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Galveston disaster - Lucas Terrace where fifty lives were lost, looking west

Galveston disaster - Lucas Terrace where fifty lives were lost, lookin...

Copyright by Griffith & Griffith. Public domain photograph of building, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The pigmies attack; but the government still lives / Keppler.

The pigmies attack; but the government still lives / Keppler.

Illustration shows President McKinley standing on the steps to the U.S. Capitol, holding up two flags, one labeled "Expansion" and the other labeled "Sound Money." Tiny figures at the foot of the steps show Wil... More

[Streetcars - testing devices for saving lives on car fenders]

[Streetcars - testing devices for saving lives on car fenders]

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Public domain photograph of a tram car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Manuel Robello, 10 years old. Picks and carries. Lives in Teaticket, Massachusetts. Location: Falmouth - Baker Bog, Massachusettsachusetts.

Manuel Robello, 10 years old. Picks and carries. Lives in Teaticket, M...

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Sula Bedford, nine years old. Lives in Tupelo, Miss. Mother said, "Just as soon as she's 12, her father wants her to learn to weave. She could spin now, (heaps of 'em smaller'n she is does) but he can't earn 'nuff spinnin'." Location: Tupelo, Mississippi.

Sula Bedford, nine years old. Lives in Tupelo, Miss. Mother said, "Jus...

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Pete Le Tendre is the smallest worker. Said 9 years old. Lives 44 Bowler Street, Fall River, Massachusetts. Location: South Carver [vicinity] - Smart's Bog, Massachusettsachusetts.

Pete Le Tendre is the smallest worker. Said 9 years old. Lives 44 Bowl...

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Annette Roy, the youngest worker. Said 7 years old. Picked last year. Lives 171 Orange Street, Fall River, Massachusetts. Also Napoleon Ruel, 53 Hopkins Street, Fall River, Massachusetts. Said 9 years old. Location: South Carver [vicinity] - Smart's Bog, Massachusettsachusetts.

Annette Roy, the youngest worker. Said 7 years old. Picked last year. ...

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

Group of Dime Messengers Service boys, 1228 H St., N.W., at the main office. The youngest boys are Eddie Tahoory (14 yrs. old) . Said to be a recent comer. Lives, 108 Fourth St., N.E., and Earle Griffith (15 yrs. old), 107 Fifteenth St., N.W., Washington, D.C. From a questionable home. Mother eloped with boarder. Took children with her. They said they never know when they were going to get home at night. Usually work one or more nights a week, and have worked until after midnight. They said last Christmas their office had a 9 yr. old boy running errands for them, and that he made a great deal of money from tips. They make about $7 a week and more, sometimes. Said "The office is not allowed to send us into the red light district, but we go when a call sends us. Not very often." Location: Washington (D.C.), District of Columbia.

Group of Dime Messengers Service boys, 1228 H St., N.W., at the main o...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Many of the smallest ones said, "Working in these mills." Especially #1 Raymond Bradshaw, 88 Engerira St. Works in Manomet Mill; lives with grandmother, works in #2 Card Department. Said, "I'm goin' on 14, will be 15 next September." He appears to be [i.e., have] tubercular tendencies and his sister much more so. Fred Arnold, 478 N. Front St., (smallest boy in #6 Mill). Lives with step-father in comfortable circumstances. Been working in weave room in Nashawena Mill, 1 year. Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Many of the smallest ones said, "Working in these mills." Especially #...

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

Durward Nickerson, Western Union messenger #55. One of the by-products of messenger work. Lives in Bessemer, R.F.D. #1. Saturday night, September 26, 1914, he took investigator through the old Red Light on Ave. A, pointed out the various resorts, told him about the inmates he has known there. Only a half dozen of them were open now, and those very quietly. Durward has put in 2 years in the messenger work and shows the result of temptations open to him. He has recently returned from a hobo trip through 25 states. He was not inclined to tell much about the shady side of messenger work, but one could easily see that he has been through much that he might have avoided in a profitable kind of work. 18 years old. See Alabama report. Location: Birmingham, Alabama.

Durward Nickerson, Western Union messenger #55. One of the by-products...

Public domain photograph related to development of telegraph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

She lives on "Scratch Hill," outside Atoka, Oklahoma. Atoka County, Oklahoma

She lives on "Scratch Hill," outside Atoka, Oklahoma. Atoka County, Ok...

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Agricultural laborer who lives at "Eighty Acres," Glassboro, New Jersey

Agricultural laborer who lives at "Eighty Acres," Glassboro, New Jerse...

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Mays Avenue camp, family who lives there, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. See general caption no. 21

Mays Avenue camp, family who lives there, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. See...

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Near Shafter, California. Family from Oklahoma lives in old cow-barn and picks cotton for seventy-five cents a 100 pounds. During cotton strike

Near Shafter, California. Family from Oklahoma lives in old cow-barn a...

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

Transfusion donor bottles, Baxter Lab., Glenview, Ill. Formerly a sculptress and designer of tiles, Dorothy Cole converted her basement into a workshop to tin plate needles for valves for blood transfusion bottles prepared by Baxter Laboratories where she lives. She turns in her profits to war bonds to provide a college education for her young nephew

Transfusion donor bottles, Baxter Lab., Glenview, Ill. Formerly a scul...

Public domain photograph of laboratory, science, research, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Oregon, Klamath County, Merrill. Young woman from a South Dakota farm, where her family still lives. She and her husband are migratory laborers and live in a shack in Klamath County waiting for potato harvest to open. "My husband just day labors."

Oregon, Klamath County, Merrill. Young woman from a South Dakota farm,...

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tourist house, Truro. Hands of Portuguese from Cape Verde Islands. He has worked at fishing, and on the railroads, is now seventy and lives by boarding tourists during the short season. Truro, Massachusetts

Tourist house, Truro. Hands of Portuguese from Cape Verde Islands. He ...

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The mailman serves as a newspaper too in the isolated regions of the Kentucky mountains. Here he is discussing events with a mountaineer who lives up a creek bed. South Fork of the Kentucky River, near Jackson, Kentucky

The mailman serves as a newspaper too in the isolated regions of the K...

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Shopping for victory with war bonds. This is what one war bond buys. This is the celebrated fishing kit with which every Navy lifeboat is equipped. Experience of Eddie Rickenbacker and others showed how these kits could provide the means of saving lives at sea. The $18.75 that buys a $25 war bond will pay for three of these kits

Shopping for victory with war bonds. This is what one war bond buys. T...

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

Farmers during Great Depression: A black and white photo of a man wearing a hat.

Farmers during Great Depression: A black and white photo of a man wear...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a farmer, 1930s great depression, dust bowl era, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a man sitting on a bench, Iowa. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a man sitting on a bench, Iowa. Farm Securi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of industrial or agricultural worker, 1930s, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

Migratory agricultural worker in her shack where she lives with eleven others. Belcross, North Carolina

Migratory agricultural worker in her shack where she lives with eleven...

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This workman's son is taking gingerbread out of kitchen stove which cost his father one hundred thirty-five dollars and he lives in a shack-house in the Mexican section of town because the father couldn't find anything better for the family. Corpus Christi, Texas

This workman's son is taking gingerbread out of kitchen stove which co...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bureau, office furniture, desk, chair, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a man leaning against a fence. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man leaning against a fence. Office of Wa...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Scandinavian tractor combine driver drinking water out of a jug in the field where they were harvesting wheat on the Schnitzler Corporation ranch. Froid, Montana. This boy came to the Schnitzler ranch from South Dakota where he lives and first harvested their earlier wheat crop before coming up here for the Montana harvest season

Scandinavian tractor combine driver drinking water out of a jug in the...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Farm worker who lives at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm family migratory labor camp. Yakima, Washington. He is attending the WPA (Work Projects Administration) apple packing school at the camp

Farm worker who lives at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm f...

Picryl description: Public domain image of industrial or agricultural worker, 1930s, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

An old black and white photo of a woman looking out of a window. Office of War Information Photograph

An old black and white photo of a woman looking out of a window. Offic...

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 Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More

Shelley, Idaho. Japanese farm worker who lives at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp working on a lawn in town

Shelley, Idaho. Japanese farm worker who lives at the FSA (Farm Securi...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Florence, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Gordon Williams, electrician at Wilson Dam, lives in this demountable prefabricated defense house at Florence, Alabama

Florence, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Gordon Williams,...

Public domain photo of Italian landscape, historic place, Italy, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Nyssa, Oregon. FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp. Japanese-American boy who lives at camp

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

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Family who lives at the Camelback Farms, FSA (Farm Security Administration) project at Phoenix, Arizona

Family who lives at the Camelback Farms, FSA (Farm Security Administra...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

New York, New York. Raymond Fazio and his family receive a belated Christmas package from one of their four sons in the service. This one is in Africa. Fazio is a journalist and lives on East Tenth Street

New York, New York. Raymond Fazio and his family receive a belated Chr...

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

Memorial to Lives Lost at Sea, Washington D.C.

Memorial to Lives Lost at Sea, Washington D.C.

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Going to work on the night shift, Amoskeag Mfg. Co., 6 P.M. Manchester, N.H. This boy has been working all night here for 5 months. George Crossley lives on Arath St., R. FF. D. No. 1/ Box 7 A, Hookset Line, Mancheste, N.H. Location: Manchester, New Hampshire.

Going to work on the night shift, Amoskeag Mfg. Co., 6 P.M. Manchester...

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

A young oyster fisher [?] Others smaller employed in busy season. Apalachicola, Fla. Randsey Summerford says he starts out at 4 A.M. one day, is out all night in the little oyster boat and back next day some time. Gets a share of the proceeds. Said he was 16 years old and been at it 4 years. Lives in Georgia and is here 6 months a year. Location: Apalachicola, Florida.

A young oyster fisher [?] Others smaller employed in busy season. Apal...

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Oscar Revinsky(?) - Born Jan. 11, 1900, 15 years old - 99 Oak Grove Ave. A scavenger on Pine St. Dump. Case known to S.P.C.C. (record No. 4322) since 1910. In 1913 parents refused to let child be committed to Wrentham, Massachusetts. In 1916 father came to office asking that boy be committed as he spent all his time on the dumps. Deficient mentality. Neck covered with scars and boils. "No work - no school" since 1912. Never cleans up. Doesn't go home to meals. Eats from dump and steals from dinner pails. Hard for him to tell where he lives. Thought 92 Oak Grove Ave. Was in baby grade at Ruggles School and was expelled. "Is father alive?" "No, he's a milkman." Fall River, Massachusetts. 6/22/16. Location: Fall River, Massachusettsachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

Oscar Revinsky(?) - Born Jan. 11, 1900, 15 years old - 99 Oak Grove Av...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a child labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

How ironic it is that while medical advances enable the elderly to live long and longer lives, the position of the aged worsens ...

How ironic it is that while medical advances enable the elderly to liv...

"Advocacy: in support of Minority Aged Project." Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983.

Lives of the governors of Minnesota,

Lives of the governors of Minnesota,

This Minnesota Historical Society publication provides biographical chapters on all Minnesota's territorial and state governors from Alexander Ramsey through John Albert Johnson. The author, James Baker, was a... More

The history of Persia - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

The history of Persia - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress ...

Pedro, not Antonio, Teixeira was the compiler of this work.--cf. Silva, Dicc. bibl. port., Hoefer, Nouv. biog. générale, and Brit. mus. Catalogue. A translation, with additions, of Pedro Teixeira's Relaciones... More

[Sixteen vignettes from the lives of French balloonists, Albert and Gaston Tissandier] / Adrien Marie à Gaston Tissandier souvenir de notre ascension du 3 aôut 1887.

[Sixteen vignettes from the lives of French balloonists, Albert and Ga...

Drawing shows preparation for a balloon ascension, view from the balloon, landing at Chauvigny and deflation, and discussion of the event at the dinner table at the Chateau de l'Odière. Compare with pencil sket... More

Rutger and Seventh Sts., where seven lives were lost, St. Louis tornado

Rutger and Seventh Sts., where seven lives were lost, St. Louis tornad...

View of people standing in front of ruins. No. 11304. Public domain photograph of industrial revolution, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Picryl description: Public domain image of byciclyst, bike, bicycle wheel, sport event, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Picryl description: Public domain image of byciclyst, bike, bicycle wh...

Picryl description: Public domain image of bicyclist, bike, bicycle wheel, sport event, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bessie Gonsalve, Said she was 11. Picking and carrying cranberries. Lives in Harwich, Massachusetts. Expects to be here for several weeks more. Location: Hollow Branch Bog, near Wareham, Massachusettsachusetts.

Bessie Gonsalve, Said she was 11. Picking and carrying cranberries. Li...

Public domain photograph of picnic, leisure time, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Virginia K. Johnson Home. A House of Refuge for Unmarried Mothers under twenty-one years old. A large proportion of the girls here came from the farms, their lives stunted by the monotonous work of cotton picking, many of them beginning at five and six years old. Surely this must be counted one of the by-products of such deadening work. See Hine report on Texas Child Labor. Location: Dallas, Texas.

The Virginia K. Johnson Home. A House of Refuge for Unmarried Mothers ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a victorian era building, victorian house, 19th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Grandfather clock presented to the DAR at Memorial Continental Hall, Wash. in honor of 110th Birthday of oldest member, Mrs. Louisa Kirwin Caprou Thiers, a real daughter of the Revolution. Born in Oneida Co., N.Y., now lives in Milwaukee. One of the oldest living persons whose birth can be authenticated. In excellent health and occassionally attends the DAR conferences in her own state

Grandfather clock presented to the DAR at Memorial Continental Hall, W...

A chair and a grandfather clock in a room. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Shack in which rehabilitation client lives before obtaining resettlement loan. Louisiana

Shack in which rehabilitation client lives before obtaining resettleme...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century dust bowl era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A single shacker who lives in the cut-over regions of Iron County, Michigan

A single shacker who lives in the cut-over regions of Iron County, Mic...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Michigan, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Migrant cotton picker's child who lives in a tent in the government camp instead of along the highway or in a ditch bank. Shafter Camp for migrants, California

Migrant cotton picker's child who lives in a tent in the government ca...

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Abandoned farm of the western Panhandle, Cimmaron [i.e. Cimarron] County, Oklahoma. In 1934 and again in 1936 drought conditions in the Great Plains became so severe that it was necessary for the federal government to take steps to rescue dying cattle, relieve destitute families and safeguard human lives. From the report of the Great Plains Committee, 1936

Abandoned farm of the western Panhandle, Cimmaron [i.e. Cimarron] Coun...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to politics, political campaigns, committee, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a woman sitting on a couch, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a woman sitting on a couch, Great Depressio...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mormon farmer who lives in Snowville, Utah and who farms in Oneida County, Idaho, bagging wheat

Mormon farmer who lives in Snowville, Utah and who farms in Oneida Cou...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military vehicle, automobile, tractor truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mr. and Mrs. George Hutton, their son, and grandson at dinner. The younger Mr. Hutton homesteaded his own place, but he is now a widower and lives and farms with his father. Pie Town, New Mexico

Mr. and Mrs. George Hutton, their son, and grandson at dinner. The you...

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

Canterbury, Connecticut. Nov. 1940. Mr. George Howe and one of his sons. His house was destroyed by the hurricane and he now lives in the cellar, the only part of his house that remains

Canterbury, Connecticut. Nov. 1940. Mr. George Howe and one of his son...

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

Farm woman who lives at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm family migratory labor camp, Yakima, Washington, packing wooden apples at the WPA (Work Projects Administration) apple packing school at the camp

Farm woman who lives at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm fa...

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

A woman standing in a field of corn. Office of War Information Photograph

A woman standing in a field of corn. Office of War Information Photogr...

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 Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More

Nurse administers hypodermic to wife of farm worker who lives at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) migratory labor camp mobile unit. Wilder, Idaho

Nurse administers hypodermic to wife of farm worker who lives at the F...

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

Rolfe Lawrence Chickering, farmboy from Saint Johnsbury, Vermont, who came to work at Pratt and Whitney United Aircraft in January 1941. Because of congested housing conditions, he commutes twenty miles each way daily from East Hartford to Suffield, Connecticut, where he lives with a private family, pays eight dollars weekly for room and board. He is single, about twenty years old

Rolfe Lawrence Chickering, farmboy from Saint Johnsbury, Vermont, who ...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Sheffield, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority(TVA)). Kenneth C. Hall with his wife, Helen Louise, and daughter Peggy. Mr. Hall is a foreman in the hot rolling mill at the Reynolds Metals Company, an aluminum plant using TVA electricity. He lives in a TVA defense house at Sheffield, Alabama

Sheffield, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority(TVA)). Kenneth C. Hall ...

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

Self-sealing fuel tanks. Not only as nurses behind the battle lines, but as workers in the factory producing important war goods, women are doing much to win this war and to spare the lives of the men doing the actual fighting. These girls are fitting inner ply to a building form, a safety development for military aircraft. Goodrich

Self-sealing fuel tanks. Not only as nurses behind the battle lines, b...

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

Washington, D.C. Elderly lady who lives on Lamont Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. Elderly lady who lives on Lamont Street, N.W.

Public domain photograph of Washington DC, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Nyssa, Oregon. FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp. Japanese-American boy who lives at camp

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

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Car pooling at Lockheed Vega. Resuming their homeward drive, Jerry stops the car for Mary, the first out. She lives about six miles from the plant

Car pooling at Lockheed Vega. Resuming their homeward drive, Jerry sto...

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

Car pooling at Lockheed Vega. Sheila gets off next. Walt and Jerry, the only two left, are neighbors and live nearby. Jerry lives about 10 1/2 miles from the plant, works six days a week and drives twenty-one miles a day. 6000 miles a year just getting to and from work. All these riders, except Mary, formerly drove their own cars and piled up a daily total of eighty-three miles. This single example of car pooling results in a seventy-five percent reduction of rubber

Car pooling at Lockheed Vega. Sheila gets off next. Walt and Jerry, th...

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

Bridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural workers' camp. Picker and farmhand who lives in the corner of an old barn by himself on a farm

Bridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural...

Public domain photograph of a barn, farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Nyssa, Oregon. FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp. Japanese-American child who lives at the camp

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

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Bridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural workers' camp. Barn where lone Negro lives and works as hired man through the summer

Bridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural...

Public domain photograph of a barn, farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Madison, Wisconsin. Farm short course school at the University of Wisconsin. Elmer Roukainen, whose parents came from Finland, is the oldest of six children. The family lives in a Finnish community in Douglas County, Wisconsin. He never attended high school, but has developed an intense interest in reading, even though the nearest library around his home was forty miles away. For awhile he worked as a section hand on the Northern Pacific Railroad

Madison, Wisconsin. Farm short course school at the University of Wisc...

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

Buffalo, New York. Frank and Laura Czaya praying in church one week after Easter. They were married six months before Frank was drafted. He is now a corporal, stationed in Arkansas and is home on a ten day furlough. Laura works in the Symington-Gould plant; lives in an apartment with her family in Depew. The Czayas are of Polish descent

Buffalo, New York. Frank and Laura Czaya praying in church one week af...

Picryl description: Public domain image of liturgy, ceremony, church, Christianity religion, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bunny Kuiken, granddaughter of Pietro Botto, in front of Botto House; she works at The American Labor Museum and lives around the corner.

Bunny Kuiken, granddaughter of Pietro Botto, in front of Botto House; ...

Forms part of a group of images recorded on August 16, documenting scenes at The American Labor Museum, Botto House National Landmark, 83 Norwood Avenue, Haledon, New Jersey.

Armed service veteran Frank Smith, who is battling stomach cancer, spends many of his days on the streets of Dallas, Texas His daughter lives with him and helps with his care

Armed service veteran Frank Smith, who is battling stomach cancer, spe...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

Armed service veteran Frank Smith, who is battling stomach cancer, spends many of his days on the streets of Dallas, Texas His daughter lives with him and helps with his care

Armed service veteran Frank Smith, who is battling stomach cancer, spe...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Eight-year-old, Jennie Camillo, lives in West Maniyunk, Pennsylvania (near Philadelphia). For this summer she has picked cranberries. This summer is at Theodore Budd's Bog at Turkeytown, near Pemberton, N.J. This is the fourth week of school in Philadelphia and these people will stay here two weeks more. Her look of distress was caused by her father's impatience [?] over her stopping in her tramp to he "bushelman" at our photographer's request. Witness, E.F. Brown, Sept. 27, 1910. Location: Pemberton, New Jersey / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

Eight-year-old, Jennie Camillo, lives in West Maniyunk, Pennsylvania (...

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Young doffer and spinner boys in Seaconnet Mill. The youngest are Manuel Perry, 111 Pitman St. John E. Mello, 229 Alden St. Manuel Louis. None of these could write their own names. The last couldn't spell the street he lives on. They spoke almost no English. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts.

Young doffer and spinner boys in Seaconnet Mill. The youngest are Manu...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Ernest Chester, 5 years old lives at 624 S. Robinson St. Sells with his older brother Emmet, who is 9 years old. They are up very early.] Location: [Oklahoma City, Oklahoma] / [Lewis W. Hine]

[Ernest Chester, 5 years old lives at 624 S. Robinson St. Sells with h...

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

Myrtle Bagwell, one of the youngest of the spinners in Spartan Mills, Spartenberg [sic], S.C. Lives 104 Duncan Street. Been working nearly 2 years. Older sister said she could not find the family bible. Location: Spartanburg, South Carolina.

Myrtle Bagwell, one of the youngest of the spinners in Spartan Mills, ...

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

Ernest Chester, 5 years old lives at 624 S. Robinson St. Sells with his older brother Emmet, who is 9 years old. They are up very early. Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma / Lewis W. Hine.

Ernest Chester, 5 years old lives at 624 S. Robinson St. Sells with hi...

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

Loss of the steam ship Central America. Over 400 lives lost. Air: Shells of the Ocean. J. Andrews, Printer, 38 Chatham Street, N. Y

Loss of the steam ship Central America. Over 400 lives lost. Air: Shel...

Public domain song - scan of American song sheet, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Queen Philippa interceding for the lives of the burgesses of Calais, 1347 / on steel by John Sartain, Philadelphia. ; the original by H.C. Selous.

Queen Philippa interceding for the lives of the burgesses of Calais, 1...

Print shows Philippa, Queen, consort of Edward III, kneeling before her husband, King Edward III, begging him to spare the lives of the six burghers of Calais who have sacrificed themselves by complying with hi... More

[Pencil sketch for sixteen vignettes from the lives of French balloonists Albert and Gaston Tissandier]

[Pencil sketch for sixteen vignettes from the lives of French ballooni...

Drawing shows preparation for a balloon ascension, view from the balloon, landing at Chauvigny and deflation, and discussion of the event at the dinner table at the Chateau de l'Odière. Attribution and date bas... More

Antone Fontes. Said 11 years old, and worked here last year. Lives in E. Providence, R.I. Location: Makepeace near Wareham, Massachusetts.

Antone Fontes. Said 11 years old, and worked here last year. Lives in ...

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Hodges Gallop, Western Union Messenger No. 16, Norfolk, Virginia Lives, 201 Freeman Street. Been working here one month. He, and several other very young boys, work until 10:30 P.M. See also photo and label 2258, and report on messengers of Virginia Location: Norfolk, Virginia.

Hodges Gallop, Western Union Messenger No. 16, Norfolk, Virginia Lives...

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Somerville Home Work. Annie Capodana, 9 years old. Lives at 9 Ward Street. Teresa Siuserella, 10 years old, 52 [?] Medford Street. At their job. See Home Work report. Location: Somerville, Massachusetts.

Somerville Home Work. Annie Capodana, 9 years old. Lives at 9 Ward Str...

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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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George Barbee, 13 years old worming. Lives near Bell School. Location: Nicholas County, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

George Barbee, 13 years old worming. Lives near Bell School. Location...

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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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All we'll have to do for the rest of our lives will be to get away with our thousand dollars a month

All we'll have to do for the rest of our lives will be to get away wit...

(DLC/PP-1934:0045). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The High Heart" by Basil King, Saturday evening post, 190:19 (July 21, 1917).

Jack Ryan, 6-year-old newsie, who lives at 126 1/2 W. Reno St. Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma / Lewis W. Hine.

Jack Ryan, 6-year-old newsie, who lives at 126 1/2 W. Reno St. Locati...

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They give their lives, do you lend your savings? W.S.S.--War Savings Stamps issued by the United States government / / H. Devitt Welsh.

They give their lives, do you lend your savings? W.S.S.--War Savings S...

Poster showing graves marked with crosses on a hill, much like views of Calvary. Committee on Public Information, Division of Pictorial Publicity.

An Orthodox priest of Greece. This religion is worshiped by all Greeks and the priests have wide influence in the lives of people Orthodox priests must raise beards. They may be married before their ordination but once only in their lives.

An Orthodox priest of Greece. This religion is worshiped by all Greek...

Photographs show a three-quarters length portrait and a head-and-shoulders portrait of a Greek priest. Negative series code stamped on page: LC-C26. On page: no. 1461 (top image), and no. 1462 (bottom image),... More

An embryo fighter. Little Joseph B. Bovello, Jr., 3 years of age, is being taught the manly art of self defense by his father. He lives at 925 Farragut Street, Washington, D.C. His muscles are well developed and he hits with a stiff punch

An embryo fighter. Little Joseph B. Bovello, Jr., 3 years of age, is b...

A young boy sitting in a chair with a ball in his hand. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Five persons lose lives in plane crash at Nation's Capital. Scene at Bolling Field, Washington, today shortly after a huge Army plane crashed from a 300-foot altitude claiming the lives of five people, including that of a congressman, his secretary, and a famous Army pilot. The dead are: Rep. William A. Kaylor, of Massachusetts; Arthur A. McGill, Scarsdale, N.Y., Capt. Harry A. Dinger, Pilot; Private Vladimir Kuzma, Mechanic; and Stanley B. Lowe, Secretary to Rep. Kaylor

Five persons lose lives in plane crash at Nation's Capital. Scene at B...

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Objects to workers. Edna Morris, who lives within a few hundred feet of the government-owned "Tugwelltown" being constructed near Washington by Rehabilitation Administration, arms herself to protect her property against what she termed the "thieving" of the workers on the project. Many people living in Maryland adjacent to the project protest the importation of about 500 transients brought in daily from the District of Columbia to work on the project. 10/15/35

Objects to workers. Edna Morris, who lives within a few hundred feet o...

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Negro tenant family who barely lives on the earnings of fifty dollars a year. They pay a standing rent. There are five children working; ages from seven to fourteen. The older children cultivating, the younger children hoeing and chopping. Eutaw, Alabama

Negro tenant family who barely lives on the earnings of fifty dollars ...

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Mrs. Sophie Rudd, a widow who lives by herself on forty acres of land near Black River Falls, Wisconsin

Mrs. Sophie Rudd, a widow who lives by herself on forty acres of land ...

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Families are left stranded without means of support when the lumber mill "cuts out." This family lives on a cut-over area. The mill has closed, and the father does WPA (Work Projects Administration) work. Near Kiln, Mississippi

Families are left stranded without means of support when the lumber mi...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a New Deal program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 as a response to the high unemployment during the Great Depression. The program put people t... More

A black and white photo of a man bending over a piece of wood, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a man bending over a piece of wood, West Vi...

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Migrant cotton picker's child who lives in a tent in the government camp instead of along the highway or in a ditch bank. Shafter Camp for migrants, California

Migrant cotton picker's child who lives in a tent in the government ca...

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A black and white photo of an old barn. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A black and white photo of an old barn. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Ne...

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Billy, four year old son of Mrs. Compton, with stick of tobacco. They are tenants, and the Negro owner lives in Mebane. This is part of a prosperous Negro settlement near Carr, Orange County, North Carolina

Billy, four year old son of Mrs. Compton, with stick of tobacco. They ...

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Soper grandmother, who lives with family. FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower. Willow Creek area. Malheur County, Oregon. General caption number 72

Soper grandmother, who lives with family. FSA (Farm Security Administr...

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