Unemployment Collection

The Cotton Famine: box at Bristol for subscriptions to the distressed operatives fund, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Cotton Famine: box at Bristol for subscriptions to the distressed operatives fund, 1862. Donations for unemployed Lancashire textiles workers

The Cotton Famine: operatives waiting for their breakfast in Mr. Chapman's courtyard..., 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Cotton Famine: operatives waiting for their breakfast in Mr. Chapman's courtyard, Mottram, near Manchester, 1862. Unemployed mill workers. Engraving of a photograph by Mr. Gothard

The Cotton Famine: working men's dining-hall, Gaythorn cooking-depot, Manchester, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Cotton Famine: working men's dining-hall, Gaythorn cooking-depot, Manchester, 1862. Meals for unemployed Lancashire mill workers

The Cotton Famine: distributing tickets for bread, soup, meat, meal, coal etc, Manchester, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Cotton Famine: distributing tickets for bread, soup, meat, meal, coal etc, at the office of a district provident society, Manchester, 1862. From "Illustrated London News", 1862

The Cotton Famine: school for mill operatives at Mr. Stirling's mill...Manchester, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Cotton Famine: school for mill operatives at Mr. Stirling's mill, Lower Mosley-street, Manchester, 1862. Literacy classes for unemployed Lancashire textiles workers

The Cotton Famine: provision-shop...Manchester and Salford Provident Society, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Cotton Famine: provision-shop where goods are obtained for tickets issued by the Manchester and Salford Provident Society, 1862. Unemployment in Lancashire

The Cotton Famine: the Manchester and Salford Provident Society distributing clothing, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Cotton Famine: the Manchester and Salford Provident Society distributing clothing, 1862. Charitable donations for unemployed Lancashire textiles workers

The Cotton Famine: operatives reading the latest news from America in Camp-field free library, 1862 Creator: Unknown
The Cotton Famine: operatives reading the latest news from America in Camp-field free library, Manchester, 1862. Unemployed Lancashire textiles workers reading newspaper accounts of the American

The Cotton Famine: the Society of Friends' soup-kitchen...Lower Moseley-street, Manchester, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Cotton Famine: the Society of Friends' soup-kitchen, Ball-street, Lower Moseley-street, Manchester, 1862. Unemployed Lancashire textiles workers queue for food

The Cotton Famine: group of mill operatives at Manchester, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Cotton Famine: group of mill operatives at Manchester, 1862. Lancashire Textile workers. 'The Carder's business is to see that machinery is kept in perfect working order...The Jack Tenter

The Cotton Famine: meeting of the central relief committee...Manchester townhall..., 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Cotton Famine: meeting of the central relief committee in the mayor's parlour at the Manchester townhall - Earl Derby in the chair, 1862

The Cotton Famine: waiting-room at the district provident institution, Manchester, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Cotton Famine: waiting-room at the district provident institution, Manchester, 1862. View of '...the antechamber to the kitchen...Here the distribution [of soup to unemployed Lancashire

The Cotton Famine: making up parcels of clothing at the industrial institution, Manchester, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Cotton Famine: making up parcels of clothing at the industrial institution, Manchester, 1862. 'Our Artist has made a sketch of that portion of the building where the bales are received in

The Cotton Famine: receiving clothes at Bridewell Hospital...for the distressed operatives, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Cotton Famine: receiving clothes at Bridewell Hospital, London, for the distressed operatives, 1862. '[In Lancashire]

The Cotton Famine: distributing coal at the Castle-field old coal-wharf, Manchester, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Cotton Famine: distributing coal at the Castle-field old coal-wharf, Manchester, 1862. Charity for unemployed Lancashire textiles workers

The Cotton Famine: shop for mill-hands at Mr. Birley's mill, Manchester, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Cotton Famine: shop for mill-hands at Mr. Birley's mill, Manchester, 1862. Charity for unemployed Lancashire textiles workers. 'Mr

The Cotton Famine: dwellings of Manchester operatives, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Cotton Famine: dwellings of Manchester operatives, 1862. Starvation and destitution among unemployed Lancashire textiles workers. 'No

The Cotton Famine: the sewing-class at the Manchester...Provident Society's rooms, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Cotton Famine: the sewing-class at the Manchester and Salford Provident Society's rooms, 1862. Unemployed Lancashire textiles workers

An Exhibition, [193-]. Creator: Unknown
An Exhibition, [193-]. The Division of Womens and Professional Projects of the Works Progress Administration Presents - An Exhibition of the Skills of the Unemployed on Non-Manual Projects - National

Love on the Dole, Syracuse, NY, 1936. Creator: Unknown
Love on the Dole, Syracuse, NY, 1936. The Federal Theatre Project, created by the U.S. Works Progress Administration in 1935, was designed to conserve and develop the skills of theater workers

Love on the Dole, Syracuse, NY, 1936. Creator: Unknown
Love on the Dole, Syracuse, NY, 1936. The Federal Theatre Project, created by the U.S. Works Progress Administration in 1935, was designed to conserve and develop the skills of theater workers

Carl Browne, Organizer of Coxey's Army, c1894, (between 1911 and 1920). Creator: Harris & Ewing
Carl Browne, Organizer of Coxey's Army, c1894, (between 1911 and 1920). American cattle rancher, cartoonist, journalist and politician

Distress in London - Unemployed waiting at a Soup Kitchen, 1886. Creator: Unknown
Distress in London - Unemployed waiting at a Soup Kitchen, 1886. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper Volume 33. January to June, 1886"

The Distress in the East End of London, 1886. Creator: Unknown
The Distress in the East End of London, 1886. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper Volume 33. January to June, 1886"

Trafalgar Square during the meetings of the Unemployed and the Social Democrats, 1886. Creator: Unknown
Trafalgar Square during the meetings of the Unemployed and the Social Democrats, 1886. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper Volume 33. January to June, 1886"

Carl Browne, Organizer of Coxey's Army, 1894, (1913). Creator: Harris & Ewing
Carl Browne, Organizer of Coxey's Army, 1894, (1913). American cattle rancher, cartoonist, journalist and politician. A leader of the Coxey's Army protest movement of 1894....originator

Jacob General Coxey Speaking On The Steps of Capitol, 1914. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Jacob General Coxey Speaking On The Steps of Capitol, 1914. US politician Jacob S. Coxey Sr. led "Coxey's Army", a march to Washington, D.C

Jacob General Coxey and Members of His Family, 1914. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Jacob General Coxey and Members of His Family, 1914. US politician Jacob S. Coxey Sr. led "Coxey's Army", a march to Washington, D.C

Jacob General Coxey and Members of His Family, 1914. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Jacob General Coxey and Members of His Family, 1914. US politician Jacob S. Coxey Sr. led "Coxey's Army", a march to Washington, D.C

Warehouse used as distributing office for FSA relief grants, Bakersfield, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Warehouse used as distributing office for Farm Security Administration (FSA) relief grants of commodities to destitute farm labor families. Bakersfield, California

Careyville, northern Florida, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Careyville, northern Florida. The mill closed down January 1, 1937 and the occupants of these houses were dispersed

Home of family left stranded when the mill "cut out" Near Kiln, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Home of family left stranded when the mill "cut out." Near Kiln, Mississippi

Careyville, northern Florida, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Careyville, northern Florida. The mill closed down January 1, 1937 and the occupants of these houses were dispersed

Two families of migrants from Missouri looking for work in the pea fields, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Two families of migrants from Missouri looking for work in the pea fields. California

Texas tenant farmers who have been displaced from their land by tractor farming, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Texas tenant farmers who have been displaced from their land by tractor farming

Abandoned tenant house on a mechanized plantation of the Mississippi Delta, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Abandoned tenant house on a mechanized plantation of the Mississippi Delta

Family of four to be returned to Oklahoma by the Relief Administration, Holtville, California, 1937
Family of four to be returned to Oklahoma by the Relief Administration. "They won't go until they get so hungry that there's nothing else for them to do

Waiting for relief checks, Calipatria, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Waiting for relief checks. Calipatria, California

Men on "Skid Row", Modesto, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Men on "Skid Row." Modesto, California

Destitute farm labor families come to FSA distributing depot... Kern County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Destitute farm labor families come to Farm Security Administration (FSA) distributing depot to apply for food grant. Kern County, California

Cultivated fields and abandoned tenant house, Hall County, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cultivated fields and abandoned tenant house. Hall County, Texas

On the steps of the bank in the public square, Memphis, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
On the steps of the bank in the public square. Memphis, Texas

Men on "Skid Row", Modesto, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Men on "Skid Row." Modesto, California

Idle men attend the morning movies, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Idle men attend the morning movies. There are three such movies in one block. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. ['Air cooled cinema showing "Desert Guns" starring Conway Tearle

Destitute farm families, FSA distributing depot, Bakersfield, Kern County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Destitute farm families come to FSA (Farm Security Administration) distributing depot to apply for food grant. Bakersfield, Kern County, California

During the cotton strike, a striking picker applies for an emergency food grant, Shafter, CA, 1938
During the cotton strike, the father, a striking picker, has left his wife and child in the car while he applies to the Farm Security Administration for an emergency food grant. Shafter, California

Abandoned land, exhausted soil, Carter County, Oklahoma, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Carter County, Oklahoma. Abandoned land, exhausted soil

Employment agency, San Francisco, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Employment agency. San Francisco

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