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Extreme line of Confederate works, Cold Harbor, Virginia / negative by J. Reekie, positive by A. Gardner.

Extreme line of Confederate works, Cold Harbor, Virginia / negative by...

Photograph showing a fallen tree and other barricades used by Confederate soldiers in the Battle of Cold Harbor. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C. :... More

"Time works wonders." Iago. (Jeff Davis) "For that I do suspect the lusty moor hath leap'd into my seat : the thought whereof doth like a poisonous mineral gnaw my inwards." -- Othello / Th. Nast.

"Time works wonders." Iago. (Jeff Davis) "For that I do suspect the lu...

Cartoon showing Jefferson Davis looking over his shoulder at Hiram Revels seated in the United States Senate. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1870 April 9, p. 232.

Water Works Park, Detroit - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Water Works Park, Detroit - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

National Tube [Company] Works, furnaces, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

National Tube [Company] Works, furnaces, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Water works, Jacksonville, Fla.

Water works, Jacksonville, Fla.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power station, dam, electric generator, industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Gantry crane, Great Lakes Engineering Works

Gantry crane, Great Lakes Engineering Works

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Laying keel of no. 400, Globe Iron Works, Cleveland, O[hio]

Laying keel of no. 400, Globe Iron Works, Cleveland, O[hio]

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

[National Tube Company Works furnaces, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]

[National Tube Company Works furnaces, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical building, landmark architecture, world heritage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Arthur Sarasin, 7 Acushnet Block. Works in weaving room. At his house his people said he was fourteen last week. Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Arthur Sarasin, 7 Acushnet Block. Works in weaving room. At his house ...

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

The very smallest boy is Henry Fournier, 261 Jefferson Ave., Castle Hill, has worked 2 months in #2 Spinning Room. The next in size is Adelard Gagnon, 32 Perkins St., works in Spinning Room. Next in size (front row) is Adelard Dion i.e. Dionne, 1 Palmer St., works in #1Spinning Room. Smallest in back row is Albert Valbert, 14 Park St. Location: Salem, Massachusetts

The very smallest boy is Henry Fournier, 261 Jefferson Ave., Castle Hi...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2630. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Wilbur Gold, Western Union Messenger #14, twelve years old; works until 11 P.M. usually, but all night when they are busy. (See report of L.W.H.) Location: Tampa, Florida.

Wilbur Gold, Western Union Messenger #14, twelve years old; works unti...

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

Fred Millette, 592 First St., is boy in center of picture with cap on side of head and arms folded. Works in finishing room. Birth certificate make him 14. Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Fred Millette, 592 First St., is boy in center of picture with cap on ...

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

Panorama showing Fine Arts steel works, Educational, Food Products & Horticulture Bldgs.

Panorama showing Fine Arts steel works, Educational, Food Products & H...

J191709 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Panama-Pacific International Exposition Co.; April 13, 1914; DLC/PP-1914:44756. No. 1866.

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.

Samuel M. Vauclain, Chairman of the Board, Baldwin Locomotive Works. Samuel M. Vauclain seated at desk II

Samuel M. Vauclain, Chairman of the Board, Baldwin Locomotive Works. S...

Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Wash. D.C. "Don't Know." O.E. Wasser, A.G. & E. Controller who told the Senate lobby investigators Tuesday that they shouldn't "expect me to know everything." He was being questioned about the about the company for which he works and for which he claimed he owned no stock in. 7/30/35

Wash. D.C. "Don't Know." O.E. Wasser, A.G. & E. Controller who told th...

A black and white photo of a man sitting in a chair. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Federal Art Project, Works Progress Administration art exhibition by artists of the Federal Art Project ... [at the] Albany Institute of History and Art

Federal Art Project, Works Progress Administration art exhibition by a...

Poster for Federal Art Project exhibition of art by WPA Federal Art Project artists at the Albany Institute of History and Art. Date stamped on verso: Sep 16 1938. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection... More

Tractor operator in western cotton fields. Works as wage laborer, earns one dollar per day. Childress County, Texas

Tractor operator in western cotton fields. Works as wage laborer, earn...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farm, farmer, agriculture, early 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

PWA ready for recovery gun--Ickes. Washington, D.C., April 26. Secretary Ickes today told the House Appropriations Sub-Committee in hearing on President Roosevelt's recovery program that the PWA has 2,714 approved public works projects which could be started within "60 to 90" days. Ickes statement was disclosed to newsmen by Rep. Clifton Woodrum, Chairman of the Sub-Committee. While he refused to make a statement, Ickes did say he had no objections to making PWA permanent as proposed in a bill by Rep. Alfred Beiter. In the group, left to right: (seated) Rep. J. Buell Snyder, Penna., Secretary Ickes, and Rep. Clifton A. Woodrum, Chairman. Standing, left to right, are: Howard A. Gray, Asst. WPA Administrator; and Ebert K. Burlew, Asst. Secretary of Interior, 4/26/38

PWA ready for recovery gun--Ickes. Washington, D.C., April 26. Secreta...

A group of men sitting around a table. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Wife of WPA (Works Progress Administration) worker, Charleston, West Virginia

Wife of WPA (Works Progress Administration) worker, Charleston, West V...

Picryl description: Public domain image of industrial or agricultural worker, 1930s, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

Great Depression: A black and white photo of a small house. Farm Security Administration photogrpaph. Indiana

Great Depression: A black and white photo of a small house. Farm Secur...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

An old photo of two men standing outside of a building, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

An old photo of two men standing outside of a building, West Virginia....

Picryl description: Public domain image of a great depression era, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Wife of WPA (Works Progress Administration) worker. Bush, Illinois

Wife of WPA (Works Progress Administration) worker. Bush, Illinois

Picryl description: Public domain image of a great depression era, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Hitler would like this man to go home and forget about the war. A good American non-com at the side machine gun of a huge YB-17 bomber is a man who knows his business and works hard at it

Hitler would like this man to go home and forget about the war. A good...

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

House which adjoins that of family described in 19553-E. There are approximately one hundred such homes, each with about an acre at Highway City, California, which show various degrees of ability in self resettlement. Nearly all are on Works Progress Administration (WPA)

House which adjoins that of family described in 19553-E. There are app...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a great depression era, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mrs. Hutton works in her seedbed. Pie Town, New Mexico

Mrs. Hutton works in her seedbed. Pie Town, New Mexico

Public domain photograph of construction site, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Applying blue bands on china for the wardroom officers mess of the U.S. Navy. Shenango Pottery Works, Newcastle, Pennsylvania

Applying blue bands on china for the wardroom officers mess of the U.S...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of 3d object, pottery, ceramics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

At the Washington Tinplate Works. Washington, Pennsylvania

At the Washington Tinplate Works. Washington, Pennsylvania

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.

Woman fetching water. She lives with her family in lower part of the tobacco barn. Husband works at Fort Bragg. Near Fayetteville, North Carolina

Woman fetching water. She lives with her family in lower part of the t...

Public domain photograph of 1930s North Carolina, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Miscellaneous lot of photographs by Barbara Wright. National Youth Administration (NYA), Works Progress Administration (WPA) and Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Miscellaneous lot of photographs by Barbara Wright. National Youth Adm...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a great depression era, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Workers leaving plant at change of shift before being paid off. Electric Boat Works, Groton, Connecticut

Workers leaving plant at change of shift before being paid off. Electr...

Public domain photograph of Great Depression, farm, farmer, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Miscellaneous lot of photographs by Barbara Wright. National Youth Administration (NYA), Works Progress Administration (WPA) and Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Miscellaneous lot of photographs by Barbara Wright. National Youth Adm...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a great depression era, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Ware shipped to the Army Quartermaster has straw placed between each piece and is then packed in large wooden barrels. Shenango Pottery Works, Newcastle, Pennsylvania

Ware shipped to the Army Quartermaster has straw placed between each p...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of 3d object, pottery, ceramics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

This grist mill crushes feldspar, one of the ingredients used in the manufacture of chinaware. Shenango Pottery Works, Newcastle, Pennsylvania

This grist mill crushes feldspar, one of the ingredients used in the m...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of 3d object, pottery, ceramics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Miscellaneous lot of photographs by Barbara Wright. National Youth Administration (NYA), Works Progress Administration (WPA) and Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Miscellaneous lot of photographs by Barbara Wright. National Youth Adm...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a great depression era, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Workers entering plant at afternoon change of shift. Electric Boat Works, Groton, Connecticut

Workers entering plant at afternoon change of shift. Electric Boat Wor...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Workers leaving plant at change of shift before being paid off. Electric Boat Works, Groton, Connecticut

Workers leaving plant at change of shift before being paid off. Electr...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Miscellaneous lot of photographs by Barbara Wright. National Youth Administration (NYA), Works Progress Administration (WPA) and Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Miscellaneous lot of photographs by Barbara Wright. National Youth Adm...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a great depression era, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bringing in the logs at a small sawmill works in southern Greene County, Georgia

Bringing in the logs at a small sawmill works in southern Greene Count...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Miscellaneous lot of photographs by Barbara Wright. National Youth Administration (NYA), Works Progress Administration (WPA) and Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Miscellaneous lot of photographs by Barbara Wright. National Youth Adm...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a great depression era, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Throwing liners to be used in making medical department coffee cups. Shenango Pottery Works, Newcastle, Pennsylvania

Throwing liners to be used in making medical department coffee cups. S...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of 3d object, pottery, ceramics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Subcontracting (Braden and Van Fossen Works). A large sixty-inch lathe at the Braden and Van Fossen Works is employed to smooth down pedestals for ships' dining tables. The lathe was recently acquired and refitted to do extra large jobs. Also at the Van Fossen Works, holes are drilled in the pedestal bases for fastening the pedestals to the floor, or deck

Subcontracting (Braden and Van Fossen Works). A large sixty-inch lathe...

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

Miscellaneous lot of photographs by Barbara Wright. National Youth Administration (NYA), Works Progress Administration (WPA) and Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Miscellaneous lot of photographs by Barbara Wright. National Youth Adm...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a great depression era, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Miscellaneous lot of photographs by Barbara Wright. National Youth Administration (NYA), Works Progress Administration (WPA) and Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Miscellaneous lot of photographs by Barbara Wright. National Youth Adm...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory worker, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

Miscellaneous lot of photographs by Barbara Wright. National Youth Administration (NYA), Works Progress Administration (WPA) and Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Miscellaneous lot of photographs by Barbara Wright. National Youth Adm...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, meeting, civil rights movement, African Americans, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Miscellaneous lot of photographs by Barbara Wright. National Youth Administration (NYA), Works Progress Administration (WPA) and Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Miscellaneous lot of photographs by Barbara Wright. National Youth Adm...

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.

Subcontracting (Braden and Van Fossen Works). A large sixty-inch lathe at the Braden and Van Fossen Works is employed to smooth down pedestals for ships' dining tables. The lathe was recently acquired and refitted to do extra large jobs. Also at the Van Fossen Works, holes are drilled in the pedestal bases for fastening the pedestals to the floor, or deck

Subcontracting (Braden and Van Fossen Works). A large sixty-inch lathe...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Miscellaneous lot of photographs by Barbara Wright. National Youth Administration (NYA), Works Progress Administration (WPA) and Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). Habersham, Georgia. NYA youth learning modern incubator techniques from a local farmer

Miscellaneous lot of photographs by Barbara Wright. National Youth Adm...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a great depression era, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Miscellaneous lot of photographs by Barbara Wright. National Youth Administration (NYA), Works Progress Administration (WPA) and Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Miscellaneous lot of photographs by Barbara Wright. National Youth Adm...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a great depression era, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Dante Electric Company, Bantam, Connecticut. The shop is busy, so Anna, oldest of the five Dante girls lends a hand with a drill press. Anna operates the Bantam Beauty Salon, but because she has difficulty with hot water during the winter, she closes the shop from early January through March. Her "boyfriend" (Anna says they are not engaged) works regularly at the American Brass Company in Torrington. If he puts in an eight-hour day there, he works for another four hours at the Dante Electric. Often now, however, he puts in a twelve-hour day in Torrington, and on those days does not work for Dante

Dante Electric Company, Bantam, Connecticut. The shop is busy, so Anna...

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

Chicago, Illinois. Ida B. Wells Housing Project. Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Merchant, who live in one of the houses. Mr. Merchant works at the Carniege steel plant

Chicago, Illinois. Ida B. Wells Housing Project. Mr. and Mrs. Frank L....

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of the 1930s - 1940s, woman, female portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Ship launching in Portland, Maine. Officials who assisted in the launching ceremonies for eight vessels at a New England shipyard August 16, 1942. Left to right: Senator Claude Pepper of Florida; Senator Harry S. Truman of Missouri; Governor Sumner Sewall of Maine; Senator Ralph Brewster of Maine; John D. Reilly, President of Todd Shipyards Corporation; William S. Newell, President of Bath Iron Works Corporation and Todd-Bath Iron Shipbuilding Corporation; Senator Harley M. Kilgore of West Virginia

Ship launching in Portland, Maine. Officials who assisted in the launc...

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

Bathroom in the Merchant's apartment. Two floors--five rooms including kitchen and bath. Mr. Merchant works at the Carnegie Steel Company's South Chicago plant. They have three children: Frank, eight; Rosemary, eight; and baby fiur months old. Ida B. Wells Housing Project, Chicago, Illinois

Bathroom in the Merchant's apartment. Two floors--five rooms including...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty during the Great Depression, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Aircraft. A master mechanic works over a Flying Fortress power plant at a big Western aircraft factory

Production. Aircraft. A master mechanic works over a Flying Fortress p...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

War workers' nursery. Mrs. Arlene Corbin, time checker in a Richmond, California shipyard brings two-and-a-half-year-old Arlene to a nursery school every morning before going home to sleep. Mrs. Corbin works on the midnight to 7:30 a.m. shift and relies upon the school to keep her daughter busy and happy during the day

War workers' nursery. Mrs. Arlene Corbin, time checker in a Richmond, ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Orange, Texas. Mother who works in the shipyard calling for her daughter at the nursery school at 6 p.m.

Orange, Texas. Mother who works in the shipyard calling for her daught...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children, kids, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Miss Beatrice Paul, mother of two children, working on a generator at the garage of the Yellow Cab Company. Her husband also works for the cab company, in the tire department

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Miss Beatrice Paul, mother of two children...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory worker, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

Buffalo, New York. Cecelia Wrazen, who works at the Ross Heater plant, is engaged to a precision lathe operator in the same plant. Fellow workers presenting Cecelia with a wedding gift

Buffalo, New York. Cecelia Wrazen, who works at the Ross Heater plant,...

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

Corning Glass Works, Parkersburg, West Virginia. Corridor

Corning Glass Works, Parkersburg, West Virginia. Corridor

Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New York, New York. A child of the nursery school group at Greenwich House being escorted from this neighborhood center where she receives day care while her mother works

New York, New York. A child of the nursery school group at Greenwich H...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a child of a farmer, migrant worker, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

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

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

Gichner Sheet Metal Works. Metal sink in Army Medical Museum

Gichner Sheet Metal Works. Metal sink in Army Medical Museum

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A.F. Jorss Iron Works Inc. Entrance to George Washington University Government Building

A.F. Jorss Iron Works Inc. Entrance to George Washington University Go...

Public domain photograph of midcentury American architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Potomac Electric Power Co. miscellaneous. Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O) Canal at 34th St. after construction works IV

Potomac Electric Power Co. miscellaneous. Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O) Ca...

Public domain photograph related to Potomac Electric Power Company, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

F & R Machine Works, 44-14 Astoria Blvd., Long Island City, New York. Jig boring

F & R Machine Works, 44-14 Astoria Blvd., Long Island City, New York. ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a living room, salon, office, late 19th-century interior, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The 1832 Antietam Iron Works Bridge over Antietam Creek, Sharpsburg, Maryland

The 1832 Antietam Iron Works Bridge over Antietam Creek, Sharpsburg, M...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Jelina Cubic works at silk-winding operation.

Jelina Cubic works at silk-winding operation.

Public domain photograph of manufacturing, industry, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Vintage Dr Pepper posters at the Dublin Bottling Works and W.P. Kloster Museum in Dublin, Texas

Vintage Dr Pepper posters at the Dublin Bottling Works and W.P. Kloste...

Public domain scan of American poster, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pin boys in Les Miserables Alleys, Frank Jarose, 7 Fayette St., Mellens Court, said 11 years old, made $3.72 last week. Joseph Philip, 5 Wall St., said 11 years old, and works until midnight every week night; said he made $2.25 last week and $1.75 the week before. Willie Payton, 196 Fayette St., said 11 years old, made over $2 last week, works there every night until midnight. Location: Lowell, Massachusetts

Pin boys in Les Miserables Alleys, Frank Jarose, 7 Fayette St., Mellen...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 2603. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Donimeco Cipella works in he card room of the Natick Mills, Natick, R. I. Has been there 2 years. "Once dey made me stop and said I should go to school but I'm workin' again." Does he look 14 now?. Location: Natick, Rhode Island.

Donimeco Cipella works in he card room of the Natick Mills, Natick, R....

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

Curtin Hines. Western Union messenger #36. Fourteen years old. Goes to school. Works from four to eight P.M. Been with W[estern] U[nion] for six months, one month delivering for a drug store. "I learned a lot about the 'Reservation' while I was at the drug store and I go there some times now." Location: Houston, Texas.

Curtin Hines. Western Union messenger #36. Fourteen years old. Goes to...

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

One of Grant's breast works opposite of cemetery no. 2, Wilderness

One of Grant's breast works opposite of cemetery no. 2, Wilderness

Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). American Scenery (Stereoscopic) label on verso, no. 63. Forms part of: The Robin G. Stanford Collection. Digitized 2015 Funding from Center for Civil War Photography.

Washington, D.C. Miss Helen Ringwald works with the pneumatic tubes through which messages are sent to branches in other parts of the city for delivery

Washington, D.C. Miss Helen Ringwald works with the pneumatic tubes th...

Public domain photograph of manufacturing, industry, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Waterloo Water Works, Well House 4, Fairview & Lafayette Avenue, Waterloo, Black Hawk County, IA

Waterloo Water Works, Well House 4, Fairview & Lafayette Avenue, Water...

Significance: This structure serves as a functional element treated as a decorative pavilion in a park setting. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-156 Survey number: HABS IA-125 Bu... More

Vulcan Iron Works, no. 633 / George Stacy.

Vulcan Iron Works, no. 633 / George Stacy.

Stereograph shows the Vulcan Iron Works, Cumberland Street, Charleston, South Carolina. Image includes five men standing on the iron balcony. Carriages and carriage parts line both sides of the street. Sign in... More

U.S. Steel Duquesne Works, Primary Mill, Along Monongahela River, Duquesne, Allegheny County, PA

U.S. Steel Duquesne Works, Primary Mill, Along Monongahela River, Duqu...

See also HAER PA-115 for additional documentation. Includes written data (pages 211 through 226). Significance: The construction of the Duquesne Steel Works marked an important event in the movement toward inte... More

U.S. Steel Duquesne Works, Primary Mill, Along Monongahela River, Duquesne, Allegheny County, PA

U.S. Steel Duquesne Works, Primary Mill, Along Monongahela River, Duqu...

See also HAER PA-115 for additional documentation. Includes written data (pages 211 through 226). Significance: The construction of the Duquesne Steel Works marked an important event in the movement toward inte... More

Midnight in a Glass Works in Grafton, West Virginia. Boys at the "Glory-Hole" where object is reheated before going to finisher. Location: Grafton, West Virginia.

Midnight in a Glass Works in Grafton, West Virginia. Boys at the "Glor...

Public domain photograph of people, building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Closing hour, Saturday noon, at Dallas Mill. Every child in photos, so far as I was able to ascertain, works in that mill. When I questioned some of the youngest boys as to their ages, they said they were 12, and then other boys said they were lying. (Which sentiment I agreed with.) Location: Huntsville, Alabama.

Closing hour, Saturday noon, at Dallas Mill. Every child in photos, so...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an 18th-19th century military conflict, armed forces, infantry, militia, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Union Iron Works Turbine Machine Shop, 2200 Webster Street, Alameda, Alameda County, CA

Union Iron Works Turbine Machine Shop, 2200 Webster Street, Alameda, A...

Significance: The Union Iron Works Turbine Machine Shop building is both historically and architecturally significant. As the nucleus of a major West Coast shipyard which made important contributions to ship b... More

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Blast Furnace No. 3, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Westmoreland County, PA

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Blast Furnace No. 3, Donner ...

Significance: No. 3 Blast Furnace, also known as "Jane," was blown-in in 1948. This furnace was considerably larger than either Blast Furnace No. 1 or No. 2, with a hearth diameter of 28 feet, and 18 tuyeres. ... More

Burden Iron Works, Wynants Kill & Burden Street, Troy, Rensselaer County, NY

Burden Iron Works, Wynants Kill & Burden Street, Troy, Rensselaer Coun...

Significance: An interesting example of nineteenth century American industrial-commercial architecture, and the only remaining significant structure of the Burden Iron Company, an early giant of the United Stat... More

Cambria Iron Company, Rolling Mill Office, Lower Works, Johnstown, Cambria County, PA

Cambria Iron Company, Rolling Mill Office, Lower Works, Johnstown, Cam...

Significance: The building has wrought-iron beam flooring, brick vaulting, an intersecting gable roof framed with wood rafters, and a stone foundation. It retains the stair tower featuring a wrought-iron spira... More

Manuel Ferreira - Portuguese - 15 yrs. 27 Whitter St. Sweeper - Fall River Iron Works. In Sunday clothes. Carving class at King Philip Settlement. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

Manuel Ferreira - Portuguese - 15 yrs. 27 Whitter St. Sweeper - Fall R...

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

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Blast Furnace No. 1 & No. 2, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Westmoreland County, PA

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Blast Furnace No. 1 & No. 2,...

Significance: No. 1 and No. 2 Blast Furnaces were blown-in in 1913. The two furnaces were nearly identical in design and capacity at the time of construction and shared a common cast house, an unusual arrangem... More

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Blast Furnace No. 1 & No. 2, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Westmoreland County, PA

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Blast Furnace No. 1 & No. 2,...

Significance: No. 1 and No. 2 Blast Furnaces were blown-in in 1913. The two furnaces were nearly identical in design and capacity at the time of construction and shared a common cast house, an unusual arrangem... More

Dangerous work. Charlie McBride. Said twelve years old. This twelve year old boy has a steady job with the Miller and Vidor Lumber Company. He takes slabs out of the chute, which has a moving endless chain to carry the wood up the chute. He passes the slabs on to the other boy who saws them off on an unguarded circular saw. Charlie runs the saw himself whenever he gets the chance. He is exposed not only to the above dangers, but to the weather. No roof even. Has been here for some months. "Get four bits a day." (Fifty cents.) Works ten hours. This was the only mill that I found around Beaumont that employed boys. Likely because they are located some distance out of town. Location: Beaumont, Texas.

Dangerous work. Charlie McBride. Said twelve years old. This twelve ye...

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A glass works in Indiana, Night Shift Going to Work. 5 P.M. (See also #115). Location: Indiana.

A glass works in Indiana, Night Shift Going to Work. 5 P.M. (See also ...

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Spot near fort Damnation where the 9th Corps charged and afterwords carried the abattis and Cheveaux de frize [sic] across to the rear of the rebel works as a defense against attack from the second line

Spot near fort Damnation where the 9th Corps charged and afterwords ca...

Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed upper right: Sketch A. the Frize [sic] and Abattis was placed in the night after the fight. Inscribed lower left above title: This bank enem... More

[Great Lakes Engineering Works, Ecorse, Mich.]

[Great Lakes Engineering Works, Ecorse, Mich.]

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Harbor entrance and Illinois Steel Works, So. Chicago

Harbor entrance and Illinois Steel Works, So. Chicago

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LaBelle Iron Works, Thirtieth & Wood Streets, Wheeling, Ohio County, WV

LaBelle Iron Works, Thirtieth & Wood Streets, Wheeling, Ohio County, W...

Significance: La Belle is the largest American cut nail factory and one of two remaining United States cut nail manufacturers. La Belle has been in business for almost 140 years and still uses the same equipme... More

LaBelle Iron Works, Thirtieth & Wood Streets, Wheeling, Ohio County, WV

LaBelle Iron Works, Thirtieth & Wood Streets, Wheeling, Ohio County, W...

Significance: La Belle is the largest American cut nail factory and one of two remaining United States cut nail manufacturers. La Belle has been in business for almost 140 years and still uses the same equipme... More

LaBelle Iron Works, Thirtieth & Wood Streets, Wheeling, Ohio County, WV

LaBelle Iron Works, Thirtieth & Wood Streets, Wheeling, Ohio County, W...

Significance: La Belle is the largest American cut nail factory and one of two remaining United States cut nail manufacturers. La Belle has been in business for almost 140 years and still uses the same equipme... More

LaBelle Iron Works, Thirtieth & Wood Streets, Wheeling, Ohio County, WV

LaBelle Iron Works, Thirtieth & Wood Streets, Wheeling, Ohio County, W...

Significance: La Belle is the largest American cut nail factory and one of two remaining United States cut nail manufacturers. La Belle has been in business for almost 140 years and still uses the same equipme... More

Columbus Iron Works, Front Avenue between Eighth & Tenth Streets, Columbus, Muscogee County, GA

Columbus Iron Works, Front Avenue between Eighth & Tenth Streets, Colu...

Significance: For over a century (1853-1965) the Columbus Iron works supplied the city and surrounding area with a wide assortment of cast iron goods, agricultural implements, industrial and building supplies, ... More

Hardin City Water Works, 101 East Fourth Street, Hardin, Big Horn County, MT

Hardin City Water Works, 101 East Fourth Street, Hardin, Big Horn Coun...

Significance: The Hardin City Water Works building is significant as a physical representation of the relatively rapid growth of Hardin. Within several years of its founding in 1907 and incorporation in 1911, ... More

Watson Machine Works prior to 1850s fires.

Watson Machine Works prior to 1850s fires.

Forms part of a group of images which are copies of historical photos from Watson Machine International, a machine tool manufacturing company located at 74 Railroad Avenue, Paterson, New Jersey. These photogra... More

Rebel works on the heights of Centerville [sic]

Rebel works on the heights of Centerville [sic]

Signed lower right: Alf. R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Formerly Waud no. B-2. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.767) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Confederate Powder Works, Augusta, Ga., Confederate States of America.

Confederate Powder Works, Augusta, Ga., Confederate States of America.

No. 5307. Photograph is half stereograph. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

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