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This little spinner has been in the mill 4 years. She was about 52 inches high and looked not quite 12 years old. Plenty of others there Newton (N.C.) Cotton Mills. LOC nclc.05389
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Thomas Parsomidis, Shoe Shinning (i.e., Shining) Parlor, 8 North Main St. Boy said business is bad. Place closed most of the time. He and another own the shop. LOC cph.3a50948
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The Rising Generation, Gregtown, Augusta, where the hands in King Mill live. 'Worst part of Augusta.' Secretary of Associated Charities said. Boy with cap (left hand end) Willie Crappse in LOC cph.3a42525
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The wagon that delivers Home Work to Somerville, Mass. The owner of the wagon (who is not the driver) is O. H. Brown, 27 Main Street, Reading, Mass. These wagons (about 4 in all) are worked LOC nclc.04224
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The youngest children I saw going into Tombigbee Cotton Mill, Columbus, Miss., at 6-30 A.M. May 15, 1911. Not many youngsters there. Not working a full force. LOC nclc.02130
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Subject -Coal. -70 Welch Mining Co., Welch W. Va. Boy running 'trip rope' at tipple. Overgrown, but looked 13 yrs. old. Worked 10 hours a day. LOC nclc.05353
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Six year old Tony gets up at 5-00 A.M. daily to sell newspapers. He is a regular beggar. 'P-l-e-a-s-e buy me papers.' LOC cph.3a01153
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Some of the boys working at the Tidewater Knitting Mills, Portsmouth, Va. I went through the mill several times during working hours and saw a number of youngsters surely under fourteen. LOC nclc.02193
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Some of the young girls who roll cigarettes in the Danville (Va.) Cigarette Factory. I could not induce the very smallest ones to get into the photos. See other photos taken at noon and in LOC nclc.04751
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Some of the young girls who roll cigarettes in the Danville (Va.) Cigarette Factory. I could not induce the very smallest ones to get into the photos. See other photos taken at noon and in LOC nclc.04750
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Smallest girl is Rosie. Carries cranberries. Whites Bog, Brown Mills, N.J. This is the fourth week of school in Philadelphia, and the people here expect to remain here two weeks more. Sept. LOC nclc.05297
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Smallest girl is Rosie. Carries cranberries. Whites Bog, Brown Mills, N.J. This is the fourth week of school in Philadelphia, and the people here expect to remain here two weeks more. Sept. LOC nclc.05297
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Twin spinners in Saxon Mill, Spartenberg (sic), S.C. Joe and Pearl Steading, 75 William St., make 44 cents a day each. Another sister works. Mother a widow. LOC nclc.02564
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Ten-year-old Mollie Steuben topping beets. Many children of this age put in a full day's work, and many begin younger. The work is hard and the children sometimes cut themselves or are LOC cph.3a19626
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The Logical Conclusion of the Lassez (i.e., Laissez) Faires Policy. Herman Parker, said six years old, and he and others said he had worked in the Cannon Mills, Kannapolis, N.C. LOC nclc.02646
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The girl on right hand works regularly in Great Falls Mfg. Co., Somersworth, N.H. Eva Vanasse, 82 Washington St. Been there two months. The other girl goes to school. LOC nclc.01751
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C-o W.A. Daniel - Route 2 - Woodburn, Ky. Lester Daniel, (...) years old and 17-year old cousin stripping tobacco. See Kentucky report and special card. LOC nclc.00642
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Butcher knife used by Ralph, a young cutter in a canning company and a badly cut finger. Several children working with him had cut fingers, and even the adults said they could not help LOC cph.3b37905
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Eagle and Phoenix Mill. 'Dinner-toters' waiting for the gate to open. This is carried on more in Columbus than in any other city I know, and by smaller children. (See photos.) Many of them LOC nclc.05343
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Eddie and Carmine Zizza, twelve year old twins who make $1.50 a day. They belong to a family of 13 children many of them newsboys. Newark, N.J. - August 1st, 1924. LOC nclc.04051
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Eight year old newsie. Many youngsters get up early to sell papers. One ten year old starts out at 3 A.M. every day and goes to school. LOC nclc.05524
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Eight-year-old girl (see label 4006). She is very skilful (sic) topping the beets, but this work is very fatigueing (sic) and dangerous for such children. See Hine report for details of the LOC nclc.00332
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Eight-year-old girl (see label 4006). She is very skilful (sic) topping the beets, but this work is very fatigueing (sic) and dangerous for such children. See Hine report for details of the LOC nclc.00331
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Same girl as no. 4665. Showing the slight deformity of the hip. Work which required constant standing would be bad, so persons with curvature tire quickly. Their feet also are usually weak LOC nclc.05146
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Group of sweepers and doffers in the filling spinning room of Glenallen Mill. The boys were smuggled out of back window during hours by second hand. All work. Smallest boy is Francis LOC nclc.02320
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Group of sweepers and doffers in the filling spinning room of Glenallen Mill. The boys were smuggled out of the back window during hours by second hand. All work. Smallest boy is Francis LOC nclc.02321
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Group of workers in Glenallen Mill. Smallest girl helps her sister Dora Roberts in mill. Lives at 13 Woodlawn St., there are 13 in the family, five or six working. Apparently prosperous. In LOC nclc.02319
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Groups showing a few of the workers stringing beans in the J. S. Farrand Packing Co., Baltimore, Md. Those too small to work are held on laps of workers or stowed away in boxes. LOC nclc.00031
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Free Kindergarten (in Girard, Ala.) run by the Eagle and Phoenix Mills, Columbus, Ga. Has been closed over a year. The mill owners get a deal of free newspaper advertising about their LOC nclc.02820
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Hands going home from Atherton Mill, Charlotte, N.C. Little girl came from the mill. Evidently a 'helper.' I saw others about her size in the mill spinning. LOC nclc.01565
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John Sims. See -2304. (Caption 2304- John Sims, 7 year old newsie, New Bedford, Mass. August 22, 1911. Evening. Richard K. Conant, Witness.) LOC nclc.03742
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Katie Wohn, twelve-year-old topper. Said she cut a hole in her leg recently with the hook on the end of the knife. See Hine report. Photo Oct. 22-15. LOC nclc.00336
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Isidor, 8 years old (on left) and Joe, 10 years old (on right) sell until 9 P.M. every night, and earn 75 cents and 35 cents a week, respectively. LOC nclc.03813
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Luther Dories. Been doffing some months in Spinning Room -2, Massachusett(s) Mills, Lindale, Ga. Said 12 years old, but very doubtful. Father and brother work. LOC nclc.05342
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Mortaria family, 8 Downing St., N.Y., making flowers wreaths. The Little three-year-old on left was actually helping, putting the center of the flower into the petal, and the family said she LOC cph.3a01154
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Noon. David Rosenthal, 1220 Sixth St, S.W., Washington, D.C., said he was 10 yrs. old, and sells until 6 P.M. Is out at 7 A.M. on Sundays. No badge. LOC cph.3c18567
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King Philip - Spool and Warping Department. Warper - Young girls sometimes assist. Sometimes a tyer-in comes from her position behind the rack and helps the warper. Light very good in this LOC cph.3b33428
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Manuel Oliver, 4th St., a newsboy who begins work at 5 A.M., New Bedford, Mass., August 22, 1911. 7-15 A.M. Richard K. Conant, Witness. LOC nclc.03738
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Manuel White, father with two children - Johnnie, 7 years - Sylva 12 years. Live on Brook Street, Dighton, Mass. Family picks 72 measures a day at 6 cents. LOC nclc.00180
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1 P.M. Family of Onofrio Cottone, 7 Extra Pl., N.Y., finishing garments in a terribly run down tenement. The father works on the street. The three oldest children help the mother on LOC nclc.05508
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Twin spinners in Saxon Mill, Spartenberg (sic), S.C. Joe and Pearl Steading, 75 William St., make 44 cents a day each. Another sister works. Mother a widow. LOC nclc.02564
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Two families, including boy of 8 yrs. and girl of 10 yrs., working on farm of Frank Herdenreder, near Sterling, Colo. They work from 6 A.M. to 6 P.M. usually. LOC nclc.00333
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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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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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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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Even the tiny one about 5 years old was picking. Some others picking regularly. Rochester, Mass. - NARA - 523472
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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A Sunday afternoon 'pick-up' at Sandy Beach. Girls about 15. See 4184. LOC nclc.05032
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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