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George Clendenon, 2807 Waverly Street, Columbus, Ga. Mother said he has just reached 11 years, (last month) and he has been working, off and on, for over a year at Massey Hosiery Mill. He LOC nclc.02801
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George Clendenon, 2807 Waverly Street, Columbus, Ga. Mother said he has just reached 11 years, (last month) and he has been working, off and on, for over a year at Massey Hosiery Mill. He LOC nclc.02801
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Donald Mallick, ('Happy'), 203 King Street. 9 years of age, selling newspapers 5 years. Average earnings 35 cents a week. Sells from choice. Father, rivet driver, $20 weekly. 'Happy' is well LOC cph.3b03533
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Donald Mallick, ('Happy'), 203 King Street. 9 years of age, selling newspapers 5 years. Average earnings 35 cents a week. Sells from choice. Father, rivet driver, $20 weekly. 'Happy' is well LOC nclc.03578
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Eight year old newsie. Many youngsters get up early to sell papers. One ten year old starts out at 3 A.M. every day and goes to school. LOC nclc.05524
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Eloy District, Pinal County, Arizona. Cotton pickers, Mexican children, in ditch bank at the edge of . . . - NARA - 522047
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Pecan School -60; Miss Aurell, Teacher. Opened September 4th-8 months term. 22 present to-day; should be 50. Cotton picking chief cause of absence. Enrollment 30, average attendance 25; last LOC nclc.00614
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Photo taken after 9 P.M. Mrs. Barattini, Janitress at 212 Sullivan St., N.Y., and son Louis, 14 years old, and daughter who works in a flower factory all day and helps her mother make these LOC nclc.04140
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Newsies-Isaac Solovitch, 12 years, David Solovitch, 7 years. 24 Maple St., sell after school until 9 -30 P.M. or 10 P.M. Earn about 15 cents each per day. LOC nclc.03376
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Night scene. 7-30 P.M. January 29, 1912. Making violets, and they often work later. Pollinni family, 5 Carmine St., N.Y. living in a reary (i.e., rear.) tenement. The six year old helps LOC nclc.04137
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Nearly 9 A.M. Girl (about 8 yrs. old) carrying sack of hose supporters home, a long distance and she had to run to get home in time for school. Up hill and tiring work, resting frequently. LOC nclc.04296
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Room 75, Shanty 4, Cranberry pickers Paulo Biniristo and wife live here. Settlement called Rome, on Whites Bog, Browns Mills, N.J. 4 sons live in next room. Note the bread and other food LOC nclc.05453
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Room 75, Shanty 4, Cranberry pickers Paulo Biniristo and wife live here. Settlement called Rome, on Whites Bog, Browns Mills, N.J. 4 sons live in next room. Note the bread and other food LOC nclc.05453
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Albernesi Family, 126 W. Eagle St. Left to right- Frank Albernesi, 5 years old. Libori Albernesi, 15 years old, Joseph Albernesi, 13 years old. Family goes to country in summer to pick LOC cph.3b06597
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10 year old Jimmie. Been shucking 3 years. 6 pots a day, and a 11 year old boy who shucks 7 pots. Also several members of an interesting family named Sherrica. Seven of them are in this LOC nclc.05337
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10 yr. old girl tending stand at 4th and Garden Streets. On right is entrance to bar room of saloon. Stand is owned by Mr. Rakoff, whose daughters, 11 yrs and 13 yrs old, take turns, tending LOC nclc.03825
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Boy on right hand is George Dagnais, 32 Forest St., a doffer in Mill No. 1, Cocheco Mfg. Co., Dover, N.H. Been there about half a year. 6 A.M. LOC nclc.01775
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Wilfred Levoie - 15 years - 120 Diman St. - Weaver, American Linen Co. Cut leg June 20, 1916. (Mr. Wagner's schedule.) Was pushing and pulling basket along floor; basket caught a loose board LOC nclc.05077
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Witness F. A. Smith. Home of Sarkis Bedrosian, 7 Elizabeth St., Worcester, Mass. Children 6 yrs., 8 yrs., 10 yrs. and mother. Earn about $1.50 a week working on garter buttons. Father earns LOC nclc.04284
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Wylie Mill, Chester, S.C. Boy with calf is Pamento Benson. Raising it for beef. Has worked in mill 2 years. Mr. Benson said, 'Just as soon as the boys get old enough to handle a plow, we go LOC cph.3b03846
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Wood carving group of working boys at King Philip Settlement - Names beginning at our right- 6. Frederick Reinhadt, 15, 147 Grant Street. 5. Arthur Bourque, 14, 415 Kilburn St., 3. Anthony LOC nclc.05092
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Workers in Miller & Vidor Lumber Co. Dangerous work. Charlie McBride said twelve years old. This twelve year old boy has a steady job. He takes the slabs out of the chute which has a moving LOC nclc.04911
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Sugar beet workers, Sugar City, Colorado. Mary, six years, Lucy, eight, Ethel, ten. Family has been here ten years. Children go to school in the winter. See Hine Report, Colorado Beet LOC nclc.00267
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Ten-year old Sephie, a young oyster shucker, says she does six pots of oysters a day. Her mother works also. 'She don't go to school. Works all the time.' Maggioni Canning Co. LOC nclc.00987
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These boys work in Amoskeag Mills, Manchester, N.H. Emil Brassaid, 364 Collegiate St. Adolph Belodern, 441 Vernon St. Oscar Pronla, 174 Cartier St. E. W. Lord, witness. He counted 30 LOC nclc.01804
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Jewel and Harold Walker, 6 and 5 years old, pick 20 to 25 pounds of cotton a day. Father said- 'I promised em a little wagon if they'd pick steady, and now they have half a bagful in just a LOC cph.3a32050
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Sarah Crutcher, 12-year-old girl herding cattle. Route 4, c-o S.O. Crutcher. She was out of school (-49 Comanche County) only 2 weeks this year and that was to herd 100 head of cattle for LOC nclc.00684
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Sarah Crutcher, 12-year-old girl herding cattle. Route 4, c-o S.O. Crutcher. She was out of school (-49 Comanche County) only 2 weeks this year and that was to herd 100 head of cattle for LOC nclc.00683
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Stephen Warren, 284 Main St., Indian Orchard. Has doffed all summer in Indian Orchard Mfg. Co. Quit a few days ago but expects to get another job soon. Says he will not go to school. LOC nclc.02277
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Six-year old Tildy helps a little in the beet work, on a Colorado farm near Rocky Ford. Her father is German. He said- 'I don't work my children until they are older.' Another German farmer LOC nclc.00257
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Slebzak family (Polish) working on Bot(t)omley farm, near Baltimore, Md. They have worked here 3 years and one winter at Avery Island, Louisiana. All work except the very smallest. She hangs LOC nclc.00011
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10 yr. old girl tending stand at 4th and Garden Streets. On right is entrance to bar room of saloon. Stand is owned by Mr. Rakoff, whose daughters, 11 yrs. and 13 yrs. old take turns tending LOC nclc.03826
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1 A.M. near the World Building, ready to start out. Two of the sleepers (See No. 21(A)) Larger boy Abraham Jachnes, 13 years old. Newsboys Lodging House, 14 Chambers St. Has not been home LOC nclc.03175
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Alexander Ferrier, 6 Hampton St., (on left hand). Has been band boy in -8 mill for two years. He said that a short time ago an unprotected gear on his machine caught his sleeve and tore it LOC nclc.02442
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A typical group of Postal Messengers in Norfolk, Va. Smallest on left end, Wilmore Johnson, been there one year. Works days only. The Postal boys are not nearly so young, in Norfolk and also LOC nclc.03730
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A typical San Antonio newsboy. Nine years old. Youngsters like this abound, here and in many other Texas cities. Some sell early in morning and late at night. LOC nclc.03872
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Eight year old Syrian girl, Pheobe (i.e. Phoebe) Thomas, going to work at 6 a.m., August 14, with great butcher knife, to cut sardines in Seacoast Canning Co. Factory -4, Eastport Me. Said LOC nclc.00965
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9-00 P.M. Bridgeport, Conn. These boys 8 and 10 years old, had been pitching pennies all evening. After 9 P.M. I saw the little one going into saloons with a big bunch of papers and a LOC nclc.05411
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5 pupils present at School -6, Dist 3, Ft. Morgan, out of 35 expected as soon as beet work is done. School opened Sept. 20, over 5 weeks ago, and the attendance went up to 17 and then LOC nclc.00381
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6-30 A.M. May 19, 1909. One of the small boys going into Mill No. 1, Great Falls Mfg. Co., Somersworth, N.H. Saw 6 going into this mill under 14; some looked to be about 11. There are LOC nclc.01805
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Dependent (able-bodied) Parents. Fries, Va. Family of Albert Senter. He said, 'I don't work steady. Have a garden here.' Eleven year old Mandy has learned to 'spin' by 'helping.' She said, LOC nclc.02140
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Donald Mallick, ('Happy'), 203 King Street. 9 years of age, selling newspapers 5 years. Average earnings 35 cents a week. Sells from choice. Father, rivet driver, $20 weekly. 'Happy' is well LOC nclc.03579
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Garment workers. Katrina De Cato, 6 years old, Franco Brezoo, 11 years old, Maria Attreo, 12 years old, Mattie... - NARA - 523285
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Florence Valentino, 12 yrs. old, and sister Jennie, working on crochet hats in dirty kitchen tenement, 3126 Jerome Ave. (Bronx). They make heavy hats, muffs, scarfs, slippers, etc. Jennie, LOC nclc.04114
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Group of boys who work at the Brown Shoe Factory. Charlie Hopson, surely under 14, has been working there one year. Harry True, probably under 14, been working there one year. Harold Hopson LOC nclc.04718
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Family all in mill. Small boy been at it 4 years. Mother said 'she used to make her $1.00 a day spoolin' but she never can now at spinnin'. Some are better at one thing and some at another.' LOC nclc.01371
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Fank Denato, 6 years old; Tom Denato, 4 years old; Domino Denato, 12 years old. 902 Montrose St., Philadelphia, and Padrone. White's Bog, Browns Mills, N.J. This is the fourth week of school LOC nclc.00051
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Field-workers, Amer. Sumatra Tobacco Co. The Supt. called the boys out to the end of the rows and we found 47 boys from 9 to 15 years old, all working but could not get hold of them all. The LOC nclc.00705
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Father loafs while children work. He has no employment (Marion Zerpoli, 145 Hudson St., N.Y.) Mother picks nuts in Habicht, Braun Nut Factory, Hudson and Laight Sts., N.Y. Gets $4.00 a week. LOC nclc.04097
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Girls working in Springstein Mills, Chester, S.C. Zetella Gallman (by window) (looked 15 years old). Has worked 2 years. Both girls in middle said they had been in mill 8 years. Witness Sara LOC nclc.01419
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Investigator talking with Ida List, 124 Ridge Street, New York. 8 year old child suffering from chorea (St. Vitus dance) Was born in New York. Mother has always worked hard and takes in LOC nclc.04881
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Homer Hunt, 11-year old berry picker. Says he has been out of school half the time for some weeks picking, and has made $10. Gets 10 cents a gallon. They are wild blackberries. The teacher LOC nclc.00470
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Flashlight at 6 P.M. Doffer boys in Strickland Mill, Valdosta, Ga. Boy in middle and one on right hand end been in mill work for 7 yrs. Others from 1 to several years. Smallest boy does not LOC nclc.01629
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Group working in Ludlow Mills. George Barcome, Stoney Hill, Ludlow. (Front row right hand end). Been band boy for three months in -10 mill. Frank Shefjack (next George) see -2665. Eddie LOC nclc.02454
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Group work in the Ayer mill. Many of those working are-Joe Christy, 21 Common Street; Harold Old, 81 Springfield St.; Sam Gangi, 22 Pleasant Valley St.; Wallace Hogan, 12 Bailey St.; LOC cph.3b11028
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Groups of doffers, etc., all working in the Liberty Cotton Mill, Clayton, N.C., taken at 10-00 A.M., October 29th, 1912. I saw a few very young spinners, one apparently ten years old, LOC nclc.02675
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Branch of St. Louis firm.) Peter's Shoe Co. Boy on left end is Harry Chrystal, (Add. Box -9, De Soto) an inveterate smoker. He is a 'brusher,' gets $3 a week; has worked one summer; is on LOC nclc.04686
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Cutting tobacco on farm of A.G.W. Gish, Route 3, Henderson. Boys 10, 13 and 15 years will all go to Niagara School, Div. 4, Henderson Co., when it opens next week. New building. The 2 LOC nclc.00521
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Acme School -24 (4 miles northwest of Shawnee)- Miss Lois Millard, Principal. (P.O. Dale, Okla., Route 1). 26 present, 40 expected after all families return from southern part of the state LOC nclc.00624
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Mildred Kron, three years old, and Gertrude Kron, five years old. Help shuck oysters every day in the Barataria Canning Co. Live in New Orleans, (See also photos 1973, 1976, 1977, 1997, LOC cph.3a01061
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Mule room - Group of back boys 14 -16 years old. Overseer kept two boys out of picture because below par physically. Two boys on right had adenoids so that they had great difficulty in LOC cph.3b15894
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Nannie Coleson, looper who said she was 11 years old, and has been working in the Crescent Hosiery Mill for some months. Makes about $3 a week. Has been through the 5th grade in school. She LOC cph.3b19288
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Mrs. Raphael Marengin, (...) St., first floor rear. Pepine, 10 yrs. old, cracking nuts with her teeth. The mother had just been doing the same. Carmine, 8 years old, has cross eyes, and with LOC cph.3a39222
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Phelps School -56; Miss Gray, Teacher. Miss Gray has been there just this year. School opened September 4th-7 months term. 16 present; 22 out on account of cotton. Entrollment 28, average LOC nclc.00613
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Nearly Sold Out! 'Basket ! Five Cents Each!' Antoinette Siminger, 12 years old, 4219 Glenway Ave., Price Hill, Sixth St., Market, Cincinnati. 10 P.M. Had been selling since morning. LOC nclc.03198
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Ollie Johnson. Bible records shows her 10 years old. She goes into the Anniston Mfg. Co. regularly to help her sister Annie spin. Her mother admits it also. Says all the children learn to LOC nclc.02940
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Olga Schubert, 855 Gruenwald St. The little 5 yr. old after a day's work that began about 5-00 A.M. helping her mother in the Biloxi Canning Factory, begun at an early hour, was tired out LOC cph.3a01114
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Mother and three children - Roderez family, E. Falmouth, Mass. James - 8 years; Manuel 5; Marion, the baby, 4. They pick 28 measures a day. Mother sayd, 'We can't pick fast cause the baby is LOC nclc.00183
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John Dowers, 7 years old, lives at 108 W. Frisco St. Starts out at 5 a.m. some days. Father is blind and sells newspapers. John is a pretty good beggar. Was seen trying to borrow a dollar LOC nclc.04015
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Johnnie, a nine-year-old oyster shucker. Man with pipe is a padrone who had brought these people from Baltimore for four years. He said, 'I tell you I have to lie to 'em. Ther're never LOC cph.3c16477
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Johnnie, a nine-year-old oyster shucker. Man with pipe is a padrone who had brought these people from Baltimore for four years. He said, 'I tell you I have to lie to 'em. Ther're never LOC cph.3c16477
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Lillian Nettles, an eleven year old spinner in Magnolia Cotton Mills, Magnolia, Miss. Her sister said, ' She ain't old 'nuff to draw pay,' but she helps regularly, and says she can run two LOC nclc.02083
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Lawrence McCarthy, 75 Hafford St. Henry Doyal (smaller boy), 721 Bay St. Matthias Rindan, 823 Grinnell St. Edward Myles, (smallest), 198 Tecumseh St., Fall River, August 26, 1911. LOC nclc.03746
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Boys working in Scotland Mill, Laurinburg, N.C. Smallest boy-Junior Bounds-Beginning. Next, Rollin Hudson - 3 years in mill. Next, Lloyd Willoughby - 3 years in mill. Next, Preston Torrent - LOC nclc.01509
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Charlie Foster has a steady job in the Merrimack Mills. School Record says he is now ten years old. His father told me that he could not read, and still he is putting him into the mill. See LOC nclc.02901
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8-30 A.M., Nov. 12, 1912. Two young girls, Murry and Westover, carrying home sacks full of hose-supporters for home work, from American Narrow Fabric Co., Worcester, Mass. Loads are heavy LOC nclc.04288
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Carl Brown, eleven years old. He and his father run a farm of 160 acres in Southern Vermont. He is overgrown, sluggish, but he said- 'I'd ruther go to school.' See Hine Report, Rural Child LOC nclc.00309
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Antonio Martina, 53 Carolina Street, Buffalo, N.Y. 11 years old last summer. Attends School -1. He, and a 13-year-old sister worked in sheds of Ellis-Canning Factory, Brant, N.Y., snipping LOC nclc.00767
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Addie Card, 12 years. Spinner in North Pormal (i.e., Pownal) Cotton Mill. Vt. Girls in mill say she is ten years. She admitted to me she was twelve; that she started during school vacation LOC cph.3a20286
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Willie Cherry, a 6 year old helper in Massey Hosiery Mill, Columbus, Ga. She has been going to school and helping her step-brother, Lawrence Webb, regularly after school. Her mother has LOC nclc.02849
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William Tobias 80 Grattan St., Brooklyn -12 yrs old. Boy was starting for the subway to sell papers on 'trains until 6 A.M. 'Cause termorrer dey haint no school and I kin sleep all day and LOC nclc.03172
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Whitnel Cotton Mfg. Co., Whitnel, N.C. Running at night. Out of 50 employees there, 10 were about 12 years old, and some surely under that. See photos -435 and 436. LOC cph.3b05637
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Whitnel (N.C.) Cotton Mills. Everyone in this family except the mother, works in the mill. Father earns $1.00 a day. Smallest girl, Annie Philips, been there only a few months, earns nearly LOC nclc.01553
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A group of workers at Greenabaum's Cannery, Seaford, Del. 1 Child is 7 years of age. 4 Children are 12 years of age. 1 Child is 13 years of age. 4 Children are 15 years of age. 3 of these LOC nclc.00799
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All are workers in the Rome (Ga.) Hosiery Mill. Two working at 11 y(ea)rs. Some working here only 9 and 10 y(ea)rs old. The youngest workers get about $3. a week for turning, knitting, or LOC nclc.02744
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All these I saw regularly at work during work hours in Richmond Spinning Mills. Tiny girl on left, five years old, is Goldie, who helps her sister, girl back of her. When I tried to get a LOC nclc.01970
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All these I saw regularly at work during work hours in Richmond Spinning Mills. Tiny girl on left, five years old, is Goldie, who helps her sister, girl back of her. When I tried to get a LOC nclc.01971
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Averzano family, Room 24, 2-4 Prince St., N.Y. Photo taken at 1-30 P.M. Mar. 6th, a school day, and Josephine said she wasn't going to school this week on account of the work. 'I like to LOC cph.3a26904
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Boy on left hand end (hands in pocket) is Peter Carlos, been working in mill for 1 1-2 years. Smallest boy is... - NARA - 523197
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Daniel Mfg. Co., Lincolnton, N.C. Four doffers. Boy on left end (knee pants) said he had worked in mills for 7 years and some nights. At nights they work 12 hours, without any hour off for LOC nclc.01378
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143 Hudson St., ground floor. Mrs. Salvia; Joe, 10 years old; Josephine, 14 years old; Camille, 7 years old. Picking nuts in a dirty tenement home. The bag of cracked nuts (on chair) had LOC nclc.05479
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Drift Mouth, San Lick Mine, near Grafton, W. Va. Bank Boss in centre- driver on his right- trapper boy outside. Alfred, about 14. He trapped several years during vacation- said he is going LOC nclc.01063
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At the close of the day. Just up from the shaft. All work below ground in aPennsylvania Coal Mine. Smallest boy, next to right hand end is a nipper. On his right is Arthur, a driver, Jo on LOC cph.3a24706
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Arthur H. Toody, 536 Market St. Newsboy, 8 years of age. Selling papers 1 years (sic) Average earnings 20 cents per week. Selling newspapers own choice. Earnings not needed at home. Don't LOC nclc.03590
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2-15 P.M. Some of the 'crew' at ferry, Jersey City, N.J. On extreme left, Sam, 10 yrs. old - 'I've got to support the family,' he said. Small boy on right centre his broth(er), William 12 LOC nclc.03812
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Case of Frank Wiegel, 3916 - - Ave., Brooklyn N.Y., injured after working 18 hours a day. He was injured at 1-55 A.M. January 18, 1914. Age 15 years. Employed by the Henry Bosch Paper Co., LOC nclc.04993
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Edna Smilley, R.D. 1. Eighteen years old and sister seven years old pick seventy-five pounds of cotton a day. 'We'd ruther do anything than pick cotton,' Edna said. Schools open November LOC cph.3c15400
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Edgar Kitchen 13 yrs. old gets $3.25 a week working for the Bingham Bros. Dairy. Drives dairy wagon from 7 A.M. to noon. Works on farm in afternoon (10 hours a day) seven days a week-half LOC cph.3b18654
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