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Room of Brooms: 1908
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 05/25/2007 - 12:07am.
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Boys with brooms in the packing room of S.W. Brown Manufacturing, Evansville, Indiana. October 1908. View full size. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine.
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Learning to Play: 1909
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"Immigrant children learning to play on the roof garden of the Washington School in Boston." October 1909. View full size. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine.
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Deadeye Dick: 1910
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Student at vocational school in Buffalo, New York. February 1910. View full size. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine.
Didn't I Have Six Dice?
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Jack on Hay Rake: 1915
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 05/24/2007 - 8:20am.
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"Eight-year old Jack driving horse rake. A small boy has difficulty keeping his seat on rough ground and this work is more or less dangerous." August 1915, western Massachusetts. View full size. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine.
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Big Pete: 1942
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 05/24/2007 - 1:04am.
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June 1942. "Big Pete" Ramagos, a rigger at work on the TVA's Douglas Dam in Tennessee. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer.
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A Place in the Sun: 1910
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