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Richard Mahler (5) is the Fire Island School's youngest pupil and lives the farthest away. His father is the lighthouse keeper and, since the lighthouse is about four miles away, school is a long ride by jeep / World Telegram & Sun photo by Roger Higgins.

Richard Mahler (5) is the Fire Island School's youngest pupil and live...

Photograph shows a boy skipping away from his house at Fire Island Lighthouse carrying a book bag and lunch box. NYWT&S staff photograph. Title from news agency caption on item. Stamped date: May 8, 1952. Forms... More

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

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A curious hieroglyphick Bible, or, Select passages in the Old and New Testaments, represented with emblematical figures, for the amusement of youth : designed chiefly to familiarize tender age, in a pleasing and diverting manner, with early ideas of the Holy Scriptures : to which are subjoined, a short account of the lives of the Evangelists, and other pieces / illustrated with nearly five hundred cuts.

A curious hieroglyphick Bible, or, Select passages in the Old and New ...

Originally published: London : T. Hodgson, 1783. Signatures: A-M⁶. Evans 20961 Welch, D.A. Amer. children's books, 510 Rosenbach, A.S.W. Children's books, 128 ESTC W38300 Orig. ed. in BLC, v. 28, p. 501. LAC ... More

Joseph Boucher, 472 Moody, smallest boy in picture, appears 12 years old. Works in the mill-room. His father is boss of another room. Frank Matley next in right end of picture lives at 25 Rod St., been in mill-room No. 12 for 1 1/2 years. Location: Lowell, Massachusetts.

Joseph Boucher, 472 Moody, smallest boy in picture, appears 12 years o...

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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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Hosanna! He lives! - Public domain American sheet music, 1884

Hosanna! He lives! - Public domain American sheet music, 1884

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)

A lonely job. Waiting all alone in the dark for a trip[?] to come through. It was so damp that Willie said he had to go to the doctor for his cough. A short distance from here, the gas was pouring into the mine so rapidly that it made a great torch when the foreman lit it. Lives at 164 Center St., Pittston, Pennsylvania This is Willie Bryden[?], a nipper. Been working there 4 mos. 500 ft. from the shaft, and a quarter of a mile underground from there. Shaft #6 Pennsylvania Coal Co. Walls have been whiterewashed to make it lighter. Jan 16 I found Willie at home sick, His mother admitted he is only 13 yrs old; will be 14 next July. She said 4 months after the mine boss told the father to take Willie to work, and they obtained a certificate from Squire Barrett. The only thing the squire could do was to make Willie out to be 16 yrs. Willie's father & brother are miners and the home is that of a frugal German family. Location: Pittston, Pennsylvania.

A lonely job. Waiting all alone in the dark for a trip[?] to come thro...

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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

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

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

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

This cat escapes the Senate with a few of its nine lives left; - will it lose them in the House? / J.S.P.

This cat escapes the Senate with a few of its nine lives left; - will ...

Illustration shows a view in the Senate chamber at the U.S. Capitol of a large cat with papers tied around its waist labeled "Ship Subsidy Bill"; it is making a mad dash for a door as senators throw ink pots an... More

Boy who carries barrels. Robert Saunders, 10 years old. Lives Waquoit - is the sone [i.e., son] of the boss. Mother picks too. Location: South Carver [vicinity], Massachusetts.

Boy who carries barrels. Robert Saunders, 10 years old. Lives Waquoit ...

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[Group of workers from Indian Orchard Mfg. Co. including following names and others: Mose Fournier, 297 Worcester St.; in Mr. Karnes' room. Wilfred Croteau lives on Worcester St., in front of Police Station. Doffer in Mr. Baker's twisting room. Paul Phaneuf, 189 Franklin St., in Mr. Karnes' spinning room. Leo La Francis, 12 Quebec St. In beaming room.] Location: Indian Orchard, Massachusetts.

[Group of workers from Indian Orchard Mfg. Co. including following nam...

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Minnie Thomas, a 9 year old girl, works regularly in Seacoast Canning Co., Factory #7, Eastport, Me., mostly in the packing room, and when very busy works nights. Cuts some, and also cartons. Her mother said, "Some of the children cut their fingers half off." Her father and grandfather are in the factory. She lives in Grand Manan in the winter with her aunt, father and mother live here. She says she earns $2.00 some days packing, not so much when she cartons. "Only made $1.70 all last week." Location: Eastport, Maine.

Minnie Thomas, a 9 year old girl, works regularly in Seacoast Canning ...

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Capture & occupation of palestine. Outdoor funeral monument "Their name lives forever"

Capture & occupation of palestine. Outdoor funeral monument "Their nam...

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Hymie Miller, 5-year-old newsie who lives at 922 W. California St. Sells after school mostly. Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma / Lewis W. Hine.

Hymie Miller, 5-year-old newsie who lives at 922 W. California St. Sel...

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George Washington "The spirit still lives"

George Washington "The spirit still lives"

Poster showing George Washington clasping hands with a minuteman and a modern-day soldier. United Cigars. Poster is trimmed to banner shape.

Hero's funeral. Funeral rites for Maj. General Adolphus Washington Greely, 91-year-old hero of battlefield and Arctic exploration, held at Arlington National Cemetery. General Greely headed the tragic expedition into the north which cost the lives of 18 men in a party of 25. He later was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. 10/22/35

Hero's funeral. Funeral rites for Maj. General Adolphus Washington Gre...

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Daughters of Daisy Heath, near Black River Falls, Wisconsin. Mrs. Heath lives alone on two acres of land

Daughters of Daisy Heath, near Black River Falls, Wisconsin. Mrs. Heat...

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A black and white photo of a man in a suit and hat, New Jersey. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a man in a suit and hat, New Jersey. Farm S...

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Young girl, migratory worker, beside the tent in which she lives. Kern County, California

Young girl, migratory worker, beside the tent in which she lives. Kern...

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

An old photo of a man standing in front of a shack, Minnesota. Farm Security Administration photograph.

An old photo of a man standing in front of a shack, Minnesota. Farm Se...

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A couple of people standing next to a truck, Minnesota. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A couple of people standing next to a truck, Minnesota. Farm Security ...

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Keep mum Loose talk costs lives.

Keep mum Loose talk costs lives.

Poster suggesting careless communication may be harmful to the war effort, showing a train blowing up. Date stamped on recto: Jan 21 '43. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

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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Construction worker from Ohio who lives in trailer with his family. Portsmouth, Virginia

Construction worker from Ohio who lives in trailer with his family. Po...

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Mr. Akers, construction worker from Flint, Michigan now working at Ford bomber plant near Ypsilanti. He lives in a tent with two other men at Edgewater Park. Edgewater Park normally closes on Labor Day. This year it will remain open through the winter

Mr. Akers, construction worker from Flint, Michigan now working at For...

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Franklin County, Vermont. A farm woman who with her family lives in a barn

Franklin County, Vermont. A farm woman who with her family lives in a ...

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East Hartford, Connecticut. Frank Robbins of Wareham, Massachusetts, employed at the United Aircraft plant, lives in trailer near the plant, with his wife and four children, because of the housing shortage. He works nights, so he can sleep during the day in a bed used at night by two of the children. He makes forty dollars a week, his trailer payment is twenty dollars per month and his rent for the campsite is twelve dollars

East Hartford, Connecticut. Frank Robbins of Wareham, Massachusetts, e...

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

Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas Island, Virgin Islands. Negro radio mechanic who lives in a slum area

Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas Island, Virgin Islands. Negro radio mec...

Public domain photograph - working class people, the 1930s United States, work, labor, worker, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Washington, D.C. A young boy who lives near the nation's capitol

Washington, D.C. A young boy who lives near the nation's capitol

Public domain photograph of Washington DC, 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 factories 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 preparing a metal tank to receive bullet-sealing cover. Bullet-sealing covers are an important new safety development to military aviation. Goodrich

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

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War production suggestions. For making a contribution that will safeguard lives of combat pilots, James A. Merrill, research chemist at Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio, was presented with a Citation of Individual Production Merit by War Production headquarters of the War Production Board (WPB). His suggestion concerned development of a resistant barrier to aromatic fuels used in bullet seal tanks on airplanes. It will help keep planes in the air under extreme weather conditions, save the lives of pilots returning in planes with gas tanks pierced by bullets, and lessen unnecessary plane crashes

War production suggestions. For making a contribution that will safegu...

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Parris Island. Marine Corps gliders. Portrait of a man who lives his work. A Marine Corps lieutenant training as a glider pilot sprints for his motorless airplane for another flight at Page Field, Parris Island, South Carolina

Parris Island. Marine Corps gliders. Portrait of a man who lives his w...

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

Civilian defense. Fire prevention. Our duty to innocent childhood demands that we keep matches and other dangerous articles in places where little hands cannot reach them. One of the saddest parts of the fire record of 1941 is that which tells of 23,000 blazes caused by children playing with matches. The fire loss of 2 1/2 million was far less important than the loss of young lives

Civilian defense. Fire prevention. Our duty to innocent childhood dema...

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Shelley, Idaho. FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp. Japanese child who lives with his parents at the camp

Shelley, Idaho. FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp. Japane...

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Minneapolis, Minnesota. Mr. Authur Sven Brink and his family. Mr. Brink is a welder at an important war factory in the Minneapolis area. He lives in a medium-sized house with his wife Hilda and their four children: Mary Jane, four, Gloria, seven, Caren, ten, and Ruth twelve. Mr. Brink was born in Skara, a province of Vesterjutland, Sweden. His wife was born in Minnesota but her father came from Vastmanland and her mother from Varmland. They have been married thirteen years and have lived in Minneapolis all that time. Mr. Brink goes to work at six o'clock in the nmorning and hie earnings average ninety dollars per week. He has been a welder for fifteen years and has been on his new job for two months

Minneapolis, Minnesota. Mr. Authur Sven Brink and his family. Mr. Brin...

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

Shelley, Idaho. FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp. Japanese child who lives with his parents at the camp

Shelley, Idaho. FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp. Japane...

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

Zebulon, North Carolina. Feggen Jones lives with fourteen children on an eighty-six acre farm purchased through the FSA (Farm Security Administration). He has two cows, three mules, four hogs, two hundred chickens, two dogs and a cat. He owns a Ford truck and an Oldsmobile sedan. His cash crop is seven acres of tobacco. He also grows five acres of cotton, seven acres of wheat, twelve acres of corn and two acres of vegetable garden. Electricity is supplied by the REA (Rural Electrification Administration). Jones was formerly a sharecropper in this area

Zebulon, North Carolina. Feggen Jones lives with fourteen children on ...

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

Malheur County, Oregon. Japanese-American who lives with his family on a farm as a tenant and a day laborer, building a Japanese bath

Malheur County, Oregon. Japanese-American who lives with his family on...

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

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...

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Port Lyautey (vicinity), Morocco. This is the cemetery adjoining the colorful Kasbah Mehdia, the 400 year-old Portuguese fort where President Roosevelt laid a wreath at the foot of a flagpole from which Old Glory waves. Buried underneath the neat rows of white crosses are the officers and men of the United States task force who lost their lives in the North African campaign

Port Lyautey (vicinity), Morocco. This is the cemetery adjoining the c...

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Gloucester, Massachusetts. Irene, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lopez. She has two boys and lives with her mother and father

Gloucester, Massachusetts. Irene, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lope...

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Feminism lives! - A black and white photo of a group of people

Feminism lives! - A black and white photo of a group of people

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[Women outside the U.S. Capitol holding signs supporting the National Organization for Women's "Rally for Women's Lives" and against sexual harassment, probably in reference to the accusations against Senator Bob Packwood]

[Women outside the U.S. Capitol holding signs supporting the National ...

Date from caption information for contact sheet ROLL CALL-1995-215 or corresponding negative sleeve. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: ROLL CALL-1995-215, frame 14. Contact sheet or negative slee... More

Beautiful landscaped trees line 5th Avenue in the wealthy district of Miramar where Fidel Castro lives in Havana, Cuba

Beautiful landscaped trees line 5th Avenue in the wealthy district of ...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2010; (DLC/PP-2... More

A curious hieroglyphick Bible, or, Select passages in the Old and New Testaments, represented with emblematical figures, for the amusement of youth : designed chiefly to familiarize tender age, in a pleasing and diverting manner, with early ideas of the Holy Scriptures : to which are subjoined, a short account of the lives of the Evangelists, and other pieces / illustrated with nearly five hundred cuts.

A curious hieroglyphick Bible, or, Select passages in the Old and New ...

Originally published: London : T. Hodgson, 1783. Signatures: A-M⁶. Evans 20961 Welch, D.A. Amer. children's books, 510 Rosenbach, A.S.W. Children's books, 128 ESTC W38300 Orig. ed. in BLC, v. 28, p. 501. LAC ... More

Old Aunt Julia Ann Jackson, age 102 and the corn crib where she lives

Old Aunt Julia Ann Jackson, age 102 and the corn crib where she lives

Additional caption: She uses the large battered tin can for a stove and does her cooking on it. Aunt Julia Ann is an ex-slave and was grown woman when the Civil "Wah broke out." Title transcribed from item. 30... More

Old Aunt Julia Ann Jackson, age 102 and the corn crib where she lives

Old Aunt Julia Ann Jackson, age 102 and the corn crib where she lives

Additional caption: She uses the large battered tin can for a stove and does her cooking on it. Aunt Julia Ann is an ex-slave and was grown woman when the Civil "Wah broke out." Title transcribed from item. 30... More

Alphonse Londry. Said 7 years old. Lives 337 Flint Street, Fall River, Massachusetts. Working on T.B. Smart Bog. Location: South Carver [vicinity], Massachusettsachusetts.

Alphonse Londry. Said 7 years old. Lives 337 Flint Street, Fall River,...

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

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

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

Ethel Shumate (see photo 2190). Has been rolling cigarettes in Danville (Virginia) Factory for six months. Lives, 614 Upper Street. Said she was thirteen years old, but it is doubtful. Location: Danville, Virginia.

Ethel Shumate (see photo 2190). Has been rolling cigarettes in Danvill...

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

Group in front of Office Steps. Boy on left end (in front) ran away when I tried to get his name. A companion said, "He ain't got no time to sell postals. He got to go to night school." Another said, "His name is Jo Traain and [he] lives on West St." Three others of the smallest in front are: Andrew Stefanik, 4 Exchange St. (very young), a "spare boy" has worked 9 months there. At 1 P.M., Mr. Hine saw his going away from the mill and followed him up town. He said, "Boss laid me off for a day. He does that sometimes. Then I bum around town." Joseph Mile, 80 Tremont St., In spinning room 1 and 2. Joseph Maslak, 34 Front St. of 3 Depto St. Works in Cloth Room. Last night he gave me his name as John Mak. To-day he corrected it. Location: Chicopee, Massachusetts.

Group in front of Office Steps. Boy on left end (in front) ran away wh...

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

Home work at 52 Medford Street. Somerville, Massachusetts. Teresa Siuserella, 10 years old, lives here. Annie Capodana, 9 years old lives at 9 Ward Street. See Home Work report. Location: Somerville, Massachusettsachusetts

Home work at 52 Medford Street. Somerville, Massachusetts. Teresa Sius...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 2960-B. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photo... More

Mrs. R.E. Jacobs of Wash. with General John A. Lejeune, Commandant of U.S. Marine Corps. Bronze tablet (on wall) given by Mrs. Jacobs to the Marine Corps "In Memory of those in the U.S. Marine Corps who gave their lives to their country in the World War. Erected by the mother of one of them, Charles Addisson Rhett Jacobs"

Mrs. R.E. Jacobs of Wash. with General John A. Lejeune, Commandant of ...

A man and a woman standing next to a trophy. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

President Coolidge pays homage to Unknown Soldier. President Coolidge placing a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery today, Memorial Day, in memory of the many brave boys who gave their lives for their country. Near the president is the Secretary of Navy, Curtis D. Wilbur

President Coolidge pays homage to Unknown Soldier. President Coolidge ...

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Early is the watchword for cancer control Early diagnosis, early treatment will save many lives : Early cancer can be cured.

Early is the watchword for cancer control Early diagnosis, early treat...

Poster promoting early diagnosis and treatment for cancer, showing a rooster crowing at sunrise. Date stamped on verso: Sep 2 1938. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). U.S. Pub... More

E. Cylyea, who lives with his mother in a remodeled chicken house. Oswego County, New York

E. Cylyea, who lives with his mother in a remodeled chicken house. Osw...

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A black and white photo of a man standing in a field, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a man standing in a field, West Virginia. F...

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

Old Mexican man who lives alone in San Antonio, Texas

Old Mexican man who lives alone in San Antonio, Texas

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

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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Compton, Negro sharecropper, and his wife stripping and grading tobacco. He has a Negro landlord who lives in Mebane, part of a very prosperous Negro settlement. Near Carr, North Carolina. See general notes on subregion, September 28, 1939, number four

Compton, Negro sharecropper, and his wife stripping and grading tobacc...

Picryl description: Public domain image of ethnic group, people gathering, anthropology, colonies, exotic, indigenous people, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Two women standing in front of a log cabin, North Carolina. Farm Security Administration photograph

Two women standing in front of a log cabin, North Carolina. Farm Secur...

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Woman who lives in riverfront shacktown. Dubuque, Iowa

Woman who lives in riverfront shacktown. Dubuque, Iowa

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Man who lives in shack on the edge of the city dump, Dubuque, Iowa

Man who lives in shack on the edge of the city dump, Dubuque, Iowa

Rural postman delivering mail to a mountaineer who lives up a creek bed where no cars or wagons can pass. Up South Fork of the Kentucky River, near Jackson, Kentucky

Rural postman delivering mail to a mountaineer who lives up a creek be...

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Woman who lives on often-flooded farm along Mississippi riverbottoms. She will move to one of the Delmo labor homes. New Madrid County, Missouri

Woman who lives on often-flooded farm along Mississippi riverbottoms. ...

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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...

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Arecibo, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Tenant farmer who lives in a thatched house in the sugar cane country

Arecibo, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Tenant farmer who lives in a thatched...

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

Production. Blood transfusion bottles. Formerly a sculptress and desig...

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Workers on Rickenbacker rescue boat. How mileage rationing can save lives on the battlefronts was pointed up dramatically by Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, who with six members of his crew were rescued after three weeks adrift on life rafts in the Pacific. "One tire that is not wasted on pleasure driving may save the lives of seven men as ours was saved," Rickenbacker said. One old rubber tire is sufficient to make a three-man raft of the type that saved the party in the Pacific

Workers on Rickenbacker rescue boat. How mileage rationing can save li...

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

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.

McCone County, Montana. Coal miner who lives in a sheep wagon, and operates this mine on the edge of the badlands for the owner

McCone County, Montana. Coal miner who lives in a sheep wagon, and ope...

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.

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,...

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Gloucester, Massachusetts. A graveyard at Gloucester which holds the remains of many of the old whaleboat captains and fishermen who lost their lives at sea

Gloucester, Massachusetts. A graveyard at Gloucester which holds the r...

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Baby Betty Rothwell loves her orange juice. She was very thin and ailing until lend-lease concentrated orange juice arrived in England for special distribution to children, nursing mothers and invalids. With the juice added to her wartime diet, she soon became the healthy one-year-old in the photograph. Betty lives with her parents, Edna and Edward Rothwell in quaintly-named Boot Lane, in Bolton, Lancashire

Baby Betty Rothwell loves her orange juice. She was very thin and aili...

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Washington, D.C. George Ray Campbell and the motto by which his family lives

Washington, D.C. George Ray Campbell and the motto by which his family...

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Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Miss Mary DaVanzo, twenty-two, employed at the Pennsylvania Railroad steel car shop boiler room as a stationary firemen's helper, earning seventy-two cents per hour. She lives on a farm in nearby Delmont and was formerly a waitress in the Mercy Hospital, Pittsburgh

Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Miss Mary DaVanzo, twenty-two, employed at the...

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A curious hieroglyphick Bible, or, Select passages in the Old and New Testaments, represented with emblematical figures, for the amusement of youth : designed chiefly to familiarize tender age, in a pleasing and diverting manner, with early ideas of the Holy Scriptures : to which are subjoined, a short account of the lives of the Evangelists, and other pieces / illustrated with nearly five hundred cuts.

A curious hieroglyphick Bible, or, Select passages in the Old and New ...

Originally published: London : T. Hodgson, 1783. Signatures: A-M⁶. Evans 20961 Welch, D.A. Amer. children's books, 510 Rosenbach, A.S.W. Children's books, 128 ESTC W38300 Orig. ed. in BLC, v. 28, p. 501. LAC ... More

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...

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(For Child Welfare Exhibit 1912-13.) 1:00 A.M. Sunday, Nov 24, 1912, and still selling. Stanley Steiner, the boot-black and newsboy, is ten years old, and sells until 1 A.M. Lives, 92 Ulmsbec [?] Ave., Providence, R.I. The other, Jacob Botvin, is 13 years old, 33 Hilton St. Location: Providence, Rhode Island.

(For Child Welfare Exhibit 1912-13.) 1:00 A.M. Sunday, Nov 24, 1912, a...

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A lonely job. Waiting all alone in the dark for a trip[?] to come through. It was so damp that Willie said he had to go to the doctor for his cough. A short distance from here, the gas was pouring into the mine so rapidly that it made a great torch when the foreman lit it. Lives at 164 Center St., Pittston, Pennsylvania This is Willie Bryden[?], a nipper. Been working there 4 mos. 500 ft. from the shaft, and a quarter of a mile underground from there. Shaft #6 Pennsylvania Coal Co. Walls have been whiterewashed to make it lighter. Jan 16 I found Willie at home sick, His mother admitted he is only 13 yrs old; will be 14 next July. She said 4 months after the mine boss told the father to take Willie to work, and they obtained a certificate from Squire Barrett. The only thing the squire could do was to make Willie out to be 16 yrs. Willie's father & brother are miners and the home is that of a frugal German family. Location: Pittston, Pennsylvania.

A lonely job. Waiting all alone in the dark for a trip[?] to come thro...

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A lonely job. Waiting all alone in the dark for a trip[?] to come through. It was so damp that Willie said he had to go to the doctor for his cough. A short distance from here, the gas was pouring into the mine so rapidly that it made a great torch when the foreman lit it. Lives at 164 Center St., Pittston, Pennsylvania This is Willie Bryden[?], a nipper. Been working there 4 mos. 500 ft. from the shaft, and a quarter of a mile underground from there. Shaft #6 Pennsylvania Coal Co. Walls have been whiterewashed to make it lighter. Jan 16 I found Willie at home sick, His mother admitted he is only 13 yrs old; will be 14 next July. She said 4 months after the mine boss told the father to take Willie to work, and they obtained a certificate from Squire Barrett. The only thing the squire could do was to make Willie out to be 16 yrs. Willie's father & brother are miners and the home is that of a frugal German family. Location: Pittston, Pennsylvania.

A lonely job. Waiting all alone in the dark for a trip[?] to come thro...

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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, ...

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Calamity at Richmond, being a narrative of the affecting circumstances attending the awful conflagration of the theatre in the city of Richmond, on the night of Thursday, the 26th of December, 1811. By which, more than seventy of its valuable citizens suddenly lost their lives, and many others were greatly injured and maimed. Collected from various letters, publications, and official reports, and accompanied with a preface, containing appropriate reflections, calculated to awaken the attention of the public, to the frequency of the destruction of theatrical edifices.

Calamity at Richmond, being a narrative of the affecting circumstances...

Shaw & Shoemaker 25013 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

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

Frank Visek, Woods Park, now lives in School District No. 6, Custer County, Nebraska.

Frank Visek, Woods Park, now lives in School District No. 6, Custer Co...

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Where Santa Claus lives. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Where Santa Claus lives. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Girl looking up chimney from fireplace. D13851 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by W.H. Partridge.

Union Square Newsie. Joseph Blata, 7 years old. Lives in Basement, 306 E. 11th St. Collects discarded papers and sells them to storekeepers. Location: New York, New York (State)

Union Square Newsie. Joseph Blata, 7 years old. Lives in Basement, 306...

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Home work at 52 Medford Street. Somerville, Massachusetts. Teresa Siuserella, 10 years old, lives here. Annie Capodana, 9 years old lives at 9 Ward Street. See Home Work report. Location: Somerville, Massachusettsachusetts.

Home work at 52 Medford Street. Somerville, Massachusetts. Teresa Sius...

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Edgar Kitchen 13 yrs. old gets $3.25 a week for 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 for working for the Bingha...

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

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

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Sam Pine, 8-year-old truant newsboy, who lives at 717 W. California St. Said: "I was late getting up and don't want to get the rubber tube fo[r] being tardy so I staid away to-day." Photographed during school hours. Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma / Lewis W. Hine.

Sam Pine, 8-year-old truant newsboy, who lives at 717 W. California St...

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Scene of the Tuscania disaster revisited. At Kinnabus, the scene of the tragedy, there are still two of the Tuscania's lifeboats lying amid a heap of debris and wreckage on the shore. Two of the heroes of the Tuscania rescue work point out the spot where the lifeboats came ashore. The two are cattagers who live nearby, Robert Morrison (pointing) and John Woodrow, one of his "hands" Morrison received the Order of the British Empire for his work in the Tuscania disaster. He saved the lives of three American soldiers. He lives at Upper Killeyan, Islay, Scotland

Scene of the Tuscania disaster revisited. At Kinnabus, the scene of th...

Title and note information from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Tuscania Disaster. Date based on date of negatives in same range. Data: Atlantic, Lake, Potomac, Mt., N.W., Pacific, Gulf, Central, Northern,... More

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