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Hear That Whistle: Shipyard employees getting out of work at 4 p.m. Newport News, Virginia, March 1941.
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'Everybody works but--.' A common scene in the tenements. Father sits around. 'Sometime I make $9.00, sometime $10.00 a week on the railroad; sometime nottin'.' Helen, 5 years old, and LOC nclc.04089
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A part of the spinning force working in the Washington Cotton Mills, Fries, Va. Group posed by the overseer. All work. The overseer said, 'These boys are a bad lot.' All were alive to the LOC nclc.02074
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A Giddings beet-puller, drawn by 4 horses. The two knives pass along the sides of the beet rows and loosen the soil - but they do not pull the beets - the workers finish pulling by hand, LOC nclc.00351
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Corrinne Le May, 15 years old, bunching sweet peas at the Boston Floral Supply Co., 347-357 Cambridge Street. Said to be the only flower factory in Massachusetts. LOC nclc.05162
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All of the family of Antoinette Pothier, 32 Easton Street. Father and tallest girl in back row of the picture work. Antoinette is the center of the group in the front row. Her sister Anita LOC nclc.02347
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All of these are workers in the Stearns Silk Factory, Petersburg, Va. Not all of the youngsters would get into the photo. I went through the factory during working hours and saw many others LOC nclc.04765
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Group of workers in Avondale Mills. Smallest boy is John Tidwell, been doffing 3 months. Boy next to him is Ragin Bryant been doffing here for five years. LOC nclc.01934
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Group showing a few of the workers stringing beans in the J.S. Farrand Packing Co. Those too small to work are held... - NARA - 523214
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Group in front of Indian Orchard Mfg. Co. Everyone in photo was working. Boy not photographed. Hector Dubois, 24 Water St. Doffer in Indian Orchard; crushed finger in pump. LOC nclc.02282
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Group of boys working in -9 Breaker Pennsylvania Coal Co., Hughestown Borough, Pittston, Pa. In this group are Sam Belloma, Pine Street, Angelo Ross, and others reported previously. LOC cph.3a24722
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Evening recreation of the 'Young Holy Ghosters' - Ages 15 - 25, average is 18 - all mill workers - all Portuguese. Whole House on George Street. Great need of leadership. LOC cph.3b33434
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For Child Welfare Exhibit 1912-12.) Girls, six, nine, and eleven years old, working on chain-bags, Mrs. Antonio Caruso, 132 Knight St., Providence, R.I LOC cph.3b24281
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For Child Welfare Exhibit 1912-12.) Girls, six, nine, and eleven years old, working on chain-bags, Mrs. Antonio Caruso, 132 Knight St., Providence, R.I LOC cph.3b24281
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Home of a 9 year old boy named Brush who sells papers intermittently. 823 De Soto St. Father said to be worth $40,000 in property and soap factory. LOC nclc.03512
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Henry Kaiser, twelve-year old beet worker from Potter, Wisconsin, working on farm near Chilton. See Hine Report, Wisconsin Sugar Beet, July 1915. LOC nclc.00276
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Interior of one of the living rooms in shack used by pickers on Theodore Budd's Bog, Turkeytown, near Pemberton, N.J. Three persons lived in this room. See photo -1114. This is the fourth LOC nclc.00044
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Interior Wamsutta Mill, Wilfred Pepin, 42 Bowditch St. (youngest boy, appears 13 yrs. old). Has been working a few weeks in Mule Room -4. LOC nclc.02458
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Going home from Loray Mill. Smallest boy on the right hand end, John Moore. 13 years old. Been in mill 6 years as sweeper, doffer and spinner. LOC nclc.01354
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Going into the Butler Mills at 6-50 A.M. All went into work at North Gate beside office. Sixs (i.e., six) seemed under 14.) Witness R.K. Conant LOC nclc.02215
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7-year old Rosie. Regular shucker. Her second year at it. Illiterate. Works all day. Shucks only a few pots a day. Varn & Platt Canning Co. LOC nclc.01013
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8 P.M. Farrell family, 151 Eleventh St., Brooklyn. (See schedule.) They had temporarily discontinued the brush making, but sent to a neighbor for materials and posed for me, just as they had LOC nclc.05489
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A few of the youngsters working in the Cigarette Factory of the American Tobacco Co., at Petersburg, Va. All work. I went through the factory during working hours and saw dozens of little LOC nclc.04754
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At the close of the day. Waiting for the cage to go up. The cage is entirely open on two sides and not very well protected on other two, and is usually crowded like this. Small boy in front LOC cph.3b06961
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Anthoston School which opened September 5th. 54 present out of an enrollment of 62; Census 84. Work is interfering. See photo of school 2 weeks before it opened. LOC nclc.00518
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Joe Davis, a ten-year old going home from cannery at 5 P.M. He said he had shucked ten pots since 4 A.M. that day. LOC nclc.01037
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LABOR COMM. OF COUNCIL OF NAT. DEF. HEADS- JAMES O'CONNELL; W.B. WILSON; LEO K. FRANKEL; GOMPERS, CHAIRMAN; LEWIS B. SCHRAM; FRANK MORRISON; H.E. WILLIS; EDWARD EVERETT MACY; E. PARKER LCCN2016867143
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LABOR COMM. OF COUNCIL OF NAT. DEF. JAMES LORD; ELISHA LEE; E. PARKER NEVIN; LEWIS B. SCHRAM; EDWARD EVERETT MACY; FRANK MORRISON; SAMUEL GOMPERS, CHAIRMAN; W.B. WILSON; JAMES O'CONNELL; LCCN2016867144
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Elmer Skinner, 10 yrs. old. Turner in Massey Hosiery Mill, Columbus, Ga. Been working there four months. Works all day. No school. Does not work nights. LOC nclc.02823
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Charles Gibbon, Postal Telegraph Messenger. 14 years of age, 2 months in service. Don't smoke. Visits houses of prostitution, works form 8 A.M. to 6 P.M. LOC nclc.03567
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Scene is a cotton field of the Baptist Orphanage near Waxahachie. These boys from seven years old upward pick cotton helping this man outside of school hours. There are twenty children, LOC nclc.05538
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Sanding the cranberry marsh in the winter - one of the aids towards securing the fine 'stand' of vines shown in 3765. Owner - Mr. Andrew Searles. Photo through the courtesy of Mr. Searles. LOC nclc.00239
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Marion Davis, Messenger -21 for Bellevue Messenger Service. Fourteen years old. 'Been messenger, off and on, for two years. Not supposed to go to the Reservation under sixteen years, but I LOC nclc.05529
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Near Eloy, Pinal County, Arizona. Twelve-year-old boy picking cotton in the field. - NARA - 522236
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On right hand end is Marie Colbeck, 8 years old, who shucks 6 or 7 pots of oysters a day (30 or 35 (cents)) at... - NARA - 523396
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Mike Juriewier, 28 East St. Been working as Creel boy in -8 mill, Ludlow, one year. Very illiterate, wrote his name with great difficulty and poorly. LOC nclc.02443
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Mill boys' recreation. A Sunday swim. Base-ball on Sunday is tabooed here. Sunday-school and church are well attended. Loafing around, playing marbles, and swimming seem to be the only LOC nclc.04729
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Shorpy Higginbotham, a 'greaser' on the tipple at Bessie Mine, of the Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron Co. Said he was 14 years old, but it is doubtful. Carries two heavy pails of grease, and LOC cph.3b31144
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Some of the doffers in the Washington Cotton Mills, Fries, Va. The smallest one said he was 15 years old but, for that matter, they are all 'wise' to the necessity for being at least 14. All LOC cph.3a15219
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Some of the men and boys in Newton (N.C.) Cotton Mills. Plenty of youngsters here. Out of 150 employees, there were about 20 who looked to be 12 years old and under. LOC cph.3b21315
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Some of the doffers in the Washington Cotton Mills, Fries, Va. The smallest one said he was 15 years old but, for that matter, they are all 'wise' to the necessity for being at least 14. All LOC nclc.02069
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Some of the shrimp-pickers working at the Biloxi Canning Co. Within an hour I obtained the following names, and photos taken at the factory, and at home, all working here- Two Children of LOC cph.3a01041
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Some of the shacks in 'St. Petersburg,' the district in which the beet-workers live in Sterling. Some have to rent even these poor shacks, but many have their own cottages and some buy their LOC nclc.00315
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Some of the young boys who are rollers and bunch-breakers in Danville Cigarette Factory. The very smallest ones avoided the camera. One of them asked me if the camera told their ages. LOC nclc.04747
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This is the condition in which I found the lower hall at 266 Elizabeth St., N.Y. 3-00 P.M., February 2, 1912. It is a licensed tenement and finishing of clothes was going on in the homes. LOC cph.3a02543
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The 'Kinleygarten' (the mill policeman called it) at Lynchburg (Va.) Cotton Mills. The children of the mill settlement, from 6 to 8 years attend. Several older boys (see exterior photo, LOC nclc.02156
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The Virginia K. Johnson Home. A House of Refuge for Unmarried Mothers under twenty-one years old. A large proportion of the girls here came from the farms, their lives stunted by the LOC nclc.00227
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The wagon that delivers Home Work to Somerville, Mass. the owner of wagon (who is not the driver) is O.H. Brown, 27 Main Street, Reading Mass. These wagons (about 4 in all) are worked on LOC nclc.04225
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Stithton School opened July 24th. Enrolment (sic) of 60 out of 186 in district. This low average is due to there being over 100 Catholic children in district and they will go to Parochial LOC nclc.00466
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Tom and Jerry, 8 and 9 yrs. respectively. Tom is the 'limit' in deportment at school, and Jerry had reputation as a truant until placed in ungraded class. He is in 1.A grade. The greatest LOC nclc.03819
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Tampa Cigar Box Factory, Tampa, Fla. Found 10 small boys and girls. Work is slack now. Bad reputation. Jan. 28, 1909. LOC cph.3a20822
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Where it happened. (See photos 3070 to 3074), Sanders Cotton Mfg. Co., Bessemer City, N.C. In this and the adjoining mill (run by the same company) there were still many dangerous, LOC nclc.02696
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Willie --, a Richmond, Va. newsboy. Told me first he was 8, then admitted 7, and finally 6 years old. Compare 5 year old with him in photo 2210B. LOC cph.3a01151
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Woman assembling gas masks
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Noon at the Willingham Cotton Mills, Macon, Ga. Owned by one of the richest families in the section. President said some time ago that he didn't want to hire children but was forced to. LOC nclc.01608
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View of the Washington Cotton Mills, Fries, Va. Housing conditions are fairly good, but housekeeping not very good. Working conditions in the mill are very good. Good light, fresh air. LOC nclc.01872
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Workers in the Tifton (Ga.) Cotton Mills. All these children were working or helping. 125 workers in all. Some of the smallest boys and girls have been there one year or more. LOC cph.3a01130
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Main Entrance Wamsutta Mills. Young workers also indolescent (i.e., adolescent) and young girls running the gauntlet of vile-speaking men and boys. The remarks are sometimes beyond belief. ) LOC nclc.02488
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Jo Durco. This man, his wife and two children, Mary 8 years, Tony 10 years, do all the work on a large plot of beets. They are blocking and thinning now. LOC cph.3a38907
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Joseph Frank Nugent, 22 Howard St., works in Department 8A of Dennison's Factory; makes paper boxes; 'I nip the covers.' 'One year there, 'bout time for a raise.' LOC nclc.04770
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Laura, a nine-year-old berry picker on Rock Creek, near Baltimore, Md. Been working in the South two winters. (See my report July 10, 1909.) LOC nclc.00018
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Lawrence J. Hill - 1125 Walnut St. 17 yrs. old March 1908. Had 4 fingers mashed off by stamping machine in lamp factory - Aug 1908. LOC cph.3c19629
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LABOR COMM. OF COUNCIL OF NAT. DEF. HEADS- JAMES O'CONNELL; W.B. WILSON; LEO K. FRANKEL; GOMPERS, CHAIRMAN; LEWIS B. SCHRAM; FRANK MORRISON; H.E. WILLIS; EDWARD EVERETT MACY; E. PARKER LCCN2016867145
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Erenne La Prise, a doffer, apparently 13 year(s) old, doffing at his machine in Spring Village Mill. Said he had been working a year and a half. LOC nclc.02304
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Some of the shacks in 'St. Petersburg,' the district in which the beet-workers live in Sterling. Some have to rent even these poor shacks, but many have their own cottages and some buy their LOC nclc.00317
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Some of the youngsters in the Scotland Neck Cotton Mill going home to dinner. This mill has a number of children. One boy told me 10 years old, and one 7. LOC nclc.02954
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Rommel home, 430 N. Loomis St., Ft. Collins, Colo. Home boarded up for six months this year while family lived in the little shack shown in 4040. LOC nclc.00364
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St. Johns Mission School, High Shoals, N.C. 'Not supported by the Mill company, but we are always on good terms with them,' said the Sister in charge. Supported by the Episcopal Church. (See LOC cph.3a29763
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These were all working in the Century Cotton Mill, South Boston, Va., and the mill was running a very small force. One of the small boys belongs to family shown in photo 2206. LOC nclc.02174
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The three boys in centre want to work in Berkshire Mills, at noon, Aug. 30, '11. On August 29 at 6 P.M., Mr. Hine counted ten apparently under 14. LOC nclc.02274
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The Logical Conclusion of the Lassez (sic) Faires Policy. Herman Parker, said six years old, and he and others said he had worked in the Cannon Mills, Kannapolis, N.C. LOC cph.3b21311
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The Arnao family of berry pickers in the fields of Truitt's farm. This is an Italian family coming from Phildelphia and now ready to go to Carmel, N.J. to continue picking. The family LOC cph.3b39345
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Willie --, a Richmond Va., newsboy. Told me first that he was 8, then admitted 7, and finally 6 years old. Compare 5 year old with him in photo 2210B. LOC nclc.03725
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Young girls going to work after noon hour, May 18, 1909, in Great Falls Mfg. Co., Somersworth, N.H. I saw a number smaller and younger than these. LOC nclc.01766
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Young girls working in American Woolen Mills, Winooski, Vt. Most are illiterate. Work slack and force small. (See also N.C.L.C. Photos -720-745 May 1909.) LOC nclc.01854
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A view of Ewen Breaker of the Pa. (Pennsylvania) Coal Co. The dust was so dense at times as to obscure the view. This dust penetrates the utmost recesses of the boy's lungs. (See labels 1927 LOC nclc.01127
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A group of shrimp pickers in Peerless Oyster Co., working during the short noon recess. Many workers, including the children, utilize part of the lunch time this way, when there is a lunch LOC nclc.00900
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Eight-year-old, Jennie Camillo, lives in West Maniyunk, Pa. (near Philadelphia). For this summer she has picked cranberries. This summer is at Theodore Budd's Bog at Turkeytown, near LOC cph.3a01107
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