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The Way We Worked scriptNavy Lieutenant Commander Dorothy Ryan checks a patient’smedical chart aboard the hospital ship USS Repose, off SouthVietnam, April 1966.--National Archives, Records of the U.S. Marine CorpsThe New York City police department was the first in the U.S. to issueuniforms in 1853. A Washington, D.C., police officer, ca. 1917-1919--National Archives, Records of the War DepartmentA NEW LOOK AT WORKConsider all the work that goes on around us. What does your work mean to you? Howdoes work sustain your community?No matter what work we do — paid, unpaid, in an office, or in our homes — our effortshelp drive the nation.Submarine builder at Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut,--by Fenno Jacobs, August 1943.National Archives, General Records of the U.S. Navy“Without ambition, one starts nothing.Without work, one finishes nothing.The prize will not be sent to you.You have to win it.”-- Ralph Waldo Emerson[Flipbook: WHY WE WORK]Coal miners in Pike County, Kentucky,--by Nan E. Elliot, 1979.National Archives, Records of Temporary Committees,Commissions, and BoardsA LIFELONG COMMITMENT“In 1908, I started working for Tobin’s when I was fifteen . . . . I did all thethings around there like sweeping the walk and store and dusting andtaking stuff up and down stairs and putting away stock . . . . Because ofmy work in the store during high school, I decided to become apharmacist.“By the time I opened up at seven in the morning and didn’t close until tenat night, I didn’t have much time to do anything but sleep.”--Louis Ives, worked at Tobin’s drugstore in Oberlin, Ohio, for sixtyyearsAlmost 2 million children between 10 and 15 years old were registeredworkers by 1915, helping to support their families as laborers andapprentices.38
The Way We Worked scriptShop boy behind the counter in Preston County, West Virginia, ca.1915.--West Virginia & Regional History CollectionIves interview (1982)--from “The Memories Within Us: Vignettes from the Oberlin OralHistory Project,” Oberlin CollegeNOT READY TO RETIRE“Any service performed to help others is a job. It doesn’t have to be paid. Iwanted something hands-on, where I could work by myself, plan my jobs,and follow through with quality, workmanship, and control. . . .So I helppeople in the neighborhood out because they needed somebody to helpthem.“My old job had the benefits, pension, and pay, but the enjoyment andsense of fulfillment I feel from all the little jobs and helping people is betterthan working for some big company.”--David Ruhl, turned to independent work after being laid off from hisfactory jobPhotographer’s Note: “Mr. Benton Stimpson . . . is a poor man, no longerengaged in active farming, but continues to support himself by occasionalodd jobs. It is characteristic of the community that Mr. Stimpson is asmuch respected as one of his more well-to-do neighbors.”Landaff, Grafton County, New Hampshire,--by Irving Rusinow, March 4, 1941.National Archives, Records of the Bureau of Agricultural EconomicsRuhl interview (2010)--by <strong>Museum</strong> on Main StreetYOUNG MOGULS“I sold daily newspapers in rural Idaho starting at age seven . . . . I thinkwe learn most things about business when we’re seven or eight years old.So much of it is about people and relationships . . .“During eighth, ninth, and tenth grades I worked in a seafood restaurantand as a stock boy at J.C. Penney . . . . I gave the money to my family . . .I put my dad through college . . . .“It had a profound effect on my entire life.”--Jon Huntsman, chairman of one of the world’s largest chemicalcompaniesThousands of young Americans get their first taste of the entrepreneurialspirit by running a stand or selling cookies door-to-door.39
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