[African American][New Deal][Labor] Black Civilian Conservation Corps member photograph archives, showing an all-Black CCC unit in Pennsylvania, ca. 1937. These photographs document the experiences of Black participants in the Civilian Conservation Corps, one of the central employment and public works initiatives created under President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. Established.....

[Federal Agricultural Policy][Environmental Management][USDA] United States Department of Agriculture Farm Security Administration records documenting federal agricultural credit, debt restructuring, and subsistence planning for a farmer in Cullohwee, North Carolina, 1940s, significant for providing direct documentation of New Deal rural relief programs aimed at aiding farms impacted by the Dust Bowl.....

[New Deal][Labor] Civilian Conservation Corps photo archive, circa 1930s, documenting Black, white, and racially integrated labor units under the New Deal, with particular relevance to African American labor history, federal relief policy, and the administration of public works programs. These images provide direct visual evidence of how the CCC, one.....

Steve Rose's photographic coverage of demonstrations, strike activity, broadcast spaces, and police control in New York City and Washington, D.C., circa 1969–1971, with dissent moving through street assembly, underground and movement media, institutional protest, and municipal enforcement. Rose, active in New York documentary photography during the early 1970s, photographed activists.....

[Mining][Labor][Steel] Iron mining photographs of Inland Steel Company workers at Greenwood Mine, southwest of Ishpeming, Michigan, documenting the labor system that linked Upper Peninsula ore extraction to steel production in Chicago during the central decades of twentieth century industrial expansion. Greenwood Mine gave the Inland Steel Company, one of Chicago's.....

AFL leadership press photo archive, documenting council meetings, conventions, White House visits, and interunion conferences by the American Federation of Labor, 1924-1943. William Green succeeded Samuel Gompers as AFL president in 1924 and led the federation through the Depression, the New Deal labor laws, and wartime price and wage disputes.....

[Labor] Industrial rock drilling photograph archive documenting Gardner Denver and drill carrier machinery in factory, yard, and field settings, circa 1960s, recording how specialized drilling equipment was designed, serviced, and operated in steep-cut and tunnel construction environments. The group centers on crawler-mounted drills, compressor-fed hose systems, and rail-mounted heavy equipment.....

Mine inspection and safety archive of six booklets dating from 1893 through World War I, documenting evolving labor practices and safety standards in the mining industry. Mine safety practices expanded rapidly after lethal mining disasters and labor conflicts of the late nineteenth century forced government intervention in regulating ventilation, machinery.....

[Labor Organizing] Ford River Rouge plant press photographs documenting labor conflict, picketing, and union organization at the largest industrial complex in the United States from the early UAW recognition battles of 1941 through the major Ford walkouts of 1949 and 1967. The River Rouge plant in Dearborn employed tens of.....

Turn-of-the-century Japan photo archive documenting foreign commercial travel, oil and mining activity, rural labor, and domestic life during the late Meiji era, when Japan was rapidly building railways, mines, refineries, modern ports, and industrial companies after the 1868 Meiji Restoration. The material appears connected to a Western man and his.....

[Labor Organizing] United Auto Workers and CIO labor photograph archive documenting strike action, union leadership, and collective bargaining negotiations during the expansion of organized labor in the American automobile industry, 1938-1949. The archive traces the period immediately following the 1935 Wagner Act, when unions gained federal legal protection for collective.....

Massachusetts oil delivery photographs documenting the horse drawn transport system that moved petroleum products through small town New England before motor trucks displaced wagon distribution. Images depict oil wagons, teamsters, and tank rigs tied to local commercial delivery via horse and carriage. The turn of the century marked an industrial.....

[Labor Organizing] United Mine Workers of America archive, 1910s through 1930s, when the coal industry was being reshaped by mechanization, falling labor demand, and increasingly unstable operator finances. After the wartime expansion of coal production, mine operators pushed wage reductions and open shop policies while new machinery displaced large numbers.....