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Newsboys of the Early 1900s

Eddie and Carmine Zizza, twelve year old twins who make $1.50 a day. They belong to a family of 13 children many of them newsboys. Newark, N.J. - August 1st, 1924. Location: Newark, New Jersey.

Women Bus Workers and Taxi Drivers in Salt Lake City, Nov 1942

Training women to operate buses and taxicabs

Trading in downtown Campton, KY - Sept 1940

Farmers and townspeople in center of town on Court Day, Compton i.e. Campton, Ky.

The Native Americans of The Wild West Show, 1898

Pea Farming in California, 1936-1939

The pea fields of the California coast

Soprano Anna Fitziu at Work and Play

Soprano Anna Fitziu at Work and Play

An Afternoon at Coney Island, NY in 1910

"Razzle Dazzle" ride at Coney Island N.Y.

FSA/OWI Color Transparencies

Photographers working for the U.S. government's Farm Security Administration (FSA) and later the Office of War Information (OWI) between 1939 and 1944 made approximately 1,600 color photographs tha...

Launch of USS Tennessee, 1919

Launch of USS Tennessee, Brooklyn Navy Yard

Portraits of African American Men - 1900 Paris Exposition

Young African American man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right

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