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A black and white photo of a group of children, Kenntucky. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a group of children, Kenntucky. Farm Securi...

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

Carlisle Indian School, Waldon Fawcett photo, Washington DC

Carlisle Indian School, Waldon Fawcett photo, Washington DC

Young Native American men in metalworking workshop with pails, washtubs, watering cans, and other metal items. 50585 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 3. Copyright by Waldon Fawcett.

The dinner pail - Drawing. Public domain image.

The dinner pail - Drawing. Public domain image.

Public domain reproduction of political cartoon, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Susie Fava. Picks 8 pails a day. Said 8 years old. Gets 8 cents a pail. Location: Rochester [vicinity] Eldridge Bog, Massachusetts.

Susie Fava. Picks 8 pails a day. Said 8 years old. Gets 8 cents a pail...

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

Series showing the day's work of Estelle and Felix Humphrey. See card reports of same. L.W. Hine Location: Elizabethtown vicinity, Kentucky

Series showing the day's work of Estelle and Felix Humphrey. See card ...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 4106. Hine no. 4111. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints... More

Five cranberry pickers - all cousins. Smallest is Joe Sylva, 618 Water St., New Bedford, said 10 years old. Picks 10 pails a day at 7 cents. Arthur Sylva, said 13 years, picks 30 pails a day. Carrie Maderyos, 618 Water Street, New Bedford, said 12 years - second year picking. The group expects to be picking here four weeks more which will cause loss of New Bedford schooling at least 6 weeks. (See photos of them picking next day). Location: Falmouth [vicinity] - Swift's Bog, Massachusetts.

Five cranberry pickers - all cousins. Smallest is Joe Sylva, 618 Water...

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

5-year old Jack and 13-year old Bitsey are regular workers on their father's farm. Worming and suckering now. Bitsey goes to Wallonia School in Div. 1, Trigg Co. "He worms and he suckers. Quite a worker but he aint old enough to go to school yet." The mother said this about Jack. Father, B.F. Mitchell, Route 1, owns farm. Location: Trigg County--Gracey, Kentucky Lewis W. Hine

5-year old Jack and 13-year old Bitsey are regular workers on their fa...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4529. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

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

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

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

You are making this now / Harry S. Mueller, Major, Infantry.

You are making this now / Harry S. Mueller, Major, Infantry.

Poster showing a soldier pointing to documents, "Service Record" and "Honorable Discharge."

A group of people walking down a dirt road, Kenntucky. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A group of people walking down a dirt road, Kenntucky. Farm Security A...

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

Susie Fava. Picks 8 pails a day. Said 8 years old. Gets 8 cents a pail. Location: Rochester [vicinity] Eldridge Bog, Massachusetts.

Susie Fava. Picks 8 pails a day. Said 8 years old. Gets 8 cents a pail...

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

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th centu...

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Walter Silva. Said 10 years old. Picks 3 or 4 pails a day. Location: Rochester [vicinity] Eldridge Bog, Massachusetts.

Walter Silva. Said 10 years old. Picks 3 or 4 pails a day. Location: ...

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

Children of poor families bring their pails to the city mission for soup which may be left over after twenty-five men have been fed. Dubuque, Iowa

Children of poor families bring their pails to the city mission for so...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, meeting, demonstration, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Shorpy Higginbotham, a "greaser" on the tipple at Bessie Mine, of the Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron Co. Said he was 14 years old, but it is doubtful. Carries two heavy pails of grease, and is often in danger of being run over by the coal cars. Location: Bessie Mine, Alabama.

Shorpy Higginbotham, a "greaser" on the tipple at Bessie Mine, of the ...

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.

Edward S. Curtis - A winter day--Apsaroke

Edward S. Curtis - A winter day--Apsaroke

Apsaroke woman standing in snow scooping water from a stream with a can, bucket beside her. H113105 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 2777-08. On verso: A sunny day. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (... More

In Breathitt County, Kentucky, the children must travel such long distances over poor roads and up creek beds that they bring their lunches in pails. Mrs. Marie R. Turner, the county superintendent is trying to institute a hot lunch program in all the schools to give them a more well-balanced diet and improve health conditions

In Breathitt County, Kentucky, the children must travel such long dist...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of children, kids, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Children going home from school up Frozen Creek carrying their lunch pails. School is held in the summer and stops in January because the creek beds, roads and inadequate clothing make it impossible for them to come in severe weather. Breathitt County, Kentucky

Children going home from school up Frozen Creek carrying their lunch p...

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

Camille Carmo, Justine Carmo, seven and nine years old. The older one picks about 4 pails a day. Youngest was picking also. Location: Rochester [vicinity] Eldridge Bog, Massachusetts.

Camille Carmo, Justine Carmo, seven and nine years old. The older one ...

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

[Series showing the day's work of Estelle and Felix Humphrey. See card reports of same. L.W. Hine] Location: [Elizabethtown vicinity, Kentucky].

[Series showing the day's work of Estelle and Felix Humphrey. See card...

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

Shorpy Higginbotham, a "greaser" on the tipple at Bessie Mine, of the Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron Co. Said he was 14 years old, but it is doubtful. Carries two heavy pails of grease, and is often in danger of being run over by the coal cars. Location: Bessie Mine, Alabama.

Shorpy Higginbotham, a "greaser" on the tipple at Bessie Mine, of the ...

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

Susie, said 6 years old. Picks about 5 pails a day. Clarence, said 7 years. Nine out of the seventy workers were from 6 to 12 years old. Mostly Syrians from Boston and Providence. Location: East Wareham [vicinity] - Maple Park Bog, Massachusetts.

Susie, said 6 years old. Picks about 5 pails a day. Clarence, said 7 y...

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

You are making this now Harry S. Mueller, Major, Infantry

You are making this now Harry S. Mueller, Major, Infantry

Poster showing a soldier pointing to documents, "Service Record" and "Honorable Discharge." Service Series no. 74. Mounted with other Service Series posters.

[Unidentified women carrying broomes and pails], 9/8/21 suff.

[Unidentified women carrying broomes and pails], 9/8/21 suff.

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Royer farm, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Eggs stored in the chicken house. The pails have screen bottoms and there is wet peat moss in the trough under them

Royer farm, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Eggs stored in the chicken...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, mine, excavation, or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Susie Fava. Picks 8 pails a day. Said 8 years old. Gets 8 cents a pail. Location: Rochester [vicinity] Eldridge Bog, Massachusetts.

Susie Fava. Picks 8 pails a day. Said 8 years old. Gets 8 cents a pail...

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

Southeast Missouri Farms. Top of table with pails and butter dasher in sharecropper shack

Southeast Missouri Farms. Top of table with pails and butter dasher in...

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

Farm children walking to one-room schoolhouse with lunch pails, Nebraska

Farm children walking to one-room schoolhouse with lunch pails, Nebras...

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

Lunch pails in rural school, Wisconsin

Lunch pails in rural school, Wisconsin

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

Mary Birch with two boys - John 14 - Tony 10. Six more younger children at home. The boys pick 18-20 pails a day. Location: Falmouth - Week's Bog, Massachusetts.

Mary Birch with two boys - John 14 - Tony 10. Six more younger childre...

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

A couple of men walking down a dirt road, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A couple of men walking down a dirt road, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Ph...

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

Farm children on the way to school with lunch pails, Nebraska

Farm children on the way to school with lunch pails, Nebraska

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

Susie Fava. Picks 8 pails a day. Said 8 years old. Gets 8 cents a pail. Location: Rochester vicinity Eldridge Bog, Massachusetts

Susie Fava. Picks 8 pails a day. Said 8 years old. Gets 8 cents a pail...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 2539. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Susie Fava. Picks 8 pails a day. Said 8 years old. Gets 8 cents a pail. Location: Rochester [vicinity] Eldridge Bog, Massachusetts.

Susie Fava. Picks 8 pails a day. Said 8 years old. Gets 8 cents a pail...

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

[Large black bear at garbage pails on wagon, Yellowstone National Park]: Old Ephriam helping himself

[Large black bear at garbage pails on wagon, Yellowstone National Park...

Copyright by T.W. Ingersoll. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Large black bear at garbage pails on wagon, Yellowstone National Park]: Old Ephriam knows what he's after

[Large black bear at garbage pails on wagon, Yellowstone National Park...

Copyright by T.W. Ingersoll. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Series showing the day's work of Estelle and Felix Humphrey. See card reports of same. L.W. Hine] Location: [Elizabethtown vicinity, Kentucky].

[Series showing the day's work of Estelle and Felix Humphrey. See card...

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

5-year old Jack and 13-year old Bitsey are regular workers on their father's farm. Worming and suckering now. Bitsey goes to Wallonia School in Div. 1, Trigg Co. "He worms and he suckers. Quite a worker but he aint old enough to go to school yet." The mother said this about Jack. Father, B.F. Mitchell, Route 1, owns farm. Location: Trigg County--Gracey, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

5-year old Jack and 13-year old Bitsey are regular workers on their fa...

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

Gold miner with pails of dirt which he will pan, Two Bit Creek, South Dakota

Gold miner with pails of dirt which he will pan, Two Bit Creek, South ...

Public domain image of a military portrait, uniform, armed forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a family in front of a house. Great Depression FSA photogpraph

A black and white photo of a family in front of a house. Great Depress...

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

In Breathitt County, Kentucky, the children must travel such long distances over poor roads and up creek beds that they bring their lunches in pails. Mrs. Marie R. Turner, the county superintendent is trying to institute a hot lunch program in all the schools to give them a more well-balanced diet and improve health conditions

In Breathitt County, Kentucky, the children must travel such long dist...

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

Mary Gomez, 10 years old. Lives Waquoit. Picked 19 pails one day, generally picks 8 or 10. Location: Falmouth, Massachusetts.

Mary Gomez, 10 years old. Lives Waquoit. Picked 19 pails one day, gene...

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

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

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

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

Abbe, said 10 years old who picks 10 pails a day. Also two young Italian illiterates. Location: Rochester [vicinity] Eldridge Bog, Massachusetts.

Abbe, said 10 years old who picks 10 pails a day. Also two young Itali...

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

Series showing the day's work of Estelle and Felix Humphrey. See card reports of same. L.W. Hine Location: Elizabethtown vicinity, Kentucky

Series showing the day's work of Estelle and Felix Humphrey. See card ...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 4106. Hine no. 4107. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints... More

Susie Fava. Picks 8 pails a day. Said 8 years old. Gets 8 cents a pail. Location: Rochester vicinity Eldridge Bog, Massachusetts

Susie Fava. Picks 8 pails a day. Said 8 years old. Gets 8 cents a pail...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 2539. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

"Peanut Dave, the little defender" / Dalrymple.

"Peanut Dave, the little defender" / Dalrymple.

Print shows David B. Hill sitting on a large pail labeled "Growler" that is lying on its side, spilling the contents; Hill is using a rolled up paper labeled "Let the Workingman Have His Sunday Beer" to swat a ... More

Five cranberry pickers - all cousins. Smallest is Joe Sylva, 618 Water St., New Bedford, said 10 years old. Picks 10 pails a day at 7 cents. Arthur Sylva, said 13 years, picks 30 pails a day. Carrie Maderyos, 618 Water Street, New Bedford, said 12 years - second year picking. The group expects to be picking here four weeks more which will cause loss of New Bedford schooling at least 6 weeks. (See photos of them picking next day). Location: Falmouth vicinity - Swift's Bog, Massachusetts

Five cranberry pickers - all cousins. Smallest is Joe Sylva, 618 Water...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 2554. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

In hot water, Washington, D.C. - Drawing. Public domain image.

In hot water, Washington, D.C. - Drawing. Public domain image.

Includes cutout prints of three heads. No accession number. This catalog record contains preliminary or unverified data from a project done in BRS software, ca. 1985. mm / 860221.

Mrs. Jones fixing lunch pails for her boarders. Radford, Virginia

Mrs. Jones fixing lunch pails for her boarders. Radford, Virginia

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

Tsurube ni uguisu - Public domain drawing

Tsurube ni uguisu - Public domain drawing

Print shows a bird perched on the edge of a square bucket hanging by a rope. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Attributed to: Gyōshin.... More

Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Eggs on the homemade moisturater in the cellar of the chicken house on the Enos Royer farm. A long box contains a tray of water, upright pieces of blotting paper which act as wicks, and a fan which forces air into one end of the box and up through holes on the top of the box, into the screen-bottom pails which contain the eggs. The eggs go to market twice a week

Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Eggs on the homemade moisturater in th...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of costume accessory, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th centu...

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions

The dinner pail, Library of Congress drawings collection

The dinner pail, Library of Congress drawings collection

In same frame as CAI - Nast, no. 36 a (A size) and CAI - Nast, no. 36 b (A size); this image at lower left. Probably published in Harper's weekly. (DLC/PP-1936:0065). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustra... More

The dinner pail, Library of Congress drawings collection

The dinner pail, Library of Congress drawings collection

In same frame as CAI - Nast, no. 36 a (A size) and CAI - Nast, no. 36 b (A size); this image at lower left. Probably published in Harper's weekly. (DLC/PP-1936:0065). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustra... More

The dinner pail - Drawing. Public domain image.

The dinner pail - Drawing. Public domain image.

Public domain reproduction of political cartoon, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

And it came to pass as Boynton began ..

And it came to pass as Boynton began ..

No accession number. This catalog record contains preliminary or unverified data from a project done in BRS software, ca. 1985. mm / 860221.

Camille Carmo, Justine Carmo, seven and nine years old. The older one picks about 4 pails a day. Youngest was picking also. Location: Rochester [vicinity] Eldridge Bog, Massachusetts.

Camille Carmo, Justine Carmo, seven and nine years old. The older one ...

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

A black and white photo of a group of children playing. Great Depression FSA photogpraph

A black and white photo of a group of children playing. Great Depressi...

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

Las Vegas, Nevada. The wall of a tool shed showing a shelf with lunch pails and overalls, and a poster reading "THINK. Safety First. Protect Your Fellow Workmen," at the Basic Magnesium incorporated plant under construction in the southern Nevada desert

Las Vegas, Nevada. The wall of a tool shed showing a shelf with lunch ...

Public domain scan of American poster, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description