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Family finishing pants. None of them spoke English. New York City, March 1912
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- Date taken: 1912-03
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Ola Brooks, Mt. Carmel, Tennessee. This girl is placing index tabs, November 1933
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- Date taken: 1933-11
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The Anacostia River, Brown With Silt, April 1973
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- Date taken: 1973-04
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Group of men and boys at Friedman Shelby Shoe Co. The youngest, apparently 11 or 12 years old is Felber McLaughlin, October 1910
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- Date taken: 1910-10
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Shop of the Woodcrafters and Carvers, Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Besides making fine furniture, these two craftsmen turn out interesting souvenirs, etc, November 1933
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- Date taken: 1933-11
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T.C. Wheaton Glass Works. Millville, N.J., November 1909
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- Date taken: 1909-11
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Another view of Gaines McGlothin, R. F. D. #2, Kingsport, Tennessee. McGlothin is paying for his land as he works, October 1933
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- Date taken: 1933-10
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Home of Mrs. Schiaffo, December 1911
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- Date taken: 1911-12
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Scene taken from main highway shows typical hillside settlements. Houses shown are for supervisory staff. Camp one of the best on Scott's Run, March 1937
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- Date taken: 1937-03
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Scott's Run, West Virginia. Chaplin Hill Mine Tipple, 1936
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- Date taken: 1936
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Rayon skein rapped in cloth, preparatory to emergence in solution, March 1937
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- Date taken: 1937-03
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Winder operator - close-up of hands, January 1937
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- Date taken: 1937-01
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Marina On The Potomac In Southwest Washington, April 1973
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- Date taken: 1973-04
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Hamilton Watch. Operation - adjusting watches for position - highly skilled mechanical operation, 1936
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- Date taken: 1936
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Railroad parts. Baldwin Locomotive Works. Machinist shaping a section of a driving-rod for largest locomotive, March 1937
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- Date taken: 1937-03
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Weaver shown tying ends of broken warp threads. Note the needle in the weaver's hand and the position of the shuttle in the shuttle box, March 1937
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- Date taken: 1937-03
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Scene in More-Jonas Glass Co. Small boy in center of photo with cap pulled down over face was undoubtedly under 14 years of age, November 1909
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- Date taken: 1909-11
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Auto Junkyards Off Network Of Roads In Southwest Philadelphia, August 1973
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- Date taken: 1973-08
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Bachelor shacks in outskirts of Paterson, on Molly Jan Brook. About 25 men live there now, March 1937
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- Date taken: 1937-03
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Spinner personality - woman picture, January 1937
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- Date taken: 1937-01
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Hamilton Watch. Damaskeening - skilled machine operation for putting finishing lines on plates and bridges. A piece of charred ivory is drawn across the plate at proper speed, 1936
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- Date taken: 1936
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Group picking shrimp. Olga, 5 years old on the end was helping mother, February 1911
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- Date taken: 1911-02
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Scotts' Run, West Virginia. Miner's child digging coal from mine refuse (Mexican). Bertha Hollow, 1936
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- Date taken: 1936
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Junkies breaking up old looms, to be sold for scrap-iron and said to be sent to Japan for munitions, 1936
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- Date taken: 1936
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Upholstering. Tomlinson Chair Manufacturing Co. Case fitting (HGS) - showing same process at a different angle - hands as they appear in operation, 1936
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- Date taken: 1936
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Nearly all of family works in mill. Llewlyn, Bessie, Ramsey, Sammie, Andrew. Sammie has worked and helped in mill for 8 years, December 1908
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- Date taken: 1908-12
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Interior of Magnolia Cotton Mills spinning room. See the little ones scattered through the mill. All work. Magnolia, Miss, May 1911
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- Date taken: 1911-05
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Starting in business early. Selling vegetables in the market. Boston, Mass, October 1909
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- Date taken: 1909-10
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Textiles. Two views of an idle petty shop. Taken in the Barnet Mills, June 1937
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- Date taken: 1937-06
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All these are shrimp pickers. Youngest in photo are 5 and 8 years old. Biloxi, Miss, February 1911
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- Date taken: 1911-02
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Napoleon Leighton, 9 years old. Also young Portugese girl about 11 years old. Rochester, Mass, September 1911
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- Date taken: 1911-09
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Sadie Pfeifer, 48 inches high. Has worked half a year. One of the many small children at work in Lancaster Cotton Mills, November 1908
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- Date taken: 1908-11
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Street Gang Members, August 1973
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- Date taken: 1973-08
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Garment Workers, January 1908
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- Date taken: 1908-01
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Noon meal at the cafeteria at Norris townsite, November 1933
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- Date taken: 1933-11
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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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Scott's Run, West Virginia. Recreation and community activities, March 1937
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- Date taken: 1937-03
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Captain Welsh talking to the newly-arrived replacements from New York at CCC Camp, TVA #22, near Esco, Tennessee, November 1933
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- Date taken: 1933-11
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Robert Smith, Lynn Gardens, Kingsport, Tennessee. Smith is a glue-off operator at the Kingsport Press. This man is largely of rural antecedents, November 1933
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- Date taken: 1933-11
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Friedman-Shelby Shoe Co, 1912
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- Date taken: 1912
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Hosiery. Minnesac Mills. Woman draping stockings, 1936
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- Date taken: 1936
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Bicyclist Holds Her Ears Against The Noise Of A Jet, May 1973
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- Date taken: 1973-05
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Cabinet making. RCA Victor. Close-up of sander, March 1937
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- Date taken: 1937-03
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Thomas Parkinson, Maryland
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- Date taken: 1850
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Hauling logs to the river bank to be sawed. The trees were felled above Norris Dam site, October 1933
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- Date taken: 1933-10
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Mt. Holyoke, Massachusetts - Paragon Rubber Co. and American Character Doll. Dressing and packing dolls, 1936
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- 19,672 views
- Date taken: 1936
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One of the smallest apprentices I found in School Factory. Work being slack. Tampa, Fla, January 1909
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- Date taken: 1909-01
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Charles Templeton, Old Kingsport, Kingsport, Tennessee. His job, rounding and backing, at the Kingsport Press, November 1933
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- Date taken: 1933-11
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Small vender selling late at night in Boston Market. Boston, Mass, October 1909
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- Date taken: 1909-10
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Railroad parts. Baldwin Locomotive Works. Boilermaker tapping for stay-bolts in boiler of a modern locomotive, March 1937
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- Date taken: 1937-03
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