122 Sullivan St. 2nd Floor rear. Leveroni family. Earn 4 cents a gross...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 6-A. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photogra... More
Candy Workers, Kibbe's Factory. Location: Springfield, Massachusetts
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 1184. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More
When the whistle blows. Closing hour at the Danville (Va.) Cigarette F...
Picryl description: Public domain image, 19th-century cigarette card, free to use, no copyright restrictions. Cigarette cards are trading cards issued by tobacco manufacturers to stiffen cigarette packaging and... More
Day laborers waiting to be assigned to work, Raymondville, Texas
Public domain photograph of train tracks, railroad works, construction workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Day laborers coming out of cotton field, Mileston Plantation, Mileston...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Cigarmakers in factory of Filogamo & Alvarez, Tampa, Fla. Work was sla...
Public domain photograph of people in office, interior, the 1910s-1920s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The slave-market of to-day / Gillam.
Illustration shows trade union laborers, some in chains labeled "High Tariff" and "Tariff", and one standing on a block labeled "Trade Unions", being auctioned by a man labeled "Protectionist Statesman" to capi... More
Coolies transferring bales of jute from boats at Saraghat (?)
Photographic print made by LC from Jackson's vintage film negative. Gift; Colorado Historical Society; 1949. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collec... More
Three workmen
Photograph showing three African American laborers at work.
Boys taking away from saws and brading. Schultze, Waltman & Co. Planin...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 194. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More
Noon Hour at an Indianapolis Meat Packing House. Aug. 1908. Wit. E.N. ...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 108. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More
Mexican gang of migratory laborers under a Japanese field boss. These ...
Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.
Day laborers come in cars and trucks to pick cotton on Marcella Planta...
Public domain photograph of military personnel, army, militia, infantry, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Indian industry by lend-lease. A new hydraulic lathe, made available t...
Public domain image of personnel, army, group of people in uniform, parade, historic place, military activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Longview, Texas to Arkansas state line. War emergency pipeline from Lo...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, mine, excavation, or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Chinese coolies, Hong Kong, China - stereocsopic card
Chinese laborers gathered on street outside multi-story building. 59601 U.S. Copyright Office. Title transcribed from item. Copyright by Strohmeyer & Wyman.
Group in Sweatshop. Mr. Schneider, 87 Ridge Street Shop located in the...
Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 30-A. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the ... More
Watch Co., (6 boys of questionable age, but could not get photo of the...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory worker, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less
[Full-length portrait of an African American man with a basket and a c...
Gladstone's inventory number and notes: CDV84; Occupationals. Two cent tax stamp on back of the mount. "LE685" written in pencil on back of the mount. Purchase; William A. Gladstone; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:113.96)... More
Italian woman carrying an enormous empty dry-goods-box for some distan...
Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Military railroad operations in northern Virginia: African American l...
No. 53 (handwritten) and 2554 (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
California Citrus Heritage Recording Project, Riverside, Riverside Cou...
Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Hopelessly bound to the stake / Gillam.
Print shows a man labeled "Workman" tied to a stake labeled "Monopoly" and sitting on a flaming pile of logs with the faces of Jay Gould, William H. Vanderbilt, Russell Sage, Roscoe Conkling, Cyrus W. Field, Wh... More
Puck magazine cover - It works both ways / Zimmerman.
Illustration shows a man labeled "Labor Union" raising a large club labeled "Boycotting" over his head, about to strike a man labeled "Manufacturer" sitting behind a desk, in the process, he strikes a man label... More
[Shallow pit phosphate mine, Dunnellon, Florida]
Photograph shows African American laborers working in a pit with pickaxes and shovels and moving dirt with wheel barrows. Duplicate of photograph in LOT 4992. Dunnellon Phosphate Co., Mine No. 2.
Puck magazine cover - A puzzling phenomenon / Keppler.
Print shows Puck holding a lithographic pen, standing next to a laborer who is reading a notice posted on a wall that states "'Reduction in Wages due to the Great Law of Supply and Demand'. Explanation by Repub... More
[Three lobster soldiers, two with picks chopping up the ground and the...
Signed on block on left with chop. Includes extensive Japanese text. Descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Nihon banzai hyakusen hyakushō ... More
Group of sweatshop workers in shop of M. Silverman. 30 Suffolk St., N....
Picryl description: Public domain image of a living room, salon, office, late 19th-century interior, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Young boy working for Hickok Lbr. i.e., Lumber Co., Burlington, Vt. Lo...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 1096. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More
5:15 P.M. Father hanging around the home while family works on feather...
Picryl description: Public domain image of children, kids, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Some of the young boys who are rollers and bunch-breakers in Danville ...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 2196-A. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More
4:00 P.M. Mrs. Frances Rosep, 309 E. 110th St., New York., ground floo...
Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, economic conditions, children workers, exploitation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Typical group of Home Workers crocheting on steps, 16 South Street, So...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Group, showing a few of the workers stringing beans in the J. S. Farra...
Public domain image of a group of people, ceremony, event, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
A group of sweatshop workers. Mr. Silberman, 30 Suffolk St. Photo take...
Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Mortaria family, 8 Downing St., N.Y., making flowers wreaths. The Litt...
Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, economic conditions, children workers, exploitation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Work pays America! Prosperity. - WPA poster, Public domain, Library of...
Poster for Works Progress Administration encouraging laborers to work for America, showing a farmer and a laborer. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Chri... More
Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron, First Avenue North Viaduct at Thirty-sec...
STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Sloss Company's city furnaces, built in what is now the center of Birmingham, Alabama, in 1881-1882, produced pig iron for the foundry market until their clos... More
Noon Hour at an Indianapolis Meat Packing House. Aug., 1908. Wit., E. ...
Public domain photograph of factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Man carrying load of caps made at home to factory, 9-11 University Pla...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 2863. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photogr... More
Telegraph lineman. Location: Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.
Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Feeding children of migratory agricultural laborers cod liver oil at t...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of children, kids, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Yauco, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Farm laborers who have been planting su...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer worker, 20th-century dust bowl, great depression era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
[Jamaican agricultural laborers doing laundry in buckets at a Farm Sec...
U.S. Office of War Information negative no. 28687. Forms part of the Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information photograph collection (Library of Congress).
Noon hour, Singer Mfg. Co., The Boys work there. Location: South Bend,...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 228. Caption card records date as Oct. 1914; surrounding cards would suggest 1908?. Credit line: National... More
Work pays America! Prosperity. - WPA poster, Public domain, Library of...
Poster for Works Progress Administration encouraging laborers to work for America, showing a farmer and a laborer. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Chri... More
View of laborers preparing cotton for gins, on Alex. Knox's plantation...
Photograph shows an aerial view of African American laborers loading cotton into bags which are then processed by the overseer. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). Date based on Barnard's third ... More
California Citrus Heritage Recording Project, Riverside, Riverside Cou...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a car, automobile, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Contrabands building a levee on the Mississippi river, below Baton Rou...
Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1863 May 9, pp. 104-105.
Black, Chinese and White laborers in a gold mine in South Africa
Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. LOT subdivision subject: South Africa. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Mines... Gold; Chi... More
The best balance for Uncle Sam / Keppler.
Illustration shows Uncle Sam holding up a balance scale with "Labor" on the left and "Capitol" on the right; when the two are balanced the scale points toward "Prosperity" and when uneven, the scale points towa... More
These boys were surely under 14. Cigarmakers in Englehardt Co., Tampa,...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 565. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More
[Machine shop in the Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.] / T...
National Photo Company Collection. Public domain photograph of industrial workers, factory building, work, assembly line, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Garment workers. Upper East Side, N.Y.C. Location: New York, New York ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, economic conditions, children workers, exploitation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Two of the Boys Working in Phoenix American Cob Pipe Factory, Washingt...
Public domain photograph of factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Some of the young boys who are rollers and bunch-breakers in Danville ...
Picryl description: Public domain image, 19th-century cigarette card, free to use, no copyright restrictions. Cigarette cards are trading cards issued by tobacco manufacturers to stiffen cigarette packaging and... More
Sandblasting. Cleaning with sand I
Public domain photograph of midcentury American architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Young family, penniless, hitchhiking on U.S. Highway 99, California. T...
Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Oregon, Klamath County, Merrill. Young woman from a South Dakota farm,...
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
Negro day laborers brought in by truck from nearby towns waiting to be...
Public domain photographs related to race relations, African Americans, discrimination, segregation, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Housing for white migratory laborers. Belle Glade, Florida
Public domain photograph of car garage, repair shop, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Sculpture, courtyard, and artifacts, Detroit Institute of Art [Detroit...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Detroit, Michigan, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
S.S. Morro Castle, Cramps Shipyards, Philadelphia
Picryl description: Public domain image of a castle, view, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Mexican field laborers' houses. Brawley, Imperial Valley, California
Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
3:30 P.M. Picking nuts in dirty basement. The dirtiest imaginable chil...
Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, economic conditions, children workers, exploitation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Finishing garments, 10 Hanover Avenue, Boston, Mass. The 13 years old ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, economic conditions, children workers, exploitation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
President Roosevelt running an American steam-shovel at Culebra Cut, P...
H45972 Copyright Office. No. (17)-9359. Copyright 1906 by Underwood & Underwood.
A Union Shop, Cigarmakers Tierra del Laga Cigar Co. Almost no hands un...
Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron, First Avenue North Viaduct at Thirty-sec...
STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Sloss Company's city furnaces, built in what is now the center of Birmingham, Alabama, in 1881-1882, produced pig iron for the foundry market until their clos... More
Hong Kong--Dock workers - Frank G. Carpenter collection
Laborers pulling loaded cart on wharf, Hong Kong. Photo by De Cou. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress). Copyright by Ewing Galloway, New York.
Eugène Atget - Street paver - Public domain portrait print
Men paving street, Paris, France. In portfolio: 20 photographs by Eugène Atget, 1856-1927. New York : Berenice Abbott, 1956, no. 12. Eugene Atget, the French photographer, is best known for his photographs of ... More
A puzzling feature of the new prosperity / Dalrymple.
Print shows a farmer on the left depositing money at a "Savings Bank" and a laborer on the right withdrawing money; the farmer looks prosperous, the laborer looks depressed. Caption: The farmer is all right, -... More
Candy Workers, Kibbe's Factory. Location: Springfield, Massachusetts.
Picryl description: Public domain image of boy workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
These are the smallest workers I could find at Southland Shoe Factory,...
Picryl description: Public domain image of boy workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
(For Child Welfare Exhibit 1912-13.) Cigar factory of F. Delloiacono [...
Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, economic conditions, children workers, exploitation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Noontime at canteen--reading the Hog Island News
National Photo Company Collection. No. 4353. N18. Public domain photograph - United States during World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Allan i.e., Alan Rowe's excavations at Gezer
Title and date from: photographer's logbook: Matson Registers, v. 1, [1934-1939]. Caption on negative: Gezer. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Migratory laborers playing checkers in front of juke joint during slac...
Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Sweatshop of Mr. Goldstein 30 Suffolk St. Witness Mrs. L. Hosford. Loc...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 28-A. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More
Sutter's Mill, American River (submerged), Coloma, El Dorado County, C...
Address of, Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park, not verifiable in documentation. Survey number: HABS CA-1301 Building/structure dates: 1847 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1848 Subsequ... More
[Seated black man wearing four button sack, laborer, ring]
Public domain photograph - 19th-century male studio portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The tournament of today - a set-to between labor and monopoly / F. Gra...
Print shows a jousting tournament between an oversized knight riding horse-shaped armor labeled "Monopoly" over a locomotive, with a long plume labeled "Arrogance", and carrying a shield labeled "Corruption of ... More
The new South - the triumph of free labor / Keppler.
Print shows African Americans and Civil War veterans among the crowd that passes a statue of Abraham Lincoln on their way to the Cotton States Exposition visible in the background labeled "Prosperity". In the l... More
Group of sweatshop workers in shop of M. Silverman. 30 Suffolk St., N....
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 27-A. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More
A few of the workers. P. San Martin Cigar Co. Tampa, Fla. Has reputati...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Sure we'll finish the job! Victory Liberty Loan.
Poster showing a civilian in overalls, wearing four Liberty Loan buttons, again reaching into his pocket.
Coal barges and the passers whose bodies are as black as night with c...
Photographs show laborers on a coal barge with baskets, and a view of the coastline of Malta. On page: no. 1509 (top image) and no. 1510 (bottom image). In album: European pictures (1923 trip), p. [134]. Negat... More
Home of Mexican field laborers. Brawley, Imperial Valley, California
Public domain photograph of California in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Typical of thousands of migrating agricultural laborers. California
Picryl description: Public domain image of a car, automobile, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
The photographs in the Farm Security Administration / Office of War In...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer worker, 20th-century dust bowl, great depression era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Migratory laborers outside of a "juke joint" during a slack season, Be...
Photograph shows man standing at left with a gun. Signs advertise Ice Cold Jax Ale Beer Stout, Royal Crown Cola, and Ice Cold Coca-Cola.
Migrant laborers pick tomatoes in fields near Homestead, Florida
Public domain photograph of United States countryside, nature, during 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Day laborers waiting along railroad tracks for possible employment, Ra...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Children of migratory laborers who are living at migratory labor camp ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, economic conditions, children workers, exploitation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
1 P.M. Family of Onofrio Cottone, 7 Extra Pl., N.Y., finishing garment...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 3255. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photogr... More
Making embroidery. Upper East Side, N.Y. City. Location: New York, New...
Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
National Child Labor Committee, #200. S. W. Brown Mfg. Co., Evansville...
Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
British coal strike - idle dock laborers, Cardiff
Public domain photograph of industrial building, factory, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Man carrying bundle of garmets. Bleeker Street, N.Y. Location: New Yo...
Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Griffith Consumers Co. Copy of man insulating attic
Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, mine, excavation, or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.