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Her husband works at Fort Bragg, and expects to be laid off any day. They come from South Carolina and have been living in a trailer for two years. Don't know where they will go next. Near Fort Bragg, North Carolina

Her husband works at Fort Bragg, and expects to be laid off any day. T...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Beaumont, Texas. Mrs. Ruth Gallagher, a bus driver for the city transit company. Her husband works in the Pennsylvania shipyards

Beaumont, Texas. Mrs. Ruth Gallagher, a bus driver for the city transi...

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

Mrs. M. Vieta, Portuguese wife of a FSA (Farm Security Administration) client. At present she is looking after the farm and the children while her husband works at the torpedo station in Newport. Portsmouth, Rhode Island

Mrs. M. Vieta, Portuguese wife of a FSA (Farm Security Administration)...

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

Ann Garabedian, Russian girl married to Armenian vegetable gardener in Andover, Massachusetts. Her husband works as a truck driver in Lawrence in the winter

Ann Garabedian, Russian girl married to Armenian vegetable gardener in...

Public domain photograph of the United States in the 1930s, portraits, people, events, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mrs. Raphael Marengin, [...] St., first floor rear. Pepine, 10 yrs. old, cracking nuts with her teeth. The mother had just been doing the same. Carmine, 8 years old, has cross eyes, and with the boy about same age works too. Some of them work until 8 or 9 p.m. at times. Boy holding baby is foolish. Husband works on railroad part of the time. 10-year-old-girl cracking nuts with her teeth. The mother had just been doing the same. 8-year-old child has cross eyes and works, as well as the boy. New York City, 1911. Manufacture of food in tenement homes is now prohibited in New York State. Location: New York, New York (State)

Mrs. Raphael Marengin, [...] St., first floor rear. Pepine, 10 yrs. ol...

Public domain photograph related to child labor, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Woman who lives with her family in the upper part of tobacco barn, gathering coal. Husband works at Fort Bragg. Near Fayetteville, North Carolina

Woman who lives with her family in the upper part of tobacco barn, gat...

Public domain photograph of 1930s North Carolina, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

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

12002-13. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

Woman fetching water. She lives with her family in lower part of the tobacco barn. Husband works at Fort Bragg. Near Fayetteville, North Carolina

Woman fetching water. She lives with her family in lower part of the t...

Public domain photograph of 1930s North Carolina, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

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

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

Mrs. W.T. Hembry and her children. Her husband works in the Mary Leila cotton Mill in Greensboro, Greene County, Georgia

Mrs. W.T. Hembry and her children. Her husband works in the Mary Leil...

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

New York, New York. Mrs. Frank Romano and her month-old baby in their apartment on East Fourth Street and Second Avenue. Her husband works in the Brooklyn Navy Yard

New York, New York. Mrs. Frank Romano and her month-old baby in their ...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Her husband works at Fort Bragg, and expects to be laid off any day. They come from South Carolina and have been living in a trailer for two years. Don't know where they will go next. Near Fort Bragg, North Carolina

Her husband works at Fort Bragg, and expects to be laid off any day. T...

Public domain photograph of a woman, female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New York, New York. Mrs. Frank Romano and her month-old baby in their apartment on East Fourth Street and Second Avenue. Her husband works in the Brooklyn Navy Yard

New York, New York. Mrs. Frank Romano and her month-old baby in their ...

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3:30 PM Mrs. Rosy Capello, 311 E. 111th St., top floor rear. Makes 50 cents to $1.00 a week on willow plumes. Husband works irregularly as tailor. Location: New York, New York (State)

3:30 PM Mrs. Rosy Capello, 311 E. 111th St., top floor rear. Makes 50 ...

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Bantam, Connecticut. The kapok room in the Warren McArthur upholstery shop is screened off to prevent the feathery filling from flying freely about the plant. Expert at stuffing kapok into cushions are Barbara Skilton and Frances Humphrey. Barbara, at left, lives in Morris, the next town to Bantam, at her father's farm, where several other workers in the plant board. Her husband works at the Waterbury Brass Company, and they have a son two years old. Frances, a graduate of Litchfield High School, prefers this work to the secretarial position she used to have in Torrington. "There is more money, and you don't have to worry about it at night," she says. Both girls began work in Bantam in December, 1941

Bantam, Connecticut. The kapok room in the Warren McArthur upholstery ...

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

Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Hazel Stokum, thirty-seven, mother of six girls, employed at the Pennsylvania Railroad steel car shops as a car repairman's helper, earning seventy-two cents per hour. Mrs. Stokum lives in Jeanette, Pennsylvania, and travels to and from work by train. Her husband works in a defense plant

Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Hazel Stokum, thirty-seven, mother of six...

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

Home of Mr. and Mrs. George Callahan, whose husband works at Hartford Linen Supply. They have four children and have always lived in Hartford, but now find conditions so overcrowded and congested, and with the rent gauging and discriminating against families with children so severe it is impossible for them to locate adequate housing

Home of Mr. and Mrs. George Callahan, whose husband works at Hartford ...

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

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Abbie Corby, driver for the Yellow Cab Company. Her husband works at the Navy Yard

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Abbie Corby, driver for the Yellow Ca...

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

Old street car converted into living quarters for family of four. They were born and raised in Fayetteville, but could not get a place to stay. Husband works at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Just outside of Fayetteville, North Carolina

Old street car converted into living quarters for family of four. They...

Public domain photograph of 1930s North Carolina, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A family from the southern part of Texas occupies this tent. Husband works at Fort Bragg, but they expect to move on soon. In a settlement near Manchester, North Carolina

A family from the southern part of Texas occupies this tent. Husband w...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a tent, camp, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bantam, Connecticut. The kapok room in the Warren McArthur upholstery shop is screened off to prevent the feathery filling from flying freely about the plant. Expert at stuffing kapok into cushions are Barbara Skilton and Frances Humphrey. Barbara, at left, lives in Morris, the next town to Bantam, at her father's farm, where several other workers in the plant board. Her husband works at the Waterbury Brass Company, and they have a son two years old. Frances, a graduate of Litchfield High School, prefers this work to the secretarial position she used to have in Torrington. "There is more money, and you don't have to worry about it at night," she says. Both girls began work in Bantam in December, 1941

Bantam, Connecticut. The kapok room in the Warren McArthur upholstery ...

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

Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Agnes Glunt, mother of a child four years old, employed as a rivet heater in the Pitcairn, Pennsylvania Railroad steel car shop, earning seventy-two cents per hour. Her husband works at the Westinghouse Electric Company

Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Agnes Glunt, mother of a child four years...

Title and other information from print in lot. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Tubercular mother from Oklahoma now living in the Kern migrant camp (resettlement), California. She receives daily visits from the county nurse. Her husband works in the cotton field and can pick one hundred pounds a day

Tubercular mother from Oklahoma now living in the Kern migrant camp (r...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chicago and North Western R.R., Mrs. Thelma Cuvage, working in the sand house at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa. Her job is to see that sand is sifted and cleaned for use in the locomotives. Mrs. Cuvage's husband works as a guard at the Savannah (Ill.) Ordnance plant

Chicago and North Western R.R., Mrs. Thelma Cuvage, working in the san...

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

Her husband works at Fort Bragg, and expects to be laid off any day. They come from South Carolina and have been living in a trailer for two years. Don't know where they will go next. Near Fort Bragg, North Carolina

Her husband works at Fort Bragg, and expects to be laid off any day. T...

Public domain photograph of North Carolina in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New York, New York. Mrs. Farnk Romano putting her baby to bed. Her husband works in the Brooklyn Navy Yard

New York, New York. Mrs. Farnk Romano putting her baby to bed. Her hus...

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

New York, New York. Mrs. Frank Romano and her month-old son Benny. Her husband works in the Brooklyn Navy Yard

New York, New York. Mrs. Frank Romano and her month-old son Benny. Her...

Picryl description: Public domain image of 1930s woman, female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Clovis, New Mexico. Abbie Caldwell, employed in the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad yard to clean out the potash cars. Mrs. Caldwell's husband works in the roundhouse and her son is in the Army

Clovis, New Mexico. Abbie Caldwell, employed in the Atchison, Topeka a...

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

Mrs. Arthur Brown with three of her children reading Bath Daily Times. The husband works at the shipyard. After having been away from Bath for five years returned for the "Boom." Rents were too high in town and so they started building a place for themselves about five miles out of Bath on land belonging to their brother. Husband has been working a week on and a week off. One of the children is old enough to go to school but it is too far out of the way for the school bus to stop for him

Mrs. Arthur Brown with three of her children reading Bath Daily Times....

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

New York, New York. Mrs. Frank Romano and her month-old baby in their apartment on East Fourth Street and Second Avenue. Her husband works in the Brooklyn Navy Yard

New York, New York. Mrs. Frank Romano and her month-old baby in their ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman, nurse, caring, hospital, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

New York, New York. Mrs. Frank Romano putting her baby to bed. Her husband works in the Brooklyn Navy Yard

New York, New York. Mrs. Frank Romano putting her baby to bed. Her hus...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Mrs. Arthur Brown with three of her children reading Bath Daily Times. The husband works at the shipyard. After having been away from Bath for five years returned for the "Boom." Rents were too high in town and so they started building a place for themselves about five miles out of Bath on land belonging to their brother. Husband has been working a week on and a week off. One of the children is old enough to go to school but it is too far out of the way for the school bus to stop for him

Mrs. Arthur Brown with three of her children reading Bath Daily Times....

Picryl description: Public domain image of a school, preschool, children, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Ann Garabedian, Russian girl married to Armenian vegetable gardener in Andover, Massachusetts. Her husband works as a truck driver in Lawrence in the winter

Ann Garabedian, Russian girl married to Armenian vegetable gardener in...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Woman fetching water. She lives with her family in lower part of the tobacco barn. Husband works at Fort Bragg. Near Fayetteville, North Carolina

Woman fetching water. She lives with her family in lower part of the t...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A family from the southern part of Texas occupies this tent. Husband works at Fort Bragg, but they expect to move on soon. In a settlement near Manchester, North Carolina

A family from the southern part of Texas occupies this tent. Husband w...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Beaumont, Texas. Mrs. Ruth Gallagher, a bus driver for the city transit company. Her husband works in the Pennsylvania shipyards

Beaumont, Texas. Mrs. Ruth Gallagher, a bus driver for the city transi...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Mrs. M. Vieta, Portuguese wife of a FSA (Farm Security Administration) client. At present she is looking after the farm and the children while her husband works at the torpedo station in Newport. Portsmouth, Rhode Island

Mrs. M. Vieta, Portuguese wife of a FSA (Farm Security Administration)...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Old street car converted into living quarters for family of four. They were born and raised in Fayetteville, but could not get a place to stay. Husband works at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Just outside of Fayetteville, North Carolina

Old street car converted into living quarters for family of four. They...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Home of Mr. and Mrs. George Callahan, whose husband works at Hartford Linen Supply. They have four children and have always lived in Hartford, but now find conditions so overcrowded and congested and with the rent gauging and discrimination against families with children so severe it is impossible for them to locate adequate housing

Home of Mr. and Mrs. George Callahan, whose husband works at Hartford ...

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

Mrs. W.T. Hembry and her children. Her husband works in the Mary Leila cotton Mill in Greensboro, Greene County, Georgia

Mrs. W.T. Hembry and her children. Her husband works in the Mary Leila...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A woman holding a baby in her arms. Office of War Information Photograph

A woman holding a baby in her arms. Office of War Information Photogra...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Mrs. May Watson, thirty-eight, mother of three children, employed as a freight trucker for the Pitcairn transfer service of the Pennsylvania Railroad, earns sixty-eight cents per hour. Mrs. Watson's husband works for the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Company

Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Mrs. May Watson, thirty-eight, mother of three...

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

Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Agnes Glunt, mother of a child four years old, employed as a rivet heater in the Pitcairn, Pennsylvania Railroad steel car shop, earning seventy-two cents per hour. Her husband works at the Westinghouse Electric Company

Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Agnes Glunt, mother of a child four years...

Picryl description: Public domain image of workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

New York, New York. Mrs. Frank Romano and her month-old baby in their apartment on East 4th Street and Second Avenue. Her husband works in the Brooklyn Navy Yard

New York, New York. Mrs. Frank Romano and her month-old baby in their ...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

3:30 P.M. Mrs. Rosy Capello, 311 E. 111th St., top floor rear. Makes 50 cents to $1.00 a week on willow plumes. Husband works irregularly as tailor. Location: New York, New York (State)

3:30 P.M. Mrs. Rosy Capello, 311 E. 111th St., top floor rear. Makes 5...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 2708. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photogr... More

Tubercular mother from Oklahoma now living in the Kern migrant camp (resettlement), California. She receives daily visits from the county nurse. Her husband works in the cotton field and can pick one hundred pounds a day

Tubercular mother from Oklahoma now living in the Kern migrant camp (r...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc... More

Woman who lives with her family in the upper part of tobacco barn, gathering coal. Husband works at Fort Bragg. Near Fayetteville, North Carolina

Woman who lives with her family in the upper part of tobacco barn, gat...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Her husband works at Fort Bragg, and expects to be laid off any day. They come from South Carolina and have been living in a trailer for two years. Don't know where they will go next. Near Fort Bragg, North Carolina

Her husband works at Fort Bragg, and expects to be laid off any day. T...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

New York, New York. Mrs. Frank Romano and her month-old baby in their apartment on East Fourth Street and Second Avenue. Her husband works in the Brooklyn Navy Yard

New York, New York. Mrs. Frank Romano and her month-old baby in their ...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

New York, New York. Mrs. Frank Romano and her month-old baby in their apartment on East 4th Street and Second Avenue. Her husband works in the Brooklyn Navy Yard

New York, New York. Mrs. Frank Romano and her month-old baby in their ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman, nurse, caring, hospital, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Before Cathy Trotti became a clerk, in the Army-Navy parts stock crib of a Western aircraft plant, she was supervisor of wired music--a Betty girl. Now she is helping in the production of consolidated B-24 bombers and transports. Her husband works in the same plant.

Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Before Cathy Trotti beca...

Public domain photograph of 1930s industry, war production in the United States free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New York, New York. Mrs. Frank Romano putting her baby to bed. Her husband works in the Brooklyn Navy Yard

New York, New York. Mrs. Frank Romano putting her baby to bed. Her hus...

Public domain photograph of New York in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mrs. Raphael Marengin, [...] St., first floor rear. Pepine, 10 yrs. old, cracking nuts with her teeth. The mother had just been doing the same. Carmine, 8 years old, has cross eyes, and with the boy about same age works too. Some of them work until 8 or 9 p.m. at times. Boy holding baby is foolish. Husband works on railroad part of the time. 10-year-old-girl cracking nuts with her teeth. The mother had just been doing the same. 8-year-old child has cross eyes and works, as well as the boy. New York City, 1911. Manufacture of food in tenement homes is now prohibited in New York State. Location: New York, New York (State)

Mrs. Raphael Marengin, [...] St., first floor rear. Pepine, 10 yrs. ol...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a living room, salon, office, late 19th-century interior, free to use, no copyright restrictions.