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7 year old twins. Been selling for 1 year. Sell sometimes until 8 P.M., Hartford, Conn. LOC cph.3b21344
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All are workers in Knoxville Knitting Mills. Smallest boy ravels, smallest girl is a steady worker. Knoxville, Tenn. - NARA - 523371
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Alfred Genalano - 12 Newark Street. 10 yrs. old - Carries to customers on River Street, in Segregated district - 'Dunno how many.' 3-30 P.M. LOC nclc.03828
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Boy probably about 13 years old, tying strips which he has taken away from the planer. Schultze Waltum Co., Planing Mill. LOC nclc.05372
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Boy with bare arms, Fred Normandin, 15 Bridge St., has been working in Amoskeag Mfg. Co., mill No. 1, Manchester, N.H. for several months. LOC cph.3b16900
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Harriet Cotton Mills. Investigator spent the noon and part of the day around the mill, and saw a very few young children. He was not able to get into the mills, but indications are that LOC nclc.02981
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Group of workers in cotton mill at West. Two of them are under legal age. One is twelve and one is fourteen according to their Family Record. Much illiteracy here. LOC nclc.02870
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Margaret Ciampa, 14 years old, finishing flowers at Boston Floral Supply Co., 347-357 Cambridge Street. Said to be the only flower factory in Massachusetts. LOC nclc.05614
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Noon hour, Cocheco Mfg. Co. Young girls working regularly. A number of others there, some even younger. Dover, N.H. - NARA - 523198
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Noon hour. Herman Rette (right hand), Arsene Lussier. Both been working in Chace Cotton Mill, Burlington, Vt. for over a year. (See -730.) LOC nclc.01715
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Mr. A. Langerfeld and one of his machines for picking coal which does away completely with the use of breaker boys. The percent of slate that goes in with the coal separated by this machine LOC nclc.05511
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Two new shacks, near Sterling, in which beet workers live. Most of these are old and dilapidated, dirty and crowded. 9 persons live in one of these, 4 in the other. LOC nclc.00353
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Photo of boys working in Arcade Bowling Alley. Trenton, N.J. Photo taken late at night. The boys work until midnight and later. Dec. 20, 1909. LOC nclc.03369
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Relief map showing the general location of the counties and three river basins affected by the beet work. The latter are the Arkansas River in the south and south east, the South Platt in LOC nclc.05588
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Sadie McGurin, 15 years old. Pressing curtains at Boutwell, Fairclough & Gold. 274 Summer Street Extension. Lewis W. Hine. (Mr. Fitzgerald, Manager.) LOC nclc.05190
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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 Mills. Nov. 30, 1908. LOC cph.3a13674
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Scene in More-Jonas Glass Co., Bridgeton, N.J. Several young boys are to be seen in photo. LOC nclc.05443
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Young workers adolescence and younger in Manomet, Nonquitt and Nashawena Mills. Going to dinner and back to wrk. Noon. January 9, 1912. Richard K. Conant, witness. LOC nclc.02511
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Young workers adolescence and younger in Manomet, Nonquitt and Nashawena Mills. Going to dinner and back to wrk. Noon. January 9, 1912. Richard K. Conant, Witness. LOC nclc.02508
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William Jerry, 457 North Bend Street. 'I sells papers every day in the year; Sundays too. Been at it four years.' 13 years old. LOC nclc.03976
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Josie, six year old, Bertha, six years old, Sophie, 10 years old, all shuck regularly
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James Cooney - Irish - 15 years. 26 Peck St., King Philip. Drop Wire boy. Belongs to Settlement House junior base-ball league. LOC nclc.03002
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Eb Karns been 'sweepin here two years' couldn't write his name, couldn't spell it. Appears to be under 12. Pelzer, S.C. Mfg. Co. LOC nclc.02623
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Frederick Banfill, 91 Winthrop St. Name without picture, Ernest Silvan- suspicious, wouldn't give name. Laughing face, short, may be in group No. 10. LOC nclc.04776
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Gang of older boys working in White's Bog Brown Mills, N.J. Cranberry bogs, a rough gang. Sept. 28, 1910. Witness, E. F. Brown,. LOC nclc.00046
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Shucking oysters in the Alabama Canning Company (Dunbar Lopez, Dukate Co.) Small boy on left end is Mike Murphy, ten years old, and from Baltimore. LOC nclc.00829
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Tony Casale, 11 years old, been selling 4 years. Sells sometimes until 10 P.M. His paper told me the boy had shown... - NARA - 523179
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Tiny, seven year old oyster shucker (Henry's sister, No. 3291) does not go to school. Works steady. Been at it one year. Maggioni Canning Co. LOC nclc.05335
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Tobacco pickers on Goodrich Farm, 'Second picking.' The tobacco plants are often much taller than the children, and the air close and humid, especially when they are working on the ground. LOC nclc.00707
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These eight pupils are all that are attending out of 160 Russian Children that should be in the Lincoln School, Sterling, Colo. As soon as the beet work commenced they dropped out. Photo LOC nclc.00313
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These are cashiers in Holmes Department Store, New Orleans. The youngest girls working in the store and illustrate how well the law is being enforced in all the department stores here. LOC nclc.04922
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Six-year old Henry and three-year old Hilda, beet workers on a Wisconsin farm. See Hine Report, Wisconsin Sugar Beet, July 1915. LOC nclc.00283
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St. Paul's Parochial School, located within a stone's throw of the homes of the cannery workers, and the Sister in charge says that practically none of the children attend day school; that a LOC nclc.01033
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Smallest boy in group is Duke Gray, 66 Coburn Street, doffs in No. 1 spinning room and has been there one month. Seems 13 years old. LOC cph.3b43671
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Smallest boy is Max Schwartz (8 yrs. Old) and Jacob Schwartz, 163 Howard St., Newark, N.J. Sell until 10 P.M. sometimes, (photo by). LOC cph.3a47673
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OUR BABY DOFFER and some of the other infants working in the Avondale Mills. Birmingham, Ala. - NARA - 523360
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12-year old boy carrying heavy crate of tomatoes on farm of W.T. Hill. He has been earning $1.25 a day steady all Summer. LOC nclc.00582
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A.D.T. Boy, 13 years old. One and one-half years at it. Works from noon to 10-30 P.M. Said he 'carries notes, etc.' LOC nclc.04592
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A couple of dinner-toters at Riverside Cotton Mills, Danville, Va. Myriads of these little ones carry dinners to the mill workers. The Supt. of Schools and teachers in Danville said that LOC nclc.02165
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A few of the San Antonio messengers. See Hine report on messenger service of Texas. Edgar Barnes is one of the smallest in front row. The messengers and their contact with the Red Light LOC nclc.03873
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Adolescents and other in Payne Cotton Mill, Macon, Ga. Girl on end with dropping eyelids has been helping there one yr. Jan. 20, 1909. L.W. LOC cph.3a20283
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Oscar Weston, 1320 Berkley Av. Been 'toteing work' off and on for a year at Chesapeake Knitting Mills, Berkley, Va. See also photos and labels 2244 to 2249. LOC nclc.02196
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A typical group of messengers at Postal Telegraph Company's main office, 253 B'(road)way. During hot weather they wear these shirt waists. (A Suggestion for the other companies.) LOC nclc.03705
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Addie Laird, 12 years old. Spinner in a Cotton Mill. Girls in mill say she is 10 years old. She admitted to me that... - NARA - 523249
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Andrew Stefanik, (on right hand). (see label 2637). Arthur Asslin, (on left) 118 Front St. Been working here one year. May be 14 or 15. LOC cph.3a40613
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Bessie Blitch, 15 years old. Sewing curtains on machine at Boutwell, Fairclough & Gold, 274 Summer Street Extension. Lewis W. Hine. (Mr. Fitzgerald, Manager.) LOC nclc.05192
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May Hosiery Mills. The boy is Harvey Curtis, 12 years old, turns stockings. Made $1.41 this week, out of which he paid sixty cents carfare. LOC nclc.01887
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Lena Rose, 7 years old. Lives East Falmouth. Picks 6 to 9 measures a day. Manuel Rose, 9 years old. Picks 9 measures. LOC nclc.00163
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Neil Power, 10 y(ea)rs old, said, 'Turns stockings in Rome (Ga.) Hosiery Mill.' A shy pathetic figure. 'Haint been to school much.' LOC nclc.02745
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Going to work. The manager said, We have 150 workers beside the kids. Falmouth, Mass. - NARA - 523477
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Group in Sweatshop. Mr. Schneider, 87 Ridge Street Shop located in the second inner court. Group just finishing week's work. Witness Mrs. Lillian Hosford. LOC cph.3a21184
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Group in which the two smallest are Camillo De Marco, 129 Common St., to right of picture (see 2470). Joseph Dangolo, to left of picture, 61 Common Street. LOC nclc.02337
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Group of Barre Times newsies. One was 10 years old, three were 11, five were 12, four were 13 and five were 14 and over. LOC nclc.03977
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Interior of Magnolia (Miss.) Cotton Mills spinning room. See the little ones scattered through the mill. All work. See also other Magnolia photos and labels. LOC nclc.05456
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Group of newsies (youngest 10 years) selling Boston papers at noon. In Barre and Montpelier newsies are excused from school a little early at noon and at night in order to get to their LOC nclc.03981
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Group showing most of the youngsters working in the Cowpen's Manufacturing Co., S.C. They are all regular workers including shorty the smallest one. The boy next to him was dragged out of LOC nclc.02557
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Girls worming tobacco. Myrtle, 10 years, Zelina, 12 years, Florence, 13 years. Brother 14 and sister 16. Father John Richard. Rents farm. LOC nclc.00458
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Jo Oliphant, R.D. 3, Bowling Green, holding stick for tobacco cutters on father's farm. 'I go to school some and am out some.' Plano School. LOC nclc.00548
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Philip Sowa - Polish - 14 years May 16, 1916, 256 Montauk St. First application to be doffer in card room of Shoe Mill. Liked to go to school. LOC nclc.05062
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Pete, the Padrone, and family and neighbors. Girl tending baby in sun. Forsythe's Bog, Turkeytown, near Pemberton, N.J. Sept. 29, 1910. Witness E. F. Brown,. LOC nclc.00086
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The mill school of the Anniston Mfg. Co. These are boys at the mill school who have to make the 8 weeks schooling for the year. The school is miserably equipped. Willie Laty, the shortest LOC nclc.02938
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The mill school of the Anniston Mfg. Co. These are boys at the mill school who have to make the 8 weeks schooling for the year. The school is miserably equipped. Willie Laty, the shortest LOC nclc.02939
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Tommie, very young shiner, Canal Street, New York City. Some of these youngsters do not know their ages nor how much they earn. July 25, 1924. LOC nclc.04047
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2 of the youngest turners at work. The boy on the right is Joseph Allsbrook. Said he was 11 years old and been working steady for 3 months. Crescent Hosiery Mill. LOC nclc.02946
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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. See Bliss report. LOC nclc.00660
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8-00 P.M. Flashlight photo of messengers absorbed in their usual Poker game in the 'Den of the Terrible Nine' (the waiting room for Wes. Union Messengers, Hartford, Conn.) They play for LOC cph.3c21885
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9 year old newsboy selling near Southern Pacific Depot. A negro bystander said- 'He's de boss fighter of 5th Street.' See California report. LOC cph.3c21071
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View of the Washington Mills, Fries Va. Housing conditions are fairly good, but housekeeping not very good. Working very good. Good light, fresh air. Fries, Va. LOC nclc.01878
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Jo Oliphant, R.D. 3, Bowling Green, holding stick for tobacco cutters on father's farm. 'I go to school some and am out some.' Plano School. LOC nclc.00549
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Scene in the cotton field of the Baptist Orphanage, near Waxahachie. These boys, from seven years old and upward, pick cotton, helping this man, outside of school hours., There are 20 LOC nclc.00213
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Ora Fugate, 10 years old worming tobacco. They said they do not worm in middle of day when hot, but work right through when 'suckering.' See 4400. LOC nclc.00450
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Dotheboys Hall in session tucked away upstairs over the store. Equipped with antique, dilapidated benches and chairs. The lessons begin at 6 A.M. and last for six hours, and these children LOC nclc.02907
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Eunice Hadwin, spinner in King Mill. Earns 75 (cents) to $1 a day. Been in mill work 5 years. Augusta, Ga. - NARA - 523160
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Wilbur Bold, Western Union Messenger No. 14, twelve years old, works until 11 P.M. usually, but all night when they are busy. (See report of L.W.H.) LOC nclc.03557
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Wilbur Gold, Western Union Messenger -14, twelve years old; works until 11 P.M. usually, but all night when they are busy. (See report of L.W.H.) LOC nclc.03562
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William Wolowiec, (middle boy in front row), 19 School St. Works in spinning room. Said, 'A year and a half there.' Wrote his name in English with great difficulty. LOC nclc.02419
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Noon hour at Massachusetts Mill, Lindale, Ga. During the days following this, I proved the ages of nearly a dozen of these children, by gaining access to Family Records, Life Insurance LOC nclc.02757
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Jamie Sherley, (girl) Wylie Mills, Chester, S.C. Been in mill 6 years. Ambro Sherley-11 years old. Been in mill over 1 year. LOC nclc.01415
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King Philip Spinning room. Oiler Boy - Oils all the spindles in this room. George Courtemonds, 114 Kellogg St. October 3, 1915, 14 years old. LOC cph.3b33431
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Mary Morris, nine year old oyster shucker. Shucked last year; can do four or five pots a day. Shucks every day and tends the baby. LOC nclc.00864
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Noon hour at Massachusetts Mill, Lindale Ga. During the days following this, I proved the ages of nearly a dozen of these children, by gaining access to Family Records, Life Insurance LOC cph.3b24297
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Noon hour at Massachusetts Mill, Lindale, Ga. During the days following this I proved the ages of nearly a dozen of these children, by gaining access to Family Records, Life Insurance LOC nclc.02754
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Noon hour at Massachusetts Mill, Lindale, Ga. During the days following this, I proved the ages of nearly a dozen of these children, by gaining access to Family Records, Life Insurance LOC nclc.02761
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Noon hour at Massachusetts Mill, Lindale, Ga. During the days following this, I proved the ages of nearly a dozen of these children, by gaining access to Family Records, Life Insurance LOC nclc.02760
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Lloyd McAbee and Walter Brown (in front) and the rest of the family except the mother. The parents said they couldn't find the family record, that the boys were 12 and 13 years old. The LOC nclc.02582
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Mule-spinning room in Chace Cotton Mill, Burlington, Vt. Left hand-Leopold Daigneau, Arsene Lussier, 'Back-roping boys.' See photo and label -730. LOC cph.3b24163
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James L. Long, 10 years old, 39 Market Street, Northampton, Mass., and his cousin Johnnie O'Brien, 6 years old who is learning the trade. LOC nclc.03797
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Beet workers home after a few prosperous years near Sterling, adjacent to the home shown in 3950. See Hine Report, Colorado Beet Workers, July 1915. LOC nclc.00277
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9 year old boy who was smoking and playing pool in Pool Room Branch (Chouteau & Manchester) while waiting for papers. 4 P.M. May 5, 1910. LOC nclc.03459
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9 year old newsboy selling near Southern Pacific Depot. A negro bystander said- 'He's de boss fighter of 5th Street.' See California report. LOC cph.3c21071
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Scene in More-Jonas Glass Co. Small snapper up boy facing the camera is Harry Simpkins. Small carry-in-boy, with... - NARA - 523232
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Celina Melchionno, 14 years old, waxing (dipping) flowers at the Boston Floral Supply Co., 347-357 Cambridge Street. Said to be the only flower factory in Massachusetts. LOC nclc.05159
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A crowd of negro oyster shuckers. On the Atlantic Coast the negroes are employed more than the whites, but they do not work the little ones so much. Varn & Platt Canning Co. LOC nclc.01017
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These boys, and others, work in the Chesapeake Knitting Mills, Berkley, Va. See also photos and label 2245 to 2249. Following are some of their names- (the youngest refused to give names). LOC nclc.02198
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This is the attendance at the Minto Valley School on December 6. Compare with photograph 4001 taken October 21 - 6 weeks after school opened with only six children attending. LOC nclc.00394
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This is the attendance at the Minto Valley School on December 6. Compare with photograph 4001 taken October 21 - 6 weeks after school opened with only six children attending. LOC nclc.00383
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This picture shows the Four Novelty Grahams, acrobatic performers at the Victoria Theatre, Philadelphia - NARA - 523324
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This is where the mill children go to school. Lancaster, S.C. Enrollment 163- attendance, usually about 100. There are over 1,000 operatives in the mill. These are all that go to school from LOC nclc.01432
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The Supt. and a group of children under 16 years starting work after noon. Yazoo City, Miss. - NARA - 523427
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The lone teacher in charge of a room where 123 Kindergarten and First Grade children are enrolled. Dunbar School. Teacher said- 'There are only 70 here to-day. There must be an epidemic LOC nclc.00662
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