of these children from 8 years old up go to school half a day, an...

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Oldest girl, Minnie Carpenter, House 53 Loray Mill, Gastonia, N.C. Spinner. Makes fifty cents a day of 10 hours. Works four sides. Younger girl works irregularly. Location: Gastonia, North Carolina.

Oldest girl, Minnie Carpenter, House 53 Loray Mill, Gastonia, N.C. Spi...

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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...

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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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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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...

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

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

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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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James Lequlla, newsboy, 12 years of age. Selling newspapers 3 years. Average earnings 50 cents per week. Selling newspapers own choice. Earnings not needed at home. Don't smoke. Visits saloons. Works 7 hours per day. Investigator, Edward F. Brown. Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Lewis W. Hine., May 1910.

James Lequlla, newsboy, 12 years of age. Selling newspapers 3 years. A...

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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 Nativity, a metal cut from Horae Beatae Virginis Mariae, a Book of Hours executed by Philippe Pigouchet, dated at Paris, Aug. 22, 1498

The Nativity, a metal cut from Horae Beatae Virginis Mariae, a Book of...

Illus. in: Book of Hours by Philippe Pigouchet. See LC Christmas card #13R71. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Battle of Antietam, Maryland--Burnside's division carrying the bridge over the Antietam Creek, and storming the Rebel position, after a desperate conflict of four hours, Wednesday, September 17 / from a sketch by our special artist, Mr. Edwin Forbes.

Battle of Antietam, Maryland--Burnside's division carrying the bridge ...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 15, no. 367 (1862 Oct. 11), p. 33.

One of life's happy hours / painted by Mrs. Lilly M. Spencer ; engraved by Alfred Jones.

One of life's happy hours / painted by Mrs. Lilly M. Spencer ; engrave...

Print showing a mother with a child standing in her lap putting flowers into her mother's hair. Caption continues: From the original picture in possession of Mr. Charles Stetson.

Daniel Mfg. Co., Lincolnton, N.C. Four doffers. Boy on left end (knee pants) said he had worked in mills for 7 years and some nights. At nights they work 12 hours, without any hour off for lunch. Eat when they can. Some of them "eat a-workin'." Location: Lincolnton, North Carolina

Daniel Mfg. Co., Lincolnton, N.C. Four doffers. Boy on left end (knee ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 283. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Young spinners and doffers in Richmond Spinning Mills, taken during working hours. Smallest girl said she had been working there for months. The other girl said she didn't know how long. Location: Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Young spinners and doffers in Richmond Spinning Mills, taken during wo...

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