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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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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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Group of workers in the Dwight Mfg. Co. Sophie Motralske, (smallest girl), 3 Lawrence Rd. Works in spinning room. LOC nclc.02417
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Group of young workers in Clifton Mill, Elifton (i.e., Clifton), S.C. Some still smaller wouldn't go in the photograph. LOC cph.3a21307
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Group of Workers in Peerless Box Co., Washington, Mo. Smallest one is Henry Grumpenberger. Been working there one year. LOC nclc.04697
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Fred Fowner - 74 Londsdale. Doffer in Union Mill - 15 years old. Doffer two years. $7.74 a week. LOC cph.3b33421
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Italian family crocheting bags. Father sick in bed (not contagious). (For complete details see Miss E.C. Watson's report.) LOC nclc.04276
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High school route boys. Adolescents. Some in back row have been newsboys for seven, eight and nine years. LOC nclc.03264
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Interior of cutting shed. Young cutters at work, Clarence Goodell 8 years old, and Minnie Thomas, 9 years old. Photo... - NARA - 523451
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Group in front of Indian Orchard Mfg. Co. Everyone in photo was working. Indian Orchard, Mass. - NARA - 523445
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Group of doffers working in Pell City Cotton Mill arranged by the Overseer. Superintendent of the mill is also Mayor of Pell City. LOC nclc.01921
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Home of the Palia family, 260 Terrace Street. The boy, Amorica, in center, goes to the canning factory with his mother in summer. LOC cph.3b06594
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Joseph Arthur Houle. (See photo -787.) I saw him working in Amoskeag Mfg. Co. Manchester, N.H. LOC nclc.01785
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John F-- and his grandmother, who live in an attic in Cincinnati. John is 15 years old and works in a glass factory. LOC nclc.05351
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King Philip - Mule Spinning Room. Back boy - Roving. Charles Cavanagh, 863 Slade St. 15 years. LOC nclc.03087
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W.A. Copen's old home at Big Chimney, W. Va. Windows out on upper floor and generally run down. LOC nclc.04410
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Zelina & Florence Richards, 12 and 13 years old doing the family wash. Lewis W. Hine. See 4409. LOC nclc.00463
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Work that Educates.Twelve-year old boy tending chickens with his father, John Spargo. Bennington, Vermont, Aug. 1914. LOC nclc.00320
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Work that Educates.Twelve-year old boy tending chickens with his father, John Spargo. Bennington, Vermont, Aug. 1914. LOC nclc.05581
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Where the money goes to. Each Branch Office usually has a candy counter. St. Louis, Mo. - NARA - 523298
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Girls working at mangle in Bonanno Laundry, 12 Foster Wharf. All are 15 years old and go to continuation school. LOC nclc.05199
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Girls working at mangle in Bonanno Laundry, 12 Foster Wharf. All are 15 years old and go to continuation school. LOC nclc.05620
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Girls working at mangle in Bonanno Laundry, 12 Foster Wharf. All are 15 years old and go to continuation school. LOC nclc.05620
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Glass. Alfred Wieseman and his home, 564 W. 25th St. E. St. Louis. (See photo 1407). LOC nclc.01286
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Family cutting cut embroidery in tiny crowded bed-room. (For complete details see Miss E.C. Watson's report.) LOC nclc.05502
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Family cutting cut embroidery in tiny crowded bed-room. (For complete details see Miss E.C. Watson's report.) LOC nclc.05502
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Millie, (about 7 years old) and Mary John (with baby) 8 years old. Both shuck oysters. This is Mary's second year.... - NARA - 523404
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Minnie Pastor, 10 years old, tending stand in New York. New York City. - NARA - 523327
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Payne Cotton Mill, Macon, Ga. Boy with hands in pockets been in mill 1 year. See label -538. LOC nclc.01632
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Part of the Nettles family. Nine in family. Five in the Magnolia Cotton Mills. Little girl in front is Lillian (see 2091). LOC nclc.02037
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Newsie starting in to sell after school, 3-30 P.M. Emil Ruscipto, 11 years, 205 Front St. LOC nclc.03456
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Midnight in a Glass Works in Grafton, W. Va. Boys at the 'Glory-Hole' where object is reheated before going to finisher. LOC nclc.05363
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Mrs. Marengin. Pepino, 10 years old, cracking nuts with her teeth. The mother had just been doing the same. Carmine... - NARA - 523497
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Lunch time, Kesler Mfg. Co. The little one carries the lunch. Usually the hands all go home to dinner. LOC cph.3c21889
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Noon hour, King Mfg. Co., Augusta, Ga. One of the little ones at work there. See photos 500 to 509. LOC nclc.01595
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Noon hour at Avondale Mills. The youngest boy (on left end) said he had been doffing there four years. LOC nclc.01938
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Settlement of sardine workers, Seacoast Canning Co., Factory -2. Many of them come from neighboring towns, such as Perry. LOC cph.3b37906
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The 'Piedmont Hotel' where some of the boys from the Pool Room Branch sleep in hot weather. (See label 1351). LOC nclc.04641
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Three young cutters who work in Seacoast Canning Co., Factory -4. Ages 10 to 12. Work regularly. LOC cph.3b33768
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Some of the boys in a school factory. De Pedra Casellas Cigar Factory. 18 employees, 5 of them are apprentices. Pay... - NARA - 523164
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Some of the operatives, Dickson Mills, Laurinburg, N.C. Dec. 6, 1908. Witness, Sara R. Hine. LOC nclc.01510
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Some of the youngest workers in Magnolia (Miss.) Cotton Mills. See photos and labels 1490 to 1495. Also 2091 to 2100. LOC nclc.02085
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The Framo Family Forsythe's Bog, Turkeytown, near Pemberton, N.J. Sept. 29, 1910. Witness E. F. Brown,. LOC nclc.05315
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Tony Soccha, 65 Exchange Pl. (young). A bobbin boy in -7 room- been working there for a year. See 2641. LOC cph.3a21305
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Tony, nine year old bootblack, Newark, N.J. says he makes $1 a day. August 1st, 1924. LOC nclc.04052
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Dosilav Loselle, 6 Gardner Rd. (At his Machine) Young band boy in 5 and 6; been there three months. LOC nclc.02451
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Frank Shefjack (or Szewcryk), 49 Weston St. (An infant.) Office boy in supt. office mill -6 since June. LOC nclc.02437
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Drivers going home, 5-30 P.M. from mine Macdonald, W. Va. Witness - E. N. Clopper. LOC cph.3a24701
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A few of the small boys working in the Natick (R. I.) Mills. Some of the smallest ones said they worked there 2 years. LOC nclc.01673
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General view of Forsythe's Bog, Turkeytown, near Pemberton, N.J. with Padrone. Sept. 29, 1910. Witness, E.F. Brown. LOC nclc.00079
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Reproduction New York State Factory Investigating Commission cannery records re. Haserote Controversy. (See E.F. Brown). LOC nclc.01030
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School house in Kirkland. Been used for several years and actually falling to pieces. Many rural schools in Georgia are in this condition. LOC nclc.02987
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3 year old girl and 2 boys hulling berries at Johnson's Canning Camp, Seaford, Del. LOC nclc.00791
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6 A.M. April 24, 1909. One of the many young girls working in Bates Mfg. Co., Lewiston, Me. LOC nclc.01709
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6 P.M. Flashlight photo of part of force going home. Silby Mfg. Co. Some of the smallest boys said they had been in... - NARA - 523159
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11-00 A.M. Thursday May 11th, 1910. Truant selling Saturday Evening Post. 7th & Olive Sts.,. LOC nclc.03532
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Oyster shuckers at Apalachicola, Fla. This work is carried on by many young boys during the busy seasons. This is a... - NARA - 523162
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All 6 work in King Mill, Augusta, Ga. Little girl on end has been there 1 year helping. LOC nclc.01647
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All these I saw regularly at work during working hours. Tiny girl on left end is Goldie, who helps her sister (the... - NARA - 523364
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A Postal Telegraph boy learning to send messages during spare moments. Main office, 253 B'(road)way. LOC nclc.03704
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Boys in a Cannery, Indianapolis, Ind. Unloading new tomato cans from freight cars. Witness E. N. Clopper. LOC nclc.00740
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Noon Hour, Republic Iron & Steel Co., Muncie, Ind. A few go home to lunch. (Couldn't get inside.) LOC cph.3c05668
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John Megna - Italian - 16 yrs. 75 Mt. Hope Ave. Iron Worker - Sweeper. Carving class at King Philip Settlement. LOC cph.3b33403
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Joseph Harris, a 9 year old newsboy. Been selling 1 1-2 years. Hartford, Conn. - NARA - 523176
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Lincoln Cotton Mills, Evansville, Ind. Girl at Stafford Loom. Boys sprinkling floor. (See report of conditions under which they work.) LOC nclc.01335
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Max Schwartz (8 yrs. old) and Jacob Schwartz. 163 Howard St. Newark, N.J. Sell until 10 P.M. sometimes. LOC nclc.03356
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Lumberton Cotton Mills. I saw all the children in this photograph coming out and going in to work when the whistle blew, and they said they worked. LOC nclc.02977
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Noon hour at Brown Shoe Factory. Youngest boy is Willie McIntyre, probably under 14. Was unwilling to be photo'd and had to be taken by snapshot. LOC nclc.04721
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Noon hour ball-game at Quidwick Co. Hill, Anthony, R. I. All of them work in the mill. Note the boy nearest. LOC nclc.01660
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Anthoston School. A most dilapidated shack; unlocked, open to the weather, windows broken out and furniture knocked about. Opens September 6th. LOC nclc.00572
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Anti-Saloon broadside advocating passage of Child Labor Laws; illus. of small girl lying on monument to Profit; factories belching smoke in background LCCN2004679524
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Bowling Alley boys. Many of these work until late at night. New Haven, Conn. - NARA - 523171
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Children of the Shadow. (-4140- Miss Mackay's Pageant Children of Sunshine and Shadow as presented at Washington Irving High School. L. W. Hine. LOC nclc.05003
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Children under sixteen years are dismissed half an hour before the rest at Priscilla Knitting Mills, Meridian, Miss. 5-30 P.M. LOC nclc.01869
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Children under sixteen years are dismissed half an hour before the rest at Priscilla Knitting Mills, Meridian, Miss. 5-30 P.M. LOC nclc.01868
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Breaker boys in -9 Breaker, Hughestown Borough, Pa. Coal Co. Smallest boy is Angelo Ross, (See labels -1953 + -1951.) LOC cph.3a24720
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Newsboy. Little Fattie. Less than 40 inches high, 6 years old. Been at it one year. May 9th, 1910. LOC nclc.05322
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Newsie in cellar-room of a paper office in alley back of Main Street, waiting for evening papers, 4 P.M. Conditions here vile. LOC cph.3b42555
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Newsboy. Little Fattie. Less than 40 inches high, 6 years old. Been at it one year. May 9th, 1910. LOC cph.3a01147
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Rose Biodo, Philadelphia, 10 years old. Working 3 summers, minds baby and carries berries, two pecks at a time.... - NARA - 523263
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John Sims, 7 year old newsie, New Bedford, Mass. August 22, 1911. Evening. Richard K. Conant, Witness,. LOC nclc.03740
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Group of mill folks. All ages. Salisbury Cotton Mills. Salisbury, N.C. - NARA - 523136
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Group of workers in Lane Cotton Mill, New Orleans, showing the youngest workers, and typical of conditions in New Orleans. Violations of the law are rare. LOC nclc.02877
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Home of Dewey Coffey and family, who is said to be one of the few tenants in the county. Children go to Scafford King School but out for sickness. LOC nclc.00482
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Group of children in the kindergarten school composed of the cotton mill people. Even during the play the mill is ever in the background. Dallas Cotton Mill. LOC nclc.02856
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Group of doffers working in Cotton Factory posed by the Superintendent of the factory. The smallest boy told me he had worked there three years. LOC nclc.01932
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Eunice Hadwin spinner in King Mill, Augusta, Ga., earns 75 cents to $1.00 a day. Been in mill work 5 years. LOC nclc.01646
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Edward McGurin, 14 years old. Wringing curtains at Boutwell, Fairclough & Gold, 274 Summer Street Extension. Mr. Fitzgerald, Manager. LOC nclc.05187
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Charley Herring, 9 year old Helper in Ga. Hosiery Mill, Columbus Ga. Lives 219 Broad Street, Girard, Ala. LOC nclc.02824
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Doffer in Mellville Mfg. Co., Cherryville, N.C. Said he had been working for two years. Many of them below age. LOC cph.3c00034
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Sadie Pfeifer, 48 inches high. Has worked half a year. One of the many small children at work in Lancaster Cotton... - NARA - 523128
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Spinners and doffers in Lancaster Cotton Mills. Dozens of them in this mill. Lancaster, S.C. - NARA - 523121
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Some of the young bootblacks working around Trinity Church, New York City, July 25, 1924. LOC nclc.04038
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Some of the youngest workers in Magnolia (Miss.) Cotton Mills. See photos and labels 1490 to 1495. Also 2091 to 2100. LOC nclc.02086
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Showing how essential accurate measurements are. A 'Demonstration team' composed of three prize-winning Cabell County girls. See Photo No. 48. LOC nclc.04386
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The dance of the Children of the Sunshine. (-4140- Miss Mackay's Pageant Children of Sunshine and Shadow as presented at Washington Irving High School. L.W. Hine. LOC nclc.05002
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The dance of the Children of the Sunshine. (-4140- Miss Mackay's Pageant Children of Sunshine and Shadow as presented at Washington Irving High School. L.W. Hine. LOC nclc.05007
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Millie. Four year old cotton picker on farm near Houston. Picks about eight pounds a day, regularly. See -3598. LOC nclc.05537
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Millie. Four year old cotton picker on farm near Houston. Picks about eight pounds a day, regularly. See -3598. LOC nclc.05537
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6 A. M., June 9, 1909. I found only a few youngsters going into this mill. American Thread Co., Westerly, R.I. LOC nclc.01815
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