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Striking workers and sympathizers pulling down trolley poles outside the the Apex Hosiery Company plant in Philadelphia.

The Lighthouse Boys Club in the Kensington area.

Company-wide strike at the J.G. Brill Company, Philadelphia manufacturer of trams and streetcars.

Man wears face mask during 1918 Influenza epidemic. Caption: 'flu victim' is escorted into hospital in October, 1918. Influenza is still one of the most highly contagious diseases known to medicine."

Bromley Mills factory, a textile manufacturing business.

Newspaper articles describe the horrors of "sweatshops," a by-product of the Great Depression where children aged 14-17 years old are forced to work in deplorable conditions for sub-standard pay.

Governor Scranton (left) is greeted by Samuel E. Fulton, president of the Union League, on arrival at a Republican Party fund-raising campaign session.

Four men discuss means to end the SEPTA strike, in the City Hall chambers of Judge James R. Cavanaugh today. They are (from left) Governor Shapp, Mathew Guinan, TWU president; the judge and Mayor Rizzo.

Children waiting in line at a soup kitchen. Many would appear on corners weekly for people to receive a bit of soup.

Mayor Bernard Samuel taps the Liberty Bell in celebration of D-Day