Audio clip and text of interview with Richard Rowe, a business agent for Iron Workers Union (IWU) Local #63, who discusses his background, his entrance into the iron working trade, his involvement in the IWU, labor history, and the current state of…
Image series depicting Jess Hatcher of Ararat, VA drying apples. Photographs show Jess Hatcher looking over a screen full of apples set in the sun to dry. Photography by Terry Eiler. Part of the Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project collection,…
Image of a one room school house that has closed for the summer. Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Image and caption from Richard Rowe interview conducted by Clark Douglas Halker: Richard Rich Rowe, business agent for Iron Workers Union (IWU) Local #63 and unofficial iron worker historian, at IWU Local #63 Headquarters in Broadview, IL.
Image and caption from Richard Rowe interview conducted by Clark Douglas Halker: An Iron Worker Union (IWU) Local #63 pin honoring work on the Chicago "bean" [Anish Kapoor's "Cloud Gate" sculpture] in Millennium Park in downtown Chicago. Many members…
Two images from the Quebec and Lake Saint-John Railway, Canada Collection by the Livernois Photography Studio of Quebec City - Quebec and Lake Saint-John Railway: Hudson's Bay Company Post, Metabetchouan River (LCCN 2021670841) and Quebec and Lake…
Two images of mud season, or mud time, in Vermont. Image of a muddy road with wheel ruts and snow on the ground (LC-USF33- 030898-M3 [P&P] LOT 1238). Image of a man standing in a flooded field beside a muddy, rutted dirt road (LC-USF33- 030899-M4…