5,609 Free Photos of Child Labor

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Manuel Correira, 14 Cove St., works in spinning room on top floor of the Saginaw Mill. Said, 'I only help mother.' He was apparently 13 or 14. LOC cph.3b33354
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The 'Kinleygarten' (the mill Policeman called it) at Lynchburg (Va.) Cotton Mills. The children of the mill settlement, from six to eight years attend. Several older boys (see exterior LOC nclc.02157
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Stephen Yankus - 350 Newark St., 8 yrs. old, and works till 10 P.M. Saturdays. Photo taken at Hudson Place and River Street at 4 P.M. LOC nclc.03829
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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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Breaker boys working in Ewen Breaker of Pennsylvania Coal Co. For some of their names see labels 1927 to 1930. LOC cph.3a24713
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Boy on left is Arthur Pugh. Said he made bands (25 cents a day) in Starkville, (Miss.) Cotton Mill. Boy on right worked some time ago. LOC nclc.02040
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Boy who carries barrels. Robert Saunders, 10 years old. Is the son of the boss. Mother picks too. Falmouth, Mass. - NARA - 523467
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Elizabeth Rudensky. Right dorsal curve. Scoliosis - real spinal case - bad. Showing wrong kind of occupation for this physical defect. No support for the feet. Defect would be greatly LOC nclc.05143
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Group of boys working in ^9 breaker. In this group were Sam Belloma, Angelo Ross, and others. Hughestown Boroughs Pa.... - NARA - 523385
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Group of children attending the mill school at Barker Cotton Mills. These children are well-kept at home, and well-directed in school. School is sanitary and well-equipped. School attendance LOC cph.3c30785
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Group of children attending the mill school at Barker Cotton Mills. These children are well-kept at home, and well-directed in school. School is sanitary and well-equipped. School attendance LOC cph.3c30785
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Hyman Bachwald, 167 Allen Street, New York. Neurotic and epileptic. Mother worked in factory previous to marriage, and while Hyman was coming. Her mentality is questioned. The grandmother LOC nclc.04885
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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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Bob Burton, Gastonia, N.C. 15 years old. A typical adolescent, overgrown, thin, anaemic (sic). Been in mill for 8 years. Doffing still in Ozark Mills. LOC nclc.01338
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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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Favorable working position for this kind of physical defect. Foot properly supported. Care should be taken to have chair properly adjusted to height of desk or bench. Need for advice of LOC nclc.05140
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Favorable working position for this kind of physical defect. Foot properly supported. Care should be taken to have chair properly adjusted to height of desk or bench. Need for advice of LOC nclc.05139
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Family of L.W. Money. Father, daughter and two boys work in spinning room of Washington Cotton Mills. Fries, Va. Smallest worker said he was thirteen, but it is doubtful. LOC nclc.02141
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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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Fred Millette, 592 First St., is boy in center of picture with cap on side of head and arms folded. Works in finishing room. Birth certificate make him 14. LOC nclc.02235
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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 cph.3b42902
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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.01871
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Hattie Hunter, spinner in Lancaster Cotton Mills, S.C. 52 inches high, worked in mill for 3 years. Gets 50 cents a day. Dec. 1, 1908. LOC cph.3a01129
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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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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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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 cph.3c27323
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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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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, Insurance papers, LOC nclc.02753
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Bertha Thomas. Been in mill work 2 years. Johnnie Thomas, 'helps sister' all the time now. This is a popular method of evading the law. They work in Atherton Mill. LOC nclc.01563
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Family of Adrienne Pagnette- The three standing in front row are Adrienne, Anna and Francis. Adrienne, an adolescent French Illiterate. Speaks almost no English. Is probably 14 or 15. Doffs LOC cph.3b12099
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5-00 P.M. One of the little oyster shuckers toting the baby home after a day, beginning at 4-00 A.M., spent shucking oysters and tending the baby. LOC nclc.00870
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A 'Demonstration team' composed of three prize-winning Cabell County girls. They are showing the visitors at the Fair how team work makes for efficiency in canning their farm products. State LOC nclc.04385
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A branch office in a coal shed. St. Louis, Mo. - NARA - 523305
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Boy braking on motor train 10 hrs. a day. Where mining, loading, etc. is done by machinery. Live wire above is sometimes not higher than a man's head. LOC nclc.01075
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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 Mills. LOC nclc.02965
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Michael Mero, Bootblack, 12 years of age, working one year of own volution. Don't smoke. Out after 11 P.M. on May 21.... - NARA - 523311
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Mildred Griffiths, 9 Pleasant St., 13 yrs. old. A regular packer in Blanchard's Sardine Factory. Makes $1.00 to $2.00 a day. Sometimes works until midnight. LOC nclc.00973
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Harriet Cotton Mills. Investigator spent the noon hour and part of the day around the mill, and saw a few very young children. He was not able to get into the mills, but indications are that LOC nclc.02973
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Hard work and dangerous. This 'river-boy' Lyman Frugia, poles the heavy logs into the incline that takes them to the mill. It is not only hard work, but he is exposed to all kinds of LOC nclc.04915
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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.01875
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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.01876
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Old Log Cabin, the home of Wm. Mullens and family, - near Charleston, W. Va. He carries on work in Charleston (Brown Milling Produce Co.) as well as this farm. LOC cph.3a29830
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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.00451
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Ora Fugate,10 years old worming tobacco, They said they do not worm in the middle of day when hot, but work right through when 'suckering.' See 4400. LOC nclc.00452
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One of the young spinners in the Quidwick Co. Mill. (A Polish boy, Willie) who was taking his noon rest in a doffer... - NARA - 523182
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Old Log cabin, the home of Wm. Mullens and family, - near Charleston, W. Va. He carries on work in Charleston (Brown Milling Produce Co.) as well as this farm. LOC nclc.04419
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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, Insurance papers, LOC nclc.02756
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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.02758
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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.02755
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Noon hour, Dwight Mfg. Co. This represents the average age of the children, not many of whom are under 14, and very few under 12. The mill has a good reputation. LOC nclc.02953
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Meyer Rome, 48 Bright Street. 8 years old. Been selling six weeks-sells Sundays only. Makes from 25 cents to 75 cents. LOC nclc.03978
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Little Lottie, a regular oyster shucker in Alabama Canning Co. She speaks no English. Note the condition of her shoes... - NARA - 523398
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Laura Santos and family, 500 Wichendon Street, Providence. Said 12 years. Picks 20 to 25 measures a day. Is in 4th grade will be here 5 weeks more. LOC nclc.00157
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Unfavorable working position standing. No support for the shorter limb. Boy obliged to lean against the wall for support. Body not properly balanced. It continued to do standing work without LOC nclc.05138
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Photo of Ordinary's Certificate for Bronson Beers, 9 years old, (and therefore illegal). The Deputy Clerk told me 'That was likely a clerical error.' but I found five of these 'errors' LOC nclc.02829
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Row of mill men-Maple Mill, Dillon, S.C. Tallest man is the Baptist preacher J .H. Blanton. His son, the third from him, works in mill. LOC nclc.01483
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Scene in the cotton field of the Baptist Orphanage, near Waxahachie. These boys, from seven years and upwards, pick cotton, helping this man, outside of school hours. There are 20 children LOC cph.3a29823
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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.00212
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Salvin Nocito, 5 years old, carries 2 pecks of cranberries for long distance to the bushel man. Whites Bog. Brown... - NARA - 523267
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Workers in Merrimac Mill. Robert, smallest, 12 years old. Michael Keefe, next in size, about 13 or 14 years old.... - NARA - 523483
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View of spinning frames which were tended by some very young workers apparently eight to ten. The superintendent refused permission to photograph the workers. Kosciusko Cotton Mill. LOC nclc.02881
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Woman from Atherton Mill, Charlotte, N.C., and her little girl, evidently her 'helper.' Superintendent forbade absolutely my taking photos anywhere on the company's premises. LOC nclc.01566
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Group of children attending the mill school at Barker Cotton Mills. These children are well-kept at home, and well-directed in school. School is sanitary and well-equipped. School attendance LOC nclc.02917
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Johnnie Garvin, 7 yrs. old newsie. 'I help Bruver.' Lives 928 Twenty Sixth St., N.W., Washington, D.C. The brother, Martin, has a badge. LOC nclc.03751
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Jennie Capparomie, 708 S. Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 5 years old. Whites Bog, Browns Mills, N.J. Sept. 28, 1910. Witness E.F. Brown. LOC cph.3b24283
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Higginbotham baby stays at home with negro nurse. Father and mother work in West Point Cotton Mill. I found three families in this small settlement, that do this way. LOC nclc.02038
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Some of the youngsters working in the spinning rooms of the Washington Cotton Mills, Fries, Va. Posed by the overseer, who said, 'These boys are a bad lot.' When questioned, they all said LOC nclc.02099
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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.02197
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This group represents most of the workers in the Cape Fear Cotton Mills, except the very smallest. There were 5 or 6 apparently under 13. See North Carolina report. LOC nclc.02948
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The very smallest boy is Henry Fournier, has worked 2 months in spinning room. The next in size is Adelard Gagnon... - NARA - 523484
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Show the way they cut fish in sardine canneries. Large, sharp knives are used with a cutting and sometimes chopping... - NARA - 523454
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Shucking oysters in Alabama Canning Co. Small boy in left is Mike Murphy, ten years old. Bayou La Batre, Ala. - NARA - 523395
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Smallest boy is Thomas Losesque, 82 Margin Street. Other is Wilfred Valliere, 79 Margin Street, probably 14. Both work in mill room at Wood Mill. LOC nclc.02361
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Stithton School opened July 24th with an enrollment of 60 out of 186 in district. This low average is due to there being over 100 Catholic children in district, and they will go to Parochial LOC nclc.00561
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A group of Newsies playing craps in the jail alley at 10 P.M. Albany, N.Y. - NARA - 523280
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Mrs. Salvia, Joe, 10 years old, Josephine, 14 years, Camille, 7 years, picking nuts in a dirty tenement home. The bag... - NARA - 523490
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A tiny cabin on the mountain slope near Charleston, W. Va. There are many such in W. Va., some owning a small plot of ground and some renting and moving from year to year. LOC nclc.04407
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A view of Ewen Breaker of the Pa. (Pennsylvania) Coal Co. The dust was so dense at times as to obscure the view. This dust penetrates the utmost recesses of the boys' lungs. (See also labels LOC cph.3a24712
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Everybody works but..... A common scene in the tenements. Father sits around. Sometimes I make $9, sometimes 10 a... - NARA - 523491
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A Sunday afternoon 'pick-up' at Sandy Beach. Girls about 15. See 4184. LOC nclc.05032
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A group of workers in Jonas Glass Works, Minotola, N.J. These are typical of conditions in Southern N.J. although one finds, occasionally, a few younger workers. LOC nclc.01209
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All of the family of Antoinette Pothier, 32 Easton Street, (See 2477). Father and tallest girl in back row of the picture work. Antoinette is the center of the group in the front row. Her LOC nclc.02346
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All of these are workers in the Stearns Silk Factory, Petersburg, Va. Not all of the youngsters would get into the photo. I went through the factory during working hours and saw many others LOC nclc.04764
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All these youngsters and many others work in the Cigarette factory of Petersburg, Va. I went through the factory during working hours and saw dozens of little boys and girls working and LOC nclc.04760
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Amelia Louise Sousa, 12 years old. Picks 22 measures. Balmeda 4 years old. Children said she doesn't pick, but she was picking just the same. LOC nclc.00178
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Photo of Ordinary's Certificate for Curtis Wynn, 9 years old (and therefore illegal). The Deputy Clerk told me 'That was likely a clerical error.' but I found five of these 'errors' issued LOC cph.3a46548
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Ernest Chester, 5 years old lives at 624 S. Robinson St. Sells with his older brother Emmet, who is 9 years old. They are up very early. LOC cph.3b30500
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Ernest Chester, 5 years old lives at 624 S. Robinson St. Sells with his older brother Emmet, who is 9 years old. They are up very early. LOC cph.3b30500
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Ben Collins, 515 N. Walnut St. Been working steady for Mackay Telegraph Co. for 1 month. 13 years old. Says he makes $5 a week. LOC nclc.04031
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At the close of the day. Waiting for the cage to go up. The cage is entirely open on two sides and not very well protected on other two, and is usually crowded like this. Small boy in front LOC cph.3b06961
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Mrs. Helems, Leeds, Mass., putting bristles into tooth brushes in an untidy kitchen. She makes about $4.65 a week usually. The sanitary conditions in most of these homes are pretty good, but LOC nclc.04260
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Leila Prater, Virginia K. Johnson Home, Dallas, Tex. According to the records of the house physician, one third of the girl in this institution come from the farms, and began work at cotton LOC nclc.02912
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Main Entrance Wamsutta Mills. Young workers also indolescent (i.e., adolescent) and young girls running the gauntlet of vile-speaking men and boys. The remarks are sometimes beyond belief. LOC nclc.02487
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Main Entrance Wamsutta Mills. Young workers also indolescent (i.e., adolescent) and young girls running the gauntlet of vile-speaking men and boys. The remarks are sometimes beyond belief. ) LOC nclc.02488
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Luther Dories. Been doffing some months in Spinning Room -2. Massachusetts Mills, Lindale, Ga. Said 12 years old, but very doubtful. Father and brother work. LOC nclc.05341
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