Six Hi-Res Photos of Americans at Work: 1905. Men posing with team of horses hauling giant spruce log 30 feet in circumference. Cascade Mountains, Washington; Norfolk, Virginia, circa 1905. "Weighing cotton on the docks."; January 1911. Boys working

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Six Hi-Res Photos of Americans at Work: 1905. Men posing with team of horses hauling giant spruce log 30 feet in circumference. Cascade Mountains, Washington; Norfolk, Virginia, circa 1905. "Weighing cotton on the docks."; January 1911. Boys working in the #9 breaker of the Pennsylvania Coal Co. mine; June 1940. "La Delta Project. Driver of combine threshing oats. Thomastown, Louisiana."; July 1941. Girl in picket line. Union picketing for increase of $8 weekly wage; July 1941. "Stockyard workers during lunch hour. Chicago, Illinois."

1905. "Men posing with team of horses hauling giant spruce log 30 feet in circumference. Cascade Mountains, Washington."

Shorpy Historical Picture Archive :: Big Log: 1905 high-resolution photo

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Norfolk, Virginia, circa 1905. "Weighing cotton on the docks."

Shorpy Historical Picture Archive :: The Cotton Docks: 1905 high-resolution photo

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January 1911. Boys working in the #9 breaker of the Pennsylvania Coal Co. mine at Hughestown Borough near Pittston, Pennsylvania.

January 1911. Boys working in the #9 breaker of the Pennsylvania Coal Co. mine at Hughestown Borough near Pittston, Pennsylvania. In this group are Sam Belloma of  142 Panama St.Pine Street and Angelo Ross of 142 Panama Street

"While the draft age was 21, there were plenty of examples of younger draftees due to fibbing about the age. Then plenty of time to regret it after the fact.

My great-grand uncle Emmitt went into the Army when he was 22, and died the next year, of the Spanish Flu. They buried him the next day in a trench, with many others. This trench has no marker, no real idea where it is."

Shorpy Historical Picture Archive :: No. 9 Breaker: 1911 high-resolution photo

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June 1940. "La Delta Project. Driver of combine threshing oats. Thomastown, Louisiana."

Shorpy Historical Picture Archive :: Delta Thresher: 1940 high-resolution photo

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July 1941. Girl in picket line. Union picketing for increase of $8 weekly wage. Mid-City Realty Company, South Chicago, Illinois

Shorpy Historical Picture Archive :: Support the Strike: 1941 high-resolution photo

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July 1941. "Stockyard workers during lunch hour. Chicago, Illinois."

Shorpy Historical Picture Archive :: The Lunch Crowd: 1941 high-resolution photo

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