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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. By His Excellency Roger Wolcott, Governor: a proclamation ... I hereby set apart Saturday, the thirtieth day of April current, as Arbor day ... Given at the Executive Chamber, in Boston, this twenty-third day of Ap

Selfridge Tower Work - A soldier using a tripod to measure the height of a building

Comdr. J.H. Towers - Public domain photograph, glass negative

Building with clock tower - Publicd domain, Museum of New Zealand

Sen. John G. Tower, R-Texas, speaks during the commissioning ceremony of the nuclear-powered attack submarine USS HOUSTON (SSN 713)

Facility engineer Bill Lanich, weather equipment technician SSGT Donald Dumrauf and mechanical engineer Jan Servaites (left to right), operating a console, simulate the comparison of radar imagery with television imagery. The technicians work in the Tower Facility in the Avionics Laboratory, Air Force Wright Aeronautical Laboratory, Air Force Systems Command

Leaning Tower.. Albumen print, Getty Museum. Public domain photograph.

By His Excellency John Langdon, Esquire, captain-general and commander in chief in and over the state of New-Hampshire. A proclamation for a general thanksgiving ... I have therefore thought fit ... to appoint Thursday the twenty-seventh day of

Dr Upham Memorial Clock Tower Lyttleton.

A fact. About this time last year, whilst I was working in the employ of Mr. J. T. Towers, a conversation occurred between Mr. Lenox and myself to this effect ... I replied that my day's work was done, that we worked on the ten hour system ... R

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Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 200, Folder 8.

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Miners at Dougherty's mine, near Falls Creek, Pennsylvania, sharpening their axes at the end of a day's work

Olga Schubert, 855 Gruenwald St. The little 5 yr. old after a day's work that began about 5:00 A.M. helping her mother in the Biloxi Canning Factory, begun at an early hour, was tired out and refused to be photographed. The mother said, "Oh, She's ugly." Both she and other persons said picking shrimp was very hard on the fingers. See also photo 2021. Location: Biloxi, Mississippi

Father of beet worker family resting after a day's work. East Grand Forks, Minnesota

Horses are unloaded for a full day's work on branding day at the Big Creek cattle ranch, a large spread on the Colorado border near Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming

New-York preserved, or the plot discovered. Whilst the leaders of the antifederal junto in this city are raising a hue-and-cry against electing a lawyer, as a representative for this district, their adherents in Westchester county are supporting

Cotton hoers loading at Memphis, Tennessee for the day's work in Arkansas

Ten-year-old Mollie Steuben topping beets. Many children of this age put in a full day's work, and many begin younger. The work is hard and the children sometimes cut themselves or are "hooked" by the long tooth on the end of the blade. Mollie and her two sisters, 12 and 14 yrs. old, work from 6 A.M. to 5 P.M., near Sterling. See also Hine report for further details about this work. Location: Sterling vicinity, Colorado Photo by Hine, Oct. 2115

After the noon hour in the plantation yard, the mules, tractors and cultivators are taken out to finish the day's work. King and Anderson plantation, near Clarksdale. Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

Marines with II Marine Expeditionary Force, along with

A day's work ended / drawn by Matt Morgan.

Clinton, Iowa. Chicago and Northwestern Railroad roundhouse workers washing up at the end of a day's work

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). A large portion of the 10,000 skilled workers turning out twenty-eight ton M-3 tanks at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit have spent years in the employ of the Chrysler company. They have learned the precision methods needed for automobile production, and their past experience is invaluable for work on the tanks which will make our new Army the equal of any in the world in mechanized power. This worker is turning and facing a cupola ring

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district of columbia washington broadsides washington city fact year whilst whilst i employ towers conversation lenox effect work hour system ten hour system 1850 rare book and special collections division r j pollard day work ultra high resolution high resolution printed ephemera united states history