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Cumberland Road, one and one-half miles east of Washington, Pennsylvania

Cumberland Road, one and one-half miles east of Washington, Pennsylvan...

Cobblestone road. J145751 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Pa.; Roads; Shelf.

Wants dependant children cared for thru Social Security. Washington, D.C. June 8. Senator James P. Pope, Democrat of Idaho, has introduced a bill in the Senate to increase the Federal Government's contribution, through the Social Security Board, to care of dependent children from third the maintenance cost to one half. At present the government contributes half the cost of old age pensions and aid to the blind. The Pope proposal would bring the law with reference to dependent children in conformity to the provisions relating to other beneficiaries of the act. 6/8/37

Wants dependant children cared for thru Social Security. Washington, D...

A black and white photo of two men sitting at a table. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Corn planting wire held taut over a slope in the land. The planter drops corn at the buttons which are three and one-half feet apart. Jasper County, Iowa

Corn planting wire held taut over a slope in the land. The planter dro...

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

Indianapolis Newsboys buying brass checks in a newspaper office. These checks cost at the rate of one-half the selling price of the newspaper and are exchanged at another window for the number of papers they call for. Witness, E. N. Clopper. Location: Indianapolis, Indiana.

Indianapolis Newsboys buying brass checks in a newspaper office. These...

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

The Cumberland road one and one-half miles west of Brownsville, Pennsylvania

The Cumberland road one and one-half miles west of Brownsville, Pennsy...

Photograph shows rural area with dirt road; few homes scattered along the road. Copyright 1910 by John Kennedy Lacock, Amity, Pa. Copyright registration title: Cumberland road: 1 1/2 miles west of Brownsville, Pa.

A Product of the 4 H. Club. Gradie Walton, 17 yrs. old, - is very deficient in most school branches (except in mathematics where he shines). He is much handicapped physically, - lost one eye in an accident and the other is weak. This year he raised 135 bushels of corn on one acre (his father raised about one half as much and complained that the boy's land was better). The secret was that the boy worked hard on the plot, - fertilizing and cultivating, even bringing soil in from the woods. He got the First Prize for two years. Location: Pocahontas County, West Virginia / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

A Product of the 4 H. Club. Gradie Walton, 17 yrs. old, - is very defi...

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

One pea picker's home. One-half mile off Highway 101 at Nipomo, California

One pea picker's home. One-half mile off Highway 101 at Nipomo, Califo...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Near Hartsville, South Carolina, sorting and stringing the "golden leaf" at the tobacco barn, preparatory to curing. Note sled by which tobacco is brought to the barn from the field. This sharecropper family has six acres in tobacco, their main cash crop. They will sell this year's crop for about nine hundred dollars, of which they receive one-half

Near Hartsville, South Carolina, sorting and stringing the "golden lea...

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

Near Hartsville, South Carolina, sorting and stringing the "golden leaf" at the tobacco barn, preparatory to curing. Note sled by which tobacco is brought to the barn from the field. This sharecropper family has six acres in tobacco, their main cash crop. They will sell this year's crop for about nine hundred dollars, of which they receive one-half

Near Hartsville, South Carolina, sorting and stringing the "golden lea...

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

New Britain, Connecticut. Mrs. Dorthy Bell, Irish-German descent, twenty-seven years old, mother of two children, employed at the American Railway Express Company, sorting packages, weighing them, etc., earns seventy-nine and one-half cents per hour

New Britain, Connecticut. Mrs. Dorthy Bell, Irish-German descent, twen...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

New Britain, Connecticut. Miss Ida Hicks, Lithuanian, twenty-eight years old, employed at the American Railway Express Company, sorting packages, weighting them, etc., earns seventy-nine and one-half cents an hour. She formerly worked in a defense plant

New Britain, Connecticut. Miss Ida Hicks, Lithuanian, twenty-eight yea...

Picryl description: Public domain image of 1930s woman, female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

New Britain, Connecticut. Miss Ida Hicks, Lithanian, twenty-eight years old, employed at the American Railway Expersss Company, sorting packages, weighing them, etc. earns seventy-nine and one-half cents an hour. She formerly worked in a defense plant

New Britain, Connecticut. Miss Ida Hicks, Lithanian, twenty-eight year...

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

The airplane that is sometimes jokingly referred to as "Air Force One-Half," although any plane that carries the president of the United States is Air Force One when it's in the air. This Lockheed JetStar, now permanently displayed at the LBJ Ranch near Stonewall, Texas, flew Lyndon Johnson in and out of the ranch when he was vice president and president in the 1960s. Johnson traveled on a Boeing 707 for most trips when he was president, but he also had a fleet of smaller planes available to him, including several JetStars

The airplane that is sometimes jokingly referred to as "Air Force One-...

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 P... More

"Share The Meat" recipes. For a coast to coast favorite and a vitamin-rich meatless dish, bake a bean loaf as you would a meatloaf. The ingredients are simple: three cups of cooked beans, one onion, one-half cup of milk (water or liquid from the beans can be substituted), one egg (beaten), one cup of bread crumbs, chopped celery, salt, pepper, and, if you like, herbs

"Share The Meat" recipes. For a coast to coast favorite and a vitamin-...

"Share The Meat" recipes. Baked bean loaf. Mash three cups of cooked beans, or chop them very fine. Add a chopped onion, one-half cup of milk (water or the liquid from the cooked beans may be substituted), a beaten egg and a cup of bread crumbs. A little finely chopped celery is good too. Season to taste with salt, pepper and dried herbs

"Share The Meat" recipes. Baked bean loaf. Mash three cups of cooked b...

Remains of unburied soldiers, one-half mile S.W. of Chancellorsville House. View taken April 1865

Remains of unburied soldiers, one-half mile S.W. of Chancellorsville H...

Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). American Scenery (Stereoscopic) label on verso, no. 3. Forms part of: The Robin G. Stanford Collection. Digitized 2015 Funding from Center for Civil War Photography.

A black and white photo of a horse in a field, Iowa. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a horse in a field, Iowa. Farm Security Adm...

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

Poster. If It'll Save a Second It's a Great Idea. War Production Board poster. Poster distributed by WPB war plants. The original is twenty-eight and one half by forty inches, and is printed in full color. Copies are obtainable from War Production Drive Headquarters, 1210 Raleigh Hotel, Washington, D.C.

Poster. If It'll Save a Second It's a Great Idea. War Production Board...

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

Naval air base Corpus Christi, Texas. A top-notch mechanic, Mary Josephine Farley, expertly rebuilds airplane engines. Although she's only twenty-years-old, she has a private pilot's license and has made several cross-country flights. She ranked highest of all competitors on her civil service examination with a grade of 89. Since her arrival at the Corpus Christi Air Base four and one-half months ago, she has been made a crew leader

Naval air base Corpus Christi, Texas. A top-notch mechanic, Mary Josep...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of workers, war production, aircraft, airfield, the 1930s -1940s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The Harvey Andrews family on their homestead two and one-half miles northwest of New Helena, Nebraska.

The Harvey Andrews family on their homestead two and one-half miles no...

summary: Pictured from left to right: Harvey B. Andrews, Jennie (Mrs. Harvey) Andrews holding daughter Lillian Andrews (later Mrs. Downey), Charles Henry Andrews, and Mary Andrews (later Mrs. Aldrich). origina... More

No. 1, below on Anvil Creek, last clean-up for a day & one half run, $10,000.00, total output for two months, $120,000.00

No. 1, below on Anvil Creek, last clean-up for a day & one half run, $...

No. 59. Label on verso: "Department of Commerce and Labor, Coast and Geodetic Survey. Shelf Mark: V945. Dr. H. S. Pritchett, Superintendent. State, Alaska. Locality, No. 1, below on Anvil Creek, a tributary to ... More

Barn erection. Gable end panels are placed one-half at a time due to weight and length. Southeast Missouri Farms Project

Barn erection. Gable end panels are placed one-half at a time due to w...

Public domain photograph of construction site, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A Detroit manufacturer of aircraft engines is seeking automatic screw machine facilities for the manufacture of ninety-six items of steel and bronze aircraft engine hardware in quantities from fourteen thousand to two-hundred thousand and in diameters from one-quarter to one and one-half inches. Three of the items are illustrated. Top left, bolt; top right, retainer; bottom, cylinder head stud

A Detroit manufacturer of aircraft engines is seeking automatic screw ...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Substitute materials containers. New and old paint containers. Left to right: one-quarter metal can on one-gallon metal can, one-gallon fiber container with metal ends, one-half gallon bottle, one-gallon bottle. In the right foreground is a one-pint glass container

Substitute materials containers. New and old paint containers. Left to...

Public domain photograph of 3d object museum collection, metal, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sarah C. Grant of St. Paul, Minn., organizing in Illinois for Congressional Union, is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins Hospital Training School for Nurses in 1908, and for three and one-half years a member of the Social Service department of the Massachusettsachusetts Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.

Sarah C. Grant of St. Paul, Minn., organizing in Illinois for Congress...

Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Auto conversion to airplane engines. Automobile company personnel and U.S. Army inspectors view expanse of freshly laid cement covering track wells where freight cars rolled before December 1941. With one hundred percent conversion to airplane motor production, new machinery and equipment will occupy this space. Other requirements of conversion included the denuding of five and one-half miles of overhead conveyers. Chevrolet, Buffalo, New York

Auto conversion to airplane engines. Automobile company personnel and ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Valley Station, Kentucky. John E. Kalmey, age eighteen, hoeing some of his castor bean plants, which is one of his 4-H projects for the year. Last year he only raised one-quarter of an acre, but this year, two and one-half acres, and he hopes to get from 1500 to 2000 puonds of beans to the acre

Valley Station, Kentucky. John E. Kalmey, age eighteen, hoeing some of...

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

A shack of one of the berry picking families on Giles Farm, Seaford, Del. There is one room in this shack unpartitioned in which 2 families (8 people) live. One half of the shack is taken up by a berth of four compartments. Rags and straw furnish the bedding. Clothes are hung inside to dry. Location: Seaford, Delaware.

A shack of one of the berry picking families on Giles Farm, Seaford, D...

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

South end of Pedro Miguel locks, showing Miraflores Lock one and one-half mile in the distance, Pedro Miguel, Panama Cnaal

South end of Pedro Miguel locks, showing Miraflores Lock one and one-h...

Boy seated on railing in foregrd. J182693 U.S. Copyright Office Stereo copyrighted by the Keystone View Co. No. 21751. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Ph. Ind.

Corn planting wire held taut over a slope in the land. The planter drops corn at the buttons which are three and one-half feet apart. Jasper County, Iowa

Corn planting wire held taut over a slope in the land. The planter dro...

FSA (Farm Security Administration) supervisor McArthur weighs in the Smart chickens (two and one-half pounds) prior to their shipment to the Craig Field, Southeastern Air Training Center. Selma, Alabama

FSA (Farm Security Administration) supervisor McArthur weighs in the S...

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

A Brooklyn machine manufacturing firm is seeking machine shop facilities for the machining of very large quantities of Navy brass forgings. Item: socket. Material: Navy brass, two and one-half inches by six inches. Tolerances: plus .002, minus .000. Machines needed: turret lathes, number three Barton and Oliver, number four Warner Swasey or one and one-half inch Jones Lamson. Forgings and inside drilling tools will be furnished

A Brooklyn machine manufacturing firm is seeking machine shop faciliti...

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

New Britain, Connecticut. Miss Ida Hicks, Lithuanian, twenty-eight years old, employed at the American Railway Express, Company, sorting packages, weighting them., etc., earns seventy-nine and one-half cents an hour. She formerly worked in a defense plant

New Britain, Connecticut. Miss Ida Hicks, Lithuanian, twenty-eight yea...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A.D.T. Boy, 13 years old. One and one-half years at it. Works from noon to 10:30 P.M. Said he "carries notes, etc." Location: Burlington, Vermont.

A.D.T. Boy, 13 years old. One and one-half years at it. Works from noo...

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

A Product of the 4 H Club. Gradie Walton, 17 yrs. old, - is very deficient in most school branches (except in mathematics where he shines). He is much handicapped physically, - lost one eye in an accident and the other is weak. This year he raised 135 bushels of corn on one acre (his father raised about one half as much and complained that the boy's land was better). The secret was that the boy worked hard on the plot . , - a [sic] fertilizing and cultivating, even bringing soil in from the woods. He got the First Prize for two years. Location: Pocahontas County, West Virginia / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

A Product of the 4 H Club. Gradie Walton, 17 yrs. old, - is very defic...

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

Corn planting wire held taut over a slope in the land. The planter drops corn at the buttons which are three and one-half feet apart. Jasper County, Iowa

Corn planting wire held taut over a slope in the land. The planter dro...

Picryl description: Public domain image of field, irrigation, agriculture, water, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Top left: special end cutting form cutter. Top right: special forming tool. Bottom: long combination step drill and subland drill, nine and one-half inches long

Top left: special end cutting form cutter. Top right: special forming ...

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

Interior of last dugout in the Smoky Valley. Four and one-half miles from Lindsborg, Kansas

Interior of last dugout in the Smoky Valley. Four and one-half miles f...

Photograph shows interior of dugout house with a table, three stools, and bookcase. Gröndal, Lindsborg, Kans.

A Product of the 4 H Club. Gradie Walton, 17 yrs. old, - is very deficient in most school branches (except in mathematics where he shines). He is much handicapped physically, - lost one eye in an accident and the other is weak. This year he raised 135 bushels of corn on one acre (his father raised about one half as much and complained that the boy's land was better). The secret was that the boy worked hard on the plot, a sic fertilizing and cultivating, even bringing soil in from the woods. He got the First Prize for two years. Location: Pocahontas County, West Virginia Photo by Lewis W. Hine

A Product of the 4 H Club. Gradie Walton, 17 yrs. old, - is very defic...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Children in West Virginia. Hine no. 5061. Number typed in upper left corner of caption card: 41. The phrase "the boy has worked hard on" is repeated in the text of the ca... More

Cincinnati, Ohio. Preparing canned pork (Russian: "svinaia tushonka") for lend-lease shipment to the USSR at the Kroger grocery and baking company. Inspectors see each can after it comes out of the pressure cooker, where the pork is cooked for two and one-half hours at 160 to 250 degrees. Left to right: Pearl Isen, age twenty-seven, ex-housewife, has a husband and brother in the United States Army; Faye Brinsen, age twenty-two, ex-housewife, whose husband is in defense work

Cincinnati, Ohio. Preparing canned pork (Russian: "svinaia tushonka") ...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

New Britain, Connecticut. Mrs. Dorothy Bell, Irish-German descent, twenty-seven years old, mother of two children, employed at the American Railway Express Company, sorting packages, weighting them, etc., earning seventy-nine and one-half cents an hour

New Britain, Connecticut. Mrs. Dorothy Bell, Irish-German descent, twe...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a railway worker, railroad, locomotive repair shop, industrial facility, early 20th-century industry, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

O.S. Welch residence four and one-half miles south of Berwyn, east Custer County, Nebraska.

O.S. Welch residence four and one-half miles south of Berwyn, east Cus...

original size: 6x8 Public domain photograph - historical image of Nebraska, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Labor Day poster. Labor Day poster distributed to war plants and labor organizations. The original is twenty-eight and one-half inches by forty inches and is printed in full color. It was designed by the Office of War Information (OWI) from a photograph especially arranged by Anton Bruehl, well-known photographer. Copies may be obtained by writing the Distribution Section, Office of War Information

Labor Day poster. Labor Day poster distributed to war plants and labor...

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

Near Hartsville, South Carolina, sorting and stringing the "golden leaf" at the tobacco barn, preparatory to curing. Note sled by which tobacco is brought to the barn from the field. This sharecropper family has six acres in tobacco, their main cash crop. They will sell this year's crop for about nine hundred dollars, of which they receive one-half

Near Hartsville, South Carolina, sorting and stringing the "golden lea...

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

Coutouly Oudre, 5 years and one half

Coutouly Oudre, 5 years and one half

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Commission to France. Group Title: Children, Personnel. Data: H.E. 50037. Gif... More

A shack of one of the berry picking families on Giles Farm, Seaford, Del. There is one room in this shack unpartitioned in which 2 families (8 people) live. One half of the shack is taken up by a berth of four compartments. Rags and straw furnish the bedding. Clothes are hung inside to dry. Location: Seaford, Delaware

A shack of one of the berry picking families on Giles Farm, Seaford, D...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 1580. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Map of Boston and adjacent country showing that city to be the geographical as well as intellectual and moral centre of one half of the globe /

Map of Boston and adjacent country showing that city to be the geograp...

Relief shown pictorially. Annotated in black ink on verso: Map of Boston. LC copy imperfect: Brittle; portions of edges missing. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Gift; ... More

New Britain, Connecticut. Miss Ida Hicks, Lithuanian twenty-eight years old, employed at the American Railway Expesss Company, sorting packages, weighting them, etc., earns seventy-nine and one-half cents an hour. She formerly worked in a defense plant

New Britain, Connecticut. Miss Ida Hicks, Lithuanian twenty-eight year...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farmers, vendors, store, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Indianapolis Newsboys buying brass checks in a newspaper office. These checks cost at the rate of one-half the selling price of the newspaper and are exchanged at another window for the number of papers they call for. Witness, E. N. Clopper. Location: Indianapolis, Indiana.

Indianapolis Newsboys buying brass checks in a newspaper office. These...

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

Coutouly Oudre, 5 years and one half

Coutouly Oudre, 5 years and one half

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Commission to France. Group Title: Children, Personnel. Data: H.E. 50037. Gif... More

Barrage balloon manufacture. Assembling the balloon. These workers are ready to fasten one-half of a barrage balloon to the other half--the final major step in the assembly of the huge balloon. After this is done, all accessories, ropes and rigging will have to be added before the balloon can be tested, finally inspected, packed and shipped to Uncle Sam. General Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio

Barrage balloon manufacture. Assembling the balloon. These workers are...

Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cincinnati, Ohio. Preparing canned pork (Russian: "Svinaia tushonka") for lend-lease shipment to the USSR at the Kroger grocery and baking company. Inspecting the cans of pork as they come out of the pressure cooker where the pork is cooked for two and one-half hours at 160 to 250 degrees

Cincinnati, Ohio. Preparing canned pork (Russian: "Svinaia tushonka") ...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

A Detroit manufacturer of air craft engines is seeking automatic screw machine facilities for the manufacture of ninety-six items of steel and bronze air craft engine hardware in quantities from fourteen thousand to two-hundred thousand and in diameters from one-quarter inch to one and one-half inches. Three of the items are illustrated. Left, oil relief valve cap; right, cap nut

A Detroit manufacturer of air craft engines is seeking automatic screw...

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

Sod house and William I. Coen family, four and one-half miles north of Berywn, Custer County, Nebraska

Sod house and William I. Coen family, four and one-half miles north of...

original size: 6x8 Public domain photograph - historical image of Nebraska, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New Britain, Connecticut. Mrs. Dorothy Bell, Irish-German descent, twenty-seven years old, mother of two children, employed at the American Railway Express Company, sorting packages, weighting them etc., earning seventy-nine and one-half cents an hour

New Britain, Connecticut. Mrs. Dorothy Bell, Irish-German descent, twe...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Remains of unburied soldiers, one-half mile S.W. of Chancellorsville House. View taken April 1865

Remains of unburied soldiers, one-half mile S.W. of Chancellorsville H...

Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). American Scenery (Stereoscopic) label on verso, no. 3. Forms part of: The Robin G. Stanford Collection. Digitized 2015 Funding from Center for Civil War Photography.

Tin can alley leads to victory. Save that tin can! Uncle Sam needs it. As vital as iron and steel to the war effort, reclaimed tin is used to make the bushings of airplane motors and machine-gun mounts, and for other war equipment. First step in preparing cans for your government is to remove both ends (or leave attached by no more than one-half inch).

Tin can alley leads to victory. Save that tin can! Uncle Sam needs it....

Public domain photograph of 3d object museum collection, metal, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New Britain, Connecticut. Miss Ida Hicks, Lithuanian, twenty-eight years old, employed at the American Railway Express Company, sorting packages, weighting them, etc., earns seventy-nine and one-half cents an hour. She formerly worked in a defense plant

New Britain, Connecticut. Miss Ida Hicks, Lithuanian, twenty-eight yea...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a railway worker, railroad, locomotive repair shop, industrial facility, early 20th-century industry, free to use, no copyright restrictions.