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JOLSON, AL. AL JOLSON'S PARENTS, Portrait photo, Library of Congress

JOLSON, AL. AL JOLSON'S PARENTS, Portrait photo, Library of Congress

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

Group of workers in the Massachusetts Mills, Lindale, Ga. Photo taken at noon, April 12, 1913, while they were being paid off. During the days following this, I proved the ages of nearly a dozen of these children, by gaining access to Family Records, Life Insurance papers, and through conversations with the children and parents, and found these that I could prove to be working now, or during the past year at 10 and 11 years of age, some of them having begun before they were ten. Further search would reveal dozens more. (See Hine Report). Location: Lindale, Georgia.

Group of workers in the Massachusetts Mills, Lindale, Ga. Photo taken ...

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

Benton Hill, a renter, Tinney, Okla. Two other families were helping Mr. Hill and his children pick his cotton. Four adults and 10 children of following ages: 1 boy of 3 years, 2 boys and 1 girl of 5 years, 1 boy and 1 girl of 7 years, 1 boy of 8, 1 boy of 9 years, 1 girl of 11 years and 1 boy of 15 years. Everyone had a sack and was picking industriously. The parents said that Fred, 3 years old, sometimes picks 20 pounds a day and Vera, 5 years old, picks 25 pounds a day. See photos of Fred and Vera. Location: Comanche County, Oklahoma / Lewis W. Hine.

Benton Hill, a renter, Tinney, Okla. Two other families were helping M...

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

Clementine Miller (and her parents) with her sheep exhibit at the 4 H Club Fair, Charleston, West Virginia. Location: Charleston, West Virginia.

Clementine Miller (and her parents) with her sheep exhibit at the 4 H ...

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Many parents and young people from the school and nearby communities attend the pie and box supper, given by the school to raise money for additional repairs and supplies. Each box or pie is auctioned off to the highest bidder, sometimes bringing a good deal, since the girl's "boyfriend" usually wins and has the privilege of eating it with her afterwards. Quicksand School, Breathitt County, Kentucky

Many parents and young people from the school and nearby communities a...

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

[Jim McDonald, on porch of parents' home, with Uncle Joe McDonald and Aunt Mollie McDonald in background, near Livingston, Alabama]

[Jim McDonald, on porch of parents' home, with Uncle Joe McDonald and ...

Title and date devised by Library staff based on caption information and inventory lists. No print found. Forms part of: Lomax photographs depicting folk musicians in the Lomax Collection.

Queens, New York. Nursery school at the Queensbridge housing project. Parents bring their children to the nursery in the morning

Queens, New York. Nursery school at the Queensbridge housing project. ...

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

Manpower. Americans all. Though his parents were born in the "old country" and European customs are maintained in his home, Michael Kassalo is as American as pork and beans. Michael's job as a vertical turret lathe operator in one of the Midwest's largest medium-tank plants gives him the satisfaction of producing weapons to defeat the Axis. Pressed Steel Can Company, Chicago, Illinois

Manpower. Americans all. Though his parents were born in the "old coun...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Greek-American soldier, formerly a material handler at the General Electric Company plant at Pittsburgh. Both parents were born in Greece; father came to the United States in 1906, mother in 1921. He was born in this country and has been in the army five months. Lihas in his barracks

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Gr...

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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...

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

Noon hour at Massachusetts. Mill, Lindale, Ga. During the days following this, I proved the ages of nearly a dozen of these children, by gaining access to Family Records, Life Insurance papers, and through conversations with the children and parents, and found those that I could prove to be working now, or during the past year at 10 and 11 years of age, some of them having begun before they were ten. Further search would reveal more. (See Hine Report.) Location: Lindale, Georgia.

Noon hour at Massachusetts. Mill, Lindale, Ga. During the days followi...

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

The parents of seven children. Flood refugees in Tent City, camp near Shawneetown, Illinois

The parents of seven children. Flood refugees in Tent City, camp near ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Migratory worker on the Norfolk-Cape Charles Ferry, writing a postcard home to his parents

Migratory worker on the Norfolk-Cape Charles Ferry, writing a postcard...

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Children in the pea fields, labor contractor crew, Nampa, Idaho. These children were not picking, they accompanied their parents to the fields

Children in the pea fields, labor contractor crew, Nampa, Idaho. These...

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

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Greek-American soldier, formerly a material handler at the General Electric Company plant at Pittsburgh. Both parents were born in Greece; father came to the United States in 1906, mother in 1921. He was born in this country and has been in the army five months. Lihas climbing into a tank

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Gr...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military vehicle, automobile, tractor truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Greek-American soldier, formerly a material handler at the General Electric Company plant at Pittsburgh. Both parents were born in Greece; father came to the United States in 1906, mother in 1921. He was born in this country and has been in the army five months. Lihas at supply pigeon holes

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Gr...

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Minneapolis, Minnesota. Dr. Emil Swenson is president of the Lutheran Minnesota Conference. He graduated at Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas in 1907 and at the Divinity School of Rock Island College, Illinois in 1913. Dr. Swenson is the pastor of his own church at 22nd and Freemont Streets, Minneapolis, and is the head of the seventy-two Lutheran churches in the Minneapolis and Saint Paul area. Throughout the state he is in charge of 334 congregations. Dr. Swenson himself was born in Kansas but his parents came from the province of Varmland, Sweden

Minneapolis, Minnesota. Dr. Emil Swenson is president of the Lutheran ...

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

San Augustine, Texas. Reverend Dubberly taking an infant from its parents for the baptismal ceremony

San Augustine, Texas. Reverend Dubberly taking an infant from its pare...

Picryl description: Public domain image of liturgy, ceremony, church, Christianity religion, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Orange, Texas. Extended school day program in the public schools. These children are weaving after the regular school day is over, while waiting for their parents to finish work and call for them

Orange, Texas. Extended school day program in the public schools. Thes...

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

North Dakota Senator makes hobby of people his parents fought. Washington, D.C., May 31. Senator Lynn D. Frazier, republican of North Dakota, son of early pioneers and settlers of that state, uses some of his few spare moments in collecting Indian relics. Coming from a state which a few years ago was all Indian country, friends of both Indian and white races have helped him to collect an office full of colorful examples of Indian craft and lore

North Dakota Senator makes hobby of people his parents fought. Washing...

A black and white photo of a man in a suit. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Child of migrant parents sitting on drop bed in trailer home. Weslaco, Texas

Child of migrant parents sitting on drop bed in trailer home. Weslaco,...

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

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Greek-American soldier, formerly a material handler at the General Electric Company plant at Pittsburgh. Both parents were born in Greece; father came to the United States in 1906, mother in 1921. He was born in this country and has been in the army five months. Lihas in the top turret of a tank

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Gr...

Picryl description: Public domain image of armored military vehicle, tank, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Orange, Texas. Extended school day program in the public schools. These children are working on their garden after the regular school day is over, waiting for their parents to finish work and call for them

Orange, Texas. Extended school day program in the public schools. Thes...

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

Chicago, Illinois. Parents and friends seeing soldiers off at Union Station on Sunday night, on their way back to camp after a weekend furlough

Chicago, Illinois. Parents and friends seeing soldiers off at Union St...

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Washington, D.C. Once a year students at all Washington schools receive a dental examination and recommendations as to the care they need are sent to their parents

Washington, D.C. Once a year students at all Washington schools receiv...

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Washington, D.C. Parents of one of the soldiers on a special bus, climbing onto the baggage cart to look into the bus until the moment it departs from the Greyhound terminal

Washington, D.C. Parents of one of the soldiers on a special bus, clim...

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

Washington, D.C. Children left in the nursery at the United Nations service center for an entire day are fed according to instructions left by their parents

Washington, D.C. Children left in the nursery at the United Nations se...

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

Joseph Buonasari, 207 7th Street, Buffalo, N.Y. Second Grade, School #1. 12 years old last summer. Worked on beans and apples and tomatoes in sheds and factory, getting 50 cents a day, sometimes until 8 P.M. Parents sometimes work all night until 5 A.M. Entered School #1, January 11th from School #2. Location: Buffalo, New York (State)

Joseph Buonasari, 207 7th Street, Buffalo, N.Y. Second Grade, School #...

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

Showers for both babies and older children and parents and complete laundry facilities are provided in the utility building for members of the Okeechobee migratory labor camp. Belle Glade, Florida

Showers for both babies and older children and parents and complete la...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bath tub, bathing, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Greek-American soldier, formerly a material handler at the General Electric Company plant at Pittsburgh. Both parents were born in Greece; father came to the United States in 1906, mother in 1921. He was born in this country and has been in the army five months. Lihas repairing a gas mask

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Gr...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military training, armed forces fort, camp, exercise activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Greek-American soldier, formerly a material handler at the General Electric Company plant at Pittsburgh. Both parents were born in Greece; father came to the United States in 1906, mother in 1921. He was born in this country and has been in the army five months. Lihas, at right, shoulders arms

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Gr...

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Manpower. Americans all. Like most of the young workers in a huge Midwest medium-tank plant, Herman Silldorf is an American of foreign-born parents. A skilled machine operator, young Silldorf, whose parents came here from Germany, processes parts for medium tanks with the hope that some day soon he'll be driving one of those tanks, taking a direct (instead of an indirect) slap at the Axis. Pressed Steel Can Company, Chicago, Illinois

Manpower. Americans all. Like most of the young workers in a huge Midw...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Orange, Texas. In the extended school day program in the public schools, some children of families where both parents are employed, come to school as early as 6 a.m. to enable the parents to get to work. They go back to bed on cots in the school corridor. They they get up and go through the regular school day. After school until the parents call for them, up to 6 p.m., they have a recreation program conducted on a hobby basis. These children are playing after school waiting for their parents to finish work

Orange, Texas. In the extended school day program in the public school...

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Many parents and young people from the school and nearby communities attend the pie and box supper, given by the school to raise money for additional repairs and supplies. Each box or pie is auctioned off to the highest bidder, sometimes bringing a good deal, since the girl's "boyfriend" usually wins and has the privilege of eating it with her afterwards. Quicksand school, Breathitt County, Kentucky

Many parents and young people from the school and nearby communities a...

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Many parents and young people from the school and nearby communities attend the pie and box supper, given by the school to raise money for additional repairs and supplies. Each box or pie is auctioned off to the highest bidder, sometimes bringing a good deal, since the girl's "boyfriend" usually wins and has the privilege of eating it with her afterwards. Quicksand School, Breathitt County, Kentucky

Many parents and young people from the school and nearby communities a...

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

Showers for both babies and older children and for parents and complete laundry facilities are provided for members of the Okeechobee migratory labor camp. Belle Glade, Florida

Showers for both babies and older children and for parents and complet...

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

Checking in hamper of peas. Labor contractor's crew, Nampa, Idaho. These children were not picking peas. They accompanied their parents to the fields

Checking in hamper of peas. Labor contractor's crew, Nampa, Idaho. The...

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

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Greek-American soldier, formerly a material handler at the General Electric Company plant at Pittsburgh. Both parents were born in Greece; father came to the United States in 1906, mother in 1921. He was born in this country and has been in the army five months. Lihas climbing into a tank

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Gr...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military vehicle, automobile, tractor truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bantam, Connecticut. Defense homes. Little Ann Heath is eager to try out all the facilities of her parents' new four-room defense housing unit, after spending most of her life in a single furnished room. Here she pushes her footstool to the sink in order to help her mother clean up the dinner dishes. Mrs. Heath, a native of Winsted, a city some twenty-five miles away, is delighted with her new kitchen--the first she's ever had which she actually considers as a kitchen, and is trying out all the recipes she has collected in five years of married life. The Heaths pay thirty dollars monthly for their apartment

Bantam, Connecticut. Defense homes. Little Ann Heath is eager to try o...

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Queens, New York. Nursery school at the Queensbridge housing project. Parents bring their children to the nursery

Queens, New York. Nursery school at the Queensbridge housing project. ...

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

Vance Memorial Presbyterian Church in Wheeling, West Virginia, built in 1897 by industrialist James Nelson Vance in honor of his parents

Vance Memorial Presbyterian Church in Wheeling, West Virginia, built i...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

Clementine Miller (and her parents) with her sheep exhibit at the 4 H Club Fair, Charleston, West Virginia. Location: Charleston, West Virginia / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

Clementine Miller (and her parents) with her sheep exhibit at the 4 H ...

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

Cabinet youngsters enjoy Christmas. Washington, D.C., Dec. 24. The only cabinet youngsters, Cooper Coolidge, Marcus, and Melissa, sons and daughter of the Secretary of War and Mrs. Harry H. Woodring, were up bright and early to enjoy their Christmas tree with their parents

Cabinet youngsters enjoy Christmas. Washington, D.C., Dec. 24. The onl...

A black and white photo of a family around a christmas tree. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Many parents and young people from the school and nearby communities attend the pie and box supper, given by the school to raise money for additional repairs and supplies. Each box or pie is auctioned off to the highest bidder, sometimes bringing a good deal, since the girl's "boyfriend" usually wins and has the privilege of eating it with her afterwards. Quicksand School, Breathitt County, Kentucky

Many parents and young people from the school and nearby communities a...

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

Prosperous Chicagoan posed by photograph of his parents. Chicago, Illinois

Prosperous Chicagoan posed by photograph of his parents. Chicago, Illi...

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

Bantam, Connecticut. Defense homes. Three-year-old Ann Heath, daughter of Fred Heath who operates a turret lathe in the Warren McArthur casting room. She has her own little footstool so that she can wash her own hands in the sink of the bathroom in the four-room defense housing unit where the Heaths live. Ann had quite a trying time getting used to the size of the new apartment, after having lived most of her life with her parents in a single furnished room in Torrington

Bantam, Connecticut. Defense homes. Three-year-old Ann Heath, daughter...

Picryl description: Public domain image of people, meeting, eating, drinking, food, beverage, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Food in Britain. Nearly a million British children receive substantial midday meals in schools. They pay only for the cost of the meal and where the parents cannot afford the low price, arrangements are made by authorities to pay all or part of the costs

Food in Britain. Nearly a million British children receive substantial...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a classroom, college auditorium, school, students, teacher, teaching, studying, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Accident to young cotton mill worker. Giles Edmund Newsom (Photo October 23rd, 1912), while working in Sanders Spinning Mill, Bessemer City, N.C., August 21st, 1912, a piece of the machine fell on to his foot mashing his toe. This caused him to fall on to a spinning machine and his hand went into unprotected gearing, crushing and tearing out two fingers. He told the Attorney he was 11 years old when it happened. His parents are now trying to make him 13 years old. The school census taken at the time of the accident makes him12 years (parents' statement) and school records say the same. His school teacher thinks that he is 12. His brother (photo 3071) is not yet 11 years old. Both of the boys worked in the mill several months before the accident. His father, (R.L. Newsom) tried to compromise with the Company when he found the boy would receive money and not the parents. The mother tried to blame the boys for getting jobs on their own hook, but she let them work several months. The aunt said "Now he's jes got to where he could be of some help to his ma an' then this happens and he can't never work no more like he oughter." Location: Bessemer, North Carolina

Accident to young cotton mill worker. Giles Edmund Newsom (Photo Octob...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 3070. Hine no. 3071. In phrase "when he found the boy," the word boy is underlined on the caption card. Credit... More

"Lost in action." Little Gloria Largent was the first youngster to stray away from her parents on the White House lawn today where thousands of Washington children rolled their Easter eggs today. White House officer B.B. Bradley is holding Gloria

"Lost in action." Little Gloria Largent was the first youngster to str...

A black and white photo of a man in uniform holding a little girl. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Greek-American soldier, formerly a material handler at the General Electric Company plant at Pittsburgh. Both parents were born in Greece; father came to the United States in 1906, mother in 1921. He was born in this country and has been in the army five months

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Gr...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military training, armed forces fort, camp, exercise activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mr. Anthony B. Thomas, councilman and a leading druggist of San Leandro, California, whose parents were born on the Flores Island of the Azores

Mr. Anthony B. Thomas, councilman and a leading druggist of San Leandr...

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Manpower, junior size. Notes from parents giving permission to their sons and daughters to join the Roanoke, Virginia junior army are received by teacher Doris Jordan. Now these newly appointed junior commandos are ready to collect scrap for victory

Manpower, junior size. Notes from parents giving permission to their s...

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Orange, Texas. Negro boys whose parents are both employed, modeling in clay at a nursery school

Orange, Texas. Negro boys whose parents are both employed, modeling in...

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

San Augustine, Texas. Reverend Dubberly asking questions of children being received into the church. Their parents stand behind them

San Augustine, Texas. Reverend Dubberly asking questions of children b...

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

The 1897 Vance Memorial Presbyterian (originally United Presbyterian) Church, built in 1897 by iron and hardware industrialist James Nelson Vance, in honor of his parents in Wheeling, West Virginia

The 1897 Vance Memorial Presbyterian (originally United Presbyterian) ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

Name: Children from school No. 2 in the Italian district Terrace[?] nr. Genesee St. Many of these children spend their summer vacations in the canning and fruit picking settlements where their parents go to work during the season. Feb. 8, 1910, Buffalo, N.Y. Location: Buffalo, New York (State)

Name: Children from school No. 2 in the Italian district Terrace[?] nr...

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

Dependent (able-bodied) parents. Family of Robert Barnes, E. 15 Magnolia, Miss. Father works irregularly. "I supplies places in the mill when others are gone." Been here two months, Worked a farm near McComb, where the children worked in the mill and went to school. Note how the ages jump from(1) Children not in the mill; who are 2, 5, and 8 years old.to(2) Children in the mill, (front row), said to be 14, 15 and 17 years old. Location: Magnolia, Mississippi.

Dependent (able-bodied) parents. Family of Robert Barnes, E. 15 Magnol...

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

Dependent (able-bodied) Parents. Fries, Virginia Family of Albert Senter. He said, "I don't work steady. Have a garden here." Eleven year old Mandy has learned to "spin" by "helping." She said, "They say I'm too little to work steady." Father added, "I guess she'll get in all right in a little while. They've been extra careful, lately, 'cause the inspector's been around, but it'll be easier now for her to get in." The three girls work and Mandy helps, with one eye on a steady job. Location: Fries, Virginia.

Dependent (able-bodied) Parents. Fries, Virginia Family of Albert Sent...

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

Group of workers in the Massachusetts Mills, Lindale, Ga. Photo taken at noon, April 12, 1913, while they were being paid off. During the days following this, I proved the ages of nearly a dozen of these children, by gaining access to Family Records, Life Insurance papers, and through conversations with the children and parents, and found these that I could prove to be working now, or during the past year at 10 and 11 years of age, some of them having begun before they were ten. Further search would reveal dozens more. (See Hine Report.) Massachusetts Mills, Lindale, Ga. Apr. 12, 1913. Location: Lindale, Georgia / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

Group of workers in the Massachusetts Mills, Lindale, Ga. Photo taken ...

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Group of children attending the mill school at Barker Cotton Mills. These children are well-kept at home, and well-directed in school. School is sanitary and well-equipped. School attendance is compulsory. Deputy in mill acts as truant officer. If parents neglect to send children to school, they are requested to move out. The whole situation reflects the good management of the superintendent. Location: Mobile, Alabama.

Group of children attending the mill school at Barker Cotton Mills. Th...

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

Children of migrant fruit workers. Berrien County, Michigan. Children of this age are an asset to parents during berry picking season

Children of migrant fruit workers. Berrien County, Michigan. Children ...

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

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Greek-American soldier, formerly a material handler at the General Electric Company plant at Pittsburgh. Both parents were born in Greece; father came to the United States in 1906, mother in 1921. He was born in this country and has been in the army five months. Lihas, in the middle on the far side, at noon mess

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Gr...

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

Mary Sumares who was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, of Portuguese parents from Madeira, Portugal. She is one of the group who puts on the Portuguese program over station KROW. Oakland, California

Mary Sumares who was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, of Portuguese p...

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Minneapolis, Minnesota. Dr. Emil Swenson is president of the Lutheran Minnesota Conference. He graduated at Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas in 1907 and at the Divinity School of Rock Island College, Illinois in 1913. Dr. Swenson is the pastor of his own church at 22nd and Freemont Streets, Minneapolis, and is the head of the seventy-two Lutheran churches in the Minneapolis and Saint Paul area. Throughout the state he is in charge of 334 congregations. Dr. Swenson himself was born in Kansas but his parents came from the province of Varmland, Sweden

Minneapolis, Minnesota. Dr. Emil Swenson is president of the Lutheran ...

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

Estrelinka (professional name), who is one of the entertainers on the Portuguese program of station KROW, Oakland, California. She was born in New Bedford Massachusetts, of parents who were born in Chaves, Portugal

Estrelinka (professional name), who is one of the entertainers on the ...

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Preparation for point rationing. An eager school boy gets his first experience in using war ration book two. With many parents engaged in war work, children are being taught the facts of point rationing for helping out in family marketing

Preparation for point rationing. An eager school boy gets his first ex...

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

Washington, D.C. A volunteer holding Joey Massman, whose parents have left him in the nursery at the United Nations service center while they go sightseeing

Washington, D.C. A volunteer holding Joey Massman, whose parents have ...

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Accident to young mill worker. Giles Edmund Newsom (Photo October 23rd, 1912) while working in Sanders Spinning Mille i.e., Mill, Bessemer City, N.C., August 21st, 1912, a piece of the machine fell on to his foot mashing his toe. This caused him to fall on to a spinning machine and his hand went into unprotected gearing, crushing and tearing out two fingers. He told the Attorney he was 11 years old when it happened. His parents are now trying to make him 13 years old. The school census taken at the time of the accident makes him12 years old (parents' statement) and school records say the same. His school teacher thinks he is 12. His brother (see photo 3071) is not yet 11 years old. Both of the boys worked in the mill several months before the accident. His father, (R.L. Newsom) tried to compromise with the Company when he found the boy would receive the money and not the parents. The mother tried to blame the boys for getting jobs on their own hook, but she let them work several months. The aunt said "Now he's jes got to where he could be of some help to his ma an' then this happens and he can't never work no more like he oughter." Location: Bessemer City, North Carolina

Accident to young mill worker. Giles Edmund Newsom (Photo October 23rd...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 3112. In phrase "when he found the boy," the word boy is underlined on the caption card. Credit line: National Ch... More

Child with measles in tent home of his migrant parents. Edinburg, Texas

Child with measles in tent home of his migrant parents. Edinburg, Texa...

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Child in front of trailer home of migrant parents. Weslaco, Texas. See 32108-D caption

Child in front of trailer home of migrant parents. Weslaco, Texas. See...

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Showers for both babies and older children and for parents and complete laundry facilities are provided in the utility building for members of the Okeechobee migratory labor camp. Belle Glade, Florida

Showers for both babies and older children and for parents and complet...

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Children whose parents live in Sarasota trailer park. Sarasota, Florida

Children whose parents live in Sarasota trailer park. Sarasota, Florid...

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Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Greek-American soldier, formerly a material handler at the General Electric Company plant at Pittsburgh. Both parents were born in Greece; father came to the United States in 1906, mother in 1921. He was born in this country and has been in the army five months. Lihas in a decontamination outfit

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Gr...

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Minneapolis, Minnesota. Children of Swedish parents at a settlement house making games for soldiers

Minneapolis, Minnesota. Children of Swedish parents at a settlement ho...

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Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Greek-American soldier, formerly a material handler at the General Electric Company plant at Pittsburgh. Both parents were born in Greece; father came to the United States in 1906, mother in 1921. He was born in this country and has been in the army five months. Lihas at mess

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Gr...

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Mr. John Oiveira, a dairy farmer near San Leandro, California. His parents were born in Portugal but he and his son, Mr. A.J. Oliveira, who is cashier of First National Bank of San Leandro, were born in the United States. The Portuguese people have become important in the dairying business throughout the entire state of California and now control at least seventy percent of the dairy business of the state. Mr. Oliveira milks about seventy cows daily. "Our favorite stories when I was a child were those which my father and mother told us about their homeland of Portugal. My wife and I have had a good life in the U.S. and we are proud to see our son an honored man of the community. All of us, we are as American as fried chicken now."

Mr. John Oiveira, a dairy farmer near San Leandro, California. His par...

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Mr. H. Ormand, who is a leading jeweler in San Leandro, California, came to the United States from the Azores Islands twenty-three years ago when he was seventeen years old. For three years he lived in San Francisco and then moved to Oakland where he worked in a jewelry store for ten years. In 1932 he opened his own store in San Leandro. Mr. Ormond and his wife have worked long hours to build their establishment and now hold a respected position in the social and business life of San Leandro. Mr. Ormond said, "I received my education as a boy in the Azores but I have found that all the things that I learned there as well as the principles of honesty amd integrity and thrift and industry that my parents taught me have served me well in my adopted country. While I now speak a different language, all the principles of life in the United States and the Azores are the same."

Mr. H. Ormand, who is a leading jeweler in San Leandro, California, ca...

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Buffalo, New York. At the wedding of Cedelia Wrazen and Bronislaus Nowak, who are of Polish descent. They are employed at Ross Heater, makers of condensers for the Navy. He is temporarily deferred from the Army due to essential work. They apologized for the smallness of the wedding, blamed it on rationing of food, talked of how their parents' weddings had lasted for four days of feasting

Buffalo, New York. At the wedding of Cedelia Wrazen and Bronislaus Now...

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Orange, Texas. Extended school day program in the public schools. These children of working parents, arrive at the schools as early as 6 a.m. to enable parents to get to work on time. They they go back to bed on cots in the school corridor until time for the regular school day to begin. After school, recreation is conducted on a hobby basis until their parents call for them at 6 p.m.

Orange, Texas. Extended school day program in the public schools. Thes...

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Children of drought refugees camped by highway outside of Fresno, California. The parents are working in the cotton field

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Shack occupied by parents of Lon Allen. Iron River, Michigan

Shack occupied by parents of Lon Allen. Iron River, Michigan

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Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Greek-American soldier, formerly a material handler at the General Electric Company plant at Pittsburgh. Both parents were born in Greece; father came to the United States in 1906, mother in 1921. He was born in this country and has been in the army five months. Lihas, second from the left in the front rank on the drill field

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Gr...

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Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Greek-American soldier, formerly a material handler at the General Electric Company plant at Pittsburgh. Both parents were born in Greece; father came to the United States in 1906, mother in 1921. He was born in this country and has been in the army five months. Lihas and a tank

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Gr...

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Noon hour at Massachusetts Mill, Lindale, Ga. During the days following this, I proved the ages of nearly a dozen of these children, by gaining access to Family Records, Insurance papers, and through conversations with the children and parents, and found these that I could prove to be working now, or during the past year at 10 and 11 years of age, some of them having begun before they were ten. Further search would reveal dozens or more. (See Hine Report). Location: Lindale, Georgia.

Noon hour at Massachusetts Mill, Lindale, Ga. During the days followin...

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Showers for both babies and older children and parents and complete laundry facilities are provided in the utility building for members of the Osceola migratory labor camp. Belle Glade, Florida

Showers for both babies and older children and parents and complete la...

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Children asleep while their parents square dance. Pie Town, New Mexico

Children asleep while their parents square dance. Pie Town, New Mexico

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Showers for both babies and older children and parents and complete laundry facilities are provided in the utility building for members of the Okeechobee migratory labor camp. Belle Glade, Florida

Showers for both babies and older children and parents and complete la...

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Many parents and young people from the school and nearby communities attend the pie and box supper, given by the school to raise money for additional repairs and supplies. Each box or pie is auctioned off to the highest bidder, sometimes bringing a good deal, since the girl's "boyfriend" usually wins and has the privilege of eating it with her afterwards. Quicksand School, Breathitt County, Kentucky

Many parents and young people from the school and nearby communities a...

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Showers for both babies and older children and for parents and complete laundry facilities are provided in the utility building for members in the utility building for members of the Osceola migratory labor camp. Belle Glade, Florida

Showers for both babies and older children and for parents and complet...

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Showers for both babies and older children and parents and complete laundry facilities are provided in the utility building for members of the Osceola migratory labor camp. Belle Glade, Florida

Showers for both babies and older children and parents and complete la...

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Jelna likes sciences, is going to be a doctor. For Christmas her parents bought her this chemistry set. Ida B. Wells Housing Project, Chicago, Illinois

Jelna likes sciences, is going to be a doctor. For Christmas her paren...

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Los Angeles, California. Japanese-American child who is being evacuated with his parents to Owens Valley

Los Angeles, California. Japanese-American child who is being evacuate...

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Queens, New York. Nursery school at the Queensbridge housing project. Parents bring their children to the nursery in the morning

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Schenectady, New York. Fourth grade students at the Oneida School presenting a play they have written from the book Heidi. The audience is composed of neighbor children and their parents; admission is five cents. The proceeds go to the American Red Cross

Schenectady, New York. Fourth grade students at the Oneida School pres...

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Accident to young mill worker. Giles Edmund Newsom (Photo October 23rd, 1912) while working in Sanders Spinning Mille [i.e., Mill], Bessemer City, N.C., August 21st, 1912, a piece of the machine fell on to his foot mashing his toe. This caused him to fall on to a spinning machine and his hand went into unprotected gearing, crushing and tearing out two fingers. He told the Attorney he was 11 years old when it happened. His parents are now trying to make him 13 years old. The school census taken at the time of the accident makes him12 years old (parents' statement) and school records say the same. His school teacher thinks he is 12. His brother (see photo 3071) is not yet 11 years old. Both of the boys worked in the mill several months before the accident. His father, (R.L. Newsom) tried to compromise with the Company when he found the boy would receive the money and not the parents. The mother tried to blame the boys for getting jobs on their own hook, but she let them work several months. The aunt said "Now he's jes got to where he could be of some help to his ma an' then this happens and he can't never work no more like he oughter." Location: Bessemer City, North Carolina.

Accident to young mill worker. Giles Edmund Newsom (Photo October 23rd...

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Noon hour at Massachusetts Mill, Lindale Ga. During the days following this, I proved the ages of nearly a dozen of these children, by gaining access to Family Records, Life Insurance papers, and through conversations with the children and parents, and found these that I could prove to be working now, or during the past year at 10 and 11 years of age, some of them having begun before they were ten. Further search would reveal dozens more. (See Hine Report). Location: Lindale, Georgia.

Noon hour at Massachusetts Mill, Lindale Ga. During the days following...

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Eva Boylan (14 years old) Amsterdam Ave. Parents are dead. Eva is supported by an older half sister, who had tuberculosis 3 years ago, but is now cured and working in a pickle factory at 4' a week, has carfare and lunches to pay out of this and board for both of them. Scholarship holder,. Location: New York, New York (State)

Eva Boylan (14 years old) Amsterdam Ave. Parents are dead. Eva is supp...

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Parents talking over problems in one of the better homes. Williams County, North Dakota

Parents talking over problems in one of the better homes. Williams Cou...

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Corner of dance hall reserved for checking children while parents dance fais-do-do dance. Crowley, Louisiana

Corner of dance hall reserved for checking children while parents danc...

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Children playing and cutting out pictures from Sears Roebuck catalogue on kitchen floor while their parents prepare dinner for the men on cornshucking day, at home of Mrs. Fred Wilkins. Tallyho, Stem, North Carolina. Granville County. See subregional notes (Odum) November 16, 1939

Children playing and cutting out pictures from Sears Roebuck catalogue...

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