5,664 Free Images of Child Labor

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All work in Delta Cotton Mills, Mc Comb, Miss. Smallest boy, a band boy, is Johnnie Mathews, apparently only ten or eleven, but his mother assured me that he is nearly fourteen, which is LOC nclc.02078
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All working in May Hosiery Mills, youngest boy admitted ten years of age and been working there 9 months. He is already afflicted with eye-trouble and carries his head much on one side. LOC nclc.01891
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A group working on night shift at Hereford Glass Works, Cape May Court House, N.J. November 19, 1909. I saw the smalles(t) boy carrying in shortly before midnight, November 18th. LOC cph.3a47676
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Workers in the Nokomis Cotton Mill, Lexington, N.C. The smallest boy said he was 11 years old and makes 50 cents a day. Been doffing there for some months. The Band Boy who seems much LOC nclc.02643
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Willie Roberts 11 year old delivery boy in Reiss Department Store. LOC nclc.03948
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Three Boys Shoveling Zinc Ore from Car Into Wagon, Near Big Bonanza Mine, Aurora, Mo. Youngest boy is Robert Nichols, next larger is Hobart Crawford. They both go to school and work on LOC nclc.01090
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Three adults and six children from seven years to twelve years hard at work on a sugar beet farm near Greeley Colorado. The father said- 'The children can thin the beets better than grown LOC nclc.00255
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Three young cutters who work in the Seacoast Canning Co., Factory -4, Eastport, Me. They work at night when the rush is on. Youngest is Rob Collins, 10 years old; next is Dan Collins, 11 LOC nclc.00946
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Topping tobacco. Roland Lowe, 13 years old in field with two brothers. There are 7 boys and 2 girls in the family, and 4 are in school. Father, Mose Lowe, R. Route 1, Winchester. Children go LOC nclc.00439
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Two boys exposed to all kinds of weather picking out slabs from chute with a heavy moving chain that carries up the wood. The younger boy said he was thirteen years old; the other might be LOC nclc.04907
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Two boys working in Coventry Co. Mill, Anthony, R. I. 6 P.M. April 16, 1909. I saw about 10 boys and girls who looked to be under 14 years of age. LOC nclc.01661
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Union Hospital case - Estelle Poiriere, 137 Robeson St., 15 years old. Doffer at Granite No. 1 mill. Laceration of index and middle finger of right hand. Caught in card machine. Injured Dec. LOC cph.3b17935
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Union Hospital case - Manuel Costa Maiata. 301 Ferry St. Sweeper in Fall River Iron Works five weeks - 17 years old. Broke wrist while sweeping. Slipped on a banana skin. LOC cph.3b05705
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Two little pickers. Manuel Alvez - 12 years, Marion Alvez, 8 years. She picks 19 measures. He picks 10 measures. Live 320 Water St., New Bedford, Mass. LOC nclc.00182
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Two of the young oyster shuckers and baby-tenders going home at 5-00 P.M. after a day begun at 4-00 A.M. and spent shucking oysters and tending baby. Smallest one is 'Teeny.' Other is LOC nclc.00874
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View of Clinton Mills (S.C.) Superintendent would not allow me to take photos in mill. Many youngsters employed. See photos Nos. 359 and 375. Dec. 2, 1908. Witness, Sara R. Hine. LOC nclc.01466
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Wilbur Gold, Western Union Messenger -14, twelve years old; works until 11 P.M., usually, but all night when they are busy (See report of L.W.H.) Note sign above his head. LOC nclc.03561
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Young doffer and spinner boys in Seaconnet Mill. The youngest are Manuel Perry, 111 Pitman St. John E. Mello, 229 Alden St. Manuel Louis. None of these could write their own names. The last LOC cph.3a21306
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Young doffer and spinner boys in Seaconnet Mill. The youngest are Manuel Perry, 111 Pitman St. John E. Mello, 229 Alden St. Manuel Louis. None of these could write their own names. The last LOC nclc.02500
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Young spinners and doffers in Richmond Spinning Mills, taken during working hours. Smallest girl said she had been working there for months. The other girl said she didn't know how long. LOC nclc.01966
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5 year old Helen and her stepsisters 'hulling' strawberries at Johnson's Hulling Station, Seaford, Del. Helen is an orphan, who one month after death of her widowed mother, was adopted by LOC nclc.00788
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Doffer boy (about 46 inches high) Kesler Mfg. Co., Salisbury, N.C. After I had taken this, the Superintendent said, 'Now take the other extreme,' and brought forward another doffer. See LOC cph.3b38159
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Dependent Parents (See also 2157) R.L. Witt. He is apparently working on the railroad, but his three oldest children, here work in the Roanoke (Va.) Cotton Mills. Mamie is only 12 years old LOC nclc.02151
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Charlie Howard, a colored tenant on farm of B.F. Mitchell, R. 1, and his 2 boys. Robbie is 6 and Willie is 11 years old. Worming and suckering tobacco. Father says children will go to Rocky LOC nclc.00571
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A group of newsies selling evenings in saloons and stores. Taken in alley back of City Jail at 10 P.M. Left to right- Dominick Mardilo, 28 1-2 Fulton Street; Roderick Towle, 44 Sheridan LOC cph.3a48510
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A little country store near New Hope School -41. Mrs. M.E. Geralds, P.O. Route 2, Tecumseh, Okla., is in charge; also a customer. Lewis W. Hine. See W.H. Swift Report. LOC cph.3a29796
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A little log cabin, - relic of the old days, - now occupied by a small family (F.T. Castle) who are gradually giving up farming and depending upon mining and odd jobs. Oct. 12, 1921. (Dogs). LOC nclc.04417
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A Product of the 4 H Club. Gradie Walton, 17 yrs. old, - is very deficient in most school branches (except in mathematics where he shines). He is much handicapped physically, - lost one eye LOC nclc.04378
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A Product of the 4 H. Club. Gradie Walton, 17 yrs. old, - is very deficient in most school branches (except in mathematics where he shines). He is much handicapped physically, - lost one eye LOC nclc.04377
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A product of the cotton mill. Frank Barnes, Box 463, Phoenix, Alabama. Been working over forty years in the cotton mills of Columbus, Ga. Started at 4 years old for 20 cents a day. Now LOC nclc.02818
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A shack of one of the berry picking families on Giles Farm, Seaford, Del. There is one room in this shack unpartitioned in which 2 families (8 people) live. One half of the shack is taken up LOC nclc.00095
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A study of ages. The boy on the right said, 'I ain't old enough to work in the mill; I am ten years.' The boy in the middle, Buford Fox who has been working in the Merrimack Mills for one LOC nclc.02883
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Antoinette Fazzino, ten years old, makes Irish lace for collars and waists, after school. Her younger brother (by the stove) said, 'Lace is too dam-cheap.' Antoinette wears glasses. 303 E. LOC nclc.04131
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Basso family, making roses in dirty poorly lighted kitchen. Pauline, 6 years old, works after school. Peter, 8, works... - NARA - 523515
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1st Aid- Kerr Thread. Rest room - one step beyond the emergency box. Doctor who can be called. Are enlarging this to a small hospital room. 17 year old workers. Not a trained nurse but gives LOC cph.3b33409
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Danville Messengers. The smallest boy, Western Union No. 5, is only ten years old, and is working as extra boy. He said he was going to be laid off as the manager told him he was too young, LOC nclc.03722
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3-30 PM Mrs. Rosy Capello, 311 E. 111th St., top floor rear. Makes 50 cents to $1.00 a week on willow plumes. Husband works irregularly as tailor. LOC nclc.04108
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309 W. 146th Street. (...) and her seven year old daughter, Lorenza, embroidering ladies waists in their dirty kitchen-living room. Lorenza makes the stems of the flowers. Her mother said, LOC nclc.05487
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See 4052) The teacher and the lone pupil present in School -9, Dist. 3, Ft. Morgan out of a possible 20 pupils, five weeks after school began. They try to have 9 mos. of school LOC nclc.00377
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Theresa Quinlan - 14 years old April 14th - Spooler. Hand cut in Iron Works Mill. Was taking loose band off a spooler. Two weeks learning. Is in picture of girls play at King Philip LOC nclc.03093
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Teresa Lerre, 5 years old, cranberry picker. 1024 S. 9th St., Philadelphia. The father and four children are picking. A 'carrier' may be seen at one side. Whites Bog, Browns Mills, N.J. This LOC nclc.05298
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The whole force in Elk Cotton Mills. Tiny boy in white waist on extreme left, 'Just helps his mother,' the Superintendent said. Next boy to him is Leo, with a 'steady job,' see photo 1753. LOC nclc.01901
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Smallest boy does not work in the mill. The rest do. Great Falls Mfg. Co., Somersworth, N.H. Boy next in size to that one is James Carrigan, 24 Highland St. The other small boy is Fred LOC nclc.01767
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Smallest boy in front of man (in centre of photo) is Jo -- wouldn't give his name, very suspicious. He and the other boys said he is a sweeper in Acushnet Mill; lives at 697 S. Water St. LOC cph.3b46590
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Topping tobacco. Roland Lowe, 13 years old in field with two brothers. There are 7 boys and 2 girls in the family, and 4 are in school. Father, Mose Lowe, R. Route 1, Winchester. Children go LOC nclc.00438
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Three adults and six children from seven years to twelve years hard at work on a sugar beet farm near Greeley Colorado. The father said- 'The children can thin the beets better than grown LOC nclc.00254
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Three adults and six children from seven years to twelve years hard at work on a sugar beet farm near Greeley Colorado. The father said- 'The children can thin the beets better than grown LOC nclc.00256
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Teddy Szlosek, (Josef's Brother) (on right hand). Stanley Rogesky, 8 Joy St., Illiterate. A band boy in -10 mill. His playmates at school say he may be fourteen but not any more, and that he LOC nclc.02440
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Teddy Szlosek, (Josef's Brother) (on right hand). Stanley Rogesky, 8 Joy St., Illiterate. A band boy in -10 mill. His playmates at school say he may be fourteen but not any more, and that he LOC nclc.02440
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Tersea --- carrying peck of cranberries (weighing about 15 pounds) long distance to 'bushel man.' Did not know age. Forsythe's Bog, Turkeytown, near Pemberton, N.J. Sept. 29, 1910 Witness E. LOC nclc.05313
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Edith, 11 years old and Blanche 13. Each picks about 100 pounds of cotton a day. Go to Beaver Bend School when through. Father, W.T. Rumage, Route 1, Lawton, Okla. LOC nclc.00594
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George Cartwright, 401 North Laurel St., Bridgeton, N.J., is out of School. Hangs around the Cumberland Works looking for job. Says he is 14 years old now (questionable) and has worked off LOC nclc.01240
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Evelyn Casey, 129 Gaynore St., 14 years, 6 months - Irish Went to work on 14th birthday cleaning harnesses in Borden Mills. Left because of no work and expects to learn weaving in Flint mill LOC nclc.05037
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Family of J. W. Lott at West. The father and three oldest children (two of them under legal age) work regularly in the Brazos Valley Cotton Mill. Charlie is thirteen years old. Family Record LOC nclc.02874
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Five year old Willie Hesse. Picks fifteen pounds of cotton a day. Parents own the farm of eighty acres. Near West. Will get ten bales of cotton besides other things. Father and mother and LOC nclc.00233
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Photos taken during noon hour, October 23rd, 1912, at the Loray Mills, Gastonia, N.C. They said they were working and went in to work. At night I counted over thirty children coming out when LOC nclc.02666
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Photos taken during noon hour, October 23rd, 1912, at the Loray Mills, Gastonia, N.C. They said they were working and went in to work. At night I counted over thirty children coming out when LOC nclc.02668
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Ralph Kuyrkendall. 'I'm learnin' to spin in Magnolia Cotton Mill. Work with Blanch --. I'm 10 years old. Been in the First Grade three years and Second Grade one year.' See photo of family, LOC nclc.02088
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San Antonio newsboys need supervision. Here are three brothers - Sasser family, 729 Porter Street. The youngest one is five years old and makes 30 cents a day. Lawrence is seven years old LOC nclc.03878
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School -2, Buffalo, N.Y. Vincent Cannici, 13 years old last summer. Ran apple machine in cannery, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada. Lost 9 weeks school in the fall. Did not make good in LOC nclc.00781
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An accident case of a 13-year-old doffer. Had been working since he was nine. 'I got my hand caught in the cogs of the spinning machine, and lost part of my finger. It stopped the machine LOC cph.3b32768
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Basil Roberts and James Hopper, both 12 years old, go to school when in session and work at Coleman Bros. Zinc Mine, Aurora, Mo., Saturdays and holidays, culling 'waste' from the zinc ore on LOC cph.3a24704
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Pruett School which opened September 5th. 61 pupils in District and only 28 present. Expect an enrollment of 50. Only 1 boy of 11; the rest are 9 years and younger. Many out for work. LOC nclc.00505
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Rose Biodo, 1216 Annan St., Philadelphia. 10 years old. Working 3 summers. Minds baby and carries berries, two pecks at a time. Whites Bog, Brown Mills, N.J. This is the fourth week of LOC nclc.05296
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Group of workers at Sagamore Mills -1. Some of these were boys we saw on Friday P.M., four on two floor, three on next floor, dodging about behind spinning frames as though trying to avoid LOC nclc.02259
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Group of workers going to work at 6-45 A.M. In Spring Village Mill. In this group are Mamie La Barge, Elizabeth and Lumina Demarais, Als de Gauthier, Erena La Prise (See previous labels for LOC nclc.02307
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Group of workers in Danville, (Va.) Knitting Works, Only a few of them would pose. I watched them going to and coming from work; also went through the factory during working hours. One LOC cph.3b05703
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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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G. Leahy, 1249 Cambridge Street. Messenger for Metropolitan Messenger and Mailing Co., 67 Bromfield Street. Said 14 years old. Gets $5 a week wages, and makes $2.50 a week in tips. Taken at LOC nclc.05605
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John Doyle (smallest boy in street), apparently 12 or 13 years old. Small and Wizened. Been sweeping for a short time in Wamsutta Mill in -3 spinning room. Lives at 3 Mt. Pleasant St. LOC nclc.02482
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John Dempsey (looked 11 or 12) years old. Said he helped only on Saturdays. Jackson Mill, Fiskeville, R. I. (One of the B. B. and R. Knight mills). He was working faithfully in the LOC cph.3a01133
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Johnnie Merkle 6 years old newsie. Home of Johnnie, 5110 N. Broadway. He is a regular newsie 6 years old. Father owns this house and butchers shop. Johnnie's brother owns and runs a LOC nclc.03520
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Karl Witklwskr, 812 Walnut St., Market vender. 11 years of age. 1 year at work. Works of own choice. Earns percentage of money received from stand, amounting to an average of 50 cents a LOC nclc.03569
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Kerr Thread Mill. All over 16. Having fun with camera man. Good conditions in this mill. Caps to protect hair from dust and to keep hair from getting tangled in machinery. These girls worked LOC nclc.03019
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All in photos worked (even smallest girl and boys) and they went to work at (noon) 12-45. Some of the following boys and girls mey be 14, many are not. John Gopen, 189 Elm St. Joseph Stonge, LOC nclc.02329
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All in photos worked (even smallest girl and boys) and they went to work at (noon) 12-45. Some of the following boys and girls mey be 14, many are not. John Gopen, 189 Elm St. Joseph Stonge, LOC nclc.02330
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Noon hour, May 5, 1909, in the drawing-in room of American Woolen Co., Winooski, Vt. In front row are- Right hand end, Allexina Lavelley; next - Anna Cross; next - Cecile Cauchon. In back LOC nclc.01717
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Noon-hour at Riverside Cotton Mills, Danville, Va. All are workers. The Supt., who posed them, said, 'Be sure not to get any little dinner-toters in the photo. We have none working under LOC nclc.02164
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Millie, four years old and Nellie five years old. Cotton pickers on a farm near Houston, Millie picks eight pounds a day and Nellie thirty pounds. This is nearly every day. Home conditions LOC nclc.05536
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Man loaded down with heavy bundle of vests that he had been carrying for many blocks, stopping to rest, occasionally, when he would drop the bundle down onto whatever boxes or railings were LOC nclc.04154
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Union Hospital case - Manuel Costa Maiata, 301 Ferry St. Sweeper in Fall River Iron Works five weeks - 17 years old. Broke wrist while sweeping. Slipped on a banana skin. LOC nclc.05072
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Types of adolescents. Boys working in Eureka Cotton Mills, Chester, S.C. Rob Dover-(Tallest boy). Been in mill eight or nine years. Melvin Reilly (next). In mill one year. Boyd McKowan LOC nclc.01457
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Young doffer and spinner boys in Seaconnet Mill. The youngest are Manuel Perry, 111 Pitman St. John E. Mello, 229 Alden St. Manuel Louis. None of these could write their own names. The last LOC nclc.02501
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Young girls working in American Woolen Mills, Winooski, Vt. Most are illiterate. Work slack and force small. 27 Children apparently under 15 years were counted at one gate. (See also LOC nclc.01848
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Workers in the Nokomis Cotton Mill, Lexington, N.C. The smallest boy said he was 11 years old and makes 50 cents a day. Been doffing there for some months. The Band Boy who seems much LOC cph.3a47666
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Worming tobacco. Part of family of D.K. Pruett who owns a prosperous farm. In foreground is Wyatt Pruett, 14 years old. Goes to Pruett School, Div. 3, Henderson, Ky. There are 4 boys working LOC nclc.00539
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Group of workers in Moritas 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.02826
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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.02791
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Group of Workers in Glenallen Mill, including Adrienne Pagnette, Annie Dugas, Francis Pagnette, Anatole Gernon, apparently 11 or 12 years old, doffs on top floor spinning room of the above LOC nclc.02318
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Group showing some of the youngest workers taken in the Scotland Neck Cotton Mill at starting time. Tiniest girl, one apparently 8 or 9, investigator saw at work at her knitting machine LOC nclc.02962
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Isaac Boyett, 'I'm de whole show.' The twelve year old proprietor, manager and messenger of the Club Messenger Service, 402 Austin Street, Waco. The photo shows him in the heart of the Red LOC cph.3a31143
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Isaac Boyett, 'I'm de whole show.' The twelve year old proprietor, manager and messenger of the Club Messenger Service, 402 Austin Street, Waco Tex. The photo shows him in the heart of the LOC nclc.05542
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Isaac Boyett, 'I'm de whole show.' The twelve year old proprietor, manager and messenger of the Club Messenger Service, 402 Austin Street, Waco Tex. The photo shows him in the heart of the LOC nclc.05542
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Gordon Peter, using scoop with metal teeth not covered. Said 10 years old. One of the smallest scoopers that we found. Usually scooping is done by adults. Been picking 3 years. LOC nclc.00120
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Group at Tidewater Knitting Mills, Portsmouth, Va. I went through the mill several times during working hours and saw a number of youngsters surely under fourteen. Some of them, especially LOC nclc.02194
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Group of 'cartoners' in Seacoast Canning Co., Factory -7. Everyone of them works putting cans of sardines into paper cartons. Eleven out of the fourteen were under twelve years. Several from LOC cph.3b33767
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Kibbe's Candy Factory. Joseph Giordano 14 years, Feeding Hills, Mass. Had just received his work certificate and left school. Tended a chocolate machine at $3.50. This was as small a boy as LOC nclc.04603
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Waiting for the 'Forwards' - Jewish paper - at 1 A.M. Group includes boys 10 years old. Taken on steps of 'Forwards' building at 1-15 A.M. just as the papers were being issued. LOC nclc.3c34588
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Young girl carrying bundle of coats home to be finished. New York City. - NARA - 523520
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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 cph.3a38575
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