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United States almanac, for the year 1841

United States almanac, for the year 1841

Print shows the title page for the United States Almanac for the year 1841 showing the deity Mercury/Hermes soaring above the waterfront at Philadelphia with ships and boats on the Delaware River and two men mo... More

The state of New Hampshire. In the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six. Resolved ... to use all reasonable efforts to procure the assumption, by the general government, of the state and town debts created in aiding to suppr

The state of New Hampshire. In the year of our Lord one thousand eight...

On verso: {Stamp} Sep 25 1907 D. of D. Page Order: Leaflet Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; ... More

Tarzan paints the Senate flagpole. Washington, D.C., July 11. There comes a time each year when things around Capitol Hill need a bit of fresh paint, flagpoles no exception. Here is the flagpole over the Senate Office Building getting its new paint job, curiously enough, from a steeple-jack named Tarzan--Jack Tarzan

Tarzan paints the Senate flagpole. Washington, D.C., July 11. There co...

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The employees in Payne Cotton Mill, Macon, Ga. One of the Bibb Mfg. Co. mills. Overseer told me this mill made 70% profit last year and expected to make 100% this year. All these children were working and helping regularly. Location: Macon, Georgia.

The employees in Payne Cotton Mill, Macon, Ga. One of the Bibb Mfg. Co...

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

All 6 work in King Mill, Augusta, Ga. Little girl on end has been there 1 year helping. Location: Augusta, Georgia.

All 6 work in King Mill, Augusta, Ga. Little girl on end has been ther...

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

Johnnie Burns and his Basement Branch (See photo 1461). Also photo of his boy whom he says is "ungovernable." Burns says the 4 year old twins will be selling soon. 3518 Evans Avenue. Location: St. Louis, Missouri.

Johnnie Burns and his Basement Branch (See photo 1461). Also photo of ...

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

Noon hour at Massachusetts. Mill, Lindale, Ga. During the days following this, I proved the ages of nearly a dozen of these children, by gaining access to Family Records, Life Insurance papers, and through conversations with the children and parents, and found those that I could prove to be working now, or during the past year at 10 and 11 years of age, some of them having begun before they were ten. Further search would reveal more. (See Hine Report.) Location: Lindale, Georgia.

Noon hour at Massachusetts. Mill, Lindale, Ga. During the days followi...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Shuckers in the Varn & Platt Canning Company. This 4 year old in the foreground was helping some. Six of the shuckers were 10 years and up to twelve. Location: Younges Island, South Carolina.

Shuckers in the Varn & Platt Canning Company. This 4 year old in the f...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a child labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Phelps School #56; Miss Gray, Teacher. Miss Gray has been there just this year. School opened September 4th--7 months term. 16 present; 22 out on account of cotton. Entrollment 28, average attendance 14; last year: enrollment 44, average attendance 19. 12 out of those enrolled, out for cotton; 10 more not enrolled also out for cotton. No other causes for absence. Location: Comanche County, Oklahoma Lewis W. Hine

Phelps School #56; Miss Gray, Teacher. Miss Gray has been there just t...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4578. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

Theodor Horydczak and family. Norma Horydczak and friends at her 8th year birthday party IV

Theodor Horydczak and family. Norma Horydczak and friends at her 8th y...

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Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Douglas Robinson, inspected the new training being given the Midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md on Friday August 7th. Under the new regulations each midshipmen must take a course in aviation and learn to pilot a plane. The [...] Year Men now at the Academy are the first ones to recieve training. This picture shows Mr. Robinson (center) ready [...]ake a flight with Midshipman C.O. Larson, right. Admiral N[...] Superintendent of the Academy

Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Douglas Robinson, inspected t...

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[...] (s) Chief Executive absent for Thanksgiving day. President and Mrs. Coolidge were absent from the White House for this year's observence of Thanksgiving. They journeyed to the Swannaoa Club, near Charlottesville, Virginia This picture was made on the steps of the country club. On the left of the President is E.M. Crutchfield, President of the club

[...] (s) Chief Executive absent for Thanksgiving day. President and M...

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Johnson blasts Senate NRA bill. General Hugh S. Johnson, first administrator of the NRA, left, tells the House Ways and Means committee that the Senate NRA extension resolution will kill NRA after 10 months. Johnson said it would be a R1174352 "catastrophe to accept only a 9 1/2 months extension as proposed by the Senate." He said he favored a 2 year extension. Johnson is shown here with Chairman Robert L. Doughton. 5/24/35

Johnson blasts Senate NRA bill. General Hugh S. Johnson, first adminis...

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A black and white photo of a man holding a dog, Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a man holding a dog, Virginia. Farm Securit...

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Fears airlines' bankruptcy. Washington, D.C., Dec. 20. Senator Edwin C. Johnson (right) of Colorado, today demanded prompt enactment of the McCarran Air Transport Bill in order to save America's commercial from bankruptcy and destruction. Studying the bill with the author Senator Pat McCarran, Senator declared that the Nation's airlines will lose $3,000,000 more this year than in 1936, 12/20/37

Fears airlines' bankruptcy. Washington, D.C., Dec. 20. Senator Edwin C...

Two men sitting at a table with papers. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a man standing on a dock, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a man standing on a dock, Great Depression....

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

Purge Senators at Democratic Caucus. Washington, D.C., Dec. 31. Intended victims of the president's "purge" prior to the state elections this year turned up front row seats at the Senate Democratic Caucus this morning. Millard E. Tydings and Walter F. George, shown here, seemed pleased over the way things were going, 12/31/38

Purge Senators at Democratic Caucus. Washington, D.C., Dec. 31. Intend...

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Government discovers method to preserve movie film indefinitely. Washington, D.C., July 8. People living in the year 2000 will be able to see and hear today's history in the making through experiments on preserving movie film now being conducted by the National Bureau of Standards. The experts at the bureau recently completed "accelerated aging tests in which films in six months went through the effects of 50 years' storage in a cool dark room. These tests showed that cellulose, or explosive film, would last from 50 to 100 years. The new Safety or Acetate film "may be preserved for longer periods." Unofficially, the experts put the figure at several hundred years. The following set of pictures were made at the Bureau of Standards and the National Archives Building. (1) Accelerated aging, The stability of the films is tested similarly to paper. They are heated in this oven at 100 [degrees] C and tested for loss of flexibility and for evidences of chemical decomposition. Arnold Soorne, of the Bureau Staff, is picture making the test

Government discovers method to preserve movie film indefinitely. Washi...

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Construction of new battleships to start this year. Washington, D.C., April 8. Following a conference with president Roosevelt today, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison (left) and Rear Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Naval Operations, Announces that construction of the new battleships provided in the new Navy Supply Bill will be started before January 1, 4/8/38

Construction of new battleships to start this year. Washington, D.C., ...

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Secretary of State presides at Davis Cup drawing. Washington, D.C., Feb. 3. Presiding at the Davis Cup drawing at the Pan American Union today, Secretary of State Cordell Hull pulls Japan's pairing out of historic bowl first and hands it over to Yakichiro Suma, Counselor of the Japanese Embassy. In the photograph, left to right: Yakichiro; Russell B. Kingman, Treasurer of the United States Lawn Tennis Association; Joseph Ward, First Vice President; Secretary Hull; Holcomb Ward, President of the USLTA; and Wallis Pate, Capt. of this year's Davis Cup team, 2/3/38

Secretary of State presides at Davis Cup drawing. Washington, D.C., Fe...

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FIRST LADY HONOR GUEST AT LUNCHEON TO PROVIDE FUNDS FOR CRIPPLED BOY. WASHINGTON, D.C. APRIL 12. MRS. ROOSEVELT AND 200 OTHER DISTINGUISHED WOMEN PAID $1.50 A PLATE FOR AN $.85 LUNCHEON TODAYSO THAT A CRIPPLED BOY, FRANCIS LANSDALE, MAY GO TO HIGH SCHOOL.THE LUNCHEON WAS GIVEN BY THE 75TH CONGRESS CLUB, COMPOSED OF WIVES OF SENATORS AND CONGRESSMEN WHO WERE 'FRESHMEN' IN THE 75TH CONGRESS. LAST YEAR THE CLUB PROVIDED A CHAIR FOR THE SAME BOY SO THAT HE COULD MOVE AROUND IN SCHOOL. L TO R: MRS. LESTER HILL,WIFE OF THE SENATOR FROM ALABAMA AND VICE PRESIDENT OF THE CLUB; MRS. ROOSEVELT; AND MRS. WILLIAM T. BYRNE, WIFE OF THE REPRESENTATIVE FROM NEW YORK AND PRESIDENT OF THE CLUB

FIRST LADY HONOR GUEST AT LUNCHEON TO PROVIDE FUNDS FOR CRIPPLED BOY. ...

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Jorena Pettway sorting peas inside her smokehouse. She still has many fruits and vegetables which she canned last year. Gee's Bend, Alabama

Jorena Pettway sorting peas inside her smokehouse. She still has many ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of city street life, vendor, shop sign, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A man sitting on top of a hay bale next to a horse. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A man sitting on top of a hay bale next to a horse. Great Depression F...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a farmer, 1930s great depression, dust bowl era, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Old garden at J.D. Smith home (R.R.-Rural Rehabilitation, first year). One can readily see that it does not include enough space to provide food for family of six. Coffee County, Alabama

Old garden at J.D. Smith home (R.R.-Rural Rehabilitation, first year)....

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Negro contralto and the great emancipator. Washington, D.C., April 9. Not since Shirley Temple visited Washington last year has anybody been photographed before the sculpture of Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial here. Here is Marian Anderson, singer, who gave an open air concert before the Memorial this afternoon after a high school and DAR auditorium had been refused her, standing before the dramatic statue of the man who freed her race, 4-9-39

Negro contralto and the great emancipator. Washington, D.C., April 9. ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a Statue of Lincoln Monument, Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A man riding on the back of a brown horse, Kenntucky. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A man riding on the back of a brown horse, Kenntucky. Farm Security Ad...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mr. D'Annunzio, Italian farmer who has been living on submarginal area of Rumsey Hill for a year. He was an unemployed auto mechanic in the city. Near Erin, New York

Mr. D'Annunzio, Italian farmer who has been living on submarginal area...

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A black and white photo of a group of children sitting at a table, Kenntucky. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a group of children sitting at a table, Ken...

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

Son of Walter Gaylord pouring sap into container. The sap from sugar maple trees is boiled down into maple syrup. Mad River Valley, Waitsfield, Vermont. He averages about 150 gallons of syrup annually, this year tapped only 600 out of his 1000 trees because of unusually deep snow and late spring. He owns several farms; in this particular farm unit there are eighty acres. It has been in family for three generations. Has about thity-five or forty head of cattle, raises poultry and potatoes

Son of Walter Gaylord pouring sap into container. The sap from sugar m...

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Line up at general delivery window in the post office at Hermiston, Oregon. This post office served about eight hundred people a year ago, now it has more than five thousand general delivery patrons

Line up at general delivery window in the post office at Hermiston, Or...

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Living conditions were so crowded in Erie, Pennsylvania, that a defense worker and his family of three were found to be living in this attic room. One of the defense industries there, which holds large contracts for the Navy, expects an increase of 4,000 workers during the coming year. Practically all vacancies are already taken, and even the contemplated construction of new homes will fill only a fraction of the need. Realizing the urgency of this need, the Division of Defense Housing has programmed 300 homes in this area, 60 of which are already completed (July 1941). In the meantime, trailers are being used by the Division as a temporary expedient until the more permanent homes are completed

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Living conditions were so crowded...

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General view of fifteen buses out of service, sold for scrap to supply much needed raw material for the steel mills. The buses were sold from a Long Island parking lot where they have been parked for over one year

General view of fifteen buses out of service, sold for scrap to supply...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a parking lot, cars, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

A group of people standing around a piano. Office of War Information P...

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A man standing in front of a crowd of people. Office of War Information Photograph

A man standing in front of a crowd of people. Office of War Informatio...

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 Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More

Funeral of nineteen year old Negro sawmill worker in Heard County, Georgia

Funeral of nineteen year old Negro sawmill worker in Heard County, Geo...

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A black and white photo of a man standing in front of a house. Office of War Information Photograph

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

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Threshing wheat on Beerman's ranch at Emblem, Wyoming. He has about 160 acres (quarter section), about forty-three in wheat, the rest in oats, beans, and alfalfa. This year he is getting between fifty-five and sixty bushels per acre, whereas ordinarily he gets about forty bushels wheat per acre. He has lived on the place forty years and owned it for the past twenty.

Threshing wheat on Beerman's ranch at Emblem, Wyoming. He has about 16...

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

Jalopies for defense. It doesn't look like much, but actually it's 300 pounds of scrap metal. Only a few minutes before it was thrown into the powerful hydraulic baling press it was the body of a discarded automobile. It is now ready for shipment to a steel mill. More than 28,000,000 tons of scrap metal is needed this year for defense production

Jalopies for defense. It doesn't look like much, but actually it's 300...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s US industrial development, Second World War, US war production, indusry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Helper on wagonload of wheat to be threshed on Beerman's ranch at Emblem, Wyoming. He has about 150 acres in all (quarter section), about forty-three in wheat; the rest in oats, beans, and alfalfa. This year they are getting between fifty-five and sixty bushels wheat per acre, whereas ordinarily he gets about forty bushels per acre. He has lived on the place forty years, owned it for the past twenty years

Helper on wagonload of wheat to be threshed on Beerman's ranch at Embl...

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

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Greek-American soldier, formerly a material handler at the General Electric Company plant at Pittsburgh. Both parents were born in Greece; father came to the United States in 1906, mother in 1921. He was born in this country and has been in the army five months. Lihas climbing into a tank

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Gr...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military vehicle, automobile, tractor truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

America's youngsters will take a hand in feeding the family this year. A worthwhile project for every member of the family. Victory Gardens, whether planted in the smallest backyard plot or in large acreages, will go a long way toward augmenting supplies of fruits and vegetables severely reduced by war demands

America's youngsters will take a hand in feeding the family this year....

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

Forty-two keys to victory. This man was once a skilled worker in a typewriter factory. He's still a skilled worker in the same factory, but instead of typewriters he's now assembling war items. Although Army and Navy demands for typewriters are increasing, the manufacute of these machines will have ceased by the end of the year. That's why the government needs your typewriter -- if it's of standard size and a model made no earlier than 1935

Forty-two keys to victory. This man was once a skilled worker in a typ...

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Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Greek-American soldier, formerly a material handler at the General Electric Company plant at Pittsburgh. Both parents were born in Greece; father came to the United States in 1906, mother in 1921. He was born in this country and has been in the army five months. Lihas at supply pigeon holes

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Gr...

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Washington, D.C. Mrs. Ella Watson, a government charwoman, receiving annointment from Reverend Clara Smith during the "flower bowl demonstration," a service held once a year at the St. Martin's Spiritual Church. Reverend Vondell Gassaway is the pastor

Washington, D.C. Mrs. Ella Watson, a government charwoman, receiving a...

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Southington, Connecticut. Southington's nine-hole country club golf course. Membership fee in the club is purposely low (thirty-five dollars a year) so that everyone who enjoys the game may have a chance to play

Southington, Connecticut. Southington's nine-hole country club golf co...

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Turkey Pond, near Concord, New Hampshire. Women workers employed by a U.S. Department of Agriculture timber salvage sawmill. Barbara Webber, twenty-one year old edger, finds her job harder physically than working in a laundry, but she likes it better because it isn't so tedious and nerve-racking

Turkey Pond, near Concord, New Hampshire. Women workers employed by a ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Buffalo, New York. Beverly Ann Grimm, eleven, leaving the store after making the family purchases from a list left that morning by her twenty-six year old widowed mother who is a crane operator at Pratt and Letchworth. Here she submits ration coupons to the grocer for what she has purchased

Buffalo, New York. Beverly Ann Grimm, eleven, leaving the store after ...

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

Buffalo, New York. The Grimm children doing the housework. Their mother, a twenty-six year old widow, is a crane operator at Pratt and Letchworth

Buffalo, New York. The Grimm children doing the housework. Their mothe...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of two little girls in a kitchen. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of two little girls in a kitchen. Office of Wa...

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Buffalo, New York. Mrs. Grimm, a twenty-six year old widow, with six children under twelve, is a crane operator in a war plant. Her two youngest children live in a foster home during the week. Their foster mother, Mrs. Hehr, gave a birthday party for Mona, two

Buffalo, New York. Mrs. Grimm, a twenty-six year old widow, with six c...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Buffalo, New York. Mrs. Grimm, a twenty-six year old widow with six children who is a crane operator at Pratt and Letchworth, occasionally has her hair done after work

Buffalo, New York. Mrs. Grimm, a twenty-six year old widow with six ch...

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

Washington, D.C. Walter Spangenberg, a student at Woodrow Wilson High School and his nine year old brother working on the railroad in the attic workshop which Walter has fitted up

Washington, D.C. Walter Spangenberg, a student at Woodrow Wilson High ...

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Filipino American Red Cross surgical dressing unit, Washington, D.C. Left to right: Mrs. Conchita Perez and Mrs. J. Weldon Jones, wife of former insular uuditor and acting high commissioner of Philippines for year and a half

Filipino American Red Cross surgical dressing unit, Washington, D.C. L...

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

Greeff Fabrics Inc., House of the Year, Lake Success, Long Island, New York. Master bedroom II

Greeff Fabrics Inc., House of the Year, Lake Success, Long Island, New...

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The Rickwood Classic baseball game is played once a year at Rickwood Ballpark located in Birmingham, Alabama

The Rickwood Classic baseball game is played once a year at Rickwood B...

Built in 1910, the famous Black Barons of the Negro Leagues also called Rickwood home during their existence. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Lan... More

The Rickwood Classic baseball game is played once a year at Rickwood Ballpark located in Birmingham, Alabama

The Rickwood Classic baseball game is played once a year at Rickwood B...

Built in 1910, the famous Black Barons of the Negro Leagues also called Rickwood home during their existence. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Lan... More

No caption. May be same caption as #3899: Mrs. A.L.A. She ? & her 3 children - 11, 9 & 6 yrs old work at flower making. The 2 year old? is learning, & they say ought? to be able to help in a year or so. Mother receives a pension Location: New York (State)

No caption. May be same caption as #3899: Mrs. A.L.A. She ? & her 3 ch...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 3900. Handwritted caption; difficult to decipher. Card originally numbered "3900," which appears to h... More

Frank H. Shurtleff drilling the hole for the spout while tapping sugar maple tree for gathering sap to make syrup. The Shurtleff farm has about 400 acres and was originally purchased by grandfather in 1840. He raises sheep, cows, cuts lumber and has been making maple syrup for about thirty-five years. Sugaring brings about one thousand dollars annually. Because of the deep snow this year he only tapped 1000 of his 2000 trees. He expects to make about 300 to 500 gallons this year. North Bridgewater, Vermont

Frank H. Shurtleff drilling the hole for the spout while tapping sugar...

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

Mrs. Lloyd, ninety-one year old mother of Miss Nettie Lloyd, who is a pellagra victim. Mrs. Lloyd was born and reared in Orange County; has lived on this spot since her marriage sixty-nine years ago. It is on a new road leading off from left of Route number 54, about four miles west of Carrboro, Orange County, North Carolina

Mrs. Lloyd, ninety-one year old mother of Miss Nettie Lloyd, who is a ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century dust bowl era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Dillon Mill (tallest) Lizzie McKenzie, Has helped 1/2 year. Mamie Baxley (holding baby). Been in mill 3 years. Runs 4 sides = 40 cents a day. Maud & Daisy "help." Location: Dillon, South Carolina.

Dillon Mill (tallest) Lizzie McKenzie, Has helped 1/2 year. Mamie Baxl...

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

Group of boys who work at the Brown Shoe Factory. Charlie Hopson, surely under 14, has been working there one year. Harry True, probably under 14, been working there one year. Harold Hopson appears to be under 14. Noon hour. Location: Moberly, Missouri.

Group of boys who work at the Brown Shoe Factory. Charlie Hopson, sure...

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

Oscar Weston, 1320 Berkley Av. Been "toteing work" off and on for a year at Chesapeake Knitting Mills, Berkley, Virginia See also photos and labels 2244 to 2249. Location: Berkley, Virginia.

Oscar Weston, 1320 Berkley Av. Been "toteing work" off and on for a ye...

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

Smallest boy is Dorris Fabanks[?], been working in Yocona Mill, Water Valley Miss., one year. Larger boy (brother) been there six years. Housing conditions bad. Location: Water Valley, Mississippi.

Smallest boy is Dorris Fabanks[?], been working in Yocona Mill, Water ...

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

7 year old news-boy who sells for his brother. Sold some last summer. William Lerch, 483 Ist Street, S.W. Location: Washington (D.C.), District of Columbia.

7 year old news-boy who sells for his brother. Sold some last summer. ...

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

Five year old Sam is up at 5:00 A.M. daily to sell papers. Beaumont, like most other Texas towns, is overrun with boys such as these. Location: Beaumont, Texas.

Five year old Sam is up at 5:00 A.M. daily to sell papers. Beaumont, l...

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

Group of workers in the Massachusetts Mills, Lindale, Ga. Photo taken at noon, April 12, 1913, while they were being paid off. During the days following this, I proved the ages of nearly a dozen of these children, by gaining access to Family Records, Life Insurance papers, and through conversations with the children and parents, and found these that I could prove to be working now, or during the past year at 10 and 11 years of age, some of them having begun before they were ten. Further search would reveal dozens more. (See Hine Report). Location: Lindale, Georgia.

Group of workers in the Massachusetts Mills, Lindale, Ga. Photo taken ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Sanford Cotton Mill. Accident case. Carl Thornburg a 12 year old boy who went to work at 11. A few weeks ago he caught his arm in the "lapper" machine, and broke it in 2 places. He said: "I sure didn't mean to. Was jus goin through the lapper room an fust thing I knew everything went black." The family is hard-up. Father is a paralytic. Here is a real chance for a mill to do a benevolent deed by making some recompense to this crippled boy and his paralytic father. They think it's charity to give a boy work under legal age, but when he is injured they forget that side of it. No suggestion of any kind of recompense has been heard. Jim Browning said he was 12 years old, but that is doubtful. Has worked 6 months here; gets 50 cents a day. Is in the 2nd grade at school. Location: Sanford, North Carolina.

Sanford Cotton Mill. Accident case. Carl Thornburg a 12 year old boy w...

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William Jerry, 457 North Bend Street. "I sells papers every day in the year; Sundays too. Been at it four years." 13 years old. Location: Burlington, Vermont / Lewis W. Hine.

William Jerry, 457 North Bend Street. "I sells papers every day in the...

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10 year old leaf boy and three "stringers," 10, 12, and 13 yrs. old. Tobacco shed of American Sumatra Tob. Co. In these two sheds were 41 girls and boys from 10 to 15 yrs., and only 24 girls and women of 16 and over. The leaf-boys get $1.50 a day and some of the stringers of 10 and 12 make $1.20 a day, according to the Supt. Location: S[outh] Windsor, Connecticut / L.W. Hine.

10 year old leaf boy and three "stringers," 10, 12, and 13 yrs. old. T...

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A committee representing the International Sunday School Association called on President Coolidge, May 18, to invite him to attend the convention at Birmingham, Alabama, April 19 of this year. (Front row, left to right) Esskine Ramsey, Governor W.W. BranBrandon of Alabama, Guy E. Snaveley and Bishop W. F. McDowell. Back row: Dr. George W. Denny, Pres. University of Alabama, Senator O.W. Underwood, Victor Hanson, Publisher of the Birmingham News and Robert Jemison, Jr.

A committee representing the International Sunday School Association c...

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First year men at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., receiving instruction in aviation from Lt. O[...] Hardison. This class is the first one to have the new cou[...] included in their curriculum. Each man must learn to fly

First year men at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., receiving in...

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House hopper receives Bill No. 1. Washington, D.C., Dec. 30. Rep. Louis Ludlow, of Indiana putting House bill no. 1 into the hopper on the floor of the House today. The bill, which Rep. Ludlow is sponsoring at the investigation of the Fraternal order of Eagles, is designated to aid in the stabilization of employment in Commerce, Industry and Agriculture, the bonus bill was no. 1 on the House calendar last year

House hopper receives Bill No. 1. Washington, D.C., Dec. 30. Rep. Loui...

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Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas. A family of six alongside the road. An example of how they fall between the relief agencies. The father, aged thirty-five, is an intelligent fellow, a painter by trade. Advanced tuberculosis, victim of an occupational disease. Ineligible for WPA (Works Progress Administration), rated as totally disabled. As a state charge under Oklahoma relief standards, the family were told the maximum relief would be seven dollars every two weeks. They lost their home, their furniture, took to the road a year ago and when the photographs were made they were found to be without money, shelter, and without food for the four children

Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas. A family of six alongside the r...

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A black and white photo of a man standing on a pier, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a man standing on a pier, Great Depression....

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Veteran California Senator celebrates 20th year in upper house. Washington, D.C., April 1. Unusually vigorous and alert despite his 70 years, Senator Hiram Johnson, Republican of California, will celebrate his twentieth year of service in the United States Senate tomorrow. He is shown receiving the congratulations of Vice President Garner in this picture, 411937

Veteran California Senator celebrates 20th year in upper house. Washin...

A black and white photo of two men in suits, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection on the negative or negative sleeve. Gift; Har... More

Sylvester Garring, thirty-one year old tenant of an absentee landlord, chopping wood. Near Fowler, Indiana

Sylvester Garring, thirty-one year old tenant of an absentee landlord,...

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Vice president greets southern beauties. Washington, D.C., May 19. South Carolina azalea beauty queens repaid today the visit Vice President Garner made to the annual azalea festival in their state a few weeks ago. The vice president was in a fine fettle as he greeted the beauties who are left to right: Elizabeth West, 1937 Azalea Queen; Margaret Lyon, "Miss Charleston" of this year; and Dorothy Moore, Azalea Queen of 1938, 5/19/38

Vice president greets southern beauties. Washington, D.C., May 19. Sou...

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Michigan State cop testifies before the Dies Committee. Washington, D.C., Oct. 22. Lt. Harold Mulber, of the Michigan State Police Force, who told the Dies Committee Investigating Un-American Activities about the "Labor Holiday" held in Lansing, Mich. Last year when police arrested eight pickets, 10/22/38

Michigan State cop testifies before the Dies Committee. Washington, D....

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FIRST BUDDY POPPY TO CHIEF EXECUTIVE. WASHINGTON, D.C. APRIL 14. THE FIRST BUDDY POPPY OF THE NATIONAL POPPY SALE FOR 1938 WAS TODAY PRESENTED TO PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT BY SIX-YEAR-OLD JANE COLGAN, DAUGHTER OF A DECEASED EX-SERVICE MAN. THE SALE OF THE BUDDY POPPIES WHICH IS HELD EVERY YEAR DURING THE WEEK OF MEMORIAL DAY IS DEVOTED TO WELFARE AND RELIEF WORK AMONG VETERANS AND THEIR FAMILIES

FIRST BUDDY POPPY TO CHIEF EXECUTIVE. WASHINGTON, D.C. APRIL 14. THE F...

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A man sitting on a bench in front of a pile of snow, Vermont. Farm Security Administration photogrpaph.

A man sitting on a bench in front of a pile of snow, Vermont. Farm Sec...

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WPA (Works Progress/Work Projects Administration) worker and his wife sitting in front of their shack home on the Arkansas River near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma. This man said that last year he thought maybe he would be a little better off when he got the WPA work and had a small amount of cash coming in but that he was worse off now. "Last year I had a cow and some chickens and I had to sell my cow and eat my chickens. I get worse off every year"

WPA (Works Progress/Work Projects Administration) worker and his wife ...

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Two women standing in front of a log cabin, North Carolina. Farm Security Administration photograph

Two women standing in front of a log cabin, North Carolina. Farm Secur...

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

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

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A black and white photo of a group of people pulling a cart Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information photo.

A black and white photo of a group of people pulling a cart Farm Secur...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

Farmers during Great Depression: A man standing next to a horse on a dirt road.

Farmers during Great Depression: A man standing next to a horse on a d...

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A man standing next to a tree in the snow, Vermont. Farm Security Administration photogrpaph.

A man standing next to a tree in the snow, Vermont. Farm Security Admi...

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A black and white photo of a teacher teaching children, Kenntucky. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a teacher teaching children, Kenntucky. Far...

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Picking cotton is one of the most easily learned occupations for women in the U.S. Crop Corps. These two city girls, putting their vacation to good use, may well wear the cotton they are picking in the form of work slacks and shirts next year

Picking cotton is one of the most easily learned occupations for women...

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A couple of people walking down a dirt road, Kenntucky. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A couple of people walking down a dirt road, Kenntucky. Farm Security ...

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A black and white photo of a person in the snow, Vermont. Farm Security Administration photogrpaph.

A black and white photo of a person in the snow, Vermont. Farm Securit...

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Funeral of nineteen year old Negro sawmill worker in Heard County, Georgia

Funeral of nineteen year old Negro sawmill worker in Heard County, Geo...

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Funeral of nineteen year old Negro sawmill worker in Heard County, Georgia

Funeral of nineteen year old Negro sawmill worker in Heard County, Geo...

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Funeral of nineteen year old Negro sawmill worker in Heard County, Georgia

Funeral of nineteen year old Negro sawmill worker in Heard County, Geo...

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Funeral of nineteen year old Negro sawmill worker in Heard County, Georgia

Funeral of nineteen year old Negro sawmill worker in Heard County, Geo...

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Funeral of nineteen year old Negro sawmill worker in Heard County, Georgia

Funeral of nineteen year old Negro sawmill worker in Heard County, Geo...

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One year of reciprocal aid. Australian sheep are producing wool for replacement uniforms for American soldiers and nurses, thus saving valuable shipping space for carrying munitions and supplies from the United States. They fill two roles in the war effort as hundreds of thousands of pounds of Australian mutton are served annually in the American soldiers' mess

One year of reciprocal aid. Australian sheep are producing wool for re...

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Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Greek-American soldier, formerly a material handler at the General Electric Company plant at Pittsburgh. Both parents were born in Greece; father came to the United States in 1906, mother in 1921. He was born in this country and has been in the army five months. Lihas in his barracks

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Gr...

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Greenbelt, Maryland. Mothers waiting with their children to get a physical examination by local doctors, offered free once a year to all Greenbelt children. These are new arrivals in the newly-built defense houses

Greenbelt, Maryland. Mothers waiting with their children to get a phys...

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Saboteur! Stop destroying that eraser, young lady. Last year 180 tons of rubber were used in such erasers -- the same quantity as would make 200,000 army gas masks

Saboteur! Stop destroying that eraser, young lady. Last year 180 tons ...

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The skin is applied to the frame of a tank for a B-25 bomber. Women can be found in every department at North American Aviation, working together and with men. Next year approximately eighty percent of employees will be women; twenty percent at present

The skin is applied to the frame of a tank for a B-25 bomber. Women ca...

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