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One of the young doffers working in Pell City Cotton Mill. Supt. of Mill is also Mayor of Pell City. Pell City, Ala. - NARA - 523356
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Noon Hour, May 19, 1909. Small boy is William Le Bruex, 81 Main St. Has been working in Great Falls Mfg. Co., Somersworth, N.H. for 9 months. LOC nclc.01743
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Morris Levine, 212 Park Street. 11 years old and sells papers every day-been selling five years. Makes 50 cents Sundays and 30 cents other days. LOC nclc.03979
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Mery Horn, a hunchback. The doctor told her it was a severe case and was being aggravated by the heavy load of papers she carried and so she must stop. She replied 'But I need the spending LOC nclc.03232
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Near Eloy, Pinal County, Arizona. Ten-year-old boy brings in his morning pick to the weighmaster at . . . - NARA - 522239
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Nearly the entire force, Yooona (i.e., Yocona) Mills, Water Valley, Miss. Some of the smallest workers not in the photo. The three smallest ones in front row hang around and help some. Baby LOC nclc.02107
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Mother and children hulling strawberries at Johnson's Hulling Station. Cyral (in baby cart) is 2 yrs. old this May and works steadily hulling berries. At times Cyral would rest his little LOC nclc.05326
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Jefferson St. Gang of newsboys at 10-00 P.M. over campfire in corner lot behind bill-board. Jefferson St. near Olive. May 7, 1910. Witness E.N. Clopper,. LOC nclc.03470
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Kibbe's Candy Factory. Joseph Giordano 14 years, Feeding Hills, Mass. Had just received his work certificate and left school. Tended a chocolate machine at $3.50. This was as small a boy as LOC nclc.04603
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Lena Lochiavo, 11 years old, Basket Seller, Sixth St. Market, Cincinnati O. Saloon entrance. 11 P.M. Had been there since 10 A.M. and not yet sold out. LOC nclc.03202
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Boys working in Great Falls Mfg. Co., Somersworth, N.H. Boy on right hand is Joseph Tanguay, 80 Depot Street. Left hand boy is Henry Labreck, 14 Chesley Av. LOC nclc.01755
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Charlie Talley, 9 years old, lives at 204 N. Douglas St., Starts out about 4 a.m. every day in the week and Sunday. Goes to school too, he says. LOC nclc.04014
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1909 detail, Immigrants in English class given by Training Service of the Department of Labor in Ford Motor Co. Factory, Detroit, Michigan LCCN90707449 (cropped)
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2 'yearlings' belonging to a South Georgia farmer. The former usually gets more attention than the child. John Paulk family. See report of Lewis W. Hine on Georgia, March 1915. LOC nclc.00252
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A few of the youngsters in King Mfg. Co., Augusta, Ga. Taken at noon, Jan. 14, 1909. A party of us under the guidance of the Vice President had been shown through the mill but no evidences LOC nclc.01593
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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 few of the youngsters in the Manchester Cotton Mills, Macon, Ga. I was not allowed to go inside. See photos 517 to 520. LOC nclc.01611
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Young girl carrying bundle of coats home to be finished. New York City. - NARA - 523520
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Willie Nall, 11 years old; Raymond Jones, 10 years old; Denver Jones, 5 years old; plowing on farm. They had just finished a job of hauling. See report. LOC cph.3a38575
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Westley, Stanislaus County, San Joaquin Valley, California. Migratory labor camp (F.S.A.) seen from . . . - NARA - 521762
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Zuivelfabriek Tnuva Laborant aan het werk met monsters, Bestanddeelnr 255-4440
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A group working on night shift at Hereford Glass Works, Cape May Court House, N.J. Nov. 19, 1909. I saw the smallest boy carrying in shortly before midnight, November 18th. LOC cph.3a47677
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All in the picture work in the spinning room of the Washington Mill. Front row, left end, Joseph Cratano, 55 Railroad St. Apparently 11 or 12. Center, Thomas Murphy, 24 Spruce St., LOC nclc.02362
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All these shuck oysters in the Dunbar Cannery. They begin work about 3 A.M. and work until about 5 P.M. with half an... - NARA - 523415
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Breaker of the Chauncy (Pa.) Colliery, where a 15 year old breaker-boy was smothered to death and another badly burned, Jan. 7, 1911. (Photo of newspaper clipping -1946.) The Coroner told me LOC cph.3c30781
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Bowling Alleys, connected with Geo. P. Grays, 'Bastable Caf ' on Genesee St. About 8 very small boys employed here. Work until midnight. Photo taken at 11-30 P.M. LOC nclc.05318
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Boys working in Pope Munition Factory at Westfield, Mass. - Going home 5 P.M. Wm. Knight - 15 years - 5 Atwater St. Chas. Halla - 52 Montgomery St. - 14 years. LOC nclc.05104
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Daisy Langford, 8 yrs. old works in Ross' canneries. She helps at the capping machine, but is not able to 'keep up.' She places caps on the cans at the rate of about 40 per minute working LOC cph.3a03544
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At Certificate Office. M.A. Lillian Gurmond, 597 Lawton. French - Born Sept. 2, 1900. Geo. B. Stone. Left at 14 in the 5th grade to be a 'braider tender' at the Fall River Webbing Co. LOC nclc.05038
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Dillon Mills, Dillon, S.C. Largest-Minnie Bass, a winder. Couldn't spell her own name. Emettie Bass-Spins. Jane Bass-Spins. All have been in mill 3 years. LOC nclc.01495
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Charley Lawson, one of the 4 H Club Members who has been raising wool, explains to a visitor a new project the Club boys are interested in. Instead of selling the wool at 20 cents a pound, LOC nclc.04403
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Group gathering tobacco on farm of Daniel Barrett, Spottsville, Ky., Star Route. He is a renter. Boys all belong to other families and will go to Bluff City School, Div. 3, Henderson Co., LOC nclc.00510
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Group of 66 spinners in -7 spinning room. They were the most openly profane and vulgar I have ever encountered in mill work. Florida St. Cyr (smallest girl), 24 Cray St. LOC nclc.02449
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Group gathering tobacco on farm of Daniel Barrett, Spottsville, Ky., Star Route. He is a renter. Boys all belong to other families and will go to Bluff City School, Div. 3, Henderson Co., LOC nclc.00509
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Group showing typical workers in the small mills of Virginia, while industry is at ebb-tide. Matoaca, Va. June 1911. The little ones on left end 'only help some. Have to be 14 to work.' LOC cph.3b36985
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Frank Baldwin. Been spinning and doffing in Merrimack Mills for a year and a half, so he went to work at least at eleven years old, if we can believe the Family Record which says he is LOC nclc.02904
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Frank F. Gibson, 1305 Linden St. Western Union Telegraph Co. Messenger No. 7. 14 years of age. 1 year in service. Visits houses of prostitution. Guides soldiers to segregated district. LOC nclc.03583
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Free Kindergarten (in Girards Ala.) run by the Eagle and Pho(e)nix Mills, Columbus, (Ga.) Has been closed over a year. The mill owners get a deal of free newspaper advertising about their LOC nclc.02821
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Families of Henry and John Miller- boy of eleven years, girl of eleven and girl of thirteen, hoeing the sugar beets. They have 80 acres in beets, come out here from the town in May and go LOC nclc.00271
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Fannie Bowman, 15 years old. Postural deformity. Correct position in work most essential. Can undertake either sitting or standing position if takes care to keep good posture. Picture shows LOC nclc.05142
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Eugene Bell, House 48 Loray Mill. Said he was 12 years old. (question). 'Leastwise that's what mother says.' (I am convinced that many children believe they are as old as they say they LOC nclc.01343
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Hazel family (very poorly educated). Children have not been to school this year although living within 1 1-2 miles of school 5-7. See Kentucky report and special card. LOC cph.3a31146
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How insignificant a newsie is in comparison with matters of State. Peter Pepe, 24 Wonders Court, 10 yr. old newsie, selling on the Capitol steps. Been selling for 2 yrs. Makes 20 cents a LOC nclc.03756
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High Shoals (N.C.) School. This is average attendance. Enrollment is 80. Only one other school in town and about 15 attend that. See photo 279 (St. John's Mission School) Population of town LOC nclc.01373
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John Towers, 627 S. Connell Street. Postal Telegraph Company, Messenger -9. 15 years of age. In service 1 year. Visits houses of prostitution. Sometimes smokes. Edward F. Brown, LOC cph.3a01148
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Joseph Lepage, 84 Boutwell St., (apparent(ly) 12 years old). Said he is a sweeper on first floor cotton mill, but I am not sure w(h)ether it is the Flint Mill or not. LOC nclc.02491
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Hiram Pulk, 9 years old, cuts some in Seacoast Canning Co., Factory -1. 'I aint very fast-only about five boxes a day. They pay five cents a box.' LOC nclc.00949
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Herschel Bonham, Route A, Box 118, an 11-year-old boy cultivating peas. He belongs to a cotton club in school. Father says he can pick 200 pounds of cotton a day. LOC nclc.00677
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Home and fruit stand of the Cavicchio family. 64 Bedford Street. Somerville, Mass. Both the mother and Mary, 10 years old, worked off and on all day out here with the soot from the passing LOC nclc.04789
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Postal Telegraph boy, Danville, Va. That night he refused to show me through the Red Light District, said the manager did not permit them to go on such errands. A Western Union boy (tallest LOC cph.3c21884
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Postal Telegraph boy, Danville, Va. That night he refused to show me through the Red Light District, said the manager did not permit them to go on such errands. A Western Union boy (tallest LOC cph.3c21884
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Rhea Quintin - 14 years old. Hand drawing in on Webb frame. Been at it about 3 months. Requires great deal of mental application and accuracy and good oversight. Takes over a year to learn. LOC nclc.03050
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Rhea Quintin - 14 years old. Hand drawing in on Webb frame. Been at it about 3 months. Requires great deal of mental application and accuracy and good oversight. Takes over a year to learn. LOC nclc.05602
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Rhea Quintin - 14 years old. Hand drawing in on Webb frame. Been at it about 3 months. Requires great deal of mental application and accuracy and good oversight. Takes over a year to learn. LOC cph.3b33418
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Newsgirls waiting for papers. Largest girl, Alice Goldman has been selling for 4 years. Newsdealer says she uses viler language than the newsboys do. Besie Goldman and Bessie Brownstein are LOC nclc.03238
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Millie Cornaro, Philadelphia, 10 years old. Been picking cranberries for 6 years. White's Bog, Browns Mills, N. J. This is the fourth week of school and the people here expect to remain here LOC nclc.00047
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Mill boys pitching pennies on the Main St. in the afternoon. One said he sweeps. One said 'I was workin' but got canned 'cause I was not fast enough.' The other was 'jest hangin' around.' LOC nclc.03008
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Mildred Benjamin, 17 years old. Right dorsal curvature. Scoliosis. Right shoulder higher than left. Shows incorrect position required to perform this kind of work. Stopping use of right arm. LOC nclc.05149
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Mildred Benjamin, 17 years old. Right dorsal curvature. Scoliosis. Right shoulder higher than left. Shows incorrect position required to perform this kind of work. Stopping use of right arm. LOC nclc.05144
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Lloyd McAbee been doffing several months in the Spartan Mill, Spartenberg (sic), S. C. His step brother, Walter Brown been working for one year. The parents said they couldn't find the LOC nclc.02579
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Lloyd McAbee been doffing several months in the Spartan Mill, Spartenberg (sic), S.C. His step brother Walter Brown been working for one year. The parents said they couldn't find the family LOC nclc.02578
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Mrs. Montemora, Fifty-five years old, is janitress for a large tenement, 133 W. Houston St., (lives Apt. 7) housing 26 families. When not tending the furnace or occupied with other duties LOC nclc.04145
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Mary Diamond, 15 years old (on right of photo) making roses at the Boston Floral Supply Co., 347-357 Cambridge Street. Said to be the only flower factory in Massachusetts. Makes 600 roses a LOC nclc.05164
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Mary Christmas, nearly 4 years old. Picks cranberries sometimes. She is now picking up berries spilled at the barrels by Grandfather. Grandpa says, 'I make her pick sometimes, yes.' LOC cph.3a01108
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Madeline Causey ten year old worker in Merrimack Mills. Been working there for four months. Fills batteries. Her mother said she was born July 7, 1903. See Hine report. LOC cph.3b21317
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Pensacola Navy Yard log book entries for 1 -3 July 1836, entry for 1 July 1836 includes names of enslaved laborers
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Percy Neville, eleven year old messenger boy. Messenger boy -6 for Mackay Telegraph Company. He has been messenger for different companies for four years. Goes to the Reservation every day. LOC nclc.05548
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Noon, June 10, 1909. Parker Mill, Warren, R.I. I saw these and nearly a dozen youngsters who looked to be under 14 at work there that A.M. when I went through the mill as a visitor. LOC nclc.01813
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Noon-hour. Cumberland Glass Works, Bridgeton, N.J. Smallest boy in middle of front row and one on right-hand end have been in this plant four years. See also -957 to 971. LOC nclc.01210
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O'Neill Bottle Machine, Mannington Glass Wks., Mannington, W. Va. Blows bottles by compressed air. Managers do not believe in using small boys or girls and do not do it- large boys are paid LOC nclc.01189
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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, and Pauline --, eight years old, Mildred Kron, three years old, (not LOC cph.3a01057
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A burro-drawn wagon hauling lumber and supplies into Goldfield, Nevada, ca.1904 (CHS-5424)
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A beautiful young spinner and doffer in Interlaken Mill, Arkwirght, R. I. She has worked there 1 year. Looked 12 yrs. old and had a hectic flush caused by warm, close atmosphere. LOC cph.3b07717
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Wylie Mill, Chester, S.C. Girl at end of porch Daisy Estis (Couldn't spell her name) Worked 2 years. other two not in the mill. No school within reach. All chewed tobacco. LOC nclc.01411
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Workers in Phoenix, Mill, Phoenix, R.I. Two largest boys, Joseph and Albert Paranthean have been in the mill over a year. Boy on left hand end, Joseph Miclette is beginning to work. Sunday LOC nclc.01688
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Working Boys' Glee Club and Minstrel Group - King Philip Settlement - Walter Miller, 16 years, 812 Charles, works for father, a Painter; belongs to Junior Ball Team and Glee Club. James LOC nclc.05090
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Wilbur H. Woodward, 428 Third St., N.W., Washington, D.C., Western Union messenger 236, one of the youngsters on the border-line, (15 yrs. old) works until 8 P.M. only. LOC nclc.05494
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Shrimp-pickers in Peerless Oyster Co. Photo taken just as they stood. On other side of the shed, still younger children were working. Out of sixty working (only half were there) I counted LOC nclc.00892
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Some of the smallest boys in Cass & Daley Shoe Co., Salem. Stephen Indroski, (right end), 19 Turner St., has worked a year and a half in the factory. William Prasecki (next Stephen), 36 LOC nclc.04772
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South of Eloy, Pinal County, Arizona. Ten-year-old migratory Mexican cotton picker. He was born in T . . . - NARA - 522015
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Some of the younger boys working in Brazos Valley Cotton Mills at West. One Charlie Lott was thirteen years old according to Family Record. Another Norman Vaughn apparently twelve year old LOC nclc.02871
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Some of the younger workers in the Beaumont Mills, Spartenberg (sic), S.C. The youngest boy on the right hand end is Bob Cook, works in spinning room -2. Said he had been working about a LOC nclc.02590
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Some of the young workers in Laurel Cotton Mills, Laurel, Miss. Tallest man is Mr. Hollingsworth. Two of his boys in front row. Sylvester, ten years old, 'Only helps in the mill afternoons LOC cph.3c07334
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Upper floor of hallway, opening into 12 rooms (see photo -1145) in large shack occupied by cranberry pickers on Forsythe's Bog, Turkeytown, near Pemberton, N.J. 12 rooms on first floor. One LOC nclc.00075
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Ten-year-old Mollie Schuman left alone at the shack with all these babies and the adults far off in the field, out of sight. Mollie tops and piles too. Nine persons live in this one-room LOC nclc.00354
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Trapper Boy, Turkey Knob Mine, Macdonald, W. Va. Boy had to stoop on account of low roof, photo taken more than a mile inside the mine. Witness E. N. Clopper. LOC cph.3a24700
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Solomon Sickle, 11 yr. old gum vendor, 321 Seventh St., Washington, D.C., Says he sells until 8 P.M. Very illiterate, been in this country only six months. LOC nclc.03768
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The whole force in Elk Cotton Mills. Tiny boy in white waist on extreme left, 'Just helps his mother,' the superintendent said. Next boy is Leo, with a 'steady job,' see photo 1753. LOC nclc.01900
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SC 405025 - Lt. Arnold Samuelson, Tacoma, Washington, Combat Photographic Officer attached to the 1st U.S. Army, gives food to hungry Russian slave laborers, who were liberated when elements of the 9th Armored Division took Limburg, Germany.
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King Philip. Twister in Weave Room - arranging threads. Thomas Burns, 14 years, 447 Kilburn St. Not a minor's occupation. Occupation usually done by adult. Boy was taught by his father. Wage LOC cph.3b33426
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Noon hour, Cocheco Mfg. Co., Dover, N.H. May 17, 1909. Young girls working regularly. A number of others there, some even younger. LOC nclc.01772
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Loray Mill, Gastonia, N.C. Boy with coat in hand is 11 years old. Been there 9 months. Started at 50 (cents) a day... - NARA - 523107
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Lancaster (S.C.) Cotton Mills, Wesley Strand (with gun). Has been in mill 1 year. Been sick lately. Rochel Stokes. In mill 1 year. Said he had trouble and quit. LOC nclc.01436
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