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"Lincoln Monument, Wash., D.C., designed and executed by Clark Mills"

"Lincoln Monument, Wash., D.C., designed and executed by Clark Mills"

View of tiered monument with Abraham Lincoln seated atop, and U.S. Capitol from N.E., Washington, D.C.

[Sketch of a portion of Orange County, north and east of Orange showing the Rapidan River from Rapidan Station to Germanna Mills and the Plank Road to Robertson's Tavern at Trap].

[Sketch of a portion of Orange County, north and east of Orange showin...

Relief shown by hachures. Date, title, and scale from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989. Pen-and-ink and pencil on an irregularly cut and torn piece of brown paper, mounted on cloth. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.)... More

Quarles' Mill, North Anna, Virginia / Alex. Gardner, photographer.

Quarles' Mill, North Anna, Virginia / Alex. Gardner, photographer.

Photograph showing Quarles Mill on the North Anna River where soldiers in nearby camps caught fish. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C. : Philp & Solo... More

Old mill on Mountain Run near Culpepper [sic] Court House, Virginia Apr. 21, 1864

Old mill on Mountain Run near Culpepper [sic] Court House, Virginia Ap...

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.148) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Richmond, Virginia. Ruins of Gallego Mills. Interior view

Richmond, Virginia. Ruins of Gallego Mills. Interior view

Public domain photograph of American Civil War era building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Peru, Illinois; view of James Barton's polygon mill, patented Aug. 2, 1864]

[Peru, Illinois; view of James Barton's polygon mill, patented Aug. 2,...

Photograph shows four men standing at front entrance of mill shaped like a polygon; signage on building: Polygon Mill patented James Barton's Aug. 2, 1864. Photo in D.W.S. Rawson, The Valley of the Illinois; a ... More

[Frances Benjamin Johnston (front), with Mills Thompson (left) and Frank Phister, full-length portrait, posed on steps outside her studio (?)]

[Frances Benjamin Johnston (front), with Mills Thompson (left) and Fra...

LC-J698-100006. Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).

Mills Thompson, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing right

Mills Thompson, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing right

Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). No. 6753. Formerly in the Portrait File.

[Hathersage, Lead Mills Bridge, Derbyshire, England]

[Hathersage, Lead Mills Bridge, Derbyshire, England]

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "10860". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at h... More

Triphammer Falls, Ithaca, N.Y. - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Triphammer Falls, Ithaca, N.Y. - Public domain image. Dry plate negati...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a waterfall, water stream, cascade, nature site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Joseph Pennell - White Mills, Holland

Joseph Pennell - White Mills, Holland

Four windmills and other buildings along canal. Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ames Mill near Saranac Lake, Adirondack Mtns., N.Y.

Ames Mill near Saranac Lake, Adirondack Mtns., N.Y.

Title from jacket. "WHJ-827" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 032915. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Elizabeth Valentine and Harriet May Mills

Elizabeth Valentine and Harriet May Mills

A couple of women standing next to each other. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

King Cotton Mills, Augusta, Ga.

King Cotton Mills, Augusta, Ga.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power station, dam, electric generator, industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Cotton gin (?), in interior of mill, probably in Tashkent]

[Cotton gin (?), in interior of mill, probably in Tashkent]

Public domain photograph - historical image of Russian Empire, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Cotton textile mill interior with machines producing cotton thread, probably in Tashkent]

[Cotton textile mill interior with machines producing cotton thread, p...

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Melville Mfg. Co., Cherryville, N.C. Smallest chap said he had been in mill for 2 years. Many youngster here. Location: Cherryville, North Carolina.

Melville Mfg. Co., Cherryville, N.C. Smallest chap said he had been in...

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

One of the doffers in Cawtaba Cotton Mill, Newton, N.C. Location: Newton, North Carolina.

One of the doffers in Cawtaba Cotton Mill, Newton, N.C. Location: New...

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

Noon hour, Lancaster Cotton Mills, S.C. Location: Lancaster, South Carolina.

Noon hour, Lancaster Cotton Mills, S.C. Location: Lancaster, South Ca...

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.

Boys taking away from saws and brading. Schultze, Waltman & Co. Planing Mill Evansville, Ind. Location: Evansville, Indiana.

Boys taking away from saws and brading. Schultze, Waltman & Co. Planin...

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N. W. Bigham--In mill 5 years. (Boy) Brown Morison--In mill 2-1/2 years. 13 years old. Doffs--75 cents a day. Eureka Cotton Mills, Witness S.R. Hine. Location: Chester, South Carolina.

N. W. Bigham--In mill 5 years. (Boy) Brown Morison--In mill 2-1/2 year...

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

Maple Mills, Dillon, S.C. Ruth Barnhill (elder). Been at it 4 years. Run 6 sides. Emma Barnhill 4 years in mill. 4 sides. Looked 10 years old. Location: Dillon, South Carolina.

Maple Mills, Dillon, S.C. Ruth Barnhill (elder). Been at it 4 years. R...

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

3 Boys going to work at 1 P.M. May 21, 1909. Photo taken in outer hall of spinning room of one of the mills of Amoskeag Mfg. Co., Manchester, N.H., where I found them working. Smallest boy is 48 inches high. Jospeh Arthur Houle, 498 Cartier St.,. Location: Manchester, New Hampshire.

3 Boys going to work at 1 P.M. May 21, 1909. Photo taken in outer hall...

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

Some of the boys working in Natcik Mills (R. I.) Saturday Noon, April 17, 1909. Location: Natick, Rhode Island.

Some of the boys working in Natcik Mills (R. I.) Saturday Noon, April ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an 18th-19th century military conflict, armed forces, infantry, militia, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Hercules Cotton Mills, Querétaro

Hercules Cotton Mills, Querétaro

J148789(?) U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Detroit Publishing Co. No. 071650.

[Harry Silverstein, Newsboy, 703 W. 6th St., 7 years old. Sells papers, (selling 3 months average earnings 25 cents per week). Father working Morocco Mills, earns $18 weekly. Boy's earnings not needed at home. Don't smoke. Visits saloons. Works 8 hours per day. Edward F. Brown, Investigator. ]. Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

[Harry Silverstein, Newsboy, 703 W. 6th St., 7 years old. Sells papers...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of city street life, vendor, shop sign, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Karabatovskai︠a︡ melʹnit︠s︡a na r. Iseti

Karabatovskai︠a︡ melʹnit︠s︡a na r. Iseti

Public domain photograph - historical image of Russian Empire, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Young doffers in Elk Cotton Mills. Location: Fayetteville, Tennessee.

Young doffers in Elk Cotton Mills. Location: Fayetteville, Tennessee.

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.

Dangerous Noon-hour Recreation. Doffer boys and others from Pacific Mill[s]. Location: Lawrence, Massachusetts.

Dangerous Noon-hour Recreation. Doffer boys and others from Pacific Mi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, warehouse, depot, train station, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Group of knitters in London [i.e., Loudon?] Hosiery Mills. All are regular workers. (See other photos and report.) Location: Loudon, Tennessee.

Group of knitters in London [i.e., Loudon?] Hosiery Mills. All are reg...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph group portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Iron mills at night, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Iron mills at night, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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Every one of these children works in Hosiery Mills. The smallest girl in the middle said, "I ravels and picks up." Small boy in another mill said, " Over in Mill they work em so little they have to stand em up on boxes to reach." These children were well dressed for workers. Location: Cleveland, Tennessee.

Every one of these children works in Hosiery Mills. The smallest girl ...

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

All work in Delta Cotton Mills, Mc Comb, Miss. Smallest boy, a band boy, Johnnie Mathews, apparently only ten or eleven, but his mother assured me he is nearly fourteen, which is very doubtful. Been working one year. Couldn't write his name. Next to him is Charlie Davis, a sweeper, seemed to be eleven, but mother told me twelve. Has been working a long time. Father and two brothers in the mill. They own their home. Other boys working there: Arthur Littleton, Harvey Green, Lee Kelley. Location: McComb, Mississippi.

All work in Delta Cotton Mills, Mc Comb, Miss. Smallest boy, a band bo...

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Some of the young workers in Schoolfield Cotton Mills, Danville, Virginia The very young would not be photographed. Location: Danville, Virginia.

Some of the young workers in Schoolfield Cotton Mills, Danville, Virgi...

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

Noon hour, Delta Cotton Mills, McComb, Miss. All work. Location: McComb, Mississippi

Noon hour, Delta Cotton Mills, McComb, Miss. All work. Location: McCom...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2085. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Going home, Winona (Miss.) Cotton Mills. All work. Location: Winona, Mississippi.

Going home, Winona (Miss.) Cotton Mills. All work. Location: Winona, ...

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

Part of the force at Tupelo (Miss.) Cotton Mills. All work. Smallest ones not in photo. Among youngest here are: Coleman Miller, has been working one year, cannot write name, said twelve years old but doesn't appear to be. Zamie Scott, one year working. Guy Sanders, and Luceon Kendreck. Location: Tupelo, Mississippi.

Part of the force at Tupelo (Miss.) Cotton Mills. All work. Smallest o...

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Noon hour, Delta Cotton Mills, McComb, Miss. Location: McComb, Mississippi

Noon hour, Delta Cotton Mills, McComb, Miss. Location: McComb, Mississ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2083. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Some samples (not all) of the children in the "Kindergarten Factory" run by the High Point and Piedmont Hosiery Mills, High Point, N.C. Every child in these photos worked; I saw them at work and I saw them going in to work at 6:30 A.M. and noons and out at 6 P.M. One morning I counted 22 of these little ones (12 years and under) going to work at about 6:15 A.M. Some of them told me their ages: 1 boy said 8 yrs. (worked when he was 7). 1 girl said 10 yrs. (apparently 7). 3 other girls said 10 yrs. 2 boys said 10 yrs. (1 got $3.00 a week). 1 boy said 11 yrs. 2 boys said 12 yrs. (1 said he makes $1. a day). (See also report.) Location: High Point, North Carolina.

Some samples (not all) of the children in the "Kindergarten Factory" r...

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

Eddie Norton sweeping in Saxon Mill (See label 2976). Location: [Spartanburg, South Carolina].

Eddie Norton sweeping in Saxon Mill (See label 2976). Location: [Spar...

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

Arthur Newell, doffer in Manchester Mills, Rock Hill. 3 weeks at it. 70 cents a day. Said 12 years old. His father in the mill gets $12 a week, mother $9, sister $4.80, he gets $4.20, total $30 a week. "I had ruther go to school but the mill wanted me." Location: Rock Hill, [South Carolina]

Arthur Newell, doffer in Manchester Mills, Rock Hill. 3 weeks at it. 7...

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

Groups of workers in Clayton (N.C.) Cotton Mills. Every one went in to work when the whistle blew, and I saw most of them at work during the morning when I went through. Mr. W.H. Swift talked with a boy recently who said he was ten years old and works in the Clayton Cotton Mill, also that others the same age worked. Here they are. I couldn't get the youngest girls in the photos. Clayton is but a short ride from the State Capitol. (The Superintendent watched the photographing without comment.) Location: Clayton, North Carolina.

Groups of workers in Clayton (N.C.) Cotton Mills. Every one went in to...

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

Views of the White Oak Cotton Mills, Greensboro, N.C., showing the beautiful location of the mill, its well-kept grounds, and the good housing conditions. Location: Greensboro, North Carolina.

Views of the White Oak Cotton Mills, Greensboro, N.C., showing the bea...

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

Some samples (not all) of the children in the "Kindergarten Factory" run by the High Point and Piedmont Hosiery Mills, High Point, N.C. Every child in these photos worked: I saw them at work and I saw them go in to work at 6:30 A.M. and noons and out at 6 P.M. One morning I counted 22 of these little ones (12 years and under) going to work at about 6:15 A.M. Some of them told me their ages: 1 boy said 8 yrs. (worked when he was 7). 1 girl said 10 yrs. (apparently 7). 3 other girls said 10 yrs. 2 boys said 10 yrs. (1 got $3.00 a week). 1 boy said 11 yrs. 2 boys said 12 yrs. (1 said he makes $1. a day). (See also report.) Location: High Point, North Carolina.

Some samples (not all) of the children in the "Kindergarten Factory" r...

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

National Child Labor Committee. #3026 Johnnie Beam, one of the young workers in the Pelzer Mfg. Co., S.C. Been working here over a year. Appears to be under 12 years. Location: [Pelzer], South Carolina.

National Child Labor Committee. #3026 Johnnie Beam, one of the young w...

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

Massachusetts[achusetts] Mills. Jo Veal and family. Father and three boys in the mill. Family record shows him born August 20, 1901, and he went to work (4 mos. ago) just over 11 years old. His wages are not necessary. See the family group. Also photos taken in the mill. Location: Lindale, Georgia.

Massachusetts[achusetts] Mills. Jo Veal and family. Father and three b...

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Another "Dependent Father". He is so recorded in the Ordinary's office where he made application for his minor children to work. He has three children in the mill. When he married the present wife, she brought with her seven children, three of which are in the mill. The mother and father are both in mill work. He works part of the time. Lyell, Columbus and Swift Mills. Location: Columbus, Georgia.

Another "Dependent Father". He is so recorded in the Ordinary's office...

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

[Typical workers in Barker Cotton Mills where good conditions prevail. See Alabama report.] Location: [Mobile, Alabama].

[Typical workers in Barker Cotton Mills where good conditions prevail....

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.

Spinning cotton yarn in the Great Textile Mills, Lawrence, Massachusetts.

Spinning cotton yarn in the Great Textile Mills, Lawrence, Massachuset...

Two women working in foreground. J218087 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 22080.

Back boy - 14 years old - Mule room. Berkshire Cotton Mills. Location: Adams, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

Back boy - 14 years old - Mule room. Berkshire Cotton Mills. Location...

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

Ogden L. Mills, N.Y. - Public domain portrait photograph

Ogden L. Mills, N.Y. - Public domain portrait photograph

A black and white photo of a man with angel wings on his head. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

General Nelson A. Miles and Anson Mills at Fort Myer. May 25, 1922

General Nelson A. Miles and Anson Mills at Fort Myer. May 25, 1922

Two men standing next to each other in a field. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cheney Silk Mills. Favorable working conditions. Location: [South Manchester, Connecticut]

Cheney Silk Mills. Favorable working conditions. Location: [South Man...

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

Cheney Silk Mills. Favorable working conditions. Location: [South Manchester, Connecticut]

Cheney Silk Mills. Favorable working conditions. Location: [South Man...

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

Cheney Silk Mills. Favorable working conditions. Location: [South Manchester, Connecticut]

Cheney Silk Mills. Favorable working conditions. Location: [South Man...

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

Rep. Domonick, Coolidge, Pat Boland, T.E. Mills

Rep. Domonick, Coolidge, Pat Boland, T.E. Mills

A group of men standing next to each other holding a trophy. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mill, Frederick Road, Ellicott City, Howard County, MD

Mill, Frederick Road, Ellicott City, Howard County, MD

Survey number: HABS MD-838 Public domain photograph - historical image of Maryland, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Estes Mill (Ruins), Rock Creek Park, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Estes Mill (Ruins), Rock Creek Park, Washington, District of Columbia,...

Survey number: HABS DC-40 Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington DC, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Typical farm in the Mills area, New Mexico. These people are to be resettled, their land to revert to cattle range

Typical farm in the Mills area, New Mexico. These people are to be res...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural countryside landscape, farmhouse, farm field, pasture free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Graves' Mill and Cabin, Tommy Hawk, Campbell County, Virginia. Waterwheel]

[Graves' Mill and Cabin, Tommy Hawk, Campbell County, Virginia. Waterw...

Slide for lecturing on "Tales Old Houses Tell." Title and date based on same image in the Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, LC-J7-VA-1518, with additional information from Sam Watters, 2011. For... More

Morgan House, South Mills vic., Pasquotank County, North Carolina

Morgan House, South Mills vic., Pasquotank County, North Carolina

Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential building, house, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Typical Teutonic farm wife and child of Mills, New Mexico, area. Client for resettlement

Typical Teutonic farm wife and child of Mills, New Mexico, area. Clien...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. More information ... More

A black and white photo of a man holding a model of a sewing machine, Vermont. Farm Security Administration photogrpaph.

A black and white photo of a man holding a model of a sewing machine, ...

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

Wetherill's Mill, Jarrettsville vic., Harford County, Maryland

Wetherill's Mill, Jarrettsville vic., Harford County, Maryland

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural landscape with a watermill, water, decayed building, 18th, 19th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of three men sitting on a bench, Vermont. Farm Security Administration photogrpaph.

A black and white photo of three men sitting on a bench, Vermont. Farm...

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

Marker on Long Trail, Eden Mills, Vermont

Marker on Long Trail, Eden Mills, Vermont

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

Forest Carpenter, handy man. Eden Mills, Vermont

Forest Carpenter, handy man. Eden Mills, Vermont

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

Silo on farm. Eden Mills, Vermont

Silo on farm. Eden Mills, Vermont

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

Middleton Place, Ashley River vic., Dorchester County, South Carolina

Middleton Place, Ashley River vic., Dorchester County, South Carolina

Public domain photograph of a historic place in South Carolina, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cleaning cotton of trash. Laurel mills, Laurel, Mississippi

Cleaning cotton of trash. Laurel mills, Laurel, Mississippi

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

General view of machines where cotton thread is wound onto spools from spindles. Laurel mills, Laurel, Mississippi

General view of machines where cotton thread is wound onto spools from...

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Discouraged farmers have been leaving this area over a period of years, leaving their heavy equipment in the fields. Mills, New Mexico

Discouraged farmers have been leaving this area over a period of years...

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

A group of people walking down a street, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A group of people walking down a street, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Pho...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Jalopies for defense. Here are some of the parts stripped from junked automobiles in auto graveyards. These parts were removed from cars before they were sent to a scrap iron dealer, who will process them and ship them out to steel mills. Some of these parts will be resold, but the vast majority, whether sold or not, will eventually end up in the furnace of an open hearth steel mill. There it will be melted down and combined with virgin metals to provide the fine quality steel needed for defense production

Jalopies for defense. Here are some of the parts stripped from junked ...

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Old textile mills in Woonsocket, Rhode Island

Old textile mills in Woonsocket, Rhode Island

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Road to Camp Bird mines and mills. Ouray County, Colorado. Camp Bird is the historical mining development of Walsh

Road to Camp Bird mines and mills. Ouray County, Colorado. Camp Bird i...

Public domain photograph of United States countryside, nature, during 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Abandoned gold mines and mills with piles of tailings in San Juan County, Colorado. The results of excessive cutting of timber can be plainly seen

Abandoned gold mines and mills with piles of tailings in San Juan Coun...

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

A black and white photo of a man standing next to a horse. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man standing next to a horse. Office of W...

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

Swimming hole. Pine Grove Mills, Pennsylvania

Swimming hole. Pine Grove Mills, Pennsylvania

Picryl description: Public domain image of a river, water stream, lake or pond, park or forest, natural landscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Weapons from waste. Shells, tractors, steel cable, pipes, whatever it is, if it's metal our steel mills need it. They need it today as they've never needed it before. They need it to provide the "ring of steel" which will protect this country from any possible enemy

Weapons from waste. Shells, tractors, steel cable, pipes, whatever it ...

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Building stockpiles. Ponderosa pine boards being stacked in a western sawmill. Efforts are being made (June 1941) to create a stockpile of lumber to insure a steady monthly output of ammunition cases. Lumber is also supplied from these mills for the construction of barracks and cantonments

Building stockpiles. Ponderosa pine boards being stacked in a western ...

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.

Mills. Little Falls, New York - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Mills. Little Falls, New York - safety film negatives, Library of Cong...

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A couple of men standing on top of a pile of hay. Office of War Information Photograph

A couple of men standing on top of a pile of hay. Office of War Inform...

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

Lloyd and Gloria Kinney with their mother. Eden Mills, Vermont

Lloyd and Gloria Kinney with their mother. Eden Mills, Vermont

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

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Firing scrapped automobiles to provide steel for the National Defense production program. In these auto graveyards scrapped cars are stripped of all usable parts and then sent to scrap iron dealers who press and bale the metal for shipment to steel mills

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Firing scrapped automobiles to pro...

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

Lumber manufacture. Building stockpiles for war contracts. Ponderosa pine boards being stacked at a western sawmill. Efforts to insure a steady monthly output of ammunition cases. Lumber is also supplied from these mills for the construction of barracks and cantonments

Lumber manufacture. Building stockpiles for war contracts. Ponderosa p...

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.

Salvage. Scrap metal. The magnet loader of a large Southern junkyard operates continuously to keep our steel mills supplied with the scrap metal needed to make the tools of war. Location: in a large New Orleans yard

Salvage. Scrap metal. The magnet loader of a large Southern junkyard o...

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

Southington, Connecticut. The Old Mill is a popular place for young men of Southington to take girlfriends on Saturday night. The building was erected in 1737 as one of the first metal mills in the American colonies

Southington, Connecticut. The Old Mill is a popular place for young me...

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

A group of people standing in front of a building. Office of War Information Photograph

A group of people standing in front of a building. Office of War Infor...

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

Albert Mills, residence at 5970 N. Bay Rd., Miami Beach, Florida. Little sitting room

Albert Mills, residence at 5970 N. Bay Rd., Miami Beach, Florida. Litt...

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Salvage. Scrap for steel mills. To feed the nation's munitions furnaces, tons of scrap from America's attics and basements are collected every day. Here, a junkman unloads his wagon in a central depot, where the scrap will be segregated and graded for shipment to steel mills

Salvage. Scrap for steel mills. To feed the nation's munitions furnace...

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Cleveland, Ohio. On the right, empty cars on their way to the Pennsylvania Railroad iron ore dock; on the left, loaded cars ready to be sent to the steel mills

Cleveland, Ohio. On the right, empty cars on their way to the Pennsylv...

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Oswego, New York. Workers at the Columbia Mills listening to the speeches by the United Nations heroes during United Nations week

Oswego, New York. Workers at the Columbia Mills listening to the speec...

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An Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe passenger train passing through the Flint mills district of Kansas. This is a famous stock feeding area

An Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe passenger train passing through the ...

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Firehouse station number four. Washington, D.C. Lieutenant Mills giving a lecture on water pressure

Firehouse station number four. Washington, D.C. Lieutenant Mills givin...

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Gerrish Milliken Mills, Pendleton, South Carolina. Porch

Gerrish Milliken Mills, Pendleton, South Carolina. Porch

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Gerrish Milliken Mills, Pendleton, South Carolina. Plant, framed in trees

Gerrish Milliken Mills, Pendleton, South Carolina. Plant, framed in tr...

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Argo Knitting Mills, Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania. Interior VI

Argo Knitting Mills, Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania. Interior VI

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Rural scene near Valley Mills in Bosque County, Texas

Rural scene near Valley Mills in Bosque County, Texas

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

The Old Mill of Guilford, also known as Bailes' Old Mill, is a historic and still-working grist mill near Oak Ridge in Guilford County, North Carolina

The Old Mill of Guilford, also known as Bailes' Old Mill, is a histori...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It was built in 1822, across the creek from an earlier mill that predated the American revolution, as a plain three-story, heavy timbe... More

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