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Aunt Lizzie Reagan weaving old-fashioned jean at the Pi Beta Phi school, 

Gatlinburg, Tennessee. This aged mountain woman lives near 

the school and earns her living weaving, November 1933

 

Boiling down sorghum at the Stooksberry homestead 

near Andersonville, Tennessee, October 1933

 

Mrs. James Watson spinning wool yarn in her cabin 

near Gatlinburg, Tennessee, November 1933

 

Straining the sorghum on the farm of J. W. Stooksberry, Anderson County, 

Tennessee. This is the primitive way of making molasses, October 1933

 

Up-to-date method of making molasses on the farm of Fred Hatmaker. 

This farm will be under water when the Norris Dam reservoir fills, October 1933

Scott's Run

Photos from a West Virginia mining town, by Lewis Hine.

 Scott's Run, West Virginia. Children of employed miner 

at Sessa Hill - Ewra Hennar's children, 1936

  

 Scott's Run, West Virginia. Children of miners, March 1937

  

 Scott's Run, West Virginia. Interior of the Jere WPA nursery. 

These children are from unemployed miners' homes. March 1937

  

 Scott's Run, West Virginia. Interior of the Jere WPA nursery. 

These children are from unemployed miners' homes. March 1937

  

 Scott's Run, West Virginia. Woman gathering coal, March 1937

  

Scott's Run, West Virginia. Johnson family - father unemployed, March 1937

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Photos of textile industry workers in 1937.

 Barber-Colman High Speed Warper. This machine is 

using 345 ends which are run into the warp, April 1937

  

 Quilling. The thread is wound from the cones, seen in an upright position on the table of the machine, on to the quills soon at the position of the operator's hands, Paterson, NJ

  

 Textiles. Pacific Mills. Barber-Colman Automatic Spooler. 

Showing side of machine as operator takes off full cheese, April 1937

  

 Textiles. Pacific Mills. Drawing frame (Side view). 

Showing cotton as it comes from machine, April 1937

  

 Textiles. Pacific Mills. Drawing in operation. Shows operator hand drawing 

end of warp through steel harness to get ends ready for weaving, April 1937

  

 Textiles. Wishnack Silk Company. Fancies being woven, June 1937

  

Two women working with machines, March 1937

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 A group showing some of the men working at Norris Dam site. In the rear 

can be seen the warehouse under construction, November 1933

  

 Another view of the issuing of equipment to the new arrivals at CCC Camp, TVA #23, 

between Walker's Ford and Lone Mountain, Tennessee, November 1933

  

 General view of CCC Camp, TVA #19, located between the Clinch 

and Powell Rivers, near New Tazewell, Tennessee, November 1933

  

 Lunch time at CCC Camp, TVA #22, 

near Esco, Tennessee, November 1933

  

Workers returning from construction on the new bridge 

at Norris Dam site at noon hour, November 1933

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Interior of the home of Mrs. Jacob Stooksbury, 

Loyston, Tennessee, November 1933

  

Mr. J. W. Melton and his wife by the fireplace 

getting ready for supper, October 1933

  

Oscar Cloud and family, living in the Norris townsite area. Cloud has been 

a quarryman and farmer. His oldest son is with the CCC, November 1933

  

The Glandon family around the fireplace in their home at Bridges Chapel near Loydston, 

Tennessee. Glandon's wife plays both the guitar and the organ, October 1933

  

Washday at the Stooksberry homestead near 

Andersonville, Tennessee, October 1933

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This is some of Hine's later work, from the 1930s.

 A little country church, Sharps Station M.E. Church, near Loyston, Tennessee. 

This church will be submerged by the waters of the Norris Dam reservoir. October 1933

  

 Boy plowing potato field with a mule and bull-tongue plow on steep 

slope on J. W. Melton farm on Andersonville, Tennessee, road. October 1933

  

 Gaines McGlothin on his farm, R. F. D. #2, Kingsport, Tenn. Like many of the Kingsport Press workers, McGlothin is a farmer as well as an industrial worker. November 1933

  

 Home of a renter on a small farm in Sevier County, Tennessee. Note the 

attempt to beautify the place with potted plants, ferns, etc. October 1933

  

Ruby Hilton. The Hiltons live in the suburbs of Kingsport, 

Tennessee, and have a garden and raise chickens. November 1933

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 "Radishes! Penny a bunch!" Sixth St. Market, Cincinnati. 10 PM, 1908

  

A group of girl workers at Greenabaum's Cannery. 

They range from 6 years of age up. Seaford, Delaware, 1910

  

 Callie Campbell, 11 years old, picks 75 to 125 pounds of cotton a day, 1916

  

 Fruit venders, Indianapolis Market, 1908

  

 Some of the young girls who roll cigarettes, Danville, Virginia, 1911

  

 Starting in business early. Selling vegetables in the market. Boston, Massachusetts, 1909

  

 Tending stand, Canal St. New York, New York, 1910

  

 Vendors. Bowery. New York, New York, 1910

  

 Young workers at a Lawrence, Massachusetts, manufacturing concern, 1911

  

Lena Lochiavo, 11 years old, Basket Seller, Sixth Street Market, Cincinnati, 1908

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5 year old Helen and her stepsisters "hulling" strawberries at Johnson's Hulling Station,

 Seaford, Delaware. Helen is an orphan, who one month after death of her

 widowed mother, was adopted by the Hope family of Seaford, Del. 

This is her second season at Johnson's Hulling Station. 1910

 6 AM at Post Office Square. Truck load of tobacco workers bound for American Sumatra 

Tobacco Farm. They return about 7 PM.  Hartford, Connecticut, 1917

 Alberta McNadd on Chester Truitt's farm at Cannon, Delaware. Alberta is 5 years of age 

and has been picking berries since she was 3. 1910

 Alma Crosien, three-year-old daughter of Mrs. Cora Croslen, of Baltimore. Both work in the Barataria Canning Company. The mother said, "I'm learnin' her the trade." 1911

 Group of young cutters in Seacoast sardine factory, going for a swim Sunday morning. They all said they cut their fingers a good deal, "and then the salt makes 'em 'pickle-sores." 1911

 Luft family, farm near Sterling. Mother, 9 yr. old Amelia, and 12 yr. old Mary working 

while father hauls the beets to factory. Sterling, Colorado, 1915

 Mother and children hulling strawberries at Johnson's Hulling Station. Cyral (in baby cart) 

is 2 yrs. old this May and works steadily hulling berries. 1910

 

 New York tenement, 1910

 Nine of these children from 8 years old up go to school half a day, and shuck oysters 

for four hours before school and three hours after school on school days, 

and on Saturday from 4 A.M. to early afternoon. 1911

Three families is the rule in these shacks, one room above and one below, 

but sometimes four families crowd in. Maryland, 1909