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Fred Nozzecho, 604 Annin St., Philadelphial. Five years old. Picking this year. Theodore Budd's Bog at Turkeytown near Pemberton, N.J. This is the fourth week of school in Philadelphia and LOC nclc.05290
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Group of 14-16 year old messengers working for American Printing Co. Henry Moore - 15 years; Edwin Chadwick - 15 years; George Jones - 16 years; Everett Harrison - 15 years; Wm. Schofield - LOC nclc.03974
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Group of boys working in American woolen Mills, Winooski, Vt. Youngest, 13 years, oldest 15 years. All had been working one year or more. Most are illiterate. 27 Children apparently under 15 LOC nclc.01847
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Josie, 13 year old shucker, Shucks ten pots a day or more. Been working six years. Varn and Platt Canning Co. LOC nclc.01007
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Johnnie, a nine-year-old oyster shucker. Man with pipe is a padrone who had brought these people from Baltimore for four years. He said, 'I tell you I have to lie to 'em. Ther're never LOC cph.3c16477
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Eight year old Syrian girl, Pheobe (i.e. Phoebe) Thomas, going to work at 6 a.m., August 14, with great butcher knife, to cut sardines in Seacoast Canning Co. Factory -4, Eastport Me. Said LOC nclc.00965
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Family of J. J. Moore. All but mother and two smallest children on steps work in Washington Cotton Mills, Fries Va. Smallest spinner (right hand end of front row) said she was 14, but she LOC nclc.02127
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Pannepinto Family, 116 Georgia St., Buffalo, N.Y. Attend School -1. Jo. was 7 years old last summer. Charley 12 years old last summer. Snipped beans and hulled strawberries in the sheds, LOC nclc.00768
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Ollie Hughes (11 years), Ruby Hughes (10 years), Help in Magnolia, (Miss.) Cotton Mills. One about 11 years (sick abed) works too. Mother and three others not in mill. Moved here two months LOC nclc.02035
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Ollie Johnson. Bible records shows her 10 years old. She goes into the Anniston Mfg. Co. regularly to help her sister Annie spin. Her mother admits it also. Says all the children learn to LOC nclc.02940
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Sam Galloway, 12 years and John Galloway, 16 years working out for Sam Crawley, who is 17 years old. The former live on a farm a few miles away and go to Keats and Bethel School, Div. 3, LOC nclc.00538
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Photo taken after 9 P.M. Mrs. Barattini, Janitress at 212 Sullivan St., N.Y., and son Louis, 14 years old, and daughter who works in a flower factory all day and helps her mother make these LOC nclc.04140
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Flashlight photos of 5 boys who work in Augusta (Ga.) cotton mill. Supt. refused to let me go through the mill so I went there at 6 P.M. and under cover of darkness got these boys as they LOC cph.3c06696
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Pete Trombetta, 10 years of age, 6th season of work. Salvatore Trombetta, 14 years of age, 8th season of work, picks 200 quarts of berries a day. Mary Trombetta, 11 years of age, 6th season, LOC nclc.00099
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Photos taken during noon hour, October 23rd, 1912, at the Loray Mills, Gastonia, N.C. They said they were working and went in to work. At night I counted over thirty children coming out when LOC cph.3a42524
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Photos taken during noon hour, October 23rd, 1912, at the Loray Mills, Gastonia, N.C. They said they were working and went in to work. At night I counted over thirty children coming out when LOC nclc.02672
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Photos taken during noon hour, October 23rd, 1912, at the Loray Mills, Gastonia, N.C. They said they were working and went in to work. At night I counted over thirty children coming out when LOC nclc.02665
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Photos taken during noon hour, October 23rd, 1912, at the Loray Mills, Gastonia, N.C. They said they were working and went in to work. At night I counted over thirty children coming out when LOC nclc.02667
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Rural Accident. Four weeks after the accident Clinton was using his remaining hand to help in the farm work as best he could. His mother said- 'Now we will have to educate him.' See Hine LOC nclc.00307
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Rosy, an eight-year-old oyster shucker who works steady all day from about 3-00 A.M. to about 5 P.M. in Dunbar Cannery. The baby will shuck as soon as she can handle the knife. LOC cph.3a15215
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Jake is ten yrs old, Marie is 13, but neither could spell own name. Scheler family, near Sterling. The boy said he had recently stuck the hook into his knee while topping. Six in the family, LOC nclc.00352
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Newsies-Isaac Solovitch, 12 years, David Solovitch, 7 years. 24 Maple St., sell after school until 9 -30 P.M. or 10 P.M. Earn about 15 cents each per day. LOC nclc.03376
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Manuel Joson (i.e., Jason), on left of picture, 58 First Street, Ward 5. 18 years old. Mann Jacintho in centre of picture, 1 South Front Street, 15 years old. Witness - R.K. Conant. LOC nclc.02221
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Lawrence McCarthy, 75 Hafford St. Henry Doyal (smaller boy), 721 Bay St. Matthias Rindan, 823 Grinnell St. Edward Myles, (smallest), 198 Tecumseh St., Fall River, August 26, 1911. LOC nclc.03746
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Kibbe's Candy Factory. Isaac Futterman, 15 years, 108 Sharon St. Jacob Futterman, 16 years, 108 Sharon St. Wm. Cohan, 16 years, 102 Washburn St. Cocoanut Shavers at Kibbe's. The Futterman LOC nclc.04607
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Leopoldo Andreoli, 208 Elm St. Very young-appears 11 or 12 years old. Is a 'Loom boy' in spinning room of the Ayer Mill; has a steady job now and makes $5.15 a week now. LOC nclc.02359
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Meyer Slein (12 years old) his brother Abe (10 years old) who has just returned from Industrial School (Reform School). Another brother is in the School. Show effects of street life and are LOC nclc.04649
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Mrs. L. Bosher, living in a rundown cotton mill village Matoaca, Va. Her husband has been a mill hand here for a long time but recently got work up town, as many of their neighbors have done LOC cph.3b36981
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Nearly 9 A.M. Girl (about 8 yrs. old) carrying sack of hose supporters home, a long distance and she had to run to get home in time for school. Up hill and tiring work, resting frequently. LOC nclc.04296
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Nearly Sold Out! 'Basket ! Five Cents Each!' Antoinette Siminger, 12 years old, 4219 Glenway Ave., Price Hill, Sixth St., Market, Cincinnati. 10 P.M. Had been selling since morning. LOC nclc.03198
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Michael Mero, 2 West 4th St. Bootblack, 12 years of age, working one year of own volition. Don't smoke. Out after 11 P.M. on May 21. Ordinarily works 6 hours per day. LOC cph.3b24285
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Midnight 4, 11,08. Messenger Boys in heart of Tenderloin. Youngest - Badge No. 524. Herman Unslowitz, Said 15 yrs. old. Oldest Badge 605. From Wes(tern) Union Tel(egraph) Office, 172 Fifth LOC nclc.03193
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New Hope School -41. 4 miles northwest of Shawnee. 31 present. Opened October 2nd-8 months term. Principal, Mr. J.H. Harrison, P.O. Route 6, Shawnee, says there ought to be twice that number LOC nclc.00620
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Victoria Borsa, 1223 Catherine St., Philadelphia. 4 year old berry picker. Brother 7 years old. While I was photographing them, the mother was impatiently urging them to 'pick, pick.' Whites LOC nclc.00062
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Tolar, Hart and Holt Mills. All the children went in when the whistle blew, and I saw most of them at work the next day when I went through the spinning room at 10 A.M. Some of them are LOC nclc.02970
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Tolar, Hart and Holt Mills. All the children went in when the whistle blew, and I saw most of them at work the next day when I went through the spinning room at 10 A.M. Some of them are LOC nclc.02969
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Topping tobacco. Roland Lowe, 13 years old in field with two brothers. There are 7 boys and 2 girls in the family, and 4 are in school. Father, Mose Lowe, R. Route 1, Winchester. Children go LOC nclc.00438
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Tolar, Hart and Holt Mills. All the children went in when the whistle blew, and I saw most of them at work the next day when I went through the spinning room at 10 A.M. Some of them are LOC nclc.02966
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Tolar, Hart and Holt Mills. All the children went in when the whistle blew, and I saw most of them at work the next day when I went through the spinning room at 10 A.M. Some of them are LOC nclc.02955
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Smallest boy is Isidor Kline, 8 yrs. Old. Sells until 7 P.M. sometimes. On his right is Bennie Friedman, 7 yrs. old. Sells until 9 P.M., sometimes. Taken at 5-30 P.M. LOC nclc.03833
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Smallest boy is Mike Ferinco. 75 Monroe St., 10 yrs. old. Sells until 8-30 P.M., Newark, N.J. Other is Duar Feriari, 60 Monroe St. Sells until after 9 P.M. LOC nclc.03355
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General Utility Boy in Miller & Vidor Saw-mill. 14 years old (he said). Part of the time he throws slabs into the chute that has chain carrying them to the mill. I saw him helping a man LOC nclc.05545
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Ten-year old Sephie, a young oyster shucker, says she does six pots of oysters a day. Her mother works also. 'She don't go to school. Works all the time.' Maggioni Canning Co. LOC nclc.00987
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Sugar beet workers, Sugar City, Colorado. Mary, six years, Lucy, eight, Ethel, ten. Family has been here ten years. Children go to school in the winter. See Hine Report, Colorado Beet LOC nclc.00266
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Stringing wooden buttons (button moulds) in a crowded home, Williamsburg, Mass. Mrs. Weeks and her children 13 years, 11 years, 7 years and her grand children 7 years, 5 years and 4 years LOC nclc.05501
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Luther Wharton, drug store delivery boy, twelve years old. Works from 4-00 P.M. to midnight in Sommers Drug Store. I saw him working at midnight. He goes to school in the daytime, then works LOC nclc.03876
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5 pupils present at School -6, Dist 3, Ft. Morgan, out of 35 expected as soon as beet work is done. School opened Sept. 20, over 5 weeks ago, and the attendance went up to 17 and then LOC nclc.00381
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5-year old Jack and 13-year old Bitsey are regular workers on their father's farm. Worming and suckering now. Bitsey goes to Wallonia School in Div. 1, Trigg Co. 'He worms and he suckers. LOC nclc.00566
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3-30 P.M. Picking nuts in dirty basement. The dirtiest imaginable children were pawing over the nuts, eating lunch on the table, etc. Mother had a cold, blew her nose frequently (without LOC cph.3b24279
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4 p.m. Morrison Foster, 37 Anderson Street. Said he was 12 years old, and sells papers from 4 to 6 p.m. daily. No badge visible-pinned inside pocket. Near South Station. LOC nclc.03992
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Bruce Tillery, 10 years old. Swept in Eagle Mill, Columbus, Ga. last summer and going to work again next week. Been toting 13 dinners a day. Mother gets most of the money. Several brothers LOC nclc.02819
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Ethel Shumate (see photo 2190). Has been rolling cigarettes in Danville (Va.) Factory for six months. Lives, 614 Upper Street. Said she was thirteen years old, but it is doubtful. LOC nclc.04742
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Mike Peoki, 707 South 7th St., Philadelphia. Didn't know age. Mother said 9 years. White's Bog, Brown Mills, N.J. This is the fourth week of school and the people here expect to remain two LOC nclc.05294
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Mildred Kron, three years old, and Gertrude Kron, five years old. Help shuck oysters every day in the Barataria Canning Co. Live in New Orleans, (See also photos 1973, 1976, 1977, 1997, LOC cph.3a01061
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Mike Peoki, 707 South 7th St., Philadelphia. Didn't know age. Mother said 9 years. White's Bog, Brown Mills, N.J. This is the fourth week of school and the people here expect to remain two LOC nclc.05294
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Mrs. Palontona and 13 year old daughter, Michaeline, working on 'Pillow-lace' in dirty kitchen of their tenement home, 213 E. 111th Street, 3rd floor. They were both very illiterate. Mother LOC cph.3a29806
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Morris Goldberg (smallest boy), 316 Bainbridge St., age 7, newsboy sells from 2 P.M. to 6 P.M.; 2 P.M. to midnight on Saturday. This picture includes the 2 Mellitto (i.e., Melaten) boys. LOC cph.3c23617
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Eleven-year old Elizabeth who has been working in the sugar beets near Ordway, Colorado, for one year. The family moved here from Southern Russia three years ago. She said- 'I don't like the LOC nclc.00261
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Group of workers going to work at 6-45 A.M. In Spring Village Mill. In this group are Mamie La Barge, Elizabeth and Lumina Demarais, Als de Gauthier, Erena La Prise (See previous labels for LOC nclc.02307
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Group working in Ludlow Mills. George Barcome, Stoney Hill, Ludlow. (Front row right hand end). Been band boy for three months in -10 mill. Frank Shefjack (next George) see -2665. Eddie LOC nclc.02454
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Group of boys working in American Woolen Mills, Winooski, Vt. Youngest 13 years. Oldest 15 years. All had been working one year or more. Most are illiterate. 27, apparently under 15 years LOC nclc.01853
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Israel Marinoff, 81st St., Ward 5. Works at -2 drawing-in room. At his home his father gave me the boys age at 14 or 15. Those of his other children he was more sure of. LOC nclc.02217
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Eddie Marek a six year old cotton picker who picks fifty pounds a day. His sister thirteen years old picks one hundred pounds. Father and mother and some negroes also pick. A frugal Bohemian LOC nclc.00205
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Ebb-tide in the industry. Home of Mrs. Edwards. Her boy (photo 2203) works in Century Cotton Mill, South Boston, Va. Gets forty cents a day. Husband has a job in a North Caroline cotton mill LOC nclc.02177
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Ollie Johnson. Bible records shows her 10 years old. She goes into the Anniston Mfg. Co. regularly to help her sister Annie spin. Her mother admits it also. Says all the children learn to LOC nclc.02941
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Part of the family of Eva Tanguay, 61 Sylvester St., doffer in spinning room of Ayer mill. A half hour car ride in a crowded, stuffy car to and from work. Leaves home at 6 A.M. and returns LOC cph.3b42403
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Pete Henson, 414 C Street. Mother said he was twelve two months ago, but has been sweeping in the Merrimack Mill for seven months, so he began at eleven years. Brother Edward said to be LOC nclc.02908
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Photos taken during noon hour, October 23rd, 1912, at the Loray Mills, Gastonia, N.C. They said they were working and went in to work. At night I counted over thirty children coming out when LOC nclc.02669
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Room 75, Shanty 4, Cranberry pickers Paulo Biniristo and wife live here. Settlement called Rome, on Whites Bog, Browns Mills, N.J. 4 sons live in next room. Note the bread and other food LOC nclc.05453
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Tolar, Hart and Holt Mills. All the children went in when the whistle blew, and I saw most of them at work the next day when I went through the spinning room at 10 A.M. Some of them are LOC nclc.02971
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Topping tobacco. Roland Lowe, 13 years old in field with two brothers. There are 7 boys and 2 girls in the family, and 4 are in school. Father, Mose Lowe, R. Route 1, Winchester. Children go LOC nclc.00440
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Johnnie, Carrie and Jim Davenport picking cotton for Mr. J.P. Daws, Route 1, Shawnee. Johnnie picks 75 pounds, Carrie 100 pounds and Jim 150 to 200 pounds a day. Get $1.00 a hundred pounds. LOC nclc.00632
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Julin, a six-year-old child, making pansies for her neighbors on top floor (Gatto), 106 Thompson Street, N.Y. They said she does this every day, 'but not all day.' A growler and dirty beer LOC cph.3a38582
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Lillian Nettles, an eleven year old spinner in Magnolia Cotton Mills, Magnolia, Miss. Her sister said, ' She ain't old 'nuff to draw pay,' but she helps regularly, and says she can run two LOC nclc.02083
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Maple Mill, Dillon S.C. Tebie Calder-Been in mill 1 year-runs 4 sides. Little sister- Tince-Mother said, 'She helps.' Bystander said she works regularly and that plenty of other little ones LOC nclc.01492
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEES. FLOOD CONTROL. REPS. WILLIAM R. WOOD OF IN; RILEY J. WILSON OF LA; C. KEARNS OF OH; JEFF McLEMORE OF TX; TWO INDISTINCT; CYRUS CLINE OF IN; M.D. FOSTER LCCN2016866827
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Father loafs while children work. He has no employment (Marion Zerpoli, 145 Hudson St., N.Y.) Mother picks nuts in Habicht, Braun Nut Factory, Hudson and Laight Sts., N.Y. Gets $4.00 a week. LOC nclc.04097
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Family all in mill. Small boy been at it 4 years. Mother said 'she used to make her $1.00 a day spoolin' but she never can now at spinnin'. Some are better at one thing and some at another.' LOC nclc.01371
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They all shuck oysters at Pass Christian. Boy on left end is George Wikowski, nine years old; next is John Collins; next is Steve Strupeck, who worked last year; on right hand end is Frank LOC nclc.00853
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Some of the Young Boys Working in the Robert Johnson Rand Shoe Factory, Washington, Mo. (Branch of St. Louis firm making Star shoes) On left end is Henry Detmer, who said he has been working LOC nclc.04693
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Some of smaller 'hands' on the night shift waiting for the whistle to blow. Whitnel N.C. Cotton Mill. The smallest boy and girl were about 50 inches high. One of the medium sized boys has LOC nclc.01529
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Slebzak family (Polish) working on Bot(t)omley farm, near Baltimore, Md. They have worked here 3 years and one winter at Avery Island, Louisiana. All work except the very smallest. She hangs LOC nclc.00011
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Stringing wooden buttons (button moulds) in a crowded home, Williamsburg, Mass. Mrs. Weeks and her children 13 years, 11 years, 7 years and her grand children 7 years, 5 years and 4 years LOC nclc.05501
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Springstein Mills, Chester, S.C. Archie Love (See Photo 328). Said (after hesitating) 'I am 14 years old.' Doesn't look it. Been in mill 3 years. Worked 5 months nights at the start. LOC nclc.01420
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Tipple & Elevator into shaft. Leads down to mine 200 ft. below. Gary Mine. Do more work by machinery than any mine in the state, yet have boys to trap and drive. They stay underground over LOC nclc.01047
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Tallest girl-Kate McManus. Smallest (next) Zorobell Hatley; (next) Louis Blanchard (next) Edith McManus.They said they had been in mill work only few weeks or months. Evidently they had ben LOC nclc.01561
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All in photos worked (even smallest girl and boys) and they went to work at (noon) 12-45. Some of the following boys and girls mey be 14, many are not. John Gopen, 189 Elm St. Joseph Stonge, LOC nclc.02329
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All these children five years, six years, seven years, nine years and two a little older, were picking cotton on H.M. Lane's farm Bells, Tex. Only one adult, an aunt was picking. Father was LOC cph.3b11413
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Albernesi Family, 126 W. Eagle St. Left to right- Frank Albernesi, 5 years old. Libori Albernesi, 15 years old, Joseph Albernesi, 13 years old. Family goes to country in summer to pick LOC cph.3b06597
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Alberta McNadd on Chester Truitt's farm at Cannon, Del. Alberta is 5 years of age and has been picking berries since she was 3. Her mother volunteered the information that she picks steadily LOC nclc.05328
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10 yr. old girl tending stand at 4th and Garden Streets. On right is entrance to bar room of saloon. Stand is owned by Mr. Rakoff, whose daughters, 11 yrs and 13 yrs old, take turns, tending LOC nclc.03825
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Boys working in Scotland Mill, Laurinburg, N.C. Smallest boy-Junior Bounds-Beginning. Next, Rollin Hudson - 3 years in mill. Next, Lloyd Willoughby - 3 years in mill. Next, Preston Torrent - LOC nclc.01509
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Angelo Ross, 142 Panama Street, Hughestown Borough. A youngster who has been working in Breaker -9 Pennsylvania Company for four months, said he was 13 years old, but very doubtful. He has a LOC nclc.01143
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Children of Mrs. Lawrence, a renter near Tinney, Okla. They go to Prairie Lee School. Beula is 13 years old and picks about 200 pounds a day when cotton is good. She drags and carries a bag LOC nclc.00605
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Another Benkendorfer farm near West. Owned by father and well kept up. Mandy, six years old, picks twenty-five pounds a day. Sophie, nine years old picks ninety pounds a day. Seven in LOC nclc.00235
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Cutting tobacco on farm of A.G.W. Gish, Route 3, Henderson. Boys 10, 13 and 15 years will all go to Niagara School, Div. 4, Henderson Co., when it opens next week. New building. The 2 LOC nclc.00521
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Dangerous work. Charlie McBride. Said twelve years old. This twelve year old boy has a steady job with the Miller & Vidor Lumber Company. He takes slabs out of a chute which has a moving LOC cph.3a20816
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Dangerous work. Charlie McBride. Said twelve years old. This twelve year old boy has a steady job with the Miller and Vidor Lumber Company. He takes slabs out of the chute which has a moving LOC nclc.05546
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Willie Cherry, a 6 year old helper in Massey Hosiery Mill, Columbus, Ga. She has been going to school and helping her step-brother, Lawrence Webb, regularly after school. Her mother has LOC nclc.02849
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Wylie Mill, Chester, S.C. Boy with calf is Pamento Benson. Raising it for beef. Has worked in mill 2 years. Mr. Benson said, 'Just as soon as the boys get old enough to handle a plow, we go LOC cph.3b03846
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