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Westley, California. Migrant family in Farm Security Administration camp. Unable to obtain work in pea fields because of labor surplus in height of season

Westley, California. Migrant family in Farm Security Administration ca...

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

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. Now making machine gun cover plates, this machine was converted from a line shaft drive to motor drive when a small Eastern manufacturing company converted its product from floor waxers to small parts for war equipment. Unable to purchase new equipment for his defense work, the owner bought second-hand equipment and remodelled it. Delivery of first orders was made thirty days after contract, an amazingly short time considering that conversion of the machinery took two weeks of it. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. Now making machine gun cover plates, th...

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

Alice Barber Stephens - [Unable to withdraw her attention from the kneeling figure]

Alice Barber Stephens - [Unable to withdraw her attention from the kne...

Title from mat. (DLC/PP-1932:0083). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: The Marble Faun / Nathaniel Hawthorne. New York : Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1900, vol. 2, p. 348.

Family walking on highway, five children. Started from Idabel, Oklahoma.  Bound for Krebs, Oklahoma. Pittsburg County, Oklahoma. In 1936 the father farmed on thirds and fourths at Eagleton, McCurtain County, Oklahoma. Was taken sick with pneumonia and lost farm. Unable to get work on Work Prjects Administration and refused county relief in county of fifteen years residence because of temporary residence in another county after his illness

Family walking on highway, five children. Started from Idabel, Oklahom...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Alice Barber Stephens - [Unable to withdraw her attention from the kneeling figure]

Alice Barber Stephens - [Unable to withdraw her attention from the kne...

Title from mat. (DLC/PP-1932:0083). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: The Marble Faun / Nathaniel Hawthorne. New York : Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1900, vol. 2, p. 348.

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. One of the few lathes bought by a small Eastern manufacturing firm. Unable to purchase much new machinery, the owner of the company installed and remodelled old equipment to produce war essentials under subcontract. First orders were delivered thirty days after contract, an amoazingly short time considering that conversion of machines took two weeks of it. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. One of the few lathes bought by a small...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a machine, worker, factory, industrial equipment, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Alice Barber Stephens - [Unable to withdraw her attention from the kneeling figure]

Alice Barber Stephens - [Unable to withdraw her attention from the kne...

Title from mat. (DLC/PP-1932:0083). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: The Marble Faun / Nathaniel Hawthorne. New York : Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1900, vol. 2, p. 348.

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ADDRESSES SOCIAL WORKERS AT WHITE HOUSE. A TWO-DAY MEETING OF THE 1933 MOBILIZATION FOR HUMAN NEEDS WITH SOCIAL WORKERS FROM ALL THE COUNTRY ATTENDING WAS OFFICIALLY OPENED IN WASHINGTON TODAY WHEN PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ADDRESSED THE GROUP ON THE THE GROUP ON THE LAWN OF THE WHITE HOUSE. NEWTON D. BAKER IS CHAIRMAN OF THE GROUP BUT WAS UNABLE TO ATTEND TODAY BECAUSE OF ILLNESS. THE CONFERENCE WAS INAUGURATED IN 1931 TO AID SOCIAL WORK GROUPS IN THEIR FIGHT AGAINST THE DEPRESSION

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ADDRESSES SOCIAL WORKERS AT WHITE HOUSE. A TWO-DAY...

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Boys from out of town who have come to Radford, Virginia for work at powder plant. Unable to rent a room their first night in town they are spending it in the railroad station

Boys from out of town who have come to Radford, Virginia for work at p...

Public domain photograph of train station, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. Now making machine-gun cover plates, this machine was converted from a line shaft drive to motor drive when a small Eastern manufacturing company converted its product from floor waxers to small parts for war equipment. Unable to purchase new equipment for his defense work, the plant's owner bought second hand equipment and remodelled it. Delivery of first orders was made 30 days after contract, an amazingly short time considering that conversion of the machinery took two weeks of it. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. Now making machine-gun cover plates, th...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a machine, industrial equipment, engine, generator, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Enoch Pratt to William Chesnut, Monday, December 19, 1864  (Unable to go to Washington)
Lawrence Thomsen to William Chesnut, Wednesday, December 21, 1864  (Unable to travel to Washington)
Enoch Pratt to William Chesnut, Monday, December 19, 1864  (Unable to go to Washington)
George B. McClellan to Abraham Lincoln, January 9 [1862]  (Unable to meet with Congressional committee)
Oil burners to machine gun parts. With conversion of a New York State oil-burner plant to production of precision parts for machine guns, additional equipment and manpower were mandatory. Unable to purchase sufficient new machines, these two used to hand operated milling machines were installed. The young worker was recruited from a defense vocational training school. Reif-Rexoil Company, Buffalo, New York

Oil burners to machine gun parts. With conversion of a New York State ...

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.

Fitzgerald D. Milton to Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln, June 2 [1861]  (Unable to accept invitation)
Lawrence Thomsen to William Chesnut, Wednesday, December 21, 1864  (Unable to travel to Washington)
A. Schumaker to William Chesnut, Tuesday, December 20, 1864  (Unable to travel to Washington)
A. Schumaker to William Chesnut, Tuesday, December 20, 1864  (Unable to travel to Washington)
William H. Seward to Abraham Lincoln,  ND  (Unable to attend cabinet meeting)
Family walking on highway, five children. Started from Idabel, Oklahoma.  Bound for Krebs, Oklahoma. Pittsburg County, Oklahoma. In 1936 the father farmed on thirds and fourths at Eagleton, McCurtain County, Oklahoma. Was taken sick with pneumonia and lost farm. Unable to get work on Work Prjects Administration and refused county relief in county of fifteen years residence because of temporary residence in another county after his illness

Family walking on highway, five children. Started from Idabel, Oklahom...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Daniel Chase to William Chesnut, Tuesday, December 20, 1864  (Unable to travel to Washington)
J. Stricker Jenkins to William Chesnut, Tuesday, December 20, 1864  (Unable to travel to Washington)
Daniel Chase to William Chesnut, Tuesday, December 20, 1864  (Unable to travel to Washington)
J. Stricker Jenkins to William Chesnut, Tuesday, December 20, 1864  (Unable to travel to Washington)
Lawrence Thomsen to William Chesnut, Wednesday, December 21, 1864  (Unable to travel to Washington)
William H. Seward to Abraham Lincoln,  ND  (Unable to attend cabinet meeting)
George B. McClellan to Abraham Lincoln, January 9 [1862]  (Unable to meet with Congressional committee)