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File name: 10_03_000511b
Binder label: Beverages
Title: Jos. Stiner & Co. tea importers, New York [back]
Date issued: 1870 - 1900 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 print : chromolithograph ; 8 x 13 cm.
Genre: Advertising cards
Subject: Shipping; Laborers; Cities & towns; Tea
Notes: Title from item.
Statement of responsibility: Jos. Steiner & Co.
Collection: 19th Century American Trade Cards
Location: Print Department
Rights: No known restrictions.
End at the Eid festival...very lack of agricultural laborer But this is rainy season Available It a sunny day... the farmers' wives are very busy at the bright sunny day for dry jute.
Afghan day laborers and Cpl. William C. Kaylor, the company custodian for Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, and day laborer supervisor, pause during their work to watch an MV-22 Osprey land at Forward Operating Base Geronimo, Helmand province, Afghanistan, July 14, 2010.
Collier, John,, 1913-1992,, photographer.
Day laborers (from nearby towns or migrant) picking string beans among the poles for overhead irrigation, Seabrook Farms, Bridgeton, N.J.
1942 June
1 transparency : color.
Notes:
Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.
Subjects:
Farming
Beans
Agricultural laborers
United States--New Jersey--Bridgeton
Format: Transparencies--Color
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection 11671-23 (DLC) 93845501
General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a33789
Call Number: LC-USF35-558
"Migratory laborers' camp. Near Belle Glade, Florida."
Single-room cabin costs $2.50, double room $4 per week. Water hauled, 55 cents for 55-gallon tank. Toilet for about 150 people.
Photo by Marion Post Wolcott, Farm Security Administration.
January 1939.
Portrait of an African American construction worker with a bowler hat and with his hands tucked into the waist of his ripped overalls. He stands next to a support column of the Philadelphian & Trenton Railroad Bridge at Trenton Avenue near Frankford Avenue. White laborers perfrom street work behind him, including a man smiling and holding a shovel. In the background is Frankford Avenue. ca. 1918. p-9481-3
Link to record on ImPAC, the Library Company’s digital collections catalog: lcpdams.librarycompany.org:8881/R/-?func=dbin-jump-full&a...
Caption (Original Description)
Home of Negro agricultural day laborers near Vian, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma
Photographer
Russell Lee
Created
June 1939
Location
Vian, Sequoyah, Oklahoma
Library of Congress photo.
A laborer at Metra's Western Avenue Coach Yard finishes up his lunch amongst several locomotives before returning to work.
Samuel C. Barton (left)
Company I, 58th Pennsylvania Volunteers 1862 - 1863
Samuel T. Coleman (right)
Co.s E & A, 2nd Eastern Shore Maryland Infantry 1861 - 1864
Company I, 58th Pennsylvania Volunteers 1862 - 1863
At 18, Samuel T. Coleman, a laborer from Kent County, Maryland, enlisted for a three-year term at Chestertown, Maryland. On November 6, 1861 he joined Company E, 2nd Regiment Eastern Shore Maryland Home Guard (also known as the 2nd Eastern Shore Maryland Infantry Volunteers). His first three months, however, were unrewarding. A note in his records in February 1862 states that Coleman "Was not paid last pay day on account of inability from sickness to sign pay roll." In March 1862 the regiment moved by boat across the Chesapeake Bay to Baltimore. A few months later, on June 1, 1862 Coleman deserted from his post along the B&O Railroad at Parkton near Baltimore.
On July 18, 1862, barely one month after walking away from his regiment, Coleman enlisted again, at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. This time the by-now 19-year-old joined Company I, 58th Pennsylvania Volunteers. No mention was made of his previous desertion, but a note was written on his enlistment form stating that his "father lives in Maryland. Has done business for himself for the last year and has been in the 3 months service."
Also enlisting, a few days later on July 29, was a 21-year-old harness maker named Samuel C. Barton. Whether the two Sams became pals, or were simply thrown together by circumstances, is uncertain, but they both ended up in the same company. They soon joined their regiment already on duty along the Atlantic Coast near the boundary between Virginia and North Carolina.
In the spring of 1863 the rebels demonstrated against the Union forces at New Bern, North Carolina, threatening to cut off and capture the 58th Pennsylvania. But through skillful maneuvering of the troops, scouts and counter scouts, wholesale destruction was avoided. However, there was a minor price to pay. On April 14, 1863, two men, Barton and Coleman, were captured by a party of rebel scouts at Bachelor Creek near New Bern.
The two soldiers were sent immediately to Richmond and confined there for a few days before being paroled on April 23, 1863. After about one week in Confederate hands, Barton and Coleman arrived at Annapolis, Maryland on April 24, 1863 and reported to College Green Barracks where all former POWs were processed. Sometime after receiving an issue of clean clothing the two called at the Hopkins photography studio on Cornhill Street to have their pictures taken.
At Annapolis the stories of the two pals diverge. Rather than being sent out to Camp Parole, Coleman was admitted to the College Green Hospital on May 3 for an unknown reason, and on June 1 he was detailed to remain there as a nurse. Barton, however, went out to Camp Parole until November 1863 when he was declared exchanged. Barton then returned to his regiment and finished out the war with honor. He reenlisted as a veteran volunteer, was promoted to corporal on March 1, 1865 and sergeant on May 20, 1865. Samuel C. Barton Mustered out of the army after the war on June 12, 1865.
Coleman, on the other hand, who had enlisted in the 58th Pennsylvania after deserting from the 2nd Eastern Shore Maryland Infantry, deserted from the army again on July 3, 1863 when he left the hospital and did not return. Even though he, like Barton, had been declared exchanged, Coleman failed to report to his company. On December 31, 1863 he was officially listed as a deserter. Later, a note would be appended to his records with the 58th Pennsylvania stating that because he was "a deserter from Co. A 2nd East Shore Md. Vols., his enlistment in this company is declared void."
Coleman was arrested as a deserter by the Provost Marshal in Kent County, Maryland on April 21, 1864. Sent to Fort McHenry in Baltimore on April 30, Coleman was confined there for two weeks before being sent to Harpers Ferry. He rejoined Company A, 2nd Eastern Shore Maryland Infantry on May 26, 1864, then near Cedar Creek, Virginia.
When the regiment left to march up the Shenandoah Valley to Lynchburg in June, Coleman was left sick at Martinsburg. After rejoining his regiment when it returned, he was later captured by the enemy again, this time at Winchester, Virginia on July 25, 1864. His records as a POW this second time around are somewhat contradictory. One source says that Coleman was "confined at Andersonville, Ga., date not shown and sent to Millen, Ga., Oct 31, 1864." Another file says he was "Captured by the enemy at Winchester, Va July 25, 1864 and delivered at Varnia Va, Sept 12, 1864. Furloughed from Camp Parole to Oct 17, 1864. Failed to return either to that camp or his Regt." There is no record that Samuel T. Coleman ever was mustered out of the service.
In the early morning a Pakistani Pashtun man who works as a laborer in a brick kiln pauses to have his photo taken. He is holding a shovel (spade). Poverty and child labour is pervasive among workers in brick kilns in South Asia. Horses and donkeys also suffer badly. Peshawar alone has approximately 450 brick kilns. Photo taken on February 27, 2008 in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
View of a large group of laborers in a field. There are a few farm buildings in the
background.
Digital Collection:
North Carolina Postcards
Publisher:
Paul E. Trouche, Charleston, S.C.;
Date:
1908
Location:
Chadbourn (N.C.); Columbus County (N.C.);
Collection in Repository
Durwood Barbour Collection of North Carolina Postcards (P077); collection guide available
online at www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/pcoll/77barbour/77barbour.html
Holy Ghost Mission
Beginning in 1879, thousands of Portuguese Catholics immigrated to Maui from the Azores and Madeira Islands for jobs as contract laborers for the sugar plantation. Along with their families, they brought with them their devotion to the Catholic Church, the Holy Ghost, and the traditions surrounding the crown of Queen Elizabeth of Portugal. Completing their contracts, many moved to the Kula area as independent ranchers and farmers.
Father James Beissel arrived in the Makawao Catholic District in 1882, and by 1886, he was managing the district and offering masses in the home of a parishioner in the Kula area. The increasing number of families in the district led him to initiate the building of the mission church that was to become our Holy Ghost Mission. The two acres of land on which it was built were donated by Louis and Randal von Tempsky in Waiakoa, and the building was financed by weekly auctions of cattle by local ranchers.
Father Beissel himself designed the church, whose octagonal design is still unique in Hawaii. His inspiration may have come from either the shape of Queen Elizabeth's crown, the design of Charlemagne's chapel, which he had seen at home in Austria, or similar chapels on the coast of Portugal. Work began in December 1894 with all able men donating their skills and labor, and by the end of 1895 the church was complete, with the exception of a few details, and the first masses were held.
The richly decorated altar and the Portuguese language Stations of the Cross were commissioned by Father Beissel in 1895 and were carved by the famous artisan and master woodcarver, Ferdinand Stuflesser, from Groden, Tirol, Austria. Shipped in nine separate crates around the Cape of Good Hope to Hawaii, the altar and stations were hauled by oxcart from Kahului Harbor to Waiakoa and reassembled by the faithful members of the parish. They are recognized now as examples of museum-quality ecclesiastical art of that time. In January of 1899 Bishop Ropert Gulstan of Honolulu arrived to officiate at the formal dedication the church.
On April 29, 1983, the church was placed on the Hawaii Register of Historical Places, recognizing it as a landmark with significance in Hawaiian history, architecture, and culture, and some time later it was added to the National Register. In 1991, under the leadership of Father Michael Owens, a major restoration of the church and altars was initiated, requiring the closure of the church for about one year. In 1995, the parish was able to celebrate its Centennial year in its resplendent, restored condition. The last payment of the restoration debt of about $1.25 million was celebrated on May 17, 2000 under the leadership of Fr. Tom Heinzel, who served the parish from 1992 to 2006.
Today the church is widely known as a popular tourist attraction and choice for weddings and is still a vibrant working parish noted for its annual Holy Ghost Feast and for its delicious Portuguese sweetbread, baked fresh on the second Sunday of each month.
~copied from www.kulacatholiccommunity.org/history.htm
from Fr. Tony: Note how on the right is the First Station of the Cross, and on the left, is the Last Station of the Cross. They begin and end at the High Altar.
Farm laborers at Karungu Farm, run by Equator Seeds Ltd, prepare seeds for packing at the warehouse. In the Gulu district of Northern Uganda, communities have slowly returned after fleeing the Lord’s Resistance Army rebel group three decades ago. Despite little farming experience, technology and resources, they now have a major task on their hands: supplying food for their own families and communities, and also to those escaping war and hunger-stricken South Sudan.
Credit: ©2017CIAT/GeorginaSmith
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View of several laborers picking berries in a field.
Digital Collection:
North Carolina Postcards
Publisher:
Atkinson News Co., Tilton, N.H.
Date:
1915; 1916; 1917; 1918; 1919; 1920; 1921; 1922; 1923; 1924; 1925; 1926; 1927; 1928;
1929; 1930
Location:
North Carolina;
Collection in Repository
Durwood Barbour Collection of North Carolina Postcards (P077); collection guide available
online at www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/pcoll/77barbour/77barbour.html
Wolcott, Marion Post,, 1910-1990,, photographer.
Day laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Miss.
1939 Nov.
1 slide : color.
Notes:
Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.
Subjects:
Cotton plantations
Harvesting
United States--Mississippi--Clarksdale
Format: Slides--Color
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection 11671-8 (DLC) 93845501
General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a34353
Call Number: LC-USF35-161
Two weeks in NOLA for the mardi gras 2017
Early in 1909, a group of laborers who had organized a club named 'The Tramps' went to the Pythian Theater to see a musical comedy performed by the Smart Set. The comedy included a skit entitled, 'There Never Was and Never Will Be a King Like Me,' about the Zulu Tribe.
That is how Zulu began, as the many stories go...
Years of extensive research by Zulu's staff of historians seem to indicate that Zulu's beginning was much more complicated than that. The earliest signs of organization came from the fact that the majority of these men belonged to a Benevolent Aid Society. Benevolent Societies were the first forms of insurance in the Black community where, for a small amount of dues, members received financial help when sick or financial aid when burying deceased members.
Conversations and interviews with older members also indicate that in that era the city was divided into wards, and each ward had its own group or 'Club.' The Tramps were one such group. After seeing the skit, they retired to their meeting place (a room in the rear of a restaurant/bar in the 1100 block of Perdido Street), and emerged as Zulus. This group was probably made up of members from the Tramps, the Benevolent Aid Society and other ward-based groups.
While the 'Group' marched in Mardi Gras as early as 1901, their first appearance as Zulus came in 1909, with William Story as King.
The group wore raggedy pants, and had a Jubilee-singing quartet in front of and behind King Story. His costume of 'lard can' crown and 'banana stalk' scepter has been well-documented. The Kings following William Story (William Crawford - 1910, Peter Williams - 1912, and Henry Harris - 1914) were similarly attired.
1915 heralded the first use of floats, constructed on a spring wagon, using dry good boxes. The float was decorated with palmetto leaves and moss and carried four Dukes along with the King. That humble beginning gave rise to the lavish floats we see in the Zulu parade today.
Zulu's 2017 Mardi Gras theme is 'Stop the Violence'
Two weeks in NOLA for the mardi gras 2017
Early in 1909, a group of laborers who had organized a club named 'The Tramps' went to the Pythian Theater to see a musical comedy performed by the Smart Set. The comedy included a skit entitled, 'There Never Was and Never Will Be a King Like Me,' about the Zulu Tribe.
That is how Zulu began, as the many stories go...
Years of extensive research by Zulu's staff of historians seem to indicate that Zulu's beginning was much more complicated than that. The earliest signs of organization came from the fact that the majority of these men belonged to a Benevolent Aid Society. Benevolent Societies were the first forms of insurance in the Black community where, for a small amount of dues, members received financial help when sick or financial aid when burying deceased members.
Conversations and interviews with older members also indicate that in that era the city was divided into wards, and each ward had its own group or 'Club.' The Tramps were one such group. After seeing the skit, they retired to their meeting place (a room in the rear of a restaurant/bar in the 1100 block of Perdido Street), and emerged as Zulus. This group was probably made up of members from the Tramps, the Benevolent Aid Society and other ward-based groups.
While the 'Group' marched in Mardi Gras as early as 1901, their first appearance as Zulus came in 1909, with William Story as King.
The group wore raggedy pants, and had a Jubilee-singing quartet in front of and behind King Story. His costume of 'lard can' crown and 'banana stalk' scepter has been well-documented. The Kings following William Story (William Crawford - 1910, Peter Williams - 1912, and Henry Harris - 1914) were similarly attired.
1915 heralded the first use of floats, constructed on a spring wagon, using dry good boxes. The float was decorated with palmetto leaves and moss and carried four Dukes along with the King. That humble beginning gave rise to the lavish floats we see in the Zulu parade today.
Zulu's 2017 Mardi Gras theme is 'Stop the Violence'
A worker moves a bag of onions onto a pile being prepared for transport.
Credit : ILO/Apex Image
Date : 2009/03
Country : United Arab Emirates
Two weeks in NOLA for the mardi gras 2017
Early in 1909, a group of laborers who had organized a club named 'The Tramps' went to the Pythian Theater to see a musical comedy performed by the Smart Set. The comedy included a skit entitled, 'There Never Was and Never Will Be a King Like Me,' about the Zulu Tribe.
That is how Zulu began, as the many stories go...
Years of extensive research by Zulu's staff of historians seem to indicate that Zulu's beginning was much more complicated than that. The earliest signs of organization came from the fact that the majority of these men belonged to a Benevolent Aid Society. Benevolent Societies were the first forms of insurance in the Black community where, for a small amount of dues, members received financial help when sick or financial aid when burying deceased members.
Conversations and interviews with older members also indicate that in that era the city was divided into wards, and each ward had its own group or 'Club.' The Tramps were one such group. After seeing the skit, they retired to their meeting place (a room in the rear of a restaurant/bar in the 1100 block of Perdido Street), and emerged as Zulus. This group was probably made up of members from the Tramps, the Benevolent Aid Society and other ward-based groups.
While the 'Group' marched in Mardi Gras as early as 1901, their first appearance as Zulus came in 1909, with William Story as King.
The group wore raggedy pants, and had a Jubilee-singing quartet in front of and behind King Story. His costume of 'lard can' crown and 'banana stalk' scepter has been well-documented. The Kings following William Story (William Crawford - 1910, Peter Williams - 1912, and Henry Harris - 1914) were similarly attired.
1915 heralded the first use of floats, constructed on a spring wagon, using dry good boxes. The float was decorated with palmetto leaves and moss and carried four Dukes along with the King. That humble beginning gave rise to the lavish floats we see in the Zulu parade today.
Zulu's 2017 Mardi Gras theme is 'Stop the Violence'
"Laborer, he wrought miracles"
"Scientist, he weighed the stars"
"The Laborer" (1958) by Ahron Ben-Schmuel (1903 - 1984)
"The Scientist" (1955) by Koren der Harootian (1909 - 1991)
Advertisement showing the stove works founded in 1851 on the 400 block of Brown Street in Northern Liberties. Works include a four-story building containing the "office" and adorned with a cupola, a large work yard, and a rear "Foundry." At the multi-story building, a laborer loads stoves that are lined on the sidewalk into a horse-drawn wagon under the eye of a man at the doorway. On the roof, two other men stand in the cupola that is adorned with a statue of Liberty. In the adjacent work yard, laborers shovel and pick at mounds of coal and bricks, and load and transport hand- and horse-drawn carts on the grounds and up a ramp leading to an opening in the foundry. Near the workers, a group of men, one leaning on a shovel convenes and two boys chase each other over a mound. On the sidewalk, men, women, and children pedestrians stroll past a street lamp, watch the workers, and converse near a dog sniffing a fire hydrant. In the street, drivers guide horse-drawn carts, a drayman travels, and a pedestrian crosses in the path of an "Abbott & Lawrence Liberty stove Works" wagon and speeding carriage occupied by a family of three. Street activity also includes a man on horse back, two dogs in a greeting stance, and two gentlemen engaged in conversation. The firm was reestablished as Abbott & Noble in 1858, and operated until 1915 under various proprietor
Factory worker plating metal parts. The jug on the work bench is Consolidated Equipment Inc. Electroplating Solution, Poison. The photo was taken in 1950, I scanned it from a 4X5 negative.
The vendors and the laborers all doing respective activities at streets of Karachi as to make them earn some chunk for their livelihood...!!
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Two weeks in NOLA for the mardi gras 2017
Early in 1909, a group of laborers who had organized a club named 'The Tramps' went to the Pythian Theater to see a musical comedy performed by the Smart Set. The comedy included a skit entitled, 'There Never Was and Never Will Be a King Like Me,' about the Zulu Tribe.
That is how Zulu began, as the many stories go...
Years of extensive research by Zulu's staff of historians seem to indicate that Zulu's beginning was much more complicated than that. The earliest signs of organization came from the fact that the majority of these men belonged to a Benevolent Aid Society. Benevolent Societies were the first forms of insurance in the Black community where, for a small amount of dues, members received financial help when sick or financial aid when burying deceased members.
Conversations and interviews with older members also indicate that in that era the city was divided into wards, and each ward had its own group or 'Club.' The Tramps were one such group. After seeing the skit, they retired to their meeting place (a room in the rear of a restaurant/bar in the 1100 block of Perdido Street), and emerged as Zulus. This group was probably made up of members from the Tramps, the Benevolent Aid Society and other ward-based groups.
While the 'Group' marched in Mardi Gras as early as 1901, their first appearance as Zulus came in 1909, with William Story as King.
The group wore raggedy pants, and had a Jubilee-singing quartet in front of and behind King Story. His costume of 'lard can' crown and 'banana stalk' scepter has been well-documented. The Kings following William Story (William Crawford - 1910, Peter Williams - 1912, and Henry Harris - 1914) were similarly attired.
1915 heralded the first use of floats, constructed on a spring wagon, using dry good boxes. The float was decorated with palmetto leaves and moss and carried four Dukes along with the King. That humble beginning gave rise to the lavish floats we see in the Zulu parade today.
Zulu's 2017 Mardi Gras theme is 'Stop the Violence'
View of several men working in a tobacco field.
Digital Collection:
North Carolina Postcards
Publisher:
Graycraft Card Co., Danville, Va.;
Date:
1915; 1916; 1917; 1918; 1919; 1920; 1921; 1922; 1923; 1924; 1925; 1926; 1927; 1928;
1929; 1930
Location:
North Carolina;
Collection in Repository
Durwood Barbour Collection of North Carolina Postcards (P077); collection guide available
online at www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/pcoll/77barbour/77barbour.html
Summary Data
State or Country of birth: Norway
Home prior to enlistment: Spring Grove, Minnesota
Occupation prior to enlistment: farm laborer
Service: Co. K, 46th Illinois Infantry - October 1861 - January 1866
Rank at enlistment: private
Highest rank attained: sergeant
Principal combat experience:
Fort Donnelson, Tennessee
Shiloh, Tennessee
Corinth, Mississippi
Hatchie River
Vicksburg, Mississippi
Jackson, Mississippi
Fort Blakely, Alabama
Casualties: none
Photograph by: unknown
Inscription in period ink on back: "Amonson"
About 1857 John Amundson Rostin (the son of Amund Rostin) left Norway, which was then a possession on Russia, to settle as a farm laborer in Spring Grove, Minnesota, in the extreme southeast corner of the state. On October 4, 1861, John and several other Norwegians were recruited at Caledonia, Minnesota by Oley Johnson, a fellow countryman, to serve in Company K, Forty-sixth Illinois Infantry for three years. The recruiting officer omitted his last name and he was known in the service as John Amonson.
Amonson was mustered into the service on December 30, 1861, at Camp Butler, near Springfield, Illinois. The Forty-sixth Illinois was an active regiment and saw action in Tennessee at the battles of Fort Donnelson (February 14 - 16, 1862) and Shiloh (April 6 & 7, 1862). Amonson had been admitted to the regimental hospital in early April with a fever but was discharged the day before the Battle of Shiloh. He and his regiment were soon in the thick of the action in what would later be remembered as one of the bloodiest battles of the war.
Reaching the battlefield between 9:00 and 10:00 o'clock Sunday morning April 6, the regiment's colonel, John A. Davis, later reported their role in the day's fight. "A regiment posted about 200 yards in front of our line gave way under the enemy's fire, and retreated through my line, which was lying down. As soon as it passed my men rose, dressed their line, and immediately commenced pouring a destructive fire upon the enemy. The regiment posted on our right having given way, and the enemy keeping up a hot fire along my whole front and raking crossfire upon my right flank, killing and wounding over one-half of my right companies, badly cutting up my other companies, and 8 of my line officers, 2 color bearers, and the major wounded, I deemed it my duty, without further orders, to withdraw my command, which I did, to a position beyond the brow of the hill, where I again formed them."1
A little later in the day, while the regiment was providing support for a battery of artillery, the men were again subjected to a confederate attack. Colonel Davis continued his report. "I formed my command...and moved up in line within 200 yards of the enemy, when a brisk and destructive fire was opened upon our whole line. Planting our colors in front of our line of battle, I ordered my command to shelter themselves behind trees and logs as best they could within range of the enemy, and kept up a constant fire until after the regiment on our right had given way and fallen back across the ravine, when I ordered my men to fall back into the ravine, and moving them by the left flank, I took them out of range of the enemy's guns."2
The men lay on their arms all night. In the morning they advanced until their pickets were driven in. Colonel Davis’ report continues, "...we found the enemy in strength along the whole line of our front, and when within 200 yards the fire opened upon both sides. My men loaded and fired with the coolness of veterans, and I had another horse shot under me in the midst of the engagement, and while raging with the utmost fury my men determined that they had fallen back for the last time, and while they were receiving the fire of the enemy and delivering their own with the utmost coolness I was wounded and carried off the field. Lieutenant-Colonel Jones reports that my men still stood firm, holding their ground, although outflanked, with the colors of the Forty-sixth and the rebels planted within 30 yards of each other, until re-enforced and the enemy driven back for the last time, when the Forty-sixth was ordered by General Hurlbut in person to its quarters...Too much praise cannot be awarded to the gallant officers and men of the Forty-sixth, who helped to win our signal victory."3
The regiment later took part in the siege of Corinth, Mississippi (May 1862), and then spent the summer at Memphis, Tennessee. The Forty-sixth was in action again at the battle of Hatchie River (October 5, 1862), the siege of Vicksburg (April - July 1863) and the siege of Jackson (July 1863).
Through most of the Vicksburg siege, from April until June 30, 1863, John Amonson was on detached service with the Provost Guard at Brigade Headquarters. He was apparently promoted to corporal about this time. Amonson re-enlisted as a veteran volunteer on December 20, 1863 and was re-appointed corporal in the veteranized regiment. In April 1864 he spent ten days in the hospital for intestinal fever.
The regiment participated in the Battle of Jackson, Mississippi on July 7, 1864. For the rest of the year and the early part of 1865, the regiment went on various expeditions to parts of Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee and Alabama. Also, starting in August 1864, John Amonson was periodically in and out of the regimental hospital with dysentery. In April 1865, the Forty-sixth Illinois participated in the siege of Fort Blakely, Alabama and then occupied the city of Mobile.
Amonson was appointed sergeant on December 31, 1865 and was mustered out with his regiment at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on January 20, 1866. He returned to Minnesota, and in 1867 married Betsy Olson, a recently arrived young Norwegian woman. In civilian life he reverted to using the name John A. Rosten and moved to northern Minnesota before finally settling in Wisconsin in 1872. He apparently had no difficulty in receiving a pension under the name John Amonson, but after his death in 1892 his wife had to explain how she could be the widow of John Amonson when her married name was Rosten.
In 1897 her claim was supported by Oley Johnson who provided the following statement to the Pension Office. "I have every reason to believe that John Amonson, whom I myself enlisted on the 4th day of October 1861, is the John A. Rostin. That was his name before the war but was left off when the said John Amonson enlisted."4
Mathias Halverson also provided and affidavit, saying, "I was acquainted with John Amundson in 1861 before [he] enlisted. When I first knew him he went by the name of John Rostin. But he enlisted by the name John Amundson. All through the war he would once in a while get a letter from some friend with the name of John Rostin. I can positively swear that it is the same man. We served together for over five years in K Co. 46 Illinois Veteran Volunteer Infantry."5
Notes for John Amonson
1. Official Records of the War of the Rebellion
2. ibid.
3. ibid.
4. United States Archives, Pension Records
5. ibid.
Persistent URL: floridamemory.com/items/show/255918
Local call number: C008844
Title: Jamaican laborers cutting sugar cane - Clewiston
Date: December 10, 1947
Physical descrip: 1 photoprint - b&w - 4 x 5 in.
Series Title: Department of Commerce Collection
Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida
500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL, 32399-0250 USA, Contact: 850.245.6700, Archives@dos.myflorida.com
“Woman coolies, laborers in the building trade, carrying baskets of sand & gravel on shoulder yokes from street to site. Note bamboo scaffold”
Summary Data
State or Country of birth: West Mertans, Indiana County, Pennsylvania
Home prior to enlistment: Bluffton, Wells, County, Indiana
Occupation prior to enlistment: farm laborer
Service:
...Co. H & I, 22nd Indiana Inf. - 1861 - 1864
Rank at enlistment: private
Highest rank attained: corporal
Principal combat experience:
...Siege of Corinth, Mississippi
...Perryville, Kentucky
...Stones River, Tennessee
...Missionary Ridge, Tennessee
...Rome, Georgia
Casualties: KIA, Rome, Georgia
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Albumen CDV photo:
Full standing pose in military frock coat
CDV Photograph by: Smith & Huey, Indianapolis, Ind.
Inscription in period ink on back: "Maggie"
Inscription in period pencil on front: "Mrs. M. A. Fulton 8X10 No. 10 Albumen as it is" and "J Barger Agt"
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Nelson G. Fulton was born in West Mertans, Indiana County, Pennsylvania about 1839. The census of 1860 shows him living with his parents, William and Mary A. Fulton, in Saltsburg, Conemaugh Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania. Also in the household were his two younger sisters, 12-year-old Mary D. Fulton and 8-year-old Margaret (Maggie) L. Fulton.
As a result of an accident caused by an explosion of powder while blasting rocks in 1854, his father was entirely blinded in one eye, and severely injured in the other. As a result, his father had to abandon his trade as a butcher and was unable to labor sufficiently to support himself and his family. Nelson, then about 15 years old, stepped up to fill the void as family breadwinner. By working at a neighboring farm at different periods for the next five of six years he was able to earn wages, which amounted on an average to about $8 per month that he gave to his parents.
The summer of 1861 found him in Bluffton, Wells County, Indiana. How he came to be there is not known, but on July 10, 1861 he enlisted at Madison, Indiana for 3 years in Company H, 22nd Indiana Infantry. He was listed as 22 years old. He stood 5 feet 6 inches tall, had a sanguine complexion, hazel eyes, and dark hair. The regiment was mustered into Federal service on August 15, 1861. Even though he was now in the army, Fulton continued to contribute money to his parents' support. He sent home an average of $10 per month out of his $13 monthly pay.
Now a part of the Union Army, the 22nd Indiana was sent west to Missouri and with the rest of the Union Forces, eventually pushed its way south into Arkansas. Late in the year, Fulton was detailed as a Regimental Teamster driving a supply wagon for the army. He continued on this duty into early 1862, sometimes being away from his company in the process. In March 1862 he was still on detached duty as a Brigade Teamster so it is not clear if he was present when the 22nd Indiana took part in its first significant combat at the battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas on March 7 and 8, 1862, which succeeded in keeping the southerners out of Missouri for the next two years.
By late spring 1862, the regiment moved to Mississippi and joined in the Union siege of Corinth. The 22nd Indiana also took part in the battles at Perryville, Kentucky in October 1862 in which it lost very heavily, and at Stones River, Tennessee on New Year's 1863 where it again was heavily engaged. Fulton apparently came through both fights without incident.
On July 23, 1863 Fulton was sent to the Field Hospital for some unspecified complaint. But by September 7, 1863 he was back to being detailed as a Company Teamster. Sometime during his enlistment Fulton ended up changing from Company H to Company I. Whether this was due to his transfer, or if it was just a matter of a change in designation of the organization is not clear. It may have happened as a result oh his reenlistment as a Veteran Volunteer on December 23, 1863 at Blain's Cross Roads, Tennessee. His new descriptive list, created in December 1863, was slightly different from the one created at the time of his original enlistment. He was now described as being 24 years old, 5' 7" in height, and as having gray eyes, brown hair, and a light complexion. And somewhere along the line, possibly after his reenlistment, Fulton was promoted to corporal.
The 1864 campaign opened with a drive intended to culminate in the seizure of Atlanta. Going was slow and brutal as Union forces pushed south from Tennessee into Georgia. In early May the Federal Army was advancing into Georgia, fighting its way from Dalton to Resaca. While the main force pushed on towards Adairsville, a smaller Union force was sent on a flanking maneuver to the west. As described by Lieutenant R. V. Marshall in his post-war Historical Sketch, "The city of Rome, Ga., was not on the direct route to Atlanta, but was situated 15 miles to the right at the junction of the Oustenaula and Hightower rivers. Here the Confederates had a division under Gen. French, protected by strong forts and earthworks. Gen. Davis' division [which included the 22nd Indiana] was detached and ordered to take Rome. This was done on the afternoon of the 17th [of May], after a spirited engagement of half an hour...Five men in the 22nd were killed and 14 wounded."
Corporal Nelson Fulton was one of the fatalities. He was killed in action instantly. Company records indicate that he was "Killed in action May 17, 1864 Rome, Ga." and that his "death was caused by 'a Rifle Ball,' shot through the head." An inventory of his effects lists $93 in notes. This was a large amount of cash for a soldier to be carrying, but he had last been paid on January 23, 1864 when he received several months of overdue back pay. Perhaps, with the various movements of the army in the interim, he had not had an opportunity to safely send the money home.
News of Nelson's death must have hit the Fulton family hard back in Saltsburg. Records show that his mother, Mary Ann Fulton, applied for a pension based on the fact that her "husband has been physically disabled for ten years" and that her son had been providing for her financial support before his death. William Fulton's affidavit stated, "Nelson G. Fulton was the only son of himself and Mary Ann Fulton; that by the death of the said Nelson G. Fulton his parents are deprived of his assistance for support and maintenance...[he] being nearly blind and unable to maintain and support his family without the aid and assistance of his son...since [the time of his blinding] and up to the death of his said son, he had the labor and earnings of the said Nelson G. Fulton to appropriate to the support of the family. That when said Nelson G. Fulton was alive in the Service of the Army, he sent all the wages due him except his necessary expenses for clothing himself...That after he entered the Army he still continued to contribute to the support of his parents by sending money, on an average about $10 per month. That the amount of property possessed by the said affiant and his wife Mary Ann Fulton the mother of Nelson G. Fulton, is a house and Lot in which they reside in Saltsburg, Pa., which residence cost $340, part of which sum was paid by said Nelson G. Fulton. Said soldier died leaving no widow nor children, but dependent parents."
Others corroborated the claims of financial assistance. Friend of the family Sarah Wolf testified "...all his wages was sent to her [Mary Ann Fulton] sometimes by mail and sometimes by express Co. and she [Sarah Wolf] saw her have the money." Someone else swore Nelson "regularly contributed to the support of his parents, by his labor before enlisting, and by sending money for their use afterwards." Neighbor James Leech testified, "Nelson G. Fulton constantly and regularly contributed to the support of his mother...from the time he was old enough to command wages to the time of his death, and that his contributions were equal to or more than one half of her subsistence." Even an Adams Express agent testified "on the 9th day of April AD 1863 he did deliver a money package to William Fulton, from Nelson G. Fulton containing thirty-five ($35) Dollars, & on the 17th day of November AD 1864 he delivered another money package to William Fulton containing Seventy ($70) Dollars sent to him by Nelson G. Fulton who was then serving as a soldier in the Army of the United States." This latter date would have been after Fulton's death, so if the date is correct, it may have been the pay due him at the time he was killed.
A pension may have eased the family's financial situation, but nothing could replace a lost son and brother. All that remained were a few small photographs. One pre-war tintype shows Nelson Fulton as a well-dressed young man in civilian clothes. Another tintype in a paper CDV mount shows him wearing an army frock coat that has been shortened into a jacket by having the skirt cut off. A bust view of Fulton on a paper CDV is in fact a mirror-image copy photo made from an earlier tintype or ambrotype. And finally, a full-length paper CDV pictures Fulton in a nine-button infantry frock coat with his arm resting on the back of a chair. On the back he has written in ink the name of his little sister, "Maggie," for whom he undoubtedly intended to give this picture. Above, written at a later date in pencil is the note "Mrs. M. A. Fulton 8X10 No. 10 Albumen as it is" and at the bottom "J Barger Agt." It would seem that after his death, Fulton's mother sent this picture to a photographic studio to be copied and enlarged, without modification, into an 8 by 10 albumen photo as a keepsake of her lost son.
Utility laborer working in mid-90 degree temperatures on 17th Street, NW by the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the first day of summer.
Washington, DC / June 21, 2010
Two weeks in NOLA for the mardi gras 2017
Early in 1909, a group of laborers who had organized a club named 'The Tramps' went to the Pythian Theater to see a musical comedy performed by the Smart Set. The comedy included a skit entitled, 'There Never Was and Never Will Be a King Like Me,' about the Zulu Tribe.
That is how Zulu began, as the many stories go...
Years of extensive research by Zulu's staff of historians seem to indicate that Zulu's beginning was much more complicated than that. The earliest signs of organization came from the fact that the majority of these men belonged to a Benevolent Aid Society. Benevolent Societies were the first forms of insurance in the Black community where, for a small amount of dues, members received financial help when sick or financial aid when burying deceased members.
Conversations and interviews with older members also indicate that in that era the city was divided into wards, and each ward had its own group or 'Club.' The Tramps were one such group. After seeing the skit, they retired to their meeting place (a room in the rear of a restaurant/bar in the 1100 block of Perdido Street), and emerged as Zulus. This group was probably made up of members from the Tramps, the Benevolent Aid Society and other ward-based groups.
While the 'Group' marched in Mardi Gras as early as 1901, their first appearance as Zulus came in 1909, with William Story as King.
The group wore raggedy pants, and had a Jubilee-singing quartet in front of and behind King Story. His costume of 'lard can' crown and 'banana stalk' scepter has been well-documented. The Kings following William Story (William Crawford - 1910, Peter Williams - 1912, and Henry Harris - 1914) were similarly attired.
1915 heralded the first use of floats, constructed on a spring wagon, using dry good boxes. The float was decorated with palmetto leaves and moss and carried four Dukes along with the King. That humble beginning gave rise to the lavish floats we see in the Zulu parade today.
Zulu's 2017 Mardi Gras theme is 'Stop the Violence'
Two weeks in NOLA for the mardi gras 2017
Early in 1909, a group of laborers who had organized a club named 'The Tramps' went to the Pythian Theater to see a musical comedy performed by the Smart Set. The comedy included a skit entitled, 'There Never Was and Never Will Be a King Like Me,' about the Zulu Tribe.
That is how Zulu began, as the many stories go...
Years of extensive research by Zulu's staff of historians seem to indicate that Zulu's beginning was much more complicated than that. The earliest signs of organization came from the fact that the majority of these men belonged to a Benevolent Aid Society. Benevolent Societies were the first forms of insurance in the Black community where, for a small amount of dues, members received financial help when sick or financial aid when burying deceased members.
Conversations and interviews with older members also indicate that in that era the city was divided into wards, and each ward had its own group or 'Club.' The Tramps were one such group. After seeing the skit, they retired to their meeting place (a room in the rear of a restaurant/bar in the 1100 block of Perdido Street), and emerged as Zulus. This group was probably made up of members from the Tramps, the Benevolent Aid Society and other ward-based groups.
While the 'Group' marched in Mardi Gras as early as 1901, their first appearance as Zulus came in 1909, with William Story as King.
The group wore raggedy pants, and had a Jubilee-singing quartet in front of and behind King Story. His costume of 'lard can' crown and 'banana stalk' scepter has been well-documented. The Kings following William Story (William Crawford - 1910, Peter Williams - 1912, and Henry Harris - 1914) were similarly attired.
1915 heralded the first use of floats, constructed on a spring wagon, using dry good boxes. The float was decorated with palmetto leaves and moss and carried four Dukes along with the King. That humble beginning gave rise to the lavish floats we see in the Zulu parade today.
Zulu's 2017 Mardi Gras theme is 'Stop the Violence'
Persistent URL: digital.lib.muohio.edu/u?/tradecards,815
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India Photographic Journey, Day 10 : Maharashtra
A temporary bricks hut as the laborers shelter camp in the brickyard. Much of that work is done by migrant labor families who trek from their home villages near and far to brickyards for eight months of the year, except during the monsoon season, when rains halt production.
Photo taken at Bhosalewadi village, 25 km to the north of Karad city, Maharashtra province, India.
A man performs rooftop maintenance and repairs atop Trinity Lutheran Church in Milwaukee, WI.
November 13, 2013
Milwaukee, WI
Canon EOS 7D
Canon 24 - 105 mm f/4L IS usm
View of laborers in a peanut field.
Digital Collection:
North Carolina Postcards
Publisher:
Tanner Souvenir Co., New York, N.Y.
Date:
1905; 1906; 1907; 1908; 1909; 1910; 1911; 1912; 1913; 1914; 1915
Location:
Moore County (N.C.);
Collection in Repository
Durwood Barbour Collection of North Carolina Postcards (P077); collection guide available
online at www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/pcoll/77barbour/77barbour.html
Day laborers and their children compiling sweet corn into large sacks at a Manoli Village Farm in Sonipat District, Haryana, India.
IFPRI partnered with Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia (CSISA) in working to reduce hunger and increase food and income security of resource poor farm families in South Asia through the development and inclusive adoption of new cereal varieties, sustainable agricultural technologies and policies.
Photo credit: Katrin Park / International Food Policy Research Institute / 1 June, 2016