... homogeneity, these faces could easily be those of the co-workers around me today. Also, it's almost lunchtime. I wonder how long they ... all looked absolutely miserable and more like salt mine workers than accountants, they wanted to keep those joyless jobs. Try to ...
... River, Baltimore County, Maryland. Housing development for workers at the Glenn L. Martin aircraft plant. Living room and dining alcove." ... aircraft plant in Middle River, Maryland had about 3,600 workers -- by the end of 1942, Martin employed 52,474 workers, mostly in Middle ...
... bungalows, I wonder what company supplied that lot for workers to live in.
Sand in...Queens?! Wow.
[Never heard of ... and the other boros, not company houses for factory workers. How close were they to the beach? How does less than a city block ...
... which is what many of us pay today.
Only Government Workers Paid Until 1943 less than 4% of the U.S. population paid "Income" taxes. Of the 4%, Government workers; Federal, State, and local were the only subjects of the Income tax. ...
March 1941. Newport News, Virginia. "Shipyard workers going home at 4 p.m." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for ...
Nary a woman to be seen! I don't see any women yard workers in this pre-WWII scene. That would change during the war.
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November 1910. "Birmingham, Alabama. Workers in the Avondale Mills in Jefferson County. (The Avondale Mills in St. ... was not the one visited by Hine in 1910. Hine photographed workers at the mill in Avondale, a formerly independent town in Jefferson ...
... all day long. This is all the education many of these workers receive. He is paid by them and they select what he shall read." ... and within days, the practice spread like wildfire, Workers wanted what workers in other factories had. Readers read books of all ...
... labeled "The Noon Time Friend" and saved Washington war-workers from a nerve-racking fight at overcrowded restaurants. The lunch ... War I, selling "Leoffler's Liberty Lunches" to government workers for 20 cents. But sometimes he got too ambitious. He decided to come ...
... which is what is being done here. There's a large shift of workers shuffling LCL from one car to another by way of the side platforms and ... it. It's a safety rule, and for the protection of the workers, many of whom are between or under the cars.
The iconic "Santa Fe" ...
... near the shipyards. Slum area where many shipyard workers live." Photo by Jack Delano. View full size.
Grouchomobile ... but it was a clean neighborhood of families and shipyard workers. It still stands today but the Shipyard is now a stinking parking lot ...
... North Carolina, at about five o'clock, when the workers start coming out of Fort Bragg." Photo by Jack Delano. View full ...
[Fayetteville was home to thousands of construction workers engaged in a massive wartime expansion of Fort Bragg -- the reason ...
... " Soldiers Joy Cafe , newly constructed for construction workers near Camp Blanding." Acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott. View ... bar was built -- to serve the hundreds of construction workers newly arrived to build barracks at Camp Blanding -- and the reason John ...
Sept. 1942. "Special train carrying agricultural workers to upper New York state to work in the harvest." Our second look at the ... which the residents were in need of employment.
The workers will be sent to FSA camps or to certified dwellings in a five-county ...
... most already mentioned, but there were a large number of workers comp incidents that arose in a people transporter located a mile back ... ways to improve safety is to eliminate the need to expose workers to the danger in the first place.
So this was a big improvement. ...
... Milwaukee, Wisconsin. "Women in war. Supercharger plant workers. To replace men who have been called to armed service, many young girls ... jobs never before held by women. Her job is shuttling workers between two Midwest war plants for Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co." ...