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The Library of Congress Farm laborer's family in the hills 1942
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Title
[Untitled photo, possibly related to: San German, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Farm laborer's family in the hills]
Created / Published
1942 Jan.
Subject Headings
- Puerto Rico--San German Municipality--San German
Headings
Safety film negatives.
Genre
Safety film negatives
Notes
- This image in a jacket marked "Killed."
- Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.)
- Appears to be related to negative LC-USF34-047970-D www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017798382/
- Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
- More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
- Temp. note: usf34batch5
- Film copy on SIS roll 5, frame 223.
Medium
1 negative : safety ; 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches or smaller.
Call Number/Physical Location
LC-USF34- 047971-D [P&P]
Source Collection
Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)
Repository
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id
fsa 8c08789 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8c08789
Library of Congress Control Number
2017798383
Reproduction Number
LC-USF34-047971-D (b&w film neg.)
Rights Advisory
No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html
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Laborers working in Chouwara leather tannery in the Fes El Bali Medina. Fez is famous for its leather goods
Taken @Fez El Bali, Morocco, North Africa.
Hats off to these guys for sticking with such a Sisyphean task beneath a blazing Summer sun.
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Gordon Parks was born into poverty and segregation in Fort Scott, Kansas, in 1912. An itinerant laborer, he worked as a brothel pianist and railcar porter, among other jobs, before buying a camera at a pawnshop, training himself, and becoming a photographer. In addition to his storied tenures photographing for the Farm Security Administration (1941–45) and Life magazine (1948–72), Parks evolved into a modern-day Renaissance man, finding success as a film director, writer and composer. The first African-American director to helm a major motion picture, he helped launch the blaxploitation genre with his film Shaft (1971). He wrote numerous memoirs, novels and books of poetry, and received many awards, including the National Medal of Arts and more than 50 honorary degrees. Parks died in 2006.
The Library of Congress Freddie Reed 1910
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Title
[Kibbe's Candy Factory. Freddie Reed, 14 years, Hayden St., been working a few months. Left school this year as soon as he reached the legal work age. Is earning $ 4.00.] Location: Springfield, Massachusetts.
Contributor Names
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
Created / Published
1910 October.
Subject Headings
- Boys
- Men
- Laborers
- Food industry
- Smoking
- United States--Massachusetts--Springfield
Headings
Photographic prints.
Genre
Photographic prints
Notes
- Attribution to Hine based on provenance.
- In album: Miscellaneous.
- Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 1189.
- Hine no. 1190.
- Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
- General information about the National Child Labor Committee collection is available at: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.nclc
- Forms part of: National Child Labor Committee collection.
Medium
1 photographic print.
Call Number/Physical Location
LOT 7483, v. 1, no. 1190 [P&P]
Source Collection
National Child Labor Committee collection
Repository
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id
nclc 04601 hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/nclc.04601
cph 3a29837 hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a29837
Library of Congress Control Number
2018675493
Reproduction Number
LC-DIG-nclc-04601 (color digital file from b&w original print) LC-USZ62-29155 (b&w film copy negative)
Rights Advisory
No known restrictions on publication. For information see: "National Child Labor Committee (Lewis Hine photographs)," hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/res.097.hine
Access Advisory
For reference access, please use the digital item to preserve the fragile original item.
Language
English
Online Format
image
Description
1 photographic print.
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Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2011.
A child laborer watching a romantic Bengali film during a short recess in the afternoon.
Leica M6 / Summicron 50/2
Ilford Delta 100, shot at 100.
Stand development: Adox FX39 II, 1+40, pre-soak 3 min, agitate 1 min, stand 60 min, 20C.
The Library of Congress Daughter of agricultural day laborer 1939
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Title
Daughter of agricultural day laborer on porch of her home, McIntosh County, Oklahoma
Names
Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, photographer
Created / Published
1939 June.
Headings
- United States--Oklahoma--McIntosh County
- Day laborers, migrants--McIntosh County--Oklahoma
Headings
Nitrate negatives.
Genre
Nitrate negatives
Notes
- Title and other information from caption card.
- Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
- More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Medium
1 negative : nitrate ; 35 mm.
Call Number/Physical Location
LC-USF33- 012246-M2 [P&P] LOT 523 (corresponding photographic print)
Source Collection
Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)
Repository
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540 USA hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id
fsa 8a26379 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8a26379
Library of Congress Control Number
2017740172
Reproduction Number
LC-USF33-012246-M2 (b&w film nitrate neg.) LC-DIG-fsa-8a26379 (digital file from original neg.)
Rights Advisory
No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html
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In the USA, Labor Day is celebrated on the first Monday in September. This image honors the underappreciated laborer - no matter what country, no matter what nationality, no matter what gender.
Laborers working in Chouwara leather tannery in the Fes El Bali Medina. Fez is famous for its leather goods
Taken @Fez El Bali, Morocco, North Africa.
Laborers working in Chouwara leather tannery in the Fes El Bali Medina. Fez is famous for its leather goods
Taken @Fez El Bali, Morocco, North Africa.
Happy Fence Friday! This guy was preparing an area for concrete on the National Mall in Washington, DC.
“Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life.” — Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa.
earning his living
the only way he can
in
Old Delhi
Photography’s new conscience
Laborers carry bags of rice off the boats to awaiting trucks. Yangon, Myanmar.
Leica M7, 35mm Summilux
Kodak Tri-X in Rodinal
scanned w/Nikon Coolscan V
Found this old Dodge in Idaho. Looked like it was still used, as the tires were inflated and in good shape.
I was waiting in Sealdah Rail Station, Kolkata for Rajhdani Express train, which will depart for New Delhi. It was a long 17 hrs train journey. But before my train departs from kolkata, i had almost 5 hrs in my hand and had nothing to do. I already checked out from my hotel. So I did some street shot in Sealdah rail station.
The boy in this picture is a day laborer. He is 20 maybe something more or less and living a nomadic life. I was about to talk with this boy but unluckily rail authority called me and asked me to not to take photograph in this area.
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Laborers working in Chouwara leather tannery in the Fes El Bali Medina. Fez is famous for its leather goods
Taken @Fez El Bali, Morocco, North Africa.
of working a job for the Harder Silo Company. I was hired on as a laborer for this company back in my late teen's, with no money and no car at the time, I needed a job that would offer me transportation to and from the work site. As a favor to my older brother, they agreed. Being talked up by my brother as "young and dumb and strong as a bull" (all true), they knew that I would be a good worker. The very next morning I was picked up by a surly, cigar chomping man that had worn hands the size of an old baseball mitt. Speaking in broken English and Italian, we drove off in a diesel-powered Ford flatbed truck, loaded with concrete silo blocks and a whole bunch of curved metal. The only thing that kept me from throwing-up, (from breathing in cigar and diesel fumes) was that I had to concentrate on what the hell he was trying say and trying to get a rock station on the AM radio.
We arrived at a farm very similar to the one pictured. We scouted out the needed repairs on one large silo, an 80-footer! After unloading the needed supplies, I was told to take a couple of wrenches, climb to the top of the silo, unbolt the metal chute that surrounds the ladder, (that I will climbing), and literally kick it off, as it needed to be replaced with a new one. Ok...so I climbed, testing each and every rusty rung on the way up. I climbed to the top in darkness with only the splattering of light coming through the rusted-out sections of the old chute. Without any safety gear on, wrenches in my pocket, and small flashlight in my mouth, (this is where "young and dumb", and "PRE-OHSA" is defined), I started to unbolt the sections of the chute. Done with the first one, I kicked it like mule and sent it sailing. Daylight opened up, and the view was awesome, despite the man bitching down below in Italian, it was rather fun. Hay, I did what I was told! As I worked my way down, the winds started to pick up and then I got thinking...what if I slipped and fell and got sliced in half by falling on the next piece of metal below. Ouch. The good time started to fade. I made it to the bottom, completely revealing the ladder that went to the top of the silo. Anthony was just about done with assembling the new 60-foot chute, and I was told to climb back to the top with a block and tackle so to hoist this chute up. I mimicked him in Italian and asked if he had ever flown a kite...he said no.
Back on the ground we readied the chute with rope, connected it to the block and tackle, and started to pull. Lift and pull, lift and pull we did. The winds started to carry this 60-foot razor blade from side to side as we got it off the ground. It was hard to keep it from sailing about, it was totally out of control, even with an anchor rope attached. We got it to the top, despite it flailing about, and back up I go, to start bolting the new chute in place. That was NOT fun. Flashlight back in my mouth, nuts and bolts in my front pants pockets, wrenches in my back pockets, one arm weaved through a ladder rung, while the other tried to steady and lineup bolt holes. Not easy when the wind blows.
Well, we got R' done. I never dropped a wrench, I did lose a few bolts and some nuts, I know for sure that I lost my nerve to do this job.
The next morning Anothony sits in that Ford flatbed outside of my house, chomping his cigar and breathing in diesel fumes, waiting and waiting...and waiting.
518. Pentax and Tamron. PS, most silos have a mental chute over the ladder to protect the ladder itself, and the worker too!
Laborers unload charcoal from a barge in Dhaka. They are literally paid a piece rate for each load of charcoal they carry on their heads to the waiting truck. When they dump the charcoal into the bed of the truck, another worker hands them a small plastic token that they collect as they head back to the barge to carry more charcoal. At the end of the day the tokens are counted and redeemed for cash. The same compensation scheme is used for other types of labor on the riverside such as unloading fruits and vegetables.
Laborers working in Chouwara leather tannery in the Fes El Bali Medina. Fez is famous for its leather goods
Taken @Fez El Bali, Morocco, North Africa.
Between weekday work train duties on the former New Haven shore line, an Amtrak RS3 spends the weekend next to the Thames River in New London, Connecticut. The view is from the Fishers Island ferry slip.
Within the walls of Black Canyon on either side of Hoover Dam, the Colorado River was diverted around the dam site through four 50-foot-diameter tunnels. The tunnels, with a total combined length of 15,946 feet, or about three miles, were excavated to 56 feet and lined with three feet (300,000 cubic yards) of concrete. They could carry over 200,000 cubic feet - more than 1.5 million gallons - of water per second! The river was first diverted through the two Arizona tunnels on November 14, 1932. After being used for river diversion, the inner tunnels were plugged with concrete approximately one-third their length below the canyon wall inlets, and the outer tunnels were plugged approximately halfway. The two inner tunnels now contain 30-foot-diameter steel pipes (also called penstocks and seen in the photograph above) which connect the intake towers in the reservoir with the powerplant and canyon wall outlet works. The downstream halves of the two outer tunnels are used for spillway outlets.
Throughout these tunnels, forty-four thousand tons of steel were formed and welded into 14,800 feet of pipe varying from 8 1/2 to 30 feet in diameter. Each length of the largest pipe - 12 feet long, 30 feet in diameter, and 2 3/4 inches thick - was made from 3 steel plates, of such weight that only two plates could be shipped from the steel mill to the fabricating plant on one railroad car. Two such lengths of pipe welded together make one section weighing approximately 135 tons or, at intersections with the penstocks, as much as 186 tons.
At the time of the construction of Hoover Dam (started in 1931 and completed in 1936), the contractor was given a time frame of 7 years to complete all work or face penalties for any time used beyond this limit. In order to fulfill this requirement set by the U.S. government, thousands of job-seekers converged around Boulder City, building makeshift camps. Employment peaked at 5,251 in July 1934. Men came and went, with the total reaching over 21,000 laborers performing work on the dam. The lowest wage was 50 cents an hour, and the highest was $1.25. The average for all of the workers at the dam was about 62.5 cents an hour. These men worked thousands of hours to make this dream a reality for the United States. And, these are the people that should be celebrated on Labor Day...a federal holiday to honor and recognize the American labor movement and the works and contributions of laborers to the development and achievements of the United States. Thank you for your contributions to building America...
And...for all its history and contributions to engineering & the U.S. labor movement, Hoover Dam has been included on ASCE's List of Historic Civil Engineering Landmark, the National Register of Historic Places, and is a National Historic Landmark.
Technical Information (or Nerdy Stuff):
Camera - Nikon D7200 (handheld)
Lens – Nikkor 18-300mm Zoom
ISO – 1250
Aperture – f/7.1
Exposure – 1/2 second
Focal Length – 38mm
The original RAW file was processed with Adobe Camera Raw and final adjustments were made with Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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Coal laborers navigate the gangway as they unload charcoal from a barge. It's not obvious from the image, but those planks are set 20-25 feet above the rocky shore below. I walked it to get this image, and believe me it is not for the faint of heart, as the planks flex with each step. These workers walk it wearing flip flops while balancing a load of charcoal on their heads. I even saw one woman holding up a cellphone to her ear while carrying a load on her head and walking the planks!
The Harvest Is Plentiful, the Laborers Few
35 And Jesus went throughout all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction. 36 oWhen he saw the crowds, phe had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. 37 Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; 38 therefore spray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to tsend out laborers into his harvest.”
Salt laborer working in a salt field. Worker separating salt from water.Bangladeshi salt factory that relies almost entirely on manual labour where child labor is a common seen!
On the way from Roche Plate to Marla.
Auf dem Weg von Roche Plate nach Marla.
The Cirque de Mafate is a caldera on Réunion Island (France; located in the Indian Ocean). It was formed from the collapse of the large shield volcano the Piton des Neiges.
The very remote and inaccessible cirque was settled in the 19th century by maroon slaves (i.e. slaves who had escaped from their masters), then later by poor white laborers. It owes its name to one maroon leader.
The cirque is entirely enclosed by mountains, especially tall cliffs, known as remparts, save for the sole river exiting, the Rivière des Galets ("river of the pebbles"). Inside the cirque, there are considerable declivities. The îlets are pieces of more-or-less flat lands, on which the hamlets are located.
The name "Mafate" comes from the Malagasy word "Mahafaty", which means lethal, an allusion to the difficulty for accessing the Cirque.
The cirque has one village, La Nouvelle, and several hamlets: Marla, Roche-Plate, the Îlet-aux-Orangers, etc.
The Cirque is entirely public property, managed by the Forestry service, from which the inhabitants rent inexpensive concessions.
There is no main electrical supply. Inhabitants thus produce their own electricity using solar panels (with battery storage), and occasionally diesel generators. However, fuel for the latter must be brought by helicopter at high cost. Because of the reduced available power supply, inhabitants systematically use low-consumption (fluorescent) light bulbs.
Similarly, all inhabitants use solar water heaters. These can be supplemented by gas-powered heaters — but gas canisters must also be brought by helicopter.
La Nouvelle and hamlets have grocery stores where staples can be bought from. Typically, these stores also provide some limited bar and restaurant services (hot coffee and local fast food, such as samosas).
Many inhabitants have opened gîtes (dormitories, WC and showers) where hikers can stay for the night, and often dine, for a fee.
La Nouvelle and several of the hamlets have elementary schools. In 2005, the school at Marla reopened with 6 pupils after being closed for an insufficient number of schoolchildren. There are no secondary nor higher education facilities.
There are several dispensaries between which a few nurses rotate, as well as scheduled visits of a physician, but no permanent health care facilities. All emergencies have to be evacuated by helicopter. There is no Gendarmerie station
One originality of Mafate is that there are no roads. Because of this, it is a major attraction for hikers willing to experience some unspoiled nature, while still benefiting from grocery stores and other amenities. For this reason, with the impending creation of a national park on the heights of Réunion, it seems very unlikely that roads would be ever built.
All access, including for supplies, is by foot or helicopter. There are a number of footpaths for accessing the cirque, among which:
By the Col des Bœufs ("pass of the oxen"), from the Cirque de Salazie, leading to La Nouvelle. This way is the easiest, since there is a forestry road leading to parking lots at the pass.
By the Col du Taïbit from the Cirque de Cilaos.
By the Canalisation des Orangers on the heights of Saint Paul (Réunion).
(Wikipedia)
Der Cirque de Mafate im französischen Übersee-Département Réunion ist die nordwestliche Caldera des Piton des Neiges. Der Talkessel, der größtenteils auf dem Gemeindegebiet von La Possession liegt, erstreckt sich in Nord-Süd-Richtung über etwa zehn Kilometer und in Ost-West-Richtung über etwa fünf Kilometer. Vom Gipfel Grand Bénare fallen die fast senkrechten Felswände über rund 1600 m ab. Der Cirque de Mafate ist die isolierteste Caldera in der Region, die nur zu Fuß oder per Hubschrauber zu erreichen ist. Die Versorgung der lokalen Ortschaften erfolgt heute hauptsächlich durch Hubschrauber, bis vor wenigen Jahren noch in hohen Maße zu Fuß, meistens über den Pass Col des Bœufs (1956 m), der auf einer gut ausgebauten Forststraße vom Cirque de Salazie erreicht werden kann.
Seit August 2010 gehören neben dem Cirque de Mafate auch noch der Cirque de Salazie, der Cirque de Cilaos und der alles überragende Vulkan Piton des Neiges, die alle im Nationalpark Réunion liegen, unter dem Titel Pitons, cirques et remparts de l’île de La Réunion (dt: Gipfel, Talkessel und Steilhänge der Insel Réunion) zum UNESCO-Weltnaturerbe.
(Wikipedia)
Laborers working in Chouwara leather tannery in the Fes El Bali Medina. Fez is famous for its leather goods
Taken @Fez El Bali, Morocco, North Africa.
Tony is 67-years-old. His social security retirement is so small that he has to take odd, and most of the time nasty back breaking jobs, just to keep a roof above his head, and some food on the table.
In the United States, abject poverty during the so called "golden years" is very common especially in the heartland and the rust belt.