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• Messenger boy working for Mackay Telegraph Company. Said fifteen years old. Exposed to Red Light dangers. Location: Waco, Texas. (LOC)

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  • 37 comments
  • 614 favorites
  • 146,478 views
  • Date taken: 1910
  • Date uploaded: 2012-08-30
  • Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpnclc03870, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, bicycle, messenger, boy, child, childlabor, work, working, telegraph, texas, waco, 1913, 1910s, hat, cap, fixedgear
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• Day laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Miss. (LOC)

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  • 1 comment
  • 26 favorites
  • 68,586 views
  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
  • Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpfsac1a34352, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, cotton, field, picking, bolls, flat, powerlines, harvest, harvesting, clouds, brown, marionpostwalcott, marion, walcott, daylaborers, clarksdale, mississippi, cottonpicking, farm, telegraph, lines, delta, mississippidelta, coahomacounty, horizontal, landscape, plantation, cottonbuds, wolcott, cottonfield, redbarn, powerline, farmer
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• Jones Barn where dynamite was found (LOC)

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  • 5 comments
  • 34 favorites
  • 66,622 views
  • Date taken: 1910
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
  • Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpggbain09157, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, barn, blackwhite, desolate, dynamite, houses, telephone, poles, picketfence, blackandwhite, farm, explosives, indianapolis, fence, dirt, road, jones, discovery, bw, maison, maisons, house, wood, historicalphoto, history, vintage, old, 1900s, 1911, utilitypole, powerlines, jonesbarn, bleak, telegraph, power, insulators
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• Amateur wireless station (LOC)

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  • 4 comments
  • 41 favorites
  • 56,079 views
  • Date taken: 1910
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
  • Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpggbain10461, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, radio, wireless, shortwave, wires, gauges, dials, switches, switch, amateur, sparkgap, wirelessstation, 1910s, telegraph, photoinaphoto, amateurradio, hamradio, receiver, transmitter, coil, morsecode, key, headset, 240715, technology, knifeswitch
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• Postal Tel. Co. Summer Uniform (LOC)

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  • 2 comments
  • 26 favorites
  • 27,738 views
  • Date taken: 1910
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
  • Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpggbain09497, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, uniform, boy, tie, post, postal, summer, child, streetcorner, letter, telegraph, june, 1911, postaltelegraphcompany, telegram, delivery, worker, work, labor, vintage, america, 1910s, usa, street, portrait, sardonic, youngmanstandingonstreetcorner, childlabor, childemployee, employmentofchildren, unionsquare
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• [Reporters at Polo Grounds, New York, during 1913 World Series (baseball)] (LOC)

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  • 5 comments
  • 10 favorites
  • 12,193 views
  • Date taken: 1913
  • Date uploaded: 2010-03-05
  • Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpggbain14601, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, baseball, majorleaguebaseball, mlb, nationalleague, nl, newyorkbaseballgiants, newyorkgiants, philadelphiaathletics, philadelphiaas, worldseries, 1913worldseries, reporters, telegraph, telegraphers, pologrounds, newyorkcity, bainnewsservice, hats
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• Telegraphers at Polo Grounds, World Series, 1912 (LOC)

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  • 1 comment
  • 7 favorites
  • 6,067 views
  • Date taken: 1912
  • Date uploaded: 2008-08-22
  • Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpggbain11756, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, baseball, telegraph, pologrounds, worldseries, 1912, game, crowd, pastime, men, sports, polo, stadium, arena, 1912worldseries, nationalleague, nl, newyorkgiants, newyorkbaseballgiants, americanleague, al, bostonredsox, redsox
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• Marine field telegraph (LOC)

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  • 0 comments
  • 5 favorites
  • 3,757 views
  • Date taken: 1915
  • Date uploaded: 2015-12-18
  • Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpggbain25713, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, unitedstatesmarinecorps, usmarinecorps, unitedstatesmarines, usmarines, marines, usmc, marinecorps, campaignhat, telegraph, fieldtelegraph
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• Steel (LOC)

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  • 1 comment
  • 2 favorites
  • 3,002 views
  • Date taken: 1915
  • Date uploaded: 2017-02-17
  • Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpggbain28815, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, johnsteele, johnsteel, singer, telegraph
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