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TitleWicket actuating lever (Artifact 119)
Date Created1830-1998
Description32” actuating lever. It was located at the top of the [miter] gates and was used by the locktender to open the wickets – there were several on each gate. Each wicket was connected to the...
Time PeriodExpansion and Reform (1801-1861), The Industrial Revolution (1870-1900)
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TitleFirst page of S. 6, A bill to provide financial assistance to the States for improved educational services for handicapped children, 4 January 1973.
Date Issued1973-01-04
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TitleBridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural workers' camp
Date Created1942-06
DescriptionThe Farm Security Administration, which operated the camp at Big Oaks, constructed housing using materials not affected by wartime shortages.These structures typically housed guestworkers from the...
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitleBridgeton, New Jersey. Seabrook Farm. Company houses built by Seabrook for migrant workers
Date Created1942-06
DescriptionPrefabricated houses - located in "Field no. 16" - were preferred residences at Seabrook, and in 1943 and 1944 housed white Southern migrant workers and their families. Though small and made of flimsy...
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitleBridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural workers' camp. Water is piped conveniently through the camp
Date Created1942-06
DescriptionPumps like the one featured here were the sole source of water at the FSA camp. Access to uncontaminated water posed another concern to reformers.
Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
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TitleBridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural workers' camp. Picker and farmhand who lives in the corner of an old barn by himself on a farm
Date Created1942-06
DescriptionA worker stands outside of a barn in the Big Oaks FSA migrant labor camp in Bridgeton, NJ.
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitleBridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural workers' camp. Single men live in the tents; families live in the houses
Date Created1942-06
DescriptionTent housing at the FSA migrant labor camp was occupied mainly by black workers from the U.S. South. These workers typically received the worst housing accommodations.
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitleTyped transcript of letter to Helen Sater, U.S. Dept. of Labor, November 6, 1943
Date Created1943-11-06
DescriptionIn this letter, a white woman residing at Seabrook writes that although she and other workers had been promised free housing at Seabrook, the company was now attempting to charge them. The company's...
Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
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TitleBridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural workers' camp. Wash day. In the near future the camp will have a completely modern laundry unit
Date Created1942-07
DescriptionSpecial laundry stations were created by the FSA at Big Oaks, and were served by pumped-in cold water.
Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
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TitleTitle page of Documents tending to prove the superior advantages of rail-ways and steam-carriages over canal navigation.
AuthorStevens, John
Date Issued1812