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Richards Diercks, Messenger, 305 Montgomery St. And John Sennick, 89 Morris St., Jersey City. The newsboy had sold out at 9-30 P.M. and was on his way home. LOC nclc.03366
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Ronald Webb, twelve year old doffer boy and Frank Robinson, seven year old who helps sweep and doff. Father is cardroom boss, Roanoke (Va.) Cotton Mills. LOC cph.3a20815
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Ten-year-old Mollie Steuben topping beets. Many children of this age put in a full day's work, and many begin younger. The work is hard and the children sometimes cut themselves or are LOC cph.3a25269
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Ten-year-old Mollie Steuben topping beets. Many children of this age put in a full day's work, and many begin younger. The work is hard and the children sometimes cut themselves or are LOC cph.3a01109
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The Tate School, abondoned (i.e., abandoned) two years ago. (See photo of the United Consolidated School. Photo No. 32.) Next to the school is the home of the Tate family, - a run-down shack LOC nclc.04370
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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.04920
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General view of the 'hulling' station of the H. A. Johnson Company at Seaford, Del. There are about 400 workers at this station of which it is estimated 220 are children ranging from 2 years LOC nclc.00785
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Smallest boy is Joseph Fortin. His mother (at home) said he is 14 years old. He does not look it. 6 A.M. Group going... - NARA - 523199
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Some of the boys working at the Tidewater Knitting Mills, Portsmouth, Va. I went through the mill several times during working hours and saw a number of youngsters surely under fourteen. LOC nclc.02195
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Some of the children who go to school half a day, and shuck four hours before school and several hours after school and eight or nine hours on Saturday. Maggioni Canning Co. LOC nclc.00993
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Some of the shrimp-pickers in an Oyster Co. The bosses refused to allow the children to be in the photo, so I was compelled to wait until they had gone home to dinner, before I could get LOC nclc.00896
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Some of the workers in the Pickett Cotton Mill, High Point, N.C., but could not get the smallest ones into the picture. LOC nclc.02693
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Some of the young girls who roll cigarettes in the Danville (Va.) Cigarette Factory. I could not induce the very smallest ones to get into the photos. See other photos taken at noon and in LOC nclc.04752
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Some young boys and girls work in the Elizabeth Knitting Mills, Berkley, Va. I did not see very many. Following are names of some of the youngest-working in the finishing and seaming rooms- LOC nclc.02206
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Young cotton mill worker. A piece of the machine fell on his foot mashing his toe. This caused him to fall on to a spinning machine and his hand went into the unprotected gearing, crushing LOC cph.3a21309
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Where it happened. (See photos 3070 to 3074) Sanders Cotton Mfg. Co., Bessemer City, N.C. In this and the adjoining mill (run by the same company) there were still many dangerous unprotected LOC nclc.02661
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Where it happened. (See photos 3070 to 3074) Sanders Cotton Mfg. Co., Bessemer City, N.C. In this and the adjoining mill (run by the same company) there were still many dangerous unprotected LOC nclc.02660
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Ruth Rous. She said she was 11 yrs old, but others there said she was not 10. She has a regular job, and several sisters are working. Deep River Cotton Mills. LOC nclc.02836
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Vitto Romano, 76 Charter Street, Boston, Mass., carrying load of garments from 30 Blackstone Street. Said 12 years old and that only his mother finishes them. LOC nclc.04241
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A typical group of workers in the Aragon Mills. Rock Hill, S.C. - NARA - 523537
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Abbe, 10 years old who picks 10 pails a day. Also two young Italian illiterates. Rochester, Mass. - NARA - 523470
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Albert Heon - 14 years old. Frank Migneault - 15 years old. Doffers in Kerr Thread. Companions of 4239 and 4238 groups about the same age - all French but differing in strength. LOC cph.3b33413
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1-00 A.M. Pin boys working in Subway Bowling Alleys, 65 South St., B'klyn, N.Y. every night. 3 smaller boys were kept out of the photo by Boss. LOC cph.3a42470
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A group of children at a District School in cotton picking season. Petty's Chapel District School -20, near Corsicana. Only 40 per cent of the children who attend are here because the cotton LOC nclc.00231
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A group of children attending the public school, Kannapolis, N.C., every one of which said he or she had worked in the Cotton Mills there. The two smallest boys said ten years old. LOC nclc.02638
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A group sorting peas at the table in Ross's Cannery, Seaford, Del. The little fellow in the photo is a full fledged sorter. He is 5 years of age. Many such children work steadily in the LOC nclc.00797
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Alfred Beniot, 191 North St. Sweeper in Bennett Mill, in spinning room -2 has been there two months; seemed to be 11 yrs. old. Alfred recorded as 12 years old. LOC cph.3b12095
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Alfred Beniot, 191 North St. Sweeper in Bennett Mill, in spinning room -2 has been there two months; seemed to be 11 yrs. old. Alfred recorded as 12 years old. LOC nclc.02519
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Alfro Magureto, 55 Elm Street, worked all summer in doffing room No. 5 of the Washington Mill. She laid off last week for two weeks. Expects to come back this week. LOC nclc.02354
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All these are workers in the Cherokee Hosiery Mill, Rome, Ga. Noon, Apr. 10, 1913. The youngest are turners and loopers. Other Hosiery Mills around here employ children of 8 and 9 years. LOC nclc.05338
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All these are workers in the Cherokee Hosiery Mill, Rome, Ga. Noon, April 10, 1913. The youngest are turners and loopers. Other Hosiery Mills around here employ children of 8 and 9 years. LOC nclc.05340
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All these small boys, and more, work in the Chace Cotton Mill, Burlington, Vt. Many of the smallest ones have been there from one to three years. Only a few could speak English. These are LOC cph.3b35183
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All these children were working in the sugar beets for Louis Startz, a farmer near Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. The children are brought out from the nearby town to work the beets. See Hine LOC nclc.00275
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Boy in stocking cap (taller of two) is James Ryan, 89 Austin St. Has been working in Wamsutta Mills one year. The other is in photos I took inside that Mill recently. LOC nclc.02486
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1353 --- A Pool Room Branch (Chouteau & Manchester). These boys were playing pool and smoking in the pool room while waiting for papers . The smallest boy is 9 years old and sells until 9 LOC cph.3a01144
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Cornell Mill. Smallest girl in group is Jennie Sylvia, 522 Alden St., a doffer in card room of Cornell Mill. I saw a girl, apparently as young, running a loom in weave room there. LOC nclc.02497
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Dan Mercurio, 9 yrs. old newsie, a chronic truant, selling on Capitol grounds, said he made 8 cents to-day. Lives 150 Schottes Alley. Began at 7 yrs. LOC cph.3c14496
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Estice Webb Herrmann, who left the seventh grade of the Elizabethtown, Ky. Public School in October 1915 soon after commencing the grade to be married. Was only 15 years old. Now living on a LOC nclc.00401
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Mr. Smith, overseer in Wylie Mill, Chester, S.C. He will not let his children work in the mill. Says it is no place for them. Plenty of children below 12 in his mill. He said that it is a LOC cph.3b46587
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Nearly the entire force, Yooona (i.e., Yocona) Mills, Water Valley, Miss. Some of the smallest workers not in photo. The three smallest ones in front row hang around and help some. Baby LOC nclc.02108
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Eleven year old Tony, who shines in Union Square, New York City. Says he makes from $2. to$3. a day usually, and sometimes $4. - July 25, 1924. LOC nclc.04048
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Group of Italian Newsies on South Ave., selling in saloons, and stores. Had just come out of saloon in front of which they are standing. Behind them two typical saloon-patrons who insisted LOC cph.3b39339
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Group of tack-pullers working in the West End Shoe Factory, Lynchburg, Va. A number of boys here are surely under fourteen and likely under twelve, some of them. Youngest ones refused to LOC nclc.04732
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Group of young girls (not the youngest) who were working in drawing-in room of American Woolen Mill, Winooski, Vt. Right hand end - Amanda Lavelley; next - Laura Lavelley; next - Isabel LOC nclc.01716
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Group picking shrimp. Olga, 5 years old on the end was helping mother. I tried to get her photo at home when they... - NARA - 523409
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Freddie Kafer, a very immature little newsie selling Saturday Evening Posts and newspapers at the entrance to the State Capitol. He did not know his age, nor much of anything else. He was LOC cph.3a26048
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In a saloon doorway at 8-30 P.M. Left to right, George Cappello, 12 years old. Frank Laporter, 13 years old. Utica, N.Y. - NARA - 523278
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Family of B. A. Tucker, 79 Oregon Street. Father, oldest daughter and two boys work in the Lynchburg Cotton Mills, (Va.) Been there a couple of years. Boys are about twelve years old. LOC nclc.02050
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Kibbe's Candy Factory. Freddie Reed, 14 years, Hayden St., been working a few months. Left school this year as soon as he reached the legal work age. Is earning $ 4.00. LOC cph.3a29837
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Johnnie Merkle 6 yr. Old newsie. Home of Johnnie Merkle, 5110 N. Broadway. Father owns this home and a butcher shop. Johnnie's brother owns and runs a nickelode(o)n. LOC nclc.03522
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This boy and brother were picking discarded fruit out of barrels in market near 14th St. N.Y. City. He was also (when apparently unobserved) stealing good fruit from their barrels. LOC cph.3b11030
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Small boy on the floor is Johnnie Schraker, 8 years old, earns 45 cents a day, been at it three years. Note how they stand on the rough, sharp shells. Alabama Canning Co.,. LOC nclc.00831
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Two families working together on Kimball farm, near Waxahachie. The four year old picks nine pounds a day regularly and the eleven year old picks three hundred pounds a day. LOC nclc.00219
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Tony, a twelve year old bootblack at his station in Bowling Green, New York City. He says he makes from $2. to $3. a day regularly. July 25, 1924. LOC nclc.04037
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Charley Lawson, prize winner and delegate from Lewis County, to the 4 H State Fair at Charleston, W. Va., is talking over the good points of the prize heifer with one of the rural visitors. LOC nclc.04402
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Charlie and Ollie Allen. Been working in Harriet Cotton Mills 2 years. Charlie is probably of age, but Ollie is a violation according to both his brother and life insurance policy which say LOC nclc.02978
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Another 'Dependent Father'. He is so recorded in the Ordinary's office where he made application for his minor children to work. He has three children in the mill. When he married the LOC nclc.02844
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5 year old Preston, a young cartoner. I saw him at work different times during the day, at 7 A.M, in the afternoon... - NARA - 523449
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George Christopher, Postal Tel. 14 years old. Been at it over 3 years. Does not work nights. Nashville, Tenn. - NARA - 523338
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9 year old girl carrying garments down Blackstone Street, Boston, Mass., to a Hanover Street home. She finishes 8 pairs of trousers a day and gets 8 cents a piece. LOC nclc.04229
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Archie Haydon, 12 years old helping his father, John A. Haydon worm tobacco. Father says their school (Cerulean) was not opened until the first Monday in September on account of so many LOC nclc.00573
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Same group as -2595. These boys and many others work late every week night, they said, usually until midnight. On Saturday most of the day and also night. Air is bad; associations are bad, LOC cph.3b43676
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The boy with bags nicknamed Turk said he was going to Texas soon. The investigator found him recently with $1.75 he had just won at craps. N. Broadway and De Soto Sts.,. LOC nclc.03518
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Miners cabins on the Elk River at Bream, W. Va. near Charleston. Others on slope beyond. A typical mining community here. Children go to Big Chimney school. Oct. 10, 1921. LOC nclc.04406
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Every one of these youngsters went into work when the whistle blew, noon June 15, 1911. These boys and others work in the Chesapeake Knitting Mills, Berkley, Va. See also photos and labels LOC nclc.02201
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Young boy is Ciriakos Keiradimos, a young Greek shoe-shiner, working in shop at 511 Penn. Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. Said to be 16 yrs. old, but is absolutely illiterate. Has been in this LOC cph.3b41009
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Workers in Fargo & Phelps Shoe Co., Saw six boys and two girls probably under 14. Note face of very young girl in window. Large sign up, 'Boys Wanted.' LOC nclc.04711
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Worming and topping tobacco. W.L. Fugate rents farm. Willie, 12 years old and Ora, 10 years old will go to Schoolsville School, Clark Co., Ky., but it has not opened yet. LOC nclc.00448
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Worming and topping tobacco. W.L. Fugate rents farm. Willie, 12 years old and Ora, 10 years old will go to Schoolsville School, Clark Co., Ky., but it has not opened yet. LOC nclc.00447
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Widow in the mill. Girl at home. The McFarland Family, Winona Miss. Cotton Mills. Mother and sons work in the mill. The girl keeps house. Youngest boy has been in the mill five years. LOC nclc.02116
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Sunday morning at Lynchburg Cotton Mill (Va.) Ed Tolley, the smallest, said 15 years old, but that is very doubtful. Others in these three photos, Lucien Tolley, Herbert Aultico, Henry Daly, LOC nclc.02048
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Louis Stokes one of the young workers in the Kosciusko Cotton Mills. Said he was ten years old, has a regular job doffing. Been working over a year or more. No wonder the superintendent LOC nclc.02882
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Noon hour, King Mfg. Co., Augusta, Ga. We had not seen these children when we were shown through the mill. See photos 500 to 509. Jan. 14, 1909. LOC nclc.01594
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Noon, Saturday, May 22, 1909. One of the many young girls who are working in Amoskeag Mills, Manchester, N.H. I saw them (and many others smaller) working at the spinning frames. LOC cph.3b18631
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Noon hour at the Queen City Mill, Burlington, Vt. (Not a large mill) About a dozen small boys like the smallest here, names of small ones here are Dorio Charptier, Arthur Tessier. LOC nclc.01722
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Minnie Thomas, 9 years old, showing average size of sardine knife used in cutting. Some of the children used a knife as large as this. Minnie works regularly in Seacoast Canning Co., Factory LOC nclc.05475
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Killing time. Boys and men (many of them workers) hanging around Swifts' Pool Room. Saturday P.M. A common sight any day. Educational influences bad- stories and remarks will not bear LOC nclc.04780
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Machine that blows 4 milk bottles at a time. No 'lung blowers' employed. Travis Glass Co., Clarksburg W. Va. Manager says machines are fast coming into play in bottle industry, plans LOC nclc.01180
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Miss Mry Graham Jones of the Social Settlement, Hartford, Conn. and few of the newsboys (all 10 years old and younger) that she invited to a Sunday afternoon party. In 2 days she secured the LOC nclc.03242
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Mary Donahue, 15 years old (on right of photo), curling petals at the Boston Floral Supply Co., 347-357 Cambridge Street. Said to be the only flower factory in Massachusetts. Pauline Steele, LOC nclc.05615
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Mary Donahue, 15 years old (on right of photo), curling petals at the Boston Floral Supply Co., 347-357 Cambridge Street. Said to be the only flower factory in Massachusetts. Pauline Steele, LOC nclc.05615
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Minto Valley School. Six children are all that are attending here out of 30 that enrolled six weeks ago, and 40 are expected after beet work is over. Many of these children lose 50% of their LOC nclc.00324
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Maple Mills, Dillon, S.C. Ruth Barnhill (elder). Been at it 4 years. Run 6 sides. Emma Barnhill 4 years in mill. 4 sides. Looked 10 years old. LOC nclc.01493
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Maud Daly, five years old. Grade Daly, three years old. Each picks about one pot of shrimp a day for the Peerless Oyster Co. The youngest said to be the fastest worker. LOC cph.3a01115
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Mule-spinning room, Chace Cotton Mill, Burlington, Vt. Edward Marcotte, a 'back-roping boy' who has been here one year. See also photo and label -730. LOC nclc.01726
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Kibbe's Candy Factory. Freddie Reed, 14 years, Hayden St., been working a few months. Left school this year as soon as he reached the legal work age. Is earning $ 4.00. LOC cph.3a47682
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9 year old cash girl in Gafer Department store. At first glance the home conditions with a one-armed father and several children in the family would indicate that her small wages were LOC cph.3b39427
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9 year old cash girl in Gafer Department store. At first glance the home conditions with a one-armed father and several children in the family would indicate that her small wages were LOC nclc.04969
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A bad New Years start for the children. A group of doffer boys who were cleaning up in the Atherton Mill, Charlotte, N.C., during the noon hour. The superintendent had forbidden my taking LOC nclc.01568
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8-year-old truant newsboy, who didn't know his name nor where he lived. Said he had just had the measles. Photographed during school hours. LOC nclc.04030
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A few of the small girls and boys (not the smallest ones) that I found working in the spinning room of one of the Amoskeag Mfg. Co. mills at Manchester, N.H. Photo taken at 1-00 p.m., May LOC nclc.01738
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A flashlight photo at 5-30 A.M. of part of the force (200 in all) going to work in Strickland Mill, Valdosta, Ga. A cold, foggy morning. Jan. 23, 09. Query- - are these youngsters 'playing LOC nclc.01630
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Arthur Farnande. Said 8 years old. Picking cranberries by hand, and brother Charlie said he was 9 picking with a scoop. Said they worked from 9 till 5. LOC nclc.00113
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Arthur Fernande. Said 8 years old. Picking cranberries by hand, and brother Charlie said he was 9 picking with a scoop. Said they worked from 9 till 5. LOC nclc.00114
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Smallest is Albert Valbert (or Vallee), 14 Park St. Next in size is Adelard Dion, 1 Palmer St., works in -1 Spinning Room. Both failed to write their names correctly in English. LOC nclc.02406
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Shack of Jo. Mermilla family, cranberrries pickers on Whites Bog, Browns Mills, N.J in settlement called Florence. Six persons live in this room. One bed on floor. Food exposed to flies, LOC nclc.00088
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The smallest shrimp-picker, standing on the box is Manuel, about five years old, who worked here last year also. Cannot understand a word of English. Dunbar, Lopez, Dukate Co.,. LOC cph.3a01066
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The smallest girl is Josephine Ramie, 10 years old, Maniyunk, Pa. (Near Philadelphia). Padrone stands over them, urging them, urging them and often swearing at and threatening them. Theodore LOC nclc.05289
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The Twombley School, Brush, Colo., with 13 pupils present out of a possible 25, on Oct. 27, seven weeks after school opened, and a few of the beet workers families have already finished and LOC cph.3b33226
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The only photo of the mill children I could get. The superintendent was too suspicious. Many young girls and boys in there on day shift. Some below 12 years old went in on night shift. LOC cph.3a01127
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