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[The Belks], Library of Congress narratives collection

Frank Burditt and family. They rent this dilapidated shank [i.e., shac...

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

[A Riviera "Conch"], Library of Congress narratives collection

[All Our Folks was Farmers], Library of Congress narratives collection

Oral history with 74 year old white female, Quicksand, Kentucky (Trans...

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: University of New Orleans. New Orleans, LA 74 year old (Appalachian) white female. Completed 2nd grade; quit school to help widowed mother take in was... More

The gangsters 4 act drama of East Side life

[Women walking in a procession, pulling a wheelchair]

Photograph shows women, probably related to Jacob A. Riis, walking in front of an octagonal-appearing house, possibly in New York or Denmark.

A tiny cabin on the mountain slope near Charleston, West Virginia. The...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Children in West Virginia. Hine no. 5089. Number typed in upper left corner of caption card: 69. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congre... More

A little log cabin, - relic of the old days, - now occupied by a small...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Children in West Virginia. Hine no. 5098. Number typed in upper left corner of caption card: 78. Geographic location at top of card is expressed as "Big Chimney, near Cha... More

Small shack on Forsythe's Bog, occupied by De Marco family, 10 in the ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 1142. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Defense of the poor; or, Poverty and its resulting evils,

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Defense of the poor; or, Poverty and its resulting evils,

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Defense of the poor; or, Poverty and its resulting evils,

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Defense of the poor; or, Poverty and its resulting evils,

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Defense of the poor; or, Poverty and its resulting evils,

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Defense of the poor; or, Poverty and its resulting evils,

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The matinee girls a satirical revue of theatre lobby incidents

The green servent [sic] comedy in 3 acts

Picryl description: Public domain book on economy and capitalism, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The green servent [sic] comedy in 3 acts

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The green servent [sic] comedy in 3 acts

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Moishe the fiddler a beadle and musician, a Yiddish musical portrait i...

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Old Log Cabin, the home of William Mullens and family, - near Charlest...

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

[A Riviera "Conch"], Library of Congress narratives collection

The drunkard's progress, or, The direct road to poverty, wretchedness ...

4 colored illus.; Imprint 3. 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 6, Folder 23.

[All Our Folks was Farmers], Library of Congress narratives collection

Oral history with 74 year old white female, Quicksand, Kentucky (Trans...

[Mountain Sharecroppers], Library of Congress narratives collection

Oral history with 16 year old white male, War Creek, Kentucky (Transcr...

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: University of New Orleans. New Orleans, LA 16 year old (Appalachian) white male. Junior in high school and lives in small community of War Creek. Youn... More

The gangsters 4 act drama of East Side life

[Sarah Wall], Library of Congress narratives collection

The speaker of the House a monologue. Part 3

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Tattered sunshine - Print, Library of Congress collection

13620 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Chicago Bank Note Com... More

Corrido de la cucaracha que no ha salido a pasear, porque no tiene car...

Broadside shows full-length figure of a simply dressed woman with a shawl around her shoulders and hands on her hips. The song conveys the story of la cucaracha. Cucaracha literally means cockroach, but during ... More

A little log cabin, - relic of the old days, - now occupied by a small...

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

Defense of the poor; or, Poverty and its resulting evils,

Picryl description: Public domain rare book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Defense of the poor; or, Poverty and its resulting evils,

Picryl description: Public domain rare book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Defense of the poor; or, Poverty and its resulting evils,

Picryl description: Public domain rare book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The matinee girls a satirical revue of theatre lobby incidents

The drunkard's progress, or the direct road to poverty, wretchedness &...

Print shows four scenes of the drunkard's progress: the morning dram (father drinking at 8am, ignoring wife and children), the grog shop (bar room brawls, passed out, vomiting, and drinking customers), the conf... More

The green servent [sic] comedy in 3 acts

Picryl description: Public domain book on economy and capitalism, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The green servent [sic] comedy in 3 acts

Picryl description: Public domain book on economy and capitalism, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Moishe the fiddler a beadle and musician, a Yiddish musical portrait i...

Public domain reproduction of portrait art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Moishe the fiddler a beadle and musician, a Yiddish musical portrait i...

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People living in miserable poverty, Elm Grove, Oklahoma County, Oklaho...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of poverty, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[All Our Folks was Farmers], Library of Congress narratives collection

[Mountain Sharecroppers], Library of Congress narratives collection

The gangsters 4 act drama of East Side life

[Sarah Wall], Library of Congress narratives collection

The speaker of the House a monologue. Part 3

Public domain history book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The speaker of the House a monologue. Part 3

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Over the hills to the poor house

The widowed elderly mother of three adult children, two sons and a daughter, wishing to relieve herself of the burden of care of her property, decides to divide it up among her children. To her son Charles, a w... More

Small shack on Forsyth's Bog, occupied by De Marco family, 10 in the f...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 1141. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Faith, hope, and charity, these three; but the greatest of these is ta...

Illustration shows a mother with an infant and a young child standing in the windblown snow at night, looking at a notice posted on a wall that states "Charity Ball" and "Proceeds for the Benefit of the Needy" ... More

Abandoned log cabin on the hillside. Not many used now but it was the ...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Children in West Virginia. Hine no. 5094. Number typed in upper left corner of caption card: 74. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congre... More

Lines on first looking into Henry George's "Progress and poverty" Harr...

Gift Author June 3, 1943.; Rec. R B. 10-20-43. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 3 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Collec... More

Old Log Cabin, the home of William Mullens and family, near Charleston...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Children in West Virginia. Hine no. 5101. Number typed in upper left corner of caption card: 81. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congre... More