5,609 Free Photos of Child Labor

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Group of mill folks. All ages. Salisbury Cotton Mills. Salisbury, N.C. - NARA - 523136
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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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Home of Dewey Coffey and family, who is said to be one of the few tenants in the county. Children go to Scafford King School but out for sickness. LOC nclc.00482
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John Megna - Italian - 16 yrs. 75 Mt. Hope Ave. Iron Worker - Sweeper. Carving class at King Philip Settlement. LOC cph.3b33403
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Joseph Harris, a 9 year old newsboy. Been selling 1 1-2 years. Hartford, Conn. - NARA - 523176
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John Sims, 7 year old newsie, New Bedford, Mass. August 22, 1911. Evening. Richard K. Conant, Witness,. LOC nclc.03740
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Millie. Four year old cotton picker on farm near Houston. Picks about eight pounds a day, regularly. See -3598. LOC nclc.05537
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Millie. Four year old cotton picker on farm near Houston. Picks about eight pounds a day, regularly. See -3598. LOC nclc.05537
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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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Some of the young bootblacks working around Trinity Church, New York City, July 25, 1924. LOC nclc.04038
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Some of the youngest workers in Magnolia (Miss.) Cotton Mills. See photos and labels 1490 to 1495. Also 2091 to 2100. LOC nclc.02086
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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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The dance of the Children of the Sunshine. (-4140- Miss Mackay's Pageant Children of Sunshine and Shadow as presented at Washington Irving High School. L.W. Hine. LOC nclc.05002
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The dance of the Children of the Sunshine. (-4140- Miss Mackay's Pageant Children of Sunshine and Shadow as presented at Washington Irving High School. L.W. Hine. LOC nclc.05007
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Two of the 'pin boys' working in Bowling Academy with 3 other small boys until 10 or 11 P.M. some nights. Burlington,. LOC nclc.03374
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Charley Herring, 9 year old Helper in Ga. Hosiery Mill, Columbus Ga. Lives 219 Broad Street, Girard, Ala. LOC nclc.02824
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Cocoanut Shaver -Kibbe's Factory. Isaac Futterman, 15 years, 108 Sharon St. Been working one year. Earns $3.50. LOC nclc.04598
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Anthoston School. A most dilapidated shack; unlocked, open to the weather, windows broken out and furniture knocked about. Opens September 6th. LOC nclc.00572
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Anti-Saloon broadside advocating passage of Child Labor Laws; illus. of small girl lying on monument to Profit; factories belching smoke in background LCCN2004679524
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5-30 Sunday Morning May 8th, 1910. Boys starting out from Burley's Branch, 23rd St. near Olive. LOC nclc.03475
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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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A few of the young boys working in the Danville (Va.) Cigarette Factory. Many others work, who would not be photographed. See other photos. LOC nclc.04744
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9-00 P.M. Dec. 17, 09. Newark, N.J. Nicholas Guiseppi, 65 River St. Sells until later than this. LOC nclc.05450
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Rose Biodo, Philadelphia, 10 years old. Working 3 summers, minds baby and carries berries, two pecks at a time.... - NARA - 523263
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Sadie Pfeifer, 48 inches high. Has worked half a year. One of the many small children at work in Lancaster Cotton... - NARA - 523128
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Doffer in Mellville Mfg. Co., Cherryville, N.C. Said he had been working for two years. Many of them below age. LOC cph.3c00034
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Eunice Hadwin spinner in King Mill, Augusta, Ga., earns 75 cents to $1.00 a day. Been in mill work 5 years. LOC nclc.01646
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Carrying underwear back to the factory through squalid surroundings. East Side near Brooklyn Bridge, N.Y. LOC nclc.04191
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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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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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Lumberton Cotton Mills. I saw all the children in this photograph coming out and going in to work when the whistle blew, and they said they worked. LOC nclc.02977
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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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Noon hour ball-game at Quidwick Co. Hill, Anthony, R. I. All of them work in the mill. Note the boy nearest. LOC nclc.01660
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John Endyk, 90 Springfield St., been in Mill-room of Wood Mill one year. Birth certificate makes him 14. LOC nclc.02338
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Noon hour at Delta Cotton Mills, Mc Comb, Miss. The tiny spinner pushing into the doorway tried to avoid me. LOC cph.3a18649
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Noon hour card game - Mill Boys. Pacific Mills. Lawrence, Mass. - NARA - 523272
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Noon, Saturday, May 22, 1909. Young girls working in Amoskeag mills, Manchester, N.H. Many this size (and smaller) work here. LOC cph.3b18633
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Noon, Saturday, May 22, 1909. Young girls working in Amoskeag Mills, Manchester, N.H. Many this size (and smaller) work here. LOC nclc.01748
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Maple Mill, Dillon, S.C. Azy Warn-Winds. Stella Warn (little one) spins 4 sides. 'Been at it a long time.' LOC nclc.01484
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Lincoln Cotton Mill, Evansville, Ind. Boy sweeping small boy picking up and carrying away. (Bad light and shaking floors.) LOC nclc.01333
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Little spinner in Mollahan Cotton Mills, Newberry, S.C. Many others as small. Dec. 3-08 Witness Sara R. Hine. LOC cph.3c07335
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Loafing around. Group of boys who had been sweepers and doffers, then worked in tire factory and now out on strike. 5 P.M. LOC nclc.05105
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Antonio Satera, 135 1-2 Common St., works in folding-in room of the Wood Mill. Is an illiterate - probably 13 years old. LOC cph.3b46589
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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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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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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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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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The Petrino children, 290 First Ave. Peter, Mary, (baby), Katherine. Entire family spends summer working in a fruit picking center. LOC cph.3b06596
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Some adolescents in Bibb Mfg. Co. Macon, Ga. - NARA - 523155
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Some of the doffers at the Salisbury (N.C.) Cotton Mill, October 18th, 1912. The average age of the children here is rather high, but there are some youngsters. LOC nclc.02644
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Katherine Flanagan, 15 years old. Examining curtains at Boutwell, Fairclough & Gold, 274 Summer Street Extension. Mr. Fitzgerald, Manager. LOC nclc.05189
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Eldridge Bernard, 11 yrs. old. Buster Smith, 6 yrs. Old. Route boys of Newark. Colored. Taken at 4 P.M. LOC nclc.03836
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Group of newsies selling on capitol steps. Dan, a chronic truant, 9 years old. Joseph, 10 years old, begins selling... - NARA - 523532
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Going home Saturday noon, Jan 6., from Nashawena, Nonquitt and Manomet Mills. Many of these smallest ones said, 'Working in these mills.' LOC nclc.02516
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Hugh Dixon a 10 year old boy who says he's been working in the Shaw Cotton Mill some in the past year. LOC nclc.02982
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Interior of Magnolia Cotton Mills spinning room. See the little ones scattered through the mill. All work. Magnolia... - NARA - 523307
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Group of boys working in Freidjman (i.e., Friedman) Shelby Shoe Company, 6-30 A.M. (See photo -1718 for names of boys.) LOC nclc.04702
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Two 7 year old newsies, profane and smart, selling Sunday. Nashville, Tenn. - NARA - 523340, edit
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One of the youngest boys I found working in the Naomi Mill apparently 10 yrs old. There were two others about as young. LOC nclc.02833
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Newsboy. Little Fattie. Less than 40 inches high, 6 years old. Been at it one year. May 9th, 1910. LOC nclc.05322
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Rosy, an 8 year old oyster shucker works steady all day from about 3 A.M. to 5 P.M. The baby will shuck as soon as... - NARA - 523414
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All workers that are in Sweetwater Hosiery Co., except smallest boy in middle, and there are many others even smaller than he in mills of this region. LOC nclc.01990
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Children of the Sunshine with 'Play'. L.W. Hine. (-4140- Miss Mackay's Pageant Children of Sunshine and Shadow as presented at Washington Irving High School. LOC nclc.05593
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Boys Working in a Cannery, Indianapolis, Unloading freight cars full of new tomato cans. Aug., 1908. Wit., E. N. Clopper. LOC nclc.05356
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Burns Basement Branch. A dark dirty cellar, 3518 Evans Ave. See photo 1460. St. Louis, Mo. May 1910. LOC cph.3a42467
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Abe Singer, 14-year old helper at Wax Florists, 143 Tremont Street. He delivers bundles, tends the door, etc. LOC nclc.04012
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Anaemic adolescent who refused to give his name- Works in Kilburn Mill, New Bedford. (Is probably 13 or 14 years old.) LOC nclc.02246
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Workers in the Tifton Cotton Mills. All these children were working or helping. 125 workers in all. Some of the... - NARA - 523146
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Eight-year-old Max, one of the young shrimp pickers in the Dunbar, Lopez, Dukate Company. Only a small force was working that day. LOC cph.3a01050
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Elsie and Sadie at their machines, Yazoo City (Miss.) Yarn Mills. Both said thirteen years old, but see photo and label 2102. LOC nclc.02100
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Buckeye School, opened July 3rd, 12 enrolled and 11 present. About 20 belong. Teacher said some out for work. LOC nclc.00475
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Florence Anderson, 15 years old. Folding curtains at Boutwell, Fairclough & Gold, 274 Summer Street Extension. Mr. Fitzgerald, Manager. LOC nclc.05188
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Bleach-room boy-Leon Halcourt, 34 Melvin St., 16 years old. Pacific Mills. LOC nclc.01857
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9 year old newsie. Tough specimen of Los Angeles newsboys. See California report. Los Angeles, California Exhib(it) Panel LOC nclc.03968
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9-00 P.M. Dec. 17, 09. Newark, N.J. Nicholas Guiseppi, 65 River St. Sells until later than this. LOC nclc.05450
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10 yr. old picker on Gildersleeve Tobacco Farm. LOC cph.3b21313
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A Kentucky school. Name and data to be added later if possible. Lewis W. Hine. (in another handwriting-) Bush School, Clark Co., Ky. LOC nclc.00588
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Bank Boss, Turkey Knob Mine, Macdonald, W. Va., and a great fall of Slate that blocked entry. Witness E. N. Clopper. LOC cph.3a21703
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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.02876
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Group of young boys working in Central Cotton Mills. (Owned by Avondale Mills.) Not nearly so many youngsters here as there are at the Avondle Mills. LOC nclc.01955
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Investigator saw all the children in this photograph coming out and going in to work when the whistle blew, and they said they worked. Lumberton Cotton Mills. LOC nclc.02960
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Louis Zabawa, 33 East St. Has been a band boy in -10 Mill, two years and six months. He says. LOC nclc.02444
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Manuel Oliver, George St., is small boy to left of dry works in carding room. Seems surely only 12 years old. LOC nclc.02254
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On right) Donato Dandrea selling at 10 P.M. (See No. 1213.) (Left) John Rieiglian, 15 years old, 21 Evans St., LOC nclc.03401
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One of the ball-teams made up of boys from Natick Mills, Natick, R. I. Saturday P.M. April 17, 1909. LOC nclc.01676
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One of the smallest workers in Walker County Hosiery Mills, Lafayette, Ga. I saw only two I thought under 12. LOC nclc.02769
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One of the youngest spinners in the Washington Cotton Mills, Fries, Va. Hettie Roberts. Runs two sides. Been working several weeks. LOC nclc.02103
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Max Schwartz (8 yrs. old) and Jacob Schwartz, 163 Howard St., Newark, N.J. Sell until 10 P.M. sometimes. LOC cph.3a47672
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Melville Mfg. Co., Cherryville, N.C. Smallest chap said he had been in mill for 2 years. Many youngster here. LOC nclc.01390
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Little spinner in Mollahan Cotton Mills, Newberry, S.C. Many others as small. Dec. 3-08 Witness Sara R. Hine. LOC cph.3c07335
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Two of the helpers in the Tifton Cotton Mill. They work regularly. Tifton, Ga. - NARA - 523152
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Two six-year old newsboys. Odell McDuffy, Sam Stillman, Dallas. There are many other of six and seven years selling here. LOC nclc.03905
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Type of adolescent found in Atherton Mill, Charlotte, N.C. (and in many other mills in the South). Will Freeman. Been in mill work 4 years. LOC nclc.01571
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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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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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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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Scene in Cumberland Glass Works, Bridgeton, N.J. A young 'holding-mold-boy' on left of photo and young 'carrying-in-boy' in middle distance. LOC nclc.01214
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Young girls going home from Brown's shoe factory. (Washington & 18th Sts) at close of day. May 10 th, 1910. LOC nclc.04648
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Young workers leaving mill of Sagamore Manufacturing Company, Fall River, August 26, 1911. Noon. Richard K. Conant. Witness. LOC cph.3b33355
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Welch Mining Co., Welch, W. Va. Boy running trip rope at tipple. Overgrown, but looked 13 years old. Works 10 hours... - NARA - 523077
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