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Interior Wamsutta Mill, Wilfred Pepin, 42 Bowditch St. (youngest boy, appears 13 yrs. old). Has been working a few weeks in Mule Room -4. LOC nclc.02458
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Interior of one of the living rooms in shack used by pickers on Theodore Budd's Bog, Turkeytown, near Pemberton, N.J. Three persons lived in this room. See photo -1114. This is the fourth LOC nclc.00044
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Group of boys working in -9 Breaker Pennsylvania Coal Co., Hughestown Borough, Pittston, Pa. In this group are Sam Belloma, Pine Street, Angelo Ross, and others reported previously. LOC cph.3a24722
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Tom and Jerry, 8 and 9 yrs. respectively. Tom is the 'limit' in deportment at school, and Jerry had reputation as a truant until placed in ungraded class. He is in 1.A grade. The greatest LOC nclc.03819
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Charles Gibbon, Postal Telegraph Messenger. 14 years of age, 2 months in service. Don't smoke. Visits houses of prostitution, works form 8 A.M. to 6 P.M. LOC nclc.03567
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Elmer Skinner, 10 yrs. old. Turner in Massey Hosiery Mill, Columbus, Ga. Been working there four months. Works all day. No school. Does not work nights. LOC nclc.02823
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On right hand end is Marie Colbeck, 8 years old, who shucks 6 or 7 pots of oysters a day (30 or 35 (cents)) at... - NARA - 523396
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Mike Juriewier, 28 East St. Been working as Creel boy in -8 mill, Ludlow, one year. Very illiterate, wrote his name with great difficulty and poorly. LOC nclc.02443
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Mill boys' recreation. A Sunday swim. Base-ball on Sunday is tabooed here. Sunday-school and church are well attended. Loafing around, playing marbles, and swimming seem to be the only LOC nclc.04729
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Near Eloy, Pinal County, Arizona. Twelve-year-old boy picking cotton in the field. - NARA - 522236
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All of the family of Antoinette Pothier, 32 Easton Street. Father and tallest girl in back row of the picture work. Antoinette is the center of the group in the front row. Her sister Anita LOC nclc.02347
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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.04765
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A Giddings beet-puller, drawn by 4 horses. The two knives pass along the sides of the beet rows and loosen the soil - but they do not pull the beets - the workers finish pulling by hand, LOC nclc.00351
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A part of the spinning force working in the Washington Cotton Mills, Fries, Va. Group posed by the overseer. All work. The overseer said, 'These boys are a bad lot.' All were alive to the LOC nclc.02074
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'Everybody works but--.' A common scene in the tenements. Father sits around. 'Sometime I make $9.00, sometime $10.00 a week on the railroad; sometime nottin'.' Helen, 5 years old, and LOC nclc.04089
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Corrinne Le May, 15 years old, bunching sweet peas at the Boston Floral Supply Co., 347-357 Cambridge Street. Said to be the only flower factory in Massachusetts. LOC nclc.05162
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Woman assembling gas masks
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View of the Washington Cotton Mills, Fries, Va. Housing conditions are fairly good, but housekeeping not very good. Working conditions in the mill are very good. Good light, fresh air. LOC nclc.01872
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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, LOC nclc.02696
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Workers in the Tifton (Ga.) Cotton Mills. All these children were working or helping. 125 workers in all. Some of the smallest boys and girls have been there one year or more. LOC cph.3a01130
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Willie --, a Richmond, Va. newsboy. Told me first he was 8, then admitted 7, and finally 6 years old. Compare 5 year old with him in photo 2210B. LOC cph.3a01151
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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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St. Johns Mission School, High Shoals, N.C. 'Not supported by the Mill company, but we are always on good terms with them,' said the Sister in charge. Supported by the Episcopal Church. (See LOC cph.3a29763
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Rommel home, 430 N. Loomis St., Ft. Collins, Colo. Home boarded up for six months this year while family lived in the little shack shown in 4040. LOC nclc.00364
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These were all working in the Century Cotton Mill, South Boston, Va., and the mill was running a very small force. One of the small boys belongs to family shown in photo 2206. LOC nclc.02174
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The three boys in centre want to work in Berkshire Mills, at noon, Aug. 30, '11. On August 29 at 6 P.M., Mr. Hine counted ten apparently under 14. LOC nclc.02274
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Erenne La Prise, a doffer, apparently 13 year(s) old, doffing at his machine in Spring Village Mill. Said he had been working a year and a half. LOC nclc.02304
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Margaret Reddington, 14 years old, powdering roses with blow pipe at Boston Floral Supply Co., 347-357 Cambridge Street. Said to be the only flower factory in Massachusetts. LOC nclc.05611
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Noon hour at Mass. 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 papers, and LOC nclc.02759
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Marion Davis, Messenger -21 for Bellevue Messenger Service. Fourteen years old. 'Been messenger, off and on, for two years. Not supposed to go to the Reservation under sixteen years, but I LOC nclc.05529
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The Arnao family of berry pickers in the fields of Truitt's farm. This is an Italian family coming from Phildelphia and now ready to go to Carmel, N.J. to continue picking. The family LOC cph.3b39345
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Some of the shacks in 'St. Petersburg,' the district in which the beet-workers live in Sterling. Some have to rent even these poor shacks, but many have their own cottages and some buy their LOC nclc.00317
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Some of the youngsters in the Scotland Neck Cotton Mill going home to dinner. This mill has a number of children. One boy told me 10 years old, and one 7. LOC nclc.02954
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A little spinner in the Mollahan Mills, Newberry, S.C. She was tending her 'sides' like a veteran, but after I took the photo, the overseer came up and said in an apologetic tone that was LOC nclc.05382
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A part of the spinning force working in the Washington Cotton Mills, Fries, Va. Group posed by the overseer. All work. The overseer said, 'These boys are a bad lot.' All were alive to the LOC nclc.02073
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All are workers in the Ross Cannery, Seaford, Del. The smallest girl seen in the picture was at work 8 o'clock in the morning of the investigation and was seen the same night at 9 P.M. LOC nclc.00793
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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.04763
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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 boy's lungs. (See labels 1927 LOC nclc.01127
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Eight-year-old, Jennie Camillo, lives in West Maniyunk, Pa. (near Philadelphia). For this summer she has picked cranberries. This summer is at Theodore Budd's Bog at Turkeytown, near LOC cph.3a01107
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6 P.M., May 21, 1909. 4 boys working in Amoskeag Mfg. Co., Manchester, N.H. Many a good deal smaller work here. See other photos. LOC cph.3b18641
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Dependent parent. Henderson Family, 52 Lakewood St. Two girls on left hand and another older girl work in Lynchburg (Va.) Cotton Mill. Father does not work. LOC nclc.02051
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Company of (African American) troops that make up labor battalion, Governor's Island, New York. - NARA - 533589
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Guy Baily, prize winner, - a 14 year old Club Member from Lewis Co. with his exhibit. State 4 H Club Fair, - Charleston, W. Va. LOC nclc.04434
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Closing hour, Saturday noon, at Dallas Mill. Every child in photo, so far as I was able to ascertain, works in that... - NARA - 523352
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Closing hour, Saturday noon, at Dallas Mill. Every child in photo, so far as I was able to ascertain, works in that... - NARA - 523351
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Closing hour, Saturday noon, at Dallas Mill. Every child in photo, so far as I was able to ascertain, works in that... - NARA - 523353
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Bona fide crap game - Sunday. Mill boys. Near King Philip Mill. Near Tuttle St. 14-16 year old mill boys. See 4190. LOC cph.3b33401
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Fernance Silvia, 7 year old newsie, sells until 8 o'clock some nights. New Bedford, August 22, 1911. Evening. Richard K. Conant, Witness,. LOC nclc.03741
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For Child Welfare Exhibit 1912-13.) Overcrowded home of workers in cotton mill, Olneyville, Providence. Eight persons live in these three small rooms, three of them are boarders. Inner LOC cph.3a29783
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Group of men and boys at Friedman Shelby Shoe Co. The youngest, apparently 11 or 12 years old is Felber McLaughlin.... - NARA - 523337
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Clarence Noel, 138 Main St., Indian Orchard. Doffer in Hodges Fibre Carpet Co. of Indian Orchard Mfg. Co. Said 'made seven dollars last week.' LOC nclc.02280
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Contra Costa County, California. Entrance to labor camp, on large-scale fruit ranch. - NARA - 521717
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Skilled and unskilled laborers taking the TVA examination at the highschool building, Clinton, Tennessee. - NARA - 532813
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Daisy Langford, 8 years of age, working at the capping machine in Ross's Cannery, Seaford, Del. (see photo (crossed out)) Edward F. Brown, Investigator. LOC nclc.00794
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Deal in nuts only. Import them. Nuts are cracked and picked in the factory-are picked in the homes. 100 families in neighborhood working (35 families on list in licensed houses). See -2685 LOC nclc.04086
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A group of shrimp pickers in Peerless Oyster Co., working during the short noon recess. Many workers, including the children, utilize part of the lunch time this way, when there is a lunch LOC nclc.00900
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Mary and Minnie Gillim, fourteen and fifteen years old. They were commencing to attend the Mill School at Avondale, and had been to school but two weeks in their lives. Were in the low first LOC nclc.01884
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Noon hour at Newberry, (S.C.) Mill. Plenty of youngsters here. Note- In handwriting on the back of this photo it says- 'Two of the many small children I found at work at the Newberry Cotton LOC nclc.05383
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Making willow plumes under unsanitary conditions. A dirty home, the father and several friends had been rushing the growler and booze was literally flowing around over table and floor. The LOC nclc.04106
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Marie Costa, Basket Seller, 605 Elm St., Sixth St. Market, Cincinnati. 9 P.M. Had been there since 10 A.M. Sister and friend help her. LOC cph.3b03842
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Pete Trombetta (and Padrone in the background) is 10 years of age, working his 6th season. He is the carrier for the Trombetta family. The tray of berries weighing between 25 and 30 lbs., LOC cph.3b46698
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Mrs. Guadina, living in a rear house at 231 Mulberry St. N.Y., a dirty poverty-stricken home, and making a pittance by finishing pants. On the trunk is the work of four days. She was LOC nclc.04144
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No. 1. Fairly good position. Right dorsal curvature. No. 2. Correct position for postural case. No. 3. Shows a below fair position for for right dorsal curve. If these correct positions LOC cph.3b08801
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Jo Durco. This man, his wife and two children, Mary 8 years, Tony 10 years, do all the work on a large plot of beets. They are blocking and thinning now. LOC cph.3a38907
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LABOR COMM. OF COUNCIL OF NAT. DEF. HEADS- JAMES O'CONNELL; W.B. WILSON; LEO K. FRANKEL; GOMPERS, CHAIRMAN; LEWIS B. SCHRAM; FRANK MORRISON; H.E. WILLIS; EDWARD EVERETT MACY; E. PARKER LCCN2016867145
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Joseph Frank Nugent, 22 Howard St., works in Department 8A of Dennison's Factory; makes paper boxes; 'I nip the covers.' 'One year there, 'bout time for a raise.' LOC nclc.04770
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Louis Gitney, a young compositor earning $7.00 a week in a Sixth Av. (N.Y.) printing office. He learned the trade at Public School 64. L.W. Hine, Feb. 1917. LOC nclc.05627
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Laura, a nine-year-old berry picker on Rock Creek, near Baltimore, Md. Been working in the South two winters. (See my report July 10, 1909.) LOC nclc.00018
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Lawrence J. Hill - 1125 Walnut St. 17 yrs. old March 1908. Had 4 fingers mashed off by stamping machine in lamp factory - Aug 1908. LOC cph.3c19629
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233 E. 107th St., N.Y. Rent sign states that these are 'Eleganti Apartmenti.' License was recently revoked and, after that, our investigator found eight families doing home-work there. It is LOC cph.3b06723
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7-year old Rosie. Regular shucker. Her second year at it. Illiterate. Works all day. Shucks only a few pots a day. Varn & Platt Canning Co. LOC nclc.01012
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8 P.M. Flashlight photo of messengers absorbed in their usual game of poker in the Den of the terrible nine.... - NARA - 523167
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The Logical Conclusion of the Lassez (sic) Faires Policy. Herman Parker, said six years old, and he and others said he had worked in the Cannon Mills, Kannapolis, N.C. LOC cph.3b21311
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Young girls going to work after noon hour, May 18, 1909, in Great Falls Mfg. Co., Somersworth, N.H. I saw a number smaller and younger than these. LOC nclc.01766
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Young girls working in American Woolen Mills, Winooski, Vt. Most are illiterate. Work slack and force small. (See also N.C.L.C. Photos -720-745 May 1909.) LOC nclc.01854
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Willie --, a Richmond Va., newsboy. Told me first that he was 8, then admitted 7, and finally 6 years old. Compare 5 year old with him in photo 2210B. LOC nclc.03725
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Freezing Down: Stevedores along the riverfront in Saint Louis, Missouri, January 1939.
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Boss of this bog and his wife and two little children picking. Nine out of the seventy workers were from 6 to 12 years old. Mostly Syrians from Boston and Providence. LOC nclc.00149
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C-o W.A. Daniel - Route 2 - Woodburn, Ky. Lester Daniel, (...) years old and 17-year old cousin stripping tobacco. See Kentucky report and special card. LOC nclc.00644
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C-o W.A. Daniel - Route 2 - Woodburn, Ky. Lester Daniel, (...) years old and 17-year old cousin stripping tobacco. See Kentucky report and special card. LOC nclc.00646
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C-o W.A. Daniel - Route 2 - Woodburn, Ky. Lester Daniel, (...) years old and 17-year old cousin stripping tobacco. See Kentucky report and special card. LOC nclc.00643
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Eight-year-old girl (see label 4006). She is very skilful (sic) topping the beets, but this work is very fatigueing (sic) and dangerous for such children. See Hine report for details of the LOC nclc.00330
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Father hanging around the home while family works on feathers. Said, I not work. Got some sickness. Dunno what.... - NARA - 523500
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Furchgott's Department Store. Employs large number of youngsters as cash-boys and wrappers. Counted nine apparently under 12. 1 was 9, other 11. Youngest work for $3. a week. LOC nclc.03858
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