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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.02511
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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.02508
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William Jerry, 457 North Bend Street. 'I sells papers every day in the year; Sundays too. Been at it four years.' 13 years old. LOC nclc.03976
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Two new shacks, near Sterling, in which beet workers live. Most of these are old and dilapidated, dirty and crowded. 9 persons live in one of these, 4 in the other. LOC nclc.00353
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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 nclc.04359
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Camela, 12 years old, making Irish lace for collars. Works until 9 P.M. in dirty kitchen. New York City. - NARA - 523513
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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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Margaret Ciampa, 14 years old, finishing flowers at Boston Floral Supply Co., 347-357 Cambridge Street. Said to be the only flower factory in Massachusetts. LOC nclc.05614
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Photo of boys working in Arcade Bowling Alley. Trenton, N.J. Photo taken late at night. The boys work until midnight and later. Dec. 20, 1909. LOC nclc.03369
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Noon hour, Cocheco Mfg. Co. Young girls working regularly. A number of others there, some even younger. Dover, N.H. - NARA - 523198
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Noon hour. Herman Rette (right hand), Arsene Lussier. Both been working in Chace Cotton Mill, Burlington, Vt. for over a year. (See -730.) LOC nclc.01715
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Shucking oysters in the Alabama Canning Company (Dunbar Lopez, Dukate Co.) Small boy on left end is Mike Murphy, ten years old, and from Baltimore. LOC nclc.00829
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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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St. Paul's Parochial School, located within a stone's throw of the homes of the cannery workers, and the Sister in charge says that practically none of the children attend day school; that a LOC nclc.01033
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Smallest boy in group is Duke Gray, 66 Coburn Street, doffs in No. 1 spinning room and has been there one month. Seems 13 years old. LOC cph.3b43671
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Smallest boy is Max Schwartz (8 yrs. Old) and Jacob Schwartz, 163 Howard St., Newark, N.J. Sell until 10 P.M. sometimes, (photo by). LOC cph.3a47673
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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.00283
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These eight pupils are all that are attending out of 160 Russian Children that should be in the Lincoln School, Sterling, Colo. As soon as the beet work commenced they dropped out. Photo LOC nclc.00313
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These are cashiers in Holmes Department Store, New Orleans. The youngest girls working in the store and illustrate how well the law is being enforced in all the department stores here. LOC nclc.04922
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Tony Casale, 11 years old, been selling 4 years. Sells sometimes until 10 P.M. His paper told me the boy had shown... - NARA - 523179
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Tobacco pickers on Goodrich Farm, 'Second picking.' The tobacco plants are often much taller than the children, and the air close and humid, especially when they are working on the ground. LOC nclc.00707
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Eb Karns been 'sweepin here two years' couldn't write his name, couldn't spell it. Appears to be under 12. Pelzer, S.C. Mfg. Co. LOC nclc.02623
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James Cooney - Irish - 15 years. 26 Peck St., King Philip. Drop Wire boy. Belongs to Settlement House junior base-ball league. LOC nclc.03002
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Frank Hastings, 107 Hampshire Street, Cambridge. Said he was 14 last month. Just begun work for Metropolitan Messenger and Mailing Co. Taken in the morning. LOC nclc.03987
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Frederick Banfill, 91 Winthrop St. Name without picture, Ernest Silvan- suspicious, wouldn't give name. Laughing face, short, may be in group No. 10. LOC nclc.04776
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Gang of older boys working in White's Bog Brown Mills, N.J. Cranberry bogs, a rough gang. Sept. 28, 1910. Witness, E. F. Brown,. LOC nclc.00046
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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.03873
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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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Sadie McGurin, 15 years old. Pressing curtains at Boutwell, Fairclough & Gold. 274 Summer Street Extension. Lewis W. Hine. (Mr. Fitzgerald, Manager.) LOC nclc.05190
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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 Mills. Nov. 30, 1908. LOC cph.3a13674
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Relief map showing the general location of the counties and three river basins affected by the beet work. The latter are the Arkansas River in the south and south east, the South Platt in LOC nclc.05588
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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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7 year old twins. Been selling for 1 year. Sell sometimes until 8 P.M., Hartford, Conn. LOC cph.3b21344
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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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A.D.T. Boy, 13 years old. One and one-half years at it. Works from noon to 10-30 P.M. Said he 'carries notes, etc.' LOC nclc.04592
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12-year old boy carrying heavy crate of tomatoes on farm of W.T. Hill. He has been earning $1.25 a day steady all Summer. LOC nclc.00582
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All are workers in Knoxville Knitting Mills. Smallest boy ravels, smallest girl is a steady worker. Knoxville, Tenn. - NARA - 523371
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Alfred Genalano - 12 Newark Street. 10 yrs. old - Carries to customers on River Street, in Segregated district - 'Dunno how many.' 3-30 P.M. LOC nclc.03828
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OUR BABY DOFFER and some of the other infants working in the Avondale Mills. Birmingham, Ala. - NARA - 523360
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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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Boy with bare arms, Fred Normandin, 15 Bridge St., has been working in Amoskeag Mfg. Co., mill No. 1, Manchester, N.H. for several months. LOC cph.3b16900
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Adolescents and other in Payne Cotton Mill, Macon, Ga. Girl on end with dropping eyelids has been helping there one yr. Jan. 20, 1909. L.W. LOC cph.3a20283
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7-year old Rosie. Regular shucker. Her second year at it. Illiterate. Works all day. Shucks only a few pots a day. Varn & Platt Canning Co. LOC nclc.01013
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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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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.04754
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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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Charles Gibbon, Postal Telegraph Messenger. 14 years of age, 2 months in service. Don't smoke. Visits houses of prostitution, works form 8 A.M. to 6 P.M. LOC nclc.03567
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'Everybody works but--.' A common scene in the tenements. Father sits around. 'Sometime I make $9.00, sometime $10.00 a week on the railroad; sometime nottin'.' Helen, 5 years old, and LOC nclc.04089
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A Giddings beet-puller, drawn by 4 horses. The two knives pass along the sides of the beet rows and loosen the soil - but they do not pull the beets - the workers finish pulling by hand, LOC nclc.00351
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A part of the spinning force working in the Washington Cotton Mills, Fries, Va. Group posed by the overseer. All work. The overseer said, 'These boys are a bad lot.' All were alive to the LOC nclc.02074
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Anthoston School which opened September 5th. 54 present out of an enrollment of 62; Census 84. Work is interfering. See photo of school 2 weeks before it opened. LOC nclc.00518
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Corrinne Le May, 15 years old, bunching sweet peas at the Boston Floral Supply Co., 347-357 Cambridge Street. Said to be the only flower factory in Massachusetts. LOC nclc.05162
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Shorpy Higginbotham, a 'greaser' on the tipple at Bessie Mine, of the Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron Co. Said he was 14 years old, but it is doubtful. Carries two heavy pails of grease, and LOC cph.3b31144
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This is the condition in which I found the lower hall at 266 Elizabeth St., N.Y. 3-00 P.M., February 2, 1912. It is a licensed tenement and finishing of clothes was going on in the homes. LOC cph.3a02543
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The 'Kinleygarten' (the mill policeman called it) at Lynchburg (Va.) Cotton Mills. The children of the mill settlement, from 6 to 8 years attend. Several older boys (see exterior photo, LOC nclc.02156
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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.00227
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The wagon that delivers Home Work to Somerville, Mass. the owner of wagon (who is not the driver) is O.H. Brown, 27 Main Street, Reading Mass. These wagons (about 4 in all) are worked on LOC nclc.04225
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Tampa Cigar Box Factory, Tampa, Fla. Found 10 small boys and girls. Work is slack now. Bad reputation. Jan. 28, 1909. LOC cph.3a20822
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Some of the doffers in the Washington Cotton Mills, Fries, Va. The smallest one said he was 15 years old but, for that matter, they are all 'wise' to the necessity for being at least 14. All LOC cph.3a15219
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Some of the men and boys in Newton (N.C.) Cotton Mills. Plenty of youngsters here. Out of 150 employees, there were about 20 who looked to be 12 years old and under. LOC cph.3b21315
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Some of the doffers in the Washington Cotton Mills, Fries, Va. The smallest one said he was 15 years old but, for that matter, they are all 'wise' to the necessity for being at least 14. All LOC nclc.02069
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Some of the shrimp-pickers working at the Biloxi Canning Co. Within an hour I obtained the following names, and photos taken at the factory, and at home, all working here- Two Children of LOC cph.3a01041
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Some of the shacks in 'St. Petersburg,' the district in which the beet-workers live in Sterling. Some have to rent even these poor shacks, but many have their own cottages and some buy their LOC nclc.00315
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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.04747
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Tom and Jerry, 8 and 9 yrs. respectively. Tom is the 'limit' in deportment at school, and Jerry had reputation as a truant until placed in ungraded class. He is in 1.A grade. The greatest LOC nclc.03819
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Stithton School opened July 24th. Enrolment (sic) of 60 out of 186 in district. This low average is due to there being over 100 Catholic children in district and they will go to Parochial LOC nclc.00466
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Elmer Skinner, 10 yrs. old. Turner in Massey Hosiery Mill, Columbus, Ga. Been working there four months. Works all day. No school. Does not work nights. LOC nclc.02823
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Evening recreation of the 'Young Holy Ghosters' - Ages 15 - 25, average is 18 - all mill workers - all Portuguese. Whole House on George Street. Great need of leadership. LOC cph.3b33434
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Going home from Loray Mill. Smallest boy on the right hand end, John Moore. 13 years old. Been in mill 6 years as sweeper, doffer and spinner. LOC nclc.01354
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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.02215
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On right hand end is Marie Colbeck, 8 years old, who shucks 6 or 7 pots of oysters a day (30 or 35 (cents)) at... - NARA - 523396
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Scene is 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, LOC nclc.05538
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Sanding the cranberry marsh in the winter - one of the aids towards securing the fine 'stand' of vines shown in 3765. Owner - Mr. Andrew Searles. Photo through the courtesy of Mr. Searles. LOC nclc.00239
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Group of workers in Avondale Mills. Smallest boy is John Tidwell, been doffing 3 months. Boy next to him is Ragin Bryant been doffing here for five years. LOC nclc.01934
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Group showing a few of the workers stringing beans in the J.S. Farrand Packing Co. Those too small to work are held... - NARA - 523214
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Interior of one of the living rooms in shack used by pickers on Theodore Budd's Bog, Turkeytown, near Pemberton, N.J. Three persons lived in this room. See photo -1114. This is the fourth LOC nclc.00044
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Interior Wamsutta Mill, Wilfred Pepin, 42 Bowditch St. (youngest boy, appears 13 yrs. old). Has been working a few weeks in Mule Room -4. LOC nclc.02458
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Henry Kaiser, twelve-year old beet worker from Potter, Wisconsin, working on farm near Chilton. See Hine Report, Wisconsin Sugar Beet, July 1915. LOC nclc.00276
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Home of a 9 year old boy named Brush who sells papers intermittently. 823 De Soto St. Father said to be worth $40,000 in property and soap factory. LOC nclc.03512
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Joe Davis, a ten-year old going home from cannery at 5 P.M. He said he had shucked ten pots since 4 A.M. that day. LOC nclc.01037
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Group in front of Indian Orchard Mfg. Co. Everyone in photo was working. Boy not photographed. Hector Dubois, 24 Water St. Doffer in Indian Orchard; crushed finger in pump. LOC nclc.02282
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Group of boys working in -9 Breaker Pennsylvania Coal Co., Hughestown Borough, Pittston, Pa. In this group are Sam Belloma, Pine Street, Angelo Ross, and others reported previously. LOC cph.3a24722
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All of the family of Antoinette Pothier, 32 Easton Street. Father and tallest girl in back row of the picture work. Antoinette is the center of the group in the front row. Her sister Anita LOC nclc.02347
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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.04765
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Noon at the Willingham Cotton Mills, Macon, Ga. Owned by one of the richest families in the section. President said some time ago that he didn't want to hire children but was forced to. LOC nclc.01608
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Mike Juriewier, 28 East St. Been working as Creel boy in -8 mill, Ludlow, one year. Very illiterate, wrote his name with great difficulty and poorly. LOC nclc.02443
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Mill boys' recreation. A Sunday swim. Base-ball on Sunday is tabooed here. Sunday-school and church are well attended. Loafing around, playing marbles, and swimming seem to be the only LOC nclc.04729
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Near Eloy, Pinal County, Arizona. Twelve-year-old boy picking cotton in the field. - NARA - 522236
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Marion Davis, Messenger -21 for Bellevue Messenger Service. Fourteen years old. 'Been messenger, off and on, for two years. Not supposed to go to the Reservation under sixteen years, but I LOC nclc.05529
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View of the Washington Cotton Mills, Fries, Va. Housing conditions are fairly good, but housekeeping not very good. Working conditions in the mill are very good. Good light, fresh air. LOC nclc.01872
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Workers in the Tifton (Ga.) Cotton Mills. All these children were working or helping. 125 workers in all. Some of the smallest boys and girls have been there one year or more. LOC cph.3a01130
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Willie --, a Richmond, Va. newsboy. Told me first he was 8, then admitted 7, and finally 6 years old. Compare 5 year old with him in photo 2210B. LOC cph.3a01151
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Where it happened. (See photos 3070 to 3074), Sanders Cotton Mfg. Co., Bessemer City, N.C. In this and the adjoining mill (run by the same company) there were still many dangerous, LOC nclc.02696
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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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Jennie Williams, 1529 Titten St., Philadelphia. 5 years old. First summer. Theodore Budd's Bog, at Turkeytown, near Pemberton, N.J. This is fourth week of school in Philadelphia and people LOC nclc.05292
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Joseph Amico, photographed at 11 a.m. on Washington Street. Delivering shoes for National Shoe Repair Co., 21 School Street. Said 14 years old. Beginning at $5 a week. LOC nclc.03985
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Joseph Mika, (smallest), 80 Tremont St. Spinning Room. Said, 'Two years working there.' (See 2637) Joseph Ciosek, (young), 74 School St. Six months working there. LOC nclc.02418
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Joseph Richard (head only), 26 Wheatland St., Castle Hill, works in Spinning Room -1 fourth floor; been doffing three years; gets $7.80 a week now. LOC nclc.02398
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Joseph Weiss, 11 yrs. Old. Sells until 11 P.M. on Saturdays. Then the Sunday papers come over, and another 'crew' comes on. See -3116, 3117. Taken at 11 P.M. LOC nclc.03839
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Lawrence Purdie (right end) has been spinning in the mule room of the cotton mill at Matoaca, Va., for two years. His brother, next to him, helps in the mill. The others in the photo are not LOC cph.3b36984
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