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An 11 year old delivery boy for an Opelika meat market. LOC nclc.03944
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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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Messenger boy working for Mackay Telegraph Company. Said fifteen years old. Exposed to Red Light dangers. LOC cph.3a01152
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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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Night messengers-Samuel Weinstein, 159 Spring St., William Locke, 573 W. King Phillip St.,. LOC nclc.03377
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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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Carrie Dietrick, ten years old. Raymond, seven years old. Pick shrimp at the Peerless Oyster Co. LOC nclc.00908
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Young girls going home from Brown's Shoe factory (Washington & 18 th Sts.) at close of day. LOC nclc.04647
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While I was photographing these workers, the watchman dragged out the smallest boy, saying, Here photograph Pewee.... - NARA - 523444
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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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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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Noon hour, Holden-Leonard Co., Bennington, Vt. Some of the youngsters working there. Work was slack and the force small. LOC nclc.01835
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Noon Hour. Queen City Mill, Burlington, Vt. I saw several girls much younger than these. LOC nclc.01725
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Noon hour at the Vivian Cotton Mills. Shows the character of the hands in a better class mill, -well ventilated... - NARA - 523110
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A group of workers at Greenabaum's Cannery, Seaford, Del. The ages given the investigators is 15 and 13 and 12. LOC cph.3b03531
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12 year old newsboy, Hyman Alpert, been selling three years. Spends evenings in Boys Club. LOC cph.3c27509
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A modern Atlas. The Home-work Burden. Said he made button-holes at home. Washington Square, N.Y. LOC nclc.04184
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A mule-spinner and his assistant (Leopold Daigneau), Chace Cotton Mill, Burlington, Vt. May 7, 1909. LOC cph.3a26044
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6 yr. old Eddie. Regular newsie. Brothers all sell (see 1464). No relation but an interesting resemblance. LOC nclc.03545
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Clementine Miller (and her parents) with her sheep exhibit at the 4 H Club Fair, Charleston, W. Va. LOC nclc.04433
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Belford Coldos, 27 Cannon St., New Bedford, Mass. 8 years old. Picking on Weeks' Bog. LOC nclc.00172
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At the glory hole. A midnight scene in a N.J. Glass Works. His name is Edwin Cope. His mother read me the date of... - NARA - 523228
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Calesthenics (i.e., calisthenics) Every day, every school in Lawton has 15 minutes of this out-door work. LOC nclc.00670
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Doffer boys in Knoxville Cotton Mill. Smallest boy said he had been working there one year. LOC nclc.02013
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This boy has been working in Warren Mfg. Co., Warren , R.I., one year. June 10, 1909. LOC cph.3a42526
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The Marnielli family. Forsythe's Bog, Turkeytown, near Pemberton, N.J. Sept. 29, 1910. Witness E.F. Brown,. LOC nclc.00083
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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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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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Night Shift Leaving for Home- Indiana Glass Works, 8-00 A. M., (See also Photo -91.) LOC cph.3a47674
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Newsboy. Little Fattie. Less than 40 inches high, 6 years old. Been at it one year. LOC nclc.05455
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Name- In the Newsboys Reading Room. Boys seated at tables playing gamers. Boston 1915 Exhibit. Oct. 1909. LOC nclc.05433
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Name- In the Newsboys Reading Room. Boys seated at tables playing gamers. Boston 1915 Exhibit. Oct. 1909. LOC nclc.05433
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Newberry Mills, Newberry, S.C. Going home to dinner. Dec. 3-08. Witness Sara R. Hine. LOC nclc.01474
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Mrs. Palontona and 13 year old daughter, working on pillow-lace in dirty kitchen of their tenement home. They were... - NARA - 523503
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Six year old newsboy. Raymond Miller. Many of these here ranging from five to ten years old. LOC nclc.05526
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The central boy is 9 y(ea)rs old - one is 11. Turners in Rome (Ga.) Hosiery Mill. LOC nclc.02750
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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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Ten Arm Owens Automatic Bottle Machine. Courtesy of Owen's Automatic Bottle Machine Co., Toledo, Ohio. LOC nclc.05512
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Teaching the young rider how to start. A common scene in Pool Room Branch. St. Louis, Mo. - NARA - 523302
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Marching to dinner from 'Honor Cottage' and another dormitory at Pauls Valley Training School. See Gibbons report. LOC nclc.05242
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Small girl, Bright Horton, works in Atherton Mill, Charlotte, N.C. Been in mill work 2 years. LOC nclc.01570
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The average age of newsboys in New Orleans is very high. Many young men like these, and few little ones. LOC nclc.03925
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The average age of newsboys in New Orleans is very high. Many young men like these, and few little ones. LOC nclc.03924
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Some of the small boys working in the Amoskeag Mfg. Co., Manchester, N.H. Photo taken at Noon, May 25. LOC cph.3b00618
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View of the Gorenflo Canning Co. taken at 7 A.M. - NARA - 523308
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Young girls of 11, 12, 13 yrs., string in shed of Goodrich Tobacco Farm, near Gildersleeve, Conn. LOC nclc.00717
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Picking nuts in dirty basement. The dirtiest imaginable children were pawing over the nuts eating lunch on the tabel... - NARA - 523499
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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.00432
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Antone Fontes. Said 11 years old, and worked here last year. Lives in E. Providence, R.I. LOC nclc.00119
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Boys 'linking' bed-springs. 14 and 15 years old. LOC nclc.05607
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Home of workers in Willingham Cotton Mills, Macon, Ga. LOC cph.3b44352
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Adrian Lornager, 8 Bowditch St. (Apparently 13.) Has been sweeper in Grinnell Mill Nearly a year. LOC nclc.02471
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Adrian Lornager, 8 Bowditch St. (Apparently 13.) Has been sweeper in Grinnell Mill Nearly a year. LOC nclc.02471
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A few of the workers in Cherryville Mfg. Co. Cherryville, N.C. - NARA - 523113
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Jo Frank, 38 Blaine St. Broke his arm in mill - belt accident. Said 16 years. LOC nclc.03010
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Group of oyster shuckers. Even little Tenny on the left shucks. She did not know how old she was. LOC nclc.00849
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Group of youngest workers in Irby Tobacco Factory, New Orleans. Very few youngsters there, and none under age. LOC nclc.04923
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Grandmother of the Britt children. See 1914, also report of Lewis W. Hine on North Carolina. April 1915. LOC nclc.00249
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Kerr Thread - Noon hour. Having good time with the camera man. This mill has a high type of operatives. LOC cph.3b23469
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Maple Mills, Dillon, S.C. John Roberts, Been in mill 2 years. Runs 4 and 5 sides. LOC nclc.01500
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Noon hour, Holden-Leonard Co., Bennington, Vt. Some of the youngsters working there. Work was slack and force small. LOC nclc.01843
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Noon hour Holden-Leonard Co., Bennington, Vt. Some of the youngsters working there. Work was slack and force small. LOC nclc.01841
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Noon hour, Holden-Leonard Co., Bennington, Vt. Some of the youngsters working there. Work was slack, and the force small. LOC nclc.01838
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Noon hour, Holden-Leonard Co., Bennington, Vt. Some of the youngsters working there. Work was slack and force small. LOC nclc.01833
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Noon hour. Two of the young doffer-boys working in the Laurel Cotton Mills, Laurel, Miss. LOC nclc.02066
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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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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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Burley's Branch Office, 23rd St. near Olive. Wednesday May 4th, 1910. 3-30 P.M. LOC nclc.03469
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Arthur Havard, a young driver, Shaft -6, Pennsylvania Coal Company. LOC cph.3a24705
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Belford Coldos, 27 Cannon St., New Beford, Mass. 8 years old. Picking on Weeks' Bog. LOC cph.3a20806
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Guy Haywood, 10 years old, helps his brother. Harvey doff(s) in Columbus (Ga.) Mill. LOC nclc.02847
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Fishing boats loading the barge on the reef. Mobile Bay, Ala. - NARA - 523386
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Girls and Boys Going Home from Indianapolis Tile Works. Aug., 1908. Wit., E. N. Clopper. LOC nclc.04465
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Exterior of 260 Terrace Street. Several Italian families, which spend the summer in the Cannery District, live here. LOC nclc.00758
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Exterior of rear tenement in which home-work is going on. (For complete details see Miss E.C. Watson's report.) LOC nclc.04272
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Exchange Luncheon. Delia Kane, 14 years old. 99 C Street, South Boston. A young waitress. LOC nclc.05618
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Calesthenics (i.e., calisthenics) Every day, every school in Lawton has 15 minutes of this out-door work. LOC nclc.00671
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Frank Craneshaw. Has doffed for 3 years in Lancaster Cotton Mills, S.C. Gets 75 cents a day. LOC nclc.01449
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8-30 P.M. Group of newsboys selling at the depot, Hartford, Conn. Smallest boy 11 years old. LOC cph.3b00617
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A spinner and a doffer in Catawba Cotton Mill, Newton, N.C. Out of forty employed there were ten almost as small as these. LOC nclc.01559
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Alfred and Willie, two young oyster fishers in Mobile Bay. A few, but not many of these youngsters are found on the oyster boats. LOC nclc.00839
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Boy Sweeper, Lincoln Cotton Mills, Evansville, Ind. Carding Machines- Floor Slippery. (See report for conditions.) LOC cph.3b37794
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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.04266
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Hand bill advertising vaudeville acts by the Shrier children. See photo and label 2937 and report of L.H. Hine LOC nclc.04787
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Group of Miners, Drivers and Trapper. Macdonald, W. Va., Mine. Oct., 1908. Witness E. N. Clopper. LOC nclc.01067
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Group of Sweepers in Pell City Cotton Mill arranged by the Overseer. Superintendent of mill is also Mayor of Pell City. LOC nclc.01922
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Group of workers at Dwight Mfg. Co. Anaemic girl with spectacles. An adolescent in need of fresh air and less confinement. LOC cph.3a27626
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Group working in Holden-Leonard Co., Bennington, Vt. Smallest boy is Louis Godbout, 132 Lincoln St.,. LOC nclc.01837
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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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Leo Day, Postal Telegraph Messenger, 12 years old, and a very knowing lad. (See report of L.W.H.) LOC nclc.03558
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One of the means of exploitation thro(ugh) home-work. The worker pays $1.25 deposit on one dozen plates. LOC nclc.04092
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Noon hour in a furniture factory. Indianapolis, Ind. - NARA - 523075
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Noon hour May 12th, 1910. These girls work 9 to 10 hours a day in Inland Type Foundry. LOC nclc.04651
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Noon hour, Holden-Leonard Co., Bennington, Vt. Some of the youngsters working there. Work was slack and the force small. LOC nclc.01836
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Noon hour, Holden-Leonard Co., Bennington, Vt. Some of the youngsters working there. Work was slack and the force small. LOC nclc.01839
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Name- George Sajdak, a Polish boy who picks berries on a Rock Creek farm, near Baltimore, Md. LOC nclc.00006
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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.00433
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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.00435
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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.00437
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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.00430
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