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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...

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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

Miners of the Comstock, as they work under ground. Ophir mine. Gould & Curry mine. Three Bickell brothers who lost their lives in the fire in Gold Hill mine, April 7th, 1869. Savage mine. Chollar mine

Miners of the Comstock, as they work under ground. Ophir mine. Gould...

Composite of five reproductions of photographic prints. Photographed and copyrighted, 1890, by Jas. H. Crockwell, Virginia City, Nevada. In album: Souvenir of the Comstock, p. 20.

Bella Roy, said 11 years old. "Been comin' here 7 years, been pickin' since I was 5 years old." Lives 44 Bowler St., Fall River. Sister Jeanette said 6 years old beginning to pick now. Also their cousin Anita (on right hand) 7 years old regular picker. Began last year. Location: South Carver [vicinity] - Smart's Bog, Massachusetts.

Bella Roy, said 11 years old. "Been comin' here 7 years, been pickin' ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children, kids, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Night Work! Group of boys, all working in Massey Hosiery Mills, Columbus, Ga. Most of them had been working all day and had an hour for supper and were going back into the mill (6:00 P.M.) to work until 8 P.M. as they have done several nights this week and for some time past. I found 4 ten year olds and several of 11 and 12 working in the evenin[g] after supper and they said it was a regular thing. Ferrell [i.e., Terrell?] Butler, 10 yrs old, 1114 21st St., been working off and on 1 yr. Marvin Williams, 11 yrs. old been working 1 yr. part of the time at night. Lawrence Webb, 12 yrs. Old. Jack Wright, 15[?] yrs. working [3] yrs., co]uldn't write his ow[n] name. Are working nights now, as well as the following who were not in these photos. Gordon Stone, 10 yrs. old. Rufus Matthews, 10 yrs. old, works before and after school and nights some. Lives 1171 [27th?] Street, and Harry McElroy, 10 yrs. old night [...] Location: Columbus, Georgia.

Night Work! Group of boys, all working in Massey Hosiery Mills, Columb...

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

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...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Motherless, fatherless, starving--How much to save these little lives? War Fund week--One hundred million dollars--May 20th-27th / / Crisp.

Motherless, fatherless, starving--How much to save these little lives?...

Poster showing a Red Cross nurse among small children, some with French flags, as a woman on her knees hands the nurse an infant. Form N.Y. 20 Second War Fund.

Andrew Ostermeyer, eighty-one years old. One of the original homesteaders. He has lost his farm to loan company. Still works and lives on farm of his son, Miller Township, Woodbury County, Iowa

Andrew Ostermeyer, eighty-one years old. One of the original homestead...

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

Screen starlet assists D.C. Postmaster in planting memorial tree to airmail pilots. Washington, D.C., May 16. Within the shadow of the U.S. Capitol, Miss Marion Weldon, Paramount starlet, with the assistance of D.C., Postmaster Vincent Burke, plants a Deodor Tree on the city postoffice grpunds as a memorial to the airmail pilots who have lost their lives. Representing Hollywood in observing national Airmail Week, Miss Weldon, who has just finished work on the forthcoming Paramount Technicolor production "Men with Wings", brought the tree to Washington as a gift of the Altedena, Calif. Chamber of Commerce, 5/16/38

Screen starlet assists D.C. Postmaster in planting memorial tree to ai...

A man and a woman are planting a tree. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant camp. Westley, California. This migrant mother lives in a contractor's camp because of contractor's control of jobs. She comes to the Farm Security Administration camp with sick baby and agricultural workers medical association card (FSA)

Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant camp. Westley, California. ...

Public domain image of infant, child, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a man working on a boat. FSA / Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man working on a boat. FSA / Office of Wa...

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

William Green, Raynham, Massachusetts. He lives on a farm with his mother, who has fifteen cows and ten acres of land. Mr. Green has six children and works as a policeman at nearby Camp Edwards

William Green, Raynham, Massachusetts. He lives on a farm with his mot...

Public domain image of cattle, livestock, farm animals, agriculture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

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...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Portrait of Eddie Burns, works at Bath Iron Works and lives in North Bath, Maine

Portrait of Eddie Burns, works at Bath Iron Works and lives in North ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mr. George lives in the cellar of what was formerly his house. The top part of the house was completely destroyed in the hurricane. He runs a small farm near Canterbury, Connecticut

Mr. George lives in the cellar of what was formerly his house. The top...

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

Mrs. Garland and her little boy. Family lives in the submarginal farm area of Rumsey Hill, near Erin, New York

Mrs. Garland and her little boy. Family lives in the submarginal farm ...

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

Hereford cattle on grazing land, near windmill and water hole, belonging to Mr. Hofferber, who has about 125 head of cattle and lives about fifteen miles north of Lexington, Nebraska

Hereford cattle on grazing land, near windmill and water hole, belongi...

Public domain image of a rural landscape, agriculture, farm animals, livestock, pasture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Mr. and Mrs. Birch and family in trailer in Edgewater trailer camp near Ypsilanti, Michigan. Mrs. Birch and the children share the trailer with another family. Mr. Birch lives in a tent nearby with two men. Rent: six dollars a week for trailer space; five dollars a week for tent. Mr. Birch works at the Ford bomber plant

Mr. and Mrs. Birch and family in trailer in Edgewater trailer camp nea...

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

Old man who lives on South Side of Chicago, Illinois

Old man who lives on South Side of Chicago, Illinois

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

Hereford cattle on grazing land, near windmill and water hole, belonging to Mr. Hofferber, who has about 125 head of cattle and lives about fifteen miles north of Lexington, Nebraska

Hereford cattle on grazing land, near windmill and water hole, belongi...

Public domain image of a romantic landscape with windmill, Netherlands, 16th-17th century artwork, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Boy who lives in Houghton, Michigan. Copper range town

Boy who lives in Houghton, Michigan. Copper range town

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

New York, New York. Sunday dinner in the Martinetti home. He is a restaurant owner who lives in the Bronx. He is one of three partners in a restaurant, it is on lower Fifth Avenue, which caters to businessmen

New York, New York. Sunday dinner in the Martinetti home. He is a rest...

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

Civilian defense. Fire prevention. The careless smoker causes more fires each year than any other person in the country. He is to blame for 87,000 separate 1941 fires, which resulted in the loss of many lives and the destruction of 14 million dollars of property. Whether he falls asleep with a lighted smoke or is careless in the disposal of burning cigars, cigarettes, or matches, he is always a menace

Civilian defense. Fire prevention. The careless smoker causes more fir...

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

Safety. Hindering war production. The driver fell asleep and, in the process, ruined a good truck, delayed an important lumber shipment, created a dangerous situation on the highway, and nearly cost a number of lives. Such accidents seriously hinder war production

Safety. Hindering war production. The driver fell asleep and, in the p...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s US industrial development, Second World War, US war production, indusry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Car pooling at Lockheed Vega. And so Don goes to the transportation office to see what can be done. The hope of many employees is to be certified to the rationing board as deserving of new tires or retreads, but if the employee is convenient to existing transportation or company bus line or lives within four miles of plant or can be doubled up with another driver already carrying passengers, certification is not given

Car pooling at Lockheed Vega. And so Don goes to the transportation of...

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

Schenectady, New York. This child, a pupil at the Elmer Avenue Elementary School, lives too far away to go home for lunch

Schenectady, New York. This child, a pupil at the Elmer Avenue Element...

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

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

Smallest boy in front of man (in centre of photo) is Jo --- wouldn't give his name, very suspicious. He and the other boys said he is a sweeper in Acushnet Mill; lives at 697 S. Water St. Other boy in doorway is John Sousa, 641 S. Water St. John has been sweeper in Langshaw for two months. Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Smallest boy in front of man (in centre of photo) is Jo --- wouldn't g...

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

Dear Minnie who lives in the mill

Dear Minnie who lives in the mill

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)

Going to work at 5:30 A.M. April 24, 09. Small boy names [i.e., named] Jo. is a sweeper in Mill Mfg. Co. Lewiston, Me. Been there 2 years. I saw him working inside. Said he didn't know how old he was and he couldn't spell his name. Lives 2 miles out in the country and his father drives him out and back every day. Location: Lewiston, Maine.

Going to work at 5:30 A.M. April 24, 09. Small boy names [i.e., named]...

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

"The Mill School" at Avondale. The mill gate is but a few feet to the right of the photo and the employees pass through the school yard continually. From all I could gather on the question, the school is only a makeshift, because the mill children go here only the eight weeks of the year to comply with the law. Attendance is irregular. In the lowest first grade, with a child of six years, were two girls of fourteen and fifteen who had been to school but two weeks in their lives. (See photo and label 1742A. Also photo 1743A.) Location: Birmingham, Alabama.

"The Mill School" at Avondale. The mill gate is but a few feet to the ...

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

Pennsylvania Company for Insurances on Lives, 304 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Pennsylvania Company for Insurances on Lives, 304 Walnut Street, Phila...

Significance: Chartered in 1812, this company is the oldest institution of its kind in the nation. Survey number: HABS PA-1453

A few of the pin boys in Donahue's Bowling Alley. James Syeros, (in middle), 25 Femirck St. George Spanos, (left end), said 12 years old, lives at 1 Merrimac St. Louis Papas, (next to the right end), 441 Market St., said 14 years. Location: Lowell, Massachusetts.

A few of the pin boys in Donahue's Bowling Alley. James Syeros, (in mi...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a historic market square, downtown, commercial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Wreck & burning of the steamer Independence on the island of Margarita, February 16th, 1853 ; 150 lives lost / / From the sketch of Mr. Cross, passenger ; Lith. & publd. by Britton & Rey, S. Fco.

Wreck & burning of the steamer Independence on the island of Margarita...

Pictorial lettersheet shows rescue attempts being made on burning and sinking ship; with attached blank leaf. Baird, California pictorial letter sheets, no. 337. Accession box no. DLC/PP-2011:179.16

Memorial to Army and Navy Nurses unveiled in Arlington. Washington, D.C., Nov. 8. An 11 foot figure designed by Frances Rich, daughter of Irene Rich. Famous movie star was unveiled in Arlington Cemetery today by a nurse from the Army and one from the Navy, dedicated to the Army and Navy Nurses who gave their lives in line of duty, it represents a war nurse and stands about 150 feet from the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, on the only plot in the cemetery reserved for women, left to right. Miss. Ida Hube, who sponsored the statue served from 1906 to 1910 as a Army Nurse; Irene Rich, mother of the designer; and Frances Rich, the designer is shown placing a wreath, 11/8/38

Memorial to Army and Navy Nurses unveiled in Arlington. Washington, D....

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

John Doyle (smallest boy in street), apparently 12 or 13 years old. Small and Wizened. Been sweeping for a short time in Wamsutta Mill in #3 spinning room. Lives at 3 Mt. Pleasant St. Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts.

John Doyle (smallest boy in street), apparently 12 or 13 years old. Sm...

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

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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Here's an account of a family of five that lives on a thousand a year : Oh, well, papa, they probably keep only one motor

Here's an account of a family of five that lives on a thousand a year ...

(DLC/PP-1938:0086). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Life, 69:492 (March 22, 1917).

Charlie Scott, who lives at 19 Third St. is 9 years old and a truant newsboy. Said: "I dunno where the school is." Has been in the city 2 months. Photographed during school hours. Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma / Lewis W. Hine.

Charlie Scott, who lives at 19 Third St. is 9 years old and a truant n...

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

American cemetery - Belleau Woods, France. Where over 2000 regulars and Marines who gave their lives in the victory at Chateau Thierry and Belleau Wood, sleep the last sleep

American cemetery - Belleau Woods, France. Where over 2000 regulars an...

J236979 U.S. Copyright Office Photographer's address: 325 N. Howard Street, Baltimore, Md. No. 101-F. Gift; Breckenridge Long; 1953.

Five thousand refugees have received soup daily at Chios since January Besides the bread given these people, the soup constituted their only food. Thousands owe their lives to this distribution. The building employed is an old Turkish mosque. The two figures in the foreground are Circassions [i.e. Circassians].

Five thousand refugees have received soup daily at Chios since January...

Filed in: Greece Refugees. No. RC 33887. On mount: Fires, Smyrna, 1922; Refugees, Feeding, Chios. Forms part of: American National Red Cross photograph collection.

Cattle and hogs feeding, Emrick farm near Aledo, Illinois. This farm is managed by a son. A hired man lives on the farm and takes care of the crops and livestock. All crops are fed to the livestock

Cattle and hogs feeding, Emrick farm near Aledo, Illinois. This farm i...

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Votes for first time at 79. Arlington, Virginia, Oct. 15. This is Mrs. O'Leary (not the Mrs. O'Leary who kissed the cow who kicked over the lantern to start the Chicago fire) but Mrs. Lucy O'Leary of this town who will cast her first vote on November 3 at age 79, for Gov. Landon. She now lives on small government pension with the aid of a small garden

Votes for first time at 79. Arlington, Virginia, Oct. 15. This is Mrs....

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Old abandoned farmhouse on main highway between Morgantown and Elkins, West Virginia. Someone lives in one room

Old abandoned farmhouse on main highway between Morgantown and Elkins,...

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Man who lives in row house. Baltimore, Maryland

Man who lives in row house. Baltimore, Maryland

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

Washington, Yakima Valley, Toppenish. Cheap auto camp for migratory workers waiting for the opening of the hop season. Old fruit tramp (20378-C) lives in this camp

Washington, Yakima Valley, Toppenish. Cheap auto camp for migratory wo...

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

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...

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Log house built by a homesteader. This homesteader, who was deeded his farm four years ago, is now sick and lives in town, renting his house and farm to a young couple. Pie Town, New Mexico

Log house built by a homesteader. This homesteader, who was deeded his...

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Lot of used cars, furniture billboard in background and new shack in which salesman lives. He came to Alexandria from Lake Providence, Louisiana, and says, "We've got whatever we ask for them here. They're selling fast. I sold thirteen my first week here."

Lot of used cars, furniture billboard in background and new shack in w...

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House along often-flooded river bottoms, New Madrid County, Missouri. The family who lives here will move to one of the new Delmo labor homes

House along often-flooded river bottoms, New Madrid County, Missouri. ...

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Child of farm worker who lives at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) labor camp. Caldwell, Idaho

Child of farm worker who lives at the FSA (Farm Security Administratio...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mother preparing baby's bottle. She lives in one of the houses at the Kearney-Mesa defense housing project

Mother preparing baby's bottle. She lives in one of the houses at the ...

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

This truck driver from Fort Bragg lives with three others in a little shack near Fayetteville, North Carolina. They come from Selma, North Carolina. All expect to be laid off next payday

This truck driver from Fort Bragg lives with three others in a little ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Steelworker who lives in company-owned house. Aliquippa, Pennsylvania

Steelworker who lives in company-owned house. Aliquippa, Pennsylvania

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Telephone operator at Aberdeen proving grounds. She lives in dormitory for defense workers. Aberdeen, Maryland

Telephone operator at Aberdeen proving grounds. She lives in dormitory...

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Child of farm worker who lives at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) labor camp. Caldwell, Idaho

Child of farm worker who lives at the FSA (Farm Security Administratio...

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Farmer (widow) husking corn. She lives on Black Canyon Project and has a FSA (Farm Security Administration) loan. Canyon County, Idaho

Farmer (widow) husking corn. She lives on Black Canyon Project and has...

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Farmer (widow) husking corn. She lives on Black Canyon Project and has a FSA (Farm Security Administration) loan. Canyon County, Idaho

Farmer (widow) husking corn. She lives on Black Canyon Project and has...

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

Nyssa, Oregon. FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp. Japanese-American man who was evacuated from a coastal area, volunteered for farm work and who now lives at the camp

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

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Home economics students looking after the child that lives with them in one of the home management houses at Iowa State College. Ames, Iowa

Home economics students looking after the child that lives with them i...

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

Nyssa, Oregon. FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp. Japanese-Americans dumping garbage. A Japanese-American farm worker 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.

Santurce, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Woman who lives in a house on the land which FSA (Farm Security Administration) is buying for a land and utility housing project

Santurce, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Woman who lives in a house on the la...

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.

Dover, England. A scene from "Twenty-one Miles" produced by the British Army film unit and released by the Ministry of Information. The film shows how the town of Dover on the English coast, looks and lives today, with the enemy just across the channel, twenty-one miles away

Dover, England. A scene from "Twenty-one Miles" produced by the Britis...

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