5,664 Free Images of Child Labor

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6 A. M., June 10, 1909. Boys going to work in Warren Mfg. Co., Warren, R.I. Plenty of youngsters here. LOC cph.3b09809
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6 P.M. April 23,1909. Two of the youngest workers in Bates Mfg. Co., Lewiston, Me. Have worked there 8 years. LOC cph.3c27567
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7 years old newsie selling at 7th St. & Washington, Saturday P.M. May 7th, 1910. Witness E.N. Clopper. LOC nclc.03484
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Applicants for positions, Main office Postal Telegraph Co., N.Y., as messengers have recommendations looked up by several special investigators. LOC nclc.03703
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11-00 A. M . Monday, May 9th, 1910. Newsies at Skeeter's Branch, Jefferson near Franklin. They were all smoking. LOC nclc.05319
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-37. (See also -36 & -38.) Harry McShane. Cincinnati. See account of accident, attached to photo -36. Aug., 1908. LOC nclc.01313
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-29 Recreation. Newsboys' Protective Association, Cincinnati, Ohio. Witness, E. N. Clopper. LOC nclc.03185
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All are workers in Rome (Ga.) Hosiery Mill. The ages in this mill run from 9 and 10 y(ea)rs upwards. LOC nclc.02749
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All these work in Peerless Oyster Co. Had to get the photo while bosses were at dinner, as they refused to permit children in the photos. LOC nclc.00897
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All these, including boys in middle and left end of photo, work underground in the Bliss Colliery of the D.L.&W., near Nanticoke, Pa. LOC nclc.01125
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Allen --, Northampton, Mass., thinks he is 8 years old. Sells on the streets of Northampton until 6-30 every night. LOC nclc.03794
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14-year old Fred cutting dies for a new job. Embossing shop of Harry C. Taylor. 61 Court Street. LOC nclc.05616
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A lone newsie selling at 8 P.M. at the R. R. Station. Peter Fanella, 12 years old, 411 Catherine Street. LOC nclc.03433
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Noon hour, Singer Mfg. Co. Boys work there, girls carry lunch. South Bend, Ind. - NARA - 523101
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In center of the picture is Phoebe Thomas, 8 year old Syrian girl, running home from the factory all alone, her hand and arm bathed with blood, crying at the top of her voice. She had cut LOC nclc.00966
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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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Rhodes Mfg. Co. Spinner. A moments glimpse of the outer world. Said she was 11 years old. Been working over a year.... - NARA - 523106
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Josie, six year old, Bertha, six years old, Sophie, 10 years old, all shuck regularly. Maggioni Canning Co. LOC cph.3a15214
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Little girl is Estelle Hopkins. The two girls together run 10 sides $1.10 a day. (See Label 3024) Belton Mfg. Co.,. LOC nclc.02618
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Annie Fedele, 22 Horace Street, Somerville, Mass. This is one of the places she works on crochet. See other photos and Home Work report. LOC cph.3a01157
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Name- Three families live in this shack- one room above and one below. Bottomley's farm near Baltimore, Md. July 7, 1909. LOC cph.3b38162
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Mexicans. Beet workers and the shacks they live in near Rocky Ford, Colorado. See Hine Report, Colorado. Sugar Beet Workers, July, 1915. LOC nclc.00258
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Mexicans. Beet workers and the shacks they live in near Rocky Ford, Colorado. See Hine Report, Colorado. Sugar Beet Workers, July 1915. LOC nclc.00259
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Group of workers at Dwight Mfg. Co. Gottlieb Gasnick, (boy with sweater), 15 Gardner Rd. Worked in spinning room -4 for six months. LOC nclc.02425
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Group of workers in Perkins Hosiery Mill, Columbus, Ga. Not many very young children here. Dozens of them in the adjoining mill. LOC nclc.02812
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Group of workers. The smallest boy in the middle of group is Secondino Libro, 34 Walnut Street. Apparently 10 or 11. Works in No. 4 Spinning room. LOC cph.3a01140
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Group of younger workers in mule room. All but two are 14 and 15 years old. Going home at 11 A.M. Berkshire Cotton Mills. LOC cph.3c01563
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Going to the 'Movies.' This theatre makes no attempt to obey the state law. Boys of any age can go in, afternoon or evening. 2-30 P.M. LOC cph.3b33380
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Four children - about 3 to 6 years old. Home all alone and settlement deserted. Mother and father working on Five-acre Bog. LOC cph.3b32036
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In the Alexandria glass factories, negroes work side by side with the white workers. Also in Richmond. These are some of those working in the Alexandria (Va.) Glass Factory. LOC cph.3b38482
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Indiana Mfg. Co., Boy working at circular saw. A number of young boys here working around saws, belts, planing machines, etc. LOC nclc.04489
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Group of cutters, all of them working, factory -2. One of them, not the youngest, is Harold Whalen, 14 Tappen Ave. Makes $1.00 a day. LOC nclc.00950
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Eddie Grimshaw, 40 Stoney Hill. Has worked as doffer in -8 mill for 9 months. Makes $5.25 a week now, hates school. LOC nclc.02434
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H. C. Orr, 308 Mulberry St., Cincinnati, (rear House)Delivers for a Motor Car Co. Said he was 16 years old. LOC cph.3a42465
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Dora Nevins, 12 years old. Been selling 1 year. Hartford, Conn. - NARA - 523177
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School -9 and -12. Some of the boys who work in the glass works at night and go to school in day time. (See report for names, etc.) LOC cph.3c05657
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Sunday noon. Some of the newsboys returning Sunday papers. Many of them had been out since 5 and 6 A.M. Hartford, Conn. LOC cph.3b26710
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Some of the youngsters working in Belton Mfg. Co., Belton, S.C. Two of the youngest and J. Henderson, Kelly Street. Percy Morrison, Eugene Simper. LOC nclc.02607
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The dance of the Children of the Sunshine with Ellen sleeping in the foreground. (-4140- Miss Mackay's Pageant Children of Sunshine and Shadow as presented at Washington Irving High School. LOC cph.3a29801
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Seven-year-old Alex Reiber topping. He said, 'I hooked me knee with the beet-knife, but I jest went on a-workin'.' LOC cph.3c00669
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Seven year old Rudie Kartis, and brother, Louis, 9 years old. The older brother soon finds little one is a drawing card. LOC nclc.03907
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75 Sixth Grade children (colored) crowded into 1 small room in an old store building near Negro High School, with 1 teacher. LOC nclc.00661
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Berman Katzman a nine-year-old newsie in Hartford, Conn. Has been selling 2 years. Sells until 8 P.M. at times. LOC nclc.03296
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Betsay (i.e., Betsey) Price, - First year High School at her club sewing. 4 H Club work - Marlinton, W. Va. LOC nclc.04436
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Betsey Price, First year high school at her Club sewing. 4 H Club work, Marlinton, W. Va. LOC cph.3a29831
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A boy who said eleven years old (apparently less) and that he was a sweeper in Loray Cotton Mills, Gastonia, N.C., during the past summer. LOC nclc.02662
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Camille Carmo, Justine Carmo, seven and nine years old. The older one picks about 4 pails a day. Youngest was picking also. LOC nclc.00143
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Camillo DeMarco, 129 Common St., been in the Washington Mill spinning room No. 1, 3 months. Birth certificate makes him 14. LOC nclc.02336
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15-year old girl at her old job packing the finished envelopes. Embossing shop of Harry C. Taylor, 61 Court Street. LOC nclc.05166
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A nine year old newsgirl. She sold later than 8 P.M. sometimes. Been selling two years. Hartford, Conn. - NARA - 523174
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A pair of truants, tending their father's mules. Photo taken during school hours, near Oklahoma City. Boys are 9 and 11 yrs. old. LOC nclc.00665
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Alfred Gengreau, 20 Beaudry St., Joseph Miner, 15 Water St. Both work in Mr. Baker's room. Indian Orchard Mill. LOC nclc.02281
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10 year old newsie. Note absence of badge or indication of regulation. New Bedford, August 22, 1911. Richard K. Conant, Witness. LOC nclc.03744
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Will and Lea Dean stunted mill boys been working over a year in Saxon Mill. Family records said 13 and 14 years old. LOC nclc.02575
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Three pickers going home from work. Anne, 7 years old, and brother Vincent said 11. Vincent picked last summer. Inez... - NARA - 523465
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Three-year old Hilda, who is beginning beet work on a Wisconsin farm. See Hine Report, Wisconsin Sugar Beet, July, 1915. LOC nclc.00282
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These are the smallest workers I could find at Southland Shoe Factory, Lynchburg, Va., and I went all through it. Only a few under fourteen. LOC nclc.04731
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View of the berry fields near Baltimore, Md. Many girls and boys, old and young, working here with the negroes who are often not good associates. LOC nclc.00019
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Views of the White Oak Cotton Mills, Greensboro, N.C., showing the beautiful location of the mill, its well-kept grounds, and the good housing conditions. LOC nclc.02679
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Youngster making bands, cotton mill. Clarence Noel, 11 years old. North Pownal, Vt. - NARA - 523248
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A Little 'Shaver,' Indianapolis Newsboy, 41 inches high. Said he was 6 years old. Aug., 1908. Wit., E. N. Clopper. LOC cph.3b03843
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A regular worker (doffer) in Richmond Spinning Mills. Photo during working hours. Chattanooga, Tenn. - NARA - 523363
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Antone Simmons, small boy in center of picture, 61 Katharine St., Ward 6. In the twisting room. Birth certificate makes him 14. LOC nclc.02244
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The United Consolidated School near Charleston, W. Va. Also note photo of The Tate School, one of the two schools that were abandoned to make this. LOC nclc.04369
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General view of the spinning room, Cornell Mill, showing some of the young boys and girls employed there. See names on other photo. Cornell Mill. LOC cph.3b32759
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Some of doffers and the Superintendent, Catawba Cotton Mill, Newton, N.C. Ten small boys and girls about this size out of a force of 40 employees. LOC cph.3b37516
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Some of the workers in a Md. packing company. Plenty of work for even the tiniest hands. Many have to carry heavy boxes full of beans etc. LOC nclc.00032
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Some of the youngsters working in Belton Mfg. Co., Belton S.C. Two of the youngest and J. Henderson, Kelly Street. Percy Morrison, Eugene Simper. LOC nclc.02608
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Small boy works as helper (back roping) in Great Falls Mfg. Co. Charles Chase, 201 Main St. When I inquired about him... - NARA - 523194
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The Garfield. This was built to relieve the congestion of the beet workers in the other schools of Ft. Morgan, and none but beet workers are here. The school opened November 29, and will LOC nclc.00386
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Going to their work at 5 P.M. 'Sheeny Joe's' Glass House, January, 1913. Boy to left is 15 years old, can't speak English. LOC nclc.01303
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Gertrude Belier, 15 years old. Hemming curtains on machine at Boutwell, Fairclough & Gold, 274 Summer Street Extension. Mr. Fitzgerald, Manager. LOC nclc.05191
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One of the little spinners in Amoskeag Mfg. Company, Manchester, N.H. She was about 48 inches high and about 11 or 12 years old. LOC nclc.01781
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One of the many young boys working as assistants on express wagons. May 13, 1910. 11 A.M. Adams Express Co. LOC nclc.03513
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Group of workers. The smallest boy in the middle of group is Secondino Libro, 34 Walnut Street. Apparently 10 or 11. Works in No. 4 Spinning room. LOC nclc.05476
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Group of workers. The smallest boy in the middle of group is Secondino Libro, 34 Walnut Street. Apparently 10 or 11. Works in No. 4 Spinning room. LOC nclc.02365
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Fred, a young oyster fisher; working on an oyster boat in Mobile Bay, the Reef, near Bayou La Batre, said he was fourteen, but not likely. LOC nclc.00812
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Great Falls Mfg. Co., Somersworth, N. H. One of the young girls. There are a number of boys and girls as small and smaller, scattered through these mills. LOC nclc.01769
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Francis Lance, 5 years old, 41 inches high. He jumps on and off moving cars at risk of life. St. Louis, Mo. - NARA - 523295
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Frank De Natale, a 12-year old barber. Lathers and shaves customers in father's shop, 416 Hanover Street, after school and Saturday. LOC nclc.05619
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Ila Feebach, 15-year old girl at home for housework. Father, Rufus Feebach, Route 4, Cynthiana, Ky. Near Hookstown School. LOC nclc.00577
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Ila Feebach, 15-year old girl at home for housework. Father, Rufus Feebach, Route 4, Cynthiana, Ky. Near Hookstown School. LOC nclc.00576
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Joseph Roposa, 376 Webster St. Young Greek, said been working in weave room of Cornell Mill a short time. Going to dinner. LOC nclc.02517
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Kibbe's Candy Factory. Ryme Sylvester 15 years, 68 Clinton St. Runs chocolate spreader. Earns $ 4.00. Been at it one year. LOC nclc.04609
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In comparison with governmental affairs newsies are small matters. This photo taken in the shadow of the National Capitol where the laws are made. This group of young newsboys sells on the LOC cph.3c22958
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In comparison with governmental affairs newsies are small matters. This photo taken in the shadow of the National Capitol where the laws are made. This group of young newsboys sells on the LOC cph.3c22959
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Indianapolis Newsboys buying brass checks in a newspaper office. These checks cost at the rate of one-half the selling price of the newspaper and are exchanged at another window for the LOC cph.3c05660
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All these children except babies shuck oysters and tend babies at the Pass Packing Co. I saw them all at work there... - NARA - 523405
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Overseer and two of the doffer boys, Charles Hennessy and John Douglass in Avondale Mills. Noon hour. Overseer said, 'we've got 30 of 'em.' LOC cph.3b21310
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14 year old Henry in the fourth grade of the Rockwood Place School. He is four grades behind, and the teacher says it is on account of the beet work. LOC nclc.00397
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Boy at warping machine in Newton Cotton Mill. Been there 2 years. Newton, N.C. - NARA - 523143
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Bridgeport, Conn. Newsboys. One of the smallest has been selling for 2 years. Boy highest up on steps has been at it 6 years. LOC nclc.03277
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An Enforced Rest. Harry Swope, aged 15, 426 Elm St., Newport, Ky., Carrying heavy bundles of paper for a News & Sta'y Co. LOC cph.3b23467
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Name- A few of the workers on night shift, Cumberland Glass (Works), Bridgeton, N.J. One boy is 13 years old. Nov. 15, 1909. LOC cph.3b09807
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Unloading oysters on the dock. Alabama Canning Co. Bayou La Batre, Ala. - NARA - 523399
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Views of the White Oak Cotton Mills, Greensboro, N.C., showing the beautiful location of the mill, its well-kept grounds, and the good housing conditions. LOC nclc.02678
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Wanamaker's 8-30 A.M. New York City. - NARA - 523286
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Workers in More-Jones Glass Co., Bridgeton, N.J. LOC nclc.01227
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Work that Educates. Twelve-year old boy tending bees under the direction of his father, John Spargo. Bennington, Vermont, Aug. 1914. LOC nclc.05580
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Twin sisters Winnie and Jimmie. Spinners in Yazoo City (Miss.) Yarn Mills. Said thirteen years old, but see photo and label 2102. LOC nclc.02101
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