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Vintage activities at Richon-le-Zion, Aug. 1939. Trucking away the refuse (grape skins) for fertilizer & fuel

Vintage activities at Richon-le-Zion, Aug. 1939. Trucking away the ref...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a construction site, industrial or commercial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Company. Slate is loaded into separate cars in the mine and when the "trips" come into the tripple, the slate is dumped onto a conveyor belt which dumps it into moving overhead cars which carry the refuse a mile up the hill where it is dumped

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsbu...

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

Interior of a cutting shed in Maine. Young cutters at work, Clarence, 8 years, and Minnie, 9 years. Photo does not show the salt water in which they often stand, not [i.e., nor?] the refuse they handle. On the low shelf are two of the "boxes" used as measures, and for which they get 5 cents a box.  Location: Eastport, Maine.

Interior of a cutting shed in Maine. Young cutters at work, Clarence, ...

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

Entrance to licensed tenements, 170-172 Thompson Street, N.Y., where home-work flourishes.  Location: New York, New York (State)

Entrance to licensed tenements, 170-172 Thompson Street, N.Y., where h...

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Entrance to licensed tenements, 170-172 Thompson Street, N.Y., where home-work flourishes.  Location: New York, New York (State)

Entrance to licensed tenements, 170-172 Thompson Street, N.Y., where h...

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Entrance to tenements, 53 to 59 Macdougal St., N.Y., (licensed) in which coats and flowers are made.  Location: New York, New York (State)

Entrance to tenements, 53 to 59 Macdougal St., N.Y., (licensed) in whi...

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Three cutters in Factory #7, Seacoast Canning Co., Eastport, Me. They work regularly whenever there are fish. (Note the knives they use.) Back of them and under foot is refuse. On the right hand is Grayson Forsythe, 7 years old. Middle is George Goodell, 9 years old, finger badly cut and wrapped up. Said, "the salt gets unto the cut." Said he makes $1.50 some days. Left end, Clarence Goodell, 6 years, helps brother.  Location: Eastport, Maine.

Three cutters in Factory #7, Seacoast Canning Co., Eastport, Me. They ...

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

[National Cash Register Company, Dayton, Ohio. Worker house gardens before landscaping]

[National Cash Register Company, Dayton, Ohio. Worker house gardens be...

Site History. Landscape: John Charles Olmsted, from 1896. Other: John Henry Patterson was founder of National Cash Register Company. Today: Garden not extant. Slide for lecture "Gardens for City and Suburb." On... More

Caricature, Rubbish / Ehrhart., public domain cartoon image

Caricature, Rubbish / Ehrhart., public domain cartoon image

Illustration shows four legislators dropping their "Bluff Legislation, The Original Trust Buster, Combination Crusher [and] Anti-Trust Bill" into a barrel labeled "Receptacle for Anti-Trust Bills" before enteri... More

Pile of refuse, waste, and salt water in which these sardine workers stand at times.  Location: Eastport, Maine.
Garbage at Essex and Hester Sts. (before school 26)

Garbage at Essex and Hester Sts. (before school 26)

Piles of garbage on street outside markets during garbage collectors' strike in New York City. Bain News Service photograph. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Entrance to tenements, 53 to 59 Macdougal St., N.Y., (licensed) in which coats and flowers are made. Location: New York, New York (State)

Entrance to tenements, 53 to 59 Macdougal St., N.Y., (licensed) in whi...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 2868. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photogr... More

Three cutters in Factory #7, Seacoast Canning Co., Eastport, Me. They work regularly whenever there are fish. (Note the knives they use.) Back of them and under foot is refuse. On the right hand is Grayson Forsythe, 7 years old. Middle is George Goodell, 9 years old, finger badly cut and wrapped up. Said, "the salt gets unto the cut." Said he makes $1.50 some days. Left end, Clarence Goodell, 6 years, helps brother. Location: Eastport, Maine

Three cutters in Factory #7, Seacoast Canning Co., Eastport, Me. They ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2421. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div... More

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Company. Slate is loaded into separate cars in the mine and when the "trips" come into the tripple, the slate is dumped onto a conveyor belt which dumps it into moving overhead cars which carry the refuse a mile up the hill where it is dumped

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsbu...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s industrial development, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A clean sweep / Will Crawford. - Political cartoon, public domain image

A clean sweep / Will Crawford. - Political cartoon, public domain imag...

Illustration shows a large broom labeled "Election" sweeping up the trash of campaign slogans, signs, and symbols of William Jennings Bryan and William H. Taft. Illus. in: Puck, v. 64, no. 1653 (1908 November ... More

[Girl Scout in canoe, picking trash out of the Potomac River during Earth Week]

[Girl Scout in canoe, picking trash out of the Potomac River during Ea...

Contact sheet folder caption: ""Earth Week", Girl Scouts cleaning up the Potomac River. TOH, 4/22/70." U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: U... More

Entrance to licensed tenements, 170-172 Thompson Street, N.Y., where home-work flourishes. Location: New York, New York (State)

Entrance to licensed tenements, 170-172 Thompson Street, N.Y., where h...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 2867. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photogr... More

The new boy, January 1, 1905 / Frank A. Nankivell.

The new boy, January 1, 1905 / Frank A. Nankivell.

Illustration shows a young boy in uniform and cap labeled "1905" sweeping an office clean of many papers labeled "Yellow Peril 1904, Broken Resolutions, Dave Hill 'I was a Democrat' 1904, [and] St. Louis Graft ... More

Patching Up a Meal. Boston Slums. Boston 1915 Exhibit.  Location: Boston, Massachusetts.

Patching Up a Meal. Boston Slums. Boston 1915 Exhibit. Location: Bost...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of city street life, vendor, shop sign, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Scraps of paper - Public domain dedication image

Scraps of paper - Public domain dedication image

(DLC/PP-1933:0112). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Chicago Tribune, July 10, 1916.

Finis - Drawing. Public domain image., Political Cartoon

Finis - Drawing. Public domain image., Political Cartoon

Print shows the bottom of shoes marked "1929" protruding from a waste basket beside a ticker tape machine amid a mass of ticker tape; related to the stock market crash of 1929. B54137 U.S. Copyright Office Pub... More

Three cutters in Factory #7, Seacoast Canning Co., Eastport, Me. They work regularly whenever there are fish. (Note the knives they use.) Back of them and under foot is refuse. On the right hand is Grayson Forsythe, 7 years old. Middle is George Goodell, 9 years old, finger badly cut and wrapped up. Said, "the salt gets unto the cut." Said he makes $1.50 some days. Left end, Clarence Goodell, 6 years, helps brother. Location: Eastport, Maine

Three cutters in Factory #7, Seacoast Canning Co., Eastport, Me. They ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2421. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div... More

Interior of a cutting shed in Maine. Young cutters at work, Clarence, 8 years, and Minnie, 9 years. Photo does not show the salt water in which they often stand, not [i.e., nor?] the refuse they handle. On the low shelf are two of the "boxes" used as measures, and for which they get 5 cents a box.  Location: Eastport, Maine.

Interior of a cutting shed in Maine. Young cutters at work, Clarence, ...

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

Three cutters in Factory #7, Seacoast Canning Co., Eastport, Me. They work regularly whenever there are fish. (Note the knives they use.) Back of them and under foot is refuse. On the right hand is Grayson Forsythe, 7 years old. Middle is George Goodell, 9 years old, finger badly cut and wrapped up. Said, "the salt gets unto the cut." Said he makes $1.50 some days. Left end, Clarence Goodell, 6 years, helps brother.  Location: Eastport, Maine.

Three cutters in Factory #7, Seacoast Canning Co., Eastport, Me. They ...

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

Un ingresso trionfale Grossi - Public domain dedication image

Un ingresso trionfale Grossi - Public domain dedication image

Italian political cartoon shows a man riding in a chariot labeled "Grecia" drawn by two donkeys who have stopped short in their tracks before broken wine bottles and bones littering the street in front of them;... More

An Earthen Hell. The women dressed in rags stand all day in hot oil shoveling up the refuse to a terrace above them and thence into cars so that not a speck of oil is wasted ...

An Earthen Hell. The women dressed in rags stand all day in hot oil sh...

Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection. Public domain photograph of quarry workers, mining, miners, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Un ingresso trionfale Grossi - Political cartoon, public domain image

Un ingresso trionfale Grossi - Political cartoon, public domain image

Italian political cartoon shows a man riding in a chariot labeled "Grecia" drawn by two donkeys who have stopped short in their tracks before broken wine bottles and bones littering the street in front of them;... More

Entrance to licensed tenements, 170-172 Thompson Street, N.Y., where home-work flourishes. Location: New York, New York (State)

Entrance to licensed tenements, 170-172 Thompson Street, N.Y., where h...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 2867. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photogr... More

Pile of refuse, waste, and salt water in which these sardine workers stand at times. Location: Eastport, Maine

Pile of refuse, waste, and salt water in which these sardine workers s...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2405. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div... More

Patching Up a Meal. Boston Slums. Boston 1915 Exhibit. Location: Boston, Massachusetts

Patching Up a Meal. Boston Slums. Boston 1915 Exhibit. Location: Bosto...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 918. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More

Garbage accumulations, Rutgers Square Park

Garbage accumulations, Rutgers Square Park

In New York City. George Grantham Bain Collection. Public domain photograph - New York City, downtown, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description