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Group of boys working in -9 Breaker Pennsylvania Coal Co, Hughestown Borough, Pittstown, Pa. In this group were Sam Belloma, Pine Street, Angelo Ross, 142 Panama Street, and others (reported LOC nclc.01148
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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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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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Home Work, Somerville, Massachusetts. Crocheting on underwear. A common sight. 35 Horace Street. See also Home Work report about woman working here with running sore on limb. Jennie De LOC cph.3b46697
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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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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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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 nclc.01120
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Photo of boys working in Arcade Bowling Alley, Trenton, N.J. Photo taken late at night. The boys work until midnight and later. I found practically no small boys selling late in the evening LOC nclc.03368
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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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Part of a family of Louis Benkendorfer a Bohemian farmer who owns this farm of eighty acres near West. Will get twenty bales of cotton and other crops too. The five year old picks fifteen LOC nclc.00234
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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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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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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 nclc.03576
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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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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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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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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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I found a girl of 13 working at embroidery in a far corner of a dimly lighted room. The light came from a small gas jet which was high above the girl's head, in the center of the room. She LOC nclc.04320
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Brush-making late at night. Photo taken at 9-00 P.M., and they work later. Girls are 12 and 14 years old and go to school working in the morning before school and at night after studying is LOC nclc.04152
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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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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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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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Adolescent spinners in the Suffolk (Va.) Knitting Mills. One of these, fourteen years old, said she had been working here, off and on, for four years, and earns about one dollar a day now. LOC cph.3b19536
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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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Westley, Stanislaus County, San Joaquin, California. Migratory labor camp (F.S.A.) seen from water t . . . - NARA - 521763
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Salvin Nocito, 5 years old, carries 2 pecks of cranberries for long distance to the 'bushel-man.' Whites Bog, Browns Mills, N.J. Sept. 28, 1910. Witness E. F. Brown. LOC cph.3a03543
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San Lorenzo, California. Evacuation of farmers of Japanese descent resulted in agricultural labor s . . . - NARA - 537535
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San Lorenzo, California. Evacuation of farmers of Japanese descent resulted in agricultural labor s . . . - NARA - 536477
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A group working on night shift at Hereford Glass Works, Cape May Court House, N.J. November 19, 1909. I saw the smalles(t) boy carrying in shortly before midnight, November 18th. LOC cph.3a47676
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A husky tinsmith who works 8 hours a day, much of it out-doors. Compare him with some of our adolescent boys and girls who work in close confinement of the cotton mill 10 hours a day. LOC nclc.02626
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A little log cabin, - relic of the old days, - now occupied by a small family (F. T. Castle) who are gradually giving up farming and depending upon mining and odd jobs. Oct. 12, 1921. LOC nclc.04418
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All in photos worked (even smallest girl and boys) and they went to work at (noon) 12-45. Some of the following boys and girls mey be 14, many are not. John Gopen, 189 Elm St. Joseph Stonge, LOC nclc.02332
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All work in Delta Cotton Mills, Mc Comb, Miss. Smallest boy, a band boy, is Johnnie Mathews, apparently only ten or eleven, but his mother assured me that he is nearly fourteen, which is LOC nclc.02078
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All working in May Hosiery Mills, youngest boy admitted ten years of age and been working there 9 months. He is already afflicted with eye-trouble and carries his head much on one side. LOC nclc.01891
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Bad housing and congestion. the kitchen and living-room of Steven Mikula, 93 N. Front St. Steven is at the table. He has worked four months in Nonquitt Mill, in spinning room -2. Said he was LOC nclc.02474
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Bowling Alleys, connected with Geo P. Grays, Bastable Cafe. About 8 very small boys employed here. Work until... - NARA - 523277
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Dangerous work. Charlie McBride. Said twelve years old. This twelve year old boy has a steady job with the Miller and Vidor Lumber Company. He takes slabs out of the chute, which has a LOC cph.3a20817
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Charissy Miller, a product of the mill. A frail, gaunt adolescent spinner. Been working four years. Said 16 years old. Can't write her name. 3 of the family in the mill. 'Pa stays home and LOC nclc.02593
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Comparison of ages- On right end is Mary Deschene, admitted 11 years, helped sister spool all summer in Glenallen Mill. Next her is Lumina Demarais, admitted 12 years, and doffing all summer LOC nclc.02300
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Comparison of Ages- Four Portuguese boys in front of home of Antone Mello, 26 County St. Boy on the left end (tallest) is a school boy. Said 13 years old. Boy on right end (shortest) is a LOC nclc.02478
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Charlie Howard, a colored tenant on farm of B.F. Mitchell, R. 1, and his 2 boys. Robbie is 6 and Willie is 11 years old. Worming and suckering tobacco. Father says children will go to Rocky LOC nclc.00570
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Furchgott's Department Store. Employs large number of youngsters as cash boys and wrappers. Counted nine apparently under 12. One was 9, he said, and other 11. You(n)gest work for $3. a LOC nclc.03846
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Group containing the following boys who work in the Sagamore Mfg. Company, Fall River. Manuel Corieiia (i.e., Correira) , 144 Cove St., works in Spinning room on top floor. Said, 'I only LOC cph.3b33356
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Group of girls working in Cass & Daley Shoe Co, Salem. Saw a number of children from 14 to 16 (apparently) and two or three probably under 14. Smallest girl in photo is Odella Delisle (2612 LOC nclc.04771
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Group of workers in Danville, (Va.) Knitting Works, Only a few of them would pose. I watched them going to and coming from work; also went through the factory during working hours. One LOC cph.3b05703
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Group outside Pittman Handle Factory. A fifteen year old boy operating a dangerous boring machine at which he said a boy recently bored half his hand off. To operate this machine (which LOC cph.3b05704
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Girls running warping machines in Loray mill, Gastonia, N.C. Many boys and girls much younger. Boss carefully avoided them, and when I tried to get a photo which would include a mite of a LOC nclc.01342
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Girls working in Tampa, Fla., Box Factory. I saw 10 small boys and girls. Has had reputation for employment of youngsters but work is slack now. Jan. 28, 1909. LOC cph.3a32048
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Family of Peter Elvis, New Orleans, La. All except smallest baby work in the Barataria Canning Company. Youngest boy, Jo., seven years old works Saturdays. Alma, the three year-old by the LOC cph.3a01064
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Golla Chambers, 12 years old, been in mill 3 years, spinning 2 years, weave 1 year. Other sisters spinners. Gastonia... - NARA - 523102
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Five year old Preston, a young cartoner in Seacoast Canning Co., Factory -2. I saw him at work different times during the day-at 7 a.m., in the afternoon, and at 6 p.m., and he kept at it LOC cph.3b37901
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Everett Glin, 6 S. Oklahoma St. 7-year-old truant newsie. Said mother told him to stay home. Says he gets up at 4 a.m. some days to sell. LOC nclc.04032
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Harry and Sallie. Driver in Maryland Coal Co. Mine, near Sand Lick, Grafton, W. Va. Was afraid to be photo'd because we might make him go to school. Probably 12 years old. LOC cph.3b30369
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Inez Johnson (nine years old) and Lily, her cousin (seven years old). Both were helping Mrs. Johnson, a spooler in Tupelo (Miss.) Cotton Mills. Inez says she works regularly. LOC nclc.02136
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High up on the top floor of a rickety tenement, 214 Elizabeth St., N.Y., this mother and her two children, boy 10 years old and the girl 12, were living in a tiny one room, and were LOC cph.3b03540
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Julin, a six-year-old child, making pansies for her neighbors on top floor (Gatto), 106 Thompson Street, N.Y. They said she does this every day, 'but not all day.' A growler and dirty beer LOC cph.3a38582
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Julin, a six-year-old child, making pansies for her neighbors on top floor (Gatto), 106 Thompson Street, N.Y. They said she does this every day, 'but not all day.' A growler and dirty beer LOC cph.3a38582
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Jim Waldine, 6 years old, been picking cranberries 2 years. Also Sam Frohue, 9 years old, been picking 2 years, could... - NARA - 523259
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John Aldridge, 14 years old. Father, Hense Aldridge, R. Route 1, Winchester. Driving horse home. Works on tobacco. Expects to start school in 'couple of weeks.' It is now several weeks after LOC nclc.00444
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Joe said 6 years old and his sister said 8 years old. Nine out of the seventy workers were from 6 to 12 years old. Mostly Syrians from Boston and Providence. LOC nclc.00152
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Henry, 10 year old oyster shucker who does five pots of oyster (sic) a day. Works before school, after school, and Saturdays. Been working three years. Maggioni Canning Co. LOC nclc.05334
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Photos taken during noon hour, October 23rd, 1912, at the Loray Mills, Gastonia, N.C. They said they were working and went in to work. At night I counted over thirty children coming out when LOC nclc.02672
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Photos taken during noon hour, October 23rd, 1912, at the Loray Mills, Gastonia, N.C. They said they were working and went in to work, At night I counted over thirty children coming out when LOC nclc.02663
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Basil Roberts and James Hopper, both 12 years old, go to school when in session and work at Coleman Bros. Zinc Mine, Aurora, Mo., Saturdays and holidays, culling 'waste' from the zinc ore on LOC nclc.01088
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Ruby Hollingsworth, seven year old cotton picker. Works all day, early and late, in the hot sun. Picks about thirty-five pounds a day. Father, mother and several brothers and sisters pick. LOC nclc.00194
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Rose Biodo, 1216 Annan St., Philadelphia. 10 years old. Working 3 summers. Minds baby and carries berries, two pecks at a time. Whites Bog, Brown Mills, N.J. This is the fourth week of LOC nclc.05296
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San Lorenzo, California. Farm laborer with his little son a few days prior to evacuation from this . . . - NARA - 537862
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Newsies-Harry Becker, 12 years, Max Becker, 9 years. 487 Hampshire St., sell after school until 9 P.M. earn from 10 to 12 cents per day each. LOC nclc.03375
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Lucy -- carrying peck of cranberries (weighing about 15 pounds) long distance to 'bushel man.' Did not know age. Forsythe's Bog, Turkeytown, near Pemberton, N.J. Sept. 29, 1910. Witness E. LOC nclc.05314
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Lucy -- carrying peck of cranberries (weighing about 15 pounds) long distance to 'bushel man.' Did not know age. Forsythe's Bog, Turkeytown, near Pemberton, N.J. Sept. 29, 1910. Witness E. LOC nclc.05314
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Mrs. Tony Racioppo, 260 Elizabeth St., N.Y. 1st floor rear, finishing pants in dirty tenement home. Althou(gh) it is a licensed house, the whole place is very much run down. The ahllway LOC nclc.04151
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Minnie Thomas, a 9 year old girl, works regularly in Seacoast Canning Co., Factory -7, Eastport, Me., mostly in the packing room, and when very busy works nights. Cuts some, and also LOC nclc.00981
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Maud Daly, five years old. Grace Daly, three years old. Pick shrimp at the Peerless Oyster Co. Their mother said they both help. Their sister said the little one was the fastest. Many other LOC nclc.00893
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Making dresses for Campbell Kid Dolls in a dirty tenement room, 59 Thompson St., N.Y., 4th floor, front-Romana family. The little boys, 5 and 7 years old, help to break the threads, the LOC nclc.04216
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Part of the force at Tupelo (Miss.) Cotton Mills. All work. Smallest ones not in photo. Among youngest here are- Coleman Miller, has been working one year, cannot write name, said twelve LOC nclc.02134
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Percy Neville in the heart of the Red Light district. Just come out of one of the houses with message (which see in his hand). He said gleefully 'She gimme a quarter tip.' See also Hine LOC cph.3b47848
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Name- Dangerous Business. Boy working at canning machine with open gearing. Many suck machines and boys too. J. S. Farrand Packing Co. Witness-J. W. Magruder. July 7, 1909. LOC nclc.00751
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On left end of picture is Thomas Kelley, 275 Lakeview Avenue, has been doffing in lower spinning room No. 2 for one month. Appears 12 or 13 years. Next to Thomas are Patrick and Walter. (See LOC cph.3b43672
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Noon-hour at Riverside Cotton Mills, Danville, Va. All are workers. The Supt. who posed them, said, 'Be sure not to get any little dinner-toters in the photo. We have none working under LOC nclc.04735
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Noon ball game. Boys working at the Priscilla Knitting Mills. Meridian, Miss. Some of the youngest workers are- Kendall Hoffer, 4 Ave. & C St., said was 12 yrs. old and makes $3 to $5 a LOC nclc.02030
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Mrs. Maggie Conte, 428 E. 116th St., top floor makes about $2.00 a week working lace collars, yokes, etc. for Cappellino's factory. Husband is carpenter. Work not steady. Brother-in-law LOC nclc.04120
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Little spinner in Bibb Mill No. 1, Macon, Ga. She was so small she had to climb up on to the spinning frame to mend broken threads. See also photo 488. Jan. 19, 1909. LOC cph.3a32051
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Packing sardines in Seacoast Canning Co., Factory -7, Eastport, Me. The Boss would not let nine year old Minnie pose, although she works with her mother, packing even far into the night. LOC cph.3c27245
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Applying for work paper first time Gertrude Pereira, 99 Stowe St., 14 years old - to be a ring spinner in Borden City Mill. 6th Grade, Wiley School. Learned to spin in school vacations. LOC nclc.05069
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Applying for work paper first time Gertrude Pereira, 99 Stowe St., 14 years old - to be a ring spinner in Borden City Mill. 6th Grade, Wiley School. Learned to spin in school vacations. LOC nclc.05070
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309 W. 146th Street. (...) and her seven year old daughter, Lorenza, embroidering ladies waists in their dirty kitchen-living room. Lorenza makes the stems of the flowers. Her mother said, LOC nclc.05487
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4 P.M. Katie and Josie, 137 Thompson St. Cassana and father working on artificial flowers. They work sometimes until 8 P.M., usually after school. Mother refused to be in the picture (see LOC nclc.04123
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