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Workers in Fargo & Phelps Shoe Co., saw six boys and two girls probably under 14. Large sign up, 'Boys Wanted.' LOC nclc.04710
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Workers in More-Jones Glass Co., Bridgeton, N.J. LOC nclc.01227
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Work that Educates. Twelve-year old boy tending bees under the direction of his father, John Spargo. Bennington, Vermont, Aug. 1914. LOC nclc.05580
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Workers in Enterprise Cotton Mill (Augusta, Ga.) Smallest boy (in middle) been in this mill 4 years. Others been there several years. LOC nclc.01585
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Youngster making bands, cotton mill. Clarence Noel, 11 years old. North Pownal, Vt. - NARA - 523248
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Will and Lea Dean stunted mill boys been working over a year in Saxon Mill. Family records said 13 and 14 years old. LOC nclc.02575
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Seven year old Ann Suter, and eight year old Andrey Shrier in costume. See photo and label 2937 and report by L.W. Hine LOC nclc.04788
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See label 4010) Eight-year-old boy tugging at the beets. There is a great deal of physical strain in this work. See Hine report LOC nclc.00334
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Three boys, one of 13 yrs., two of 14 yrs., picking shade-grown tobacco on Hackett farm. The 'first picking' necessitates a sitting posture. LOC cph.3a20273
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Three pickers going home from work. Anne, 7 years old, and brother Vincent said 11. Vincent picked last summer. Inez... - NARA - 523465
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Showing how essential accurate measurements are. A 'Demonstration team' composed of three prize-winning Cabell County girls. See Photo No. 48. LOC nclc.04386
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Small boy works as helper (back roping) in Great Falls Mfg. Co. Charles Chase, 201 Main St. When I inquired about him... - NARA - 523194
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The dance of the Children of the Sunshine with Ellen sleeping in the foreground. (-4140- Miss Mackay's Pageant Children of Sunshine and Shadow as presented at Washington Irving High School. LOC cph.3a29801
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Arthur Sarasin, 7 Acushnet Block. Works in weaving room. At his house his people said he was fourteen last week. LOC nclc.02219
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6 A. M., June 9, 1909. I found only a few youngsters going into this mill. American Thread Co., Westerly, R.I. LOC nclc.01815
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8 P.M. Friday, March 5, 1909. Charlie Gilstein, 9 years old. Philip Gilstein, 12 years old. Hartford, Conn. LOC nclc.03280
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Scene in canning factory showing a 7-year old girl who shucks 3 pots of oysters a day, and works regularly, and her 6-year old brother who helps some. Also a 11-year old boy who does six LOC nclc.01004
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Organ Grinder at 21, quai Bourbon, Charles Nègre
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In center of the picture is Phoebe Thomas, 8 year old Syrian girl, running home from the factory all alone, her hand and arm bathed with blood, crying at the top of her voice. She had cut LOC nclc.00966
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King Philip spinning room. Sweeper and cleaner Adelaid Levesque, 1152 Slade St. Age 14 - Looks larger because camera low. LOC cph.3b33419
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Gertrude Belier, 15 years old. Hemming curtains on machine at Boutwell, Fairclough & Gold, 274 Summer Street Extension. Mr. Fitzgerald, Manager. LOC nclc.05191
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Group of children in the kindergarten school composed of the cotton mill people. Even during the play the mill is ever in the back ground. Dallas Cotton Mill. LOC nclc.02855
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Group of workers in Lane Cotton Mill, New Orleans, showing the youngest workers, and typical of conditions in New Orleans. Violations of the law are rare. LOC nclc.02877
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Group of workers. The smallest boy in the middle of group is Secondino Libro, 34 Walnut Street. Apparently 10 or 11. Works in No. 4 Spinning room. LOC cph.3a01140
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Group of workers. The smallest boy in the middle of group is Secondino Libro, 34 Walnut Street. Apparently 10 or 11. Works in No. 4 Spinning room. LOC nclc.05476
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Frank Obin, eight years old. Shucks oysters at Pass Christian. I found him asleep on the floor of the shed at 4 o'clock one morning. LOC nclc.00855
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Francis Lance, 5 years old, 41 inches high. He jumps on and off moving cars at risk of life. St. Louis, Mo. - NARA - 523295
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Herbert Hoover and Secretary of Labor James J. Davis, three-quarter length portrait, standing in doorway of the White House, facing each other LCCN94509137
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Great Falls Mfg. Co., Somersworth, N. H. One of the young girls. There are a number of boys and girls as small and smaller, scattered through these mills. LOC nclc.01769
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Four children - about 3 to 6 years old. Home all alone and settlement deserted. Mother and father working on Five-acre Bog. LOC cph.3b32036
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Eddie Grimshaw, 40 Stoney Hill. Has worked as doffer in -8 mill for 9 months. Makes $5.25 a week now, hates school. LOC nclc.02434
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One of the little spinners in Amoskeag Mfg. Company, Manchester, N.H. She was about 48 inches high and about 11 or 12 years old. LOC nclc.01781
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Red light resorts on Ohio Avenue near 14th St. and young messenger who was showing me around. (See label -2940). LOC cph.3a31142
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Noon hour at Brown Shoe Factory. Youngest boy is Willie McIntyre, probably under 14. Was unwilling to be photo'd and had to be taken by snapshot. LOC nclc.04721
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Twin sisters Winnie and Jimmie. Spinners in Yazoo City (Miss.) Yarn Mills. Said thirteen years old, but see photo and label 2102. LOC nclc.02101
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Two of the helpers in the Tifton Cotton Mill. They work regularly. Tifton, Ga. - NARA - 523152
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Unloading oysters on the dock. Alabama Canning Co. Bayou La Batre, Ala. - NARA - 523399
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Little girl is Estelle Hopkins. The two girls together run 10 sides $1.10 a day. (See Label 3024) Belton Mfg. Co.,. LOC nclc.02618
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Home of Kettles family. Housing conditions in the mill settlement at Magnolia, Miss. are good. Working conditions are good also. LOC nclc.02091
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Louis Langevin, 318 Friend St. Works in spinning room -7. Florida St. Cyr, 24 Gray St. Works in spinning -7. LOC nclc.02424
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Celina Anzalone, 2264 First Ave., making lace for Cappallino's factory, near by. She said she was doing it only until Christmas. LOC cph.3b39333
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The United Consolidated School near Charleston, W. Va. Also note photo of The Tate School, one of the two schools that were abandoned to make this. LOC nclc.04369
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Seven-year-old Alex Reiber topping. He said, 'I hooked me knee with the beet-knife, but I jest went on a-workin'.' LOC cph.3c00669
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Spinners and doffers in Lancaster Cotton Mills. Dozens of them in this mill. Lancaster, S.C. - NARA - 523121
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Stanislaus Matthew, 30 Cabot St., (left hand boy). Warren Butman, Nonotuck St. Has worked in spinning room since Monday. LOC nclc.02431
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Three-year old Hilda, who is beginning beet work on a Wisconsin farm. See Hine Report, Wisconsin Sugar Beet, July, 1915. LOC nclc.00282
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Sunday noon. Some of the newsboys returning Sunday papers. Many of them had been out since 5 and 6 A.M. Hartford, Conn. LOC cph.3b26710
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General view of the spinning room, Cornell Mill, showing some of the young boys and girls employed there. See names on other photo. Cornell Mill. LOC cph.3b32759
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General view of weave room, Cornell Mill. Immediately after the photo was taken, the looms started up with deafening clatter. Cornell Mill. LOC nclc.02496
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Joseph and Rosy, 10 and 8 yrs. old. He sells until evening. She is one of 5 or 6 girls who sell (afternoons) in Newark. LOC nclc.03360
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All are workers in Rome (Ga.) Hosiery Mill. The ages in this mill run from 9 and 10 y(ea)rs upwards. LOC nclc.02749
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All are workers in Rome (Ga.) Hosiery Mills. The ages in this mill run from 9 and 10 y(ea)rs upward. LOC nclc.02740
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All these children except babies shuck oysters and tend babies at the Pass Packing Co. I saw them all at work there... - NARA - 523405
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10 year old newsie. Note absence of badge or indication of regulation. New Bedford, August 22, 1911. Richard K. Conant, Witness. LOC nclc.03744
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10-year old girl picking tomatoes on farm of W.T. Hill. LOC nclc.00581
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14 year old Henry in the fourth grade of the Rockwood Place School. He is four grades behind, and the teacher says it is on account of the beet work. LOC nclc.00397
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Boy who carries barrels. Robert Saunders, 10 years old. Lives Waquoit - is the sone (i.e., son) of the boss. Mother picks too. LOC nclc.00126
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Annie Fedele, 22 Horace Street, Somerville, Mass. This is one of the places she works on crochet. See other photos and Home Work report. LOC cph.3a01157
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Annie Fedele, 22 Horace Street, Sommerville, Mass. This is one of the places she works on crochet. See other photos and Home Work report. LOC nclc.04259
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Boy at warping machine in Newton Cotton Mill. Been there 2 years. Newton, N.C. - NARA - 523143
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Poston, Arizona. School buildings. These school buildings are being erected by evacuee labor. The . . . - NARA - 536620
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Wanamaker's 8-30 A.M. New York City. - NARA - 523286
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Whole family rolling cigarette cases, the mother was licking the papers as she worked. (For complete details see Miss E.C. Watson's report.) LOC nclc.04303
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Young spinner in Roanoke (Va.) Cotton Mills. Said fourteen years old, but it is doubtful. See exterior photos and age comparisons in 2161 to 2163. LOC cph.3a01139
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The Crucible: Houses of the mill town overlooking the Pittsburgh Crucible Steel Company in Midland, Pennsylvania, January 1941.
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Berman Katzman a nine-year-old newsie in Hartford, Conn. Has been selling 2 years. Sells until 8 P.M. at times. LOC nclc.03296
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Bleach Room boys. Daniel Crowley, 17 years old. Mike Kennedy, 18 years old. Pacific Mills. Lawrence, Mass. - NARA - 523271
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Camille Carmo, Justine Carmo, seven and nine years old. The older one picks about 4 pails a day. Youngest was picking also. LOC nclc.00143
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75 Sixth Grade children (colored) crowded into 1 small room in an old store building near Negro High School, with 1 teacher. LOC nclc.00661
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The Things They Carried: In the new home of a group of Florida migrant workers just arrived in Onley, Virginia, July 1940.
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A typical fisher boy at T Wharf. Boston, Mass. - NARA - 523219
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A typical messenger boy in New Orleans. The telegraph companies are trying to obey the law, and few violations occur. See Hine report on Messengers. LOC nclc.03921
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A.D.T. Boy, 13 years old. One and one-half years at it. Works from noon to 10-30 P.M. Said he 'carries notes, etc.' LOC nclc.04592
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A nine year old newsgirl. She sold later than 8 P.M. sometimes. Been selling two years. Hartford, Conn. - NARA - 523174
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11 years old. Beginning to doff. Son of one of Gastonia's preachers . His two brothers, 14 and 16 years old, are also in the mill. LOC nclc.01359
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15-year old girl at her old job packing the finished envelopes. Embossing shop of Harry C. Taylor, 61 Court Street. LOC nclc.05166
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Overseer and two of the doffer boys, Charles Hennessy and John Douglass in Avondale Mills. Noon hour. Overseer said, 'we've got 30 of 'em.' LOC cph.3b21310
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Poston, Arizona. School buildings are being erected by evacuee labor. The structure will be of ado . . . - NARA - 536619
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Truants like these may be found most any day between 11 & 12 A.M. Jefferson St. near Washington. May 5, 1910. LOC nclc.03463
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Truants like these may be found most any day between 11& 12 A.M. Jefferson St. Near Washington. May 5, 1910. LOC nclc.03462
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School -9 and -12. Some of the boys who work in the glass works at night and go to school in day time. (See report for names, etc.) LOC cph.3c05657
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Room in Martini's factory (beading slippers, etc.), 249 Hud(son). Women are calling for home-work, also delivering it, and learning to do it. LOC nclc.04090
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Line of children found in a 'penny arcade' at 1-30 P.M. As many of the schools in Schenectady run on 'half time' they are not necessarily truants. LOC nclc.04620
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Rural Accident. Clipping from Pittsfield paper describing accident to Clinton Stewart, July 14, 1915. See Hine Report, August 1915. LOC nclc.00314
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In the shadow of City Hall, selling vegetables at 515 King St., Wilmington, Delaware. Investigator, Edward F. Brown. LOC nclc.03594
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Indiana Mfg. Co. Peru, Ind. The old and the new. Old man has been there 33 years. Boy starting in, working with a board saw. LOC nclc.04486
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Indiana Mfg. Co., Boy working at circular saw. A number of young boys here working around saws, belts, planing machines, etc. LOC nclc.04489
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For Child Welfare Exhibit 1912-13.) Sewing class in Sprague House Settlement Providence, R.I. The Director is holding a newly-arrived deserted baby LOC cph.3b06722
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Home of Mrs. Schiaffo. She is a contractor, getting lace from the home workers in the neighborhood. Woman in black... - NARA - 523506
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Housing conditions in the settlement of Dunbar. They are better than the average. See church in distance. Have their own jail. Houses and wood furnished. LOC cph.3a29846
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Housing conditions in the settlement of Dunbar. They are better than the average. See church in distance. Have their own jail. Houses and wood furnished. LOC nclc.00916
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Group of Western Union Messengers in Norfolk, Va. See also photo 2232, 2258, and report on Va. messengers. LOC nclc.03731
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Group of workers. The smallest boy in the middle of group is Secondino Libro, 34 Walnut Street. Apparently 10 or 11. Works in No. 4 Spinning room. LOC nclc.05476
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Group of workers. The smallest boy in the middle of group is Secondino Libro, 34 Walnut Street. Apparently 10 or 11. Works in No. 4 Spinning room. LOC nclc.02365
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