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Michigan’s Howell, in 1905… “In 1905, a Standard Oil carriage makes early morning deliveries of gas and kerosene to drug stores that sold the fuels […]

A female facing her tepee. Many people reside in such archaic tents on the Mescalero Reservation in New Mexico.  

This image dates from May to August of 1862 and comes from the Peninsular Campaign, the main eastern theater of the war. The caption says: […]

Somewhere in North Dakota, a John Deere combine being pulled by a John Deere tractor. While another worker rotates a wheel on top of the […]

Each of them is a breaker-boy. (See following images from Ewen Breaker.) They had serious doubts about my intentions. 58 Pine Street, Sam Bellom (boy […]

1942 in Alabama… Description Alabama’s Childersburg. At the Defense Workers’ Day Nursery run by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), children are offered tomato juice at […]

1909 in South Carolina… Description The Banks Grant family, who lived in the “old town” section of what is now Andrews, South Carolina, posed on […]

1915, Massachusetts… Jack, age eight, is operating a horse rake. On uneven ground, a young child finds it difficult to maintain his position, and this […]

1940s in Louisiana… Caption: At La Delta Project, farm supervisor Eugene T. Martin is talking with George Campbell about the cotton crop while Campbell is […]

1938 in West Virginia… Caption: Pursglove, West Virginia; coal miner’s cabin and part of his family…

1937 in North Dakota… Joe Kramer’s family, a farmer in the Williston, North Dakota, area…

1915 in North Carolina… The contented and joyful Britt family on the farm. Refer to Lewis W. Hine’s April 1915 report on North Carolina. Location: […]