![[Plat of a survey for William Hughes, Jr. of 460 acres in Frederick County, Va. on the Cacapon River].](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTAvMDcvcGxhdC1vZi1hLXN1cnZleS1mb3Itd2lsbGlhbS1odWdoZXMtanItb2YtNDYwLWFjcmVzLWluLWZyZWRlcmljay1jb3VudHktdmEtMDNiMmY0LTEwMjQuanBn/40/46/webp "[Plat of a survey for William Hughes, Jr. of 460 acres in Frederick County, Va. on the Cacapon River].")
[Plat of a survey for William Hughes, Jr. of 460 acres in Frederick Co...
Title from Lawrence Martin's The George Washington Atlas. 1932. Survey plot is located either in Hampshire County or Morgan County, W. Va. Handwritten on verso: William Hughes Junr., plat for 460 acres, 1753,... More
Advertisement. To be sold by public vendue, on Thursday the 14th of Ap...
Imprint 2.; Not in Evans/.; On verso: 1768, Advertisement for the Sale of Sword's Land. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. ... More
![A Plan of London on the Same Scale as that of Paris : In order to as certair the Difference of the Extent of these two Rivals, the Abbe de la Grives Plan of Paris, & that of London by J. Rocque have been divided into equal Squares where London Contains 39, and Paris but 29, So that the Superficie of London is to that of Paris as 39 to 29 or as 5455 Acres to 4028, there are exceeds Paris, bx 1472 Acves, the farmer being a 1/2 square Miles & Pais only 6 1/3 by J. Rocque Chorographe to his Maesty = Plan de Londres &C. Sur la même Echelle que Celui de Paris : afin de constater la Difference en Grandeur de ces deux Rivals on a devise Le Plan de Paris par Mr. l'Abbe de la Grivem, et, celui de Londres par J. Rocque, par desquarré dona Londres en Continent 39 & Paris 29 Chaquequarre etant de 168440 Toesas en & superficie, ce qui donne 7339 Arpens pour la sourface de, Londres, et 5416 pour celle de Paris les surplus pour Londres et done de 1923 Arpens Por J. Rocke Chorographe de Botannique ; R. Parr Sculp [mapa]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn8/L3Bob3RvLzE3NjkvMTIvMzEvYS1wbGFuLW9mLWxvbmRvbi1vbi10aGUtc2FtZS1zY2FsZS1hcy10aGF0LW9mLXBhcmlzLWluLW9yZGVyLXRvLWFzLWNlcnRhaXItOWI2ZjVkLTEwMjQuanBn/40/28/webp "A Plan of London on the Same Scale as that of Paris : In order to as certair the Difference of the Extent of these two Rivals, the Abbe de la Grives Plan of Paris, & that of London by J. Rocque have been divided into equal Squares where London Contains 39, and Paris but 29, So that the Superficie of London is to that of Paris as 39 to 29 or as 5455 Acres to 4028, there are exceeds Paris, bx 1472 Acves, the farmer being a 1/2 square Miles & Pais only 6 1/3 by J. Rocque Chorographe to his Maesty = Plan de Londres &C. Sur la même Echelle que Celui de Paris : afin de constater la Difference en Grandeur de ces deux Rivals on a devise Le Plan de Paris par Mr. l'Abbe de la Grivem, et, celui de Londres par J. Rocque, par desquarré dona Londres en Continent 39 & Paris 29 Chaquequarre etant de 168440 Toesas en & superficie, ce qui donne 7339 Arpens pour la sourface de, Londres, et 5416 pour celle de Paris les surplus pour Londres et done de 1923 Arpens Por J. Rocke Chorographe de Botannique ; R. Parr Sculp [mapa]")
A Plan of London on the Same Scale as that of Paris : In order to as c...
Comprende al actual condado de Gran Londres
![[Plat of a survey of 2,314 acres of land, being the first large bottom on the east side of the Ohio River, 3 or 4 miles below the mouth, a portion of which is divided into 17 lots]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTEvMDUvcGxhdC1vZi1hLXN1cnZleS1vZi0yMzE0LWFjcmVzLW9mLWxhbmQtYmVpbmctdGhlLWZpcnN0LWxhcmdlLWJvdHRvbS1vbi10aGUtNDBjZjJiLTEwMjQuanBn/40/65/webp "[Plat of a survey of 2,314 acres of land, being the first large bottom on the east side of the Ohio River, 3 or 4 miles below the mouth, a portion of which is divided into 17 lots]")
[Plat of a survey of 2,314 acres of land, being the first large bottom...
Scale ca. 1:20,000. Title from Lawrence Martin's The George Washington atlas. 1932. Cover title: George Washington; survey of land in Ohio, a grant from the Colony of Virginia to Washington for military service... More
![Copy of a survey return'd by Mr. Sam Lewis, surveyor of Botetourt Coun[t]y. Surveyed for George Washington 2950 acres of land (by virtue of a warrant for 5,000 acres granted by His Excellency the Governor to said Washington agreeable to His Majesty proclamatiom issued in the year 1763) lying in the county of Botetourt on the n.e. side of the Great Kanhaway about a mile and half above the mouth of Cole River, joining the upper end of the Poketillico survey ... Novemr. 6th, 1774.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTEvMjMvY29weS1vZi1hLXN1cnZleS1yZXR1cm5kLWJ5LW1yLXNhbS1sZXdpcy1zdXJ2ZXlvci1vZi1ib3RldG91cnQtY291bnR5LXN1cnZleWVkLWNmNjkwNi0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/63/webp "Copy of a survey return'd by Mr. Sam Lewis, surveyor of Botetourt Coun[t]y. Surveyed for George Washington 2950 acres of land (by virtue of a warrant for 5,000 acres granted by His Excellency the Governor to said Washington agreeable to His Majesty proclamatiom issued in the year 1763) lying in the county of Botetourt on the n.e. side of the Great Kanhaway about a mile and half above the mouth of Cole River, joining the upper end of the Poketillico survey ... Novemr. 6th, 1774.")
Copy of a survey return'd by Mr. Sam Lewis, surveyor of Botetourt Coun...
Scale not given. Title from certificate mounted below map. Manuscript, pen-and-ink. Imperfect: Deteriorated along old fold lines. Oriented with north to the right. Has watermark. LC Maps of North America, 1750-... More
A Map of the lands ceded by the Cherokee Indians to the State of South...
Scale ca. 1:253,440. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Prime meridian: Charleston. Relief shown by hachures. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1522 Available also through the Library of Congress Web si... More
Plan of a tract of land (marked in the General Plan no. 7), containing...
Covers part of Harrison County (W.Va.) "Survey'd for Sam'l Young, Ase'e of William Jones, 5000 Acres of Land, in Harrison County, on a Land Office Treasury Warrant, no. 20,98, dated the 20th Day of October 1783... More
For sale. The quantity of 389,565 acres of farm lands, in sixty adjoin...
North Carolina- lands for sale.; On verso: 09-83-443.20. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Po... More
Plan of 59 different tracts of land (of 1000 acres each) containing in...
Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no. 2007-36
Form on an application and certificates for taking up lands in the old...
Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 151, Folder 17a.
Compagnie de colonisation Americaine. Action de 100 acres de terres da...
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A sketch of the northern part of the "Million Acres" on the Kennebec R...
Partial cadastral map showing timber lots (tinted yellow), lot numbers, and lot acreages. Covers a portion of the Kennebec River region of Maine that is centered on the confluence of the Kennebec and Dead River... More
A sketch of the north part of the Kennebec Million Acres.
Partial cadastral map showing timber lots and lot acreages. Covers a portion of the Kennebec River region of Maine that is centered on the confluence of the Kennebec and Dead Rivers. Date and authorship from a ... More
A copy of ... the fourth and fifth ranges of townships in the Kennebec...
Covers a portion of the Kennebec River region of Maine that is centered on the confluence of the Kennebec and Dead Rivers. Relief shown by hachures. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermarks. Available also th... More
![A lottery. 1 prize of 400 acres of land, being that part of my dwelling-plantation, which includes my dwelling-house ... Peregrine Fitzhugh [n. d.].](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTUvMTEvMjUvYS1sb3R0ZXJ5LTEtcHJpemUtb2YtNDAwLWFjcmVzLW9mLWxhbmQtYmVpbmctdGhhdC1wYXJ0LW9mLW15LWR3ZWxsaW5nLXBsYW50YXRpb24tMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/61/webp "A lottery. 1 prize of 400 acres of land, being that part of my dwelling-plantation, which includes my dwelling-house ... Peregrine Fitzhugh [n. d.].")
A lottery. 1 prize of 400 acres of land, being that part of my dwellin...
Lotteries. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 32, Folder 31.
Map of Wayne County, Michigan : exhibiting the names of the original p...
"Entered according to Act of Congress in the Clerk's Office of the United States Court for the District of Michigan at Detroit this day of January 1855 by John Farmer of said district as author and proprietor."... More
Map of Hamilton County, Ohio : exhibiting th various divisions and sub...
LC Land ownership maps, 633 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes property tax statistical table, insets of Madisonville, Harrison, Sharon, Storrs Township, Mill Cr... More
Map of Floyd County, Indiana : showing the townships sections division...
"Entered according to the Act of Congress in the year 1859 by P. O'Beinre in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York." LC Land ownership maps, 144 Incl... More
Battery no. 9 (near the Brooke turnpike) : total contents 8 91/100 acr...
Public domain scan of a vintage map, plan, atlas, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.
Battery no. 6 on Mechanicsville Turnpike : total contents 10 69/100 ac...
Public domain scan of a vintage map, plan, atlas, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.
Battery no. 10 (near the new fair grounds) : total 14 85/100 acres.
Public domain scan of a plan, map, diagram, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.
Survey of the President, Porcupine, and Redfield Petroleum Co.'s lands...
Hand col. to distinguish the land tracts owned by the 3 oil companies. Also shows oil wells (1 of which is dated "Sep't 1st 1864"), warranty tract numbers, names of landowners of adjacent tracts, and proposed r... More
Map of Dr. Dellinger's mill property with 153 acres of land showing pr...
Shows property in Augusta County, Virginia, near Middle River and names of some residents. Relief shown by hachures. Pen-and-ink and watercolor on cloth. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), H312 Available also through... More
A topographical map of the Elizabeth Furnace iron property, Augusta Co...
Relief shown by hachures. Pen-and-ink and pencil (some col.) on brown paper, mounted on cloth. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), H237 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image. Insets: ... More
Map of Gauly Farm, 1722 acres. - Public domain old map
Shows the farm near the mouth of New River, at Gauley, Fayette County, West Virginia and names of some residents. Pen-and-ink on tracing paper, mounted on cloth. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), H321 Available also... More
Sketch map showing location of 5,007 acres of Elkhorn Fork, W. Va. coa...
Shows property in McDowell County, West Virginia and names of some residents. Pen-and-ink on brown paper, mounted on cloth. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), H323 Available also through the Library of Congress web s... More
Map of 360 acres of land, lying in Bath County, Va., the property of W...
Pen-and-ink and watercolor, mounted on cloth. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), H313 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image. Includes inset of map entitled: Map showing the location ... More
![Millions of acres. Iowa and Nebraska. Land for sale on 10 years credit by the Burlington & Missouri River R. R. Co. at 6 per ct interest and low prices ... Buffalo. N. Y. Commercial advertiser printing house [1872].](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMDkvMDUvbWlsbGlvbnMtb2YtYWNyZXMtaW93YS1hbmQtbmVicmFza2EtbGFuZC1mb3Itc2FsZS1vbi0xMC15ZWFycy1jcmVkaXQtYnktdGhlLTdjMDY4ZC0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/53/webp "Millions of acres. Iowa and Nebraska. Land for sale on 10 years credit by the Burlington & Missouri River R. R. Co. at 6 per ct interest and low prices ... Buffalo. N. Y. Commercial advertiser printing house [1872].")
Millions of acres. Iowa and Nebraska. Land for sale on 10 years credit...
Transportation. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 134, Folder 13.
A topographical map of the lands of the Cabin Creek Coal Co. of W. Vir...
Shows names of some residents. Relief shown by form lines. Oriented with north to bottom. On verso obscured by mounting: Cabin Creek coal [sic] maps. Pen-and-ink and pencil (some col.), mounted on cloth. LC Civ... More
Map of the "Slaughter's Creek" coal & timber lands, 2,907 acres, Kanaw...
Relief shown by form lines. Pen-and-ink and pencil (some col.) with a pasted correction square in lower right corner, mounted on cloth. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), H263 Available also through the Library of Co... More
Proposed site for World's Fair in 1883 : between 110th and 125th Stree...
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
![[Survey of a tract of 9,138 acres of coal lands on the New River in Raleigh County, West Virginia, west of Quinnimont].](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE4ODAvMDEvMDEvc3VydmV5LW9mLWEtdHJhY3Qtb2YtOTEzOC1hY3Jlcy1vZi1jb2FsLWxhbmRzLW9uLXRoZS1uZXctcml2ZXItaW4tcmFsZWlnaC1jb3VudHktMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/28/webp "[Survey of a tract of 9,138 acres of coal lands on the New River in Raleigh County, West Virginia, west of Quinnimont].")
[Survey of a tract of 9,138 acres of coal lands on the New River in Ra...
Public domain scan of a architecture diagram, settlement map, plan, or drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.
Map of "Big Hill" iron lands, 592 1/2 acres, Botetourt Co., Virginia /
Relief shown by hachures. Pen-and-ink and pencil over an ink grid on lined paper, mounted on cloth. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), H232 In pencil on verso: 340. Available also through the Library of Congress web ... More
Topographic map of the Vesuvius Furnace Iron Estate, Rockbridge Co., V...
Shows names of some residents. Relief shown by form lines. Pen-and-ink on tracing linen, mounted on cloth. In ink in upper right corner: IV. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), H249 Includes inset of "Geological secti... More
Map of Floyd County, Indiana : showing townships, ranges, sections & f...
Relief shown by hachures. Includes note, township information, and advertisements. LC Land ownership maps, 145 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
"Kennedy" iron lands, 4,500 acres : / during American Civil War
Shows mountains in the southern portion of Augusta County, Virginia. Pen-and-ink and pencil on tracing linen, mounted on cloth. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), H241 Includes "Section of Kennedy Mn." In pencil on b... More
Map of the N.C. Morse patent of eighty-six thousand acres of coal, tim...
General maps not showing coal mines or timber lands. Pen-and-ink on brown paper, mounted on cloth. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), H230 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image. Incl... More
How the public domain has been squandered, map showing the 139,403,026...
America Transformed: Railroad infrastructure expanded from 31,000 miles in 1860 to 130,000 miles by the 1890s. To subsidize construction, the U.S. government gave over 140 million acres of public land to railro... More
How the public domain has been squandered, map showing the 139,403,026...
On sheet below map "We believe that the public lands ought, as far as possible, to be kept as homesteads for actual settlers; that all unearned lands heretofore improvidently granted to railroad corporations by... More
Map showing location of the "Gallego" forty thousand acres of coal and...
Pen-and-ink on tracing linen, mounted on cloth. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), H255 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image. In pencil on verso: 183.
Broad Acres, 19th century - Public domain dedication. Metropolitan Mus...
Edward Gay (1837–1928) Public domain photograph of 19th-century painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Map of 11,000 acres of iron and coal lands in Wythe Co., Va. /
General map, does not give mining information. Pen-and-ink, watercolor and pencil, mounted on cloth. Title from verso partially obscured by mounting. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), H250 Available also through the... More
![[The Georgia Negro] Acres of land owned by Negroes in Georgia.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTEvMTYvdGhlLWdlb3JnaWEtbmVncm8tYWNyZXMtb2YtbGFuZC1vd25lZC1ieS1uZWdyb2VzLWluLWdlb3JnaWEtNWEyNmU4LTEwMjQuanBn/40/50/webp "[The Georgia Negro] Acres of land owned by Negroes in Georgia.")
[The Georgia Negro] Acres of land owned by Negroes in Georgia.
Bar graph shows the amount of land owned by African Americans in Georgia from 1874 to 1899. Title from LOT 11931, no. 1; part title from item. Chart prepared by Du Bois for the Negro Exhibit of the American Sec... More
Harvesting grain with reapers that cut 200 acres daily
Photograph shows two panoramic views of reapers havesting grain fields in the Deering vicinity of Beach, North Dakota. Copyright Chas. Welch. No. 1191.
C. O. and G. Railroad, Traverse additional 20 Acres at Haileyville Ind...
Railroad Right of Way Maps
Platt Historic District - National Parks Gallery
Waterfall It was not until 1901, as the town began to be surveyed and platted, that the notion of reserving the springs from development arose in a serious manner. Senator Orville Platt took up the idea and un... More
Palace of Machinery, the Exposition home of force and power, covering ...
H55888 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 5806. Public domain photograph of building, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Agriculture Building, (covering 23 acres), showing floral clock, World...
H49115 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph of building, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Palace of Transportation, covering 16 acres the 2nd largest of exposit...
H49921 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 5739. Public domain photograph of monument, historic place, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The Palace of Varied Industries, a magnificent building covering 14 ac...
H51725 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 5749. Public domain photograph of a landmark building, world heritage site, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Transportation Building covering 15.6 acres, second in size at the exp...
H60542 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 8550. Public domain photograph of a landmark building, world heritage site, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Great Manufactures Building (covering 14.5 acres) looking across Lower...
H61016 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 8535. Public domain photograph of a landmark building, world heritage site, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
![Map showing the locations of the battlefields of Fredericksburg, Hamilton's Crossing, Chancellorsville, Salem Church, Wilderness, [and] Spotsylvania, and also showing the boundaries of the battlefield park surveys of 6556 acres.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTAvMTAvbWFwLXNob3dpbmctdGhlLWxvY2F0aW9ucy1vZi10aGUtYmF0dGxlZmllbGRzLW9mLWZyZWRlcmlja3NidXJnLWhhbWlsdG9ucy1jcm9zc2luZy0wZmRhNWYtMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/28/webp "Map showing the locations of the battlefields of Fredericksburg, Hamilton's Crossing, Chancellorsville, Salem Church, Wilderness, [and] Spotsylvania, and also showing the boundaries of the battlefield park surveys of 6556 acres.")
Map showing the locations of the battlefields of Fredericksburg, Hamil...
Scale ca. 1:90,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 553 Accompanied by a pamphlet entitled Map of the Six Battlefields: Fredericksburg, Hamilton's Crossing, Chancellorsville, Salem Church, Spotsylvania, Wilderness... More
Plowing a 300 acre field with 8 horse team, at the rate of 8 acres per...
Stereo copyrighted by Keystone View Co. No. 14175. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; Wash. Adams Co. 1907; Farm crops Wheat; Geogr.; Shelf.
Photograph of Part of a Tract of About 20 Acres in Chisholm, Minnesota
Original caption: Part of tract of about 20 acres in village limits covered with tops and slashings which made destruction of village possible. Chisholm, Minn. Historic Photographs
Cutting 100 acres a day in E. A. Crommett's 1500 acre flax field, Warw...
Photograph shows steam tractor pulling five reapers through a flax field; men handling both steam tractor and reapers. Photo by A. E. Anderson. Copyright registration title: Cutting 100 acres of flax a day.
Acres and acres of empty oyster shells. Piles 15 deep in places. Shell...
Public domain image of a train station in Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
James Thomas Witness Testimony Jones 002
QUESTION 5. Describe the land embraced in above entry by legal subdivisions, showing fully the character of same, and kind and amount of timber, if any. ANSWER [4 columns with headings] Subdivision, Acres Cult... More
The Yelverton Family. Ten in the family. Live in a six-room house, "Th...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a school, preschool, children, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Amended Location Map of Sallisaw, McAlester and Southern Ry., Lands Re...
Railroad Right of Way Maps
Five year old Willie Hesse. Picks fifteen pounds of cotton a day. Pare...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer worker, 20th-century dust bowl, great depression era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Part of a family of Louis Benkendorfer a Bohemian farmer who owns this...
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James Thomas Witness Testimony Jackson 002
QUESTION 5. Describe the land embraced in above entry by legal subdivisions, showing fully the character of same, and kind and amount of timber, if any. ANSWER [4 columns with headings] Subdivision, Acres Cult... More
A dilapidated "renters" home near West. The Tripp farm. Five in the fa...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3646. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More
![Eddie Marek a six year old cotton picker who picks fifty pounds a day. His sister thirteen years old picks one hundred pounds. Father and mother and some negroes also pick. A frugal Bohemian family. Own the farm of two hundred acres. Location: Houston [vicinity], Texas.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MTMvMDEvMDEvZWRkaWUtbWFyZWstYS1zaXgteWVhci1vbGQtY290dG9uLXBpY2tlci13aG8tcGlja3MtZmlmdHktcG91bmRzLWEtZGF5LWhpcy1zaXN0ZXItMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/27/webp "Eddie Marek a six year old cotton picker who picks fifty pounds a day. His sister thirteen years old picks one hundred pounds. Father and mother and some negroes also pick. A frugal Bohemian family. Own the farm of two hundred acres. Location: Houston [vicinity], Texas.")
Eddie Marek a six year old cotton picker who picks fifty pounds a day....
Picryl description: Public domain image of a farm, farmer, agriculture, early 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Oliver Jackson WITNESS TESTIMONY Brown 002
QUESTION 11. Describe the land embraced in above entry by legal subdivisions, showing fully the character of same, and kind and amount of timber, if any. [columns with headings] Subdivision - Acres cultivable ... More
A dilapidated "renters" home near West. The Tripp farm. Five in the fa...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Oliver Jackson WITNESS TESTIMONY McPherson 002
QUESTION 11. Describe the land embraced in above entry by legal subdivisions, showing fully the character of same, and kind and amount of timber, if any. [columns with headings] Subdivision - Acres cultivable ... More
"Renters." Itinerant Texas farmers who rent a farm for a year or so an...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
![Part of the family of George Padroni, near Sterling, Colo. They have 9 children and some hired help. Only one child in school (see 4042). This is 6 yr. old Lena, who works some too. The 8 yr. old boy pulls and piles beets. 9 and 12 yr. old boys run the pulling machine, (the mother said, "We all got to do all we can.") 11 yr. old girl piles and tops and does housework. 13 yr. old girl piles and tops. Says she hasn't hurt herself with the knife this year, but did last year. The whole family begins work from 5 to 6 A.M. and works until 6 P.M. and after, with time off for dinner. Pedroni has been living here for 20 yrs., owns several hundred acres, about 100 in beets. Is said to be well-to-do. Location: Sterling [vicinity], Colorado / Photo by Hine, Oct. 25/15.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MTUvMDEvMDEvcGFydC1vZi10aGUtZmFtaWx5LW9mLWdlb3JnZS1wYWRyb25pLW5lYXItc3RlcmxpbmctY29sby10aGV5LWhhdmUtOS1jaGlsZHJlbi0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/27/webp "Part of the family of George Padroni, near Sterling, Colo. They have 9 children and some hired help. Only one child in school (see 4042). This is 6 yr. old Lena, who works some too. The 8 yr. old boy pulls and piles beets. 9 and 12 yr. old boys run the pulling machine, (the mother said, \"We all got to do all we can.\") 11 yr. old girl piles and tops and does housework. 13 yr. old girl piles and tops. Says she hasn't hurt herself with the knife this year, but did last year. The whole family begins work from 5 to 6 A.M. and works until 6 P.M. and after, with time off for dinner. Pedroni has been living here for 20 yrs., owns several hundred acres, about 100 in beets. Is said to be well-to-do. Location: Sterling [vicinity], Colorado / Photo by Hine, Oct. 25/15.")
Part of the family of George Padroni, near Sterling, Colo. They have 9...
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![11 year old daughter of Mr. Schneider. She and her 7 year old sister are kept out of school to work in the beets in spite of the fact that the father owns a farm of 250 acres, and he boasted last year that he had made $10,000 from the proceeds of this farm. Location: Fort Morgan [vicinity], Colorado / L.W. Hine.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MTUvMDEvMDEvMTEteWVhci1vbGQtZGF1Z2h0ZXItb2YtbXItc2NobmVpZGVyLXNoZS1hbmQtaGVyLTcteWVhci1vbGQtc2lzdGVyLWFyZS1rZXB0LTEwMjQuanBn/40/67/webp "11 year old daughter of Mr. Schneider. She and her 7 year old sister are kept out of school to work in the beets in spite of the fact that the father owns a farm of 250 acres, and he boasted last year that he had made $10,000 from the proceeds of this farm. Location: Fort Morgan [vicinity], Colorado / L.W. Hine.")
11 year old daughter of Mr. Schneider. She and her 7 year old sister a...
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Mrs. Paul Saunders and her children. They run the farm of over 100 acr...
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Rural Accident. Mr. Stewart is running a farm of 135 acres with the he...
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Carl Brown, eleven years old. He and his father run a farm of 160 acre...
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Families of Henry and John Miller: boy of eleven years, girl of eleven...
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Pulling and Topping Beets. A sample of "Economic Need". Part of the fa...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4018. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More
![[Families of Henry and John Miller: boy of eleven years, girl of eleven and girl of thirteen, hoeing the sugar beets. They have 80 acres in beets, come out here from the town in May and go back late in November. One of the families has been here for five years and owns its home. See Hine Report, Colorado. Beet Workers, July, 1915.] Location: [Colorado]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MTUvMDEvMDEvZmFtaWxpZXMtb2YtaGVucnktYW5kLWpvaG4tbWlsbGVyLWJveS1vZi1lbGV2ZW4teWVhcnMtZ2lybC1vZi1lbGV2ZW4tYW5kLWdpcmwtMS0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/28/webp "[Families of Henry and John Miller: boy of eleven years, girl of eleven and girl of thirteen, hoeing the sugar beets. They have 80 acres in beets, come out here from the town in May and go back late in November. One of the families has been here for five years and owns its home. See Hine Report, Colorado. Beet Workers, July, 1915.] Location: [Colorado]")
[Families of Henry and John Miller: boy of eleven years, girl of eleve...
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![Jake is ten yrs old, Marie is 13, but neither could spell own name. Scheler family, near Sterling. The boy said he had recently stuck the hook into his knee while topping. Six in the family, four work. Another family with them, 2 adults. Working 50 acres of beets. Farm near Sterling. Oct. 23/15. Location: Sterling [vicinity], Colorado / Photo by Hine.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MTUvMDEvMDEvamFrZS1pcy10ZW4teXJzLW9sZC1tYXJpZS1pcy0xMy1idXQtbmVpdGhlci1jb3VsZC1zcGVsbC1vd24tbmFtZS1zY2hlbGVyLWZhbWlseS0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/29/webp "Jake is ten yrs old, Marie is 13, but neither could spell own name. Scheler family, near Sterling. The boy said he had recently stuck the hook into his knee while topping. Six in the family, four work. Another family with them, 2 adults. Working 50 acres of beets. Farm near Sterling. Oct. 23/15. Location: Sterling [vicinity], Colorado / Photo by Hine.")
Jake is ten yrs old, Marie is 13, but neither could spell own name. Sc...
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![Pulling and Topping Beets. A sample of "Economic Need". Part of the family of Jacob Walker, a prosperous beet raiser near Sterling. His 6, 8 & 10 yr. old children are kept out of school and worked, in spite of the fact that he owns 225 acres of land here worth several hundred dollars an acre. Father, mother and seven children work. Walker moved here from Neb[raska] 8 yrs. ago. They work hard and continuously. See also photos 4033-4 and 5. Location: Sterling [vicinity], Colorado / Photo by Hine Oct. 22/15.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MTUvMDEvMDEvcHVsbGluZy1hbmQtdG9wcGluZy1iZWV0cy1hLXNhbXBsZS1vZi1lY29ub21pYy1uZWVkLXBhcnQtb2YtdGhlLWZhbWlseS1vZi1qYWNvYi0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/27/webp "Pulling and Topping Beets. A sample of \"Economic Need\". Part of the family of Jacob Walker, a prosperous beet raiser near Sterling. His 6, 8 & 10 yr. old children are kept out of school and worked, in spite of the fact that he owns 225 acres of land here worth several hundred dollars an acre. Father, mother and seven children work. Walker moved here from Neb[raska] 8 yrs. ago. They work hard and continuously. See also photos 4033-4 and 5. Location: Sterling [vicinity], Colorado / Photo by Hine Oct. 22/15.")
Pulling and Topping Beets. A sample of "Economic Need". Part of the fa...
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Stuart Acres, Marshall, Mich., Panoramic Photograph
J263298 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Corbett & Spencer; May 4, 1915. Copyright claimant's address: Albion & Battle Creek, Mich.
![Plan showing that part of "Onion's Addition to Sweaty Banks" : which was conveyed by Thomas B. Onion to Charles Ridgley, September 12, 1794, and now found to contain about 323 acres of land : clear of the claims of adjoining owners : [western Edgewood, Harford County, Md.] /](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTAvMDcvcGxhbi1zaG93aW5nLXRoYXQtcGFydC1vZi1vbmlvbnMtYWRkaXRpb24tdG8tc3dlYXR5LWJhbmtzLXdoaWNoLXdhcy1jb252ZXllZC03NDBjMjMtMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/53/webp "Plan showing that part of \"Onion's Addition to Sweaty Banks\" : which was conveyed by Thomas B. Onion to Charles Ridgley, September 12, 1794, and now found to contain about 323 acres of land : clear of the claims of adjoining owners : [western Edgewood, Harford County, Md.] /")
Plan showing that part of "Onion's Addition to Sweaty Banks" : which w...
Manuscript land ownership survey map of western portion of Edgewood, Harford County, Md. Shows real-property lines, measurements, orientations, acreages, tract names, and names of landowners. Gift; Kurt J. Kuhn... More
Clarence Masterson Witness Testimony, page 2
Peryle Woodson Final Proof, witness testimony- Clarence Masterson, page 2 Text transcription: QUESTION 11. Describe the land embraced in above entry by legal sub-divisions, showing fully the character of same,... More
Family of W.T. Frakes, Route 5, Lawton, Okla. Mother said 6-year old W...
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H.H. Allison and 2 boys 10 and 12 years old gathering rye. Should be i...
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Harold Oliphant, 11 years old, driving the "double-shovel"--cultivatin...
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Home of Ed Bentley family, Route 2, Hebbardsville. Father is up the ri...
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Robert Steele Witness Testimony, page 2
Peryle Woodson Final Proof, witness testimony- Robert Steele, page 2 Text transcription: QUESTION 11. Describe the land embraced in above entry by legal sub-divisions, showing fully the character of same, and ... More
Willie Welch, 15 years old, R.D. 3, Box 89, Bowling Green, worming tob...
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![[Family of W.T. Frakes, Route 5, Lawton, Okla. Mother said 6-year old Warren picked 41 pounds of cotton yesterday "An I don't make him pick; he picked last year." Had about 20 pounds in his bag. She said Clara, 11 years old, averages 75 pounds a day. Picked 101 pounds yesterday, earning $1.25 (they are picking now for another farmer). She carries 40 pounds in the bag. Velma, 14 years, picks 125 pounds. Has picked over 200 pounds in a day. Children go to Flower Mound School, District 48 while living here, but they are itinerant, renting a small farm of 10 acres now. "We move about a good deal" mother said.] Location: [Comanche County, Oklahoma] / Lewis W. Hine.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MTYvMDEvMDEvZmFtaWx5LW9mLXd0LWZyYWtlcy1yb3V0ZS01LWxhd3Rvbi1va2xhLW1vdGhlci1zYWlkLTYteWVhci1vbGQtd2FycmVuLXBpY2tlZC0xLTEwMjQuanBn/40/28/webp "[Family of W.T. Frakes, Route 5, Lawton, Okla. Mother said 6-year old Warren picked 41 pounds of cotton yesterday \"An I don't make him pick; he picked last year.\" Had about 20 pounds in his bag. She said Clara, 11 years old, averages 75 pounds a day. Picked 101 pounds yesterday, earning $1.25 (they are picking now for another farmer). She carries 40 pounds in the bag. Velma, 14 years, picks 125 pounds. Has picked over 200 pounds in a day. Children go to Flower Mound School, District 48 while living here, but they are itinerant, renting a small farm of 10 acres now. \"We move about a good deal\" mother said.] Location: [Comanche County, Oklahoma] / Lewis W. Hine.")
[Family of W.T. Frakes, Route 5, Lawton, Okla. Mother said 6-year old ...
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![Family of C.J. Walker, Route 2, Box 78, Geronimo, Oklahoma. 6-year old Jewel and 5-year old Harold picks 20 to 25 pounds of cotton a day. Father said: "I promised em a little wagon if they'd pick steady, and now they have half a bagful in just a little while." The 3-year old is learning to pick. Father is a renter on shares: gives 1/4 of his cotton for rent, and 1/3 of his corn. Has 20 acres in cotton. Location: Comanche County--[Geronimo], Oklahoma / Lewis W. Hine.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MTYvMDEvMDEvZmFtaWx5LW9mLWNqLXdhbGtlci1yb3V0ZS0yLWJveC03OC1nZXJvbmltby1va2xhaG9tYS02LXllYXItb2xkLWpld2VsLWFuZC01LTEwMjQuanBn/40/28/webp "Family of C.J. Walker, Route 2, Box 78, Geronimo, Oklahoma. 6-year old Jewel and 5-year old Harold picks 20 to 25 pounds of cotton a day. Father said: \"I promised em a little wagon if they'd pick steady, and now they have half a bagful in just a little while.\" The 3-year old is learning to pick. Father is a renter on shares: gives 1/4 of his cotton for rent, and 1/3 of his corn. Has 20 acres in cotton. Location: Comanche County--[Geronimo], Oklahoma / Lewis W. Hine.")
Family of C.J. Walker, Route 2, Box 78, Geronimo, Oklahoma. 6-year old...
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Topping tobacco. Roland Lowe, 13 years old in field with two brothers....
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Willie Welch, 15 years old, R.D. 3, Box 89, Bowling Green, worming tob...
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![Children hoeing on farm near Mt. Vernon, Ky. Go to Mt. Vernon Graded School. Mamie, 7 years, Grace, 9 years, Marguerite, 12 years and Everett 14 years. Father, Alfred Bryant, Mt. Vernon P.O. owns 35 acres. Location: Rockcastle County--Mt. Vernon [vicinity], Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MTYvMDEvMDEvY2hpbGRyZW4taG9laW5nLW9uLWZhcm0tbmVhci1tdC12ZXJub24ta3ktZ28tdG8tbXQtdmVybm9uLWdyYWRlZC1zY2hvb2wtbWFtaWUtMi0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/28/webp "Children hoeing on farm near Mt. Vernon, Ky. Go to Mt. Vernon Graded School. Mamie, 7 years, Grace, 9 years, Marguerite, 12 years and Everett 14 years. Father, Alfred Bryant, Mt. Vernon P.O. owns 35 acres. Location: Rockcastle County--Mt. Vernon [vicinity], Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.")
Children hoeing on farm near Mt. Vernon, Ky. Go to Mt. Vernon Graded S...
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Topping tobacco. Roland Lowe, 13 years old in field with two brothers....
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Topping tobacco. Roland Lowe, 13 years old in field with two brothers....
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![Workers scattered all around but lost in the foliage. Tobacco farm of Mr. Stokes-Taylor. He has 50 acres in tobacco this year. Sometimes has 100--a large amount. Mostly negro workers this year. Location: Zion [vicinity], Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MTYvMDEvMDEvd29ya2Vycy1zY2F0dGVyZWQtYWxsLWFyb3VuZC1idXQtbG9zdC1pbi10aGUtZm9saWFnZS10b2JhY2NvLWZhcm0tb2YtbXItc3Rva2VzLTEwMjQuanBn/40/28/webp "Workers scattered all around but lost in the foliage. Tobacco farm of Mr. Stokes-Taylor. He has 50 acres in tobacco this year. Sometimes has 100--a large amount. Mostly negro workers this year. Location: Zion [vicinity], Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.")
Workers scattered all around but lost in the foliage. Tobacco farm of ...
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