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[Donald Mallick, ("Happy"), 203 King Street. 9 years of age, selling newspapers 5 years. Average earnings 35 cents a week. Sells from choice. Father, rivet driver, $20 weekly. "Happy" is well known character in town. When first interviewed gave story of sleeping in broken buildings and lots at night. Found out in streets at 11 P.M. at night pitching pennies and working "last paper" scheme. Flips cars and has sister who is 8 years of age who begs and sells papers. Boy very imaginative, and when last seen had a rusty 5 inch knife which he said he found and was playing with same in gutter. Edward F. Brown, Investigator. Wilmington, Del. May, 1910.] Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

[Donald Mallick, ("Happy"), 203 King Street. 9 years of age, selling n...

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.

Baltimore, Maryland. A rivet heater preparing to toss a red hot rivet to be used in the building of the Liberty ship Frederick Douglass at the Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards

Baltimore, Maryland. A rivet heater preparing to toss a red hot rivet ...

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

Boston and Maine railroad shops at Billerica, Massachusetts. Welder using special flame to melt only head of rivet so it can be removed without burning other metal of car

Boston and Maine railroad shops at Billerica, Massachusetts. Welder us...

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

Women aircraft workers. She can't forget Pearl Harbor, and she's determined that Hitler and Hirohito shall have cause to remember it. Mrs. Evelyn J. W. Casola, Pearl Harbor widow, drills rivet holes in the belly gun door of a U.S. bomber, soon to storm over Axis lands, showing death to the aggressors

Women aircraft workers. She can't forget Pearl Harbor, and she's deter...

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

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Reaming bottom shell plating rivet holes

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Reaming bottom she...

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

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Reaming bottom shell plating rivet holes

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Reaming bottom she...

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.

Baltimore, Maryland. Building the SS Frederick Douglass. More than 6,000 Negro shipyard workers are employed at the Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, where the Liberty ship is being rushed to completion. The noted orator and abolitionist leader worked as a ship caulker in the vicinity of this yard before he escaped from slavery. Smiling from porthole of the dock house is rivet heater Willie Smith

Baltimore, Maryland. Building the SS Frederick Douglass. More than 6,0...

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

Rivet work in saddle repair shop. Alpine, Texas

Rivet work in saddle repair shop. Alpine, Texas

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.

Punching rivet holes in a frame member for a B-25 bomber, the plant of North American Aviation, Inc., Calif.

Punching rivet holes in a frame member for a B-25 bomber, the plant of...

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

[Donald Mallick, ("Happy"), 203 King Street. 9 years of age, selling newspapers 5 years. Average earnings 35 cents a week. Sells from choice. Father, rivet driver, $20 weekly. "Happy" is well known character in town. When first interviewed gave story of sleeping in broken buildings and lots at night. Found out in streets at 11 P.M. at night pitching pennies and working "last paper" scheme. Flips cars and has sister who is 8 years of age who begs and sells papers. Boy very imaginative, and when last seen had a rusty 5 inch knife which he said he found and was playing with same in gutter. Edward F. Brown, Investigator. Wilmington, Del. May, 1910.] Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

[Donald Mallick, ("Happy"), 203 King Street. 9 years of age, selling n...

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

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. This worker is laying out steel plates from wood templates, or patterns. The patterns indicate rivet hole locations and other necessary information. All parts are prefabricated in this Eastern plant which used to turn out freight cars. Completed sections are carried six miles to the ways on flat cars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. This worker is laying out steel plates ...

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.

Production. Airplane maufacture, general. Women assembly workers rivet a gusset to a plane wing rib at the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. Most important of the many types of aircraft made at this plant are the B-17F ("Flying Fortress") heavy bomber, the A-20 ("Havoc") assault bomber and the C-47 heavy transport plane for the carrying of troops and cargo

Production. Airplane maufacture, general. Women assembly workers rivet...

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Airplane seat production. Final inspection of completed airplane pilot seats at a large Midwest rubber company converted to war production is a thorough process that must cover every rivet and adjustment. Here inspectors are operating the fore and aft track adjustment which permits the pilot to move his position backward and forward while the plane is in operation

Airplane seat production. Final inspection of completed airplane pilot...

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Tank armor production. Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation. Farrell, Pennsylvania. Rivet holes for the armor plates of military tanks are run on a vertical drill press in an Eastern mill

Tank armor production. Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation. Farrell, P...

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.

[Donald Mallick, ("Happy"), 203 King Street. 9 years of age, selling newspapers 5 years. Average earnings 35 cents a week. Sells from choice. Father, rivet driver, $20 weekly. "Happy" is well known character in town. When first interviewed gave story of sleeping in broken buildings and lots at night. Found out in streets at 11 P.M. at night pitching pennies and working "last paper" scheme. Flips cars and has sister who is 8 years of age who begs and sells papers. Boy very imaginative, and when last seen had a rusty 5 inch knife which he said he found and was playing with same in gutter. Edward F. Brown, Investigator. Wilmington, Del. May, 1910.] Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

[Donald Mallick, ("Happy"), 203 King Street. 9 years of age, selling n...

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

Baltimore, Maryland. Building the SS Frederick Douglass. More than 6,000 Negro shipyard workers are employed at the Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, where the Liberty ship is being rushed to completion. The noted orator and abolitionist leader worked as a ship caulker in the vicinity of this yard before he escaped from slavery. Smiling from porthole of the dock house is rivet heater Willie Smith

Baltimore, Maryland. Building the SS Frederick Douglass. More than 6,0...

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

[Donald Mallick, ("Happy"), 203 King Street. 9 years of age, selling newspapers 5 years. Average earnings 35 cents a week. Sells from choice. Father, rivet driver, $20 weekly. "Happy" is well known character in town. When first interviewed gave story of sleeping in broken buildings and lots at night. Found out in streets at 11 P.M. at night pitching pennies and working "last paper" scheme. Flips cars and has sister who is 8 years of age who begs and sells papers. Boy very imaginative, and when last seen had a rusty 5 inch knife which he said he found and was playing with same in gutter. Edward F. Brown, Investigator. Wilmington, Del. May, 1910.] Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

[Donald Mallick, ("Happy"), 203 King Street. 9 years of age, selling n...

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Production. A-31 ("Vengeance") dive bombers. Rivet inspection on a rear monocoque. Two women workers at Vultee's Nashville Division are pictured at their jobs of inspecting rivets in a row of tail cones to be installed in the Vultee "Vengeance" dive bomber. The "Vengeance" (A-31) was originally designed for the French. It was later adopted by the RAF (Royal Air Force) and still later by the U.S. Army Air Forces. It is a single-engine, low-wing plane, carrying a crew of two men and having six machine guns of varying calibers

Production. A-31 ("Vengeance") dive bombers. Rivet inspection on a rea...

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

Shipbuilding (Newport News). These two skillful workers are punching rivet holes in the frame of a ship on the ways. Nearly a million rivets were used in large naval warcraft until recently, but steel and weight is now conserved by the use of welded jointures whenever possible

Shipbuilding (Newport News). These two skillful workers are punching r...

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

Victory Corps, tomorrow's defenders of liberty. Experienced workers train young girls in the high school Victory Corps to become valuable members of the vast womanpower army. Sally Brown, who is learning to rivet airplane parts at Roosevelt High School in Los Angeles, California, will be ready for skilled work in the war industry when her course in riveting is completed

Victory Corps, tomorrow's defenders of liberty. Experienced workers tr...

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

Women aircraft workers. Remember Pearl Harbor? She can't forget it, for Fern Evans's husband was one of America's fighting men who died in action on December 7. Since February, Mrs. Evans has worked for victory at a huge West Coast aircraft plant and is shown here operating a rivet squeezer

Women aircraft workers. Remember Pearl Harbor? She can't forget it, fo...

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Topeka, Kansas. Robert L. Hill, steel car repairer and rivet driver, at the car shops of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad

Topeka, Kansas. Robert L. Hill, steel car repairer and rivet driver, a...

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

A black and white photo of a man standing next to a train. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man standing next to a train. Office of W...

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

A rivet is her fighting weapon. Oyida Peaks, daughter of a Navy lieutenant, one of many women taking NYA training to become mechanics at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. After eight weeks apprenticeship she will be qualified as a civil service worker in the Assembly and Repair Department

A rivet is her fighting weapon. Oyida Peaks, daughter of a Navy lieute...

Public domain photograph related to navy, naval warfare, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. B-17 heavy bomber. A crew of fast, expert workers at the Boeing plant in Seattle rivet a fuselage section for a new B-17F (Flying Fortress) bomber. Working on the section in the vertical position saves much valuable floor space. The Flying Fortress has performed with great credit in the South Pacific, over Germany and elsewhere. It is a four-engine heavy bomber capable of flying high altitudes

Production. B-17 heavy bomber. A crew of fast, expert workers at the B...

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

Production. B-25 bombers. Drilling rivet holes in a frame member for a B-25 bomber. The Western plant in which thousands of these warships of the air are built employs fewer men these days as women take over jobs that once were considered exclusively men's work. Fairfax bomber plant, Kansas City

Production. B-25 bombers. Drilling rivet holes in a frame member for a...

Public domain photograph - working class people, the 1930s United States, work, labor, worker, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. B-17 heavy bomber. A crew of fast, expert workers at the Boeing plant in Seattle rivet a fuselage section for a new B-17F (Flying Fortress) bomber. Working on the section in the vertical position saves much valuable floor space. The Flying Fortress has performed with great credit in the South Pacific, over Germany and elsewhere. It is a four-engine heavy bomber capable of flying high altitudes

Production. B-17 heavy bomber. A crew of fast, expert workers at the B...

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

Baltimore, Maryland. A rivet heater preparing to toss a red hot rivet to be used in the building of the Liberty ship Frederick Douglass at the Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards

Baltimore, Maryland. A rivet heater preparing to toss a red hot rivet ...

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

Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Agnes Glunt, mother of a child four years old, employed as a rivet heater in the Pitcairn, Pennsylvania Railroad steel car shop, earning seventy-two cents per hour. Her husband works at the Westinghouse Electric Company

Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Agnes Glunt, mother of a child four years...

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

Donald Mallick, ("Happy"), 203 King Street. 9 years of age, selling newspapers 5 years. Average earnings 35 cents a week. Sells from choice. Father, rivet driver, $20 weekly. "Happy" is well known character in town. When first interviewed gave story of sleeping in broken buildings and lots at night. Found out in streets at 11 P.M. at night pitching pennies and working "last paper" scheme. Flips cars and has sister who is 8 years of age who begs and sells papers. Boy very imaginative, and when last seen had a rusty 5 inch knife which he said he found and was playing with same in gutter. Edward F. Brown, Investigator. Wilmington, Del. May, 1910. Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

Donald Mallick, ("Happy"), 203 King Street. 9 years of age, selling ne...

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

A black and white photo of a man holding a gun. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man holding a gun. Office of War Informat...

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