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John Huggins. Said he is fourteen years old and has been doffing for eight months in the Guadalupe Valley Cotton Mills. Violation of law. Gets a dollar a day now. Before he came here, he LOC nclc.03885
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Making dresses for Campbell Kid Dolls in a dirty tenement room, 59 Thompson St., N.Y. 4th floor front. Romana family. The older boy, about 12 years old, operates the machine when the mother LOC nclc.05492
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Mrs. Mary Rena, 46 Laight St., 3d floor front, picking nuts with dirty baby in lap. Two neighbors helping. Girl is cracking nuts with her teeth, not an uncommon sight. Mr. Rena works on LOC cph.3b01098
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Mrs. Finkelstein, 127 Monroe St. Bessie (age 13), Sophie (age 7). Girls attend school. Making garters for Liberty Garter works, 413 Broadway. Mother , a widow, earns 75 cents a day by LOC nclc.05348
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Mrs. Gay, 33 James Street, Attleboro, Mass., and children - 5, 7, 12, and 13 years old, setting stones in cheap jewelry. There were 244 stones in this lot. She said they earned about $5 a LOC nclc.05579
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Alber Therien at right end of picture, 30 Salem Street, appears 13 years old, has been 4 weeks in spinning room No. 9, on the fourth floor of the Lawrence mills. Joseph Guerard, left hand LOC cph.3b25351
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Antoinette Pothier, been doffing six months at Ayer mill. Has a walk of nearly 30 minutes each way to work morning and night. Leaves home at 6 A.M. and gets back 6-30 P.M. LOC cph.3b21263
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Applying for certificate - Menuel Cabral - Portuguese. 15 years old Oct. 9, 67 Aetna St. Been spinning 1 month Laurel Lake and sweeper 1 month American Linen. Now to be a braider at Estes LOC nclc.05066
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Angelo Ross, 142 Panama Street, Hughestown Borough, a youngster who has been working in Breaker -9 Pennsylvania Co. for four months, said he was 13 years old, but very doubtful. He has a LOC nclc.01142
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Children in Grade 4, School -2, Buffalo, N.Y. All of them worked in Cannery Sheds at Albion, Wilson, Hamburg, etc., last summer. Ages run from 10 to 13 years. Entered school late. LOC nclc.00779
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Children of Mrs. Lawrence, a renter near Tinney, Okla. They go to Prairie Lee School. Beula is 13 years old and picks about 200 pounds a day when cotton is good. She drags and carries a bag LOC nclc.00605
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Dangerous work. Charlie McBride. Said twelve years old. This twelve year old boy has a steady job with the Miller & Vidor Lumber Company. He takes slabs out of a chute which has a moving LOC cph.3a20816
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Rural Accident. Four weeks after the accident Clinton was using his remaining hand to help in the farm work as best he could. His mother said- 'Now we will have to educate him.' See Hine LOC nclc.00307
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King Philip Mill. Drawer-in - Young learner - 14 years old, Yvette Frappier, and teacher who has been a drawer-in 9 years. Only girl in department has been learning a few weeks. Drawing LOC cph.3b33427
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Group of men and girls working in the Aragon Mill. Rock Hill, S.C. - NARA - 523538
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Group of workers in Dwight Mfg. Co. Stanley Twarog (one of the smallest boys), 81 Park St. Works in spinning room. Tony Sccha (i.e., Soccha), (Shortest boy in front, overalls. Very young. 65 LOC nclc.02413
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Group. Smallest boy is Stanislaus Beauvais, 25 Pingree St., works on -2 Spinning Room, has been there two years. Next smallest boy is Percy Dupell (back of Stanislaus), 15 Perkins St., has LOC nclc.02399
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Groups of girls workers at the gate of the American Tobacco Co., Wilmington, Delaware, noon period, May 24, 1910. Young girls obviously under 14 years of age, who work about 10 hours a day LOC nclc.04674
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Groups of girls workers at the gate of the American Tobacco Co., Wilmington, Delaware, noon period, May 24, 1910. Young girls obviously under 14 years of age, who work about 10 hours a day LOC nclc.04671
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French - Albertine Angelhart, 35 Gangion St. - 14 years old January 2nd - left in 4th grade. Weaver in Flint Mill. Apply for certificate. Had been a weaver one months in one mill and two LOC nclc.05068
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Family of J. J. Moore. All but mother and two smallest children on steps work in Washington Cotton Mills, Fries Va. Smallest spinner (right hand end of front row) said she was 14, but she LOC nclc.02127
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Four-year-old Mary, who shucks two pots of oysters a day at Dunbar. Tends the baby when not working. (See photo 2062). The boss said that next year Mary will work steady as the rest of them. LOC cph.3a01116
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Gracie Clark, 268 A Street (with a white dress) has been a spinner in the filling room of Merrimack Mill for three years. Her Life Insurance Policy gives her age thirteen years now, so she LOC nclc.02891
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Gracie Clark, 269 A Street (with white dress) has been a spinner in the filling room of Merrimack Mill for three years. Her Life Insurance Policy gives her age thirteen years now, so she LOC nclc.02898
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Frances Frigineto, 3 years old. Marie Frigineto, 5 years old, latter been picking two years. 711 Patchionk Ave., Philadelphia. Whites Bog, Brown Mills, N.J. This is the fourth week of school LOC nclc.05293
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Hartford newsboys and girls. Girl in middle, Nellis, is 9 years old. See label on photo 640. (Caption -640- A 9 year old newsgirl in Hartford, Conn. She sold later than this sometimes. Been LOC nclc.03300
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Durward Nickerson, Western Union messenger -55. One of the by-products of messenger work. Lives in Bessemer, R.F.D. -1. Saturday night, September 26, 1914, he took investigator through the old Red Light on Ave. LOC nclc.03932
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Donato Dandrea, 231 W. Genesee St. Said he was 14 years old, but if so is undersized. Does not go to school. Sells all day and in the evening, on cars, at corner on Main St., (See Nos. 1215, LOC nclc.03399
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Scott School -41; Miss Smith, Teacher. Opened September 4th-8 months term. 19 present to-day-should be 60. 20 are enrolled and 16 was the average attendance last month. Teacher expects 60 LOC nclc.00619
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Spinning room Overseer and his flock. He said, 'Every one of 'em works or helps.' I saw them all working in the morning and when the whistle blew at noon they all went in to work. See photos LOC nclc.02087
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Spiking tobacco on Lowe farm. Roland 13 and Bush 14 years old will go to Pretty Run School in a week or two, when tobacco is all in. It is a school day and school began 2 months ago. Boys LOC nclc.00531
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Some of the Young Boys Working in the Robert Johnson Rand Shoe Factory, Washington, Mo. (Branch of St. Louis firm making Star shoes). On left end is Henry Detmer, who said he has been LOC nclc.04692
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Small boy works as helper - backroping in Great Falls Mfg. Co., Somersworth, N.H. Charles Chasse, 201 Main Street. When I inquired about him in the home, his mother very reluctantly admitted LOC nclc.01759
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Some of the girls from the Chace Cotton Mill, Burlington, Vt. Girl on left hand end is Cora Collette. Girl in middle is Anna Grenier. Been in mill 2 years. 6 P.M. May 5, 1909. LOC nclc.01713
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The 8 and 10 yr. old children here are working beets on a farm near Sterling, Colo, from 5-00 A.M. to 7-00 P.M. on rush days. Father said, 'We have to get done.' LOC nclc.00343
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Beet workers, ten years, twelve years, fourteen years and eighteen years, hoeing for father, Jacob Dill, in Sugar City, Colorado. They moved here ten years ago from Southern Russia, work all LOC nclc.00265
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Carrie, a seven year old oyster shucker at Pass Packing Co., going home at 5-00 P.M. after a day beginning at 4-00 A.M., and spent shucking oysters and tending the baby. A common practice LOC nclc.00873
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Bob Cook. Works in the Beaumont Mills, Spartenberg (sic), S.C. The youngest boy on the right hand end is Bob Cook works in spinning room -2. Said he had been working about a year. Began at LOC nclc.02592
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5-year old Jack and 13-year old Bitsey are regular workers on their father's farm. Worming and suckering now. Bitsey goes to Wallonia School in Div. 1, Trigg Co. 'He worms and he suckers. LOC nclc.00565
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A 12 year old girl who has been working in Weave room of Condolidated (i.e., Consolidated) Duck Mills, La Grange, Ga., for one year, and helping to support a father who works when sober. LOC nclc.02809
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A few of the hands on the night shift in Highland Park Mill No. 3, Charlotte, N.C. 10-30 P.M. January 7-09. 100 hands in all. Ten children as small as smallest in photo to some smaller. One LOC nclc.01577
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A few of the pin boys in Donahue's Bowling Alley. James Syeros, (in middle), 25 Femirck St. George Spanos, (left end), said 12 years old, lives at 1 Merrimac St. Louis Papas, (next to the LOC cph.3b37910
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A few of the young workers in Hughes Brothers Candy Factory, S. Ervay St., I counted five going and coming at night and at noon, that appeared to be from 12 to 15 years old. One girl told me LOC nclc.04903
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5-year old Jack and 13-year old Bitsey are regular workers on their father's farm. Worming and suckering now. Bitsey goes to Wallonia School in Div. 1, Trigg Co. 'He worms and he suckers. LOC nclc.00566
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5-year old Jack and 13-year old Bitsey are regular workers on their father's farm. Worming and suckering now. Bitsey goes to Wallonia School in Div. 1, Trigg Co. 'He worms and he suckers. LOC nclc.00568
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A young chauffeur. See Hine report re- 15-year-old chauffeur in Oklahoma City who killed a man by careless driving. His case was dismissed because he was 'too young to prosecute.' Yet he was LOC nclc.04036
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All these boys are cutters in the Seacoast Canning Co., Factory -7. Ages range from 7 to 12. They live near the factory. Seven year old boy in front, Byron Hamilton, has a badly cut finger, LOC cph.3a38912
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All these boys are cutters in the Seacoast Canning Co., Factory -7. Ages range from 7 to 12. They live near the factory. Seven year old boy in front, Byron Hamilton, has a badly cut finger, LOC nclc.00941
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All these children five years, six years, seven years, nine years and two a little older, were picking cotton on H.M. Lane's farm Bells, Tex. Only one adult, an aunt was picking. Father was LOC cph.3b11413
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All these children five years, six years, seven years, nine years and two a little older, were picking cotton on H.M. Lane's farm Bells, Tex. Only one adult, an aunt was picking. Father was LOC nclc.00203
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Aldea Balanger - French - Weaver. Cornell Mills - 14 years old July 12, 1915, getting her certificate for her 5th position. Face broken out as most of weavers have from the machine oil, LOC nclc.03068
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Western Union Messengers on night duty, 10-30 P.M. Left to right, Joseph Strassburg (had just gotten off), Leo... - NARA - 523279
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Whistle blows noon Opelika Cotton Mill. Smallest girl in photograph is Velma Smith a tiny little spinner with a steady job all day. I found her at home crying bitterly because her father LOC cph.3b24296
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Wilson Dry Goods Company, large department store. Employs large number of youngsters as cash-boys and wrappers. Counted seven apparently 9 to 12 years old, one 9 and other 10. Week's work LOC nclc.03856
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Three youngsters in Avondale Mills. Boy in middle, John Douglas said, 'I've been to school my eight weeks. Work now. Been workin' a year.' (None of them, even the tiniest, would admit being LOC nclc.01939
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This little six-year helper in Rock Creek berry field, near Baltimore, Md., was working hard. They begin about 4-30 A.M. and sometimes work until sunset. Her family (Scholtz) has been LOC nclc.00020
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Tolar, Hart and Holt Mills. All the children went in when the whistle blew, and I saw most of them at work the next day when I went through the spinning room at 10 A.M. Some of them are LOC nclc.02955
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Tolar, Hart and Holt Mills. All the children went in when the whistle blew, and I saw most of them at work the next day when I went through the spinning room at 10 A.M. Some of them are LOC nclc.02970
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Twelve year old messenger -7. Edison Green. Works on day shift now. 'I got acquainted with the Red Light people over in Oklahoma City where I was messenger for three years, but I carry LOC nclc.03889
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Trenton Mill, Gastonia, N.C. Smallest boy, Tom Jenkins. Said 13 years old. Been in mill 3 years. Brother Walter Jenkins. Said 15 years old. Been in mill four years. LOC nclc.01405
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Two mill boys (small boys between the men) Jo Viera, Antone Mello. Loafing around the beach near the mill Sunday P.M. with some school boys. Compare the ages of the school boys (12 and 13 LOC nclc.02480
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Young girls working in American Woolen Mills, Winooski, Vt. Most are illiterate. Work slack, force small. 27 children apparently under 15 years were counted at one gate. (See also N.C.L.C. LOC nclc.01851
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5-year old Jack and 13-year old Bitsey are regular workers on their father's farm. Worming and suckering now. Bitsey goes to Wallonia School in Div. 1, Trigg Co. 'He worms and he suckers. LOC nclc.00567
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6-00 P.M. Flashlight photo of part of force going home. Sibley Mfg. Co. Augusta, Ga. Some of the smallest boys said been in mill from one to several yrs. Jan. 15, 1909. LOC nclc.01644
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5-30 A.M. Emma and her brother starting out to sell and peddle before school. They sell after school and on Saturday and Sunday also. Albert is 10 years old and been at it 1 year. Emma is 11 LOC nclc.03229
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A few of the young boys working in the Cigarette Factory, Danville (Va.) Branch of the American Tobacco Co. Photo taken at 6-30 A. M., June 6, 1911 and they all went in to work. Said they LOC nclc.04737
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Beet workers, ten years, twelve years, fourteen years and eighteen years, hoeing for father, Jacob Dill, in Sugar City, Colorado. They moved here ten years ago from Southern Russia, work all LOC nclc.00264
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A 12 year old girl who has been working in Weave room of Conslidated (i.e., Consolidated) Duck Mills, La Grange, Ga., for one year and helping to support a father who works when sober. LOC nclc.02810
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Dennis Cavanaugh, 24 Bassett St., works in spinning room No. 6. Door boy is Alexander Stankiewicz, 3 Fayette Street, Millens' yard. Works in lower spinning room No. 2. Been there 1 1-2 LOC cph.3b43670
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Dependent (able-bodied) Parents. Smith Family, West Point, Miss. Three girls (in front) work in the mill. This boy and others work up town. Came from an Alabama farm six months ago. Smallest LOC nclc.02126
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Donald Mallick, (-1513.) And Myrtle Mallick. Myrtle is 8 years. Selling papers 1 years, average earnings 35 cents per day. Sells from choice. Begs pennies and works 'last paper' scheme. LOC nclc.03616
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Alberta McNadd on Chester Truitt's farm at Cannon, Del. Alberta is 5 years of age and has been picking berries since she was 3. Her mother volunteered the information that she picks steadily LOC nclc.05328
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A group of girl workers at Greenabaum's Cannery, Seaford, Del. The girls in the front row are 'cappers' and 'layers.' They range from 6 years of age up. Working from 10 to 12 hours per day. LOC nclc.00800
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A mother hulling berries while she nurses her infant. Her other children sit beside her, also at work. Little Mabel... - NARA - 523319
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Antoinette Pothier, been doffing six months at Ayer mill. Has a walk of nearly 30 minutes each way to work morning and night. Leaves home at 6 A.M. and gets back 6-30 P.M. LOC nclc.02343
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Curtin Hines. Western Union messenger -36. Fourteen years old. Goes to school. Works from four to eight P.M. Been with W(estern) U(nion) for six months, one month delivering for a drug LOC nclc.05528
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Dangerous work. Charlie McBride (said twelve years old). This twelve year old boy has a steady job with the Miller & Vidor Lumber Company. He takes slabs out of the chute which has a moving LOC nclc.04910
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3 P.M. Some of the boys at a busy trolley junction. 3 brothers, Salvatore, 9 yrs. (in front), Joseph, 11 yrs. (cripple), Lewis, 13 yrs. (between these 2). 'We would be murdered if we shop LOC cph.3b39340
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Hillside School -58; Miss Blanche Calyer, Teacher. Opened September 11th-8 months term. Enrollment 20, Average attendance 18 (last year- enrollment 43, average attendance 36). 15 others are LOC nclc.00603
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This is the total attendance (2 pupils) at Sanders School, -30, near Sterling, Logan Co., Colo., October 25, 1915, seven weeks after school opened. The total enrol(l)ment will reach 15 or 17 LOC nclc.00365
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These garters are made for Berger, 92 Spring St. 9-00 P.M., Feb. 27-12. Making garters (armlets). A Jewish family and neighbors working until late at night. This happens several nights in the week when there is LOC nclc.04202
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These subjects went to work at 6-45 A.M. and many of them came out at 6 P.M. for they 'work' in this mill. New Bedford, Mass. August 24, 1911. 6-30 A.M. Richard K. Conant, Witness,) LOC nclc.02243
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These subjects went to work at 6-45 A.M. and many of them came out at 6 P.M. for they 'work' in this mill. New Bedford, Mass. August 24, 1911. 6-30 A.M. Richard K. Conant, Witness) LOC nclc.02240
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Thirteen year old boy. Exposed to all kinds of weather picking out slabs from chute with a heavy moving chain that carries up the wood. He gets $5.00 a week. Miller - Link Lumber Co. LOC cph.3b15896
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This little six-year helper in Rock Creek berry field, near Baltimore, Md., was working hard. They begin about 4-30 A.M. and sometimes work until sunset. Her family (Scholtz) has been LOC nclc.00021
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The very smallest boy is Henry Fournier, 261 Jefferson Ave., Castle Hill, has worked 2 months in -2 Spinning Room. The next in size is Adelard Gagnon, 32 Perkins St., works in Spinning Room. LOC nclc.02402
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Sunday morning by the river. All of these boys work in Washington Cotton Mills, Fries, Va. Smallest boy doffs. Asked him his age, and he said, after hesitation, 'I don't know.' One of his LOC nclc.02144
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Jo Bradford, 405 Park Street, Lindale, Ga. Worked in Massachusetts Mills when 10 years old. Insurance record shows him 11 now. Works in the weave shop. No need, apparently, as father and 5 LOC nclc.02799
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Jo. Lehman, a 7 year old newsboy. 824 Third Ave., N.Y. City. He was selling in this Saloon. I asked him about the badge he was wearing. 'Oh! Dat's me bruder's,' he said. LOC nclc.03684
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Trenton Mill, Gastonia, N.C. Smallest boy,-Tom Jenkins. Said 13 years old. Been in mill 3 years. Brother Walter Jenkins. Said 15 years old. Been in mill four years. LOC nclc.01404
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Tipple & Elevator into shaft. Leads down to mine 200 ft. below. Gary Mine. Do more work by machinery than any mine in the state, yet have boys to trap and drive. They stay underground over LOC nclc.01047
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Teixiera family, 50 Lombardt St., New Bedford. Mary J., 11 years; Manuel 10 years. Mother and these two children pick 40 measures a day at 7 cents a measure. See scoops and pail in LOC cph.3a20807
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The 8 and 10 yr. old children here are working beets on a farm near Sterling, Colo, from 5-00 A.M. to 7-00 P.M. on rush days. Father said, 'We have to get done.') LOC cph.3a01110
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The Norton boys and father on the way home to dinner. Smallest boy Edgar been sweeping 3 months in Saxon Mill, Spartanberg. Makes about 40 cents a day. His brother makes 60 cents. Father LOC nclc.02563
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Edgar Kitchen 13 yrs. old gets $3.25 a week for working for the Bingham Bros. Dairy. Drives dairy wagon from 7 A.M. to noon. Works on farm in afternoon (10 hours a day) seven days a LOC nclc.00490
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Factory Inspectors Past and Present. From left to right- Miss Madge Nave, Factory Inspector, Louisville, Kentucky. Miss Mary Malone, State Inspector Ten-Hour Law, Delaware. Mrs. Florence LOC nclc.04941
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Girl working in Box Factory. I saw 10 small boys and girls working. Has a bad reputation for employment of... - NARA - 523166
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Pannepinto Family, 116 Georgia St., Buffalo, N.Y. Attend School -1. Jo. was 7 years old last summer. Charley 12 years old last summer. Snipped beans and hulled strawberries in the sheds, LOC nclc.00768
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Richard Pierce, 723 Walnut St. Western Union Telegraph Co. Messenger No. 2. 14 years of age. 9 months in service. Works from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Smokes. Visits houses of prostitution. LOC cph.3b21326
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Sarah Saneri, (on the left end) 11 years old last summer. Worked stringing beans and husking corn in sheds at Albion. Her principal said she has tuberculosis. Lost 11 weeks school time, is a LOC nclc.00780
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