5,609 Free Photos of Child Labor

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All work in the Butler Mills. New Bedford, Mass. - NARA - 523442
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A Third year high school girl in the chemical laboratory, - Greenbank Consolidated School, Oct. 7, 1921. LOC nclc.04375
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Eleven-year old oyster shucker. Shucks seven pots a day. Varn and Platt Canning Co. LOC nclc.01008
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3 Home Workers. Somerville, Mass. Cousins. See 2991 A. LOC nclc.04228
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6 A.M. April 24, 1909. Girls going to work in Bates Mfg. Co. Lewiston, Me. LOC cph.3c27564
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6-00 A.M. May 21, 1909. Going to work in Amoskeag Mfg. Co., Manchester, N.H. LOC nclc.01793
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Even the little tiny one about 5 years old was picking. Some others picking regularly. LOC nclc.00138
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Girls coming through the alley. The smallest girl has been selling for 2 years. Hartford, Conn. LOC cph.3b44831
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Helen Anderson, 16 years old. Works for Madame Robinson 'Gowns,' Copley Square, Pierce Building. LOC cph.3b05706
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Group of boys working in Richmond Spinning Mill, East Lake. Street Bretzau, with bandaged finger, in centre. LOC nclc.01973
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Group of oyster shuckers working in a canning factory. All but the very smallest babies work. Began work at 3-30am... - NARA - 523413
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16-year old girl keeping house. Home of William Olliges. The children go to Parochial School. LOC nclc.05604
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15-year old girl punching cards. Boston Index Card Co., 113 Purchase Street. LOC nclc.05168
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Mary Creed, 14 years old. Selling cigars in store of Mrs. Breslin, 817 Harrison Avenue. LOC nclc.05610
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Mary Malchade, 27 Roosevelt St., 9 years old. Sells papers near Brooklyn Bridge. LOC nclc.03663
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Mike Murphy, a young oyster-shucker, ten years old. Alabama Canning Co. From Baltimore. LOC nclc.00837
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Noon hour, May 19, 1909. Boys working in Great Falls Mfg. Co., Somersworth, N.H. LOC nclc.01760
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Noon hour, May 19, 1909. Boys working in Great Falls Mfg. Co., Somersworth, N.H. LOC nclc.01763
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Noon May 12th, 1910. Girls working in Inland Type Factory. 9 to 10 hrs. a day. LOC nclc.04656
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Noon, May 12th, 1910. Girls working in Inland Type Foundry, 9 to 10 hours a day. LOC nclc.04650
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Man straining to carry heavy bundle of clothing. They carry these for long distances, often. East Side, N.Y. LOC nclc.04164
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James Veary, 303 Austin St. Smallest boy- been working several weeks in spinning room. LOC nclc.02460
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Jimmie, a seven year old bootblack, working on Canal Street, N.Y. City - July 25, 1924. LOC cph.3a21173
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John Sachatello, a barber with a steady job helping family make flowers. Making bluettes at $2 a gross. Makes 12 to... - NARA - 523496
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Housing conditions at Roanoke (Va.) Cotton Mills are not very good. Houses run down and not well kept. LOC cph.3a29779
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Left- Tony Tomasula, (see 1200) Right- Morris Bookbinder, 12 years, 212 Eagle St.,. LOC nclc.03388
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Christie Stubbs. 11 year old scavenger - Pine Street Dumps - Lives 141 Plain St. LOC cph.3c02398
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Bertha, one of the six-year old shuckers. Began work at 4 A.M. Maggioni Canning Co. LOC nclc.05331
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Sheet metal class. Riveting and punching. Prep Technology class. Six periods a week. See 4168. LOC nclc.05017
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Sunset School - Showing bad location of toilets, - above the school and near together. (See Photo No. 18.) LOC nclc.04356
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Tony on His Way Home from the Market Bringing Chicken-Heads And Feet to Sell to the Soap Man. LOC cph.3b05701
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Rolling cigarette cases. East Side tenement. (For complete details see Miss E.C. Watson's report.) LOC nclc.04302
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Printed page of text with photo illustration- 'Declaration of Dependence by the Children of America in Mines and Factories and Workshops Assembled') LOC nclc.04892
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Resting with load at the head of the slope. Small boy is Jo Puma, a nipper. Jo's mother showed me the passport which... - NARA - 523376
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The Dumps Turned Into A Children's Play Ground. (The other end of this Dump shown in 906). Boston 1915 Exhibit. LOC cph.3b38660
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The Dumps Turned Into A Children's Play Ground. (The other end of this Dump shown in 906). Boston 1915 Exhibit. LOC cph.3b38660
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The Supt. and the group of children under sixteen years starting work after noon, May 9, 1911. LOC cph.3a20813
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These boys were surely under 14. Cigarmakers in Englehardt Co., Tampa, Fla. See photo 564. LOC nclc.04507
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The new hand - Mary Ellen Sigsbee LOC cph.3a20290 (cropped)
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The Herold Farm, near Marlinton, Pocahontas Co. W. Va. One of the most prosperous farmers in the county. LOC cph.3b03544
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The whole force, Tifton Cotton Mill. All these were working and helping regularly in the mill. Tifton, Ga. - NARA - 523151
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Table boy in a Montgomery drug store. Many of these boys work until midnight, and some are very young. LOC cph.3b17080
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Two of the youngest newsboys in Hartford, Connecticut. They are cousins eight and ten years old. August 25, 1924. LOC nclc.04059
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Serafino driving Chub, his mule. Shaft -7, Pennsylvania Coal Co., South Pittston, Pa. LOC nclc.01100
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See also -36 & -37.) Factory, where Harry McShane Was Injured. 312 Yeatman Alley, Cincinnati LOC nclc.01314
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The new and the old - Pilgrim Mill in the foreground - Chase Mill in background. Also dumps near Pleasant St. LOC nclc.03071
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The Old and the New. Chase Mill built in 1872 in foreground, Pilgrim Mill build (sic) in 1912 in the distance. LOC nclc.03076
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Slip Hill School - tiny one-room school in the country near Charleston; note the shacks on the hillside. LOC cph.3a29826
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The Line Waiting for Pay in an Indianapolis Meat Packing House. Aug., 1908. Wit., E. N. Clopper. LOC cph.3c05667
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Warp tenders assistant. 'Tyer in.' Had just been promoted from spooler tender. See 4158. LOC nclc.02995
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Young Cigarmakers in Englehardt & Co., Tampa, Fla. There boys looked under 14. Work was slack and youngsters were not being employed much. Labor told me in busy times many small boys and LOC cph.3b42554
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Young Cigarmakers in Englehardt & Co., Tampa, Fla. There boys looked under 14. Work was slack and youngsters were not being employed much. Labor told me in busy times many small boys and LOC cph.3b42554
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Mr. & Mrs. Bruno, 7 Elizabeth Street. Josephine (age 11), Antonia (age 13). One child not working. They go to school and work afternoons and Saturdays on this custom work for father. Feb. 5, LOC cph.3a29805
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Some of the sweepers in a cotton mill. North Carolina. - NARA - 523115
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9 P.M. in an Indiana Glass Works. Indiana. - NARA - 523086
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A typical Glass Works Boy, Indiana, Night Shift, Said he was 16 years old. 1 A.M. LOC cph.3a20275
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A typical Glass Works Boy, Indiana, Night Shift, Said he was 16 years old. 1 A.M. LOC cph.3a20275
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Cottage Street hovels down by the river in Easthampton, Mass., in which a great deal of home work is done on suspenders. LOC nclc.04265
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Cottage Street hovels down by the river in Easthampton, Mass., in which a great deal of home work is done on suspenders. LOC nclc.04264
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Breaker boys working in Ewen Breaker of Pennsylvania Coal Co. For some of their names see labels 1927 to 1930. LOC cph.3a15216
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Breaker boys working in Ewen Breaker of Pennsylvania Coal Co. For some of their names see labels 1927 to 1930. LOC nclc.01128
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Breaker ^9, Hughestown Borough Pa. Coal Co. One of these is James Leonard, another is Stanley Rasmus. Pittston, Pa. - NARA - 523382
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Drivers in a Coal Mine Co. Plenty boys driving and on tipple. No trappers used, as mine is ventilated by another system. LOC cph.3b24298
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Driving sheep to town. Gartland boy (did not get first name) Mother runs the Farmers Hotel, Winchester. LOC nclc.00574
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Clementine Miller (and her parents) with her sheep exhibit at the 4 H Club Fair, Charleston, W. Va. LOC nclc.04432
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Calesthenics (i.e., calisthenics) Every day, every school in Lawton has 15 minutes of this out-door work. LOC nclc.00672
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Beggar girl who sings and begs downtown day and night. May 7th, 1910. Witness E.N. Clopper. LOC nclc.03481
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Carrie Dietrick, ten years old. Raymond, seven years old. Pick shrimp at the Peerless Oyster Co. LOC nclc.00908
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Embossing shop of Harry C. Taylor, 61 Court Street. 15-year old girl at embossing machine. LOC nclc.05165
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Entire force at the Yazoo City (Miss.) Yarn Mills. Posed by the Supt. Note the proportion of youngsters, all workers. LOC nclc.02102
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Group of doffers in Pell City Cotton Mill posed by the Overseer. Superintendent of mill is also Mayor of Pell City. LOC nclc.01925
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Group of boys working in the Williamston Mill. Williamston, S.C. Smallest boy is Frank Duran -1 Front Street. LOC nclc.02612
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Frank S. Betz Co., (Optical Instruments, etc.,) Hammond, Ind. Very few young boys or girls. LOC nclc.04466
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Group of sweatshop workers in shop of M. Silverman. 30 Suffolk St., N. Y. Feb. 21, 1908. LOC nclc.04454
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Fanny Breto. Said 9 years old. Was picking with her father on a private bog near Bang's bog. LOC cph.3a38589
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Interior of one family room in upper floor of one of the berry-pickers shacks, Bottomley's farm, near Baltimore. LOC cph.3b38163
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Henry, 10 years old, smokes, and is poor in conduct in school. Frequently drowsy in class. 2-30 P.M. LOC nclc.03815
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King Philip - Mule Spinning. Back boy - Herbert Heywood, 43 Miller St. - age 14 years. LOC nclc.03086
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Jewish family working on garters in kitchen for tenement home. (For complete details see Miss E.C. Watson's report.) LOC cph.3a38584
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Jossph Harris a 9 year old newsboy in Hartford, Conn. Been selling 1 1-2 years. LOC nclc.03291
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Late at night. Sewing tapes on gloves. The boy helps. Family of five sleep in room where the work is done. LOC cph.3a26906
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It seems a pity that some of the spinning frames are so large that the children cannot operate them. Catawba Cotton Mills. LOC nclc.05388
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Jacksonville, Florida, Messenger boys. (See Report of E.F. Brown and Lewis W. Hine.) LOC nclc.03850
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Indiana Mfg. Co., Boy taking boards away from 'double cut-off' machine. A Suggestive Name!. LOC cph.3a20820
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Indianapolis Newsboys Waiting for the Base-ball Edition In a Newspaper Office. Aug., 1908. Wit., E. N. Clopper. LOC cph.3c05662
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Photo of advertisement appearing in the April number of Magazine called, The Fabrics, Fancy Goods and Notions. (See also 2893). LOC nclc.04213
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Picking strawberries on Clagett and Covington farm. They will have 500 pickers in the height of the season. Not many young workers yet. LOC nclc.00429
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Picking strawberries on Clagett and Covington farm. They will have 500 pickers in the height of the season. Not many young workers yet. LOC nclc.00431
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Picking strawberries on Clagett and Covington farm. They will have 500 pickers in the height of the season. Not many young workers yet. LOC nclc.00436
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Reproduction New York State Factory Investigating Commission cannery records re. Haserote controversy. (E.F. Brown). LOC nclc.01029
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An 11 year old delivery boy for an Opelika meat market. LOC nclc.03944
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Mill Village, Winona Cotton Mills, Miss. Fairly good conditions generally, but many very slovenly houses. LOC nclc.02111
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Night messengers-Samuel Weinstein, 159 Spring St., William Locke, 573 W. King Phillip St.,. LOC nclc.03377
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Mrs. Willett and two little girls. Said 8 and 12 years old. Living in W. Wareham, Mass. LOC nclc.00132
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Malvina Amundsen, 15 years old. Office girl in Eastern Talking Machine Co., 177 Tremont Street. LOC nclc.05609
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One way to control the street boys. A common scene in the Bancroft-Foote Boys Club, New Haven, Conn. LOC nclc.05415
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One of the young doffers working in Pell City Cotton Mill. Superintendent of mill is also Mayor of Pell City. LOC cph.3b21323
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One of the young girls I found working in the Ampskeog Mfg. Co., Manchester, N.H. May 25, 1909. LOC nclc.01778
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One of the boys working in Bates Mfg. Co., Lewiston, Me. Been there 3 years. Cannot speak English. LOC cph.3c27566
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Noon hour, Holden-Leonard Co., Bennington, Vt. Some of the youngster working there, work was slack and force small. LOC nclc.01834
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