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1 A.M. Sunday, February 23, 1908. John Newman, 332 East 19th Street. Sells Sunday until 3 A.M. Said was 16 years old; is probably 13. Does not go to school. Photo taken at 22nd St. & 3rd LOC nclc.03192
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11-30 A.M. Jennie Rizzandi, 9 year old girl, helping mother and father finish garments in a dilapidated tenement, 5 Extra Pl., N.Y.C. They all work until 9 P.M. when busy, and make about $2 LOC cph.3a42529
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Daisy Chapman, a prize winner from Webster Springs, W. Va. She has been a 4 H Club Member for several years. Sewing is her main line now. Also one of the 'Caesar Gang' from Webster Co(unty) LOC cph.3b03543
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Daisy Chapman, a prize winner from Webster Springs, W. Va. She has been a 4 H Club Member for several years. Sewing is her main line now. Also one of the 'Caesar Gang' from Webster Co(unty) LOC nclc.04381
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Daisy Chapman, a prize winner from Webster Springs, W. Va. She has been a 4 H Club Member for several years. Sewing is her main line now. Also one of the 'Caesar Gang' from Webster Co(unty) LOC nclc.04384
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Group of field-workers at Hunttings' Tobacco Farm. One of 9 years, two of 11 yrs., 8 of 12 yrs., 5 of 13 yrs., 3 of 14 yrs., 1 of 15. Four of 11 and 12 had gone home and were not counted. LOC nclc.00709
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Group of newsies selling on Capitol steps, April 11, 1912. Tony Passaro, (8 yrs. old). Dan Mercurio, (9 yrs. old). Joseph Tucci (10 years old). Peter Peper (10 yrs. old). John Carlino (11 LOC nclc.05493
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Eureka Cotton Mills. John Madison, 11 years old; 53 inches high. Beginning to sweep. Floyd Root, 10 years old. 50 inches high . Helps cousin spin every day after school. Witness S.R. Hine. LOC nclc.01459
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Home of Ansley Westover, rear of 8 1-2 Milton St., Worcester, Mass. Mother and children, 4 yrs., 8 yrs., 10 yrs., 11 yrs., and 12 yrs., earn about $4 to $5 a week. Work until 9 P.M. LOC nclc.05505
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Home of Ansley Westover, rear of 8 1-2 Milton St., Worcester, Mass. Mother and children, 4 yrs., 8 yrs., 10 yrs., 11 yrs., and 12 yrs., earn about $4 to $5 a week. Work until 9 P.M. LOC nclc.05505
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Harry McShane - 134 B'way (I,e, Broadway) -Cin. O. - 16 yrs. of age on June 29, 1908. Had his left arm pulled off near shoulder, and right leg broken through kneecap, by being caught on belt LOC cph.3c19630
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Harry McShane - 134 B'way (I,e, Broadway) -Cin. O. - 16 yrs. of age on June 29, 1908. Had his left arm pulled off near shoulder, and right leg broken through kneecap, by being caught on belt LOC cph.3c19630
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Hartford, Conn. 6 A.M. Sunday. See photo and label 602 (Caption -602- '6-00 A.M. Sunday, March 7, 1909. Boys starting out with Sunday papers. Some were only 8 and 9 years old. Many more LOC nclc.03301
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Interior of workshop of Sanitary Ice Cream Cone Co. See 4830. Boys packing cones are John Myers, 14 years old and a boy 12 years old who is working steady now. Boss said- 'He said he wasn't LOC nclc.05241
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Family of C.J. Walker, Route 2, Box 78, Geronimo, Oklahoma. 6-year old Jewel and 5-year old Harold picks 20 to 25 pounds of cotton a day. Father said- 'I promised em a little wagon if they'd LOC nclc.00599
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Family of W.T. Frakes, Route 5, Lawton, Okla. Mother said 6-year old Warren picked 41 pounds of cotton yesterday 'An I don't make him pick; he picked last year.' Had about 20 pounds in his LOC nclc.00609
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Family of J. M. Payne, Route 1, Lawton, Okla. Mrs. Payne and four children picking cotton. Mart, 5 years, picks from 10 to 20 pounds a day (average) Harley, 7 years, picks 40 pounds a day LOC nclc.00595
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A reflection on the parent. Reflection in looking glass shows the father who has been picking nuts but refused to... - NARA - 523493
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8,9 and 10 years old starting out at 6 A.M. Sunday. (Caption -602- '6-00 A.M. Sunday, March 7, 1909. Boys starting out with Sunday papers. Some were only 8 and 9 years old. Many more LOC nclc.03302
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6 yr. old Earle Holt (or Hope), 712 H St., S.W., Washington, D.C., 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 LOC cph.3c11184
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6 P.M. April 23, 1909. Sweepers, etc., in Hill and Bates Mills. Lewiston, Me. Boy next to right hand end is Jo. Been in Hill Mill 2 years (see photo 709). Only one or two could speak LOC cph.3c27563
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6 year old Leslie Cooper. Sells with 10 year old brother Eric. Found 7 A.M. Sunday. Started 5 P.M. Works all day. 6 A.M. week days. Doesn't go to school. Works the begging dodge. LOC nclc.03861
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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.00368
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4 P.M. John Sachatello, a barber with a steady job helping family make flowers, 302 Mott St. Making 'bluettes' at $2.00 a gross. Makes $12.00 to $13.00 a week when all work. Mary 5 yrs. old. LOC nclc.04101
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4-00 P.M. Mrs. Frances Rosep, 309 E. 110th St., New York., ground floor; and three children who work on willow plumes. Tony is 7 years old, Annie, 10. They are learning. Ruby, 12 years old, LOC nclc.04107
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Callie Campbell, 11 years old, picks 75 to 125 pounds of cotton a day, and totes 50 pounds of it when sack gets full. 'No, I don't like it very much.' See 4590. Lewis W. Hine. See W.H. Swift LOC nclc.00628
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Arnao family, 831 Catherine St., Rear - 2. Whole family works. Jo. Is 3 years old, Boy is 6 years old, Girl is 9 years old. We found this family, children and all working on Hichens farm, LOC nclc.05301
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Monongah Glass Co., Fairmont, W. Va. Jo Before a glass wks boy going home, 5 P.M. He says he is 12 years old, and has been at it one year- is a 'ketchin-up-boy' $.70 a day- says glass LOC cph.3a21698
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Donimeco Cipella works in he card room of the Natick Mills, Natick, R. I. Has been there 2 years. 'Once dey made me stop and said I should go to school but I'm workin' again.' Does he look LOC cph.3b46696
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Sam Pine, 8-year-old truant newsboy, who lives at 717 W. California St. Said- 'I was late getting up and don't want to get the rubber tube fo(r) being tardy so I staid away to-day.' LOC nclc.04024
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On streets near Daniel Mill. Lincolnton, N.C. Right hand boy-Dan Biggerstaff. 10 years old. Has worked 3 years. Goes to school now (he says). Left hand, John Erwin. Said 11 years old. Has LOC nclc.01384
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Only 5 pupils present out of about 40 expected when beet work is over. School -1, Dist. 3, Ft. Morgan, Colo. Oct. 26-15, over five weeks after school opened. The poor attendance in all these LOC nclc.00380
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General Utility boy in Miller & Vidor Saw-mill. 14 years old (he said). Part of the time he throws slabs into the chute that has chain carrying them to the mill. I saw him helping a man LOC nclc.04909
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Jo Veal, 219 Park Street, Lindale, Ga. Family Record shows him born August 20, 1901, and he went to work (4 mos. ago) just over 11 years. His wages are not necessary. Father and three boys LOC cph.3b32761
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Small shack on Forsythe's Bog, occupied by De Marco family, 10 in the family living in this one room. Room is 10 ft. x 11 ft. x 5 1-2 ft. high and gable attic above. Wooden toilets near at LOC nclc.05310
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Small shack on Forsythe's Bog, occupied by De Marco family, 10 in the family living in this one room. Room is 10 ft. x 11 ft. x 5 1-2 ft. high and gable attic above. Wooden toilets near at LOC nclc.05310
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Mass(achusetts) Mills. Jo Veal and family. Father and three boys in the mill. Family record shows him born August 20, 1901, and he went to work (4 mos. ago) just over 11 years old. His wages LOC nclc.02797
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Mrs. S. J. Bonner and 2 boys. Work in Bibb Mill No. 1, Macon, Ga. She earns $3.50 a week. Boys together earn $4.90 a week. Husband died when they lived on a farm. She couldn't get any heavy LOC nclc.01591
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Resting with the load at the head of the slope. Shaft -6 Pennsylvania Coal Co., Small boy is Jo Puma, a Nipper, 163 Pine Street. Jo's mother showed me the passport which shows Jo to be 14 LOC cph.3a24709
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Pearl said she was 10 years old and helps her mother in the weave room of the Pickett Cotton Mill, High Point, N.C. She said her brother 8 years old helps too. LOC nclc.02694
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Pearl said she was 10 years old and helps her mother in the weave room of the Pickett Cotton Mill, High Point, N.C. She said her brother 8 years old helps too. LOC cph.3a21310
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Theodore Librizzi, 8 yrs. old. Dewey Librizzi, 10 yrs. old. Solomon Milkman, 15 yrs. old. Solomon has been selling 4 yrs. His father is dead. Asked how he liked the trade - 'It keeps me in LOC nclc.03837
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Sunday, 7 yr. old news-boy, without a badge, who tried to 'short-change' me when he sold me a paper. 'He can rustle de poipers' another boy said. William Parralla, 313 Second St., S.W., LOC nclc.03779
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Sunday. 7 yr. old news-boy, without a badge, who tried to 'short-change' me when he sold me a paper. 'He can rustle de poipers'another boy said. William Parralla, 313 Second St., S.W.,. LOC cph.3b38483
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Sweepers & mule-room boys in Royal Mill, River Point, R.I. Boy left hand end, Manuel Mites has been in mill 2 years. Clinton Silvey and Louis Perry (centre boys) have been in mill one year LOC nclc.01682
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The Davison Family, 1312 Tampa Street. William, 14 years. Been selling for 9 years. George, 12 years. Peter, 7 years. All start this morning at 4 A.M. (Sunday). Up to 9-30 Peter had sold 3 LOC nclc.03859
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Name- Bedroom, 5 1-2 ft. x 6 1-2 ft. with one window 21' x 16 ' in which 3 persons sleep. Food was lying all over the bed unprotected and covered with flies. Large shack on Forsythe's Bog, LOC nclc.00076
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Wylie Mill, Chester, S.C. Tommy Ashville, (smaller boy) 2 years in mill. 'Specks I'm about 11.' Arthur Shelly, 8 years in mill. 14 years old. Other boys agreed he had been in mill 8 years. LOC nclc.01416
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Arts of laborant achter een schrijftafel, Bestanddeelnr 900-7646
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Hazel MacKaye and dog by Harris & Ewing
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Interior of workshop of Sanitary Ice Cream Cone Co. See 4830. Boys packing cones are John Myers, 14 years old (see 4830) and a boy 12 years old who is working steady now. Boss said- 'He said LOC cph.3b30503
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Harvey Buchanan, 608 E. Van Buren St. Postal Telegraph Co. Messenger No. 1908. 14 years of age. 1 year in service. Works from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. $4 weekly. Visits houses of prostitution. LOC cph.3a41623
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Joe Rose. Dumps cranberries for his father. Said he was 11 years old. Lived at Hourwich, Mass. 7 out of 57 workers were 6 to 12 years old. Working from 9 a.m. til 5 p.m. they said. LOC nclc.00108
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John Lewis (boy with hat) 12 years old. 1 year in mill. Weaver-4 looms. 40 cts. to start, 60 cents a day now. Brother and mother in mill. Morris Small (boy with cap) 'Reckon I been in mill 2 LOC nclc.01424
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James Morgan, 119 French St. Newsboy. 9 years of age. Selling newspaper 4 years. Average earnings 50 cents per week. Selling papers own choice. Don't smoke. Visits saloons. Works 6 hours per LOC nclc.03605
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Left hand boy is Broadus McCoy been sweeping one year, Cherry St. Makes 40 cents a day sweeping in the Belton Mfg. Co., Belton S.C. The family bible record said he has just reached 11 years LOC nclc.02611
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Left hand boy of three, Anton Perry, 723 Water Street, Ward 6. Works in Mill. Birth certificate makes him 14. Right hand boy Joseph Oliver, 164 Fourth Street, Ward 5. Works in drawing room LOC nclc.02228
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Lea Clemner, 5 Trenton Street, Gastonia, N.C. 8 years old. Beginning to doff. Said he gets only 15 cents a day. Works part time in mill (4 days a week and part time goes to school. Query, LOC nclc.01407
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Workin' on the Railroad: Portrait of Abbie Caldwell, employed in the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad yard to clean out potash cars. Clovis, New Mexico. March 1943.
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General Utility Boy in Miller & Vidor Saw-mill. 14 years old (he said). Part of the time he throws slabs into the chute that has chain carrying them to the mill. I saw him helping a man LOC nclc.05545
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Tessie Sposato, 12 yrs. old girl and her mother picking nuts in attic of tenement, 141 Hudson St., N.Y. She holds the nuts against her dirty apron as she picks them out. Works until 9 p.m. LOC nclc.04093
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Sweepers and doffers in Royal Mill, River Point, R.I. Boy on right hand end, Frank Jetro has been in mill 3 years. Next Jos. Jetro, nearly 3 years. Next Manuel Ray; 2 years. Next Jo. Jolian; LOC nclc.01685
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Raymond Bykes, Western Union No. 23, Norfolk Va. Said he was fourteen years old. Works until after 1-00 A.M. every night. He is precocious and not a little 'tough.' Has been here at this LOC nclc.03737
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Sunday morning, March 7, 1909. Morris Hurowitz, 10 years old. Been selling 2 years. Sells Saturday until 8 P.M. Starts out again Sunday at 7 A.M. Sells 25 or more Sunday papers. Is a bright LOC cph.3c07779
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Small shack on Forsythe's Bog, occupied by De Marco family, 10 in the family living in this one room. Room is 10 ft. x 11 ft. X 5 1-2 ft. high and gable attic above. (See family picking LOC nclc.05309
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Small shack on Forsythe's Bog, occupied by De Marco family, 10 in the family living in this one room. Room is 10 ft. x 11 ft. x 5 1-2 ft. high and gable attic above. (See family picking LOC nclc.05307
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Small shack on Forsythe's Bog, occupied by De Marco family, 10 in the family living in this one room. Room is 10 ft. x 11 ft. x 5 1-2 ft. high and gable attic above. (See family picking LOC nclc.05307
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Small shack on Forsythe's Bog, occupied by De Marco family, 10 in the family living in this one room. Room is 10 ft. x 11 ft. X 5 1-2 ft. high and gable attic above. (See family picking LOC nclc.05309
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This boy has worked in Payne Cotton Mill, for 2 yrs Macon, Ga. Runs 4 sides and earns 52 cents a day. Overseer has hand on boy' s shoulder. He said this mill made 70% profit last year and LOC cph.3a29770
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See 4053) Only one pupil is now present out of a possible 20 pupils, in School -9, Dist. 3, Ft. Morgan, Oct. 27-15, over five weeks after school began, (Sept. 20). They try to have 9 months LOC nclc.00376
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Tootsie, six yr. old news-boy, sells every day and Sunday for a young uncle who had to spend a good deal of his time driving Tootsie back on the job. Harry Murphy, 809 4-1-2 St., S.W., LOC nclc.03783
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Demetra Jones. Father, G.G. Jones, R. 3, Sonora, Ky. 11-year old farm hand. Father said- 'She's the only farm hand I got. She helps a lot in the field work and house work too. Is good in LOC nclc.00467
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Demetra Jones. Father, G.G. Jones, R. 3, Sonora, Ky. 11-year old farm hand. Father said- 'She's the only farm hand I got. She helps a lot in the field work and house work too. Is good in LOC cph.3c26794
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Rose Sarosa, Room 42, 62 Main St., Buffalo, N.Y. 13 years old last summer. Sarah, 9 years old last summer. Jo, 6 years old last summer. Worked in Albion Canning Factory on beans and LOC nclc.00763
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Royal Mills workers. Front Row; -Spinners- Left hand end, Simplis Leon (one year in mill); next Manuel Silvey (2 years in mill); next John Enos (2 years in mill). Back row;-Doffers etc. Some LOC nclc.01681
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Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. (Leaders marching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial) - NARA - 542010
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Willie Cheatham, Western Union messenger -1. Says he is 16 years now; been messenger for 6 years. Late Sunday night, October 4th, I talked with him, still on duty, until 10 P.M. 'You bet I LOC nclc.05561
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Yetta Leider, making hair-goods for Mowshowitz (of 178 E. 2nd St., N.Y., see photo 2878) 2nd floor front in dirty and ill-kept bed-room at 81 Ridge St., N.Y. Dark kitchen and inner bed-room LOC nclc.04201
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A) L. Seizwater, 333 Christian St., age 13, sells papers in subway. Works from 2 P.M. to 11 P.M. daily. Saturdays from 9 A.M. to 2 A.M. Sundays. Earnings 25 cents daily. (b) Jacob Cross, LOC nclc.03635
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10 year old leaf boy and three 'stringers,' 10, 12, and 13 yrs. old. Tobacco shed of American Sumatra Tob. Co. In these two sheds were 41 girls and boys from 10 to 15 yrs., and only 24 girls LOC nclc.00701
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10-30 P.M. At Center Market. 11 yr. old Celery Vendor Gus Strateges, 212 Jackson Hall Alley. He sold until 11 P.M. and was out again Sunday morning selling papers ana gum. Has been in this LOC cph.3c14497
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122 Sullivan St. 2nd Floor rear. Leveroni family. Earn 4 cents a gross making violets. Can make 20 gross a day when children work all day. Father has work. Mrs. Leveroni; Tessie Leveroni, LOC nclc.04071
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B.F. Howell, Route 4, Bowling Green, Ky. and part of his family stripping tobacco. The 8 and 10-year old boys in photo 'tie up waste'; his 12-year old boy and 14-year old girl (not in photo LOC nclc.00648
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Elm Pool Room (inside)- Nathan Sher, 69 Walden St. William Donovan, Elm Pool Room. George, 28 Elm St. (youngest pin boy). Bill Simmons (manager). Frank Worcester, 28 Elm St. Alton Tripp, 31 LOC nclc.04778
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Five cranberry pickers - all cousins. Smallest is Joe Sylva, 618 Water St., New Bedford, said 10 years old. Picks 10 pails a day at 7 cents. Arthur Sylva, said 13 years, picks 30 pails a LOC nclc.00156
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Four-year-old Mary Davis, tending the sick baby when not working. (See photo 2039). LOC nclc.00921
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Face detail, 'Teeny' Adams, eleven years old. Picks shrimp at Biloxi Canning Co. Makes $1.15 on good days. Lost three weeks of school last month. Expects to work before school now, - I saw her beginning LOC cph.3a01044 (cropped)
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Maggie Burton, 14 years old. A typical adolescent. Sister to Charley Burton (see large photo - 277). Been Spinning 6 years. Can run 7 sides = 70 cents a day . Does run 5 sides = 50 cents a LOC nclc.01408
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Little Fannie, 7 years old, 48 inches high, helps sister in Elk Mills. Her sister (in photo) said, 'Yes, she he'ps me right smart. Not all day but all she can. Yes, she started with me at LOC nclc.01893
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Nick Pilisotta, ten years old, 899 Fayard St. Works some in the Biloxi Canning Co. 'I want to quit school and work steady. Make 50 cents a day. Made $1.30 one day last year when shrimp was LOC cph.3a01042
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Newsies starting to sell at 3-30 P.M. after school. Left to right- Tony Tomasula, 9 years, 11 Fly St.; Frank Thomas, 10 years, 26 State St.; Morris Bookbinder, 12 years, 212 Eagle St. LOC nclc.03389
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Manley Creasson, 914 W. 6 St. Messenger -6, Mackay Telegraph Co. Says he is 14; school records say 13. Says he has steady job - 'Been a messenger for years. Get $15 for 2 weeks' pay.' LOC nclc.04020
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5 P.M. Mrs. Mary Mauro, 309 E. 110th St., 2nd floor. Family work on feathers. Make $2.25 a week. In vacation 2 or 3 times as much. Victoria, 8 yrs. Angelina 10 yrs. (a neighbor). Frorandi 10 LOC cph.3b17530
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Annette Roy, the youngest worker. Said 7 years old. Picked last year. Lives 171 Orange Street, Fall River, Mass. Also Napoleon Ruel, 53 Hopkins Street, Fall River, Mass. Said 9 years old. LOC nclc.00128
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4-30 P.M. Mrs. Annie De Maritius, 46 Laight St., front, Nursing a dirty baby while she picks nuts. Was suffering with a sore throat. Rosie, 3 yrs. old hanging around. Conevieve, 6 yrs. old. LOC cph.3b36704
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Bellenti Family. Crosoria, 10 years, Joe 9, Sam, 7, Tony, 4. Live on Garcia Avenue. All commence selling 6 A.M. and sell until late at night. Two oldest make 50 cents each, and two youngest LOC nclc.03841
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Bellenti Family- Crosoria, 10 years, Joe, 9 Sam, 7, Tony, 4. Live on Garcia Avenue. All commence selling 6 A.M. and sell until late at night. Two eldest make 50 cents each, and two youngest LOC nclc.03849
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Arnao family, 831 Catherine St., Rear - 2. Whole family works. Jo is 3 years old. Boy is 6 years old, Girl is 9 years old. We found this family, children and all working on Hichens farm, LOC cph.3c30780
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Arnao family, 831 Catherine St., Rear -2. Whole family works. Jo. Is 3 years old. Boy is 6 years old, Girl is 9 years old. We found this family, children and all working on Hichens farm, LOC nclc.05302
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Arnao family, 831 Catherine St., Rear - 2. Whole family works. Jo. Is 3 years old, Boy is 6 years old, Girl is 9 years old. We found this family, children and all working on Hichens farm, LOC nclc.05301
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