Secret grocery store
World War II created numerous “boomtowns” associated with the expanding shipbuilding, armaments, and aircraft industries. There were also “secret cities”...
Stoking the furnaces
This was one of eight mills owned by Joseph Reandy. The mills produced knitted undergarments. These workers are probably stoking the fires of the plant’s furnaces...
Testing the subsurface for the Bureau of Reclamation
Established in 1902, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation was chartered to manage, develop, and protect water resources in the American West. Among the activities of the...
The last link
The Transcontinental Railroad was completed on May 10, 1869, when four ceremonial gold and silver spikes were driven into a laurel wood railroad tie at Promontory...
Work crew
The Navy Yard at Mare Island, near Vallejo, California, was once the largest industrial plant west of the Mississippi. Between 1854 and 1996, when the yard closed,...
Working in a coal mine
In 1946, a Federal agency, the Solid Fuels Administration for War, hired noted photographer, Russell Lee, to photograph living and working conditions in American coal...
Young glass worker
From 1907 to 1918, photographer Lewis Wickes Hine documented child labor across the country for the National Child Labor Committee. Hine took this image of Rob Kidd...