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Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850-1927), Sidney Stevens Walcott (1892-1977), and Helen Breese Walcott (1894-1965)

Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850-1927), Sidney Stevens Walcott (1892-19...

Description: In 1909, while in the Canadian Rockies near Field, British Columbia, Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850-1927) discovered what has come to be known as the Burgess Shale. Named after Burgess Pass near t... More

[James Blaine with "As speaker" and "R.R. jobs" letters sticking out of his back pocket and reaching for "the Mulligan letters" over "Blaine's record" hat]

[James Blaine with "As speaker" and "R.R. jobs" letters sticking out o...

Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1980:080.4). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

Holds responsible post. Washington, D.C., Nov. 11. Probably one of the most responsible jobs in the State Department these days is held by Thomas Burke, Chief of the Division of International Communications

Holds responsible post. Washington, D.C., Nov. 11. Probably one of the...

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Charges that John L. Lewis 'saw to' the discharge of men to coerce workers. Washington, D.C., Dec. 13. Joe Ozanic, International President of the Progressive Mine Workers of America, testified before the Smith Committee investigating the National Labor Relations Board. He charged that John L. Lewis, as President of the United Mine Workers of America, caused the discharge of five men in the Progressive Union, to 'bring pressure' on other employees to leave the Progressive and join the United. 'The United Mine Workers--and if I've got to use the name of the dictator, John Lewis himself--brought pressure on the employees to force them to sign a petition. They refused. He then saw to it that the coal company discharged five men. The others then did sign the petition resigning from the Progressive Union and pledging loyalty to the United. They did it to save their jobs,' he told the committee

Charges that John L. Lewis 'saw to' the discharge of men to coerce wor...

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Anti tax poster put up by Chamber president. Washington, D.C., Jan. 18. 'Less taxes, more jobs' reads the poster being pasted up by George H. Davis. It is the first of 25,000 such signs which will be put up all over the nation as part of a drive for reduction in taxes by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. President Davis called in the photographers today to see the first one done right

Anti tax poster put up by Chamber president. Washington, D.C., Jan. 18...

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"We don't pay them till the end of the season or they would all leave at any time." The boss said 18 of his Syrian workers were housed in this small shack - others in similar and smaller ones. He said, "these people work in the factories the rest of the year and give up their jobs for a time to come down here and get a holiday. I go every year and get them." Location: East Wareham [vicinity] - Maple Park Bog, Massachusetts.

"We don't pay them till the end of the season or they would all leave ...

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Comparison of Ages: Feft [i.e., left] end, Marion Deschere, just passed 13 years. Helps sister in mill "some." Next is Mildred Greenwood, "going on 14." Goes to school. Next is Mamie La Barge, 13 years, but said 14 years. Right end is Rosina Goyette, said 14, probably 12 or 13. Mamie and Rosina have steady jobs. Location: Winchendon, Massachusetts.

Comparison of Ages: Feft [i.e., left] end, Marion Deschere, just passe...

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Ten-year old Sophie "tending the baby," between her jobs of shucking. Maggioni Canning Co. Location: Port Royal, South Carolina.

Ten-year old Sophie "tending the baby," between her jobs of shucking. ...

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[Accident to young cotton mill worker. Giles Edmund Newsom (Photo October 23rd, 1912), while working in Sanders Spinning Mill, Bessemer City, N.C., August 21st, 1912, a piece of the machine fell on to his foot mashing his toe. This caused him to fall on to a spinning machine and his hand went into unprotected gearing, crushing and tearing out two fingers. He told the Attorney he was 11 years old when it happened. His parents are now trying to make him 13 years old. The school census taken at the time of the accident makes him12 years (parents' statement) and school records say the same. His school teacher thinks that he is 12. His brother (photo 3071) is not yet 11 years old. Both of the boys worked in the mill several months before the accident. His father, (R.L. Newsom) tried to compromise with the Company when he found the boy would receive money and not the parents. The mother tried to blame the boys for getting jobs on their own hook, but she let them work several months. The aunt said "Now he's jes got to where he could be of some help to his ma an' then this happens and he can't never work no more like he oughter."]. Location: [Bessemer, North Carolina].

[Accident to young cotton mill worker. Giles Edmund Newsom (Photo Octo...

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Accident to young cotton mill worker. Giles Edmund Newsom (Photo October 23rd, 1912) while working in Sanders Spinning Mill, Bessemer City, N.C., August 21st, 1912, a piece of the machine fell on to his foot mashing his toe. This caused him to fall on to a spinning machine and his hand went into the unprotected gearing, crushing and tearing out two fingers. He told the Attorney he was 11 years old when it happened. His parents are now trying to make him 13 years old. The school census taken at the time of the accident makes him12 years (parents' statement) and school records say the same. His school teacher thinks he is 12. His brother (see photo 3071) is not yet 11 years old. Both of the boys worked in the mill several months before the accident. His father, (R.L. Newsom) tried to compromise with the Company when he found the boy would receive the money and not the parents. The mother tried to blame the boys for getting jobs on their own hook, but she let them work several months. The aunt said "Now he's jes got to where he could be of some help to his ma an' then this happens and he can't never work no more like he oughter." Location: Bessemer City, North Carolina.

Accident to young cotton mill worker. Giles Edmund Newsom (Photo Octob...

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Family of J. W. Lott at West. The father and three oldest children (two of them under legal age) work regularly in the Brazos Valley Cotton Mill. Charlie is thirteen years old. Family Record said he was born March 12, 1900. Mattie is fourteen years old. Family Record says born November 14, 1898. Both of them have been working in a cotton mill at Laurel, Miss., for one year. Been working here for two weeks. Have steady jobs. Get about $1.25 a day. Charlie was put right to work in spite of the fact that he is in very bad shape physically. Probably malaria. The other worker is sixteen. Location: West, Texas.

Family of J. W. Lott at West. The father and three oldest children (tw...

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[Samuel Longstreth Parrish Art Museum, 25 Jobs Lane, Southampton, New York. Wall tondo]

[Samuel Longstreth Parrish Art Museum, 25 Jobs Lane, Southampton, New ...

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[Samuel Longstreth Parrish Art Museum, 25 Jobs Lane, Southampton, New York. Entrance]

[Samuel Longstreth Parrish Art Museum, 25 Jobs Lane, Southampton, New ...

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[Samuel Longstreth Parrish Art Museum, 25 Jobs Lane, Southampton, New York. Garden entrance]

[Samuel Longstreth Parrish Art Museum, 25 Jobs Lane, Southampton, New ...

Site History. Architecture: Grosvenor Atterbury, 1897, 1902, 1912. Landscape: Warren Henry Manning. Today: Museum extant with landscape modifications. Photographed when Frances Benjamin Johnston and Mattie Edwa... More

[Samuel Longstreth Parrish Art Museum, 25 Jobs Lane, Southampton, New York. Fountain]

[Samuel Longstreth Parrish Art Museum, 25 Jobs Lane, Southampton, New ...

Site history. Architecture: Grosvenor Atterbury, 1897, 1902, 1912. Landscape: Warren Henry Manning. Today: Museum extant with landscape modifications. On slide (handwritten): "S" and "Southampton Art Museum." P... More

Field Day Creators - National Parks Gallery

Field Day Creators - National Parks Gallery

These bright folks made the John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site's field day possible with lots of planning and creativity. Hoping to have a year next year with bringing the community together.

Hula "The Hoop" - National Parks Gallery

Hula "The Hoop" - National Parks Gallery

Stewards of the Future and SCA finding a new use for the equipment of the 19th century lawn game, "The Hoop". Hula anyone?

Teach Back Moment - National Parks Gallery

Teach Back Moment - National Parks Gallery

Stewards of the Future and YCC learn from Branching Out's experience at Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters NHS.

Field Day Participants - National Parks Gallery

Field Day Participants - National Parks Gallery

John Fitzgerald Kennedy's Steward of the Future developed a field day for community members to come together and interact with Rangers, SCAs, and Stewards of the Future. Stewards of the Future from all of the t... More

Caricature Drawing for Founders' Day

Caricature Drawing for Founders' Day

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Colleges and Universities - William L. Dickinson High School - Jersey City, New Jersey - W. L. Dickinson High School, Jersey City, New Jersey. Trade Training Detachment, USA. Forge jobs required of each man

Colleges and Universities - William L. Dickinson High School - Jersey ...

Date Taken: 1918 Colleges and Universities - William L. Dickinson High School - Jersey City, New Jersey

Colleges and Universities - Hampton Institute - War activities of Hampton Institute, Hampton, Virginia.. Trade school students working on war-time jobs

Colleges and Universities - Hampton Institute - War activities of Hamp...

Original Caption: War activities of Hampton Institute, Hampton, VA. Trade school students working on war-time jobs. Making checker-board tables for Army Y.M.C.A. huts. Others have made Red Cross packing case... More

... How to win. The way to win the war is for every one of us to work a little harder at our present jobs. This applied to all of us, whether rich or poor, men or women ... U. S. Department of labor. Washington, D. C. [1918].

... How to win. The way to win the war is for every one of us to work ...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 241, Folder 25.

A little log cabin, - relic of the old days, - now occupied by a small family (F.T. Castle) who are gradually giving up farming and depending upon mining and odd jobs. Oct. 12, 1921. (Dogs). Location: Big Chimney, West Virginia / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

A little log cabin, - relic of the old days, - now occupied by a small...

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A little log cabin, - relic of the old days, - now occupied by a small family (F. T. Castle) who are gradually giving up farming and depending upon mining and odd jobs. Oct. 12, 1921. (Dogs). Location: Big Chimney, West Virginia / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

A little log cabin, - relic of the old days, - now occupied by a small...

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A little log cabin, - relic of the old days, - now occupied by a small family (F.T. Castle) who are gradually giving up farming and depending upon mining and odd jobs. Oct. 12, 1921. (Dogs). Location: Big Chimney, West Virginia / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

A little log cabin, - relic of the old days, - now occupied by a small...

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(Takoma news jobs) - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

(Takoma news jobs) - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Picking the meat from the chicken bones is one of the big jobs in preparing the pilau

Picking the meat from the chicken bones is one of the big jobs in prep...

Photograph showing women preparing the Southern food staple knows as chicken perlou (or pilau) at a cookout in Florida.

World War veterans leaving the Battery in a drizzling rain this morning for dollar-a-day jobs at government's reforestation camp at Fort Slocum / by World-Telegram staff photographer.

World War veterans leaving the Battery in a drizzling rain this mornin...

Veterans, many in suits, some with suitcases, line up to board bus. NYWT&S staff photograph. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Applicants waiting for jobs in front of FERA offices, New Orleans, Louisiana

Applicants waiting for jobs in front of FERA offices, New Orleans, Lou...

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Bell may succeed McCarl. Acting Director of the Budget, Daniel W. Bell, is considered a possible successor to J.R. McCarl as Comptroller General. McCarl's 14 year term expires next June. Bell is understood to have refused to take the appointment as permanent director of the Bureau of the Budget because it would cost him his Civil Service status, which he has cherished for 15 years. But the term of 14 years as Comptroller General might influence him to case aside his "career" record. In addition to other jobs, Bell is commissioner of accounts and deposits, a position he held when he was drafted to replace Lewis Douglas, the former director of the Budget. Bell, under Civil Service, draws $10,000 a year. This photograph shows Bell near the fireplace in his office in the Treasury Building

Bell may succeed McCarl. Acting Director of the Budget, Daniel W. Bell...

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Applicants waiting for jobs in front of FERA (Federal Emergency Relief Association) offices, New Orleans, Louisiana

Applicants waiting for jobs in front of FERA (Federal Emergency Relief...

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Youthful dynamo, Washington, D.C. August 1. One of the most exacting jobs of the century has been placed in the hands of this Wisconsin legal genius, Samuel Becker, 33, who is now conducting the Federal investigation of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co., for the Federal Communications Commission. A former utilities counsel, Becker was appointed to his present post as special counsel to the Communications Commission on the recommendation if the fiery and brilliant Ferdinand Pecora, Hearing on the A.T. and T. investigation will be resumed late in the fall

Youthful dynamo, Washington, D.C. August 1. One of the most exacting j...

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Terror methods used to create riots in labor strikes., Washington, D.C. Sept. 23. Professional strike-breaker, undercover agent and industrial guard, E.J. McDade, appeared before the Senate Committee investigating espionage in labor relations today and told how guards used live steam on striking workers, also of the time when a fence was charged with electricity and other terroristic methods used to place blame on labor leaders to result in increasing the "guard" forces. McDade said he had been in the employ of the Railway Audit and Inspection Co. on several jobs

Terror methods used to create riots in labor strikes., Washington, D.C...

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There are jobs for you, if trained Complete free course in household training : You learn meal planning , cooking, table service, laundry, cleaning and child care.

There are jobs for you, if trained Complete free course in household t...

Poster announcing opportunities and programs for persons with certain domestic skills and those wishing to acquire skills in homemaking. Date stamped on verso: Jul 20 1940. Work Projects Administration Poster C... More

PRESIDENT CONFERS WITH NEW HEAD VFW. WASHINGTON, D.C. OCTOBER 6. IN A CONFERENCE WITH PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AT THE WHITE HOUSE TODAY, COL. BERNARD W. KEARNEY, NEW COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS, ASSURED THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE THAT WORLD WAR VETERANS ARE CHIEFLY CONCERNED WITH STEADY JOBS RATHER THAN A GENERAL PENSION SYSTEM. IN A LETTER LEFT WITH THE PRESIDENT, KEARNEY SAID THAT NO ACTION WHATSOEVER WAS TAKEN ON THE GENERAL PENSION SYSTEM BY HIS ORGANIZATION AT ITS DENVER ENCAMPMENT

PRESIDENT CONFERS WITH NEW HEAD VFW. WASHINGTON, D.C. OCTOBER 6. IN A ...

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Outskirts of oil boom town. No living quarters available in town. Hundreds of families pouring in for jobs. Texas

Outskirts of oil boom town. No living quarters available in town. Hund...

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1,500,000 drop in employment, Senate Committee told by government labor statistics chief. Washington, D.C., Jan. 4. Armed with many charts and his head full of figures, Isador Lubin, Chief of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, today estimated before the Special Senate Committee unemployment, that 1,500,000 persons lost industrial jobs between October 15, 1937 and December 15 of the same year. Mr. Lubin remarked that this decline in unemployment as the sharpest in many years, 1/4/37

1,500,000 drop in employment, Senate Committee told by government labo...

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Veteran women pilots now with government. Washington, D.C., Aug. 14. These four well known women pilots seem content to be grounded for awhile. They are now with the Bureau of Air Commerce, U.S. Department of Commerce, and their jobs consists of cooperating with cities and towns throughout the United States in arranging for the marking of roof tape to guide airmen. Blanche Noyes, who took John D. Rockefeller, Jr., for his first and only trip in the air, is the latest to join the group, assuming her duties this morning. Left to right: Louise Thaden, Helen McCloskey, Blanche Noyes and Helen Richey

Veteran women pilots now with government. Washington, D.C., Aug. 14. T...

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WPA workers stage march in fight for reinstatement. Washington, D.C. Aug. 24. Police were as numerous as the marchers today when over 2000 dismissed W.P.A. workers, assembled here by the Workers Alliance of America, staged a march to the White House, Capitol, and Harry Hopkins' office in their fight for reinstatement to their old jobs. 8/24/37

WPA workers stage march in fight for reinstatement. Washington, D.C. A...

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These cotton hoers work only seasonally on the plantations. The rest of the year they live on odd jobs and relief. Memphis, Tennessee

These cotton hoers work only seasonally on the plantations. The rest o...

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Housing of families living on Works Progress Administration (WPA) jobs on the plains, in the brush, and in many cheap auto trailer camps of Kern County, California, reflect the shortage of housing for low income workers

Housing of families living on Works Progress Administration (WPA) jobs...

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Nation's busiest secretary. Washington, D.C., Aug. 25. Probably the busiest Secretary in the Capitol these days is Eugenia Pope, Secretary and only employee of Wage-Hour Administrator Elmer F. Andrews. The Bureau will employ 1,000 persons in two months, but in the meantime Miss Pope must keep track of 50,000 applications for jobs, 8/25/38

Nation's busiest secretary. Washington, D.C., Aug. 25. Probably the bu...

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C.I.O. leader endorses recovery program. Washington, D.C., May 2. John L. Lewis, Head of the Committee for Industrial Organization, today told the House Appropriations sub-committee that he was "wholeheartedly in support" of President Roosevelts program. He urged that arrangements be made to provide jobs for 3,500,000 unemployed. In the photograph, left to right: Rep. Edward T. Taylor, Rep. Clifton Woodrum, and John L. Lewis, 5/2/38

C.I.O. leader endorses recovery program. Washington, D.C., May 2. John...

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A couple of men standing next to each other, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A couple of men standing next to each other, West Virginia. Farm Secur...

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Housing of families living on Works Progress Administration (WPA) jobs on the plains, in the brush, and in many cheap auto trailer camps of Kern County, California, reflect the shortage of housing for low income workers

Housing of families living on Works Progress Administration (WPA) jobs...

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Former coal miner, worked twelve years for Chaplin Coal Company as hand loader. He and several others complained to company about conditions not being up to NRA (National Recovery Administration) standards. All lost jobs, he is now on WPA (Works Progress Administration) at thirty-eight dollars and twenty-five cents per month, Scotts Run, West Virginia

Former coal miner, worked twelve years for Chaplin Coal Company as han...

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A black and white photo of a man and a child, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a man and a child, West Virginia. Farm Secu...

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Fewer jobs unless railroads get proper share of traffic, fact finding commission told. Washington, D.C., Oct. 3. A.F. Cleveland, Traffic Vice President of the Association of American Railroads, today told President Roosevelt's fact finding commission that unless railroads obtain their proper share of traffic, there will be fewer jobs. Cleveland, supporting the rail carriers' proposal for a 15 percent wage cut; said that the Railroad Industry "is no longer even a semi-monopoly," 10/3/38

Fewer jobs unless railroads get proper share of traffic, fact finding ...

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An old black and white photo of two men and a woman, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

An old black and white photo of two men and a woman, West Virginia. Fa...

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Protest silk boycott. Washington, D.C., Jan. 28. Members of the American Federation of Hosiery Workers arriving today at Union Station today from they staged a parade to the White House as a protest against the boycott of Japanese silk. The women, three hundred strong, carried banners exhorting women to continue to wear silk hose and thus save the jobs of thousands of hosiery workers, 1/28/38

Protest silk boycott. Washington, D.C., Jan. 28. Members of the Americ...

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A black and white photo of a man and two children, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a man and two children, West Virginia. Farm...

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Home of rural rehabilitation client. Tulare County, California. They bought twenty acres of raw unimproved land with a first payment of fifty dollars which was money saved out of relief budget (August 1936). They received a FSA (Farm Security Administration) loan of seven hundred dollars for stock and equipment. Now they have a one-room shack, seven cows, three sows, and homemade pumping plant, along with ten acres of improved permanent pasture. Cream check approximately thirty dollars a month. Husband also works about ten days a month on odd jobs outside the farm. Husband is twenty-six years old, wife twenty-two. Three small children. Been in California five years. "Piece by piece this place gets put together. One more piece of pipe and our water tank will be finished."

Home of rural rehabilitation client. Tulare County, California. They b...

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Twenty-four clients of Farm Security Administration (FSA) under the Rural Rehabilitation program, have cooperatively bought and cooperatively operated an all-crop harvester. The machine was put into operation June 7, 1938. Has to date (Nov. 3, 1938) served on sixty harvesting jobs in wheat, barley, soy beans, and milo maize. Tulare County, California

Twenty-four clients of Farm Security Administration (FSA) under the Ru...

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Former coal miner, worked twelve years for Chaplin Coal Company as hand coal loader. He and several others complained to company about conditions not being up to NRA (National Recovery Administration) standards. All lost jobs. He's now on WPA (Works Progress Administration) at thirty-eight dollars and twenty-five cents per month. Scotts Run, West Virginia

Former coal miner, worked twelve years for Chaplin Coal Company as han...

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Twenty-four clients of Farm Security Administration (FSA) under the Rural Rehabilitation program, have cooperatively bought and cooperatively operated an all-crop harvester. The machine was put into operation June 7, 1938. Has to date (Nov. 3, 1938) served on sixty harvesting jobs in wheat, barley, soy beans, and milo maize. Tulare County, California

Twenty-four clients of Farm Security Administration (FSA) under the Ru...

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An old photo of a man standing in a door way, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

An old photo of a man standing in a door way, West Virginia. Farm Secu...

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Mrs. Elmer Andrews, wife of the Wage Hour Administrator with hundreds of letters asking for jobs

Mrs. Elmer Andrews, wife of the Wage Hour Administrator with hundreds ...

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Biggers before unemployment committee. Washington, D.C., Jan. 21. John D. Biggers, Director of the recent unemployment census, recommended to the Senate unemployment committee today that there be created a National Re-employment Committee to direct itself to finding suitable jobs in industry and agriculture for all willing workers, 1/21/38

Biggers before unemployment committee. Washington, D.C., Jan. 21. John...

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An old photo of two men standing outside of a building, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

An old photo of two men standing outside of a building, West Virginia....

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Children of Negro family who do odd jobs on strawberry farm near Hammond, Louisiana

Children of Negro family who do odd jobs on strawberry farm near Hammo...

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Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, Mexican and white, from the Southwest. Pull, clean, tie and crate carrots for the eastern market for eleven cents per crate of forty-eight bunches. Many can make barely one dollar a day. Heavy oversupply of labor and competition for jobs is keen

Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, M...

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Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, Mexican and white, from the Southwest. Pull, clean, tie and crate carrots for the eastern market for eleven cents per crate of forty-eight bunches. Many can barely make one dollar a day. Heavy oversupply of labor and competition for jobs keen

Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, M...

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Camouflage class in New York University, where men and women are preparing for jobs in the Army or in industry, New York, N.Y. They make models from aerial photographs, re-photograph them, then work out a camouflage scheme and make a final photograph

Camouflage class in New York University, where men and women are prepa...

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Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, Mexican and white, from the Southwest. Pull, clean, tie and crate carrots for the eastern market for eleven cents per crate of forty-eight bunches. Many can make barely one dollar a day. Heavy oversupply of labor and competition for jobs is keen

Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, M...

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Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, Mexican and white, from the Southwest. Pull, clean, tie and crate carrots for the eastern market for eleven cents per crate of forty-eight bunches. Many can barely make one dollar a day. Heavy oversupply of labor and competition for jobs keen

Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, M...

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Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, Mexican and white, from the Southwest. Pull, clean, tie and crate carrots for the eastern market for eleven cents per crate of forty-eight bunches. Many can make barely one dollar a day. Heavy oversupply of labor and competition for jobs is keen

Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, M...

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Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, Mexican and white, from the Southwest. Pull, clean, tie and crate carrots for the eastern market for eleven cents per crate of forty-eight bunches. Many can barely make one dollar a day. Heavy oversupply of labor and competition for jobs keen

Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, M...

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Home of one of two families who travel and work together all through the South, repairing stalls, stoves, tools, houses, and any other odd jobs. Tourist camp near Atlanta, Georgia

Home of one of two families who travel and work together all through t...

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Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, Mexican and white, from the Southwest. Pull, clean, tie and crate carrots for the eastern market for eleven cents per crate of forty-eight bunches. Many can make barely one dollar a day. Heavy oversupply of labor and competition for jobs is keen

Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, M...

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Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, Mexican and white, from the Southwest. Pull, clean, tie and crate carrots for the eastern market for eleven cents per crate of forty-eight bunches. Many can make barely one dollar a day. Heavy oversupply of labor and competition for jobs is keen

Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, M...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farm, farmer, agriculture, early 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Couple with their firstborn. Community camp, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He did odd jobs. Has never farmed for himself or had a regular job. See caption no. 21

Couple with their firstborn. Community camp, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. ...

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Learning to work a cutting machine, these two NYA employees receive training to fit them for important work, Corpus Christi, Texas. After eight weeks they will be eligible for civil service jobs at the Naval Air Base

Learning to work a cutting machine, these two NYA employees receive tr...

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Negro man lighting lamp in bedroom of his home near Hammond, Louisiana. He works for a strawberry grower, doing odd jobs about the place

Negro man lighting lamp in bedroom of his home near Hammond, Louisiana...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Camouflage class at N[ew] Y[ork] University, where men and women are preparing for jobs in the Army or in industry, New York, N.Y. This model has been camouflaged and photographed. The girl is correcting oversights detected in the camouflaging of a model defense plant

Camouflage class at N[ew] Y[ork] University, where men and women are p...

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Men and women make efficient operating teams on riveting and other jobs at the Douglas Aircraft plant, Long Beach, Calif. Most important of the many types of aircraft made at this plant are the B-17F ("Flying Fortress") heavy bomber, the A-20 ("Havoc") assault bomber and the C-47 heavy transport plane for the carrying of troops and cargo

Men and women make efficient operating teams on riveting and other job...

Photo shows a woman and man working on a Douglas Aircraft Company cockpit shell identified as a C-47 based on the window outline. Although sometimes called a 'biscuit bomber, 'the plane was for transport. (Sou... More

Large-scale agricultural gang labor, Mexicans and whites from the Southwest pull, clean, tie and crate carrots for the eastern market for eleven cents per crate of forty-eight bunches. Many can make barely one dollar a day. Heavy oversupply of labor and competition for jobs is keen. Near Meloland, Imperial Valley

Large-scale agricultural gang labor, Mexicans and whites from the Sout...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farm, farmer, agriculture, early 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, Mexican and white, from the Southwest. Pull, clean, tie and crate carrots for the eastern market for eleven cents per crate of forty-eight bunches. Many can make barely one dollar a day. Heavy oversupply of labor and competition for jobs is keen

Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, M...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Home of one of two families who travel and work together all through the South, repairing stalls, stoves, tools, houses, and any other odd jobs. Tourist camp near Atlanta, Georgia

Home of one of two families who travel and work together all through t...

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, Mexican and white, from the Southwest. Pull, clean, tie and crate carrots for the eastern market for eleven cents per crate of forty-eight bunches. Many can make barely one dollar a day. Heavy oversupply of labor and competition for jobs is keen

Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, M...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Couple with their firstborn. Community camp, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He did odd jobs. Has never farmed for himself or had a regular job. See caption no. 21

Couple with their firstborn. Community camp, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. ...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information ... More

Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant camp. Westley, California. This migrant mother lives in a contractor's camp because of contractor's control of jobs. She comes to the Farm Security Administration camp with sick baby and agricultural workers medical association card (FSA)

Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant camp. Westley, California. ...

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Children of Negro family living on strawberry farm and who do odd jobs connected with the farm and strawberry growing. Near Hammond, Louisiana

Children of Negro family living on strawberry farm and who do odd jobs...

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MRS. ROOSEVELT TELLS WORKERS' CONGRESS THAT UNDERFED CHILDREN GREATER DEBT THAN UNBALANCED BUDGET. STRESSES JOBS FOR YOUTH. WASHINGTON, D.C. JUNE 7. MRS. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT TODAY ADDRESSED A WORKERS ALLIANCE CONFERENCE, THE NATIONAL RIGHT TO WORK CONGRESS, AND IN A 20-MINUTE ADDRESS, WILDLY CHEERED BY DELEGATES, TOLD THEM: 'THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE WHO ARE TALKING ABOUT THE PILING UP OF DEBTS THAT OUR GRANDCHILDREN MUST PAY. I KNOW OTHER WAYS ALSO IN WHICH WE ARE PILING UP DEBTS THAT OUR GRANDCHILDREN WILL PAY. THESE ARE THE UNDERFED CHILDREN.' SHE SAID THAT PROVIDING JOBS FOR THE NATIONS YOUTH IS ESSENTIAL TO THE FUTURE OF DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT

MRS. ROOSEVELT TELLS WORKERS' CONGRESS THAT UNDERFED CHILDREN GREATER ...

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Family moving from place to place through southern regions doing any kind of repair jobs. Near Atlanta, Georgia

Family moving from place to place through southern regions doing any k...

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Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, Mexican and white, from the Southwest. Pull, clean, tie and crate carrots for the eastern market for eleven cents per crate of forty-eight bunches. Many can make barely one dollar a day. Heavy oversupply of labor and competition for jobs is keen

Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, M...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Migratory worker in auto camp. Single man, speaks his mind. "Them WPAs are keeping us from a living. They oughtn't to do it. It ain't fair in no way. The government lays them off (that is in Work Projects Administration - 1939) and they come in because they're locals and take the jobs away from us that never had no forty-four dollars a month. I came out of Pennsylvania, used to be an oil worker. I'm getting along in years now and I seen lots of presidents and lots of systems. Voted for Roosevelt both times and I don't know of any president that ever leaned toward the laboring man like him, but this system they've got here in the fruit is a rotten system the way they work it." Yakima Valley, Washington

Migratory worker in auto camp. Single man, speaks his mind. "Them WPAs...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century dust bowl era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, Mexican and white, from the Southwest. Pull, clean, tie and crate carrots for the eastern market for eleven cents per crate of forty-eight bunches. Many can make barely one dollar a day. Heavy oversupply of labor and competition for jobs is keen

Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, M...

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Unemployed Portuguese fisherman who now finds odd jobs taking tourists sailing. Provincetown, Massachusetts

Unemployed Portuguese fisherman who now finds odd jobs taking tourists...

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Sitting while you work is one of the advantages of tractor driving in the U.S. Crop Corps. Pay is at the prevailing rates, as it is for all jobs in the corps

Sitting while you work is one of the advantages of tractor driving in ...

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Carpenters and construction workers waiting outside Florida state employment office trying to get jobs on Camp Blanding. Starke, Florida

Carpenters and construction workers waiting outside Florida state empl...

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Carpenters and construction workers waiting outside Florida state employment office trying to get jobs on Camp Blanding. Starke, Florida

Carpenters and construction workers waiting outside Florida state empl...

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Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Skilled workers with blazing acetylene torches perform many exacting individual welding jobs in the production of cabs for Army trucks. Here a gas welder is working on what is known as the "A" post of an army truck cab

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Skilled workers with blazing acetylene...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Carpenters and construction workers waiting outside Florida state employment office trying to get jobs on Camp Blanding. Starke, Florida

Carpenters and construction workers waiting outside Florida state empl...

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Camp member who does general carpentry work jobs during slack packing house season builds a window box for his shelter at Osceola migratory labor camp. Belle Glade, Florida

Camp member who does general carpentry work jobs during slack packing ...

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Carpenters and construction workers waiting outside Florida state employment office trying to get jobs on Camp Blanding. Starke, Florida

Carpenters and construction workers waiting outside Florida state empl...

Public domain photograph of America during the Great Depression, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Carpenters and construction workers waiting outside Florida state employment office trying to get jobs on Camp Blanding. Starke, Florida

Carpenters and construction workers waiting outside Florida state empl...

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Carpenters and construction workers waiting outside Florida State employment office trying to get jobs on Camp Blanding, Starke, Florida. Dec. 1940

Carpenters and construction workers waiting outside Florida State empl...

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Recommends CCC be made permanent. Washington, D.C., March 15. Robert Fechner, Director of the Civilian Conservation Corps, today recommended to the Senate Unemployment and Relief Committee that the CCC be made a permanent establishment. The present CCC authorization will expire July 1, 1940. Fechner said that, while he believed the present "distress" of unemployment would end soon, he was satisfied the country would face the problem of providing jobs for needy young men for several years, 3/15/38

Recommends CCC be made permanent. Washington, D.C., March 15. Robert F...

A black and white photo of a man sitting at a desk. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A group of men standing on a sidewalk, Louisiana. Farmers during Great Depression

A group of men standing on a sidewalk, Louisiana. Farmers during Great...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se... More

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