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Burning Discarded Automobile Batteries, 07/1972
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- Date taken: 1972-07
- Date uploaded: 2009-07-09
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The Atlas Chemical Company Belches Smoke across Pasture Land in Foreground. 06/1972
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- Date taken: 1972-06
- Date uploaded: 2009-07-09
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Smokestacks of Chemical Plant 11/1972
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- 68,540 views
- Date taken: 1972-11
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Sunset over Olin-Mathieson Plant 06/1972
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- Date taken: 1972-06
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Women man America's machines in a west coast airplane factory...05/1942
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- Date taken: 1942-05
- Date uploaded: 2011-03-16
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It's Either That, or Time off Until a Day Nursery is Organized
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- 31,624 views
- Date taken: 1944
- Date uploaded: 2013-12-03
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With the grade and dexterity of a master dressmaker, this attractive young woman fabricates "pup" tents...
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- 31,416 views
- Date taken: 1941-06
- Date uploaded: 2011-03-16
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"Paul Robeson, world famous Negro baritone, leading Moore Shipyard [Oakland, CA] workers in singing the Star Spangled Banner...09/1942
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- 15 favorites
- 29,966 views
- Date taken: 1942-09
- Date uploaded: 2013-12-03
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Riveter at Lockheed Aircraft Corp., Burbank, CA
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- 27,160 views
- Date taken: 1943
- Date uploaded: 2013-12-03
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Mule spinning room in Chace Cotton Mill. Left hand - Leopold Daigneau, Arsene Lussier, Back roping boys. Burlington, Vt, May 1909
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- 14 favorites
- 23,834 views
- Date taken: 1909-05
- Date uploaded: 2012-07-03
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12 year old Newsboy. Hyman Alpert, been selling three years. Spends evenings in Boys Club. New Haven, Conn, March 1909
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- 20,404 views
- Date taken: 1909-03
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Kellogg Company. Women Inspecting Filled Boxes of Cereal Before Boxes Go to Sealer, 08/22/1934
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- 20,042 views
- Date taken: 1934-08-22 16:02:06
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Pacific Gas and Electric Plant. 10/1972
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- 4 favorites
- 19,768 views
- Date taken: 1972
- Date uploaded: 2009-07-29
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11:00 A.M. Newsies at Skeeter's Branch. They were all smoking. St. Louis, MO, May 1910
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- 41 favorites
- 19,503 views
- Date taken: 1910-05
- Date uploaded: 2012-07-03
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Women take over the operation of some of the heaviest machine tools at the Inglewood, Calif., plant of North American Aviation, Inc
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- 6 favorites
- 19,411 views
- Date taken: 1942-10
- Date uploaded: 2011-03-21
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Richard Pierce, Western Union Telegraph Co. Messenger No. 2. 14 years of age. 9 months in service, works from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Smokes and visits houses of prostitution, May 1910
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- 30 favorites
- 19,234 views
- Date taken: 1910-05
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A.D.T. boy, 13 years old. 1 1/2 years at it. Works from noon till 10:30 P.M. Said he carries notes, etc. Burlington, Vt, September 1910
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- 12 favorites
- 18,478 views
- Date taken: 1910-09
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A moments glimpse of the outer world. Said she was 11 years old. Been working over a year, November 1908
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- Date taken: 1908-11
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Alberta Mc Nadd on Chester Truitt's Farm, May 1910
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- Date taken: 1910-05
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Some of the doffers and the Supt. Ten small boys and girls about this size out of a force of 40 employees. Catawba Cotton Mill. Newton, N.C., 12/21/1908
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- Date taken: 1908-12-21 10:29:27
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Mother and children hulling strawberries at Johnson's Hulling Station, May 1910
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- Date taken: 1910-05
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George Christopher, Postal Tel. 14 years old. Been at it over 3 years. Does not work nights. Nashville, Tenn, November 1910
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- Date taken: 1910-11
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> Employee of the Donald Dannheim Family Who Operate a Dairy and Ice Cream Store...
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- Date taken: 1975
- Date uploaded: 2010-06-23
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A group of Newsies playing craps in the jail alley at 10 P.M. Albany, N.Y., February 1910
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- 14 favorites
- 17,657 views
- Date taken: 1910-02
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Young cigarmakers in Engelhardt & Co. Three boys looked under 14, January 1909
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- 17 favorites
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- Date taken: 1909-01
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Mendicants. New York City, July 1910
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- 17,371 views
- Date taken: 1910-07
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Boy from Loray Mill. "Been at it right smart two years." Gastonia, N.C, November 1908
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- 26 favorites
- 17,284 views
- Date taken: 1908-11
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Bleach Room boys. Daniel Crowley, 17 years old. Mike Kennedy, 18 years old. Pacific Mills. Lawrence, Mass, November 1910
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- 17,174 views
- Date taken: 1910-11
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Furman Owens, 12 years old. Can't read. Don't know A, B, C's. "Yes I want to learn but can't when I work all the time," January 1909
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- 16 favorites
- 17,111 views
- Date taken: 1909-01
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Teaching the young rider how to start. A common scene in Pool Room Branch. St. Louis, Mo, May 1910
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- 7 favorites
- 17,001 views
- Date taken: 1910-05
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Two 7 year old newsies, profane and smart, selling Sunday. Nashville, Tenn, November 1910
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- 33 favorites
- 16,894 views
- Date taken: 1910-11
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Photo of boys working in Arcade Bowling Alley. Photo taken late at night. The boys work until midnight and later. Trenton, N.J., December 1909
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- 25 favorites
- 16,774 views
- Date taken: 1909-12
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Group of young girls, all working in May Hosiery Mills. Nashville, Tenn, November 1910
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- Date taken: 1910-11
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MOTHER OF THE ASSEMBLY LINE - Clip spring and bodt assembly for .30 caliber cartridges at the Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia.
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- 16,604 views
- Date taken: 1940
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Addie Laird, 12 years old. Spinner in a Cotton Mill. Girls in mill say she is 10 years old, February 1910
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- 9 favorites
- 16,501 views
- Date taken: 1910-02
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Smallest girl - Corrine Goud, runs 3 and 4 sides. Been in mill 3 years. Oldest sister said she goes to school, but couldn't spell her own name, December 1908
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- 11 favorites
- 16,445 views
- Date taken: 1908-12
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Norris Luvitt. Been picking 3 years in berry fields near Baltimore, June 1909
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- 11 favorites
- 16,397 views
- Date taken: 1909-06
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Springstein Mill. John Lewis (boy with hat), 12 years old, 1 year in mill, November 1908
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- 9 favorites
- 16,236 views
- Date taken: 1908-11
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Small shack on Forsythe's Bog occupied by DeMarco family, 10 in the family living in this one room, September 1910
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- 7 favorites
- 16,194 views
- Date taken: 1910-09
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Leo 48 inches high, 8 years old. Picks up bobbins at 15 cents a day in Elk Cotton Mill. He said, "No I don't help sister or mother, just myself." Fayetteville, Tenn, November 1910
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- 5 favorites
- 16,128 views
- Date taken: 1910-11
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Michael Mc Nelis. This boy has just recovered from his second attack of pneumonia. Was found selling papers in a big rain storm today. Philadelphia, Pa, June 1910
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- 21 favorites
- 16,099 views
- Date taken: 1910-06
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Rose Biodo, Philadelphia, 10 years old. Working 3 summers, minds baby and carries berries, two pecks at a time, September 1910
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- 16 favorites
- 16,081 views
- Date taken: 1910-09
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Bowery bootblack. New York City, June 1910
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- 10 favorites
- 15,905 views
- Date taken: 1910-06
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Newsboys and newsgirl. Getting afternoon papers. New York City, July 1910
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- 18 favorites
- 15,801 views
- Date taken: 1910-07
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Group of girl workers at the gate of the American Tobacco Co. Young girls obviously under 14 years of age, who work about 10 hours every day except Saturday, May 1910
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- 8 favorites
- 15,793 views
- Date taken: 1910-05
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A group of Nashville newsies. In middle of group is 7 year old Sam. Smart and profane. He sells nights also. Nashville, Tenn, November 1910
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- 15,787 views
- Date taken: 1910-11
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Lancaster, Pennsylvania - Hamilton Watch. Operation - putting in pallet arbor - a semi-skilled hand operation by which arbors are placed into pallet., 1936 - 1937
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- 18 favorites
- 15,621 views
- Date taken: 1936-11
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A mother hulling berries while she nurses her infant. Her other children sit beside her, also at work. Little Mabel Guthrie, 4 years old, started working last year, May 1910
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- 6 favorites
- 15,468 views
- Date taken: 1910-05
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Three young boys with shovels standing in doorway of a Fort Worth & Denver train car, 1912
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- 13 favorites
- 15,397 views
- Date taken: 1912
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The girl berry carriers on Newton's Farm. Ann Parion, 13 years of age, working her 5th season, carries 60 Lbs. of berries from the field to the sheds, May 1910
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- 4 favorites
- 15,178 views
- Date taken: 1910-05
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