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Group of boys working in Lancaster Cotton Mills. Smallest boy in middle said he has been in the mill off and on for 5... - NARA - 523118
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Group of boys working in Lancaster, S.C. Cotton Mills. Smallest boy in middle said has been in the mill off and on for 5 yrs. Spins now. Nov. 30, 1909(sic). LOC nclc.01431
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Group of girl workers at the gate of the American Tobacco Co. Young girls obviously under 14 years of age, who work... - NARA - 523314
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Group of girls, adolescents. A young fellow made a very vulgar remark and they all laughed. Next day I heard one of the girls use profanity before all the men and boys. LOC nclc.02427
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Group, showing a few of the workers stringing beans in the J. S. Farrand Packing Co. Baltimore, Md. Those too small to work are held on laps of workers or stowed away in boxes. LOC nclc.05422
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Group, showing a few of the workers stringing beans in the J. S. Farrand Packing Co. Baltimore, Md. Those too small to work are held on laps of workers or stowed away in boxes. LOC nclc.05422
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Family of Mrs. Motto making flowers in a dirty tenement. Josephine, 13 years, helps outside of school hours until 9... - NARA - 523495
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Golla Chambers, House 38 Loray Mill, Gastonia, N.C. 12 years old. In mill 3 years, spinning 2 years, weaver 1 year. Other sisters spinners. LOC nclc.04502
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Going to work at 5-30 A.M. Small boy named Jo is a sweeper in Hill Mfg. Co. Been there 2 years. I saw him working... - NARA - 523186
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Flashlight photo 6 P.M. going home from King Mfg. Co., Augusta, Ga. Two of the smallest boys been in mill 2 years. One of the larger for 4 years. LOC nclc.01600
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Eleven year old Western Union messenger -51. J.T. Marshall. Been day boy here for five months. Goes to Red Light district some and knows some of the girls. LOC nclc.03890
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Isidor Rothandler, 80 Ridge Street, New York. Idiopathic Idiocy. Mother worked hard before marriage, and was ailing while Isidor was coming. Further data in their files; -1695 Nurse LOC nclc.04883
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Jennie Williams, 1529 Titten St., Philadelphia. 5 years old. First summer. Theodore Budd's Bog, at Turkeytown, near Pemberton, N.J. This is fourth week of school in Philadelphia and people LOC nclc.05292
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Joseph Amico, photographed at 11 a.m. on Washington Street. Delivering shoes for National Shoe Repair Co., 21 School Street. Said 14 years old. Beginning at $5 a week. LOC nclc.03985
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Joseph Mika, (smallest), 80 Tremont St. Spinning Room. Said, 'Two years working there.' (See 2637) Joseph Ciosek, (young), 74 School St. Six months working there. LOC nclc.02418
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Joseph Richard (head only), 26 Wheatland St., Castle Hill, works in Spinning Room -1 fourth floor; been doffing three years; gets $7.80 a week now. LOC nclc.02398
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Joseph Weiss, 11 yrs. Old. Sells until 11 P.M. on Saturdays. Then the Sunday papers come over, and another 'crew' comes on. See -3116, 3117. Taken at 11 P.M. LOC nclc.03839
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Lawrence Purdie (right end) has been spinning in the mule room of the cotton mill at Matoaca, Va., for two years. His brother, next to him, helps in the mill. The others in the photo are not LOC cph.3b36984
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In a saloon doorway at 8-30 P.M. Left to right- George Cappello, 12 years old, 270 Jay Street. Frank Laporter, 13 years old, 47 Third Avenue. LOC nclc.03434
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Home Work, Somerville, Mass. Crocheting on underwear. A common sight. 35 Horace Street. See also Home Work report about woman working here with running sore on limb. LOC nclc.04219
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Near Mission San Jose, California. Family of Japanese ancestry laboring in their strawberry field a . . . - NARA - 537840
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Near Mission San Jose, California. Family of Japanese ancestry laboring in their strawberry field a . . . - NARA - 537839
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Main entrance, Gary W. Va. Mine. Trapper boy in center. Going to work 7 A.M. will be underground until 5-30 P.M. Trappers are paid $1. per day. LOC cph.3a24699
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Messenger boy in the heart of the Reservation delivering messages. Prostitutes run back and forth. Business beginning at mid-day. I saw messenger boys and delivery boys for drug stores from LOC nclc.03903
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Many of the smallest ones said, 'Working in these mills.' Especially -1 Raymond Bradshaw, 88 Engerira St. Works in Manomet Mill; lives with grandmother, works in -2 Card Department. Said, LOC nclc.02520
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On left hand of picture is Alice Deon, 95 Springfield Street, a doffer in a spinning room of the Ayer mill. Been there a few weeks. Has a steady job. Walks to and from work, as Antoinette LOC cph.3b33357
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11 boys and 2 girls in Hillsboro are each taking a calf furnished by the County Farm Bureau on credit, - each agreeing to do the best to raise the calf and exhibit at the annual show. See LOC nclc.04430
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1 P.M. Family of Onofrio Cottone, 7 Extra Pl., N.Y., finishing garments in a terribly run down tenement. The father works on the street. The three oldest children help the mother on LOC nclc.05508
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Ozark Mill, Gastonia, N.C. Work 12 hours at a stretch. No special time off to eat. 'Eat a-workin'.' 9-00 P.M. Friday, Nov. 6, 1908. Mill was running. LOC nclc.01380
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5 minutes to 9 A.M. Eleven-year-old girl running home with a twenty-pound load of garter buttons for home-work. Trying not to be late for school. (See also Report.) LOC nclc.04294
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5 year old Rosie Passeralla of Philadelphia. Been picking here two years. Whites Bog. Brown Mills, N.J. - NARA - 523265
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3 year old spinner in the Belton S.C. Mills. Cornelia and James Wilson are twins. The third pair in family. The mother said the family record was not kept but have heard that they were 12 LOC nclc.02616
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4 year old Mary, who shucks oysters, (two pots a day). Tends the baby when not working. The boss said that next year... - NARA - 523418
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A few of the young workers in West End Shoe Factory, Lunchburg, (Va.) A number of boys here are surely under fourteen and some of them likely under twelve. Youngest refused to pose. LOC nclc.04734
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A few of the youngsters working in the Cigarette Factory of the American Tobacco Co., Petersburg, Va. All work. I went through the factory during working hours and saw dozens of little boys LOC nclc.04761
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A few of the young boys working on the night shift at the Alexandria Glass Factory. Alexandria, Va. - NARA - 523441
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A few of the young workers 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.04733
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A few of the youngsters working in the Cigarette Factory of the American Tobacco Co., Petersburg, Va. All work. I went through the factory during working hours and saw dozens of little boys LOC nclc.04762
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A 'reflection' on the parent. Reflection in looking glass shows the father who had been picking nuts but refused to be photographed. He is out of work. Tommy Mascola, 5 years, picks some, LOC nclc.04098
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Albert Schafer, eight year old newsboy who usually begins at 8-00 A.M. Sundays. Sells some on week-days. Is a cripple. Makes one to two dollars a day. LOC cph.3c15371
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Woman making Turkish Trophy cigarette cases in the kitchen of her East Side Tenement home. Food Scattered about on the table. The door on right is the toilet. (For complete details see Miss LOC nclc.04267
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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.04749
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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.04748
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The girl is Arlie Searcy, beginning work in the Arlington Mill, Spartenberg (sic), S.C. Been working at Clifton Mills. Got her papers there. Mother said she is 12 years old but it is LOC nclc.02594
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Twin spinners in Saxon Mill, Spartenberg (sic), S.C. Joe and Pearl Steading, 75 William St., make 44 cents a day each. Another sister works. Mother a widow. LOC nclc.02565
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Haskell County, Kansas. Pictures of a fire in Sublette. The man who lives here is a Syrian laborer, . . . - NARA - 522173
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Smallest is James Veary. The next in size are sweepers; Thomas Munds, 3 Blackburn St.; Thomas Heywood, 7 Peniman St.; Romeo Perrault, 26 Reynolds St.; they are doubtful in age. LOC nclc.02461
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These are some of the sweepers and mule room boys working in Valley Queen Mill. River Point, R.I. Several of the smallest ones there said they had been working there 3 years and over. Speak LOC nclc.01686
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These were all of the small boys I found working at the Suffolk (Va.) Knitting Mills, the day I was there. One of the smallest boys had been working there for two years. Not many under LOC nclc.02186
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This shows a typical beet-topping knife, with the dangerous hook on the end that is used to pick up the beet. This is the ten-year-old Walker boy, (see label 4018) belonging to a well-to-do LOC nclc.00356
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This was the smallest I could find in the Newton (N.C.) Cotton Mills. Overseer said 'She just brings her sister's dinner,' but as it was only 9-30 A.M., and as she worked as faithfully as LOC nclc.01544
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Laborant in het laboratorium van de Koninklijke Nederlandsche Petroleum Maatscha, Bestanddeelnr 935-1214
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King Philip - Spool and Warping Department. Warper - Young girls sometimes assist. Sometimes a tyer-in comes from her position behind the rack and helps the warper. Light very good in this LOC cph.3b33428
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Katie Wohn, twelve-year-old topper. Said she cut a hole in her leg recently with the hook on the end of the knife. See Hine report. Photo Oct. 22-15. LOC nclc.00336
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John Sims. See -2304. (Caption 2304- John Sims, 7 year old newsie, New Bedford, Mass. August 22, 1911. Evening. Richard K. Conant, Witness.) LOC nclc.03742
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Luther Dories. Been doffing some months in Spinning Room -2, Massachusett(s) Mills, Lindale, Ga. Said 12 years old, but very doubtful. Father and brother work. LOC nclc.05342
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Manuel Oliver, 4th St., a newsboy who begins work at 5 A.M., New Bedford, Mass., August 22, 1911. 7-15 A.M. Richard K. Conant, Witness. LOC nclc.03738
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Manuel White, father with two children - Johnnie, 7 years - Sylva 12 years. Live on Brook Street, Dighton, Mass. Family picks 72 measures a day at 6 cents. LOC nclc.00180
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Mortaria family, 8 Downing St., N.Y., making flowers wreaths. The Little three-year-old on left was actually helping, putting the center of the flower into the petal, and the family said she LOC cph.3a01154
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Noon. David Rosenthal, 1220 Sixth St, S.W., Washington, D.C., said he was 10 yrs. old, and sells until 6 P.M. Is out at 7 A.M. on Sundays. No badge. LOC cph.3c18567
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Bertha, a six-year old oyster shucker and her older sister. Father and mother work also. All of them make from $9. to $15. a week. Maggioni Canning Co. LOC nclc.00986
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34 children present at the Grant School, Ft. Morgan, Colo., five weeks after school opened, out of a possible 200 that will be here when the beet work is over. They will overflow, this year, LOC nclc.00367
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4 P.M. Ceru family, 143 Thompson St., near tenement, N.Y. In this dirty attic home with a dog and a cat adding to the other filth that accumulates, these three make artificial leaves. The LOC cph.3b01104
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2 boys at the filling machine in Cannon's Cannery, Bridgeville, Del. These boys place cans in the grove to be filled with peas. Work 10 hours per day, and when there is a good supply of peas LOC nclc.00798
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A dilapidated 'renters' home near West. The Tripp farm. Five in the family. Girl (apparently fifteen years old) is married. The farm contains a hundred and fifty acres now. A larger farm of LOC nclc.00226
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A doffer boy in Globe Cotton Mills, Augusta, Ga., Jan. 15-1909 LCCN2016844679
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A doll made by one of the 5 year old children that plays in knitting mill where mother works. Made from waste material. These children help sister and mother ravel. LOC nclc.05385
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A few of the messengers Western Union, Hartford, Conn. They are on duty, alternate nights, until 10 P.M. (See label -592). Messenger -32 is Thomas De Lucco with him (in Tenderloin district) LOC cph.3b39336
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6-00 A.M. at Post Office Square, Truck load of tobacco workers bound for American Sumatra Tobacco Farm, S(outh) Windsor. They return about 7-00 P.M. LOC nclc.00723
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Six year old Tony gets up at 5-00 A.M. daily to sell newspapers. He is a regular beggar. 'P-l-e-a-s-e buy me papers.' LOC cph.3a01153
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The Big Chimney School at Big Chimney, W. Va. near Charleston. A good building and plenty of land but the main-traveled road runs thro(ugh) the front yard and also the railroad. LOC nclc.04372
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Smallest girl is Rosie. Carries cranberries. Whites Bog, Brown Mills, N.J. This is the fourth week of school in Philadelphia, and the people here expect to remain here two weeks more. Sept. LOC nclc.05297
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Smallest girl is Rosie. Carries cranberries. Whites Bog, Brown Mills, N.J. This is the fourth week of school in Philadelphia, and the people here expect to remain here two weeks more. Sept. LOC nclc.05297
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These were the youngest white boys (there were several younger negroes) that I could find working in the Parker Heading Co. Lumber Yards, Poplar Bluff, Mo. (Sometimes called the Great LOC nclc.04690
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This little spinner has been in the mill 4 years. She was about 52 inches high and looked not quite 12 years old. Plenty of others there Newton (N.C.) Cotton Mills. LOC nclc.05389
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Thomas Parsomidis, Shoe Shinning (i.e., Shining) Parlor, 8 North Main St. Boy said business is bad. Place closed most of the time. He and another own the shop. LOC cph.3a50948
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The Rising Generation, Gregtown, Augusta, where the hands in King Mill live. 'Worst part of Augusta.' Secretary of Associated Charities said. Boy with cap (left hand end) Willie Crappse in LOC cph.3a42525
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The wagon that delivers Home Work to Somerville, Mass. The owner of the wagon (who is not the driver) is O. H. Brown, 27 Main Street, Reading, Mass. These wagons (about 4 in all) are worked LOC nclc.04224
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The youngest children I saw going into Tombigbee Cotton Mill, Columbus, Miss., at 6-30 A.M. May 15, 1911. Not many youngsters there. Not working a full force. LOC nclc.02130
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The Logical Conclusion of the Lassez (i.e., Laissez) Faires Policy. Herman Parker, said six years old, and he and others said he had worked in the Cannon Mills, Kannapolis, N.C. LOC nclc.02646
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The girl on right hand works regularly in Great Falls Mfg. Co., Somersworth, N.H. Eva Vanasse, 82 Washington St. Been there two months. The other girl goes to school. LOC nclc.01751
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Same girl as no. 4665. Showing the slight deformity of the hip. Work which required constant standing would be bad, so persons with curvature tire quickly. Their feet also are usually weak LOC nclc.05146
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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.02193
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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.04751
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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.04750
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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.3a19626
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Subject -Coal. -70 Welch Mining Co., Welch W. Va. Boy running 'trip rope' at tipple. Overgrown, but looked 13 yrs. old. Worked 10 hours a day. LOC nclc.05353
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Group of sweepers and doffers in the filling spinning room of Glenallen Mill. The boys were smuggled out of back window during hours by second hand. All work. Smallest boy is Francis LOC nclc.02320
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Group of sweepers and doffers in the filling spinning room of Glenallen Mill. The boys were smuggled out of the back window during hours by second hand. All work. Smallest boy is Francis LOC nclc.02321
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Group of workers in Glenallen Mill. Smallest girl helps her sister Dora Roberts in mill. Lives at 13 Woodlawn St., there are 13 in the family, five or six working. Apparently prosperous. In LOC nclc.02319
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Groups showing a few of the workers stringing beans in the J. S. Farrand Packing Co., Baltimore, Md. Those too small to work are held on laps of workers or stowed away in boxes. LOC nclc.00031
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For Child Welfare Exhibit 1912-13.) Sammie Weits, 8 year old newsie, helps brother Bennie. 12 yrs. old. The latter sells until midnight some nights LOC nclc.03808
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Free Kindergarten (in Girard, Ala.) run by the Eagle and Phoenix Mills, Columbus, Ga. Has been closed over a year. The mill owners get a deal of free newspaper advertising about their LOC nclc.02820
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Hands going home from Atherton Mill, Charlotte, N.C. Little girl came from the mill. Evidently a 'helper.' I saw others about her size in the mill spinning. LOC nclc.01565
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Isidor, 8 years old (on left) and Joe, 10 years old (on right) sell until 9 P.M. every night, and earn 75 cents and 35 cents a week, respectively. LOC nclc.03813
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Twin spinners in Saxon Mill, Spartenberg (sic), S.C. Joe and Pearl Steading, 75 William St., make 44 cents a day each. Another sister works. Mother a widow. LOC nclc.02564
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