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[Collapsed roof at train yard with snow]

[Collapsed roof at train yard with snow]

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Arrival of body of Maj. R.W. Imbrie at Wash. Navy Yard, [9/29/24]

Arrival of body of Maj. R.W. Imbrie at Wash. Navy Yard, [9/29/24]

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Rocky Mount Lumber Co. Construction of portable house two at Johnson & Wimsatt lumber yard I

Rocky Mount Lumber Co. Construction of portable house two at Johnson &...

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Rocky Mount Lumber Co. Construction of portable house two at Johnson & Wimsatt lumber yard VI

Rocky Mount Lumber Co. Construction of portable house two at Johnson &...

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Sec. Wilbur and Cong. Committee Inspect Sub V-1 at Navy Yard, 12/3/24

Sec. Wilbur and Cong. Committee Inspect Sub V-1 at Navy Yard, 12/3/24

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Comm. and Mrs. L.S. Perry, Aide to the Commandant of the Navy Yard, photographed at the dance given in the Navy Yard sail loft by the Commandant and Officers for Vice Admiral Sir Matthew R. Best, Commander-in-Chief of the American and West Indian stations

Comm. and Mrs. L.S. Perry, Aide to the Commandant of the Navy Yard, ph...

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Pig in a sharecropper's yard, Hale County, Alabama

Pig in a sharecropper's yard, Hale County, Alabama

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Alabama. Farmers during Great Depression. An old black and white photo of a family with a dog.

Alabama. Farmers during Great Depression. An old black and white photo...

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Millwork. Finishing louver for gable end of house. Southeast Missouri project yard

Millwork. Finishing louver for gable end of house. Southeast Missouri ...

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A black and white photo of a train in a field, New Jersey. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a train in a field, New Jersey. Farm Securi...

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Schoolteacher taking care of his front yard on Saturday. Tygart Valley homesteads, West Virginia

Schoolteacher taking care of his front yard on Saturday. Tygart Valley...

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WPA (Works Progress Administration) worker's wife washing clothes in front yard. South Charleston, West Virginia

WPA (Works Progress Administration) worker's wife washing clothes in f...

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Yard barn and cotton wagon on small California cotton farm. Kern County, California

Yard barn and cotton wagon on small California cotton farm. Kern Count...

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Southeast Missouri Farms. Examining yard goods in cooperative store. La Forge project, Missouri

Southeast Missouri Farms. Examining yard goods in cooperative store. L...

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Front yard, company houses, coal mining section, Purseglove, Scotts Run, West Virginia

Front yard, company houses, coal mining section, Purseglove, Scotts Ru...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of coal miners, workers, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

General view of the hump yard at Proviso yard, C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill.

General view of the hump yard at Proviso yard, C & NW RR., Chicago, Il...

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View in a departure yard at C & NW RR's Proviso (?) yard at twilight, Chicago, Ill.

View in a departure yard at C & NW RR's Proviso (?) yard at twilight, ...

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A black and white photo of an old house, Texas, during Great Depression

A black and white photo of an old house, Texas, during Great Depressio...

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Railroad yard behind potato shed from which Klamath potatoes are shipped across the country. Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California

Railroad yard behind potato shed from which Klamath potatoes are shipp...

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Stacks of wood in railroad yard. Marshall, Texas

Stacks of wood in railroad yard. Marshall, Texas

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Hop yard on ranch of M. Rivard in French-Canadian colony, three weeks before picking. Yakima Valley, Moxee Valley district, Washington

Hop yard on ranch of M. Rivard in French-Canadian colony, three weeks ...

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Alabama. Farmers during Great Depression. A black and white photo of a man standing in front of a house.

Alabama. Farmers during Great Depression. A black and white photo of a...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a worker, construction, carpenter, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, Lewis County, Centralia. Railroad yard, looking down from highway bridge. Disaster to the town: the one remaining lumber mill burned down a week before. (Note smoke and wreckage)

Washington, Lewis County, Centralia. Railroad yard, looking down from ...

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Switchman throwing a switch a C and NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill.

Switchman throwing a switch a C and NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill...

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View of hop yard, pickers at work. Near Independence, Polk County, Oregon. See general caption number 45-1

View of hop yard, pickers at work. Near Independence, Polk County, Ore...

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Train pulling out of the freight house at C & NW RR's Proviso Yard, Chicago, Ill.

Train pulling out of the freight house at C & NW RR's Proviso Yard, Ch...

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A.S. Gerdee, of 3251 Maypole(?) Street, working as a switchman at Proviso yard of C & NW RR, Chicago, Ill.

A.S. Gerdee, of 3251 Maypole(?) Street, working as a switchman at Prov...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a railway worker, railroad, locomotive repair shop, industrial facility, early 20th-century industry, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

John L. Walter, conductor at Proviso yard of the C&NWRR. Mr. Walter has been employed on the railroad for 45 years, 32 of them as conductor. The red nose and cheeks are due to the below zero weather outside. Chicago, Ill.

John L. Walter, conductor at Proviso yard of the C&NWRR. Mr. Walter ha...

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Melrose Park (near Chicago), Ill; C & NW RR; L. Logan, of West Chicago, boilermaker at the roundhouse at the Proviso yard

Melrose Park (near Chicago), Ill; C & NW RR; L. Logan, of West Chicago...

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The yardmaster's office at the receiving yard, North Proviso(?), C & NW RR, Chicago, Ill.

The yardmaster's office at the receiving yard, North Proviso(?), C & N...

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Alabama. Farmers during Great Depression. An old black and white photo of a woman and a dog.

Alabama. Farmers during Great Depression. An old black and white photo...

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Sixth and seventh grade boys constructing poultry yard fence. Brooder was built in their shop class at school. Flint River Farms, Georgia

Sixth and seventh grade boys constructing poultry yard fence. Brooder ...

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Horse, mules and automobiles standing outside mountain family's yard during a memorial meeting up Frozen Creek, near Jackson, Breathitt County, Kentucky. See general caption number one

Horse, mules and automobiles standing outside mountain family's yard d...

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After the noon hour in the plantation yard, the mules, tractors and cultivators are taken out to finish the day's work. King and Anderson Plantation, near Clarksdale. Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

After the noon hour in the plantation yard, the mules, tractors and cu...

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A black and white photo of a man standing in front of a house, Washington DC. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a man standing in front of a house, Washing...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se... More

Yard of Negro farmer. McIntosh County, Oklahoma

Yard of Negro farmer. McIntosh County, Oklahoma

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Car wheels and general equipment lot at railroad yard in Big Spring, Texas

Car wheels and general equipment lot at railroad yard in Big Spring, T...

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Mountain families in Kentucky "raise" their own coal in the back yard along roadsides. Up Morris Fork of Kentucky River

Mountain families in Kentucky "raise" their own coal in the back yard ...

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Negro slums. Alexander Court between K and L Streets N.W. A woman and her two children lived in four small rooms eight and one half years and pay twelve fifty a month for rent. Water and privy in the yard. Rents in nearby houses have gone up but not here

Negro slums. Alexander Court between K and L Streets N.W. A woman and ...

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

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Welding is more important than ever before in shipbuilding, saving time, weight and steel. This work is done at a nearby plant which formerly turned out freight cars. This worker is welding top plates to angle frames for a merchant ship under construction at a large Eastern yard. All parts are prefabricated in this huge Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flatcars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Welding is more important than ever bef...

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Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. A view from the water of the shipways at a large Eastern yard. At the left is seen the old-style superstructure, with tracks for two-way overhead cranes, while at the right, running on ground tracks, are the more modern cranes, designed for hoisting from any angle. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. A view from the water of the shipways a...

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

Boy scout training helps. He may not have learned to tie knots from a Scoutmaster, but this worker at an eastern Navy yard has plent on hand. He's manufacturing canvas accessories in the yard's sail-loft

Boy scout training helps. He may not have learned to tie knots from a ...

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

Wife and child of Navy yard worker from North Carolina, now living in one room apartment in Helping Hand Mission. Portsmouth, Virginia

Wife and child of Navy yard worker from North Carolina, now living in ...

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

Public domain image of New york city cityscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Public domain image of New york city cityscape, free to use, no copyri...

Public domain photograph of life and commerce in the New YorkCity in1940s-1950s, interiors, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). Hundreds of skilled workers are engaged in the welding shop. Welded jointures have many advantages over riveted fittings, and welders are sought in increasing quantities for work on Uncle Sam's growing battle fleet

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). Hundreds of skilled workers are enga...

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

Singing games in the school yard, homestead school. Dailey, West Virginia

Singing games in the school yard, homestead school. Dailey, West Virgi...

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Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Crane operator in the yard

Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Crane operator in the ...

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Chicago, Illinois. Hump helper uncoupling cars as they come over the hump at the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad yard

Chicago, Illinois. Hump helper uncoupling cars as they come over the h...

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Chicago, Illinois. Jacking up a car on the repair tracks at an Illinois Central Railroad yard

Chicago, Illinois. Jacking up a car on the repair tracks at an Illinoi...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Subchasers. This machinist's helper in a Southern shipyard now building subchasers learned his new shop duties so rapidly that he is credited as one of the men who helped the yard to earn the Navy "E." Like others in this shop, he had no previous experience in his present work

Production. Subchasers. This machinist's helper in a Southern shipyard...

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Chicago, Illinois. A switchman who works in the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad's Proviso yard

Chicago, Illinois. A switchman who works in the Chicago and Northweste...

Public domain photograph of the United States in the 1930s, portraits, people, events, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chicago, Illinois. Locomotive repair in roundhouse at an Illinois Central Railroad yard

Chicago, Illinois. Locomotive repair in roundhouse at an Illinois Cent...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a steam locomotive, train cars, railroad tracks, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). A Coast Guard sentry stands watch over a new torpedo boat under construction at a Southern shipyard. In addition to wooden torpedo boats, the yard also turns out many steel boats for the Navy. Higgins Industries

Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). A Coast Guard sentry stands ...

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Chicago, Illinois. An accurate check of all goods going into or out of each freight car is kept on the tickets in these boxes in the freight house at a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad yard

Chicago, Illinois. An accurate check of all goods going into or out of...

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Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. As part of their campaign to collect goods for the Victory Campaign, Boy Scouts of Troop 121 of the United Church of Van Nest, Bronx, New York are shown pushing in one of their collection items, an old Ford jalopy, into the Westchester Auto Wrecking Company yard at 1400 Blondell Avenue in the Bronx. Shown in the photo pushing the car are Scouts of Troop #121 while Edward G. Bellmaire, Scoutmaster, David Lanoff of the wrecking company, and Frank O. March, Vice Chairman of the Bronx Salvage Campaign Committee look on

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. As part of their campaign to colle...

Public domain photograph of cars, gas station, car garage, 20th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Crane operator in the yard

Decatur, Alabama. Ingalls Shipbuilding Company. Crane operator in the ...

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Chicago, Illinois. Uncoupling cars as they go over the hump at an Illinois Central Railroad yard

Chicago, Illinois. Uncoupling cars as they go over the hump at an Illi...

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Chicago, Illinois. Loading a freight car in the freight house of a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad yard

Chicago, Illinois. Loading a freight car in the freight house of a Chi...

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Manpower. Negro navy yard workers. Thomas Walker, one of the many Negro workers employed in the aircraft factory of a larger Eastern navy yard, contributes to the happy landings of our air warriors. Walker is shown working on olios, a part of the landing gear of fighting craft

Manpower. Negro navy yard workers. Thomas Walker, one of the many Negr...

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Chicago, Illinois, Engine taking on water at a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad yard

Chicago, Illinois, Engine taking on water at a Chicago and Northwester...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train tracks, rail transportation, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Chicago, Illinois. Engineer getting into his cab. In a few minutes this train will leave a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad yard for the west coast

Chicago, Illinois. Engineer getting into his cab. In a few minutes thi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train tracks, rail transportation, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Chicago, Illinois. Switchman employed at a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad yard

Chicago, Illinois. Switchman employed at a Chicago and Northwestern Ra...

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

Manpower. Negro navy yard workers. In a sea of silk, this woman worker is making parachutes for America's paratroopers. She is one of many Negro employees in the aircraft factory of an Eastern navy yard

Manpower. Negro navy yard workers. In a sea of silk, this woman worker...

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.

Chicago, Illinois. A train pulling out of a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad yard

Chicago, Illinois. A train pulling out of a Chicago and Northwestern R...

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Chicago, Illinois. Brakeman riding an engine to his place of work in the yard

Chicago, Illinois. Brakeman riding an engine to his place of work in t...

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Chicago, Illinois. Track crew working on the tracks at the roundhouse of an Illinois Central Railroad yard

Chicago, Illinois. Track crew working on the tracks at the roundhouse ...

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Chicago, Illinois. A checker working at his portable table. These tables are moved about from car to car as each is loaded in the freight house at a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad yard

Chicago, Illinois. A checker working at his portable table. These tabl...

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.

Chicago, Illinois. Railroad worker whose job is to inspect journal boxes, brake shoes, etc. and make minor repairs at a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad yard

Chicago, Illinois. Railroad worker whose job is to inspect journal box...

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

Chicago, Illinois. A locomotive over the ash pit at the roundhouse at a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad yard

Chicago, Illinois. A locomotive over the ash pit at the roundhouse at ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a steam locomotive, train cars, railroad tracks, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Chicago, Illinois. Cars are uncoupled at the top of the hump and roll down by gravity at an Illinois Central Railroad yard to the classification yards

Chicago, Illinois. Cars are uncoupled at the top of the hump and roll ...

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Manpower. Negro navy yard workers. Thomas Walker, one of the many Negro workers employed in the aircraft factory of a larger Eastern navy yard, contributes to the happy landings of our air warriors. Walker is shown working on olios, a part of the landing gear of fighting craft

Manpower. Negro navy yard workers. Thomas Walker, one of the many Negr...

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.

Manpower. Negro navy yard workers. Thomas Walker, one of the many Negro workers employed in the aircraft factory of a larger Eastern navy yard, contributes to the happy landings of our air warriors. Walker is shown working on olios, a part of the landing gear of fighting craft

Manpower. Negro navy yard workers. Thomas Walker, one of the many Negr...

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.

Chicago, Illinois. An Indiana Harbor Belt Line railroad engine delivering a trainload of stock and other cars at a yard of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. Riding with the engine is the headman

Chicago, Illinois. An Indiana Harbor Belt Line railroad engine deliver...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Chicago, Illinois. Switchmen at work in a yard

Chicago, Illinois. Switchmen at work in a yard

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Beaumont, Texas. Treated telephone poles stored in the yard at the International Creosoting Company

Beaumont, Texas. Treated telephone poles stored in the yard at the Int...

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New York, New York. Benny Romano, age one month. His father works in the Brooklyn Navy yard

New York, New York. Benny Romano, age one month. His father works in t...

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Richmond, California. Permanente Metals Corporation, shipbuilding division, yard number two. Italian-American worker

Richmond, California. Permanente Metals Corporation, shipbuilding divi...

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

San Augustine, Texas. Lady purchasing yard goods

San Augustine, Texas. Lady purchasing yard goods

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

Richmond, California. Permanente Metals Corporation, shipbuilding division, yard number two. V. De Martini has worked in the yard for ten months. He was born in Italy, and has been in the United States thirty-four years

Richmond, California. Permanente Metals Corporation, shipbuilding divi...

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

Washington, D.C. A day nursery for pre-school children of mothers engaged in war work, operated under the supervision of the District of Columbia Health Department by Mrs. Leroy Bonbrest at her home at 1144 Branch Avenue, S.E. Mrs. Bonbrest and the children out in the yard looking at a picture book

Washington, D.C. A day nursery for pre-school children of mothers enga...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Chicago, Illinois. General view of part of the Galewood yard of the Chicago, Milwaukee, Saint Paul and Pacific Railroad

Chicago, Illinois. General view of part of the Galewood yard of the Ch...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Sandusky, Ohio. Carloads of coal in the classification yard waiting to go to the Pennsylvania railroad docks for shipment to points along the lakes

Sandusky, Ohio. Carloads of coal in the classification yard waiting to...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railway tracks, train station, railroad building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Sandusky, Ohio. Carloads of coal in the storage yard waiting to go to the Pennsylvania Railroad docks for shipment along the lakes

Sandusky, Ohio. Carloads of coal in the storage yard waiting to go to ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a coal mine, industrial facility, mining industry, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Freight train operations on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad between Chicago and Clinton, Iowa. The train going through the town to the yard which is two miles beyond

Freight train operations on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad betw...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railway tracks, train station, railroad building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Buffalo, New York. "Hookers" standing in front of gondola car in Republic Steel yard

Buffalo, New York. "Hookers" standing in front of gondola car in Repub...

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

Baltimore, Maryland. Trolley junk in the yard at the Washington terminal, maintenance plant of the Baltimore Transit Company. Most of these trolleys can be reconditioned for use if wartime needs so require. In the distance are trackless trolleys

Baltimore, Maryland. Trolley junk in the yard at the Washington termin...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s train station, train car, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

A black and white photo of three men sitting on a bench. Office of War...

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

A switchtender on the Pennsylvania Railroad helping to classify freight trains at a large eastern freight yard. The electric controls on the board actuate rail switches in the yard. She is taking the place of a man now in the armed forces

A switchtender on the Pennsylvania Railroad helping to classify freigh...

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

Baltimore, Maryland. Davidson Transfer Company trucking terminal. "Yard jockey" checking over over a loaded trailer which is ready to go out on the road

Baltimore, Maryland. Davidson Transfer Company trucking terminal. "Yar...

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Chicago, Illinois. General view of part of the Galewood yard of the Chicago, Milwaukee, Saint Paul and Pacific

Chicago, Illinois. General view of part of the Galewood yard of the Ch...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Chicago, Illinois. General view of part of the Galewood yard of the Chicago, Milwaukee, Saint Paul and Pacific Railroad

Chicago, Illinois. General view of part of the Galewood yard of the Ch...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Farragut Houses, Brooklyn (near Navy Yard). Exterior I

Farragut Houses, Brooklyn (near Navy Yard). Exterior I

Picryl description: Public domain image of a commercial or residential multi-story building, condominium, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

"The Miracle Worker" play that is actually performed in the back yard of Ivy Green, the home in Tuscumbia, Alabama, where Helen Keller grew up and was born in 1880

"The Miracle Worker" play that is actually performed in the back yard ...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

"The Miracle Worker" play that is actually performed in the back yard of Ivy Green, the home in Tuscumbia, Alabama, where Helen Keller grew up and was born in 1880

"The Miracle Worker" play that is actually performed in the back yard ...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

"The Miracle Worker" play that is actually performed in the back yard of Ivy Green, the home in Tuscumbia, Alabama, where Helen Keller grew up and was born in 1880

"The Miracle Worker" play that is actually performed in the back yard ...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

Family taking in the sights at the Traders Village Flea Market, a sprawling yard sale in Grand Prairie, Texas

Family taking in the sights at the Traders Village Flea Market, a spra...

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

Charlestown Navy Yard, Incinerator, Midway along northern boundary of Charlestown Navy Yard, on Little Mystic Channel, near junction of Eighteenth Street & Second Avenue, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Charlestown Navy Yard, Incinerator, Midway along northern boundary of ...

The Boston Redevelopment Authority hired William A. Owens to document all buildings in the Charlestown Navy Yard in 1977, most of which were exterior photographs. Significance: Building 203 is a significant arc... More

Charlestown Navy Yard, Marine Railway, Between Piers 2 & 3, on Charlestown Waterfront at west end of Navy Yard, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Charlestown Navy Yard, Marine Railway, Between Piers 2 & 3, on Charles...

Significance: The Marine Railway is a significant ship repair structure at the Charlestown Navy Yard, used for nearly a half-century in the repair and maintenance of small naval vessels, ranging from tugboats t... More

Charlestown Navy Yard, Marine Railway, Between Piers 2 & 3, on Charlestown Waterfront at west end of Navy Yard, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Charlestown Navy Yard, Marine Railway, Between Piers 2 & 3, on Charles...

Significance: The Marine Railway is a significant ship repair structure at the Charlestown Navy Yard, used for nearly a half-century in the repair and maintenance of small naval vessels, ranging from tugboats t... More

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