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Union Hospital - Lewis Palmer - 14 years - 455 Peckham St. - Rope hauler in Estes Mill, making mop rope. Began April 25th. Hand cut by rope May 18th. Laid up one month. Wages $4.60 - compensation $4. Goes on Sunday hikes with his crowd. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

Union Hospital - Lewis Palmer - 14 years - 455 Peckham St. - Rope haul...

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Wilfred Levoie - 15 years - 120 Diman St. - Weaver, American Linen Co. Cut leg June 20, 1916. (See Mr. Wagner's schedule.) Was pushing and pulling basket along floor; basket caught a loose board and threw him against loom cutting his leg. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

Wilfred Levoie - 15 years - 120 Diman St. - Weaver, American Linen Co....

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Case of Frank Wiegel, 3916 - # Ave., Brooklyn N.Y., injured after working 18 hours a day. He was injured at 1:55 A.M. January 18, 1914. Age 15 years. Employed by the Henry Bosch Paper Co., makers of wallpaper sample books. On Saturday, or rather Sunday morning at 1:55, Frank must have fallen asleep and in some way he knocked against the controlling pedal, and the next thing he knew his hand was caught in the machine. He sued the Co. for damages and after 2 years' litigation he received an award of $10,000 - $5,000 for each of 2 fingers which were amputated. The lawyer's fee has not yet been decided upon by the court. Location: New York--Brooklyn, New York (State)

Case of Frank Wiegel, 3916 - # Ave., Brooklyn N.Y., injured after work...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 4075. Hine no. 4076. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prin... More

The greatest mother in the world - Red Cross Christmas roll call Dec. 16-23rd / A. E. Foringer.

The greatest mother in the world - Red Cross Christmas roll call Dec. ...

Poster showing a monumental Red cross nurse cradling a wounded soldier on a stretcher. No. 2XD-2. Copyright by American National Red Cross.

... with Chief of Staff. Corps Area Commanders and Division Commanders of the United States Army met with the Chief of Staff Maj. General Charles P. Summerall, at the War Department in Washington today to discuss subjects of current interest to the military establishment. In the group, left to right: (front row) Maj. General Douglas MacArthur, 3rd Corps Area Commander; Maj. General William Lassiter, Commanding 6th Corps Area; Maj. General James H. McRae, Commanding second Corps Area; Maj. General Charles P. Summerall, Chief of Staff; Maj. General John L. Hines, Commanding 9th Corps Area; Maj. General Ernest Hinds, Commanding 8th Corps Area; Maj. General Fox L. Connor, Commanding 1st Corps Area; Maj. General Hanson E. Ely, Commandant of the War College, back row, left to right: Maj. General Harry A Smith, assistant Chief of Staff; Maj. General Dennis E. Nolan, Commanding 5th Corps Area; Brig. General Edwin B... 1st Cavalry Division; ...

... with Chief of Staff. Corps Area Commanders and Division Commanders...

A black and white photo of a group of men, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Date based on date of negatives in same range. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General information about the Harris &... More

Gives the Nazi salute. Washington, D.C., Nov. 22. German Ambassador Hans Dieckhoff gives the familiar Nazi salute as he arrives at the State Department today to pay a farewell call on Secretary of State Cordell Hull. He expects to sail for Germany from New York next Friday night on the Europa

Gives the Nazi salute. Washington, D.C., Nov. 22. German Ambassador Ha...

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Women at work on bomber, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.

Women at work on bomber, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.

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Assembling B-25 bombers at North American Aviation, Kansas City, Kan[sas]

Assembling B-25 bombers at North American Aviation, Kansas City, Kan[s...

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Meeting of UCAPAWA (United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America) in Bristow, Oklahoma

Meeting of UCAPAWA (United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied ...

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Velva, North Dakota - A black and white photo of a small town

Velva, North Dakota - A black and white photo of a small town

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Poster: What Nazis think of German-Americans. Poster distributed by the OWI to German-American clubs. The original is 22 inches x 28 inches and is printed in black and white on red. Copies are obtainable from Division of Public Inquiry, Office of War Information, 14th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.

Poster: What Nazis think of German-Americans. Poster distributed by th...

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war ration book number two. The inside pages of the war ration book number two

war ration book number two. The inside pages of the war ration book nu...

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Army uniform trouser manufacture. Kane Manufacturing Company, Louisville, Kentucky. Cotton khaki and wool serge trousers are turned out here at the rate of 1300 a day to the designs and rigid specifications of the Army Quartermaster Corps. 34 sizes ranging from a small 28 inch waist with 29-inch leg to large size with a 46-inch waist and 33-inch leg. Here Frank Ernwine lays out patterns. He has been at his trade for forty-five years and helped make Army uniforms in World War I

Army uniform trouser manufacture. Kane Manufacturing Company, Louisvil...

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A couple of women sitting on top of a couch. Office of War Information Photograph

A couple of women sitting on top of a couch. Office of War Information...

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Conversion. Food machinery plant. Back to aid in his country's war effort is Phineas Davenport Allen, seventy-eight-year-old mechanic who worked on steering riggings for submarines during World War I. Today he is employed by a New England company, whose normal peacetime product is cube steak machinery. The drill press he operates was a valuable part of the company's peacetime equipment, is even more valuable today in the speeding of work on war subcontracts. Here Allen is drilling bearing caps for cube steak machines. Cube Steak Machine Company, Boston, Massachusetts

Conversion. Food machinery plant. Back to aid in his country's war eff...

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Manpower. Negro shipyard workers. Skills which contributed to America's success in World War I are vital to our efforts in World War II. This Negro riveter is a veteran employee in a large Eastern shipyard. Another Negro broke the world record for riveting in World War I. Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Corporation. Kearny, New Jersey

Manpower. Negro shipyard workers. Skills which contributed to America'...

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Airways to Peace exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, 11 W. 53rd St., New York City. Exhibition XI

Airways to Peace exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, 11 W. 53rd St., New...

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A black and white photo of a group of people. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a group of people. Office of War Informatio...

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

Arlington, Virginia. Reading the Sunday comics on the back porch at Idaho Hall, Arlington Farms, a residence for women who work for U.S. government for the duration of the war

Arlington, Virginia. Reading the Sunday comics on the back porch at Id...

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Axis propaganda. Elmer Davis, director of the Office of War Information, examines Nazi and Japanese propaganda organs which he displayed at a press conference on March 6, 1943, to show material the Axis is distributing in neutral countries and the material with which the OWI is fighting it

Axis propaganda. Elmer Davis, director of the Office of War Informatio...

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1930s street scenes: cars and people

1930s street scenes: cars and people

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A group of men standing around a piano. Office of War Information Photograph

A group of men standing around a piano. Office of War Information Phot...

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A black and white photo of a person on a balcony. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a person on a balcony. Office of War Inform...

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

1930s - group of men. Farm Security Administartion 1930s public domain photo.

1930s - group of men. Farm Security Administartion 1930s public domain...

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1930s - group of men. Farm Security Administartion 1930s public domain photo.

1930s - group of men. Farm Security Administartion 1930s public domain...

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Office of War Information. Great depression, 1932-1939

Office of War Information. Great depression, 1932-1939

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Office of War Information. Great depression, 1932-1939

Office of War Information. Great depression, 1932-1939

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Office of War Information. Great depression, 1932-1939

Office of War Information. Great depression, 1932-1939

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Farmers of Great Depression. Dust bowl refugees, Resettlement program.

Farmers of Great Depression. Dust bowl refugees, Resettlement program.

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A group of people playing a game of baseball. Office of War Information Photograph

A group of people playing a game of baseball. Office of War Informatio...

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Office of War Information. Great depression, 1932-1939

Office of War Information. Great depression, 1932-1939

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Office of War Information. Great depression, 1932-1939

Office of War Information. Great depression, 1932-1939

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League of Nations Malaria Investigation Committee, Punjab, India. A typical village of the Punjab plains. There is always a tank in the foreground from the mud of which the walls of the village in the background were made. These tanks produce anopheles culicifacies mosquitoes during and immediately after the monsoon. When they become dirty they do not produce anophelinae

League of Nations Malaria Investigation Committee, Punjab, India. A ty...

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A group of men sitting on top of a wooden bench. Office of War Information Photograph

A group of men sitting on top of a wooden bench. Office of War Informa...

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U.S. Farm security administration photographs, 1930s, great depression

U.S. Farm security administration photographs, 1930s, great depression

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Office of War Information, Farm Security Administration photo, 1940

Office of War Information, Farm Security Administration photo, 1940

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A black and white photo of an old building. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of an old building. Office of War Information ...

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A black and white photo of a group of children. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a group of children. Office of War Informat...

"Church services form an important part of camp life in UNRRA's biggest refugee camp in the Middle East, where 20,000 Yugoslav partisans now await return to their homeland. These people brought their priests wi... More

An old black and white photo of two men and a dog. Office of War Information Photograph

An old black and white photo of two men and a dog. Office of War Infor...

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U.S. Farm security administration photographs, 1930s, great depression

U.S. Farm security administration photographs, 1930s, great depression

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A group of men standing next to each other. Office of War Information Photograph

A group of men standing next to each other. Office of War Information ...

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 black and white photo of a man in uniform. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man in uniform. Office of War Information...

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Office of War Information. Great depression, 1932-1939

Office of War Information. Great depression, 1932-1939

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A black and white photo of a statue of a woman. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a statue of a woman. Office of War Informat...

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FSA/OWI - Farm security administration and Office of War Information photograph.

FSA/OWI - Farm security administration and Office of War Information p...

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Office of War Information. Great depression, 1932-1939

Office of War Information. Great depression, 1932-1939

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Office of War Information. Great depression, 1932-1939

Office of War Information. Great depression, 1932-1939

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A black and white photo of a group of men working on a machine. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a group of men working on a machine. Office...

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Office of War Information. Great depression, 1932-1939

Office of War Information. Great depression, 1932-1939

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A black and white photo of a snow covered street. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a snow covered street. Office of War Inform...

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A black and white photo of a building under construction. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a building under construction. Office of Wa...

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A black and white photo of a bulletin board. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a bulletin board. Office of War Information...

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School. African American kids.. Farm Security Administartion 1930s public domain photo.

School. African American kids.. Farm Security Administartion 1930s pub...

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Office of War Information. Great depression, 1932-1939

Office of War Information. Great depression, 1932-1939

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1930s street scenes: cars and people

1930s street scenes: cars and people

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A black and white photo of a woman sitting on a bench. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a woman sitting on a bench. Office of War I...

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U.S. Farm security administration photographs, 1930s, great depression

U.S. Farm security administration photographs, 1930s, great depression

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Group of people with kids in the woods

Group of people with kids in the woods

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FSA/OWI - Farm security administration and Office of War Information photograph.

FSA/OWI - Farm security administration and Office of War Information p...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title from copy print in LOT 5068. To identify this image it may help to search for images that have neighboring call numbers, are similar in appearanc... More

Photograph album, World War I, Palestine and Sinai

Photograph album, World War I, Palestine and Sinai

Green cloth and black leather spine bound photograph album containing 296 captioned prints depicting events, troop movements, and military activities during World War I, with emphasis on Ottoman, German, and A... More

Photograph album, World War I, Palestine and Sinai

Photograph album, World War I, Palestine and Sinai

Green cloth and black leather spine bound photograph album containing 296 captioned prints depicting events, troop movements, and military activities during World War I, with emphasis on Ottoman, German, and A... More

MacDill Air Force Base, Water Pumping Plant No. 1, 2834 Sea Swallow Avenue, Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL

MacDill Air Force Base, Water Pumping Plant No. 1, 2834 Sea Swallow Av...

Significance: The Water Pump Plant, due to its architectural integrity and contribution to the Second World War-era infrastructure, forms an integral part of MacDill Air Force Base's historic character. The st... More

MacDill Air Force Base, Mess Hall, 2106 Florida Keys Avenue, Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL

MacDill Air Force Base, Mess Hall, 2106 Florida Keys Avenue, Tampa, Hi...

Significance: The Mess Hall, due to its architectural integrity and its contribution to the Second World War-era infrastructure, is an integral part of MacDill Air Force Base's historic character. The building... More

MacDill Air Force Base, Quartermaster Warehouse, 7605 Hillsborough Loop Drive, Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL

MacDill Air Force Base, Quartermaster Warehouse, 7605 Hillsborough Loo...

Significance: The Quartermaster Warehouse, due to its architectural integrity and contribution to the Second World War-era infrastructure, forms an integral part of MacDill Air Force Base's historic character. ... More

Navy Yard, Building No. 143, Between Isaac Hull & Patterson Avenues, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Navy Yard, Building No. 143, Between Isaac Hull & Patterson Avenues, W...

Significance: Building 143 is a contributing property in the Washington Navy Yard National Historic Landmark. The Washington Navy Yard once served as the center for naval ordnance research and production and i... More

Navy Yard, Building No. 143, Between Isaac Hull & Patterson Avenues, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Navy Yard, Building No. 143, Between Isaac Hull & Patterson Avenues, W...

Significance: Building 143 is a contributing property in the Washington Navy Yard National Historic Landmark. The Washington Navy Yard once served as the center for naval ordnance research and production and i... More

Navy Yard, Building No. 143, Between Isaac Hull & Patterson Avenues, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Navy Yard, Building No. 143, Between Isaac Hull & Patterson Avenues, W...

Significance: Building 143 is a contributing property in the Washington Navy Yard National Historic Landmark. The Washington Navy Yard once served as the center for naval ordnance research and production and i... More

Fort Lewis, Locomotive Shelter, South side of South Drive, DuPont, Pierce County, WA

Fort Lewis, Locomotive Shelter, South side of South Drive, DuPont, Pie...

Significance: According to inventory records maintained by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (USACERL), Building 1-B-99 is one of two remaining structures t... More

Fort Lewis, Locomotive Shelter, South side of South Drive, DuPont, Pierce County, WA

Fort Lewis, Locomotive Shelter, South side of South Drive, DuPont, Pie...

Significance: According to inventory records maintained by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (USACERL), Building 1-B-99 is one of two remaining structures t... More

Union Hospital case - Estelle Poiriere, 137 Robeson St., 15 years old. Doffer at Granite No. 1 mill. Laceration of index and middle finger of right hand. Caught in card machine. Injured Dec. 21, 1915 and finger grew stiff and had to have cord cut. Still an outpatient in June and not working yet. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

Union Hospital case - Estelle Poiriere, 137 Robeson St., 15 years old....

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

Shaw Cotton Mills. An accident case. Alfred Padgett a doffer says he is 13 years old now, but worked when he was 12, and in other mills for 2 years before that. "I got my hand caught in the cogs of the spinning machine last week, and lost part of my finger. It stopped the machine, and I tell you it hurt. It pains me a lot now. Don't you think they orter pat me wages while I'm out with this bad hand? No, I can't read or write, but I think my mammy knows how to spell my name." Not a member of the family could read or write. Location: Weldon, North Carolina.

Shaw Cotton Mills. An accident case. Alfred Padgett a doffer says he i...

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

United States Marine Corps War Memorial, Marshall Drive, Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia

United States Marine Corps War Memorial, Marshall Drive, Arlington, Ar...

Significance: The immediate importance of the second flag-raising that occurred on 23 February 1945 on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima lies in how it resonated with the U.S. Marines as they continued their thir... More

United States Marine Corps War Memorial, Marshall Drive, Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia

United States Marine Corps War Memorial, Marshall Drive, Arlington, Ar...

Significance: The immediate importance of the second flag-raising that occurred on 23 February 1945 on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima lies in how it resonated with the U.S. Marines as they continued their thir... More

United States Marine Corps War Memorial, Marshall Drive, Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia

United States Marine Corps War Memorial, Marshall Drive, Arlington, Ar...

Significance: The immediate importance of the second flag-raising that occurred on 23 February 1945 on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima lies in how it resonated with the U.S. Marines as they continued their thir... More

MacDill Air Force Base, Bakery, 7615 Hillsborough Loop Drive, Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL

MacDill Air Force Base, Bakery, 7615 Hillsborough Loop Drive, Tampa, H...

Significance: The former Bakery, due to its architectural integrity and its contribution to the Second World War and Korean War-era infrastructure, is an integral part of MacDill Air Force Base's historic chara... More

MacDill Air Force Base, Bakery, 7615 Hillsborough Loop Drive, Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL

MacDill Air Force Base, Bakery, 7615 Hillsborough Loop Drive, Tampa, H...

Significance: The former Bakery, due to its architectural integrity and its contribution to the Second World War and Korean War-era infrastructure, is an integral part of MacDill Air Force Base's historic chara... More

Guiding genius of Bataan was General Douglas MacArthur (right) shown here with Major General Jonathan Wainwright, who assumed command when MacArthur was ordered to Australia

Guiding genius of Bataan was General Douglas MacArthur (right) shown h...

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

Guiding genius of Bataan was General Douglas MacArthur (right) shown here with Major General Jonathan Wainwright, who assumed command when MacArthur was ordered to Australia

Guiding genius of Bataan was General Douglas MacArthur (right) shown h...

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Union Hospital case - Manuel Costa Maiata, 301 Ferry St. Sweeper in Fall River Iron Works five weeks - 17 years old. Broke wrist while sweeping. Slipped on a banana skin. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

Union Hospital case - Manuel Costa Maiata, 301 Ferry St. Sweeper in Fa...

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

U.S. field headquarters near Casas Grandes, Mexico--Col. L.G. Berry, Col. De R.C. Cabell, Lt. M.C. Schellenberger, General John J. Pershing, Lt. George S. Patton, Maj. J.C. Hines, Maj. J.C. Clayton, and Capt. W.B. Burt--Mexican-U.S. campaign after Villa, 1916

U.S. field headquarters near Casas Grandes, Mexico--Col. L.G. Berry, C...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military personnel, army, group photograph, armed people in uniform, war inspection, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

American Red Cross Instruction to Officers in training. Carrying wounded man by the tail of his shirt

American Red Cross Instruction to Officers in training. Carrying wound...

Title and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Dr. Hunter, First Aid. Group Title: First Aid, U.S., Instruction. Date based on date of... More

Negroes hanging around the plantation store. Mississippi Delta

Negroes hanging around the plantation store. Mississippi Delta

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

Freedom of expression, of religion, from want, from fear everywhere in the world

Freedom of expression, of religion, from want, from fear everywhere in...

Poster promoting President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's four freedoms, showing a globe, two books, and the hand and torch from the Statue of Liberty. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Co... More

Nazi flag flies from Austrian Legation. Washington, D.C., Mar. 12. As soon as German troops crossed the border into Austria, the Austrian Legation in Washington, represented by Minster Edgar L.G. Prochnick, received orders from the Foreign Office in Vienna to fly the Swastika flag, 3/12/38

Nazi flag flies from Austrian Legation. Washington, D.C., Mar. 12. As ...

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

Light tanks, Fort Knox, Ky. - A couple of tanks driving down a dirt road

Light tanks, Fort Knox, Ky. - A couple of tanks driving down a dirt ro...

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

Mexican pecan workers waiting at union hall for assignment to work. San Antonio, Texas

Mexican pecan workers waiting at union hall for assignment to work. Sa...

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Manufacture of self-sealing gas tanks, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio

Manufacture of self-sealing gas tanks, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., A...

Photograph shows woman ironing. Public domain reproduction of art deco poster, cover, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a group of people. Pie Town, New Mexico. Farm Security Administartion photograph.

A black and white photo of a group of people. Pie Town, New Mexico. Fa...

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A group of men in uniform standing in front of a building - FSA / Office of War Information Photograph

A group of men in uniform standing in front of a building - FSA / Offi...

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

Washington, D.C. Foreign students at the international student assembly recording short talks in their native language to be broadcast by short wave, after censorship by the OWI, to Nazi-held territory. Mr. Brian Kallaway, a student at Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service, recording a short wave broadcast for Australia

Washington, D.C. Foreign students at the international student assembl...

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Chicago, Illinois. High school students at the monument in honor of Negro soldiers killed in World War I

Chicago, Illinois. High school students at the monument in honor of Ne...

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Negro steelworker. Fred Heeben, veteran Negro worker employee of a large East Coast steel mill, is participating in his second world war production drive. This sixty-year-old war worker is shown on his bycicle rushing time cards and tools from one part of the massive steel plant to another. Bethlehem Fairfield Steel

Negro steelworker. Fred Heeben, veteran Negro worker employee of a lar...

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Salvage. Scrap for steel mills. A cannon that saw duty in World War I stands in the yard of a Chicago steel mill, ready to be melted down and processed into a modern weapon for World War II

Salvage. Scrap for steel mills. A cannon that saw duty in World War I ...

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A black and white photo of a man in uniform. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man in uniform. Office of War Information...

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Scrapped cannon. Veterans of World War I, these cannons join the scrap heap to be reprocessed and recast into streamlined equipment that will be aimed once more at the enemy

Scrapped cannon. Veterans of World War I, these cannons join the scrap...

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Manpower. Veteran boring mill worker. Seventy-five-year-old George Shoemaker has worked at this same vertical boring mill for the past fifty-four years. The boring mill, built in 1865, made pump parts in the last year of the Civil War and worked through the Spanish-American War and World War I. In this war, it is kept busy seventy-six hours a week. The machine can handle castings up to eleven feet square

Manpower. Veteran boring mill worker. Seventy-five-year-old George Sho...

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Allied soldiers inspect the wreckage of one of the tanks of the German Tenth and Fifteenth Panzer Divisions. Photo made at Porto Farina where the Nazis were trapped

Allied soldiers inspect the wreckage of one of the tanks of the German...

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Airways to Peace exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, 11 W. 53rd St., New York City. Exhibition XIII

Airways to Peace exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, 11 W. 53rd St., New...

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Airways to Peace exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, 11 W. 53rd St., New York City. Exhibition VIII

Airways to Peace exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, 11 W. 53rd St., New...

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Port Farina beachside strewn with a wide assortment of Nazi military debris and a Nazi half-track in the water

Port Farina beachside strewn with a wide assortment of Nazi military d...

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