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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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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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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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Colored School at Anthoston. Census 27, enrollment 12, attendance 7. Teacher expects 19 to be enrolled after work is over. 'Tobacco keeps them out and they are short of hands.' Ages of those LOC cph.3a29794
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Colored School at Anthoston. Census 27, enrollment 12, attendance 7. Teacher expects 19 to be enrolled after work is over. 'Tobacco keeps them out and they are short of hands.' Ages of those LOC nclc.00525
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Arthur Farnande. Said 8 years old. Picking cranberries by hand, and brother Charlie said he was 9 picking with a scoop. Said they worked from 9 till 5. LOC nclc.00113
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Arthur Fernande. Said 8 years old. Picking cranberries by hand, and brother Charlie said he was 9 picking with a scoop. Said they worked from 9 till 5. LOC nclc.00114
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8-year-old truant newsboy, who didn't know his name nor where he lived. Said he had just had the measles. Photographed during school hours. LOC nclc.04030
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A few of the small girls and boys (not the smallest ones) that I found working in the spinning room of one of the Amoskeag Mfg. Co. mills at Manchester, N.H. Photo taken at 1-00 p.m., May LOC nclc.01738
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A flashlight photo at 5-30 A.M. of part of the force (200 in all) going to work in Strickland Mill, Valdosta, Ga. A cold, foggy morning. Jan. 23, 09. Query- - are these youngsters 'playing LOC nclc.01630
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9 year old cash girl in Gafer Department store. At first glance the home conditions with a one-armed father and several children in the family would indicate that her small wages were LOC cph.3b39427
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9 year old cash girl in Gafer Department store. At first glance the home conditions with a one-armed father and several children in the family would indicate that her small wages were LOC nclc.04969
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A bad New Years start for the children. A group of doffer boys who were cleaning up in the Atherton Mill, Charlotte, N.C., during the noon hour. The superintendent had forbidden my taking LOC nclc.01568
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Carl Harden, doffer in Tupelo (Miss.) Cotton Mills. Said he was fourteen, but I doubt it. Couldn't write his own name. Been working in different mills about one year. LOC nclc.02139
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Charley Humble. Said he was 10 years old. Has a regular job. Been helping his sister for some months in the Deep River Mills. Mother and sister work. Father deserted. LOC nclc.02834
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Accident case - Union Hospital. Molla Mesuretta, 17 years. Weaver at Sagamore Mill. Worked two years. Laceration and partial evulsion of tip of finger and nail. Hurt September 1915 while LOC cph.3b17936
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Acres and acres of empty oyster shells. Piles 15 deep in places. Shells are used all over the town to make streets, railroad beds, etc. Many of these piles are said to be the work of young LOC nclc.00747
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A group of berry pickers from Philadelphia on Giles Farm, Seaford Del. The children came before school vacation. They are now ready to leave Seaford and go to Riverton, N.J. to continue LOC cph.3b39344
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A group of cranberry pickers moving from one part of the bog to another. Whites Bog, Browns Mills, N.J. This is the fourth week of school and the people here expect to remain two weeks more. LOC nclc.00056
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A group of workers in the Butler Mills. Kate McCormick, 10 Cleveland St. The smallest girl in the picture. Apparently 13 years old. The happy faces appear only when the photo is being taken. LOC nclc.02249
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A part of the Hopkins family. All of these (and 'except the least one') in the mill. Belton Mfg. Co. The two girls together run 10 sides $1.10 a day. The little girl apparently not 12 years LOC nclc.02619
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The smallest shrimp-picker, standing on the box is Manuel, about five years old, who worked here last year also. Cannot understand a word of English. Dunbar, Lopez, Dukate Co.,. LOC cph.3a01066
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The smallest girl is Josephine Ramie, 10 years old, Maniyunk, Pa. (Near Philadelphia). Padrone stands over them, urging them, urging them and often swearing at and threatening them. Theodore LOC nclc.05289
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The 'Kinleygarten' (the mill policeme(n) called it) at Lynchburg (Va.) Cotton Mill(s.) The children of the mill settlement, from six to eight years attend. Several olde(r) boys were hanging LOC nclc.02158
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The Twombley School, Brush, Colo., with 13 pupils present out of a possible 25, on Oct. 27, seven weeks after school opened, and a few of the beet workers families have already finished and LOC cph.3b33226
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Some of the young workers in Laurel Cotton Mills, Miss. Tallest man is Mr. Hollingworth. Two of his boys in front row. Sylvester, ten years old, 'Only helps in the mill afternoons and LOC nclc.02067
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Some of the younger boys working in the Brazos Valley Cotton Mill at West. One, Charlie Lott was thirteen years old according to Family Record, another Norman Vaughn apparently twelve years LOC cph.3b21321
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Some of the youngest girls in Chace Cotton Mill, Burlington, Vt. Girls' names are Mabel Blanchette (left hand end), Lodell Blanchette (right hand end), and Agnes Fountain, young girl in LOC nclc.01714
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Smallest is Albert Valbert (or Vallee), 14 Park St. Next in size is Adelard Dion, 1 Palmer St., works in -1 Spinning Room. Both failed to write their names correctly in English. LOC nclc.02406
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Trapper Boy, 'Son.' Opens and closes door that controls ventilation. He is underground from 7 A.M. to 5-30 P.M. (Much of the work of mining, loading and carrying is dome (i.e., done) by LOC cph.3a21701
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The only photo of the mill children I could get. The superintendent was too suspicious. Many young girls and boys in there on day shift. Some below 12 years old went in on night shift. LOC cph.3a01127
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Stringers and leaf-girls, shed-workers for American Sumatra Tobacco Co. All working, 74 children in these sheds 10 to 15 years old, and only 45 women and children over 15. LOC nclc.00725
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Shack of Jo. Mermilla family, cranberrries pickers on Whites Bog, Browns Mills, N.J in settlement called Florence. Six persons live in this room. One bed on floor. Food exposed to flies, LOC nclc.00088
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George Goodell, going home Sunday morning, after cutting a few boxes of sardines. When the work rushes, they have to work Sundays and nights, even the little ones. (See other photos.) LOC nclc.00979
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Estice Webb Herrmann, who left the seventh grade of the Elizabethtown, Ky. Public School in October 1915 soon after commencing the grade to be married. Was only 15 years old. Now living on a LOC nclc.00402
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Girls, boys and men, polishing and wrapping, working together- morals in glass factory are proverbially bad. Union Stopper Co., Morgantown, W. Va. Several very young girls and many small LOC nclc.01195
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Every one of these youngsters went into work when the whistle blew, noon June 15, 1911, in the Chesapeake Knitting Mills, Berkley, Va. See also photos and labels 2245 to 2249. Following are LOC nclc.02199
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Every one of these youngsters went into work when the whistle blew, noon June 15, 1911, in the Chesapeake Knitting Mills, Berkley, Va. See also photos and labels 2245 to 2249. Following are LOC nclc.02202
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Everyone of these was working in the cotton mill at North Pownal, Vt., and they were running a small force. Dave Noel, Theo. Momeady, 15, working three years. Albert Sylvester, 16, working 1 LOC cph.3c34641
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Farrand Packing Co. A young berry picker on Curran's farm, Rock Creek. This boy, Irvan Stevans, and the other (see 828) were the only whites working with a large number of negroes that day, LOC nclc.00001
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Alfred Beniot, 191 North St. Sweeper in Bennett Mill, in spinning room -2 has been there two months; seemed to be 11 yrs. old. Alfred recorded as 12 years old. LOC nclc.02518
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Oldest girl, Minnie Carpenter, House 53 Loray Mill, Gastonia, N.C. Spinner. Makes fifty cents a day of 10 hours. Works four sides. Younger girl works irregularly. LOC cph.3b15648
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Group of workers in Meritas Mill, Columbus, Ga. Could not get the youngest. I went through the mill in the morning and saw some very young workers, and a number of little dinner-toters who LOC nclc.02827
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Group of workers in the Massachusetts Mills, Lindale, Ga. Photo taken at noon, April 12, 1913, while they were being paid off. During the days following this, I proved the ages of nearly a LOC nclc.02793
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Group of workers in Meritas Mill, Columbus, Ga. Could not get the youngest. I went through the mill in the morning and saw some very young workers, and a number of little dinner-toters who LOC nclc.02828
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Group of workers in the Massachusetts Mills, Lindale, Ga. Photo taken at noon, April 12, 1913, while they were being paid off. During the days following this, I proved the ages of nearly a LOC nclc.02790
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Group of workers in the Massachusetts Mills, Lindale, Ga. Photo taken at noon, April 12, 1913, while they were being paid off. During the days following this, I proved the ages of nearly a LOC nclc.02792
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Freddie Kafer, a very immature little newsie selling Saturday Evening Posts and newspapers at the entrance to the State Capitol. He did not know his age, nor much of anything else. He was LOC nclc.05577
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Freddie Kafer, a very immature little newsie selling Saturday Evening Posts and newspapers at the entrance to the State Capitol. He did not know his age, nor much of anything else. He was LOC nclc.05577
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Home of Ed Bentley family, Route 2, Hebbardsville. Father is up the river cutting logs (is home part of the time) and sister is attending the Zion School. Boys expect to go to Bluff City LOC nclc.00514
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Kibbe's Candy Factory. Freddie Reed, 14 years, Hayden St., been working a few months. Left school this year as soon as he reached the legal work age. Is earning $ 4.00. LOC cph.3a47682
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Killing time. Boys and men (many of them workers) hanging around Swifts' Pool Room. Saturday P.M. A common sight any day. Educational influences bad- stories and remarks will not bear LOC nclc.04780
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Group of boys working in -9 Breaker, Pennsylvania Coal Co., Hughestown Borough, Pittston, Pa. In this group were Sam Belloma, Pine Street, Angelo Ross, 142 Panama Street, and others LOC nclc.01146
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All these are workers in the Cherokee Hosiery Mill, Rome, Ga. Noon, April 10, 1913. The youngest are turners and loopers. Other Hosiery Mills around here employ children of 8 and 9 years. LOC nclc.02781
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All these are workers in the Cherokee Hosiery Mill, Rome, Ga. Noon, April 10, 1913. The youngest are turners and loopers. Other Hosiery Mills around here employ children of 8 and 9 years. LOC nclc.02780
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All these are workers in the Cherokee Hosiery Mill, Rome, Ga. Noon, April 10, 1913. The youngest are turners and loopers. Other Hosiery Mills around here employ children of 8 and 9 years. LOC nclc.02783
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All these are workers in the Cherokee Hosiery Mill, Rome, Ga. Noon, Apr. 10, 1913. The youngest are turners and loopers. Other Hosiery Mills around here employ children of 8 and 9 years. LOC nclc.05338
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All these are workers in the Cherokee Hosiery Mill, Rome, Ga. Noon, April 10, 1913. The youngest are turners and loopers. Other Hosiery Mills around here employ children of 8 and 9 years. LOC nclc.02784
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All these are workers at the Cherokee Hosiery Mill, Rome, Ga. Noon, April 10, 1913. The youngest are turners and loopers. Other Hosiery Mills around here employ children of 8 and 9 years. LOC nclc.02782
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All these are workers in the Cherokee Hosiery Mill, Rome, Ga. Noon, April 10, 1913. The youngest are turners and loopers. Other Hosiery Mills around here employ children of 8 and 9 years. LOC nclc.05339
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All these children were shucking oysters and tending babies at the Pass Christian Company. (Dunbar, Lopez, Dukate Co.) before daybreak and until about 5 P.M. Photos taken at noon in absence LOC nclc.00861
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All these are workers in the Cherokee Hosiery Mill, Rome, Ga. Noon, April 10, 1913. The youngest are turners and loopers. Other Hosiery Mills around here employ children of 8 and 9 years. LOC nclc.05339
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All these children were working in the sugar beets for Louis Startz, a farmer near Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. The children are brought out from the nearby town to work the beets. See Hine LOC nclc.00273
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All these pick shrimp at the Peerless Oyster Co. I had to take photo while bosses were at dinner as they refused to permit children to be in photos. Out of 60 workers, 15 were apparently LOC nclc.00899
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Oyster shuckers at work in Barataria Canning Company. Small girls working on right of photo are Gertrude Kron, five years old, Pauline --, eight years old. Note the face of little Mildred LOC cph.3a01051
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10-00 P.M. Solomon ---. Began selling at 7 years of age. Been selling 6 years (four years at night). 11-30 P.M. Is at it early Sunday A.M., Hartford, Conn. LOC nclc.03266
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Bowling Alleys, connected with Geo P. Grays, Bastable Cafe. About 8 very small boys employed here. Work until... - NARA - 523277
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Boy in stocking cap (taller of two) is James Ryan, 89 Austin St. Has been working in Wamsutta Mills one year. The other is in photos I took inside that Mill recently. LOC nclc.02485
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Amos is 6 and Horace 4 years old. Their father, John Neal is a renter and raises tobacco. He said (and the owner of the land confirmed it) that both these boys work day after day from LOC cph.3a19627
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Amos is 6 and Horace 4 years old. Their father, John Neal is a renter and raises tobacco. He said (and the owner of the land confirmed it) that both these boys work day after day from LOC nclc.00575
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Machine that blows 4 milk bottles at a time. No 'lung blowers' employed. Travis Glass Co., Clarksburg W. Va. Manager says machines are fast coming into play in bottle industry, plans LOC nclc.01180
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Miss Mry Graham Jones of the Social Settlement, Hartford, Conn. and few of the newsboys (all 10 years old and younger) that she invited to a Sunday afternoon party. In 2 days she secured the LOC nclc.03242
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Mary Donahue, 15 years old (on right of photo), curling petals at the Boston Floral Supply Co., 347-357 Cambridge Street. Said to be the only flower factory in Massachusetts. Pauline Steele, LOC nclc.05615
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Mary Donahue, 15 years old (on right of photo), curling petals at the Boston Floral Supply Co., 347-357 Cambridge Street. Said to be the only flower factory in Massachusetts. Pauline Steele, LOC nclc.05615
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Maud Daly, five years old. Grade Daly, three years old. Each picks about one pot of shrimp a day for the Peerless Oyster Co. The youngest said to be the fastest worker. LOC cph.3a01115
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Nearly the entire force, Yooona (i.e., Yocona) Mills, Water Valley, Miss. Some of the smallest workers not in photo. The three smallest ones in front row hang around and help some. Baby LOC nclc.02109
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Name- Little girl (48 inches high) work in Amoskeag Mfg. Co., Manchester, N.H. She seemed to be 11 or 12 yrs. old. Photo taken at noon, May 25, 1909. LOC nclc.01782
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Mule-spinning room, Chace Cotton Mill, Burlington, Vt. Edward Marcotte, a 'back-roping boy' who has been here one year. See also photo and label -730. LOC nclc.01726
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Maple Mills, Dillon, S.C. Ruth Barnhill (elder). Been at it 4 years. Run 6 sides. Emma Barnhill 4 years in mill. 4 sides. Looked 10 years old. LOC nclc.01493
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Minto Valley School. Six children are all that are attending here out of 30 that enrolled six weeks ago, and 40 are expected after beet work is over. Many of these children lose 50% of their LOC nclc.00324
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Adrienne Pagnette, an adolescent French illiterate, speaks almost no English. Is probably 14 or 15. Doffs on top floor spinning room in Glenallen Mill. Her brother Francis has a regular job LOC cph.3a18654
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Young girls working in Seaconnet Mill. The boys and men had just been hauling the girls around and pawing them over in 'rough house' as these noon hours sometimes are. Some of the girls make LOC nclc.02498
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Young girls going to work after noon hour, in Great Falls Mfg. Co. I saw a number smaller and younger than these.... - NARA - 523195
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World Furniture Company noon hour, Evansville, Ind. Boy at left hand end was running Machine Composed of two Unguarded Circular Saws. The board he was pushing stuck and he gave it an LOC nclc.04479
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Worming and topping tobacco. W.L. Fugate rents farm. Willie, 12 years old and Ora, 10 years old will go to Schoolsville School, Clark Co., Ky., but it has not opened yet. LOC cph.3a25270
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Willie Nall, 11 years old; Raymond Jones, 10 years old; Denver Jones, 5 years old; plowing on farm. They had just finished a job of hauling. See report. LOC nclc.00399
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Making hair-goods in the kitchen-living-room of H. Mowshowitz's, a contractor, 178 E. 2nd St., N.Y. The partly made puffs and switches were lying around on the floor. Apartment is small and LOC nclc.04199
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Isidor Rothandler, 80 Ridge Street, New York. Idiopathic Idiocy. Mother worked hard before marriage, and was ailing while Isidor was coming. Further data in their files; -1695 Nurse LOC nclc.04883
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Furchgott's Department Store. Employs large number of youngsters as cash-boys and wrappers. Counted nine apparently under 12. 1 was 9, other 11. Youngest work for $3. a week. LOC nclc.03858
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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.00330
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Eleven year old Western Union messenger -51. J.T. Marshall. Been day boy here for five months. Goes to Red Light district some and knows some of the girls. LOC nclc.03890
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Flashlight photo 6 P.M. going home from King Mfg. Co., Augusta, Ga. Two of the smallest boys been in mill 2 years. One of the larger for 4 years. LOC nclc.01600
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Family of Mrs. Motto making flowers in a dirty tenement. Josephine, 13 years, helps outside of school hours until 9... - NARA - 523495
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Golla Chambers, House 38 Loray Mill, Gastonia, N.C. 12 years old. In mill 3 years, spinning 2 years, weaver 1 year. Other sisters spinners. LOC nclc.04502
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Going to work at 5-30 A.M. Small boy named Jo is a sweeper in Hill Mfg. Co. Been there 2 years. I saw him working... - NARA - 523186
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In a saloon doorway at 8-30 P.M. Left to right- George Cappello, 12 years old, 270 Jay Street. Frank Laporter, 13 years old, 47 Third Avenue. LOC nclc.03434
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Group of boys working in Lancaster Cotton Mills. Smallest boy in middle said he has been in the mill off and on for 5... - NARA - 523118
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Group of boys working in Lancaster, S.C. Cotton Mills. Smallest boy in middle said has been in the mill off and on for 5 yrs. Spins now. Nov. 30, 1909(sic). LOC nclc.01431
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Group of girl workers at the gate of the American Tobacco Co. Young girls obviously under 14 years of age, who work... - NARA - 523314
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