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To the worthy inhabitants of The City of New-York. Fellow Citizens, I addressed you upon a former occasion, when it was judged necessary to curb the arrogance of a few overbearing individuals among us. [Opposing the author of the piece signed, T

To the worthy inhabitants of The City of New-York. Fellow Citizens, I ...

Imprint 2.; Title.; On verso: S; Sept 16, 1774. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 1... More

U.S.S. Maine, sawing the sole piece before launching

U.S.S. Maine, sawing the sole piece before launching

Public domain photograph of a crowd, event, meeting, demonstration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bust of "Uncle Joe" Cannon which was recently placed in House office bldg. It is the only piece of statuary in that bldg.

Bust of "Uncle Joe" Cannon which was recently placed in House office b...

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

Passenger pigeon eggs at $300 a piece. Washington, D.C., Dec. 1. Since the last passenger pigeon in existence died in the Cincinnati Zoo in 1914, the eggs from the now extinct birds have become so scarce that G. Ellis Miller, of this city, is asking $300 a piece for the three perfect ones in his possession--with no takers. The eggs were left to Miller by his Grandfather from a collection made 75 years ago--when the birds flew in flocks that darkened the sun and broke branches off trees when they roosted en masse. Marjorie Beall, biology student at George Washington University, is shown studying the eggs which are kept in a display with carved birds and other eggs, 12/1/37

Passenger pigeon eggs at $300 a piece. Washington, D.C., Dec. 1. Since...

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

A black and white photo of a person holding a hammer, Texas, during Great Depression

A black and white photo of a person holding a hammer, Texas, during Gr...

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

Navajo Lodge, Datil, New Mexico. This was an old ranch house in the mountains. About thirty years ago the rancher who owned it had it dismantled and moved it piece by piece and rebuilt it at its present location. He is now dead and the house is used as a hotel principally for summer visitors

Navajo Lodge, Datil, New Mexico. This was an old ranch house in the mo...

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

Placing the first piece of casing over the concrete culvert pipe. Safe well demonstration near La Plata, Maryland. Charles County

Placing the first piece of casing over the concrete culvert pipe. Safe...

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

Fort Benning. 60 mm. mortars. A couple of experts at slowing up the Axis timetable. These two members of a machine gun crew doing post-graduate work at Fort Benning, Georgia with a 60 mm. mortar. It's a piece that can do a lot of damage, and they know how to use it

Fort Benning. 60 mm. mortars. A couple of experts at slowing up the A...

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

Manpower, junior size. Too young to help? Not the youngsters of Roanoke, Virginia. They're out to win the war by gathering up every piece of scrap metal, every bit of worn-out rubber, and all waste fats and greases in the town

Manpower, junior size. Too young to help? Not the youngsters of Roanok...

Public domain photograph - United States during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Manpower, junior size. The charge of the scrap brigade in Roanoke, Virginia includes such methods of collection as this pony cart. The patriotic and energetic youngsters of the town are making an all-out effort to corner every available piece of scrap in the city, so that their soldier and sailor brothers will have the shells, guns, and tanks with which to beat the Axis

Manpower, junior size. The charge of the scrap brigade in Roanoke, Vir...

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

Troops of the U.S. Airbourne Infantry loading a field piece o a transport plane preparatory to taking off in maneuvers in the southwestern United States

Troops of the U.S. Airbourne Infantry loading a field piece o a transp...

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

Conversion. Auto parts to aircraft landing gear. Like a sculptor working in marble, this toolmaker is carving a die (a process known as diecasting) from a piece of solid steel for use in the production of forgings for aircraft landing gear. The machining is being done in a converted Midwest automobile plant

Conversion. Auto parts to aircraft landing gear. Like a sculptor worki...

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

Slaughtering for the "black market" in meat. Shopper accepting a ration point bargain(?) piece of meat

Slaughtering for the "black market" in meat. Shopper accepting a ratio...

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

Burdine's department store, business in Miami Beach, Florida. Piece goods

Burdine's department store, business in Miami Beach, Florida. Piece go...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

President Lyndon B. Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird Johnson, loved their piece of the Pedernales River, which winds through the property that Johnson purchased in 1951 from a widowed aunt. The ranch house on the land became the "Texas White House" during Johnson's presidency in the 1960s

President Lyndon B. Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird Johnson, loved the...

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

A piece of steel from the World Trade Center, destroyed by a terrorist attack on Sept. 11, 2001 in New York City. It is displayed as a memorial at the Texas State Cemetery in Austin, Texas

A piece of steel from the World Trade Center, destroyed by a terrorist...

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

Vintage truck at Gammons Gulch, a recreated Old West town and the site of dozens of movies, commercial shoots and the like in the remote desert north of Benson in Cochise County, Arizona. The town was built piece by piece and with donations of vintage artifacts beginning in 1972 by Jay Gammons, a onetime security man at a movie studio in Tucson, northwest of here

Vintage truck at Gammons Gulch, a recreated Old West town and the site...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:005) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Caro... More

Yorktown, Virginia (vicinity). Federal soldiers in Confederate battery (protected with sand bags) south of Yorktown. 32-pdr. Navy gun in foreground, far gun - 24-pdr. siege piece

Yorktown, Virginia (vicinity). Federal soldiers in Confederate battery...

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Murphy Plantation, Piece sur piece Building, 2138 Fish Hatchery Road, Natchitoches, Natchitoches Parish, LA

Murphy Plantation, Piece sur piece Building, 2138 Fish Hatchery Road, ...

Survey number: HABS LA-1348 Public domain photograph of a barn, farm, small home in Sweden, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Piece sur piece Building (House), On dirt road off of Highway 494, about 1 1/2 miles Northwest of Bermuda, Bermuda, Natchitoches Parish, LA

Piece sur piece Building (House), On dirt road off of Highway 494, abo...

Significance: The Piece-Sur-Piece Building was a one-room plantation outbuilding, which was built with slave labor and probably used for slave housing. The building's "piece-sur-piece" construction type was pro... More

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 the 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 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 cotton mill worker. Giles Edmund Newsom (Photo Octob...

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

The piece in danger - Drawing. Public domain image.

The piece in danger - Drawing. Public domain image.

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Chaque piéce d'or apporté á la banque avance d'une heure la victoire finale

Chaque piéce d'or apporté á la banque avance d'une heure la victoire f...

Soldier with one hand on clock, the other holding a gold coin.

Part of eighty-acre farm showing cleared pasture land and uncleared piece. Bonner County, Idaho

Part of eighty-acre farm showing cleared pasture land and uncleared pi...

Public domain photograph of farm, farmer, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Selecting a piece of leather from the tempering chest. Cowboy boot shop, Alpine, Texas

Selecting a piece of leather from the tempering chest. Cowboy boot sho...

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

A black and white photo of a man holding a piece of bread. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A black and white photo of a man holding a piece of bread. Great Depre...

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

Barrage balloon manufacture. Getting supplies at the storehouse. This barrage balloon builder has come to the company's storehouse to obtain more reinforcing tape to fasten the seams of a barrage balloon. Small, but vital to production, every piece of material must pass over this counter and be recorded before issuance. The storekeeper is the only man who knows the secret formula for mixing the rubber cement combination which works most effectively in making air-tight seams. General Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio

Barrage balloon manufacture. Getting supplies at the storehouse. This ...

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

Hoffman Island, merchant marine training center off Staten Island, New York. An instructor sewing a piece of canvas

Hoffman Island, merchant marine training center off Staten Island, New...

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

Fort Benning machine gunners. A couple of experts at slowing up the Axis timetable. These two members of a machine gun crew doing post-graduate work at Fort Benning, Georgia have a fast, accurate piece, and they know how to use it

Fort Benning machine gunners. A couple of experts at slowing up the Ax...

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

A poster comes to life. "This reminds me of home" said Sergeant Vineyard as he downed another piece of Mrs. Woolslayer's devil's food cake. When refreshments were brought out, the welder and the Army Sergeant forgot all about the war and fighting and production, and embarked on a gossip session the likes of which you'll find in Iowa, Kentucky, Oregon or Vermont. As American as baseball, the Sunday afternoon visit is a friendly and democratic means of relaxation common to soldier, worker, bank president and school child alike. Proudly seated next to the Sergeant is eight-year-old Georgia Ann Woolslayer

A poster comes to life. "This reminds me of home" said Sergeant Vineya...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of the 1930s - 1940s, woman, female portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mitchell Field. Bad news for the Axis when the rear-belly turret gun of an American bomber speaks its piece. The air crew officer at the gun is equipped for any emergency of flight or combat

Mitchell Field. Bad news for the Axis when the rear-belly turret gun o...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Submarine chasers. The transom, or stern piece, of a wooden subchaser under construction at an Eastern shipyard. It has been swung into position for bolting to the after end of the sturdy oak keel. Marine Construction Company, Stamford, Connecticut

Production. Submarine chasers. The transom, or stern piece, of a woode...

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

Conversion. Automobile plant. Assembling oil distribution pipes to back shaft, flywheel, and clutch mechanism bearings of a huge 90T96 Cleveland press being relocated to perform a major operation on hood panels for 4 x 4 army trucks. The 120-ton machine was moved piece by piece from another plant that is being completely dismantled for conversion to other war production. Chevrolet Motors, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Automobile plant. Assembling oil distribution pipes to bac...

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

Gypsy Rose Lee, residence at 153 E. 63rd St., New York City. Dining room, table, fruit piece

Gypsy Rose Lee, residence at 153 E. 63rd St., New York City. Dining ro...

Picryl description: Public domain image of flowers, flower arrangement, bouquet, blooming plant, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Hearn's, business at 78 5th Ave., New York City. Piece goods department, high viewpoint

Hearn's, business at 78 5th Ave., New York City. Piece goods departmen...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Steuben Glass, business. Dragonfly glass piece III

Steuben Glass, business. Dragonfly glass piece III

Public domain photograph of New York, midcentury American architecture, 1940s-1950s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Connecticut Fire Academy in Windsor Locks, Connecticut. Piece of scrap from the World Trade Center in a memorial to the firefighters who were lost in the disaster

Connecticut Fire Academy in Windsor Locks, Connecticut. Piece of scrap...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Part of an old garage and service station at Gammons Gulch, a recreated Old West town and the site of dozens of movies, commerical shoots and the like in the remote desert north of Benson in Cochise County, Arizona. The town was built piece by piece and with donations of vintage artifacts beginning in 1972 by Jay Gammons, a onetime security man at a movie studio in Tucson, northwest of here

Part of an old garage and service station at Gammons Gulch, a recreate...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:005) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Caro... More

The Federal Theatre presents the world's greatest! circus : 200 sawdust stars, 60 acts, 30 clowns, 50 piece band, trained dogs, monkeys & ponies, "thrilling slide for life."

The Federal Theatre presents the world's greatest! circus : 200 sawdus...

Photograph by Dick (Richard) Rose, head of the Federal Theatre Project's Photographic Division. Exhibited: "Circus and the City" at the Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture, ... More

Oil roughnecks screwing one piece of drill pipe to another piece by means of a heavy pipe wrench, Kilgore, Texas

Oil roughnecks screwing one piece of drill pipe to another piece by me...

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

[Beverly Page Yates, half-length portrait, facing slightly right, seated at table, holding rolled piece of paper]

[Beverly Page Yates, half-length portrait, facing slightly right, seat...

Vice president of Liberia. Served as the Associate Justice of Liberia and the Judge of the Court of Quarter Sessions and Common Pleas for Montserrado County. Helped found the Ancient, Free, and Accepted Masons,... More

The money crisis in the South - auction sale of a five dollar gold piece at Danville near the N. Carolina border

The money crisis in the South - auction sale of a five dollar gold pie...

Wood engraving from a sketch by a Union prisoner. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 1864 Feb. 13. Reference copy may be in LOT 4402. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. C... More

[Five Pima Indians posed outside adobe house--one woman is standing with a piece of pottery on her head]

[Five Pima Indians posed outside adobe house--one woman is standing wi...

Copyright by Thresher. Public domain photograph - historical image of Arizona, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Miss Rosa D. Stone at Pan-Amer. bldg. holding a piece of Guayacan wood, 30'' in diameter which weighs 23 oz. while the Balsa wood with 402 sq. inches of surface weighs the same. Balsa is a recent importation from Latin Amer. and is used as substitute for cork. Already popular not only as filler for life-preservers but as stopper for the modern flask [Washington, D.C.]

Miss Rosa D. Stone at Pan-Amer. bldg. holding a piece of Guayacan wood...

A black and white photo of a woman standing on a sidewalk. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Not peppermint candy but an airplane strut. Washington, D.C., May 3. This piece of aluminum alloy which is used in airplane construction is shown after being in the torque machine. The pieces to be tested are locked in the vise and twisted until they break. This piece when started the lines on the pipe were parallel and ran the length of t he pipe. After coming out of the machine the lines are like a corkscrew, before the breakig point is reached. A.E. McPhereson is applying the pressure, 5/3/1937

Not peppermint candy but an airplane strut. Washington, D.C., May 3. T...

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

A young soldier of the armored forces holds and sights his Garand rifle like an old timer, Fort Knox, Ky. He likes the piece for its fine firing qualities and its rugged, dependable mechanism. Infantryman with halftrack

A young soldier of the armored forces holds and sights his Garand rifl...

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

Civilian protection. Members of the rescue parties like this worker must be prepared to reach victims of bomb raids and fallen debris and give them emergency first aid treatment. It is not always possible to remove debris by hand, therefore, rescue workers' trucks carry equipment to enable the rescue squad to shore up masonry, cut through steel or stone, shut off broken mains or tunnel through conglomerate heaps of debris. The worker here shown is using an acetylene torch to cut away a stubborn resisting piece of expanded steel

Civilian protection. Members of the rescue parties like this worker mu...

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

Andrews County, Texas. Clamping a traveling block to piece of drill pipe to be hoisted out of hole

Andrews County, Texas. Clamping a traveling block to piece of drill pi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Norton Gallery and School of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida. Detail of William Zorach piece

Norton Gallery and School of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida. Detail of ...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of a monument or sculpture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Fort Benning. Anti-tank gun crews. The infantryman, loading a 37mm anti-tank gun, trains at Fort Benning, Georgia to do many useful military chores with the this hard-hitting piece

Fort Benning. Anti-tank gun crews. The infantryman, loading a 37mm ant...

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

Road to Kokumbona Jap field piece

Road to Kokumbona Jap field piece

Drawing shows a piece of Japanese military equipment, perhaps field artillery, overturned on Guadalcanal island during World War II. Gift, Sgt. Howard J. Brodie, 1944; (DLC/PP-1944:114).

Dyna Products, 1075 Stewart Ave., Garden City, Long Island. Ear piece I

Dyna Products, 1075 Stewart Ave., Garden City, Long Island. Ear piece ...

Public domain photograph of life and commerce in the New YorkCity in1940s-1950s, interiors, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Piece of the Berlin Wall, photographed at the Newseum museum in Arlington, Virginia, before it moved to a new location on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C.

Piece of the Berlin Wall, photographed at the Newseum museum in Arling...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

[A Russian officer and a Japanese officer are standing on a large map, the Japanese officer has pulled up a piece of the map causing the Russian officer to slip and fall]

[A Russian officer and a Japanese officer are standing on a large map,...

Signed on block by artist in lower right, includes chop. Includes extensive Japanese text. Descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Nihon ban... More

Yorktown, Virginia (vicinity). Federal soldiers in Confederate battery (protected with sand bags) south of Yorktown. 32-pdr. Navy gun in foreground, far gun - 24-pdr. siege piece

Yorktown, Virginia (vicinity). Federal soldiers in Confederate battery...

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

The Federal Theatre presents the world's greatest! circus : 200 sawdust stars, 60 acts, 30 clowns, 50 piece band, trained dogs, monkeys & ponies, "thrilling slide for life."

The Federal Theatre presents the world's greatest! circus : 200 sawdus...

Photograph by Dick (Richard) Rose, head of the Federal Theatre Project's Photographic Division. Exhibited: "Circus and the City" at the Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture, ... More

Miss Mary Taylor & Mr. F.S. Chanfrau - in the new piece called "A glance at New York" / J.L.M. delt. ; J. Baillie Lith.

Miss Mary Taylor & Mr. F.S. Chanfrau - in the new piece called "A glan...

Print shows Miss Taylor and Mr. Chanfrau standing next to each other outside a building; he is wearing an apron, has his right arm on her shoulders, and is holding her left hand. She is gazing up at him.

Piece sur piece Building (House), On dirt road off of Highway 494, about 1 1/2 miles Northwest of Bermuda, Bermuda, Natchitoches Parish, LA

Piece sur piece Building (House), On dirt road off of Highway 494, abo...

Significance: The Piece-Sur-Piece Building was a one-room plantation outbuilding, which was built with slave labor and probably used for slave housing. The building's "piece-sur-piece" construction type was pro... More

G.K. [i.e., George Kennan] in Siberian exile dress, each piece given by an exile from the dress he had worn

G.K. [i.e., George Kennan] in Siberian exile dress, each piece given b...

Photo by Richards, Medina, N.Y. Transfer; Manuscript Division (George Kennan Papers); 1973; (DLC/PP-1973:080). Forms part of: George Kennan Papers.

Rembrandt van Rijn - [Adoration of the shepherds: night piece]

Rembrandt van Rijn - [Adoration of the shepherds: night piece]

Print shows a group of shepherds, one at center holding a lantern and removing his hat, stand to the left with Mary, Jesus, and Joseph at the edge of the shadows on the right. Title from shelflist card. Trimmed... More

[Saint with Madonna and child sculpture and altar piece]

[Saint with Madonna and child sculpture and altar piece]

Public domain photograph of statue, sculpture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Denies that helping Richard Whitney got him business. Washington, D.C., Dec. 14. Charles E. Mitchell, Chairman of the Board of Blyth and Co. Inc., and former Chairman of the National City Bank of New York, testified before the Federal Monopoly Committee today that he was influential in having George Whitney appointed to the Board of Trustees of the consolidated Edison Co., but denied that this helped him obtain a $33,750,000 piece of consolidated financing. 'Like a lot of other people of the street, I claim a lot of things that are the bunk,' he said. 'Put those claims aside and base my getting the business on my long relationship with consolidated

Denies that helping Richard Whitney got him business. Washington, D.C....

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

[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 Octo...

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

A French heavy artillery piece, which aided American division to take Cantigny, near Montdidier

A French heavy artillery piece, which aided American division to take ...

Showing clever camouflage, manner of digging in, etc. Shell on right, and part of shell wrecked home to the left, May 26, 1918. A535054 U.S. Copyright Office Photoprint copyrighted by Vergil J. Morris. A C-2. T... More

Of a family of 7 children, all but 2 work stringing tags. The oldest child is 12. The nurse of the school which these children attend, reports that they are continually being sent home because of their dirty condition. A little fellow who looked about 6 was quite an expert. The children received 20 cents for stringing a thousand tage [i.e., tags] - they tie a knot in a piece of string, and run the string thru [sic] the tag. They moisten the ends of their fingers in their mouths to tie the knots. They can string about a thousand tags in half an hour. One member of a second family which is stringing tags has impetigo, or skin disease, according to the school nurse. Location: Newark, New Jersey.

Of a family of 7 children, all but 2 work stringing tags. The oldest c...

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

Iraq. Lady Surma, Mr. Pudley & Reverend John B. Panfil. Man in boat with one piece oar

Iraq. Lady Surma, Mr. Pudley & Reverend John B. Panfil. Man in boat wi...

Public domain photograph, 1930s-1940s Jerusalem, Palestine, History of Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rural arts exhibition held under the auspices of the Farm Security Administration (FSA) in the patio of the U.S. Department of Agriculture building. Left: photograph of chairmaker by Doris Ulmann; chair, Kentucky; basket, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands; wooden chains made from one single piece of wood twenty feet long, Iowa; Right: basket, Hawaii; shovel and pitchfork, Connecticut; rawhide bottom chair, Texas; Garden of Eden carved by New Mexico Indians; wall hanging, WPA (Works Progress Administration),

Rural arts exhibition held under the auspices of the Farm Security Adm...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a great depression era, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Cutting out heel of the upper from piece of leather. Bootmaking shop, Alpine, Texas

Cutting out heel of the upper from piece of leather. Bootmaking shop, ...

Public domain photograph of leather object, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Trimming sole after second piece of leather has been attached with wooden pegs. Cowboy bootmaking shop, Alpine, Texas

Trimming sole after second piece of leather has been attached with woo...

Public domain photograph of leather object, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pomp Hall, Negro tenant farmer, repairing piece of tin which covers window of his house. Creek County, Oklahoma

Pomp Hall, Negro tenant farmer, repairing piece of tin which covers wi...

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

The air raid protective services. Rescue squads must often remove debris piece by piece to get to entrapped victims

The air raid protective services. Rescue squads must often remove debr...

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

Fort Benning. Anti-tank gun crews. Bad news for Axis tanks. The crew of a 57mm anti-tank gun, one of many in training at Fort Benning, Georgia already handle their piece with the snap and precision of an old timer

Fort Benning. Anti-tank gun crews. Bad news for Axis tanks. The crew o...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an artillery gun, cannon, weapon, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. This is an inverted bull clock, a modern piece of equipment in a brass and copper mill for drawing large diameter wire. As the wire leaves the machine, it is automatically coiled for easy handling. Most frequently it is redrawn to smaller diameters, though there are many uses for heavy wire, too. Chase Brass and Copper Company, Euclid, Ohio

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. This is an inverted bull cloc...

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Manpower, junior size. A couple of husky junior commandos add to a neighborhood scrap pile in Roanoke, Virginia. Bedsprings, coal buckets, bird cages, stoves--no piece of unused metal is safe from the hands of these patriotic youngsters who are out to see that their older brothers in the armed forces have the guns, ships, and ammunition they need to beat the Axis

Manpower, junior size. A couple of husky junior commandos add to a nei...

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

Andrews County, Texas. Attaching clamps to piece of drill pipe which will be hoisted out of hole

Andrews County, Texas. Attaching clamps to piece of drill pipe which w...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mitchell Field. Bad news for the Axis when the rear-belly turret gun of an American bomber speaks its piece. The air crew officer at the gun is equipped for any emergency of flight or combat

Mitchell Field. Bad news for the Axis when the rear-belly turret gun o...

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Hearn's, business at 78 5th Ave., New York City. Piece goods department, counter detail

Hearn's, business at 78 5th Ave., New York City. Piece goods departmen...

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Dyna Products, 1075 Stewart Ave., Garden City, Long Island. Ear piece III

Dyna Products, 1075 Stewart Ave., Garden City, Long Island. Ear piece ...

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Warper Al Zarky "making a warp"; the large circular piece of equipment is called a "warping frame," it was manufactured in Paterson by the Sipp Machine Company.

Warper Al Zarky "making a warp"; the large circular piece of equipment...

Forms part of a group of images recorded on August 16, documenting scenes at the Joseph Teshon, Inc., jacquard-weaving mill, 196-200 21st Avenue, Paterson.

Piece of wallpaper from the box Abraham Lincoln was sitting in when assassinated. Artifact in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Theatre National Historic Site, Washington, D.C.

Piece of wallpaper from the box Abraham Lincoln was sitting in when as...

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

A neon sign along 5th Street in Amarillo, Texas, where a piece of historic U.S. Route 66 still runs through town

A neon sign along 5th Street in Amarillo, Texas, where a piece of hist...

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

Barber shop at Gammons Gulch, a recreated Old West town and the site of dozens of movies, commercial shoots and the like in the remote desert north of Benson in Cochise County, Arizona. The town was built piece by piece and with donations of vintage artifacts beginning in 1972 by Jay Gammons, a onetime security man at a movie studio in Tucson, northwest of here

Barber shop at Gammons Gulch, a recreated Old West town and the site o...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:005) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Caro... More

Fruit and flower piece - Engraving, Public domain image

Fruit and flower piece - Engraving, Public domain image

Artist: Frances F. Palmer. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2340

Murphy Plantation, Piece sur piece Building, 2138 Fish Hatchery Road, Natchitoches, Natchitoches Parish, LA

Murphy Plantation, Piece sur piece Building, 2138 Fish Hatchery Road, ...

Survey number: HABS LA-1348 Public domain photograph - historical image of Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rembrandt van Rijn - [Flight into Egypt: night piece]

Rembrandt van Rijn - [Flight into Egypt: night piece]

Print shows Joseph, holding a lantern, leading a donkey on which Mary and Jesus are riding. Title from shelflist card. Paper shows a watermark of three balls on the right margin. Ex. Coll.: J.A. Boerner (Lugt 2... More

A Garden bean in one lobe of wch. the seminal root is layed bare, the radical cut transversly, [and] a piece of ye true skin

A Garden bean in one lobe of wch. the seminal root is layed bare, the ...

Cross-section of a bean based on microscope examination. Illus. in: The anatomy of plants / Nehemiah Grew. [London] : Printed by W. Rawlins, for the author, 1682, plate 79. Published in: The tradition of scienc... More

Characters in the new piece now poforming [sic] at the Theatre Royal Cotten Garden 1820, British Cartoon Print

Characters in the new piece now poforming [sic] at the Theatre Royal C...

Print shows 16 vignettes regarding the collection of evidence, the infamous "green bags" documenting the affair between Caroline and Bartolomeo Bergami, for the attempt by George IV to divorce his wife. Forms ... More

A piercing piece of loco foco hocus pocus

A piercing piece of loco foco hocus pocus

The title plays on Franklin Pierce's last name, at the expense of Whig presidential hopefuls Millard Fillmore, Winfield Scott, and Daniel Webster. The print was probably published shortly after the June 1852 Wh... More

Delegates from Lakeland, Fla., to the convention of realtors meeting in Wash. present Pres. Coolidge with a box of oranges and grapefruit, each piece of fruit bears a picture of the Pres. Pres. Coolidge in the grp. [White House, Washington, D.C.]

Delegates from Lakeland, Fla., to the convention of realtors meeting i...

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

May make cash levy on lynching. These members of the Senate Judiciary Sub-committee considering the Costigan-Wagner Anti-Lynching Bill may report our a piece of legislation calling for a levy of from $2,000 to $10,000 against a county in which a lynching occurs to be paid to relatives of the victim. From the left: Sen. Edward P. Costigan, D. of Colo.; Sen. Frederick Van Nuys, D. of Ind.; Sen. Joseph F. Guffy, D. of Pennsylvania, and Sen. William H. Dieterrich, D. of Ill. 2/14/35

May make cash levy on lynching. These members of the Senate Judiciary ...

A group of men sitting around a table. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Farm wagehand (day laborer, seventy-five cents per day) and his young wife looking at remains of their home (on three acre piece of land owned by his mother) which had just burned to the ground. Greene County, Georgia

Farm wagehand (day laborer, seventy-five cents per day) and his young ...

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Attaching piece of leather in arch of sole by means of wooden pegs. Cowboy bootmaking shop, Alpine, Texas

Attaching piece of leather in arch of sole by means of wooden pegs. Co...

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A black and white photo of a person using a sewing machine, Texas, during Great Depression

A black and white photo of a person using a sewing machine, Texas, dur...

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

Stretching piece of leather which forms the foot across the sole. Cowboy boot shop, Alpine, Texas

Stretching piece of leather which forms the foot across the sole. Cowb...

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Member of the Casa Grande Valley Farms shaping a piece of tin to repair the hay chopper. Pinal County, Arizona

Member of the Casa Grande Valley Farms shaping a piece of tin to repai...

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

FIRST LADY SLICES PRESIDENT'S BIRTHDAY CAKE. WASHINGTON, D.C. JANUARY 30. MRS. ROOSEVELT HOLDS ALOFT A PIECE OF THE PRESIDENT'S BIRTHDAY CAKE AFTER SLICING IT AT THE MAYFLOWER HOTEL TONIGHT TO CLIMAX HER VISITS TO MANY OF THE BIRTHDAY BALLS BEING HELD IN THE CAPITAL. GLORIA JEAN, JUVENILE MOVIE STAR, IS PICTURED WITH MRS. ROOSEVELT

FIRST LADY SLICES PRESIDENT'S BIRTHDAY CAKE. WASHINGTON, D.C. JANUARY ...

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

Piece of ore in hand of prospector, Pinos Altos, New Mexico

Piece of ore in hand of prospector, Pinos Altos, New Mexico

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

Production. Halftrac armoured cars. Straightening a piece of steel plate that will be used in the production of a body for a halftrac scout car. Great numbers of bodies are turned out in this plant, which formerly made locks and safes. Diebold Safe and Lock Company, Canton, Ohio

Production. Halftrac armoured cars. Straightening a piece of steel pla...

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Ware shipped to the Army Quartermaster has straw placed between each piece and is then packed in large wooden barrels. Shenango Pottery Works, Newcastle, Pennsylvania

Ware shipped to the Army Quartermaster has straw placed between each p...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of 3d object, pottery, ceramics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Detail of bottom corner of screen door before applying screen. The bottom piece is 5/4 by 3 inches. Charles County, La Plata, Maryland. Screening demonstration

Detail of bottom corner of screen door before applying screen. The bot...

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

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