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Photograph of a male student and female teacher standing outside of a one room school. The teacher throws a horseshoe while the student stands behind her. There is a school house as well as an automobile visible in the background of the image.

Photo: Joe Clark HBSS - Clark Family Photo Collection - Special Collections Library - University of North Texas

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Richmond, Virginia, 1939...
Tobacco Bag Stringing
WATKINS, MRS. LILLIE M., 1425 Semmes Avenue, South Richmond, Va., aged 34, husband 46, they have four children living with them. INCOME: Husband works five days a week for WPA at $10 a week.

HOME CONDITIONS: The house has four rooms, and is in very poor shape; however, it is kept neat and clean. They have a radio and a washing machine. They live behind a filling station and have to get their water from it. Rent is $10.00 a month, groceries $6.00 a week, light $1.10 a month, coal oil is 48 cents a week, insurance 75 cents a week, and coal last winter cost $8. She has been stringing for four years and makes $4.50 a month. This money is badly needed, and is used for necessities. She likes to do this work and it doesn't bother or interfere with the household duties and care of the four children...


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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill


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Sagadahoc County, Maine, 1940...
Mrs. Arthur Brown with three of her children reading Bath Daily Times. The husband works at the shipyard. After having been away from Bath for five years returned for the "Boom." Rents were too high in town and so they started building a place for themselves about five miles out of Bath on land belonging to their brother. Husband has been working a week on and a week off. One of the children is old enough to go to school but it is too far out of the way for the school bus to stop for him...
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Library of Congress Jack Delano photographer



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The eldest woman in the photograph is Sarah Rich, Lindsey Mathews. She was born in July 1834 in Pleasant City, Brown County, Ohio, and passed away on August 13, 1908, in Lodi, San Joaquin County, California.

Her daughter, Mary Eveline Mathews McCoy, was born in Iowa on May 4, 1856. Mary died on November 19, 1941, in Seattle, Washington.

Mary's daughter, Sarah Almina "Mina" McCoy Dill, was born on October 3, 1877, in Royal Center, Cass County, Indiana. Mina passed away on July 11, 1970, in Seattle, Washington.

The youngest in the photograph, Esther M. Dill, was born on April 29, 1899, in Belvidere, Thayer County, Nebraska. She died on June 29, 1981, in Seattle, Washington.

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The bow of the oil supertanker, Esso Hibernia. A ship under construction, at the Swan Hunter Shipyard, North East England.

A little over 250,000 metric tons when loaded. As a comparison, RMS Titanic was a little over 52,000 metric tons when fully loaded.



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Hibernia's sister ship, Esso Northumbria, being launched by Princess Anne:

 

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