![Group of children. [Russian Empire]](http://exit78.com/wp-content/uploads//2012/04/Group-of-children.-Russian-Empire.jpg "Group of children. [Russian Empire]")
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Photographer: Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii
Title Translation: Group of children. [Russian Empire]
Corresponding photographic print is in album: Views along the Mariinskii Canal and river system, Russian Empire
Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection (Library of Congress).
Library of Congress record page for this image.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.
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Caption with color slide: “Negro boy near Cincinnati, Ohio.” Photograph by John Vachon, 1942 or 1943.
Library of Congress record page for this image.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.
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“Cabins imitating the Indian teepee for tourists along highway south of Bardstown, Kentucky.” Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division
Photographed by Farm Security Administration staff photographer Marion Post Wolcott in July 1940. The photo is of Wigwam City #2, Cave City, Kentucky.
“The Wigwam Motels, also known as the “Wigwam Villages”, is a motel chain in the United States in which the rooms are built in the form of teepees, hence the name “wigwam”. It originally had seven different locations: two locations in Kentucky, a location in Alabama, another location in Florida, one in Arizona, one in Louisiana, and another one in California. They are very distinctive historic landmarks. Two of the three surviving motels are located on historic U.S. Route 66, in Holbrook, Arizona and on the city boundary between Rialto and San Bernardino, California. Wigwam Motel #2, in Cave City, Kentucky was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 16, 1988 under the official designation of Wigwam Village #2.
“Wigwam village #2 was built in 1937 a few miles south of the original wigwam village #1, but on US-31W in Cave City. It was built consisting of 15 wigwams used as guest rooms and a much bigger concrete and steel central structure that originally served as a restaurant. The 15 wigwams are arranged in a semi circle around a common area with playground and recreation area. Each wigwam has a paved pad to accommodate one car.
The diameter at the base of each teepee is 14 feet (4.3 m), they are 32 feet (9.8 m) in height. Behind the main room of each unit is a small bathroom with sink, toilet, and shower. In 2008, the rooms contain the original restored hickory furniture, cable TV and a window mounted air conditioner. There are no telephones to maintain the original atmosphere of the motel, though there is internet access. The restaurant is no longer in operation, but the motel is still open and welcoming guests.
“Wigwam village #2 is close to Mammoth Cave National Park … The motel is located on 601 North Dixie Hwy, Cave City, Kentucky. ” – Wikipedia
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All of these images of working were semi-randomly selected from the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog using a search on the word “working.”
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National Child Labor Committee Collection More info on this image here. |
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National Child Labor Committee Collection More info on this image here. |
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Miscellaneous Items in High Demand More info on this image here. |
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Occupational portrait of a woman working at a sewing machine [ca. 1853.] More info on this image here. |
Amish working the field in Pennsylvania, late 20th century More info on this image here. |
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Exhibit of the Red Cross Institute for Crippled and Disabled Men and the Red Cross Institute for the Blind. More info on this image here. |
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After the Sipapu Natural Bridge hike, we took a drive south on Utah 261 towards Mexican Hat. A sign not to far from our campground warned “10 % grades – switchbacks – narrow gravel road 23 miles ahead.” I learned later that part of the route is called the Moki Dugway.
It was actually the shortest route to our next destination when we resumed our drive the next day, so, besides an afternoon excursion, we were also checking the route out to see if we should go the longer route. The Moki Dugway is a series of steep switchbacks down a gravel road from the top of Cedar Mesa over less than 3 miles. It was built in the late ‘50s to for transporting uranium ore from a mine to a processing mill in Mexican Hat.
“The State of Utah recommends that only vehicles less than 28 feet in length and 10,00 pounds in weight attempt to negotiate this steep (10% grade), narrow, and winding road.”
That eliminates us, then, since towing our small car sends us way over that length. We went the long way round the next day.
We also visited Goosenecks State Park and drove through Mexican Hat that afternoon.
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![Occupational portrait of a woman working at a sewing machine [ca. 1853.]](http://exit78.com/wp-content/uploads//2012/04/3g03598u.jpg "Occupational portrait of a woman working at a sewing machine [ca. 1853.]")
![Occupational portrait of a blacksmith, three-quarter length, working on a horseshoe at an anvil, other tools to his side [between 1840 and 1860].](http://exit78.com/wp-content/uploads//2012/04/3g04075u.jpg "Occupational portrait of a blacksmith, three-quarter length, working on a horseshoe at an anvil, other tools to his side [between 1840 and 1860].")
![Military railroad operations in northern Virginia: African American laborers working on rail [ca. 1862 or 1863].](http://exit78.com/wp-content/uploads//2012/04/10400u.jpg "Military railroad operations in northern Virginia: African American laborers working on rail [ca. 1862 or 1863].")
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