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Halibut ready for shipment - 65,000 pounds, Alaska - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Halibut ready for shipment - 65,000 pounds, Alaska - Frank G. Carpente...

Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.

William Tobias 80 Grattan St., Brooklyn -12 yrs old. Boy was starting for the subway to sell papers on "trains until 6 A.M. "Cause termorrer dey haint no school and I kin sleep all day and sell again at night." "All de barkeepers is me customers." Asked him how he could sell at night. "I just keep out'n de way of de cops." Weighs 60 pounds. Tall for age. Location: New York--Brooklyn, New York (State)

William Tobias 80 Grattan St., Brooklyn -12 yrs old. Boy was starting ...

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

Hard Workers. Grady Carroll, nine year old cotton picker. He picks two hundred pounds a day. Brother Ed, ten years old picks three hundred pounds a day. Another brother thirteen years old picks four hundred pounds. Mother picks three hundred. Adults pick about five hundred pounds, getting $1.00 a hundred. The father rents the farm. Location: Waxahachie vicinity, Texas

Hard Workers. Grady Carroll, nine year old cotton picker. He picks two...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3677. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Smallest member A.E.F. pickets Capitol. Washington, D.C., May 26. The world's smallest "doughboy", Nicholas Casele, of Newark, N.J., began to picket the U.S. Capitol today and announced he would continue until congress grants him a medal as compensation for his allged illegal draft into the army. Casele served more than a year overseas, fighting in seven major battles. He contends the draft law provided for a minimum height 5 feet 3 inches and 110 pounds of weight while scaled only 4 feet 10 inches and weighed only 104 pounds, 5/26/37

Smallest member A.E.F. pickets Capitol. Washington, D.C., May 26. The ...

A man holding a sign in front of a building. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Shenandoah (vicinity), Pennsylvania. A compressed air engine approaching with a train of cars in the Maple Hill mine. The pipes beside the track carry eight hundred pounds and there are valves for refueling every quarter mile. Compressed air is piped down from the surface

Shenandoah (vicinity), Pennsylvania. A compressed air engine approachi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an arch stone structure, bridge, or tunnel, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Cheese party for statesmen. Washington, D.C., June 4. The famous swiss cheese from The Star Valley of Wyoming was the piece of resistance at the Capitol today for the members of Congress and other high government officials hailing from the state. The cheese weighed 250 pounds. Left to right: Rep. Paul R. Greener; Sen. Joseph D. O'Mahoney; Thurman Arnold, Assistant Attorney General; Fred W. Johnson, Commisioner, General Land office; and Senator H.H. Schwartz, 6/4/38

Cheese party for statesmen. Washington, D.C., June 4. The famous swiss...

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

Migratory field worker picking cotton in San Joaquin Valley, California. These pickers are paid seventy-five cents per hundred pounds of picked cotton. Strikers organizing under CIO union (Congress of Industrial Organizations) are demanding one dollar. A good male picker, in good cotton, under favorable weather conditions, can pick about two hundred pounds in a day's work

Migratory field worker picking cotton in San Joaquin Valley, Californi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of industrial or agricultural worker, 1930s, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

Paymaster on edge of pea fields pays a quarter for every hamper of thirty pounds brought to the scale. Near Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California

Paymaster on edge of pea fields pays a quarter for every hamper of thi...

Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

"Riders" bring in the sacks of cotton on mule's back from the field to the wagon where it is unloaded and weighed. This is day labor brought in from Greenville, and the pickers receive seventy-five cents per one hundred pounds, on Nugent Plantation, Benoit, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

"Riders" bring in the sacks of cotton on mule's back from the field to...

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

Holstein cow at Casa Grande Valley Farms. Pinal County, Arizona. She yielded 497 pounds of butterfat in 370 days. On test 77 cows of the Casa Grande Farm yielded an average of 386 pounds of butter fat in 365 days. This was the highest in the state for that many cows

Holstein cow at Casa Grande Valley Farms. Pinal County, Arizona. She y...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Migratory agricultural workers getting in line to be paid for picking beans. They get seven cents a hundred pounds

Migratory agricultural workers getting in line to be paid for picking ...

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

Picryl description: Public domain image of fire insurance plan / map, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Picryl description: Public domain image of fire insurance plan / map, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a fire insurance map, fire insurance plan, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Synthetic rubber (Ameripol). This is finished synthetic rubber, ready for shipment in large paper drums holding 200 pounds each. It is about to leave the Akron, Ohio synthetic rubber plant of the B. F. Goodrich Company

Synthetic rubber (Ameripol). This is finished synthetic rubber, ready ...

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

Plywood autographic registers. Plywood used in the new "Victory" model autographic registers is inspected by Nathaniel G. Burleigh (right), director of Service Equipment Division of War Production Board (WPB), and a company representative. The old model (left) contains seventeen and a half pounds of steel, as contrasted with the war model which contains only five ounces of critical metal

Plywood autographic registers. Plywood used in the new "Victory" model...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

When the weight of a rationed product does not come out to even pounds, the point fraction table at the bottom of the official consumer table show point values for ounces. If the odd weight comes out to a fraction of a point, a retailer can collect an extra point if it is a half point or more. But if it is less, the customer does not need to give up an additional point

When the weight of a rationed product does not come out to even pounds...

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

The enormous, high-definition video screen stretching from one 20-yard line to the other and weighing 1.2 million pounds, at the Cowboys' home field AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, is so hard to miss that team employees say many fans watch the whole game on it, rather than by watching the live action on the field below

The enormous, high-definition video screen stretching from one 20-yard...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

Millie, four years old and Nellie five years old. Cotton pickers on a farm near Houston, Millie picks eight pounds a day and Nellie thirty pounds. This is nearly every day. Home conditions bare and bad. Location: Houston [vicinity], Texas.

Millie, four years old and Nellie five years old. Cotton pickers on a ...

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

South-Carolina. Know all men by these presents that we are held and firmly bound unto his Excellency ... in the full and just sum of two thousand pounds sterling money of Great-Britain, to be paid to the said governor .... and dated the day of A

South-Carolina. Know all men by these presents that we are held and fi...

Blankform of bound filled in in mss and dated Mar 4, 1767.; Copy 2 attached is dated in mss Apr. 18 1767.; Not in Evans. Page Order: Leaflet Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms:... More

Hard Workers. Grady Carroll, nine year old cotton picker. He picks two hundred pounds a day. Brother Ed, ten years old picks three hundred pounds a day. Another brother thirteen years old picks four hundred pounds. Mother picks three hundred. Adults pick about five hundred pounds, getting $1.00 a hundred. The father rents the farm. Location: Waxahachie [vicinity], Texas.

Hard Workers. Grady Carroll, nine year old cotton picker. He picks two...

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

Callie Campbell, 11 years old, picks 75 to 125 pounds of cotton a day, and totes 50 pounds of it when sack gets full. "No, I don't like it very much." See 4590. Lewis W. Hine. See W.H. Swift Report. Location: Potawotamie County, Oklahoma.

Callie Campbell, 11 years old, picks 75 to 125 pounds of cotton a day,...

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

, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

Picryl description: Public domain image of a fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Emptying potatoes from baskets into bags. Each bag takes two baskets and weighs about seventy pounds, ten pounds of which are calculated as culls. Near East Grand Forks, Minnesota

Emptying potatoes from baskets into bags. Each bag takes two baskets a...

Picryl description: Public domain image of working farmers, agriculture, farm, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A couple of men standing on top of a boat, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A couple of men standing on top of a boat, Great Depression. FSA/OWI P...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Kern County, California. Undernourished cotton picker's child listening to speeches of organizer at strike meeting to raise wages from seventy-five cents to ninety cents a hundred pounds. Strike unsuccessful

Kern County, California. Undernourished cotton picker's child listenin...

Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A group of people standing around a truck, Mississippi. Farmers during Great Depression.

A group of people standing around a truck, Mississippi. Farmers during...

Public domain photograph of Great Depression, farm, farmer, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Oregon, Marion County, near West Stayton. Weighing beans at scales on edge of field. Rate: one dollar per 100 pounds. General caption 46

Oregon, Marion County, near West Stayton. Weighing beans at scales on ...

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

The annual barrel rolling contest. Each barrel has two hundred pounds of potatoes in it. Presque Isle, Maine

The annual barrel rolling contest. Each barrel has two hundred pounds ...

Aircraft. Naval. The Brewster "Buccaneer" (SB2A-1) is used by the Navy as scout dive bomber and escort plane. It is powered by a single-row Wright cyclone engine of 1,650 horsepower, has a top speed of about 350 miles per hour, a range of about 1,000 miles and a load capacity up to 11,000 pounds

Aircraft. Naval. The Brewster "Buccaneer" (SB2A-1) is used by the Navy...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Old gates turned in for scrap. Inspecting the gates of the old McLean Mansion, now government property, which are to be torn down for scrap. Left to right: Lessing J. Rosenwald, director, War Production Board (WPB) Conservation Division; Robert C. Waldie, project manager, Defense Homes Corporation; Clifton E. Mack, director, Procurement Division, Treasury Department. The old gates and the iron fence in front of the property will add 40,000 pounds to the nation's scrap pile

Old gates turned in for scrap. Inspecting the gates of the old McLean ...

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

Aircraft lifeboat manufacture. Inflatable seven-man boat for use with Uncle Sam's military aircraft is held aloft by women workers. While boat weighs only approximately fifty pounds and takes up but four or five cubic feet, when packed, it may be inflated almost instantly in case of emergency. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Aircraft lifeboat manufacture. Inflatable seven-man boat for use with ...

Public domain photograph of the 1930s-1940s World War Two, armed forces, military production, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

General Tom Thumb: born in 1832, is 18 inches high, and weighs only 15 pounds

General Tom Thumb: born in 1832, is 18 inches high, and weighs only 15...

Artist: after a daguerreotype by John Plumbe, Jr. (signature on image). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2463(A)

[Callie Campbell, 11 years old, picks 75 to 125 pounds of cotton a day, and totes 50 pounds of it when sack gets full. "No, I don't like it very much." See 4590. Lewis W. Hine. See W.H. Swift Report.] Location: [Potawotamie County, Oklahoma].

[Callie Campbell, 11 years old, picks 75 to 125 pounds of cotton a day...

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

Dovey Kirkpatrick, 5 years old, picks 15 pounds of cotton a day (average) Mother said: "She jess works fer pleasure." See photos 4555 to 4557. Location: Comanche County, Oklahoma / Lewis W. Hine.

Dovey Kirkpatrick, 5 years old, picks 15 pounds of cotton a day (avera...

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

The House of representatives, apprehending it of importance, that the Governour's objections to a bill, reducing the salary of the governour from eleven hundred to eight hundred pounds ... Done in Court-Street Boston, by Edward Eveleth Powars, 1

The House of representatives, apprehending it of importance, that the ...

Not in Ford. 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 43, Folder 7.

J.B. Pine, Lewis H. Pounds, George McAneney, G.F. Kunz

J.B. Pine, Lewis H. Pounds, George McAneney, G.F. Kunz

Photograph shows John B. Pine (left), Borough president Lewis H. Pounds from Brooklyn, George McAneny and Dr. George F. Kunz at the raising of the flag of New York City on May 4, 1916. (Source: Flickr Commons p... More

Family of C.J. Walker, Route 2, Box 78, Geronimo, Oklahoma. 6-year old Jewel and 5-year old Harold picks 20 to 25 pounds of cotton a day. Father said: "I promised em a little wagon if they'd pick steady, and now they have half a bagful in just a little while." The 3-year old is learning to pick. Father is a renter on shares: gives 1/4 of his cotton for rent, and 1/3 of his corn. Has 20 acres in cotton. Location: Comanche County--[Geronimo], Oklahoma / Lewis W. Hine.

Family of C.J. Walker, Route 2, Box 78, Geronimo, Oklahoma. 6-year old...

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

[Children of Mrs. Lawrence, a renter near Tinney, Okla. They go to Prairie Lee School. Beula is 13 years old and picks about 200 pounds a day when cotton is good. She drags and carries a bag that holds 50 pounds and more before it is emptied. Norma is 10 years old and picks from 100 to 150 pounds a day. Drags the sack which often holds 50 pounds or more before emptied. Randall is 9 years old; has picked over 100 pounds a day--usually less. He does not carry quite so large a sackful as his sisters.] Location: [Comanche County, Oklahoma]. / Lewis W. Hine.

[Children of Mrs. Lawrence, a renter near Tinney, Okla. They go to Pra...

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

Herschel Bonham, Route A, Box 118, an 11-year-old boy cultivating peas. He belongs to a cotton club in school. Father says he can pick 200 pounds of cotton a day. Location: Lawton, Oklahoma / Lewis W. Hine.

Herschel Bonham, Route A, Box 118, an 11-year-old boy cultivating peas...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farm, farmer, agriculture, early 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Gathering meteorological data from stratosphere. Dr. L.F. Curtiss, of the U.S. Bureau of Standards, is shown here with part of the equipment he uses in experiments using radio to gather meteorological data at great altitudes. The complete radio apparatus for attachment to a balloon weighs less than two pounds, and preliminary trials show that the signals can be heard clearly at altitudes of 14 miles and at distances of 80 miles. A direction finder [...]bles experimenters to determine the location [...] he balloon the instant the radio wave is [...] out. 10/17/35

Gathering meteorological data from stratosphere. Dr. L.F. Curtiss, of ...

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

A black and white photo of a man on a boat, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a man on a boat, Great Depression. FSA/OWI ...

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

A black and white photo of a man standing on top of a truck, Mississippi. Farmers during Great Depression.

A black and white photo of a man standing on top of a truck, Mississip...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train tracks, rail transportation, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mrs. Watkins has two milk cows. She sells eight to ten pounds of butter each week. FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower, Coffee County, Alabama

Mrs. Watkins has two milk cows. She sells eight to ten pounds of butte...

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

An old black and white photo of a family. Office of War Information Photograph

An old black and white photo of a family. Office of War Information Ph...

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

Giant tire manufacturer. Giant vulcanizer used in the vulcanization of bullet-sealing gasoline tanks, eight-foot high bomber tires and huge 3,600-pound earth mover tires. This unit at a large Eastern tire plant is the largest of its kind in the world. It must be thoroughly and constantly inspected as it is in frequent service on war production. Here the inspector is checking the steam and pressure fittings. The mold, when open, stands more than two-and-a-half stories high and weighs over 300,000 pounds. Firestone

Giant tire manufacturer. Giant vulcanizer used in the vulcanization of...

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

Production. Plywood for aircraft and boats. Making plywood panels for combat planes and boats. A huge hydraulic press operating at high temperature and a pressure of 250 pounds per square inch attaches glue-surfaced veneer sheets to lumber-core panels to make high-grade plywood for Army and Navy uses. Louisville, Kentucky

Production. Plywood for aircraft and boats. Making plywood panels for ...

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

New oversize trailer for war workers. Here's an answer to the problem of transporting defense workers to outlying defense plants. It's the new, oversize bus trailer made almost entirely of non-critical materials which held its Washington premiere on April 13. Hauled by an ordinary one-and-a-half-ton truck tractor, it holds 141 persons and was designed and built by Office of Defense Transportation and War Production Board (WPB) officials with the cooperation of private companies. Weight of the trailer is 12,000 pounds as compared with 17,000 pounds for a standard type 40-passenger city bus. The complete unit is fifty-five feet long

New oversize trailer for war workers. Here's an answer to the problem ...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

"Here's where your parachute came from," Deena Clark, civilian defense volunteer tells Technical Sergeant Leo Matkins of the Army Air Corps. The worn out nylon stockings in this barrel full of salvaged stockings will be reprocessed and made into parachutes for army fliers, tow ropes for glider planes and other war material. The worn out silk stockings return to service as powder bags for the Army's big guns. The collection is typical of the thousands of salvage stations in retail stores throughout the country, which have collected 626,127 pounds of old silk and nylon stockings in three months. The campaign is directed by local salvage committees

"Here's where your parachute came from," Deena Clark, civilian defense...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to politics, political campaigns, committee, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Synthetic rubber (Ameripol). Now thoroughly dried, these sheets of synthetic rubber are packed in larger paper drums, each holding 200 pounds for shipment. Goodrich

Synthetic rubber (Ameripol). Now thoroughly dried, these sheets of syn...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory worker, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. Valuable mica is packed for shipment to the United States from India. Mica is essential in the manufacture of aircraft, some sixteen pounds being used in each bomber. It is furnished to the United States on a reverse lend-lease basis and enjoys top priority of transport

United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. Valuable mica is ...

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.

Edna Smilley, R.D. 1. Eighteen years old and sister seven years old pick seventy-five pounds of cotton a day. "We'd ruther do anything than pick cotton," Edna said. Schools open November 1st. Location: Denison, Texas.

Edna Smilley, R.D. 1. Eighteen years old and sister seven years old pi...

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

Miss Susan Barton: the mammoth lady, as exhibited at Barnum's American Museum, New York 1849, weight 576 pounds

Miss Susan Barton: the mammoth lady, as exhibited at Barnum's American...

Gale, 4524 Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

6-year old Warren Frakes. Mother said he picked 41 pounds yesterday "An I don't make him pick; he picked some last year." Has about 20 pounds in his bag. See 4574. Location: Comanche County, Oklahoma / Lewis W. Hine.

6-year old Warren Frakes. Mother said he picked 41 pounds yesterday "A...

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

Johnnie, Carrie and Jim Davenport picking cotton for Mr. J.P. Daws, Route 1, Shawnee. Johnnie picks 75 pounds, Carrie 100 pounds and Jim 150 to 200 pounds a day. Get $1.00 a hundred pounds. No school yet. Mother is a renter; moves about a great deal. Lewis W. Hine. See W.H. Swift Report. Location: Potawotamie County, Oklahoma.

Johnnie, Carrie and Jim Davenport picking cotton for Mr. J.P. Daws, Ro...

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

The giant "King Crab" of the Bering Sea, which before the war supplied a substantial amount of the canned crab meat which the Japanese sold to the United States, will be canned commercially by Americans for the first time this year. Prior to the war the Japanese were taking the "King Crab" in sight of American territory, canning it on floating canneries, and shipping it to the United States for sale. In one pre-war year alone we imported 10,720,000 pounds of crab meat valued at 4,582,000 dollars from Japan and ninety-five percent of our canned crab meat came from this source

The giant "King Crab" of the Bering Sea, which before the war supplied...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Migratory cotton pickers on small cotton farm, Kern County, California. They are paid senty-five cents per one hundred pounds of picked cotton

Migratory cotton pickers on small cotton farm, Kern County, California...

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Migratory field worker picking cotton in San Joaquin Valley, California. These cotton pickers are being paid seventy-five cents per one hundred pounds. Strikers organizing under the Congress of Industrial Organizations union (CIO) demand one dollar. A good male picker, in good cotton, under favorable weather conditions, can pick about two hundred pounds in a day's work

Migratory field worker picking cotton in San Joaquin Valley, Californi...

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

One year of reciprocal aid. Australian beef cattle on the long trek that leads to an American Army mess. Under reciprocal lend-lease, our armed forces have received from Australia 26,900,000 pounds of beaf and veal, lamb, mutton and pork, 20,000,000 pounds of potatoes, 1,800,000 dozens of eggs and 5,464,000 quarts of milk, and many other foodstuffs

One year of reciprocal aid. Australian beef cattle on the long trek th...

Public domain image of a rural landscape, agriculture, farm animals, livestock, pasture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

The annual barrel rolling contest. Each barrel has two hundred pounds in it. Presque Isle, Maine

The annual barrel rolling contest. Each barrel has two hundred pounds ...

Migratory agricultural workers picking beans at seven cents a hundred pounds in a field near Statensville, Delaware

Migratory agricultural workers picking beans at seven cents a hundred ...

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

One year of reciprocal aid. Australian beef cattle on the long trek that leads to an American Army mess. Under reciprocal lend-lease, our armed forces have received from Australia 26,900,000 pounds of beaf and veal, lamb, mutton and pork, 20,000,000 pounds of potatoes, 1,800,000 dozens of eggs and 5,464,000 quarts of milk, and many other foodstuffs

One year of reciprocal aid. Australian beef cattle on the long trek th...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Image source: Official Australian photo. Title and other information from caption card. Trans... More

Packing butter into tubs at the Dairymen's Cooperative Creamery. Caldwell, Canyon County, Idaho. This co-op is sixteen years old. During the year of 1940 nearly 4,000,000 pounds of butter fat were received at the creamery

Packing butter into tubs at the Dairymen's Cooperative Creamery. Caldw...

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

Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Four-year-old guayule plants. An acre of mature shrubs will yield from 1800 to 2500 pounds of rubber

Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Four-year-old ...

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

Make your scrap tires save lives. Slacker. The approximately ten pounds of rubber in this old tire should be helping the war effort. If the casing is still usable it should be on a car in active service. If it cannot be reconditioned it should be turned in at a local salvage center for forwarding to a rubber reclamation plant. The rubber in this tire is about equal in weight to the rubber used in making a three-men aviation life raft

Make your scrap tires save lives. Slacker. The approximately ten pound...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an automobile, 1940s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Agriculture. Women on farms. There's a feminine hand at the controls of many of America's activities these days. Like many other farm wives whose husbands are engaged in war work, Mrs. William Wood manages a 120 acre farm in Colona, Michigan, with little male assistance. With a crop of corn, tomatoes and rasberries to harvest, she still finds time to care for her own Victory garden and to attend a first-aid class. And for the scrap drive Mrs. Wood salvaged 1,600 pounds of outworn metal and rubber articles from the farm, and contributed them to her local collection agency

Agriculture. Women on farms. There's a feminine hand at the controls o...

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

Production. Mercury. Filling flasks of triple-distilled mercury at a New Idria, California extraction plant. Each flask contains seventy-six pounds of mercury. Triple-distilled mercury is produced here by the New Idria Quicksilver Mining Company from cinnabar, an ore containing sulfur and mercury, mined at a number of workings near the plant

Production. Mercury. Filling flasks of triple-distilled mercury at a N...

Picryl description: Public domain image of workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Zinc. Jumbo blocks of lead weighing 2,500 pounds each at a large smelting operation. From the Eagle-Picher plant near Cardin, Oklahoma, come great quantities of zinc and lead to serve many important purposes in the war effort

Production. Zinc. Jumbo blocks of lead weighing 2,500 pounds each at a...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a portrait of a cardinal, Catholic church priest, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The shaft of the 30,000 kilowatt waterwheel generator which Westinghouse Electric Company is manufacturing for the Watts Bar Dam of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). This is the central rotating part of the generator. It weighs 75,000 pounds and is the heaviest single part in the construction of the generator. In the background, men are working in the stator frame of the generator

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The shaft of the 30,000 kilowatt waterwheel ...

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

San Bernardino, California. An Illinois-Central Railroad freight car, built in December 1940 showing capacity, load limit and light weight (in pounds)

San Bernardino, California. An Illinois-Central Railroad freight car, ...

Public domain photograph of California industry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Asphalt-line paperboard container designed for the shipment of frozen eggs. The new substitute container, which replaces the conventional tinplate container, releases over seven million pounds of tinplate this year for vital war production

Asphalt-line paperboard container designed for the shipment of frozen ...

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

Buffalo, New York. The metallurgical laboratory of Republic Steel entirely manned by women. Twenty-one year old Florence Bergtold is "boss" of one shift. Here steel samples are tested for tensil strength, hardenability, and density. Billet samples such as one being pounded, weighing from sixty to eighty pounds; are moved about on rolling belts

Buffalo, New York. The metallurgical laboratory of Republic Steel enti...

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Trailer-mounted laundry unit. Airborne, this unit weighs 2,465 pounds, will clean and dry 40 pounds of laundry per hour and will serve up to 600 men

Trailer-mounted laundry unit. Airborne, this unit weighs 2,465 pounds,...

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Sulak family, frugal Bohemian farmers own an eighty acre farm near West. Will raise twenty bales of cotton this year. These are all members of family. The five year old picks cotton some. The seven year old picks one hundred pounds a day. The nine year old picks about a hundred pounds. The eleven year old two hundred pounds, thirteen year old two hundred and fifty pounds. The adults pick three or four hundred a day. Note the care they take of the children and of the home. (It was the end of a week and a sort of holiday, but the whole situation shows how much better standard the farm owners keep than do the "renters". See Hine report. Contrast with this photo some of those of the "renters."). Location: West, Texas

Sulak family, frugal Bohemian farmers own an eighty acre farm near Wes...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3645. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Miss Susan Barton: the mammoth lady, as exhibited at Barnum's American Museum, New York 1849, weight 576 pounds

Miss Susan Barton: the mammoth lady, as exhibited at Barnum's American...

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The Hydrarchos or Leviathan! of the Antediluvian world, as described in the Book of Job, Chapt. 41. This immense skeleton of a sea monster! exceeds 114 feet in length and weighs 7,500 pounds ... As this extraordinary creature will shortly leave

The Hydrarchos or Leviathan! of the Antediluvian world, as described i...

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 119, Folder 33.

Eddie Marek a six year old cotton picker who picks fifty pounds a day. His sister thirteen years old picks one hundred pounds. Father and mother and some negroes also pick. A frugal Bohemian family. Own the farm of two hundred acres. Location: Houston [vicinity], Texas.

Eddie Marek a six year old cotton picker who picks fifty pounds a day....

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Vera Hill, 5 years old picks 25 pounds a day. See 4580. Location: Comanche County, Oklahoma / Lewis W. Hine.

Vera Hill, 5 years old picks 25 pounds a day. See 4580. Location: Com...

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Finished products. Synthetic rubber somes from the drier and is fed to an automatic weighing machine which delivers seventy-five pounds of material to the baler at the plant operated by United States Rubber Company at Institute, West Virginia. Thousands of these rubber loaves will be produced every day

Finished products. Synthetic rubber somes from the drier and is fed to...

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A black and white photo of people in a field, Minnesota. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of people in a field, Minnesota. Farm Security...

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A black and white photo of a woman picking apples, Minnesota. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a woman picking apples, Minnesota. Farm Sec...

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

Migratory field worker picking cotton in San Joaquin Valley, California. These pickers are paid seventy-five cents per hundred pounds of picked cotton. Strikers organizing under CIO union (Congress of Industrial Organizations) are demanding one dollar. A good male picker, in good cotton, under favorable weather conditions, can pick about two hundred pounds in a day's work

Migratory field worker picking cotton in San Joaquin Valley, Californi...

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Testing strength of glass panels. Washington, D.C., June 21. With glass blocks being used more and more these days in the construction [of] buildings, The National Bureau of Standards is conducting extensive tests to determine how much wind pressure the panels will stand. So far the panels have resisted 633 pounds wind load. Pictured conducting the tests are, left to right: Dr. C.H. Hahner, R.C. Carter, and A.S. Endler, all of the Bureau, 6/21/38

Testing strength of glass panels. Washington, D.C., June 21. With glas...

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Jersey cow at the Casa Grande Valley Farms. Pinal County, Arizona. Name of the cow: Ronald's Sybil Frosty. Record: for 365 days yielded 14634 lbs. of milk. Test 4.88, butterfat 715.79 pounds

Jersey cow at the Casa Grande Valley Farms. Pinal County, Arizona. Nam...

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Purebred Hampshires feeding at the Two River Non-Stock Cooperative, a FSA (Farm Security Administration) co-op at Waterloo, Nebraska. There are 181 head of hogs, and their average weight 160 pounds. There are also 40 sows and 219 suckling pigs

Purebred Hampshires feeding at the Two River Non-Stock Cooperative, a ...

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Shearing sheep on ranch. In 1937, Oregon produced more that 17,000,000 pounds of wool, the average weight per fleece being about eight and a quarter pounds

Shearing sheep on ranch. In 1937, Oregon produced more that 17,000,000...

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Purebred Hampshires feeding at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) Two Rivers Non-Stock Cooperative. There are 181 head of hogs averaging 160 pounds. There are also forty sows and 219 suckling pigs

Purebred Hampshires feeding at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) ...

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Magnesium is used to make light, strong casting for airplane engines. As insurance against possible shortages of this vital metal, Ford has built its own magnesium foundry. The pot in this photo has just been removed from one of the furnace. This pot holds 100 pounds of the magnesium alloy, which is about to be cast into parts for Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. Ford River Rouge Foundry

Magnesium is used to make light, strong casting for airplane engines. ...

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Rubber in storage. Number one U.S. stockpile. Crude rubber stored at points throughout the country is ample for all the needs of our armed forces. Boxes and bales weighing 250 pounds are stored in heating and thawing rooms to bring them to the proper temperature for processing

Rubber in storage. Number one U.S. stockpile. Crude rubber stored at p...

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Transportation. War workers' coach. Francis W. Feeney, president of the Fitz John Coach Company, shows a fifteen-passenger war workers' coach that his company made from a standard five-passenger light sedan with the use of only 300 additional pounds of steel. The six-foot central section was made largely of wood and other non-critical materials

Transportation. War workers' coach. Francis W. Feeney, president of th...

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War production suggestions. For his valuable contribution to plant efficiency, an employee of the Newark Stove Company, Newark, Ohio, won the Certificate of Individual Merit presented by the war production drive headquarters of the War Production Board (WPB). Mr. Lewis suggested a method of reclaiming worn-out reamers that equal or surpass original reamers, the production of which required 2,000 man hours per month and the use of 1,000 pounds of highspeed bar stock. His suggestion prevented the shutdown of the Shell Shop at his company for two months

War production suggestions. For his valuable contribution to plant eff...

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Transportation. War workers' coach. Francis W. Feeney, president of the Fitz John Coach Company, shows a fifteen-passenger war workers' coach that his company made from a standard five-passenger light sedan with the use of only 300 additional pounds of steel. The six-foot central section was made largely of wood and other non-critical materials

Transportation. War workers' coach. Francis W. Feeney, president of th...

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Boys organize tin club. Salvaging more than 500 pounds of tin cans in one day, these youngesters a Tin Can Club of America under the auspices of the New York City Salvage Committee. Their headquarters in a vacant strorefront at 151 East 103rd Street, these patriotic young men not only collected but also processed more than half the amount of tin needed to build an Army fighting plane--and all in one day

Boys organize tin club. Salvaging more than 500 pounds of tin cans in ...

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Millie, four years old and Nellie five years old. Cotton pickers on a farm near Houston, Millie picks eight pounds a day and Nellie thirty pounds. This is nearly every day. Home conditions bare and bad. Location: Houston [vicinity], Texas.

Millie, four years old and Nellie five years old. Cotton pickers on a ...

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[Battery No. 4 near Yorktown mounting ten 13 inch mortars each weighing 20,000 pounds. South end]

[Battery No. 4 near Yorktown mounting ten 13 inch mortars each weighin...

Photograph shows soldiers standing at cannons. Title and date from catalog record for associated negative: LC-B811-375.

Ruby Hollingsworth, seven year old cotton picker. Works all day, early and late, in the hot sun. Picks about thirty-five pounds a day. Father, mother and several brothers and sisters pick. They get only five or six months of schooling. "It's not 'nuff," the father said. The children said "We'd ruther go to school." Address Box 18, R.F.D. Location: Denison, Texas.

Ruby Hollingsworth, seven year old cotton picker. Works all day, early...

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Family of L.H. Kirkpatrick, Route 1, Lawton, Okla. Children go to Mineral Wells School #39. Father, mother and five children (5, 6, 10, 11 and 12 years old) pick cotton. "We pick a bale in four days." Dovey, 5 years old, picks 15 pounds a day (average) Mother said: "She jess works fer pleasure." Ertle, 6 years, picks 20 pounds a day (average) Vonnnie, 10 years, picks 50 pounds a day (average) Edward, 11 years, picks 75 pounds a day (average) Otis, 12 years, picks 75 pounds a day (average) Expect to be out of school for two weeks more picking. Father is a renter. Works part of farm on shares (gives 1/4 of cotton for rent) and part of farm he pays cash rent. Location: Comanche County, Oklahoma / Lewis W. Hine.

Family of L.H. Kirkpatrick, Route 1, Lawton, Okla. Children go to Mine...

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Fred Hill, 3 years old, sometimes picks 20 pounds of cotton a day. See 4580. Location: Comanche County, Oklahoma / Lewis W. Hine.

Fred Hill, 3 years old, sometimes picks 20 pounds of cotton a day. See...

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Hazel Davis, Tinney, Okla. 7 years old. Picks 50 pounds of cotton in half a day, according to testimony of father and brother. Father owns farm. Hazel goes to Prairie Lee School. Location: Comanche County, Oklahoma / Lewis W. Hine.

Hazel Davis, Tinney, Okla. 7 years old. Picks 50 pounds of cotton in h...

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A black and white photo of a group of men on a boat, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a group of men on a boat, Great Depression....

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Near Shafter, California. Family from Oklahoma lives in old cow-barn and picks cotton for seventy-five cents a 100 pounds. During cotton strike

Near Shafter, California. Family from Oklahoma lives in old cow-barn a...

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A woman milking a cow on a farm, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A woman milking a cow on a farm, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

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