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Bertha Brandt, 9 years old. Picks berries on a Rock Creek farm, June 1909
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- Date taken: 1909-06
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City Incinerator On The Delaware River, August 1973
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- Date taken: 1973-08
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Stehli silk workers' houses (mill in distance) rental $20.00 to $22.00 per month, 1936
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- Date taken: 1936
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Power shovel making roadway at Norris Dam site, October 1933
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- Date taken: 1933-10
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Johnnie, a nine year old oyster shucker. Man with pipe is a padrone who has brought these people from Baltimore for four years, March 1911
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- Date taken: 1911-03
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William Stoughton, Connecticut
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- Date taken: 1850
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Hand carver - closeup with man actually in process (buffet post), 1936
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- Date taken: 1936
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Ivor Steadman, Litz Manor, Kingsport, Tennessee. Steadman is shown here finishing and patching, an operation requiring a master craftsman, November 1933
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- Date taken: 1933-11
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Workers picking shrimp, 1912
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- Date taken: 1912
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Power shovel at work on roadway at Norris Dam site on the Clinch River. The steep hillsides are characteristic of the general topography of the region, October 1933
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- Date taken: 1933-10
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Day scene. Wheaton Glass Works. Boy is Howard Lee, November 1909
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- Date taken: 1909-11
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David Lockwood, Connecticut
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- Date taken: 1850
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Small shack on Forsythe's Bog occupied by DeMarco family, 10 in the faiily living in this one room, September 1910
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- Date taken: 1910-09
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David Rogers, New Jersey
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- Date taken: 1850
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A branch office in a coal shed. St. Louis, Mo, May 1910
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- Date taken: 1910-05
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This `Counter Restaurant' is at CCC Camp, TVA #22, near Esco, Tennessee, November 1933
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- Date taken: 1933-11
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View of engineers' building and girls' dormitory at Norris townsite. This picture was taken from the roof of one of the men's dormitories, November 1933
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- Date taken: 1933-11
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Mrs. Larocca making willow plumes in an unlicenced tenement, February 1912
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- Date taken: 1912-02
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View of the barnyard of the McHaffie homestead at Powell Station, Route #1, Knox County, Tennessee. Note the handhewn clapboard shingling, October 1933
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- Date taken: 1933-10
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Edgar Coffman, a renter farmer in Anderson County, Tennessee, near Clinton. He is also a preacher for the Holiness sect, October 1933
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- Date taken: 1933-10
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Worker finishing the end of a sulphur determinator, March 1937
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- Date taken: 1937-03
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Western Union Messengers on night duty, 10:30 P.M., February 1910
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- Date taken: 1910-02
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Aunt Lizzie Reagan, at the Pi Beta Phi School, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, weaving old-fashioned jean, November 1933
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- Date taken: 1933-11
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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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- Date taken: 1909-01
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All work in the Butler Mills. New Bedford, Mass, August 1911
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- Date taken: 1911-08
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Closing hour, Saturday noon, at Dallas Mill. Every child in photo, so far as I was able to ascertain, works in that mill, November 1910
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- Date taken: 1910-11
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North Philadelphia Junkyard Stacked With Cars For Scrap Metal, August 1973
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- Date taken: 1973-08
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Noon hour, two of the young workers in Laurel Cotton Mills. Laurel, Miss, April 1911
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- Date taken: 1911-04
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The Blue Plains Sewage Treatment Plant Is Undergoing Sorely Needed Expansion, April 1973
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- Date taken: 1973-04
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Mrs. Sarah J. In addition to daily work around the home, she finds time to raise some cotton, carding and spinning it herself. She also does some hand-weaving, October 1933
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- Date taken: 1933-10
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Ezekial Hyatt, New York
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- Date taken: 1850
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Cards - starting card in motion, showing man and part of machine, January 1937
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- Date taken: 1937-01
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A close-up of Gaines McGlothin with his two mules. McGlothin has two cows and sells milk and butter. He also raises hogs and chickens and cattle for beef, November 1933
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- Date taken: 1933-11
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Railroad parts. Baldwin Locomotive Works. Toolmaker milling flukes in a taper reamer, March 1937
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- Date taken: 1937-03
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Cards - piecing up ends card operative - showing man and machine in action - semi-skilled, January 1937
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- Date taken: 1937-01
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Aerial View Of Occoquan Water Filtration Plant. Erosion And Siltation Discolor The Occoquan River, April 1973
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- Date taken: 1973-04
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Boy carrying hats. New York City, February 1912
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- Date taken: 1912-02
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Teaching the young idea. The boss (who began at 10 years of age, and has been at it for 30 years) showing a beginner (who is apparently 9 or 10), October 1908
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- Date taken: 1908-10
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All are workers in Knoxville Knitting Mills. Smallest boy ravels, smallest girl is a steady worker. Knoxville, Tenn, December 1910
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- Date taken: 1910-12
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Farm land on main highway near Sevierville, Tennessee. The pasture in the foreground has apparently been overgrazed, October 1933
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- Date taken: 1933-10
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Man connecting threads, 1936
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- Date taken: 1936
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View of mill and houses, March 1937
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- Date taken: 1937-03
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Philadelphian Cools Off At Fountain Of Philadelphia Museum Of Art, August 1973
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- Date taken: 1973-08
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Scott's Run, West Virginia. Unemployed miner, March 1937
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- Date taken: 1937-03
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Mt. Holyoke, Massachusetts - Silk. William Skinner and Sons. From spool creel to warper, 1936
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- Date taken: 1936
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8 P.M. and not yet finished. The little one on left is not yet 4 years old, yet she works on flowers all day and sometimes until 8 or 9 P.M at night, February 1912
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- Date taken: 1912-02
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Group of CCC boys from Idaho just arrived in camp near Andersonville, Tennessee, October 1933
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- Date taken: 1933-10
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Boy running trip rope at tipple. Overgrown, but looked 13 years old. Works 10 hours a day, September 1908
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- 8,542 views
- Date taken: 1908-09
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Noon hour, Singer Mfg. Co. Boys work there, girls carry lunch. South Bend, Ind, October 1908
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- 13,689 views
- Date taken: 1908-10
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Weaver operating four-loom system. He is shown removing a used-up quill from the shuttle, 1936
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- Date taken: 1936
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