A crowning achievement of the labor movement, Labor Day recognizes the contributions of working people in the United States and Canada. The federal holiday has long been celebrated with picnics and parades, such as this one in Gastonia, North Carolina in 1934.
Photograph by Bettmann, Getty

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Native girls packing pineapple into cans. By Edgeworth, taken for the Katakura & Company, November 20, 1928. National Archives, Records of the Women s Bureau
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“All these children except babies shuck oysters and tend babies at the Pass Packing Co. I saw them all at work there long before daybreak. Photos taken at noon in the absence of the supt. who refused me permission because of child labor agitation. Pass Christian, Miss.”
NAID: 523405 Local ID: 102-LH-2008
Produced: February 24, 1911
The creator compiled or maintained the parent series, National Child Labor Committee Photographs taken by Lewis Hine

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William Sanger’s “Vote American Labor Party / Roosevelt and Lehman” (1936).

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Title
•The same old thing / C.J. Taylor.
Summary
•Print shows a laborer's daydream where he has the ears of a mule and carries a banner that states "Strike! No Surrender! Down with Capital!", and is being led over barricades by a "Walking Delegate" who gestures toward a laborer standing with one foot on a prostrate industrialist; at the bottom is depicted the reality of an unemployed laborer's waking life of familial discord and he still has the ears fo a mule.
Names
•Taylor, Charles Jay, 1855-1929, artist
Created / Published
•N.Y. : Published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, 1895 March 20.
Headings
•- Laborers--1890-1900
•- Daydreaming--1890-1900
•- Strikes--1890-1900
•- Labor leaders--1890-1900
•- Unemployment--1890-1900
•- Families--1890-1900
Notes
•- Title from item.
•- Caption: Same old day-dream. Same old awakening.
•- Illus. from Puck, v. 37, no. 941, (1895 March 20), centerfold.
•- Copyright 1895 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.
Digital Id
•ppmsca 28995 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.28995
LCCN Permalink
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