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Check out Shorpy Vintage Photos - The 100-Year-Old Photo Blog. Here are a few that struck me, with Shorpy's captions. Click to see bigger.
August 1912. Another picture of little Annie Fedele, 22 Horace Street, Somerville, Massachusetts, doing piecework, which usually entailed putting the finishing touches (buttons, or collar and waistband trim) on a mostly completed article of clothing. The garment manufacturers paid a few cents for each piece that was done. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine. Link.
Bill Snyder and Hattie at the Central Park elephant house in 1922. 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection. Link.
August 1912. Tenement home work (piecework for garment makers). "Annie Fedele, 22 Horace Street, Somerville, Massachusetts. This is one of the places she works on crochet." Photo and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine. Link.
August 1912. Somerville, Massachusetts. "Annie Fedele, 22 Horace Street. Doing crochet on underwear in dirty kitchen. Said she often works here and eats out in the back yard. The people are supposed to do the work only under certain restrictions, but when the inspector and the one who delivers the goods are not around, they do as they please. A good illustration of the difficulty in trying to regulate Home Work." Photo and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine. Link.
January 1911. Boys working in the #9 breaker of the Pennsylvania Coal Co. mine at Hughestown Borough near Pittston, Pennsylvania. In this group are Sam Belloma of Pine Street and Angelo Ross of 142 Panama Street. Link.
January 1911. Shaft #6, Pennsylvania Coal Co. mine at South Pittston. "At the close of the day. Waiting for the cage to go up. Small boy in front is Joe Pume, a Nipper, 163 Pine St." Photo and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine. Link.
June 1911. "A Suggestion for Dependent Widows. Mrs. Bessie Hicks, a widow in the mill settlement at Matoaca, Virginia. She has no children large enough to work in the cotton mill, so she is starting a little store in her home." Photograph and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine. Link.
August 1938. "Itinerant photographer in Columbus, Ohio." 35mm nitrate negative. Photograph by Ben Shahn, Farm Security Administration. Link.
The orchestra at a square dance in McIntosh County, Oklahoma. Photograph by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration Office of War Information, c. 1939. Link.
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