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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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For Child Welfare Exhibit 1912-13.) Overcrowded home of workers in cotton mill, Olneyville, Providence. Eight persons live in these three small rooms, three of them are boarders. Inner LOC cph.3a29783
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Group of men and boys at Friedman Shelby Shoe Co. The youngest, apparently 11 or 12 years old is Felber McLaughlin.... - NARA - 523337
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Fernance Silvia, 7 year old newsie, sells until 8 o'clock some nights. New Bedford, August 22, 1911. Evening. Richard K. Conant, Witness,. LOC nclc.03741
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Noon hour at Newberry, (S.C.) Mill. Plenty of youngsters here. Note- In handwriting on the back of this photo it says- 'Two of the many small children I found at work at the Newberry Cotton LOC nclc.05383
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Marie Costa, Basket Seller, 605 Elm St., Sixth St. Market, Cincinnati. 9 P.M. Had been there since 10 A.M. Sister and friend help her. LOC cph.3b03842
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Mary and Minnie Gillim, fourteen and fifteen years old. They were commencing to attend the Mill School at Avondale, and had been to school but two weeks in their lives. Were in the low first LOC nclc.01884
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Louis Gitney, a young compositor earning $7.00 a week in a Sixth Av. (N.Y.) printing office. He learned the trade at Public School 64. L.W. Hine, Feb. 1917. LOC nclc.05627
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Mrs. Guadina, living in a rear house at 231 Mulberry St. N.Y., a dirty poverty-stricken home, and making a pittance by finishing pants. On the trunk is the work of four days. She was LOC nclc.04144
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No. 1. Fairly good position. Right dorsal curvature. No. 2. Correct position for postural case. No. 3. Shows a below fair position for for right dorsal curve. If these correct positions LOC cph.3b08801
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Pete Trombetta (and Padrone in the background) is 10 years of age, working his 6th season. He is the carrier for the Trombetta family. The tray of berries weighing between 25 and 30 lbs., LOC cph.3b46698
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Making willow plumes under unsanitary conditions. A dirty home, the father and several friends had been rushing the growler and booze was literally flowing around over table and floor. The LOC nclc.04106
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6 P.M., May 21, 1909. 4 boys working in Amoskeag Mfg. Co., Manchester, N.H. Many a good deal smaller work here. See other photos. LOC cph.3b18641
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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.01012
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8 P.M. Flashlight photo of messengers absorbed in their usual game of poker in the Den of the terrible nine.... - NARA - 523167
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233 E. 107th St., N.Y. Rent sign states that these are 'Eleganti Apartmenti.' License was recently revoked and, after that, our investigator found eight families doing home-work there. It is LOC cph.3b06723
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Deal in nuts only. Import them. Nuts are cracked and picked in the factory-are picked in the homes. 100 families in neighborhood working (35 families on list in licensed houses). See -2685 LOC nclc.04086
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Bona fide crap game - Sunday. Mill boys. Near King Philip Mill. Near Tuttle St. 14-16 year old mill boys. See 4190. LOC cph.3b33401
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Dependent parent. Henderson Family, 52 Lakewood St. Two girls on left hand and another older girl work in Lynchburg (Va.) Cotton Mill. Father does not work. LOC nclc.02051
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Company of (African American) troops that make up labor battalion, Governor's Island, New York. - NARA - 533589
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Guy Baily, prize winner, - a 14 year old Club Member from Lewis Co. with his exhibit. State 4 H Club Fair, - Charleston, W. Va. LOC nclc.04434
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Closing hour, Saturday noon, at Dallas Mill. Every child in photo, so far as I was able to ascertain, works in that... - NARA - 523352
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Closing hour, Saturday noon, at Dallas Mill. Every child in photo, so far as I was able to ascertain, works in that... - NARA - 523351
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Closing hour, Saturday noon, at Dallas Mill. Every child in photo, so far as I was able to ascertain, works in that... - NARA - 523353
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A little spinner in the Mollahan Mills, Newberry, S.C. She was tending her 'sides' like a veteran, but after I took the photo, the overseer came up and said in an apologetic tone that was LOC nclc.05382
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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.02073
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All are workers in the Ross Cannery, Seaford, Del. The smallest girl seen in the picture was at work 8 o'clock in the morning of the investigation and was seen the same night at 9 P.M. LOC nclc.00793
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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.04763
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Skilled and unskilled laborers taking the TVA examination at the highschool building, Clinton, Tennessee. - NARA - 532813
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Clarence Noel, 138 Main St., Indian Orchard. Doffer in Hodges Fibre Carpet Co. of Indian Orchard Mfg. Co. Said 'made seven dollars last week.' LOC nclc.02280
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Daisy Langford, 8 years of age, working at the capping machine in Ross's Cannery, Seaford, Del. (see photo (crossed out)) Edward F. Brown, Investigator. LOC nclc.00794
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Contra Costa County, California. Entrance to labor camp, on large-scale fruit ranch. - NARA - 521717
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Margaret Reddington, 14 years old, powdering roses with blow pipe at Boston Floral Supply Co., 347-357 Cambridge Street. Said to be the only flower factory in Massachusetts. LOC nclc.05611
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Noon hour at Mass. Mill, Lindale, Ga. During the days following this, I proved the ages of nearly a dozen of these children, by gaining access to Family Records, Life Insurance papers, and LOC nclc.02759
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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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Arbeider die zweet van zijn voorhoofd veegt, RP-P-1935-1278, Johannes Josephus Aarts, between 1881 and 1934
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Slapende polderjongen, RP-P-1935-1283A, Johannes Josephus Aarts, between 1881 and 1934
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Freezing Down: Stevedores along the riverfront in Saint Louis, Missouri, January 1939.
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Mrs. Salvia, Joe, 10 years old, Josephine, 14 years, Camille, 7 years, picking nuts in a dirty tenement home. The bag... - NARA - 523490
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Hard work and dangerous. This 'river-boy' Lyman Frugia. Poles the heavy logs into the incline that takes them up to the mill. It is not only hard work, but he is exposed to all kinds of LOC nclc.05547
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Emma Kelly, eight years old, picks shrimp in the Peerless Oyster Co. Many like her worked from 3-00 A.M. until 4-00 P.M. LOC nclc.00904
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Family finishing pants. None of them spoke English. A neighbor's child said the young girl was 13 years old. In the... - NARA - 523527
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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.02214
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Even the tiny one about 5 years old was picking. Some others picking regularly. Rochester, Mass. - NARA - 523472
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Group of boys in the Belton Cotton Mill. The smallest is Milton Honicutt, 11 years old according to the bible and James Taylor. His parents wouldn't show me the family record. LOC nclc.02614
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Group of children carrying in their pecks to the 'bushel man.' We measured one of these peck boxes and found it contained 10 quarts instead of 8. Theodore Budd's Bog at Turkeytown near LOC nclc.00043
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Group of doffers working Cotton Factory posed by the supt. of the factory. The smallest boy told me he had worked... - NARA - 523358
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Fred Nozzecho, 604 Annin St., Philadelphial. Five years old. Picking this year. Theodore Budd's Bog at Turkeytown near Pemberton, N.J. This is the fourth week of school in Philadelphia and LOC nclc.05290
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Leila Prater, Virginia K. Johnson Home, Dallas, Tex. According to the records of the house physician, one third of the girl in this institution come from the farms, and began work at cotton LOC nclc.02912
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Neil Power, 10 y(ea)rs old, he said, 'Turns stockings in Rome (Ga.) Hosiery Mill.' A shy, pathetic figure. 'Hain't been to school much.' LOC nclc.02746
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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.02487
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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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Noon hour at Mass. Mill, Lindale, Ga. During the days following this, I proved the ages of nearly a dozen of these children, by gaining access to Family Records, Life Insurance papers, and LOC nclc.02759
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Mrs. Helems, Leeds, Mass., putting bristles into tooth brushes in an untidy kitchen. She makes about $4.65 a week usually. The sanitary conditions in most of these homes are pretty good, but LOC nclc.04260
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Mannington Glass Works. Uses no small boys (below 15)- These are average- manager said they do not believe in working boys that ought to be in school. Say it pays to use large boys, as they LOC nclc.01190
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Luther Dories. Been doffing some months in Spinning Room -2. Massachusetts Mills, Lindale, Ga. Said 12 years old, but very doubtful. Father and brother work. LOC nclc.05341
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One of the Cabel County Demonstration Team demonstrating the process of blanching tomatoes to visitors at the 4 H Club Fair. (See Photos No. 48, 49, 50, 51.) LOC nclc.04389
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Napoleon Leighton, Said 9 years old, 14 1-2 Griffin Street, New Bedford, Mass. Also young Portuguese girl about 11 years old. LOC nclc.00137
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For Child Welfare Exhibit 1912-13.) Nearly midnight, Ten year old newsboy selling in and around this saloon near Market Square, Providence, R.I. Flash-light photo LOC nclc.03809
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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 nclc.00692
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Payne Cotton Mill, Macon, Ga. See photo and label 538. Girl with dropping eyes and hands on hips has been helping one year. Jan. 20, 1909. LOC cph.3a29771
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Scene in 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 in LOC nclc.00209
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Scene in More-Jonas Glass Co. Small boy in center of photo with cap pulled down over face was undoubtedly under 14... - NARA - 523233
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Hard work and dangerous. This 'river-boy' Lyman Frugia. Poles the heavy logs into the incline that takes them up to the mill. It is not only hard work, but he is exposed to all kinds of LOC nclc.05547
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Sadie Kelly, 11 years old, Picks shrimp for the Peerless Oyster Co. Picked 7 pots yesterday, 5 pots today at 5 cents. Picked last year. LOC nclc.00905
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6-00 A.M. at Post Office Square. Truck load of tobacco workers bound for American Sumatra Tobacco Farm, S(outh) Windsor. They return about 7 P.M. LOC nclc.00722
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6-00 A.M. at Post Office Square, Truck load of tobacco workers bound for American Sumatra Tobacco Farm. S(outh) Windsor. They return about 7 P.M. LOC nclc.00724
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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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Closing hour, Saturday noon, at Dallas Mill. Every child in photo, so far as I was able to ascertain, works in that... - NARA - 523354
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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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223 E. 107th St., N.Y. Rent sign states that these are 'Eleganti Apartmenti.' License was recently revoked and after that, our investigator found eight families doing home-work there. It is LOC cph.3a31135
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Bleach-room boys Daniel Crowley 17 years, 358 Broadway; Mike Kennedy, 18 years, 40 Margin St. Pacific Mills. LOC nclc.01859
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Dovey Kirkpatrick, 5 years old, picks 15 pounds of cotton a day (average) Mother said- 'She jess works fer pleasure.' See photos 4555 to 4557. LOC cph.3a20268
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Dickson Mills, Laurinburg, N.C. Eddie Williamson (taller). Been in mill 3 years. John Eliot-Been in mill 7 years. Witness, S.R. Hine. LOC nclc.01506
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A Sunday afternoon 'pick-up' at Sandy Beach. Girls about 15. See 4184. LOC nclc.05032
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A group of workers in Jonas Glass Works, Minotola, N.J. These are typical of conditions in Southern N.J. although one finds, occasionally, a few younger workers. LOC nclc.01209
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A tiny cabin on the mountain slope near Charleston, W. Va. There are many such in W. Va., some owning a small plot of ground and some renting and moving from year to year. LOC nclc.04407
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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 boys' lungs. (See also labels LOC cph.3a24712
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Amelia Louise Sousa, 12 years old. Picks 22 measures. Balmeda 4 years old. Children said she doesn't pick, but she was picking just the same. LOC nclc.00178
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Applicants for skilled and unskilled laboring positions with the TVA being examined at High School building... - NARA - 532811
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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.04746
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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.00228
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Two girls working in Calvine Mfg. Co., Charlotte, N.C. Been in mill one year. Helped sister before that. Superintendent did not allow me to take photos in mill. LOC nclc.01573
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