Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Men and boys working with steel rods and belt-driven machinery to make bolts inside an annex to the blacksmith shop at the McCormick Reaper Works. The fact... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Workers, including some boys, threading bolts with heavy machinery in the Nut and Bolt Department at the McCormick Reaper Works. The factory was owned by t... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Men, women, and children - likely tenant farmers or "sharecroppers" - picking cotton by hand. |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | View across field towards a young man sitting on a horse-drawn dump rake pulled by a team of horses. In the background are hills. |
Date: | 1908 |
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Description: | Boy dressed in work clothes and covered with soot from working in a mine. He wears a hat with a rudimentary lantern on top. |
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