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To operate this machine (which bores a large hole in the spade handle) the boy has to throw his whole weight onto the lever which pushes the handle (and himself) up against the unprotected borer. A slip might easily result fatally. Boy earns $1.65 a…

This photograph, taken by Lewis Hines, depicts a group of child workers at a cotton mill in North Carolina in 1912. It is from The Treasures of the Library of Congress. In a grander sense, this photograph represents child labor as commonality during…

An original magazine advertisement from 1890 depicting an image of Uncle Sam with Prohibition at the door. This image can now be found in the Advertising Archives.

Propaganda that promises: Acres of untaken Government Land. Railroad & private land for a million farmers. A climate for health and wealth. (All written on the poster)

This picture from the Library of Congress shows the conditions workers had to face inside factories and the unsanitary treatment of meat products.

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"If we could only keep the post office, mother, we should be all right," said Herbert Carr, as he and his mother sat together in the little sitting room of the plain cottage which the two had occupied ever since he was a boy of five. "Yes, Herbert,…