5,609 Free Photos of Child Labor

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The 'Piedmont Hotel' where some of the boys from the Pool Room Branch sleep in hot weather. (See label 1351). LOC nclc.04641
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The Framo Family Forsythe's Bog, Turkeytown, near Pemberton, N.J. Sept. 29, 1910. Witness E. F. Brown,. LOC nclc.05315
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Tony Soccha, 65 Exchange Pl. (young). A bobbin boy in -7 room- been working there for a year. See 2641. LOC cph.3a21305
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Tony, nine year old bootblack, Newark, N.J. says he makes $1 a day. August 1st, 1924. LOC nclc.04052
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Three young cutters who work in Seacoast Canning Co., Factory -4. Ages 10 to 12. Work regularly. LOC cph.3b33768
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Oyster shuckers at Apalachicola, Fla. This work is carried on by many young boys during the busy seasons. This is a... - NARA - 523162
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A few of the small boys working in the Natick (R. I.) Mills. Some of the smallest ones said they worked there 2 years. LOC nclc.01673
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Noon Hour, Republic Iron & Steel Co., Muncie, Ind. A few go home to lunch. (Couldn't get inside.) LOC cph.3c05668
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Carl Brown, eleven years old. He and his father run a farm of 160 acres, in Southern Vermont. He is overgrown, sluggish, but he said- 'I'd ruther go to school.' See Hine Report, Rural Child LOC cph.3a38573
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Carl Brown, eleven years old. He and his father run a farm of 160 acres in Southern Vermont. He is overgrown, sluggish, but he said- 'I'd ruther go to school.' See Hine Report, Rural Child LOC nclc.00309
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Investigator talking with Ida List, 124 Ridge Street, New York. 8 year old child suffering from chorea (St. Vitus dance) Was born in New York. Mother has always worked hard and takes in LOC nclc.04881
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11-00 A.M. Monday May 9th, 1910. Newsies at Skeeter's Branch, Jefferson near Franklin. They were all smoking. LOC cph.3a47668
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10-year-old truant newsie, selling during school hours Said- 'I been sich (i.e., sick) with pneumonia'. LOC nclc.04028
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Andrew Stefanik, 4 Exchange St., A bobbin Boy (works as a spare boy) in -7 spinning room. See -2660, 2637. LOC nclc.02448
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Bartrum Choate, a 12-year-old boy driving colts to town. Works for W.F. Barber, Route 3, Lawton, Okla. LOC nclc.00679
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Bartrum Choate, a 12-year-old boy driving colts to town. Works for W.F. Barber, Route 3, Lawton, Okla. LOC nclc.00680
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Public School. Found only 3 of the Baltimore cannery children were attending; 5 others had attended and dropped out. LOC nclc.01032
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Mary Gomez, 10 years old. Lives Waquoit. Picked 19 pails one day, generally picks 8 or 10. LOC nclc.00107
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Mrs. J.L. Hazel and children stripping tobacco. A very interesting and poorly educated family. See special card and Kentucky report. LOC nclc.00656
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Left to right- Tony Tomasula, 9 years, 11 Fly St. Frank Thomas, 10 years, 26 State St. LOC nclc.03387
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Mamie, who said she was 9 and a regular picker was teaching her 6 year old sister Ada to use a scoop. LOC nclc.00116
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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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Little Teeny, one of the smallest oyster shuckers at Pass Christian, Miss. Did not know how old she was. LOC nclc.00851
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Group of cash boys in Holmes Department Store showing the youngest workers there and typical type of conditions in New Orleans department stores. LOC nclc.04919
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Group of children playing on the stoop of a house next to 229 Tatnall St., a reputed house of prostitution. Investigator, Edward F. Brown. LOC nclc.04667
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Group of newsboys from 7 years to 21. There were no newsgirls at this time. On the Green at New Haven, Conn. Aug. 26, 1924. LOC nclc.04064
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Group of young cartoners in Seacoast Canning Co. Not the youngest. Eastport, Me. - NARA - 523457
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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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Harvey Nailling, delivery boy for Kutterer Printing Co. 300 Olive St. Works 9 1-2 hours a day. LOC nclc.03514
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John Ghent has worked at spinning for 1 year. Goes to school now. Been Sick. Lancaster, S.C. Cotton Mills. LOC nclc.01430
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John Paulk and family. One of the most prosperous farmers in the district. See report of Lewis W. Hine on Georgia, March, 1915. LOC nclc.00244
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One of the young doffers in Washington Cotton Mills, Fries, Va., going to dinner. Said he was 15 years old, but it is doubtful. LOC nclc.01883
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Pete Le Tendre is the smallest worker. Said 9 years old. Lives 44 Bowler Street, Fall River, Mass. LOC nclc.00127
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This shows the number of small children on the day shift (50 employees in all). Nearly as many small ones on night... - NARA - 523144
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Some doffer boys. Macon, Ga. - NARA - 523153
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Some of night shift waiting to go to work. Cumberland Glass Works, Bridgeton, N.J. One boy is 13 years old. LOC nclc.01219
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Some of the young cartoners in work room, Seacoast Canning Co., Factory -2. Five year old Preston working also. LOC cph.3b33765
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Tommy De Lucco 9 years old, newsie. Been selling 2 years. Sells until 8 P.M. at times. LOC cph.3a52747
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Three families is the rule in these shacks, one room above and one below, but sometimes four families crowd in. Out... - NARA - 523213
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Charles Hoffman said he was 13 years old and in the sixth grade. At the plow after school. See report. L.W. Hine. LOC cph.3a38577
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2 P.M. Workers on gloves, crowded into a small kitchen (photograph very inadequately represents congestion). Dallavalla, 50 McDougal St. LOC nclc.04126
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Bill, a carrying-in boy, Canton Glass Works, Marion, Ind. Gets $.80 a day or night. Others below fourteen, too. LOC cph.3c05656
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5-00 A.M. Sunday May 8th, 1910. Starting out with papers from McIntyres Branch. Chestnut & 16th Sts.,. LOC nclc.03473
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3 girls working in Salvan Medicine Factory and in Seed store. Olive near 14th St. Noon, May 12th, 1910. LOC nclc.04653
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3 girls working in Salvan Medicine Factory and in a Seed Store. Olive near 14th St. Noon, May 12th, 1910. LOC nclc.04655
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Early Education. Boy is 12 years old. Been selling for 3 years. Sells until 7 P.M. Hartford, Conn. LOC nclc.03234
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6-30 A.M. Three of the young girls working in Holden-Leonard Co., Bennington, Vt. Work slack, and the force small. LOC nclc.01840
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A few of the young boys working on the night shift at the Alexandria (Va.) Glass Factory. See also photos and labels 2260 to 2271. LOC nclc.01297
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A few of the young boys working on the night shift at the Alexandria (Va.) Glass Factory. See also photos and labels 2260 to 2271. LOC nclc.01298
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Utopia School opened September 5th. Census 58, enrollment 24, attendance 18; more after tobacco work is over. LOC nclc.00527
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A Deere pulling machine, two horses. These merely loosen the soil, leaving the final pull to be exerted by the workers. Hine. Oct. 1915. LOC nclc.00359
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S)ome of the youngest spinners in Floyd Cotton Mill, Rome, Ga. I saw but a few young workers (h)ere LOC nclc.02770
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Row of mill houses belonging to Holden, Leonard Co., woolen mill, Bennington, Vt. Rents are from $6 to $8 a month. LOC nclc.01736
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Scenes from 'The Twig of Thorn' given by a club of working girls in King Philip Settlement. Most of them are weavers. All girls. LOC nclc.05082
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Scenes from 'The Twig of Thorn' given by a club of working girls in King Philip Settlement. Most of them are weavers. All girls. LOC nclc.05081
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Scenes from 'The Twig of Thorn' given by a club of working girls in King Philip Settlement. Most of them are weavers. All girls. LOC nclc.05087
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Hymie Miller, 5-year-old newsie who lives at 922 W. California St. Sells after school mostly. LOC nclc.04035
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Dillon (S.C.) Mills. Charley Baxley. Has doffed 4 years. Gets 50 cents. Had been out hunting. LOC nclc.01498
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Clyde Cotton Mills, Newton, N.C. Doffers in the above mill. 50 operatives, 10 of them small boys and girls like these. LOC nclc.01547
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Blower and Mold Boy, Seneca Glass Works, Morgantown, W. Va. (see label on -171) (see photos 170 & 171). LOC cph.3a21696
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Yard full of home work. Some would not be in photo. 52 Medford Street. Somerville, Mass. See Home Work report. LOC nclc.04245
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Steven Fortier, 111 Talman St., (about 13). Been working nearly two years in Spool Room of Bristol Mill. LOC nclc.02521
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High school route boys. Adolescents. Some in back row have been newsboys for seven, eight, and nine years. New Haven... - NARA - 523172
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Noon-hour at Riverside Cotton Mill, Danville, Va. June 2, 1911. All work. Not very many under fourteen. LOC cph.3b24201
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King Philip Spinning Room. Spare hand on spinning frames. Alphonsine Berube, 831 Globe St. Age - 15 years. LOC nclc.03053
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Johnnie Beam, one of the young workers in the Pelzer Mfg. Co. Been working there over a year. Appears to be under 12... - NARA - 523546
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Johnnie Burns and his Basement Branch. Also photo of his boy, whom he says is ungovernable. Burns says the 4 year old... - NARA - 523303
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Joseph Polchlopek (alone), 37 W. Front St. Says, 'Been working here two years and a half.' (See -2638). LOC nclc.02414
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Joseph Severio, peanut vender, 11 years of age. Been pushing cart 2 years. Out after midnight on May 21, 1910.... - NARA - 523310
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More youngsters in Newton Cotton Mills, N.C. Out of 150 employees there were 20 of these boys and girls. Dec. 21, 1908. LOC nclc.01541
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Mrs. J.L. Hazel and children stripping tobacco. A very interesting and poorly educated family. See special card and Kentucky report. LOC nclc.00655
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Mule power and motor power. A Young Driver, Shaft -6, Pennsylvania Coal Company. LOC nclc.05469
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Bessie Gonsalve, Said she was 11. Picking and carrying cranberries. Lives in Harwich, Mass. Expects to be here for several weeks more. LOC nclc.00111
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Ben Key, a fifteen year old messenger in Tampa, Florida. (See report of Lewis W. Hine.) LOC nclc.03559
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Bernadette Blanchette. 9 year old French girl whose father and 16 year old brother are in Kerr Thread mill. LOC cph.3b33415
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5 year old Rosie Passeralla of Philadelphia. Been picking here two years. Whites Bog. Brown Mills, N.J. - NARA - 523265
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A Carolina colt living in Spartenberg (sic) Mill Settlement but unfortunately not put to work too early as the human colts are. (See 2997.) LOC nclc.02588
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7-00 P.M. Boys selling papers at the depot, Bridgeport, Conn. Smallest one has been selling for 8 years. LOC nclc.03285
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A few of the young boys working on the night shift at the Alexandria (Va.) Glass Factory. See also photos and labels 2260 to 2271. LOC nclc.01301
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Another of the many small children working in Mollahan Mills, Newberry, S.C. Dec. 3-08 Witness Sara R. Hine. LOC cph.3c15373
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6 P.M. April 23,1909. Two of the youngest workers in Bates Mfg. Co., Lewiston, Me. Have worked there 8 years. LOC cph.3c27567
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Arthur Fernande, said 8 years old, picking cranberries by hand, and brother Charlie said he was 9 picking with a... - NARA - 523462
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Scenes from 'The Twig of Thorn' given by a club of working girls in King Philip Settlement. Most of them are weavers. All girls. LOC nclc.05088
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General view of Forsythe's Bog, Turkeytown, near Pemberton, N.J. with Padrone. Sept. 29, 1910. Witness, E. F. Brown. LOC nclc.05312
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This is typical of the home work on underwear in these quarters. Mother and children and surroundings all filthy. 4 Me Culphe Place, Somerville, Mass. LOC nclc.04244
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The Swimming Hole. Group of boys - 14 to 16 years - just returned from working in tobacco at Southwick, Mass., on Galpin's farm. LOC nclc.05099
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The Swimming Hole. Group of boys - 14 to 16 years - just returned from working in tobacco at Southwick, Mass., on Galpin's farm. LOC nclc.05098
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The Newsboy Club. Gathered to go to a stunt at Moving Picture Show where they were to sit on the stage. Taken at 7-30 P.M. LOC nclc.03832
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Spinners & doffers in Mollahan Mills, Newberry, S.C. Many others as small. Dec. 3-08. Sara R. Hine, Witness. LOC nclc.05384
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Some of the doffers and the Supt. Ten small boys and girls about this size out of a force of 40 employees. Catawba... - NARA - 523141
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Group of newsboys from 7 years to 21. There were no newsgirls at this time. On the Green at New Haven, Conn. Aug. 26, 1924. LOC nclc.04063
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Frank Burditt and family. They rent this dilapidated shack and are trying to make a living off the meagre land near by. Oct. 11, 1921. LOC nclc.04424
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Folding Paper Box Company, South Bend, Ind. About 6 young boys and girls here, but could not get photographs. LOC cph.3b15912
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Hyman, six year old newsie. Another six year old newsie said he sold until 6 P.M. LOC cph.3a53379
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Home of Clifford Matheny, Summit Ave. E. St. Louis. Glass works boy (see photo 1407) He is - 3. LOC nclc.01287
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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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Two of the very youngest newsboys I could find in New Orleans. Seven and nine years old. Such little fellows are rare. LOC nclc.03923
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Two 7 year old newsies, profane and smart, selling Sunday. Nashville, Tenn. - NARA - 523340
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Geo. Rabholz, 14 years old, 724 Main St., Cincinnati, Ohio, Delivers bundles for a printing office. Aug., 1908. LOC nclc.03187
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