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James L. Long, 10 years old, 39 Market Street, Northampton, Mass., and his cousin Johnnie O'Brien, 6 years old who is learning the trade. LOC nclc.03797
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King Philip Spinning room. Oiler Boy - Oils all the spindles in this room. George Courtemonds, 114 Kellogg St. October 3, 1915, 14 years old. LOC cph.3b33431
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Lloyd McAbee and Walter Brown (in front) and the rest of the family except the mother. The parents said they couldn't find the family record, that the boys were 12 and 13 years old. The LOC nclc.02582
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Bob Burton, Gastonia, N.C. 15 years old. A typical adolescent, overgrown, thin, anaemic (sic). Been in mill for 8 years. Doffing still in Ozark Mills. LOC nclc.01338
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Elizabeth Rudensky. Right dorsal curve. Scoliosis - real spinal case - bad. Showing wrong kind of occupation for this physical defect. No support for the feet. Defect would be greatly LOC nclc.05143
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Dotheboys Hall in session tucked away upstairs over the store. Equipped with antique, dilapidated benches and chairs. The lessons begin at 6 A.M. and last for six hours, and these children LOC cph.3c27323
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Scene in More-Jonas Glass Co. Small snapper up boy facing the camera is Harry Simpkins. Small carry-in-boy, with... - NARA - 523232
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Celina Melchionno, 14 years old, waxing (dipping) flowers at the Boston Floral Supply Co., 347-357 Cambridge Street. Said to be the only flower factory in Massachusetts. LOC nclc.05159
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A crowd of negro oyster shuckers. On the Atlantic Coast the negroes are employed more than the whites, but they do not work the little ones so much. Varn & Platt Canning Co. LOC nclc.01017
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One of the smallest apprentices I found. (Work being slack.) De Pedro Casellas Cigar Factory, Tampa, Fla. Jan. 28, 1909. LOC nclc.04513
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One of the very little girls (going through door) that roll cigarettes in the Danville (Va.) Cigarette Factory. See other photos at noon. Taken at 6-45 A.M. LOC nclc.04741
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Manuel Correira, 14 Cove St., works in spinning room on top floor of the Saginaw Mill. Said, 'I only help mother.' He was apparently 13 or 14. LOC cph.3b33354
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Mule-spinning room in Chace Cotton Mill, Burlington, Vt. Left hand-Leopold Daigneau, Arsene Lussier, 'Back-roping boys.' See photo and label -730. LOC cph.3b24163
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Mary Morris, nine year old oyster shucker. Shucked last year; can do four or five pots a day. Shucks every day and tends the baby. LOC nclc.00864
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Rural Accident. Mr. Stewart is running a farm of 135 acres with the help of his wife and these two boys of eleven and twelve years. See Hine Report, August 1915. LOC nclc.00304
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Photograph of Earle Griffith and Eddie Tahoory, working for the Dime Messenger Service in Washington D.C. - NARA - 306619
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These boys, and others, work in the Chesapeake Knitting Mills, Berkley, Va. See also photos and label 2245 to 2249. Following are some of their names- (the youngest refused to give names). LOC nclc.02198
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This is the attendance at the Minto Valley School on December 6. Compare with photograph 4001 taken October 21 - 6 weeks after school opened with only six children attending. LOC nclc.00394
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This is the attendance at the Minto Valley School on December 6. Compare with photograph 4001 taken October 21 - 6 weeks after school opened with only six children attending. LOC nclc.00383
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This picture shows the Four Novelty Grahams, acrobatic performers at the Victoria Theatre, Philadelphia - NARA - 523324
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This is where the mill children go to school. Lancaster, S.C. Enrollment 163- attendance, usually about 100. There are over 1,000 operatives in the mill. These are all that go to school from LOC nclc.01432
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The Supt. and a group of children under 16 years starting work after noon. Yazoo City, Miss. - NARA - 523427
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The 'Kinleygarten' (the mill Policeman called it) at Lynchburg (Va.) Cotton Mills. The children of the mill settlement, from six to eight years attend. Several older boys (see exterior LOC nclc.02157
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The lone teacher in charge of a room where 123 Kindergarten and First Grade children are enrolled. Dunbar School. Teacher said- 'There are only 70 here to-day. There must be an epidemic LOC nclc.00662
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Stephen Yankus - 350 Newark St., 8 yrs. old, and works till 10 P.M. Saturdays. Photo taken at Hudson Place and River Street at 4 P.M. LOC nclc.03829
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Seneca Glass Works, Morgantown, W. Va. Girls wrapping and packing. Girl in centre said she was 13. this is a co-operative institution run in the interests of the workers as well as LOC cph.3a13358
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Newsie on Main St. at 2 P.M. Said 'our class did not have any school this afternoon.' Marshall Knox, 10 years old, 23 Hamilton Street. LOC cph.3b18138
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Newsie selling in a saloon in Washington Street at 10 pm. Tony Tomasula, 9 years old. Buffalo, N.Y. - NARA - 523274
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Noon hour at Massachusetts 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 LOC cph.3b24297
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Noon hour at Massachusetts 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 LOC nclc.02754
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Noon hour at Massachusetts 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 LOC nclc.02761
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Noon hour at Massachusetts 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 LOC nclc.02760
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Noon hour at Massachusetts 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, Insurance papers, LOC nclc.02753
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Face detail, 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 (cropped)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Everybody works but..... A common scene in the tenements. Father sits around. Sometimes I make $9, sometimes 10 a... - NARA - 523491
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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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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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Photo of Ordinary's Certificate for Curtis Wynn, 9 years old (and therefore illegal). The Deputy Clerk told me 'That was likely a clerical error.' but I found five of these 'errors' issued LOC cph.3a46548
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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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Neil Power, 10 y(ea)rs old, he said, 'Turn stockings in Rome (Ga) Hosiery Mill.' A shy, pathetic figure. 'Haint been to school much.' LOC nclc.02747
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Ernest Chester, 5 years old lives at 624 S. Robinson St. Sells with his older brother Emmet, who is 9 years old. They are up very early. LOC cph.3b30500
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Ernest Chester, 5 years old lives at 624 S. Robinson St. Sells with his older brother Emmet, who is 9 years old. They are up very early. LOC cph.3b30500
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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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Exterior of one of the shacks containing 24 rooms. Forsyth's Bog at Stop-the-Mode (sic.) near Pemberton, N.J. This is the fourth week of school in Philadelphia and people will stay here two LOC nclc.00045
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Slide No. 404. Smallest girl, runs and 4 sides, been in this mill for 3 years. The oldest girl said she goes to school but couldn't spell her own name. LOC nclc.01497
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Small boy working in Cocheco Mfg. Co., Dover, N.H. Others much smaller and younger there. LOC nclc.01774
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The De Marco family (see photos -1139--1143, and E.F. Brown's report). Forsythe's Bog, Turkeytown near Pemberton, N.J. Sept. 29, 1910. Witness E.F. Brown. LOC nclc.00082
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Ben Collins, 515 N. Walnut St. Been working steady for Mackay Telegraph Co. for 1 month. 13 years old. Says he makes $5 a week. LOC nclc.04031
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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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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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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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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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9-00 P.M. Group of young newsboys and venders selling late at night. Some of them were selling in saloons at that time. May 7, 1910. Witness E.N. Clopper. LOC nclc.03471
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A 'Demonstration team' composed of three prize-winning Cabell Co. girls. They are showing the visitors at the Fair how team work makes for efficiency in canning their farm products. State 4 LOC nclc.04387
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A few of the young boys working on the night shift at the glass factory. Alexandria, Va. - NARA - 523440
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A few of the youngsters working in the Cigarette Factory of the American Tobacco Co., at Petersburg, Va. All work. I went through the factory during working hours and saw dozens of little LOC nclc.04759
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A fine 'stand' of vines on Mr. Searle's marsh. Observe how erect the vines are! This makes gathering by the rake (3766 and 3767) an easy matter and absolutely does away with hand picking by LOC nclc.00240
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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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A Sunday afternoon 'pick-up' at Sandy Beach. Girls about 15. See 4184. LOC nclc.05032
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All of the family of Antoinette Pothier, 32 Easton Street, (See 2477). Father and tallest girl in back row of the picture work. Antoinette is the center of the group in the front row. Her LOC nclc.02346
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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.04764
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All these youngsters and many others work in the Cigarette factory of Petersburg, Va. I went through the factory during working hours and saw dozens of little boys and girls working and LOC nclc.04760
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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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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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Three cutters in Factory -7, Seacoast Canning Co., Eastport, Me. They work regularly whenever there are fish. (Note the knives they use.) Back of them and under foot is refuse. On the right LOC cph.3b37903
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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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Young workers adolescence and younger in Manomet, Nonquitt and Nashawena Mills. Going to dinner and back to w(o)rk. Noon. January 9, 1912. Richard K. Conant, Witness. LOC nclc.02507
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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.02870
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George Gray. Been spinning and doffing in the Arlington Mills 4 months. 60 cents a day. Mother said he is 12, neighbors said he is not 12. LOC nclc.02595
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Harriet Cotton Mills. Investigator spent the noon and part of the day around the mill, and saw a very few young children. He was not able to get into the mills, but indications are that LOC nclc.02981
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Josie, six year old, Bertha, six years old, Sophie, 10 years old, all shuck regularly
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