Dungarees Collection (page 6)

Turpentine worker's home, Georgia, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Turpentine worker's home. Georgia

Turpentine workers, Georgia, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Turpentine workers. Georgia

Turpentine dipper near Waycross, Georgia, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Turpentine dipper near Waycross, Georgia

From Wyoming and Missouri eight years...working in lemons... near Strathmore, CA, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Near Strathmore, California. From Wyoming and Missouri. Eight years in California. Working in lemons. "It's easy for us because we haven't got a bunch of kids to get drug around."

Cotton hoers loading at Memphis, Tennessee for the day's work in Arkansas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Cotton hoers loading at Memphis, Tennessee for the day's work in Arkansas

One of the evicted sharecroppers from Arkansas now settled at Hill House, Mississippi, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
One of the evicted sharecroppers from Arkansas now settled at Hill House, Mississippi. [J.M. Rees?]

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

Farmer and son near Stanton, Texas, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Farmer and son near Stanton, Texas. Haven't made a crop of cotton since 1932

Lineup outside of Farm Security Administration grant office early in the morning, Tulare, CA, 1938
Lineup outside of Farm Security Administration grant office (relief to farm laborers) early in the morning, before the office has opened. Tulare, California

Lineup outside of Farm Security Administration grant office early in the morning, Tulare, CA, 1938
Lineup outside of Farm Security Administration grant office (relief to farm laborers) early in the morning, before the office has opened. Tulare, California

Nebraska farmer come to pick peas, Near Calipatria, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Nebraska farmer come to pick peas. Near Calipatria, California

Delegate Wickersham, the assayer and Frank G. Carpenter in front of... between c1900 and 1916. Creator: Unknown
Delegate Wickersham, the assayer and Frank G. Carpenter in front of Assayer's Office, between c1900 and 1916

Girls on the dancefloor inside the nightclub Slack Alice in Manchester which belongs to footballer George Best. 4th February 1976

Little boy with sand all over him, tousled hair and ice cream tongue sticking out his tongue as he plays by the seaside 1940s

Roycroft Shop, East Aurora, N.Y. 1900. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
Roycroft Shop, East Aurora, N.Y. 1900. 2 men working at anvil and at table with wrought-iron chandelier in the Roycroft blacksmith shop (built 1899), Grove Street, East Aurora, New York

Central America, Belize, Orange Walk district, Hill Bank Field Station, a Mennonite boy leaning against and old British traction engine on a traditional Mennonite carriage

Children demonstrating to save school playing fields
Children demonstrating to save their school playing fields, Havering, Essex. Date: circa 1970s

Children and adults demonstrating against nursery cuts, May 1972. Date: 1972

Worker at carbon black plant, Sunray, Texas, 1942. Creator: John Vachon
Worker at carbon black plant, Sunray, Texas

Workers leaving Pennsylvania shipyards, Beaumont, Texas, 1943. Creator: John Vachon
Workers leaving Pennsylvania shipyards, Beaumont, Texas

Portrait of a farm boy, between 1941 and 1945. Creator: Unknown
Portrait of a farm boy

Constructing a building on the site of a new steel mill... Columbia Steel Co. Geneva, Utah, 1942
Constructing a building on the site of a new steel mill which will soon turn out steel for the war needs, Columbia Steel Co. Geneva, Utah

Women are trained to do precise and... Douglas Aircraft Company plants, Long Beach, Calif. 1942
Women are trained to do precise and vital engine installation detail in Douglas Aircraft Company plants, Long Beach, Calif

Rural school children, San Augustine County, Texas, 1943. Creator: John Vachon
Rural school children, San Augustine County, Texas

Electric phosphate smelting furnace used to make element... vicinity of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, 1942
Electric phosphate smelting furnace used to make elemental phosphorus in a TVA chemical plant in the vicinity of Muscle Shoals, Alabama

A wing brace assembly for a B-25 bomber is prepared... North American Aviation, Inc. Calif. 1942
A wing brace assembly for a B-25 bomber is prepared for the assembly line of an aircraft plant, North American Aviation, Inc. Calif

Maintenance mechanic in largest coal press... Combustion Engineering Co. Chattanooga, Tenn. 1942
Maintenance mechanic in largest coal press in world, Combustion Engineering Co. Chattanooga, Tenn

Big Pete Ramagos, rigger at work on dam (TVA) Douglas Dam, Tenn. 1942. Creator: Alfred T Palmer
Big Pete Ramagos, rigger at work on dam (TVA) Douglas Dam, Tenn

A carpenter at the TVAs new Douglas dam on the French Broad River, Tenn. 1942. Creator: Alfred T Palmer
A carpenter at the TVAs new Douglas dam on the French Broad River, Tenn. This dam will be 161 feet high and 1, 682 feet ong, with a 31, 600-acre reservoir area extending 43 miles upstream

Carpenter at work on Douglas Dam, Tennessee (TVA), 1942. Creator: Alfred T Palmer
Carpenter at work on Douglas Dam, Tennessee (TVA)

C. & N. W. R. R. Mrs. Elibia Siematter, employed as a sweeper at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa, 1943
C. & N.W. R.R. Mrs. Elibia Siematter, employed as a sweeper at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa

Gist inspector, Mrs. Mary Betchner inspecting one of the 25 cutters... Milwaukee, Wis. 1943. Creator: Howard Hollem
Gist inspector, Mrs. Mary Betchner inspecting one of the 25 cutters for burrs before inserting it in the inside of a 105mm. howitzer at the Milwaukee, Wis. plant of the Chain Belt Co

Chicago and North Western R.R. Mrs. Thelma Cuvage, working in the sand house... Clinton, Iowa, 1943
Chicago and North Western R.R. Mrs. Thelma Cuvage, working in the sand house at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa. Her job is to see that sand is sifted and cleaned for use in the locomotives. Mrs

Women workers employed as wipers in the roundhouse having lunch... C&NWRR. Clinton, Iowa, 1943. Creator: Jack Delano
Women workers employed as wipers in the roundhouse having lunch in their rest room, C. & N.W. R.R. Clinton, Iowa. Photograph shows Marcella Hart at left, Mrs. Elibia Siematter at right

C. & N.W. R.R. women wipers at the roundhouse cleaning one of the giant... Clinton, Iowa, 1943. Creator: Jack Delano
C. & N.W. R.R. women wipers at the roundhouse cleaning one of the giant " H class locomotives, Clinton, Iowa. Photograph shows Marcella Hart at left, Mrs. Elibia Siematter at right

C. & N.W. R.R. women wipers employed at the roundhouse cleaning one of the... Clinton, Iowa, 1943. Creator: Jack Delano
C. & N.W. R.R. women wipers employed at the roundhouse cleaning one of the giant " H" class locomotives, Clinton, Iowa. Photograph probably shows Mrs. Marcella Hart and Mrs. Viola Sievers

Women wipers of the Chicago and North Western Railroad cleaning one of the... Clinton, Iowa, 1943. Creator: Jack Delano
Women wipers of the Chicago and North Western Railroad cleaning one of the giant " H" class locomotives, Clinton, Iowa. Mrs. Marcella Hart and Mrs. Viola Sievers

C. & N.W. R.R. Mrs. Marcella Hart, mother of three children, employed as a... Clinton, Iowa, 1943. Creator: Jack Delano
C. & N.W. R.R. Mrs. Marcella Hart, mother of three children, employed as a wiper at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa

C. & N.W. R.R. Cloe Weaver, mother of four children, employed... the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa, 1943
C. & N.W. R.R. Cloe Weaver, mother of four children, employed as a helper at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa. She is learning to operate the turntable. Her husband works for a structural steel company

C. & N. W. R. R. Mrs. Dorothy Lucke, employed as a wiper at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa, 1943. Creator: Jack Delano
C. & N.W. R.R. Mrs. Dorothy Lucke, employed as a wiper at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa

Boys fishing in a bayou, Schriever, La. 1940. Creator: Marion Post Wolcott
Boys fishing in a bayou, Schriever, Louisiana. Cajun children in a bayou near the school. Terrebonne, a Farm Security Administration project

School children singing, Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940. Creator: Russell Lee
School children singing, Pie Town, New Mexico. [Signs: Craig Motor Co.; A Standard Oil product; Magdalena Drug Co. Complete line of drugs ]

Child of a migratory farm laborer in the field during the harvest... FSA labor camp, Tex. 1942
Child of a migratory farm laborer in the field during the harvest of the community centers cabbage crop, FSA [Farm Security Administration] labor camp, Texas

Boy building a model airplane while other children look on, FSA labor camp, Robstown, Tex. 1942
Boy building a model airplane while other children look on, FSA [Farm Security Administration] labor camp, Robstown, Texas

Boys playing marbles, FSA... labor camp, Robstown, Texas, 1942. Creator: Arthur Rothstein
Boys playing marbles, FSA [Farm Security Administration] labor camp, Robstown, Texas. [In front of the community center]

Boy building a model airplane as girl watches, FSA... camp, Robstown, Tex. 1942. Creator: Arthur Rothstein
[Boy] building a model airplane [as girl watches], FSA [Farm Security Administration] camp, Robstown, Texas

Homesteader and his children eating barbeque at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair, 1940. Creator: Russell Lee
Homesteader and his children eating barbeque at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair

Friends meeting at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair, 1940. Creator: Russell Lee
Friends meeting at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair

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"Dungarees: A Timeless Symbol of Hard Work and Adventure" Step back in time with "The Days Work" by Muriel Dawson, where a lady fearlessly rides her 1939/40 Harley Davidson motorcycle, clad in sturdy dungarees. These iconic denim overalls have been worn by individuals from all walks of life throughout history. In the world of entertainment, clowns from Victorian scrapbooks donned these practical garments while bringing joy to audiences. Meanwhile, lace curtains were being meticulously manufactured at an unknown Nottingham factory, showcasing the versatility beyond manual labor. Even advertisements recognized their durability; an advertisement for Redex Engine treatment featured a mechanic confidently sporting his trusty dungarees as he worked on engines. In "Twos Company" by Muriel Dawson, women washing dishes displayed their resilience and determination while wearing these timeless pieces. During wartime, brave land girls proudly wore dungarees as they contributed to the war effort. Their cheerful spirits shone through even during challenging times. Similarly, members of heavy metal group Black Sabbath found solace and fun as they messed about on the scenic Wye River in their trusty dungarees. Beyond entertainment and leisure activities, children took to the streets demonstrating against cuts that threatened their school playing fields or nursery programs. Dressed comfortably in dungarees, they expressed their passion for education and outdoor play. Lastly, a fisherman proudly displays his large coley fish caught off St Ives coast in Cornwall while dressed practically in his beloved dungarees. This image captures not only his triumph but also reflects how this garment has accompanied individuals through countless adventures over time. They have become more than just clothing; they symbolize hard work, adventure-seeking spirits, resilience against adversity, and standing up for what is right.