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6 P.M. Making hair-brushes. Hausner family, 310 E. 71 St., N.Y. Frank is 6 yrs old. and John is 12. The mother had a sore throat and wore a great rag rapped around it, but she took it off LOC nclc.05488
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Arguelles Factory, Tampa, Fla. Not running to-day. Said to hire a good many young children as apprentices. A School Factory, advertised in papers 3 months ago, for apprentices at low prices. LOC nclc.04511
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Showing different ages reached by 4 H Club work - in the State. Steps in Club Work - 10 - 12, 13 - 14, 15 - 17 and 18 - 24 years. County Agents are drawn from the ranks below, having gone LOC nclc.04393
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Small shack on Forsythe's Bog, occupied by De Marco family, 10 in the family living in this room. Room is 10 ft. x 11ft. X 5 1-2 ft. high and gable attic above. (See family picking LOC nclc.05308
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Sanitary Ice Cream Cone Co., 116 S. Dewey St. (Cisar, Manager). John Myers, 14 years old, who is in Grade 6 in Franklin School works after school and Saturday. He has been there 7 months. LOC cph.3b30503
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General Utility Boy at Lutcher & Moore Lumber Co. 'I'm fourteen years old; been here one year. Get $1.00 a day.' He runs errands and helps around. I saw him pushing some of these empty cars. LOC nclc.05544
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General view of part of the force picking tomatoes on farm of W.T. Hill. There were about 25 children-most of them 8 to 15 years old. 'When school opens next month you bet we have to quit LOC nclc.00580
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These were all the young children I could get at the Athens Hosiery Mill at noon. And at 9 A.M., although when I went through the mill at 7 A.M. alone Dec. 9th, I saw six little girls LOC nclc.02025
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The girl berry carriers on Newton's Farm at Cannon, Del. Ann Parion, 13 years of age, working her 5th season carries 60 lbs. of berries from the fields to the sheds. Andenito Carro, 14 years LOC cph.3a20805
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Salvin Nocito, 5 years old, carries 2 pecks of cranberries for long distance to the bushel man. Whites Bog. Brown... - NARA - 523267
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Springstein Mill, Chester, S.C. Malcolm Rogers (Boy with hat) 54 inches high. Be(e)n in mill 3 years. Started at 25 cents and now makes $1.00 a day. Spins part time and doffer part time. LOC nclc.01422
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Some of smaller 'hands' on the night shift waiting for the whistle to blow. Whitnel N.C. Cotton Mill. The smallest boy and girl were about 50 inches high. One of the medium sized boys has LOC nclc.01529
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Some of the Young Boys Working in the Robert Johnson Rand Shoe Factory, Washington, Mo. (Branch of St. Louis firm making Star shoes.) On left end is Henry Detmer, who said he has been LOC nclc.04695
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Some samples (not all) of the children in the 'Kindergarten Factory' run by the High Point and Piedmont Hosiery Mills, High Point, N.C. Every child in these photos worked; I saw them at work LOC nclc.02689
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Sula Bedford, nine years old. Lives in Tupelo, Miss. Mother said, 'Just as soon as she's 12, her father wants her to learn to weave. She could spin now, (heaps of 'em smaller'n she is does) LOC nclc.02045
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Sunday. Boys working in Bibb Mill -1, Macon, Ga. Tallest boy on right hand end (with cap) Grady Olford, been in mill work 5 years. Next, Claudie Bonner. Next, Willie Dix. Next Hermie Allen LOC nclc.01645
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Susie, said 6 years old. Picks about 5 pails a day. Clarence, said 7 years. Nine out of the seventy workers were from 6 to 12 years old. Mostly Syrians from Boston and Providence. LOC nclc.00150
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Glass Blower and Mold Boy. Boy has 4 1-2 hours of this at a stretch, then an hour's rest and 4 1-2 more- cramped position. Day shift one week- night shift next. (see label on photo 162.) LOC cph.3a13357
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Group of women in sweatshop of Mr. Sentrei, 87 Ridge Street, second inner court. Small girl is Mamie Gerhino, 202 Elizabeth Street. She might have been 14 years old. Photo 5 P.M., February LOC cph.3b03845
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Group of workers in Dwight Mfg., Co., Joseph Polchlopek, (tallest boy in middle, front), 37 West Front St. Last night he gave his name as Joseph Waraszy, 19 Dublin St. To-day he corrected LOC nclc.02410
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Group on Court St., selling around the 'Shea' Theater, 8 P.M. Boy in center - Vito Bucheto, 10 years old, 162 Court St. Behind him to left- Tony Gregoria 12 years old, 69 Front St.,. LOC nclc.03403
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Grace Harper (Looked 10 years old). Works in Lydia Mills, Clinton, S.C. Mother said she is very good hand at spinning. Been at it 3 years. Runs 4 and 5 sides, about 50 cents a day. Little LOC nclc.01465
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Going back to work. Youngest boy is Richard Millsap. The family record in bible says he is 11 years old - born Jan 22, 1903 (doubtful), and father says 12 years old. He appears to be under 9. Works LOC nclc.02926
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Family of J.H. Burch, Route 1, Rockfield, Ky. Boys 12, 14 and 17 (stripping tobacco) working during school hours. Have been out a good deal. Go to Quarry School (6-12). Two families LOC nclc.00657
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Family of L.H. Kirkpatrick, Route 1, Lawton, Oklahoma. Children go to Mineral Wells School -39. Father, mother and five children (5, 6, 10, 11 and 12 years old) pick cotton. 'We pick a bale LOC cph.3b30502
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Family of L.H. Kirkpatrick, Route 1, Lawton, Okla. Children go to Mineral Wells School -39. Father, mother and five children (5, 6, 10, 11 and 12 years old) pick cotton. 'We pick a bale in LOC nclc.00591
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Field-workers, Amer(ican) Sumatra Tobacco Co. The Supt. called the boys out to the end of the rows and we found 47 boys from 9 to 15 yrs. old, all working but could not get hold of them all. LOC nclc.00704
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From left to right. Joe, 12 years, Jacob, 8 years. Bonny, 10 yrs. Levi, 10 yrs. Teacher says Joe doesn't know anything, not even enough to be bad. He is always drowsy in class. 'Jacob is LOC nclc.03821
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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.05466
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Harley Bruce. a young coupling-boy at tipple of Indian Mountain Mine, of Proctor Coal Co., near Jellico, Tenn. He appears to be 12 or 14 years old, and says he has been working there about a LOC cph.3b41699
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Harry Cherkos, 435 Catherine St, 7 years of age, sells papers, from 2-30 to 8 P.M. daily. 10 A.M. to midnight on Saturday. Income, 50 cents per day. This boy was caught gambling on Chestnut LOC nclc.03627
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Harry Silverstein, Newsboy, 703 W. 6th St., 7 years old. Sells papers, (selling 3 months average earnings 25 cents per week). Father working Morocco Mills, earns $18 weekly. Boy's earnings LOC nclc.03614
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Israel April, 314 I St., S.W., Washington, D.C. 'I serves the President'. 9 yr. old newsboy with no badge selling near Willard Hotel, Sunday P.M.,4-14-12. Been selling for several years. I LOC nclc.03778
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Italian family living 428 E. 116th St., 2 floor back. They were so illiterate I couldn't get their names. Have been in U.S. only one month. Mother is learning to make lace for factory near LOC nclc.04116
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Union Hospital - Lewis Palmer - 14 years - 455 Peckham St. - Rope hauler in Estes Mill, making mop rope. Began April 25th. Hand cut by rope May 18th. Laid up one month. Wages $4.60 - LOC nclc.05079
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Tommy De Grandis, 109 Groham St. A week (i.e., weak) anaemic. Ten year old pin boy in Hennessey's Bowling Alley. Also his brother Leo (said 12 years). They said they work every night until LOC cph.3b43677
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Truants selling papers at Jefferson & Washington 11 A.M. Monday May 9th, 1910. Smallest boy is Marvin Adams, 2637 Wahington Ave. Said he got his papers 'off'n de other feller.' Other boy is LOC cph.3c07781
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Carrie Blanchard. 'Don't know how old I am. Mother can tell. She keeps track of these things. She begins to work in mill tomorrow. 'Speks I'll go to help.' (Mother said she was 10 years LOC nclc.01458
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Edgar Kitchen 13 yrs. old gets $3.25 a week working for the Bingham Bros. Dairy. Drives a dairy wagon from 7 A.M. to noon. Works on farm in afternoon (10 hours a day) seven days a week-half LOC nclc.00492
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Edith, a five year old cotton picker on H.M. Lane's farm Bells, Tex. (Near Denison). 'She's a good steady picker. Works all day long,' her aunt said. See also other photos taken here. LOC nclc.05522
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Edith, a five year old cotton picker on H.M. Lane's farm Bells, Tex. (near Denison). 'She's a good steady picker. Works all day long,' her aunt said. See also other photos taken here. LOC cph.3b24276
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Eleven-year old Elizabeth who has been working in the sugar beets near Ordway, Colorado, for one year. The family moved here from Southern Russia three years ago. She said- 'I don't like the LOC nclc.00261
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Eleven-year old Elizabeth who has been working in the sugar beets near Ordway, Colorado, for one year. The family moved here from Southern Russia three years ago. She said- 'I don't like the LOC nclc.00263
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Georgie Baldwin. According to the Family Record (which says born August 15, 1903) he has just been working nearly a year in the Merrimack Mfg. Mills. When his father read me the dates from LOC nclc.02900
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On right hand of front row is Arthur Houle, 24 E. Gardner St., fifth floor of Spinning Room -2. Left hand end front row is John Parent, 14 Congress St., Spinning Room -2, fifth floor. LOC nclc.02407
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Ollie Hughes (11 years), Ruby Hughes (10 years), Help in Magnolia, (Miss.) Cotton Mills. One about 11 years (sick abed) works too. Mother and three others not in mill. Moved here two months LOC nclc.02035
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Norman Hall, 210 Park Street, Lindale, Ga. Went to work over a year ago in Massachusetts Mills at 10 1-2 years old. Family Record says born Oct. 26, 1901. Doffing. No real reason for his LOC nclc.02774
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Norman Hall, 210 Park Street, Lindale, Ga. Went to work over a year ago in Massachusetts Mills at 10 1-2 years old. Family record says born October 16, 1901. Doffing. No real reason for his LOC nclc.02798
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Michael Mero, 2 West 4th St. Bootblack, 12 years of age, working one year of own volition. Don't smoke. Out after 11 P.M. on May 21. Ordinarily works 6 hours per day. LOC cph.3b24285
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Michael Mero, 2 West 4th St., Bootblack, 12 years of age, working one year of own volition. Don't smoke. Out after 11 P.M. on May 21, Ordinarily works 6 hours per day. LOC cph.3b24285
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Rush Merrill, Loray Mill, Gastonia, N.C. 12 years old. Been in mill 3 years Doffer. Gets 75 cents a day. Said sometimes gets 3 to 5 hours a day resting between times. LOC nclc.05374
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Raymond Bykes, Western Union No. 23, Norfolk Va. Said he was fourteen years old. Works until after one A.M. every night. He is precocious and not a little 'tough.' Has been here at this LOC cph.3c30786
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Part of the family of George Padroni, near Sterling, Colo. They have 9 children and some hired help. Only one child in school (see 4042). This is 6 yr. old Lena, who works some too. The 8 yr. old LOC nclc.00366
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Nan de Gallant, 4 Clark St., Eastport, Maine, 9 year old cartoner, Seacoast Canning Co., Factory -2. Packs some with her mother. Mother and two sisters work in factory. One sister has made LOC nclc.00928
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All are workers in the Rome (Ga.) Hosiery Mill. Two working are 11 y(ea)rs old. Some working here only 9 and 10 y(ea)rs old, The youngest got about $3. a week for turning, knitting, or LOC nclc.02742
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All are workers in the Rome (Ga.) Hosiery Mill. Two working at 11 yrs old. Some working here only 9 and 10 y(ea)rs old. The youngest got about $3. a week for turning, knitting or looping. LOC nclc.02741
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Bank boss, (with lamp between knees) Motorman, Brake-boy and Driver. Gary Mine, Gary, W. Va. Boss said he would use more boys if he could get them but they went to school. Note live wire on LOC nclc.01056
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A young truant selling extras during school hours Monday, April 15th, on Pennsylvania Avenue. He said, 'I heard they was extras.' I stayed out of school.' 'I am 9 yrs. Old-I mean 11.' (He LOC nclc.03784
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A group of berry pickers on the farm of Mr. Giles, Seaford, Del. 3 children are 3 years of age, 3 are 4 years old, 1 is 5 years old, and 1 is 6 years old. During the berry season the LOC nclc.00093
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A Saturday ball game. Springstein Mills, Chester, S.C. Boy with glove, Malcom Rogers. (See photo 329). Next to him - Ben Deaton-12 years old. 52 inches high. Weaver. Runs 6 looms at $1.00 a LOC nclc.01423
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Getting ready for the mixer to pour the first batch of concrete at Norris Dam site. This concrete was used for the... - NARA - 532712
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Children hoeing on farm near Mt. Vernon, Ky. Go to Mt. Vernon Graded School. Mamie, 7 years, Grace, 9 years, Marguerite, 12 years and Everett 14 years. Father, Alfred Bryant, Mt. Vernon P.O. LOC nclc.00472
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Children of night superintendent, in Dickson Mill, Laurinburg, N.C. (1) Bessie Moore - runs 4 sides. Has worked two years nights. (2) Frank (smallest). Doffs. Has worked 2 yrs. nights. (3) LOC nclc.01505
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Boys working in Calvine Mfg. Co., Charlotte, N.C. Shortest boy been in mill work 3 years. Next boy 4 years. Tallest boy 5 years. Superintendent would not permit me to take photos in mill. I LOC nclc.01575
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Boy on right Charlie Burton-9 Ozark Mill. This anaemic(sic), hollow chested, stoop shouldered under-sized and weight, said-'Been in mill 6 or 7 years. 12 years old. Haint grown none for 5 LOC nclc.01372
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Byron, California. Field laborers of Japanese ancestry from a large delta ranch have assembled at W . . . - NARA - 537773
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Dillon Mills, Dillon S.C. (Boy) Ransom English-doffs, been in mill 6 years. (Next) Florence Burr-runs 5 sides. In mill 4 years. (Next) Bessie English - 3 sides, 3 years in mill. (Next) LOC nclc.01496
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12 year old Lahnert boy, near Ft. Collins, Colo., topping beets. The father, mother, and two boys (9 and 12 yrs.) expect to make $700 in about 2 months time in the beet work. 'The boys can LOC nclc.05585
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Vincenzo Messina, 15 years old and brother Angelo, 11 years old, baking bread for father, 174 Salem Street. Vincenzo is working nights now, from 5 p.m. to 5 a.m. Usually works on day shift. LOC nclc.05177
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Vincenzo Messina, 15 years old and brother Angelo, 11 years old, baking bread for father, 174 Salem Street. Vincenzo is working nights now, from 5 P.M. to 5 P.M. Usually works on day shift. LOC cph.3b00363
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View of Red Light District on C. Street, N.W., near 13th, with Griffin Veatch, who was showing me around. No. 6 Special Messenger Service, 1223 New York Ave., N.W.; he lives 1643 Cramer St., LOC cph.3c08264
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Workers in Bibb Mill -1, Macon, Ga. Boy on right on right hand end, Burdick Collins, 2 years in mill work. Next, Scoven Preston, 1 year in mill work. Next, Charlie Benson, 4 years in mill LOC nclc.01592
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Wilfred Clark, 10 years old, 24 Key St., going home at noon, after cutting five boxes of fish during the morning. Incidently, he cuts his fingers. See left fore-finger. Two other boys with LOC nclc.00952
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Willie Crocker, (barefoot) Wylie Mill, Chester, S.C. 13 years old- 'worked since I was 6 years old.' Lost part of finger in gear of machinery. Fred Crocker-11 years old. 1 year in mill. LOC nclc.01417
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Young girls going to work in Mill No. 1 Cocheco Mfg. Co., Dover, N.H. I saw them go to work regularly, day after day. May 17, 1909-Noon. LOC nclc.01771
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Elsie Shaw, a 6 year old cartoner in the summer, Seacoast Canning Co., Factory -2. Her father is boss of cutting room in Factory -1. He asked me to take some photos of her, as he has her do LOC nclc.00931
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Elsie Shaw, a 6 year old cartoner during the summer, Seacoast Canning Co., Factory -2. Her father is boss of cutting room in Factory -1. He asked me to take some photos of her, as he has her LOC cph.3b37900
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Cleo Campbell, 9 years old, picks 75 to 100 pounds of cotton a day. Expects to start school soon. Said- 'I'd ruther go to school and then I wouldn't have ter work.' Father said she and her LOC nclc.00627
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Arthur Newell, doffer in Manchester Mills, Rock Hill. 3 weeks at it. 70 cents a day. Said 12 years old. His father in the mill gets $12 a week, mother $9, sister $4.80, he gets $4.20, total LOC nclc.02535
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Ben Ebbson, 2321 Pine St. 9 years of age. 7 seems nearer truth. Selling papers 3 years. Average earnings 25 cents per week. Selling papers own choice. Earnings not needed at home. Don't LOC nclc.03615
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Ben Key and his brother Tom. Latter helps Ben during the day time. (See report of L.W.H.) Brother Tom nine years old; goes to school and works until six P.M., sometimes until nine. They live LOC nclc.03560
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Fourteen year old messenger -2 Western Union, Shreveport. Says he goes to the Red Light district all the time. See Hine report on Messengers. LOC nclc.05549
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For Child Welfare Exhibit 1912-13.) A midnight crap game in the street near Post Office, Providence, R.I. Nov 23, 1912. One 12 years old, one 14. One had been shooting here a couple of hours LOC cph.3b11230
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For Child Welfare Exhibit 1912-13.) Midnight, Nov. 23, 1912. Providence, R.I. Newsboys shooting craps near Post Office. Been playing here at craps for an hour. Flash-light photo LOC cph.3a48752
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Family of J.H. Burch, Route 1, Rockfield, Ky. Boys 12, 14 and 17 (stripping tobacco) working during school hours. Have been out a good deal. Go to Quarry School (6-12). Two families LOC cph.3a17769
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488 Macon, Ga. Lewis W. Hine 1-19-1909. Bibb Mill No. 1 Many youngsters here. Some boys were so small they had to climb up on the spinning frame to mend the broken threads and put back the LOC cph.3a01131
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5 pupils present out of 100 expected to be here when beet work is over. 53 attended before the work opened up. School began Sept. 6, over 7 weeks ago. Runs for 9 mos. It is a beautiful LOC nclc.00369
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3 Boys going to work at 1 P.M. May 21, 1909. Photo taken in outer hall of spinning room of one of the mills of Amoskeag Mfg. Co., Manchester, N.H., where I found them working. Smallest boy LOC nclc.01783
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8-00 P.M. January 29, 1912. Cardinale family making silk flowers. Father wears a cast. Does not work. (See report on schedule.) Boy, 11 years old, helps some, even at night. 43 Carmine St., LOC nclc.04138
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6 year old Leslie Cooper. Sells with 10 year old brother Eric. Found 7 A.M. Sunday. Started at 5 P.M. Starts 6 A.M. week days. Doesn't go to school. Works the begging dodge. LOC nclc.03857
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6 yr. old Earle Holt (or Hope) 712 H St., S.W., sells papers for a neighbor boy. When I met him, within an hour he had forgotten that I had photographed him, but he didn't forget to LOC nclc.03775
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All are workers in the Rome (Ga.) Hosiery Mill. Two working at 11 y(ea)rs old. Some working here only 9 and 10 y(ea)rs old. The youngest got about $3. a week for turning, knitting or LOC nclc.02743
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Boys working in Amoskeag Mills, Manchester, N.H. Smallest boy is Napoleon Cammery, 194 Merrimac St. Been in mill 1 year. Next boy is Jerry Moore, 352 Chestnut St. Martin Markey, 33 State St. LOC nclc.01808
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Children hoeing on farm near Mt. Vernon, Ky. Go to Mt. Vernon Graded School. Mamie, 7 years, Grace, 9 years, Marguerite, 12 years and Everett 14 years. Father, Alfred Bryant, Mt. Vernon P.O. LOC nclc.00474
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A modest young French girl of 13 years. Spinner in the Spring Village Mill, runs six sides. Mr. Hine saw her working Sept. 2. Said, 'I'd rather work.' Been working since last February. LOC cph.3a19294
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2 violations. Simon Birdsong (left hand boy) said- 'I'm about 12.' His mother said- 'He's old enough to work all right,' but the boy admitted that she had to sign up that he was older than LOC nclc.02974
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Nick Cechini, 10 years old, been picking for three years, and Joe Cechini, 12 years old, been picking five years. 1147 Deliheigh St., Philadelphia. Wit(ness) E.F. Brown. Theodore Budd's Bog LOC nclc.00039
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Hard workers. Grady Carroll. Nine year old cotton picker. He picks two hundred pounds a day. Brother Ed ten years old picks three huundred pounds a day. Another brother thirteen years old LOC nclc.05541
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Group of glass workers Shops 6 & 7, Illinois Glass Co. 12-45 P.M. Even the tiny chap on left end of photo was working. He is a Polish boy who cannot understand English. I saw him at work LOC nclc.01291
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