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Young workers going home from the Beaumont Mill, Spartenberg (sic), S.C. In the front row are Jesse Farmer, makes 60 cents a day, been working here six months. Haskel Holt, 70 cents a day LOC nclc.02552
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Wilfred Levoie - 15 years - 120 Diman St. - Weaver, American Linen Co. Cut leg June 20, 1916. (See Mr. Wagner's schedule.) Was pushing and pulling basket along floor; basket caught a loose LOC nclc.05076
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Springstein Mills, Chester, S.C. Archie Love (See Photo 328). Said (after hesitating) 'I am 14 years old.' Doesn't look it. Been in mill 3 years. Worked 5 months nights at the start. LOC nclc.01420
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Smallest boy is Isidor Kline, 8 yrs. Old. Sells until 7 P.M. sometimes. On his right is Bennie Friedman, 7 yrs. old. Sells until 9 P.M., sometimes. Taken at 5-30 P.M. LOC nclc.03833
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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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These boys (and one other small one, who is not present) and their father, work in Monongah Glass Works. Father gets $1.75 a day - one boy 125 a day 4 get 80 cents a day. Total 6.20 a day. LOC nclc.01200
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This shows the number of small children on the day shift (50 employees in all) Whitnel, (N.C.) Cotton Mfg. Co. Nearly as many small ones on night shift. This is a new up-to-date mill. LOC nclc.01552
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Sunday Morning, Group of gum vendors and news-boys, Pennsylvania Avenue and 7th Sts. The smallest ones were Sam Kipnis, 412 P St., N.W., Washington, D.C. David Stierman, 701 M St., N.W., LOC cph.3b23468
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Stringing wooden buttons (button moulds) in a crowded home, Williamsburg, Mass. Mrs. Weeks and her children 13 years, 11 years, 7 years and her grand children 7 years, 5 years and 4 years LOC nclc.05501
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Shaw Cotton Mills. An accident case. Alfred Padgett a doffer says he is 13 years old now, but worked when he was 12, and in other mills for 2 years before that. 'I got my hand caught in the LOC cph.3b21322
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Albernesi Family, 126 W. Eagle St. Left to right- Frank Albernesi, 5 years old. Libori Albernesi, 15 years old, Joseph Albernesi, 13 years old. Family goes to country in summer to pick LOC cph.3b06597
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3-30 P.M. Picking nuts in dirty basement. The dirtiest imaginable children were pawing over the nuts, eating lunch on the table, etc. Mother had a cold, blew her nose frequently (without LOC cph.3b24279
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3-30 P.M. Group in tenement hallway. Ages, 14 months, 2, 5, and 7 years. Mother in shop sewing. Father out of work, bartender. Family, Novi, 189 Chrystie Street. LOC nclc.04628
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6 P.M. May 6, 1909. Only a few young girls work in the Chace Cotton Mills, Burlington, Vt. In front row are Anna Grenier (2 yrs. in mill), Agnes Fountain. See photo and label -730. LOC nclc.01721
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5-00 P.M. on a cold day. Frank Luzzi, a 10 years old newsie, who has been selling for 2 years. Begins at 5 A.M. sometimes and sells until 8 P.M. at times. Hartford, Conn. LOC cph.3b39335
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Dickson Mill, Laurinburg, N.C. Robert Black, (smallest) 1 year in mill. John Black, (next) 2 years in mill. Charlie Clark-4 years. Earl Lander-Beginning. Witness, S.R. Hine. LOC nclc.01508
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Donald Mallick, ('Happy'), 203 King Street. 9 years of age, selling newspapers 5 years. Average earnings 35 cents a week. Sells from choice. Father, rivet driver, $20 weekly. 'Happy' is well LOC cph.3b03533
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Donald Mallick, ('Happy'), 203 King Street. 9 years of age, selling newspapers 5 years. Average earnings 35 cents a week. Sells from choice. Father, rivet driver, $20 weekly. 'Happy' is well LOC nclc.03578
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Tipple Boy and Drivers. Maryland Coal Co. Mine, near Sand Lick, Grafton, W. Va. Boy with mule was afraid at first to be in the picture- another boy said he feared we might make him go to LOC cph.3b02436
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Pecan School -60; Miss Aurell, Teacher. Opened September 4th-8 months term. 22 present to-day; should be 50. Cotton picking chief cause of absence. Enrollment 30, average attendance 25; last LOC nclc.00614
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Photo taken after 9 P.M. Mrs. Barattini, Janitress at 212 Sullivan St., N.Y., and son Louis, 14 years old, and daughter who works in a flower factory all day and helps her mother make these LOC nclc.04140
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Night scene. 7-30 P.M. January 29, 1912. Making violets, and they often work later. Pollinni family, 5 Carmine St., N.Y. living in a reary (i.e., rear.) tenement. The six year old helps LOC nclc.04137
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Newsies-Isaac Solovitch, 12 years, David Solovitch, 7 years. 24 Maple St., sell after school until 9 -30 P.M. or 10 P.M. Earn about 15 cents each per day. LOC nclc.03376
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Nearly 9 A.M. Girl (about 8 yrs. old) carrying sack of hose supporters home, a long distance and she had to run to get home in time for school. Up hill and tiring work, resting frequently. LOC nclc.04296
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Louis Pelissier, 29 8th St., 16 year old (May 16, 1916) applicant 2nd grade - deficient mentality. Doesn't know name of place where he is going to work. Made it out for Small's mill, they LOC nclc.05060
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Room 75, Shanty 4, Cranberry pickers Paulo Biniristo and wife live here. Settlement called Rome, on Whites Bog, Browns Mills, N.J. 4 sons live in next room. Note the bread and other food LOC nclc.05453
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Room 75, Shanty 4, Cranberry pickers Paulo Biniristo and wife live here. Settlement called Rome, on Whites Bog, Browns Mills, N.J. 4 sons live in next room. Note the bread and other food LOC nclc.05453
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Mrs. L. Bosher, living in a rundown cotton mill village Matoaca, Va. Her husband has been a mill hand here for a long time but recently got work up town, as many of their neighbors have done LOC cph.3b36981
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Mrs. Larocca, 233 E. 107th St., N.Y., making willow plumes in an unlicensed tenement. Photo taken Feb. 29, 1912. License was revoked Dec. 19, 1911.Applied for again Feb 7, 1912, inspected LOC nclc.04203
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Lilly O'Sullivan, a frail 13 year old girl working in the Drayton Mills, Spartenberg (sic), S.C. Been working four years, weaving, spinning, etc. Ran from 4 to 6 looms. Gets $3 a week. LOC nclc.02602
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School -45, Ash Grove; Miss Hazel McKay, Teacher. One-room school in fair condition. Opened September 4th-8 months term. Enrollment 22, average attendance 15; last year- enrollment 27, LOC nclc.00598
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Sam Galloway, 12 years and John Galloway, 16 years working out for Sam Crawley, who is 17 years old. The former live on a farm a few miles away and go to Keats and Bethel School, Div. 3, LOC nclc.00538
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General Utility Boy in Miller & Vidor Saw-mill. 14 years old (he said). Part of the time he throws slabs into the chute that has chain carrying them to the mill. I saw him helping a man LOC nclc.05545
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Sugar beet workers, Sugar City, Colorado. Mary, six years, Lucy, eight, Ethel, ten. Family has been here ten years. Children go to school in the winter. See Hine Report, Colorado Beet LOC nclc.00268
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Sugar beet workers, Sugar City, Colorado. Mary, six years, Lucy, eight, Ethel, ten. Family has been here ten years. Children go to school in the winter. See Hine Report, Colorado Beet LOC nclc.00266
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Sunday Morning, Group of gum vendors and news-boys, Pennsylvania Avenue and 7th Sts. The smallest ones were Sam Kipnis, 412 P St., N.W., Washington, D.C. David Stierman, 701 M St., N.W., LOC cph.3b23468
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Stringing wooden buttons (button moulds) in a crowded home, Williamsburg, Mass. Mrs. Weeks and her children 13 years, 11 years, 7 years and her grand children 7 years, 5 years and 4 years LOC nclc.05501
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Smallest boy is Mike Ferinco. 75 Monroe St., 10 yrs. old. Sells until 8-30 P.M., Newark, N.J. Other is Duar Feriari, 60 Monroe St. Sells until after 9 P.M. LOC nclc.03355
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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 working LOC nclc.04693
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Wylie Mill, Chester, S.C. Boy with calf is Pamento Benson. Raising it for beef. Has worked in mill 2 years. Mr. Benson said, 'Just as soon as the boys get old enough to handle a plow, we go LOC cph.3b03846
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Wilfred Levoie - 15 years - 120 Diman St. - Weaver, American Linen Co. Cut leg June 20, 1916. (Mr. Wagner's schedule.) Was pushing and pulling basket along floor; basket caught a loose board LOC nclc.05077
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Witness F. A. Smith. Home of Sarkis Bedrosian, 7 Elizabeth St., Worcester, Mass. Children 6 yrs., 8 yrs., 10 yrs. and mother. Earn about $1.50 a week working on garter buttons. Father earns LOC nclc.04284
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Wood carving group of working boys at King Philip Settlement - Names beginning at our right- 6. Frederick Reinhadt, 15, 147 Grant Street. 5. Arthur Bourque, 14, 415 Kilburn St., 3. Anthony LOC nclc.05092
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10 year old Jimmie. Been shucking 3 years. 6 pots a day, and a 11 year old boy who shucks 7 pots. Also several members of an interesting family named Sherrica. Seven of them are in this LOC nclc.05337
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10 yr. old girl tending stand at 4th and Garden Streets. On right is entrance to bar room of saloon. Stand is owned by Mr. Rakoff, whose daughters, 11 yrs and 13 yrs old, take turns, tending LOC nclc.03825
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Boy on right hand is George Dagnais, 32 Forest St., a doffer in Mill No. 1, Cocheco Mfg. Co., Dover, N.H. Been there about half a year. 6 A.M. LOC nclc.01775
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Eight year old newsie. Many youngsters get up early to sell papers. One ten year old starts out at 3 A.M. every day and goes to school. LOC nclc.05524
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Eloy District, Pinal County, Arizona. Cotton pickers, Mexican children, in ditch bank at the edge of . . . - NARA - 522047
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Homer Hunt, 11-year old berry picker. Says he has been out of school half the time for some weeks picking, and has made $10. Gets 10 cents a gallon. They are wild blackberries. The teacher LOC nclc.00471
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Group of boys working in American Woolen Mills, Winooski, Vt. Youngest 13 years. Oldest 15 years. All had been working one year or more. Most are illiterate. 27, apparently under 15 years LOC nclc.01853
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Group of boys working in American Woolen Mills, Winooski, Vt. Youngest, 13 years, oldest 15. All had been working one year or more. Most are illiterat(e) 27 Children apparently under 15 LOC nclc.01846
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Jake is ten yrs old, Marie is 13, but neither could spell own name. Scheler family, near Sterling. The boy said he had recently stuck the hook into his knee while topping. Six in the family, LOC nclc.00352
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Elbert Hollingsworth, ten year old cotton picker. Picks 125 pounds a day. Also Ruby Hollingsworth, seven year old cotton picker. Works all day, early and late, in the hot sun. Picks about LOC nclc.00195
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Brown McDowell 12 year old usher in Princess Theatre. Works from 10 A.M. to 10 P.M. Can barely read; has reached the second grade in school only. Investigator reports little actual need for LOC cph.3b09162
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9-00 P.M. March 4, 1909. Hartford, Conn. Group of newsies still selling although it was bitter cold and blizzardy. Smallest chap was 8 years old. The boys said he has been selling for 3 LOC nclc.03241
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9-00 P.M. Bridgeport, Conn. These boys 8 and 10 years old, had been pitching pennies all evening. After 9 P.M. I saw the little one going into saloons with a big bunch of papers and a LOC nclc.05411
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A 9 year old boy, Jo Cafarella, 39 Warren Street, Somerville, Mass. His sister Lena, 10 years, and Mary Lazzaro, 13 years old, his cousin, lives at 17 South Street. This is typical of their LOC cph.3a18647
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King Philip - Mule Spinning Room. Thomas Nicholls, 54 Kilburn St. Tube boy on the right - doffer on the left. Tube boy 14 years, doffer 16 years. Tube boy slips onto spindle holders. LOC cph.3b33429
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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 month in one mill and two days LOC nclc.05067
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Groups of workers in Clayton (N.C.) Cotton Mills. Every one went in to work when whistle blew, and I saw most of them at work during the morning when I went through. Mr. W.H. Swift talked LOC nclc.02685
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Groups of workers in Clayton (N.C.) Cotton Mills. Every one went into work when the whistle blew, and I saw most of them at work during the morning when I went through. Mr. W.H. Swift talked LOC nclc.02681
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Groups of doffers, etc., all working in the Liberty Cotton Mill, Clayton, N.C., taken at 10-00 A.M., October 29th, 1912. I saw a few very young spinners, one apparently ten years old, LOC nclc.02673
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Groups of workers in Clayton (N.C.) Cotton Mills. Every one went in to work when whistle blew, and I saw most of them at work during the morning when I went through. Mr. W.H. Swift talked LOC nclc.02686
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Groups of workers in Clayton (N.C.) Cotton Mills. Every one went in to work when whistle blew, and I saw most of them at work during the morning when I went through. Mr. W.H. Swift talked LOC nclc.02688
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Groups of workers in Clayton (N.C.) Cotton Mills. Every one went into work when the whistle blew, and I saw most of them at work during the morning when I went through. Mr. W.H. Swift talked LOC nclc.02683
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Interior of tobacco shed, Hawthorn Farm. Girls in foreground are 8, 9, and 10 years old. The 10 yr. old makes 50 cents a day. 12 workers on this farm are 8 to 14 years old, and about 15 are LOC nclc.00735
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Interior of tobacco shed, Hawthorn Farm. Girls in foreground are 8, 9, and 10 years old. The 10 yr. old makes 50 cents a day. 12 workers on this farm are 8 to 14 years old, and about 15 are LOC nclc.00734
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John Dowers, 7 years old, lives at 108 W. Frisco St. Starts out at 5 a.m. some days. Father is blind and sells newspapers. John is a pretty good beggar. Was seen trying to borrow a dollar LOC nclc.04016
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John Velcich, ten years old, picks shrimp at Peerless Oyster Co. This is his third year at the work. Earns 55 cents a day. His hands were all sore and swelled up from the acid in the shrimp. LOC nclc.00901
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Johnnie, Carrie and Jim Davenport picking cotton for Mr. J.P. Daws, Route 1, Shawnee. Johnnie picks 75 pounds, Carrie 100 pounds and Jim 150 to 200 pounds a day. Get $1.00 a hundred pounds. LOC nclc.00632
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Johnnie Burns a newsie who sells on Grand Avenue. 9 years old. Father says he is uncontrollable. May 9th, 1910. Father also said his 4 yr. old. twins would be selling soon. LOC nclc.03493
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George Clendenon, 2807 Waverly Street, Columbus, Ga. Mother said he has just reached 11 years, (last month) and he has been working, off and on, for over a year at Massey Hosiery Mill. He LOC nclc.02801
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George Clendenon, 2807 Waverly Street, Columbus, Ga. Mother said he has just reached 11 years, (last month) and he has been working, off and on, for over a year at Massey Hosiery Mill. He LOC nclc.02801
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Leopoldo Andreoli, 208 Elm St. Very young-appears 11 or 12 years old. Is a 'Loom boy' in spinning room of the Ayer Mill; has a steady job now and makes $5.15 a week now. LOC nclc.02359
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Manuel Joson (i.e., Jason), on left of picture, 58 First Street, Ward 5. 18 years old. Mann Jacintho in centre of picture, 1 South Front Street, 15 years old. Witness - R.K. Conant. LOC nclc.02221
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Mother and three children - Roderez family, E. Falmouth, Mass. James - 8 years; Manuel 5; Marion, the baby, 4. They pick 28 measures a day. Mother says, 'We can't pick fast cause the baby is LOC nclc.00184
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10 yr. old girl tending stand at 4th and Garden Streets. On right is entrance to bar room of saloon. Stand is owned by Mr. Rakoff, whose daughters, 11 yrs. and 13 yrs. old take turns tending LOC nclc.03826
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1 A.M. near the World Building, ready to start out. Two of the sleepers (See No. 21(A)) Larger boy Abraham Jachnes, 13 years old. Newsboys Lodging House, 14 Chambers St. Has not been home LOC nclc.03175
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Alexander Ferrier, 6 Hampton St., (on left hand). Has been band boy in -8 mill for two years. He said that a short time ago an unprotected gear on his machine caught his sleeve and tore it LOC nclc.02442
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A typical group of Postal Messengers in Norfolk, Va. Smallest on left end, Wilmore Johnson, been there one year. Works days only. The Postal boys are not nearly so young, in Norfolk and also LOC nclc.03730
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A typical San Antonio newsboy. Nine years old. Youngsters like this abound, here and in many other Texas cities. Some sell early in morning and late at night. LOC nclc.03872
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Eight year old Syrian girl, Pheobe (i.e. Phoebe) Thomas, going to work at 6 a.m., August 14, with great butcher knife, to cut sardines in Seacoast Canning Co. Factory -4, Eastport Me. Said LOC nclc.00965
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9-00 P.M. Bridgeport, Conn. These boys 8 and 10 years old, had been pitching pennies all evening. After 9 P.M. I saw the little one going into saloons with a big bunch of papers and a LOC nclc.05411
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5 pupils present at School -6, Dist 3, Ft. Morgan, out of 35 expected as soon as beet work is done. School opened Sept. 20, over 5 weeks ago, and the attendance went up to 17 and then LOC nclc.00381
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6-30 A.M. May 19, 1909. One of the small boys going into Mill No. 1, Great Falls Mfg. Co., Somersworth, N.H. Saw 6 going into this mill under 14; some looked to be about 11. There are LOC nclc.01805
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Dependent (able-bodied) Parents. Fries, Va. Family of Albert Senter. He said, 'I don't work steady. Have a garden here.' Eleven year old Mandy has learned to 'spin' by 'helping.' She said, LOC nclc.02140
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Donald Mallick, ('Happy'), 203 King Street. 9 years of age, selling newspapers 5 years. Average earnings 35 cents a week. Sells from choice. Father, rivet driver, $20 weekly. 'Happy' is well LOC nclc.03579
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Garment workers. Katrina De Cato, 6 years old, Franco Brezoo, 11 years old, Maria Attreo, 12 years old, Mattie... - NARA - 523285
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Florence Valentino, 12 yrs. old, and sister Jennie, working on crochet hats in dirty kitchen tenement, 3126 Jerome Ave. (Bronx). They make heavy hats, muffs, scarfs, slippers, etc. Jennie, LOC nclc.04114
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Group of boys who work at the Brown Shoe Factory. Charlie Hopson, surely under 14, has been working there one year. Harry True, probably under 14, been working there one year. Harold Hopson LOC nclc.04718
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Family all in mill. Small boy been at it 4 years. Mother said 'she used to make her $1.00 a day spoolin' but she never can now at spinnin'. Some are better at one thing and some at another.' LOC nclc.01371
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Fank Denato, 6 years old; Tom Denato, 4 years old; Domino Denato, 12 years old. 902 Montrose St., Philadelphia, and Padrone. White's Bog, Browns Mills, N.J. This is the fourth week of school LOC nclc.00051
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Field-workers, Amer. Sumatra Tobacco Co. The Supt. called the boys out to the end of the rows and we found 47 boys from 9 to 15 years old, all working but could not get hold of them all. The LOC nclc.00705
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Father loafs while children work. He has no employment (Marion Zerpoli, 145 Hudson St., N.Y.) Mother picks nuts in Habicht, Braun Nut Factory, Hudson and Laight Sts., N.Y. Gets $4.00 a week. LOC nclc.04097
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Girls working in Springstein Mills, Chester, S.C. Zetella Gallman (by window) (looked 15 years old). Has worked 2 years. Both girls in middle said they had been in mill 8 years. Witness Sara LOC nclc.01419
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Homer Hunt, 11-year old berry picker. Says he has been out of school half the time for some weeks picking, and has made $10. Gets 10 cents a gallon. They are wild blackberries. The teacher LOC nclc.00470
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Flashlight at 6 P.M. Doffer boys in Strickland Mill, Valdosta, Ga. Boy in middle and one on right hand end been in mill work for 7 yrs. Others from 1 to several years. Smallest boy does not LOC nclc.01629
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Group working in Ludlow Mills. George Barcome, Stoney Hill, Ludlow. (Front row right hand end). Been band boy for three months in -10 mill. Frank Shefjack (next George) see -2665. Eddie LOC nclc.02454
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Group work in the Ayer mill. Many of those working are-Joe Christy, 21 Common Street; Harold Old, 81 Springfield St.; Sam Gangi, 22 Pleasant Valley St.; Wallace Hogan, 12 Bailey St.; LOC cph.3b11028
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Groups of doffers, etc., all working in the Liberty Cotton Mill, Clayton, N.C., taken at 10-00 A.M., October 29th, 1912. I saw a few very young spinners, one apparently ten years old, LOC nclc.02675
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