Library of Congress photos from the 1910s

It is far better to face the bullets

Champ Clark, half-length portrait, seated facing front / Hartsook Photo, S.F., L.A

Alone at last2

I did not raise my girl to be a voter3

Irish WWI poster - Is Your Home Worth Fighting For? - Hely's Limited, Litho, Dublin

They serve France. How can I serve Canada? Buy victory bonds / Adapted from photo by Brown Bros.

2 "yearlings" belonging to a South Georgia farmer. The former usually gets more attention than the child. John Paulk family. See report of Lewis W. Hine on Georgia, March 1915.

Grandmother of the Britt children. See 1914, also report of Lewis W. Hine on North Carolina. April 1915.

John Paulk and family. One of the most prosperous farmers in the district. See report of Lewis W. Hine on Georgia, March, 1915.

The Britt family happy and content on the farm. See report of Lewis W. Hine on North Carolina, April 1915.

Edward S. Curtis, Clayoquot girl, British Columbia, ca. 1915

Dario Resta

Dario Resta (cropped)

Women's Voter Convention, San Francisco, 1915

His daughter! And he thought she was "just a little girl" / W.E. Hill.

Women's Voter Convention, San Francisco, September 1915 with Alva Belmont (second from right) (cropped)

Picking Cotton by Lewis W. Hine, 1916

Earl Roberts duty5

Official photograph taken on the British Western Front in France. German prisoners in batches of 1,000 arriving at a prisoners of war cage

Applying for work paper first time Gertrude Pereira

So that you dont forget

A little country store near New Hope School #41. Mrs. M.E. Geralds, P.O. Route 2, Tecumseh, Okla., is in charge; also a customer. Lewis W. Hine. See W.H. Swift Report.

Acme School #24 (4 miles northwest of Shawnee): Miss Lois Millard, Principal. (P.O. Dale, Okla., Route 1). 26 present, 40 expected after all families return from southern part of the state where they have been picking cotton. Lewis W. Hine. See W. H. Swift Report.

Campbell family picking cotton. W.W. Campbell, Route 1, Box 64, Shawnee. Children go to Pioneer School, 7 miles northwest of Shawnee (see photo of same) Father said: "Both the girls can hoe the cotton as well as any grown-up." Lewis W. Hine. See W.H. Swift Report.

Zelina & Florence Richards, 12 and 13 years old doing the family wash. Lewis W. Hine. See 4409.

A Kentucky school. Name and data to be added later if possible. Lewis W. Hine. in another handwriting: Bush School, Clark Co., Ky.

Pioneer School #13 (6 miles northwest of Shawnee) opened October 2nd 7 months term. Miss Lela Ginsinger, Principal (been here 2 years). Photo shows only 6 children present and 2 teachers in the third week of school. Expect 24 pupils. All absences are due to cotton. A few of the larger ones will be o

Back boy - 14 years old - Mule room

Lewis Hine, A little country store, Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, 1916

New Hope School #41. 4 miles northwest of Shawnee. 31 present. Opened October 2nd--8 months term. Principal, Mr. J.H. Harrison, P.O. Route 6, Shawnee, says there ought to be twice that number present and will be after cotton picking is over. Lewis W. Hine. See W.H. Swift Report.

Cleo Campbell, 9 years old, picks 75 to 100 pounds of cotton a day. Expects to start school soon. Said: "I'd ruther go to school and then I wouldn't have ter work." Father said she and her sister begin about 6 A.M. and work until 6 or 7 P.M. with 1 1/2 hours off at noon. Lewis W. Hine. See 4590. See

Callie Campbell, 11 years old, picks 75 to 125 pounds of cotton a day, and totes 50 pounds of it when sack gets full. "No, I don't like it very much." See 4590. Lewis W. Hine. See W.H. Swift Report.

Mart Payne, 5 years old, picks from10 to 20 pounds a day. Mother said: "Mart, he haint old nuff to go to school much, but he kin pick his 20 pounds a day. Mostly 10 or 15 pounds." See 4560. Lewis W. Hine, photo.

Johnnie, Carrie and Jim Davenport picking cotton for Mr. J.P. Daws, Route 1, Shawnee. Johnnie picks 75 pounds, Carrie 100 pounds and Jim 150 to 200 pounds a day. Get $1.00 a hundred pounds. No school yet. Mother is a renter; moves about a great deal. Lewis W. Hine. See W.H. Swift Report.

Johnnie, Carrie and Jim Davenport picking cotton for MR. J. P. Daws, Route 1, Shawnee. Johnnie picks 75 pounds, Carrie 100 pounds and Jim 150 to 200 pounds a day. Get $1.00 a hundred pounds. No School yet. Mother is a renter; moves about a great deal. Lewis W. Hine. See W.H. Swift Report. Abstract

Oscar Revinsky

Norma Lawrence is 10 years old and picks from 100 to 150 pounds of cotton a day. Drags the sack which often hold 50 pounds or more before emptied. Lewis W. Hine. See 4569.

Rock Creek School #32 (5 miles east of Shawnee) opened September 11th--8 months term. 34 present. J.W. Evans, Principal, P.O. Route 2, Shawnee, said there are only half as many as he expects after cotton picking is over. Lewis W. Hine. See W. H. Swift Report.

Suckering tobacco on Lowe farm. Lewis W. Hine. See 4485.

Housing tobacco in barn of W.L. Fugate. Will go to Schoolsville School but it has not opened on account of repairs. Lewis W. Hine. See 4398-9 and 4400.

Callie Campbell, 11 years old, picks 75 to 125 pounds of cotton a day, and totes 50 pounds of it when sack gets full. "No, I don't like it very much." Lewis W. Hine. See 4590. See W.H. Swift Report.

Pioneer School #13 (6 miles northwest of Shawnee) opened October 2nd--7 months term. Miss Lela Ginsinger, Principal (been here 2 years). Photo shows only 6 children present and 2 teachers in the third week of school. Expect 24 pupils. All absences are due to cotton. A few of the larger ones will be

African-American School in Henderson KY, 1916

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Suffragettes parading with banner

Woman modelling marching costume for Chicago's suffrage parade

Mrs. Harry Anna Lowenburg, Chairman State of Pennsylvania, Board of Director of Equal Franchise Lg. League of Pennsa Pennsylvania

Yiddish WWI poster2

Destroy this mad brute Enlist - U.S. Army.

Turkish heliograph at Huj2

J. M. Flagg, I Want You for U.S. Army poster

Turkish howitzer 10.5cm leFH 98 09 00121

Sheep club2

Machine gun corps Gaza line WWIb edit2

William Allen Rogers - Only the Navy Can Stop This (WWI U.S. Navy recruitment poster)

Your Liberty Bond will help stop this Crisco restoration and colours

Gee!! I wish I were a man, I'd join the Navy Be a man and do it - United States Navy recruiting station / / Howard Chandler Christy 1917.