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Part of the force at Tupelo (Miss.) Cotton Mills. All work. Smallest ones not in photo. Among youngest here are- Coleman Miller, has been working one year, cannot write name, said twelve LOC nclc.02133
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Part of the force at Tupelo (Miss.) Cotton Mills. All work. Smallest ones not in photo. Among youngest here are- Coleman Miller, has been working one year, cannot write name, said twelve LOC nclc.02135
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Rader Copeland (Lake Park). He was plowing during school hours and will lose 10 weeks of schooling. His father said that he needed the boy's help. He plows, plants, chops cotton, picks LOC nclc.00245
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Rader Copeland (Lake Park). He was plowing during school hours and will lose 10 weeks of schooling. His father said that he needed the boy's help. He plows, plants, chops cotton, picks LOC nclc.00248
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Postal messenger -6. Said he was 14, but he does not seem to be. Frail, tiny and stunted. Works until 11 P.M. Says he goes to the Red Light some, and gets 25 cents extra then. LOC nclc.03937
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Photos taken during noon hour, October 23rd, 1912, at the Loray Mills, Gastonia, N.C. They said they were working and went in to work. At night I counted over thirty children coming out when LOC cph.3a42524
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Photograph of Wilbur H. Woodward, Western Union Messenger 236, is one of the youngsters on the border line. He is 15... - NARA - 306621
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Photos taken during noon hour, October 23rd, 1912, at the Loray Mills, Gastonia, N.C. They said they were working and went in to work. At night I counted over thirty children coming out when LOC nclc.02665
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Photos taken during noon hour, October 23rd, 1912, at the Loray Mills, Gastonia, N.C. They said they were working and went in to work. At night I counted over thirty children coming out when LOC nclc.02667
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Photos taken during noon hour, October 23rd, 1912, at the Loray Mills, Gastonia, N.C. They said they were working and went in to work. At night I counted over thirty children coming out when LOC nclc.02669
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Scotland Neck Cotton Mill. Group showing some of the youngest workers taken in the mill at starting time. Tiniest girl, one apparently 8 or 9, I saw at work at her knitting machine perched LOC nclc.02952
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Worming tobacco. Part of family of D.K. Pruett who owns a prosperous farm. In foreground is Wyatt Pruett, 14 years old. Goes to Pruett School, Div. 3, Henderson, Ky. There are 4 boys working LOC nclc.00540
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Young girl working in American Woolen Mills, Winooski, Vt. Most are illiterate. Work slack, and force small. 27 Children apparently under 15 were counted at one gate. (See also N.C.L.C. LOC nclc.01849
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Youngest girl in the window has been spinning in Royal Mill, River Point, R.I. for one year. Girl standing on lower step has been spinning 3 years. Some of the others work also. LOC cph.3b09808
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Workers in the Nokomis Cotton Mill, Lexington, N.C. The smallest boy said he was 11 years old and makes 50 cents a day. Been doffing there for some months. The Band Boy who seems much LOC cph.3a47667
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Victoria Borsa, 1223 Catherine St., Philadelphia. 4 year old berry picker. Brother 7 years old. While I was photographing them, the mother was impatiently urging them to 'pick, pick.' Whites LOC nclc.00062
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View of the Gorenflo Canning Co., Biloxi, Miss. Taken at 7 A.M. Many tiny workers here, some of whom began to arrive as early as 5 o'clock, and (sic) hour before they were allowed to begin LOC cph.3a01043
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Willie Roberts 11 year old delivery boy in Reiss Department Store. LOC nclc.03949
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Wilson Dry Goods Company, large department store. Employs large number of youngsters as cashboys and wrappers. Counted seven apparently 9 to 12 years old, one 9 and other 10. Week's work LOC nclc.04825
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Group containing the following boys who work in the Sagamore Mfg. Company, Fall River. Manuel Corieiia (i.e., Correira) , 144 Cove St., works in Spinning room on top floor. Said, 'I only LOC cph.3b32764
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Group of boys who work in Suncock (N. H.) Mills. It is a large corporation, employing 1200 hands, but in all the three mills, I found only 1 girl and three boys that seemed to be under 14. LOC nclc.01744
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John Dempsey (looked 11 or 12) years old. Said he helped only on Saturdays. Jackson Mill, Fiskeville, R. I. (One of the B. B. and R. Knight mills). He was working faithfully in the LOC cph.3a20285
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John Dempsey (looked 11 or 12) years old. Said he helped only on Saturdays. Jackson Mill, Fiskeville, R. I. (One of the B. B. and R. Knight mills). He was working faithfully in the LOC cph.3a01133
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Joe said 6 years old and his sister said 8 years old. Nine out of the seventy workers were from 6 to 12 years old. Mostly Syrians from Boston and Providence. LOC nclc.00151
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Joseph Buonasari, 207 7th Street, Buffalo, N.Y. Second Grade, School -1. 12 years old last summer. Worked on beans and apples and tomatoes in sheds and factory, getting 50 cents a day, LOC nclc.00769
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James Lequlla, newsboy, 12 years of age. Selling newspapers 3 years. Average earnings 50 cents per week. Selling newspapers own choice. Earnings not needed at home. Don't smoke. Visits LOC cph.3a26036
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Henry, 10 year old oyster shucker who does five pots of oyster (sic) a day. Works before school, after school, and Saturdays. Been working three years. Maggioni Canning Co. LOC nclc.05334
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Jack O'Neill, 516 1-2 N. Shartell St. 11-year-old messenger working this week for the S. & S. Messenger Co. 'School closed this week on account of epidemic.' Photographed during school LOC nclc.04029
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Inez Johnson (9 years old) and Lily, her cousin (7 years old). Both were helping Mrs. Johnson, a spooler in Tupelo (Miss.) Cotton Mills. Inez said she works regularly. LOC nclc.02138
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From left to right - upper row- 'Joy' (figure 3) carries branch of flowers; 'Play' (4) a hoop; 'Legislation' (5) shield; 'Public Opinion' (6) a trumpet; 'Knowledge' (7) a key; 'Greed' (8) a LOC nclc.05000
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Selling the 'Warheit' - Jewish paper, at midnight, on Delancey Street. M. Brown - 247 Monroe Street, Age 10 - on right. H. Brown - 247 Monroe Street, Age 12 - on left. Scheer - 263 Stanton LOC nclc.03862
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Some of the workers in Munford Cotton Mills. Smallest boy, in middle, a frail anaemic youngster, said he had been doffing over a year. Said he was twelve, but I doubt it. Other small boy, on LOC nclc.01929
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Some of the youngsters on day shift (next week on night shift) at Old Dominion Glass Co., Alexandria, Va. I counted 7 white boys and several colored boys that seemed to be under 14 years LOC nclc.01295
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Some of the boys working in Chace Cotton Mill, Burlington, Vermont (see label to photo -730) for names. May 5, 1909. 6 P.M. (Caption -730- All these small boys, and more, work in the Chace LOC nclc.01712
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Tallest girl-Kate McManus. Smallest (next) Zorobell Hatley; (next) Louis Blanchard (next) Edith McManus.They said they had been in mill work only few weeks or months. Evidently they had ben LOC nclc.01561
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Teixiera family. Mary 11 years old, Manuel, 10 yrs. Mother and these two children pick 40 measures a day at 7 (cents)... - NARA - 523481
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Topping tobacco. Roland Lowe, 13 years old in field with two brothers. There are 7 boys and 2 girls in the family, and 4 are in school. Father, Mose Lowe, R. Route 1, Winchester. Children go LOC nclc.00440
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Topping tobacco. Roland Lowe, 13 years old in field with two brothers. There are 7 boys and 2 girls in the family, and 4 are in school. Father, Mose Lowe, R. Route 1, Winchester. Children go LOC nclc.00442
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Topping tobacco. Roland Lowe, 13 years old in field with two brothers. There are 7 boys and 2 girls in the family, and 4 are in school. Father, Mose Lowe, R. Route 1, Winchester. Children go LOC nclc.00441
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Theresa Quinlan - 14 years old April 14th - Spooler. Hand cut in Iron Works Mill. Was taking loose band off a spooler. Two weeks learning. Is in picture of girls play at King Philip LOC cph.3b33430
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These pupils - one 13 years old, one 12, one 11 and two 10 are in the second grade of the Rockwood Place School, December 1. The age in this grade should be 7 and 8 years. The teacher said LOC cph.3b37515
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This was the only small newsie I could find in the vicinity of Brooklyn Bridge after midnight. Said he stayed out until 3 o'clock. Moses Markowitz, 171 Allen St., 14 yrs. old. LOC nclc.03625
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At side of mill gate (western gate beside office) Manuel Andrew, 14 Windsor St. Smallest in the picture; apparently under 14. See -2290. Manuel Jason, 58 First St. Thinnest in the picture; LOC nclc.02212
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Asleep while waiting for morning papers. 11 P.M. February 11th, 1908. A grating at side of World Building, through which came a stream of warm air from ventilators. Various boys and men may LOC cph.3a31124
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Shorpy, a greaser on the tipple at Bessie Mine, Alabama. Carries two heavy pails of grease and is often in danger... - NARA - 523362
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Oyster shuckers at work in Barataria Canning Co. Small girls working on left of photo are Gertrude Kron, five years old, Pauline --, eight years old. Also a small boy. Mildred Kron, three LOC cph.3a01052
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Danville Messengers. The smallest boy, Western Union No. 5 is only ten years old, and is working as extra boy. He said he was going to be laid off as the manager told him he was too young, LOC nclc.03720
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Chinese men greeting each other, a compradore (agent), a Tartar man, and an agricultural laborer with a scythe and a child LCCN2011660119
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Dependent (able-bodied) parents. Family of Robert Barnes, E. 15 Magnolia, Miss. Father works irregularly. 'I supplies places in the mill when others are gone.' Been here two months, Worked a LOC nclc.02090
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Comparison of Ages- Feft (i.e., left) end, Marion Deschere, just passed 13 years. Helps sister in mill 'some.' Next is Mildred Greenwood, 'going on 14.' Goes to school. Next is Mamie La LOC nclc.02302
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Charlie Scott, who lives at 19 Third St. is 9 years old and a truant newsboy. Said- 'I dunno where the school is.' Has been in the city 2 months. Photographed during school hours. LOC nclc.04027
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A young chauffeur. See Hine report re- 15-year-old chauffeur in Oklahoma City who killed a man by careless driving. His case was dismissed because he was 'too young to prosecute.' Yet he was LOC nclc.04036
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Alber Therien at right end of picture, 30 Salem Street, appears 13 years old, has been 4 weeks in spinning room No. 9, on the fourth floor of the Lawrence mills. Joseph Guerard, left hand LOC cph.3b25351
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Aldea Balanger - French - Weaver. Cornell Mills - 14 years old July 12, 1915, getting her certificate for her 5th position. Face broken out as most of weavers have from the machine oil, LOC nclc.03068
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All these boys are cutters in the Seacoast Canning Co., Factory -7. Ages range from 7 to 12. They live near the factory. Seven year old boy in front, Byron Hamilton, has a badly cut finger, LOC cph.3a38912
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All these boys are cutters in the Seacoast Canning Co., Factory -7. Ages range from 7 to 12. They live near the factory. Seven year old boy in front, Byron Hamilton, has a badly cut finger, LOC nclc.00941
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All these children five years, six years, seven years, nine years and two a little older, were picking cotton on H.M. Lane's farm Bells, Tex. Only one adult, an aunt was picking. Father was LOC cph.3b11413
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All these children five years, six years, seven years, nine years and two a little older, were picking cotton on H.M. Lane's farm Bells, Tex. Only one adult, an aunt was picking. Father was LOC nclc.00203
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Children in Grade 4, School -2, Buffalo, N.Y. All of them worked in Cannery Sheds at Albion, Wilson, Hamburg, etc., last summer. Ages run from 10 to 13 years. Entered school late. LOC nclc.00779
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Children of Mrs. Lawrence, a renter near Tinney, Okla. They go to Prairie Lee School. Beula is 13 years old and picks about 200 pounds a day when cotton is good. She drags and carries a bag LOC nclc.00605
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Angelo Ross, 142 Panama Street, Hughestown Borough, a youngster who has been working in Breaker -9 Pennsylvania Co. for four months, said he was 13 years old, but very doubtful. He has a LOC nclc.01142
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Beet workers, ten years, twelve years, fourteen years and eighteen years, hoeing for father, Jacob Dill, in Sugar City, Colorado. They moved here ten years ago from Southern Russia, work all LOC nclc.00265
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Mrs. Finkelstein, 127 Monroe St. Bessie (age 13), Sophie (age 7). Girls attend school. Making garters for Liberty Garter works, 413 Broadway. Mother , a widow, earns 75 cents a day by LOC nclc.05348
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Mrs. Gay, 33 James Street, Attleboro, Mass., and children - 5, 7, 12, and 13 years old, setting stones in cheap jewelry. There were 244 stones in this lot. She said they earned about $5 a LOC nclc.05579
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Mrs. Mary Rena, 46 Laight St., 3d floor front, picking nuts with dirty baby in lap. Two neighbors helping. Girl is cracking nuts with her teeth, not an uncommon sight. Mr. Rena works on LOC cph.3b01098
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Making dresses for Campbell Kid Dolls in a dirty tenement room, 59 Thompson St., N.Y. 4th floor front. Romana family. The older boy, about 12 years old, operates the machine when the mother LOC nclc.05492
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Hartford newsboys and girls. Girl in middle, Nellis, is 9 years old. See label on photo 640. (Caption -640- A 9 year old newsgirl in Hartford, Conn. She sold later than this sometimes. Been LOC nclc.03300
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Group of men and girls working in the Aragon Mill. Rock Hill, S.C. - NARA - 523538
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Group of workers in Dwight Mfg. Co. Stanley Twarog (one of the smallest boys), 81 Park St. Works in spinning room. Tony Sccha (i.e., Soccha), (Shortest boy in front, overalls. Very young. 65 LOC nclc.02413
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Group. Smallest boy is Stanislaus Beauvais, 25 Pingree St., works on -2 Spinning Room, has been there two years. Next smallest boy is Percy Dupell (back of Stanislaus), 15 Perkins St., has LOC nclc.02399
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Groups of girls workers at the gate of the American Tobacco Co., Wilmington, Delaware, noon period, May 24, 1910. Young girls obviously under 14 years of age, who work about 10 hours a day LOC nclc.04674
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Groups of girls workers at the gate of the American Tobacco Co., Wilmington, Delaware, noon period, May 24, 1910. Young girls obviously under 14 years of age, who work about 10 hours a day LOC nclc.04671
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Four-year-old Mary, who shucks two pots of oysters a day at Dunbar. Tends the baby when not working. (See photo 2062). The boss said that next year Mary will work steady as the rest of them. LOC cph.3a01116
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Gracie Clark, 268 A Street (with a white dress) has been a spinner in the filling room of Merrimack Mill for three years. Her Life Insurance Policy gives her age thirteen years now, so she LOC nclc.02891
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Gracie Clark, 269 A Street (with white dress) has been a spinner in the filling room of Merrimack Mill for three years. Her Life Insurance Policy gives her age thirteen years now, so she LOC nclc.02898
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French - Albertine Angelhart, 35 Gangion St. - 14 years old January 2nd - left in 4th grade. Weaver in Flint Mill. Apply for certificate. Had been a weaver one months in one mill and two LOC nclc.05068
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Frances Frigineto, 3 years old. Marie Frigineto, 5 years old, latter been picking two years. 711 Patchionk Ave., Philadelphia. Whites Bog, Brown Mills, N.J. This is the fourth week of school LOC nclc.05293
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Family of J. J. Moore. All but mother and two smallest children on steps work in Washington Cotton Mills, Fries Va. Smallest spinner (right hand end of front row) said she was 14, but she LOC nclc.02127
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John Huggins. Said he is fourteen years old and has been doffing for eight months in the Guadalupe Valley Cotton Mills. Violation of law. Gets a dollar a day now. Before he came here, he LOC nclc.03886
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John Huggins. Said he is fourteen years old and has been doffing for eight months in the Guadalupe Valley Cotton Mills. Violation of law. Gets a dollar a day now. Before he came here, he LOC nclc.03885
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This little six-year helper in Rock Creek berry field, near Baltimore, Md., was working hard. They begin about 4-30 A.M. and sometimes work until sunset. Her family (Scholtz) has been LOC nclc.00020
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Spiking tobacco on Lowe farm. Roland 13 and Bush 14 years old will go to Pretty Run School in a week or two, when tobacco is all in. It is a school day and school began 2 months ago. Boys LOC nclc.00531
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Some of the Young Boys Working in the Robert Johnson Rand Shoe Factory, Washington, Mo. (Branch of St. Louis firm making Star shoes). On left end is Henry Detmer, who said he has been LOC nclc.04692
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Small boy works as helper - backroping in Great Falls Mfg. Co., Somersworth, N.H. Charles Chasse, 201 Main Street. When I inquired about him in the home, his mother very reluctantly admitted LOC nclc.01759
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The 8 and 10 yr. old children here are working beets on a farm near Sterling, Colo, from 5-00 A.M. to 7-00 P.M. on rush days. Father said, 'We have to get done.' LOC nclc.00343
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Some of the girls from the Chace Cotton Mill, Burlington, Vt. Girl on left hand end is Cora Collette. Girl in middle is Anna Grenier. Been in mill 2 years. 6 P.M. May 5, 1909. LOC nclc.01713
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Spinning room Overseer and his flock. He said, 'Every one of 'em works or helps.' I saw them all working in the morning and when the whistle blew at noon they all went in to work. See photos LOC nclc.02087
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Twelve year old messenger -7. Edison Green. Works on day shift now. 'I got acquainted with the Red Light people over in Oklahoma City where I was messenger for three years, but I carry LOC nclc.03889
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Two mill boys (small boys between the men) Jo Viera, Antone Mello. Loafing around the beach near the mill Sunday P.M. with some school boys. Compare the ages of the school boys (12 and 13 LOC nclc.02480
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Tolar, Hart and Holt Mills. All the children went in when the whistle blew, and I saw most of them at work the next day when I went through the spinning room at 10 A.M. Some of them are LOC nclc.02955
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Tolar, Hart and Holt Mills. All the children went in when the whistle blew, and I saw most of them at work the next day when I went through the spinning room at 10 A.M. Some of them are LOC nclc.02970
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Trenton Mill, Gastonia, N.C. Smallest boy, Tom Jenkins. Said 13 years old. Been in mill 3 years. Brother Walter Jenkins. Said 15 years old. Been in mill four years. LOC nclc.01405
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Three youngsters in Avondale Mills. Boy in middle, John Douglas said, 'I've been to school my eight weeks. Work now. Been workin' a year.' (None of them, even the tiniest, would admit being LOC nclc.01939
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Dangerous work. Charlie McBride. Said twelve years old. This twelve year old boy has a steady job with the Miller & Vidor Lumber Company. He takes slabs out of a chute which has a moving LOC cph.3a20816
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Antoinette Pothier, been doffing six months at Ayer mill. Has a walk of nearly 30 minutes each way to work morning and night. Leaves home at 6 A.M. and gets back 6-30 P.M. LOC cph.3b21263
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Applying for certificate - Menuel Cabral - Portuguese. 15 years old Oct. 9, 67 Aetna St. Been spinning 1 month Laurel Lake and sweeper 1 month American Linen. Now to be a braider at Estes LOC nclc.05066
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5-year old Jack and 13-year old Bitsey are regular workers on their father's farm. Worming and suckering now. Bitsey goes to Wallonia School in Div. 1, Trigg Co. 'He worms and he suckers. LOC nclc.00566
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5-year old Jack and 13-year old Bitsey are regular workers on their father's farm. Worming and suckering now. Bitsey goes to Wallonia School in Div. 1, Trigg Co. 'He worms and he suckers. LOC nclc.00568
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5-year old Jack and 13-year old Bitsey are regular workers on their father's farm. Worming and suckering now. Bitsey goes to Wallonia School in Div. 1, Trigg Co. 'He worms and he suckers. LOC nclc.00565
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Durward Nickerson, Western Union messenger -55. One of the by-products of messenger work. Lives in Bessemer, R.F.D. -1. Saturday night, September 26, 1914, he took investigator through the old Red Light on Ave. LOC nclc.03932
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