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Yeatman Alley: 1908
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 08/21/2007 - 9:17pm.
August 1908. Greeno Spring Works, factory where Harry McShane was injured. 314 Yeatman Alley, Cincinnati. View full size. Photo by Lewis Wickes Hine.
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Beware of Dad: 1909
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 08/21/2007 - 8:51pm.
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March 1909. Hartford, Connecticut. Tony Casale (also called "Bologna"), eleven years old. Been selling four years. Sells until 10 P.M. sometimes. His paper boss told me the boy had shown him the marks on his arm where his father had bitten him for not selling more papers. The boy said, "Drunken men say bad words to us." View full size. Photograph and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine.
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The Pause That Refreshes
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 08/21/2007 - 4:06pm.
September 1935. Resident of Smithland, Kentucky. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative. Photograph by Ben Shahn, Farm Security Administration.
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Red House Kids: 1935
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 08/21/2007 - 2:53pm.
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"School youngsters. Red House, West Virginia." October 1935. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative. Photograph by Ben Shahn, Farm Security Administration.
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Omar Boy: 1935
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 08/21/2007 - 3:29am.
October 1935. "Coal miner's child." Omar, West Virginia. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative. Photograph by Ben Shahn, Farm Security Administration.
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Hammond Girl: 1935
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 08/21/2007 - 3:27am.
"Child of strawberry picker. Hammond, Louisiana." October 1935. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative. Photo by Ben Shahn, Farm Security Administration.
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Maynardville Men: 1935
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 08/20/2007 - 11:09pm.
October 1935. Men of Maynardville, Tennessee. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative. Photograph by Ben Shahn for the Farm Security Administration.
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