5,664 Free Images of Child Labor

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This is the attendance in the Sanders School, District -30 on December 6. Compare photograph 4042 showing attendance on October 25 - 7 weeks after school opened. LOC nclc.00387
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This is the attendance in the Sanders School, District -30 on December 6. Compare photograph 4042 showing attendance on October 25 - 7 weeks after school opened. LOC nclc.00382
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The whole force of workers in the cotton mills of Stevenson, Ala. Several of them are apparently under twelve, but could not get the ages. Photo posed by the general manager. LOC nclc.02885
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Rhodes Mfg. Co., Lincolnton, N.C. Spinner. A moments glimpse of the outer world Said she was 10 years old. Been working over a year. LOC cph.3a38810
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Tom Vitol (also called Dominick Dekatis) 76 Parsonage Street, Hughestown Burough (i.e., Borough) Works in Breaker -9. Probably under 14. LOC nclc.01141
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Three years in the Glass House and no chance for promotion yet. Boy in foreground been 'carry-in' since he was 14 years old. Wormser's Glass House. LOC cph.3a13363
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School located near the homes of the cannery workers. The teacher told me that only three of the cannery children attended her school, and they were not Baltimore people. LOC nclc.01041
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Rose Oquoto, 6 years old, and Flora Oquoto, 7 years old, of Philadelphia. Picking cranberries at Theodore Budd's Bog... - NARA - 523257
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View of Scotland Mills, Laurinburg, N.C. All these boys work in mill. Sunday, Dec. 6-08. Witness, Sara R. Hine. LOC nclc.01512
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Young Driver in Mine- Had been driving one year. (7 A.M. to 5-30 P.M. Daily) Brown Mine, Brown , W. Va. LOC cph.3a38581
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A young leader and a driver, Shaft -6, Pennsylvania Coal Company. Pasquale Salvo and Sandy Castina. LOC cph.3a24707
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Accident case - Man with hand crushed by flywheel at Offset Litho Co. because his helper (a boy of 17) disobeyed instructions and pushed wrong lever. LOC nclc.05102
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Augusta, Ga. A typical street scene in Gregtown where the employees in King Mill live. The Secretary of Associated Charities said this is the most degraded part of Augusta. LOC nclc.01652
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Every one of these were working in the cotton mill at North Pownal, Vt. and they were running a small force. Rosie... - NARA - 523247
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Five year old Sam is up at 5-00 A.M. daily to sell papers. Beaumont, like most other Texas towns, is overrun with boys such as these. LOC nclc.03916
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Five year old Sam is up at 5-00 A.M. daily to sell papers. Beaumont, like most other Texas towns, is overrun with boys such as these. LOC nclc.03919
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Group of Breaker Boys in -9 Breaker, Hughestown Borough, Pennsylvania Coal Co. Smallest boy is Angelo Ross (see photos and labels -1953 & -1954). LOC cph.3a24718
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Group of children acting in the Majestic Theatre on Amateur Night. The children are (alleged) amateurs, the older ones are mostly amateurs, with a few professionals. (for further details see LOC nclc.05497
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Group of doffers and spinners working in Roanoke Cotton Mills (Va.) I counted seven apparently under fourteen and three under twelve years old. LOC nclc.02147
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Group of some of the youngest workers in the Merrimack Mills. Everyone (except the boy behind the fence) has a steady job in the Merrimack Mills. See Hine report. LOC nclc.02905
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Farrell family. They had discontinued the brush making, but sent to a neighbor for materials and posed for me, just... - NARA - 523518
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Noon-hour at the Riverside Cotton Mills, Danville, Va. Group of spinners, doffers, etc. All work. Some here are surely under fourteen, but not many. LOC cph.3b24202
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Noon-hour at the Riverside Cotton Mills, Danville, Va. Group of spinners, doffers, etc. All work. Some here are surely under fourteen, but not many. LOC nclc.02170
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Minnie Love (see photo 327), Springstein Mills, Chester, S.C. Been in mill since 7 yrs. old. Witness Sara R. Hine. LOC nclc.01421
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Mrs. Alfonso Ricca, 71 Sullivan St. 2(nd) floor back. Making rompers for Campbell Kids (she said). Husband out of work. LOC nclc.04112
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Little Fannie, 7 years old, 48 inches high, helps sister in Elk Cotton Mill. Her sister said, Yes she helps me right... - NARA - 523345
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Applicants for working papers at Department of Education Bldg. Boston, Mass. - NARA - 523226
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Abandoned log cabin on the hillside. Not many used now but it was the only kind used a while ago. Near Sunset School, Pocahontas Co., W. Va. LOC nclc.04412
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7-00 A.M. Sells before school, after school and Saturday and Sunday. Begins at 6 A.M. Been selling 3 years. Bridgeport, Conn. LOC nclc.03283
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7 year old news-boy who sells for his brother. Sold some last summer. William Lerch, 483 Ist Street, S.W. LOC nclc.03781
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Cherryville Graded School. These are the children in the town who attend school. 2,000 population. One-third of these... - NARA - 523116
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Garment Workers on East Side 4-30 P.M. Vincenzie, 14 years old. Jovannina, 9 years old. Michael, 5 years old. LOC nclc.04082
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Dona Marchland, 1187 Pleasant St., at door of home which is on top floor. Has been doffer in Spinning Room of Cartwright Mills 5 mos. LOC nclc.02529
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Doffers in Willingham Cotton Mill, Macon, Ga. The three boys in front row have been in mill work for 4, 5 and 6 years respectively. LOC nclc.01625
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Dickson Mill, Laurinburg, N.C. Fred Butler, (smallest). Been in mill 2 years. Others one year. Witness, S.R. Hine. LOC nclc.01507
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Bertha Brandt, 9 years old. Picks berries on a Rock Creek farm near Baltimore, Md. (See my report July 10, 1909.) LOC nclc.00005
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All (except smallest boy) work in Sweetwater Hosiery Co. He is a dinner carrier, but others like him and smaller work in these knitting mills of this region. LOC nclc.01987
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Mary Birch with two boys - John 14 - Tony 10. Six more younger children at home. The boys pick 18-20 pails a day. LOC nclc.00177
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Seen (sic) in Canning factory showing a 7-year old girl who shucks 3 pots of oysters a day. She works regularly, a(n)d her 6-year old brother who helps some. Also a 11-year old boy who does LOC nclc.01005
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A load of kimonos just finished. Girl very reticent. New York City. - NARA - 523521
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A group of girl workers in Greenabaum's Canneries, Seaford, Del. These girls gave their ages as 10, 13 and 13. The 10 year old girl is working her first season while the two girls of 13 are LOC nclc.00801
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John Lavigul. Has been doffer-boy in mule-spinning room for over a year in Chace Cotton Mill, Burlington, Vt. See photo and label -730. LOC nclc.01729
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Katie, 13 years old, and Angeline, 11 years old, making cuffs, Irish lace. Income about $1 a week. Works some nights... - NARA - 523512
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Maud Cheek one of the young spinners in the Drayton Mill, Spartenberg(sic), S.C., runs 7 sides. Worked in another mill before she came here. LOC nclc.02603
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Mr. A. Langerfeld and one of his machines for picking coal which does away completely with the use of breaker boys. The percent of slate that goes in with the coal separated by this machine LOC nclc.05511
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Mrs. Capello makes 50 (cents) to $1 a week making willow plumes. Husband works irregularly as a tailor. New York City. - NARA - 523501
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Oyster shuckers at Apalachicola, Fla. This work is carried on by many young boys during busy seasons. This is a dull year so only a few youngsters were in evidence. LOC nclc.05405
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Packing plums. A 'Demonstration team' composed of three prize-winning Cabell County girls. State 4 H Fair. (See Photos No. 48, 49, 50.) LOC nclc.04388
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Annette Roy, the youngest worker, 7 years old. Picked last summer. Also Napoleon Ruel, 9 years old. South Carver, Mass. - NARA - 523468
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Boy probably about 13 years old, tying strips which he has taken away from the planer. Schultze Waltum Co., Planing Mill. LOC nclc.05372
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Pretzel and gum vendors - Newsies are good customers. A boy sells a basketful of pretzels every afternoon at the 'news' office, to the boys getting their afternoon papers. Henry Schertzer, LOC nclc.03838
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Flashlight photo of children on night shift going to work at 6 P.M. on a cold, dark December day - NARA - 523139
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Group of spinners in Elk Cotton Mills. Youngest girl hardly knew her name. Youngest boy runs two sides at ten cents each a day. LOC nclc.01899
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Group of workers in cotton mill at West. Two of them are under legal age. One is twelve and one is fourteen according to their Family Record. Much illiteracy here. LOC nclc.02869
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Fourteen year old spinner in a Brazos Valley Cotton Mill at West. Violation of the law. Matty Lott runs six sides. See family group and their story. LOC nclc.02868
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Gum venders selling near the National Theatre. Eli Marks, 8 years old, makes 25 (cents) a night. Harvey, 11 years... - NARA - 523530
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Homer Page, 305 Grovo Street, Lindale, Ga. Began at 10 years in Massachusetts Mills, doffing, (2 years ago). See noon photos in the mill. LOC nclc.02800
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Horace Lindfors, 14 year old printers helper, sizing up leads for Riverside Press, First Av., N.Y. City. L.W. Hine, Feb. 1917. LOC nclc.05626
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Group of breaker boys. Smallest is Sam Belloma. Pittston, Pa. - NARA - 523383
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Edward St. Germain and sister Delia. She has been working in Phoenix (R.I.) Mill for 8 months. He works also. They cannot speak English. LOC nclc.01680
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Manuel Soarels, (youngest boy) See -2721 Wm. Lawrence, 28 Clark St. Works in Bennett Mill. Sweeper in spinning room, been there one month. LOC cph.3c27324
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Manuel Andrew, 14 Windsor St., Ward 5. Small boy in left of picture is sweeper in spinning-room. Manuel Jason to right of picture (See 2288). LOC nclc.02223
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A couple of dinner-toters at Riverside Cotton Mills, Danville, Va. Myriads of these little ones carry dinners to the mill workers. The Supt. of Schools and teachers in Danville said that LOC nclc.02165
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A game of marbles. Smallest boy is Uzzria Dedman, 50 Hill St., Salisbury, N.C. Been in mill 2 years. Other 2 been in 1 year. LOC nclc.01513
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Scene in More-Jonas Glass Co., Bridgeton, N.J. Several young boys are to be seen in photo. LOC nclc.05443
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Sadie Singer, 15 years old, racking flowers at the Beston Floral Supply Co., 347-357 Cambridge Street. Said to be the only flower factory in Massachusetts. LOC nclc.05613
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Six-year old Henry and three-year old Hilda, beet workers on a Wisconsin farm. See Hine Report, Wisconsin Sugar Beet, July 1915. LOC nclc.00280
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Small boy on the floor is Johnnie Schraker, 8 years old, earns 45 (cents) a day, been at it for 3 years. Note how... - NARA - 523397
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Shrimp pickers in Peerless Oyster Co. Photo was taken just as they stood. On other side of shed still younger... - NARA - 523410
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Teresa Lamelli, 818 Kate St., Philadelphia, 5 years old. Whites Bog, Browns Mills, N.J. Sept. 28, 1910. Witness E.F. Brown. LOC nclc.00065
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St. Joseph's Academy. The assistant to the Father in charge told me that none of the cannery children attended the academy, although he admitted that most of them were Catholics. LOC nclc.01044
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School -9, District -3. This was the attendance on December 3, and several children were absent on account of sickness. Compare photographs 4052 and 4053 with attendance consisting of one LOC nclc.00391
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Arthur Therion, 66 South Street. Has been at work ('helping father') in Mill -3, Great Falls Mfg. Co., Somersworth, N.H. for 3 years. LOC nclc.01754
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5 pm. Boys going home from Monougal Glass Works. A native remark, De place is lousey wid kids. Fairmont, W. Va. - NARA - 523094
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Closing hour, Loray Mill, Gastonia, N.C. One of the smallest boys said he had been in mill 2 or 3 years (and is 12 years old). LOC cph.3b15649
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Aven Mill, Gastonia, N.C. Work 12 hours without any stop for lunch. 'Eat a-workin.' 8-30 P.M. Friday. Mill running nights. LOC nclc.01381
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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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The whole force of workers in the cotton mills of Stevenson, Ala. Several of them are apparently under twelve, but I could not get the ages. Photo posed by the general manager. LOC nclc.02889
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Tiny, seven year old oyster shucker (Henry's sister, No. 3291) does not go to school. Works steady. Been at it one year. Maggioni Canning Co. LOC nclc.05335
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The negro berry pickers shacks on the farm of Col. J. J. Ross, Del. The interior of these shacks consists of a flooring of straw, a few bags, and absence of light and air. LOC nclc.00092
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Two young spinners at the close of a week's work leaving the cotton mill in Easthampton, Mass. They work much longer hours than the burly tinsmith in photo -3033. LOC nclc.02629
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Views of 'The Jungle,' in Ft. Collins, the section in which the beet workers live when not away working the beets. In Greeley, this segregated section is called 'The Pansy Bed' (from the LOC nclc.00371
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Young spinners in Elk Cotton Mills. Youngest girl hardly knew her name. Youngest boy runs two sides at ten cents each a day. LOC nclc.01897
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Young workers adolescence and younger in Manomet, Nonquitt and Nashawena Mills. Going to dinner and back to wrk. Noon. January 9, 1912. Richard K. Conant, witness. LOC nclc.02515
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Young workers adolescence and younger in Manomet, Nonquitt and Nashawena Mills. Going to dinner and back to wrk. Noon. January 9, 1912. Richard K. Conant, witness. LOC nclc.02513
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Young workers adolescence and younger in Manomet, Nonquitt and Nashawena Mills. Going to dinner and back to wrk. Noon. January 9, 1912. Richard K. Conant, Witness. LOC nclc.02509
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Manuel Ferreira - Portuguese - 15 yrs. 27 Whitter St. Sweeper - Fall River Iron Works. In Sunday clothes. Carving class at King Philip Settlement. LOC cph.3b33404
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Caesar Mt. School, - one of the remote rural schools in Pocahontas Co. An average school except that it needs more playground space cleared and toilets need improving. LOC cph.3a29827
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Clerinda Norrin, said 11 years old and helps sister spin in Glenallen Mill. Winchendon, Mass. September 3, 1911. Richard K. Conant, Witness. LOC nclc.02313
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7 year old Ferris. Tiny newsie who did not know enough to make change for investigator. There are still too many of these little ones in the larger cities. LOC nclc.05565
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7-00 A.M. Sells before school, after school and Saturday and Sunday. Begins about 6 A.M. Has been at it 3 years. Bridgeport, Conn. LOC nclc.03284
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A few of the San Antonio messengers. See Hine report on messenger service of Texas. Edgar Barnes is one of the smallest in front row. The messengers and their contact with the Red Light LOC nclc.03874
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Cheney Silk Mills. Favorable working conditions. (Young girl worker at Cheney Silk Mills, leaning on scrap metal wagon, S. Manchester, Conn.) (No. 5002). LOC cph.3b04609
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After 9-00 P.M. Dec.17-09. Newark, N.J. All these were selling and work later some nights. Some are 10 years old. LOC nclc.05449
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After 9-00 P.M. Dec.17-09. Newark, N.J. All these were selling and work later some nights. Some are 10 years old. LOC nclc.05449
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A group of shrimp pickers in Peerless Oyster Co., working during short noon recess. Many workers, including the... - NARA - 523412
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A group of sweatshop workers. Mr. Silberman, 30 Suffolk St. Photo taken after 3 P.M. February 21st, 1908, Witness Mrs. Lillian Hosford. LOC cph.3a26907
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A group of school children in the third and fourth grades of the Cowpens, S.C., School. All in the front row are 9 and 10 years old (compare these with the little children shown in LOC nclc.02556
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Another of the many small children working in Mollahan Mills. Newberry, S.C. - NARA - 523127
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These workers went to work at 6-45 A.M. and many of them told us yesterday when we saw them go out at 6 P.M. that they 'worked.' LOC nclc.02241
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