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Lillian Dambrinio, an eleven-year-old shrimp picker in Peerless Oyster Co. She is an American and lives here. Says picking makes her hands sore. (Not(e) the condition of her shoes. One LOC nclc.00903
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Louis A. Caulfield, 37 Belfort Street, Dorchester. Delivering a heavy type-writer about half a mile. Works for Model Typewriter Inspection Co. Says he is sixteen years old and gets $6 a LOC nclc.03988
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Mrs. Fannie Foster, a widow in the cotton mill at Matoaca, Va. The smallest girl has been in the mill for a year. The other one has been in the mill but work was so slack that she made only LOC cph.3b36983
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Max Rosenthal (brother of David), 1220 Sixth St., S.W., Washington, D.C., 8 yrs. old, no badge. Very immature. Didn't know the name of the paper he was selling. Clever about whistling, LOC nclc.03770
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Kesler Mfg. Co., Salisbury, N.C. Tallest man is Supt. Mason. He was willing I should take photos so long as I promised to represent conditions as they were. He is afraid of being LOC nclc.01520
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Jeff Miller. A young delivery boy for Magnolia Pharmacy. This is especially bad for him as he has recently returned from the Seabrook Reform School where he had spent a year. He would not LOC nclc.03891
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Kuyrkendall family, recently from farm. Three children in front row (one ten and one twelve) and one boy not here, work in Magnolia Cotton Mills, Magnolia, Miss. See also 2096. LOC nclc.02089
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In an alley back of a moving picture theatre on First Street. Children were hanging about the 'stage' entrance-'peeking in.' Photo taken at 10-30 P.M. Little tot on right said was 5 years LOC nclc.04622
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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 nclc.01664
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7-year old Rosie. Regular oyster shucker. Her second year at it. Illiterate. Works all day. Shucks only a few pots a day. (Showing process) Varn & Platt Canning Co. LOC nclc.01014
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8 year old Max, one of the shrimp pickers. Only a small force was working that day. Biloxi, Miss. - NARA - 523402
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A family making silk flowers. Father wears a cast. Does not work. Boy, 11 years old, helps some. New York City. - NARA - 523516
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Another 'Dependent Father.' He is so recorded in the Ordinary's office where he made application for his mino(r) children to work. He has three children in the mill. When he married the LOC nclc.02843
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See 2823) 8-00 P.M. and not yet finished. The little one on the left is not yet four years, yet she works, irregularly, on flowers all day and sometimes until eight at night. In spite of a LOC nclc.04195
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Shanties and cooking shacks on berry farm of Bottomley's, near Baltimore. Md. At times, four families live in one shanty- three families is the rule-two rooms. (See report July 10, 1909.) LOC cph.3b38164
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Schoolfield Cotton Mills, Danville Va. Going to work; 6-30 A.M. June 9, 191(1) A few young boys and girls under 14, work in these mills, but not many, and they are large mills. LOC nclc.02159
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Sandy Beach. Two girls in foreground about 15. Mr. Tebbutt says dance hall bad conditions. Saturday evening dancing would be about the same as this. Penny picture machine attracting crowds. LOC nclc.05027
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Batise Joseph. Winchendon. Doffer in Glenakkeb (i.e., Glenallen) Mill. Father and Mother said, 'He is 12 years old. Has been doffing all summer. Will go to school.' Query- Will he go to LOC nclc.02308
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The home of a prosperous beet grower near Sterling, Colorado, who moved here six years ago from South Nebraska and owns four hundred acres now. In the distance is the home of a Russian who LOC cph.3b32037
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Springstein Mills, Chester, S.C. Maggie Wooten (Largest), creels on warper. Lillie Anderson-Oldest of two sisters. Been in mill five years. Runs only 4 sides. Minnie Anderson, - youngest- LOC nclc.01425
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Some of the 'Caesar Gang' boys demonstrating how to cull chickens to improve quality and quantity of product. Under direction of J. A. Wolfram County Agent, Webster Co. W. Va. State 4 H LOC nclc.04391
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Some of the padrones on Whites Bog, Browns Hills (i.e., Mills), N.J. The chief padrone (in straw hat) is Gus Denato (see report of E.F. Brown). Sept. 28, 1910. Witness, E.F. Brown. LOC nclc.05306
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Some, but only a small part, of the workers who pick shrimp in the Biloxi Canning Factory. Ages range from five years upward. Little Bernice, on the end of line about five years old, and LOC cph.3a01065
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Supt. and overseers with the 'Relief Crowd,' in Yazoo City (Miss.) Yarn Mills. The Supt. said, 'We relieve all children under sixteen for two hours a day except the doffers, who get plenty LOC nclc.02095
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Evelyn Casey, 129 Gaynore St., 14 years, 6 months - Irish. Went to work on 14th birthday cleaning harnesses in Borden Mills. Left because of no work and expects to learn weaving in Flint LOC nclc.05036
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Group of workers from Indian Orchard Mfg. Co. including following names and others- Mose Fournier, 297 Worcester St.; in Mr. Karnes' room. Wilfred Croteau lives on Worcester St., in front of LOC nclc.02278
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Group of workers from Indian Orchard Mfg. Co. including following names and others- Mose Fournier, 297 Worcester St.; in Mr. Karnes' room. Wilfred Croteau lives on Worcester St., in front of LOC nclc.02279
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Group of workers in the spinning and twisting rooms. Second from left, Wm. Pritchard, McKabe St., Dartmouth, Mass. Fourth from left, James Pritchard, McKabe St., Dartmouth, Mass. Right-hand LOC nclc.02233
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Extremes meet. One of the youngest and one of the older messenger boys in Mobile. The small boy is Emmet Brewster, Postal messenger -3. 11 years old; been working there 7 months. Makes $10 LOC nclc.03938
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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.00272
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Family of A.P. Stata (he is at church). Father, son and two oldest girls in photo work in Washington Cotton Mills, Fries, Va. The little spinner on left of photo has been working three LOC nclc.02145
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Family of Mrs. Donovan, 293 1-2 Highland Street, Roxbury, Mass., tying tags for Dennison Co. This is the family that has worked on tags for 7 years and makes an average from that work $30. LOC nclc.04249
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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.05141
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Hughes children. All except two smallest work and help in Magnolia, (Miss.) Cotton Mill. Oldest is fifteen, next is fourteen, next eleven, next ten. 'We like the work first rate.' LOC nclc.02036
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Hazel Davis, Tinney, Okla. 7 years old. Picks 50 pounds of cotton in half a day, according to testimony of father and brother. Father owns farm. Hazel goes to Prairie Lee School. LOC nclc.00607
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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 nclc.00652
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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.00676
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Group of boys who were suspicious and refused to give name. But some of the names were obtained from other boys. Peter Horency, County St., at left of picture. He is 14 according to Birth LOC nclc.02242
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Upton Stopper Co., Morgantown, W. Va. Plenty of Small Boys The one by the machine is a 'catching up' boy He seemed about 10 yrs. old. Oct. 1908. See 183. L.W.H. LOC nclc.05364
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Total attendance at the Rockwood Place School October 20, over 6 weeks after school opened. There were 40 present on this date, and over 150 are expected. 74 have been in attendance part of LOC nclc.00388
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Comparison of Ages. Some of the youngest workers in Roanoke (Va.) Cotton Mills. On right-hand end is seven year old Frank, a helper. Next to him is twelve year old Ronald, a doffer. On his LOC nclc.02153
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Dunbar School, a shack belonging to the City Schools of Lawton and in the city limits. Has been in use a good many years - some say since the country opened up, 16 years ago. The Country LOC nclc.00673
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Mike Murphy, ten years old. Annie Healy, seven years old. Ross Healy, ten years old, and been at it two years. From Baltimore. Regular shuckers in Alabama Canning Co. LOC cph.3a36289
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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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Percy Neville, eleven year old messenger boy. Messenger boy -6 for Mackay Telegraph Company. Says he has been messenger for different companied (i.e., companies) for four years. Goes to the LOC cph.3b47643
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Pulling and Topping Beets. A sample of 'Economic Need'. Part of the family of Jacob Walker, a prosperous beet raiser near Sterling. His 6, 8 & 10 yr. old children are kept out of school and LOC nclc.00341
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Newkirk children picking blackberries. Father, Hildred Newkirk. Willie, 15 years, Catherine, 13 years, Clarence, 10 years and Sam, 8 years. Will start school (Indian Field) soon. Mother LOC nclc.00455
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Rose Oquoto, 6 years old, and Flora Oquoto, 7 years old, live at 837 Kimball St., Philadelphia, Pa. Picking cranberries at Theodore Budd's Bog at Turkeytown, near Pemberton, N.J. This is the LOC nclc.05287
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Row of tenements, 260 to 268 Elizabeth St., N.Y., in which a great deal of finishing of clothes is carried on. See photo of 2824, which shows condition of halls. See also photo 2828, one of LOC cph.3a29807
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Part of the family of R.D. Thomas. He and a boy of 15 are working in the Century Cotton Mill, South Boston, Va. The girl on the ground does not work now, but said she was 12 years old (which LOC nclc.02176
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All are workers in a Pass Christian oyster cannery. Going home at 5 P.M. The youngest ones shuck before and after school. Two youngest are Lillie and Sadie Bilski, 8 and 6 years old. They LOC nclc.01035
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All these pick shrimp at the Oyster Co. I had to take photo while bosses were at dinner as they refused to permit the children to be in photos. Out of 60 workers, 15 were apparently under 12 LOC nclc.00898
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All these shuck oysters in the Dunbar Cannery. They began work about 3-00 A.M., and worked until about 5-00 P.M. with half an hour for lunch at noon. The great hill of oyster shells is but LOC nclc.00913
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A Sunday hand-out of doffers and other mill fellows. Reputed a bad lot. Smallest boy is Arthur, said he was 13 (doubtful) & been in mill 4 years. Get $3.50 a week now. LOC nclc.02129
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Camille Carmo, Justine, 7 and 9 years old. The older one picks about 4 pails a day. Youngest was picking also.... - NARA - 523474
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Closing hour, Saturday noon, at Dallas Mill. Every child in photos, so far as I was able to ascertain, works in that mill. When I questioned some of the youngest boys as to their ages, they LOC cph.3a01136
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Breaker -9, Hughestown Borough, Pennsylvania Coal Co. One of these is James Leonard. Corner Central St. & Ross St., Pittston, Pa. Another is Stanley Rasmus, Main Street Near Church Street, LOC cph.3a24716
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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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Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. After the Labor Day queen coronation ceremony, a d . . . - NARA - 538464
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Workers scattered all around but lost in the foliage. Tobacco farm of Mr. Stokes-Taylor. He has 50 acres in tobacco this year. Sometimes has 100-a large amount. Mostly negro workers this LOC nclc.00503
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Williams School - Brush, Colo. 7 children present out of 30 or 40 that are expected when beet work is over. It is Oct. 27, seven weeks after school opened. The school is well equipped, the LOC nclc.00379
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Eight-year-old Lizzie, earns 30 cents a day shucking oysters in the Dunbar Cannery. I saw her working steady all day, at top speed. Could not speak a word of English. LOC nclc.00910
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Closing hour, Saturday noon, at Dallas Mill. Every child in photos, so far as I was able to ascertain, works in that mill. When I questioned some of the youngest boys as to their ages, they LOC nclc.01914
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Flashlight photo of boys going home from King Mfg. Co., 6 P.M. Augusta, Ga. Smallest boy-Otis Pollard been there 2 years. Other boy been there 4 years. LOC nclc.01602
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Going to dinner from Great Falls Mfg. Co., Somersworth, N.H. May 18, 1909. A number of young boys and girls work regularly (during school hours) as 'helpers' to mother, father or sister. LOC nclc.01768
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Every one of these children works in Hosiery Mills. The smallest girl in the middle said, 'I ravels and picks up.' Small boy in another mill said, ' Over in Mill they work em so little they LOC nclc.01995
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Forest Kellison, 4 H Club member treating his sheep for internal parasites under direction of Harold Willey, Farm Bureau Agent. 250 of these club boys and girls in the county. (See Photo No. LOC nclc.04427
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Family of Mrs. Donovan, 293 1-2 Highland Street, Roxbury, Mass., tying tags for Dennison Co. This is the family that has worked on tags for 7 years and makes an average from that work $30 a LOC cph.3b41011
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Fifteen year old delivery boy for Linders Drug Store, which is located on the edge of the Reservation, Griffin Street. The boy has just returned from a trip to these Houses. He works from 8 LOC nclc.03899
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Fifteen year old delivery boy for Linders Drug Store, which is located on the edge of the Reservation, Griffin St. The boy has just returned from a trip to one of these houses. He works from LOC nclc.03902
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5 yr. old Willie, one of Washington's youngest news-boys. He is a kind of free-lance, helps other boys out, and roams around the city on his little velocipede, with all the recklessness of LOC nclc.03790
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5 p.m. John McBride, messenger -27 Metropolitan Messenger and Mailing Co., 67 Bromfield Street. Said he was 14 years old and gets $5 a week. Taken near State House. LOC nclc.03995
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7-year old Rosie. Regular oyster shucker. Her second year at it. Illiterate. Works all day. Shucks only a few pots a day. (Showing process) Varn & Platt Canning Co. LOC nclc.01015
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A 12 year old girl who had been working in Weave room of Consolidated Duck Mill, La Grange, Ga., for one year and helping to support a father who works when sober. LOC nclc.02808
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Applying for certificate - Leo Mette, 205 Albany St., 14 years. Application for Flint Mill as sweeper. Left school in 3rd grade. Slightly defective speech. 2nd application. Worked two weeks LOC nclc.05063
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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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Boy shucking oysters, he helped to catch. A few young boys are employed on the oyster boats and to shuck them but times are slack now. Apalachicola, Fla. Witness, Sara R. Hine. Jan. 25, LOC cph.3b03530
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Boys working in Holden-Leonard Co., Bennington, Vt. 3 Smallest boys are- Louis Godbout, 132 Lincoln Street; John Friedman, 120 Lincoln Street; Joe Lacroix, 110 Lincoln Street. LOC nclc.01832
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Cutting out embroidery on the dirty kitchen floor. Battista family, 259 E. 151 St. N.Y. On the right is the married daughter, who lives down stairs and usually works there. On her right next LOC nclc.04128
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A midnight scene in More-Jonas Works. See small snapper up boy in left of photo. Bridgeton, N.J. - NARA - 523234
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A Pool Room Branch (Chouteau & Manchester). These boys were playing pool and smoking in the Pool Room while waiting for papers. The smallest boy is 9 years old and sells until 9 P.M. (See LOC nclc.03461
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2 A.M. 4-12-08. Newsie in Tenderloin, Abe Bloom, 78 Eldridge St., N. Y. (Said was 16 yrs.) LOC nclc.03194
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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 cph.3b33406
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Hard work and dangerous for such a young boy. James O'Dell, a greaser and coupler on the tipple of the Cross Mountain Mine, Knoxville Iron Co., in the vicinity of Coal Creek, Tenn. James has LOC nclc.05467
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Louis Dupree, Western Union messenger -168. Has just reached fourteen years, and knows the Red Light district pretty well. Was eager to show me around town there. See Hine report on LOC nclc.03922
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Making neckties in the kitchen. The 11 year old girl and 13 year old boy work on the ties every day after school. The... - NARA - 523523
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Making hair-goods in a tiny hall-bedroom. Mrs. Chassin, 385 E. 3rd St., N.Y. top floor. The whole tenement is in a most dilapidated and disreputable state. Hair lying on the bed, trunk and LOC nclc.04200
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Leroy Raley, 215 Noble St., a 10-year-old truant newsboy, who was photographed during school hours. Said- 'Someone stole my clothes so I couldn't go to school.' LOC nclc.04025
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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 8, 1903. See Hine report. LOC nclc.02909
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One way to keep the children out of the mill. Mrs. D.E. Hudson, South Boston, Va. Her children are seated around her. In the chairs are some of her boarders. Children are well-kept. The home LOC cph.3a29780
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Mr. & Mrs. Bruno, 7 Elizabeth Street. Josephine (age 11), Antonia (age 13). One child not working. They go to school and work afternoons and Saturdays on this custom work for father. Feb. 5, LOC cph.3a29805
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Noon Hour - Kerr Thread. Smallest boy in foreground chews and smokes and is as tough as he can be. Albert Heon' - 87 Campbell Street. Twisting room. 8 or 10, 14-16, in front wanted to be in LOC cph.3b33408
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Mrs. Mary Caperale (a widow), 141 Hudson St., picking nuts, while her two daughters help her. The dirty children are handling the nuts and playing with them. The open bag of nuts stands LOC nclc.04094
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Mrs. Streety (a widow) and family. West Point, Miss. The four children on the ground work in the mill. Oldest makes 90 cents a day, - the next, 70 cents, - the boy 30 cents, ('He's slow,' LOC nclc.02125
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Myrtle Bagwell, one of the youngest of the spinners in Spartan Mills, Spartenberg (sic), S.C. Lives 104 Duncan Street. Been working nearly 2 years. Older sister said she could not find the LOC cph.3b36987
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Two little pickers. Manuel Alvez - 12 years, Marion Alvez, 8 years. She picks 19 measures. He picks 10 measures. Live - 320 Water St., New Bedford. LOC nclc.00181
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Two of the Boys Working in Phoenix American Cob Pipe Factory, Washington, Mo. Smallest boy is Joe Krummel. See sign, 'Wanted-Men and Boys.' Around corner was a sign, 'Girls Wanted.' Couldn't LOC nclc.04691
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