The document contains descriptions and photographs of industrial sites, residential areas, and workers from the early 20th century United States. Some of the topics covered include Carnegie steel mills in Pennsylvania from 1900-1915, Carnegie libraries in Alabama and Alabama, city streets and backyards in Chicago from around 1901 and 1910, meat packinghouses in Chicago from around 1909, young miners in Pennsylvania from 1911, adolescent female textile workers in Georgia, young cigar makers, mill workers in a textile factory, child newsboys in cities, Rockefeller dormitories at Brown University and Vassar College, a family and neighbors sewing late into the night, and oyster shuckers working long hours in a canning factory.