5,609 Free Photos of Child Labor

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Bleach-room boy-Leon Halcourt, 34 Melvin St., 16 years old. Pacific Mills. LOC nclc.01857
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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.05625
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Tipple Crew, (see photo -146) Turkey Knob Mine, Macdonald, W. Va. Oct. 1908 Witness E. N. Clopper. LOC cph.3a24702
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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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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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This is the Day Nursery in the beet fields. Babies have to amuse themselves under the direction of those who are too small to work. Ordway, Colorado. LOC nclc.00260
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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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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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Smallest boy is Philip Beaulieu, 36 1-2 Perkins St. Works in -2 Spinning Room; been working two months. LOC nclc.02400
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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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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.02645
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Some of the housing conditions of the workers in Cannon Mills, Concord, N.C., to contrast with the homes and gardens sometimes shown from the 'show mills' of the state. LOC cph.3a18646
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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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Harvey Buchanan, 608 E. Van Buren St. Postal Telegraph Co. Messenger No. 1908. 14 years of age. 1 year in service. Works from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. $4 weekly. Visits houses of prostitution. LOC cph.3a41623
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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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Arnao family, 831 Catherine St., Rear - 2. Whole family works. Jo is 3 years old. Boy is 6 years old, Girl is 9 years old. We found this family, children and all working on Hichens farm, LOC cph.3c30780
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Rhodes Mfg. Co. Spinner. A moments glimpse of the outer world. Said she was 11 years old. Been working over a year.... - NARA - 523106
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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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A pair of truants, tending their father's mules. Photo taken during school hours, near Oklahoma City. Boys are 9 and 11 yrs. old. LOC nclc.00665
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Alfred Gengreau, 20 Beaudry St., Joseph Miner, 15 Water St. Both work in Mr. Baker's room. Indian Orchard Mill. LOC nclc.02281
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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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Betsay (i.e., Betsey) Price, - First year High School at her club sewing. 4 H Club work - Marlinton, W. Va. LOC nclc.04436
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Betsey Price, First year high school at her Club sewing. 4 H Club work, Marlinton, W. Va. LOC cph.3a29831
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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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Camillo DeMarco, 129 Common St., been in the Washington Mill spinning room No. 1, 3 months. Birth certificate makes him 14. LOC nclc.02336
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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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H. C. Orr, 308 Mulberry St., Cincinnati, (rear House)Delivers for a Motor Car Co. Said he was 16 years old. LOC cph.3a42465
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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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Dora Nevins, 12 years old. Been selling 1 year. Hartford, Conn. - NARA - 523177
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Group of cutters, all of them working, factory -2. One of them, not the youngest, is Harold Whalen, 14 Tappen Ave. Makes $1.00 a day. LOC nclc.00950
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Group of workers at Dwight Mfg. Co. Gottlieb Gasnick, (boy with sweater), 15 Gardner Rd. Worked in spinning room -4 for six months. LOC nclc.02425
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Group of workers in Perkins Hosiery Mill, Columbus, Ga. Not many very young children here. Dozens of them in the adjoining mill. LOC nclc.02812
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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 younger workers in mule room. All but two are 14 and 15 years old. Going home at 11 A.M. Berkshire Cotton Mills. LOC cph.3c01563
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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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Going to the 'Movies.' This theatre makes no attempt to obey the state law. Boys of any age can go in, afternoon or evening. 2-30 P.M. LOC cph.3b33380
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Josie, six year old, Bertha, six years old, Sophie, 10 years old, all shuck regularly. Maggioni Canning Co. LOC cph.3a15214
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In the Alexandria glass factories, negroes work side by side with the white workers. Also in Richmond. These are some of those working in the Alexandria (Va.) Glass Factory. LOC cph.3b38482
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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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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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Mexicans. Beet workers and the shacks they live in near Rocky Ford, Colorado. See Hine Report, Colorado. Sugar Beet Workers, July, 1915. LOC nclc.00258
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Mexicans. Beet workers and the shacks they live in near Rocky Ford, Colorado. See Hine Report, Colorado. Sugar Beet Workers, July 1915. LOC nclc.00259
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Name- Three families live in this shack- one room above and one below. Bottomley's farm near Baltimore, Md. July 7, 1909. LOC cph.3b38162
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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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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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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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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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A boy who said eleven years old (apparently less) and that he was a sweeper in Loray Cotton Mills, Gastonia, N.C., during the past summer. LOC nclc.02662
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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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Views of the White Oak Cotton Mills, Greensboro, N.C., showing the beautiful location of the mill, its well-kept grounds, and the good housing conditions. LOC nclc.02679
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View of the berry fields near Baltimore, Md. Many girls and boys, old and young, working here with the negroes who are often not good associates. LOC nclc.00019
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Some of the youngsters working in Belton Mfg. Co., Belton, S.C. Two of the youngest and J. Henderson, Kelly Street. Percy Morrison, Eugene Simper. LOC nclc.02607
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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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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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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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These are the smallest workers I could find at Southland Shoe Factory, Lynchburg, Va., and I went all through it. Only a few under fourteen. LOC nclc.04731
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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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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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Seven year old Rudie Kartis, and brother, Louis, 9 years old. The older brother soon finds little one is a drawing card. LOC nclc.03907
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Indianapolis Newsboys buying brass checks in a newspaper office. These checks cost at the rate of one-half the selling price of the newspaper and are exchanged at another window for the LOC cph.3c05660
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Joseph Roposa, 376 Webster St. Young Greek, said been working in weave room of Cornell Mill a short time. Going to dinner. LOC nclc.02517
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Kibbe's Candy Factory. Ryme Sylvester 15 years, 68 Clinton St. Runs chocolate spreader. Earns $ 4.00. Been at it one year. LOC nclc.04609
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In comparison with governmental affairs newsies are small matters. This photo taken in the shadow of the National Capitol where the laws are made. This group of young newsboys sells on the LOC cph.3c22958
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In comparison with governmental affairs newsies are small matters. This photo taken in the shadow of the National Capitol where the laws are made. This group of young newsboys sells on the LOC cph.3c22959
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Antone Simmons, small boy in center of picture, 61 Katharine St., Ward 6. In the twisting room. Birth certificate makes him 14. LOC nclc.02244
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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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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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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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The Garfield. This was built to relieve the congestion of the beet workers in the other schools of Ft. Morgan, and none but beet workers are here. The school opened November 29, and will LOC nclc.00386
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Some of doffers and the Superintendent, Catawba Cotton Mill, Newton, N.C. Ten small boys and girls about this size out of a force of 40 employees. LOC cph.3b37516
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Some of the workers in a Md. packing company. Plenty of work for even the tiniest hands. Many have to carry heavy boxes full of beans etc. LOC nclc.00032
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Some of the youngsters working in Belton Mfg. Co., Belton S.C. Two of the youngest and J. Henderson, Kelly Street. Percy Morrison, Eugene Simper. LOC nclc.02608
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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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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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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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Frank De Natale, a 12-year old barber. Lathers and shaves customers in father's shop, 416 Hanover Street, after school and Saturday. LOC nclc.05619
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Going to their work at 5 P.M. 'Sheeny Joe's' Glass House, January, 1913. Boy to left is 15 years old, can't speak English. LOC nclc.01303
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Fred, a young oyster fisher; working on an oyster boat in Mobile Bay, the Reef, near Bayou La Batre, said he was fourteen, but not likely. LOC nclc.00812
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Ila Feebach, 15-year old girl at home for housework. Father, Rufus Feebach, Route 4, Cynthiana, Ky. Near Hookstown School. LOC nclc.00577
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Ila Feebach, 15-year old girl at home for housework. Father, Rufus Feebach, Route 4, Cynthiana, Ky. Near Hookstown School. LOC nclc.00576
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Unloading oysters on the dock. Alabama Canning Co. Bayou La Batre, Ala. - NARA - 523399
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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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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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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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One of the many young boys working as assistants on express wagons. May 13, 1910. 11 A.M. Adams Express Co. LOC nclc.03513
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Name- A few of the workers on night shift, Cumberland Glass (Works), Bridgeton, N.J. One boy is 13 years old. Nov. 15, 1909. LOC cph.3b09807
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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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A regular worker (doffer) in Richmond Spinning Mills. Photo during working hours. Chattanooga, Tenn. - NARA - 523363
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A Little 'Shaver,' Indianapolis Newsboy, 41 inches high. Said he was 6 years old. Aug., 1908. Wit., E. N. Clopper. LOC cph.3b03843
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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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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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Bridgeport, Conn. Newsboys. One of the smallest has been selling for 2 years. Boy highest up on steps has been at it 6 years. LOC nclc.03277
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An Enforced Rest. Harry Swope, aged 15, 426 Elm St., Newport, Ky., Carrying heavy bundles of paper for a News & Sta'y Co. LOC cph.3b23467
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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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