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Shorpy Historic Photo Archive | Best Pix on the Net
Rated Aug 01 • 33 reviews • history, photography, american history, work • shorpy.com
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Shorpy Historic Photo Archive | Best Pix on the Net
Rated Aug 01 • 160 reviews • photography, american history, work • shorpy.com
lewis hine
group outside pittman handle factory
1913
A 15-year-old boy operating a dangerous boring machine at which he said a boy recently bored half his hand off. To operate this machine (which bores a large hole in the spade handle) the boy has to throw his whole weight onto the lever which pushes the handle (and himself) up against the unprotected borer. A slip might easily result fatally. Boy earns $1.65 a day. This factory has a number of unprotected belts and dangerous machines. One other boy, about the age of this one, was doing all kinds of work, taking away the handles from a huge rip saw, etc., and constantly exposed to danger.
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Rated Oct 13 2008 • 3 reviews • american history • feri.org
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Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Rated Sep 08 2008 • 2 reviews • african americans, american history, slavery • slavevoyages.org
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The Believer - The Henry Ford of Literature
Rated Sep 04 2008 • 5 reviews • education, american history, literature, books • believermag.com
little blue books
zilch dignified bunk
Emanuel Haldeman-Julius at his typewriter, 1925
When Emanuel Haldeman-Julius drowned in his backyard swimming pool, on July 31, 1951, he was popularly regarded as a has-been, even in his adopted hometown of Girard, Kansas. Denounced as a communist in national newspapers and investigated by J. Edgar Hoover's FBI, he had recently lost a federal tax evasion lawsuit and was facing time in jail. Amid the cold war atmosphere of the time, schoolchildren around Girard whispered that Haldeman-Julius had actually been assassinated for being a Soviet spy; adults speculated that his death was a suicide--though the only note he left behind contained a silly joke meant for his wife.
It was an odd ending for a man who, in just over thirty years, had become one of the most prolific publishers in U.S. history, putting an estimated 300 million copies of inexpensive "Little Blue Books" into the hands of working-class and middle-class Americans. Selling for as little as five cents and small enough to fit in a trouser pocket, these books were meant to bring culture and self-education to working people, and covered topics ranging from classic literature to home-finance to sexually pleasuring one's spouse. Distributed discreetly by mail order, Little Blue Books disseminated birth-control information not available in small-town libraries, advocated racial justice at a time when the Ku Klux Klan influenced politics, and introduced Euripides, Shakespeare, and Emerson to people without the means for higher education.
Haldeman-Julius's Kansas press debuted writers like Will Durant, Bertrand Russell, and Clarence Darrow to the American public, and titles by Henry James found more readers in their Little Blue Book editions than in those from any other contemporary publisher. Endorsed by Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia and carried to the south pole with Admiral Richard Byrd, Little Blue Books figured in the early education of twentieth-century writers like Saul Bellow, Ralph Ellison, Studs Terkel, Harlan Ellison, Louis L'Amour, Margaret Mead, and Langston Hughes.
In the midst of his publishing heyday, when asked how he might be remembered, Haldeman-Julius speculated that his obituary would mention how "I sold hundreds of millions of [books] and usefully served a portion of my generation with fairness, sincerity, and intelligence.... It may mention my forthright attacks on all forms of Supernaturalism, Mysticism, Fundamentalism, and respectable and dignified bunk in general. . . .
Employees filling LBB orders
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Slave grave: Researchers find evidence behind...
Rated Aug 31 2008 • 0 reviews • african americans, archaeology, american history, slavery • westbranchtimes.com
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Old Sturbridge Village | Explore &Learn | Collections
Rated Jul 16 2008 • 0 reviews • arts, american history • osv.org
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http://fatfinch.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/american-crow...
Rated Jun 24 2008 • 0 reviews • american history • wordpress.com
