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Pioneer School -13 (6 miles northwest of Shawnee) opened October 2nd 7 months term. Miss Lela Ginsinger, Principal (been here 2 years). Photo shows only 6 children present and 2 teachers in LOC nclc.00636
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Luft family, farm near Sterling. Mother, 9 yr. old Amelia, and 12 yr. old Mary working while father hauls the beets to factory. 'Amelia she not work all time, she wash dishes and tend baby.' LOC nclc.00355
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Group working in Ludlow Mills. George Barcome, Stoney Hill, Ludlow. (Front row right hand end). Been band boy for three months in -10 mill. Frank Shefjack (next George) see -2665. Eddie LOC nclc.02454
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Group work in the Ayer mill. Many of those working are-Joe Christy, 21 Common Street; Harold Old, 81 Springfield St.; Sam Gangi, 22 Pleasant Valley St.; Wallace Hogan, 12 Bailey St.; LOC cph.3b11028
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Groups of doffers, etc., all working in the Liberty Cotton Mill, Clayton, N.C., taken at 10-00 A.M., October 29th, 1912. I saw a few very young spinners, one apparently ten years old, LOC nclc.02675
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Garment workers. Katrina De Cato, 6 years old, Franco Brezoo, 11 years old, Maria Attreo, 12 years old, Mattie... - NARA - 523285
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Flashlight at 6 P.M. Doffer boys in Strickland Mill, Valdosta, Ga. Boy in middle and one on right hand end been in mill work for 7 yrs. Others from 1 to several years. Smallest boy does not LOC nclc.01629
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Field-workers, Amer. Sumatra Tobacco Co. The Supt. called the boys out to the end of the rows and we found 47 boys from 9 to 15 years old, all working but could not get hold of them all. The LOC nclc.00705
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Group of boys who work at the Brown Shoe Factory. Charlie Hopson, surely under 14, has been working there one year. Harry True, probably under 14, been working there one year. Harold Hopson LOC nclc.04718
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Homer Hunt, 11-year old berry picker. Says he has been out of school half the time for some weeks picking, and has made $10. Gets 10 cents a gallon. They are wild blackberries. The teacher LOC nclc.00470
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Johnnie, a nine-year-old oyster shucker. Man with pipe is a padrone who had brought these people from Baltimore for four years. He said, 'I tell you I have to lie to 'em. Ther're never LOC cph.3c16477
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Johnnie, a nine-year-old oyster shucker. Man with pipe is a padrone who had brought these people from Baltimore for four years. He said, 'I tell you I have to lie to 'em. Ther're never LOC cph.3c16477
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John Dowers, 7 years old, lives at 108 W. Frisco St. Starts out at 5 a.m. some days. Father is blind and sells newspapers. John is a pretty good beggar. Was seen trying to borrow a dollar LOC nclc.04015
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Workers in Miller & Vidor Lumber Co. Dangerous work. Charlie McBride said twelve years old. This twelve year old boy has a steady job. He takes the slabs out of the chute which has a moving LOC nclc.04911
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William Tobias 80 Grattan St., Brooklyn -12 yrs old. Boy was starting for the subway to sell papers on 'trains until 6 A.M. 'Cause termorrer dey haint no school and I kin sleep all day and LOC nclc.03172
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Willie Cherry, a 6 year old helper in Massey Hosiery Mill, Columbus, Ga. She has been going to school and helping her step-brother, Lawrence Webb, regularly after school. Her mother has LOC nclc.02849
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Whitnel Cotton Mfg. Co., Whitnel, N.C. Running at night. Out of 50 employees there, 10 were about 12 years old, and some surely under that. See photos -435 and 436. LOC cph.3b05637
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Whitnel (N.C.) Cotton Mills. Everyone in this family except the mother, works in the mill. Father earns $1.00 a day. Smallest girl, Annie Philips, been there only a few months, earns nearly LOC nclc.01553
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Florence Valentino, 12 yrs. old, and sister Jennie, working on crochet hats in dirty kitchen tenement, 3126 Jerome Ave. (Bronx). They make heavy hats, muffs, scarfs, slippers, etc. Jennie, LOC nclc.04114
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Girls working in Springstein Mills, Chester, S.C. Zetella Gallman (by window) (looked 15 years old). Has worked 2 years. Both girls in middle said they had been in mill 8 years. Witness Sara LOC nclc.01419
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Father loafs while children work. He has no employment (Marion Zerpoli, 145 Hudson St., N.Y.) Mother picks nuts in Habicht, Braun Nut Factory, Hudson and Laight Sts., N.Y. Gets $4.00 a week. LOC nclc.04097
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Family all in mill. Small boy been at it 4 years. Mother said 'she used to make her $1.00 a day spoolin' but she never can now at spinnin'. Some are better at one thing and some at another.' LOC nclc.01371
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Fank Denato, 6 years old; Tom Denato, 4 years old; Domino Denato, 12 years old. 902 Montrose St., Philadelphia, and Padrone. White's Bog, Browns Mills, N.J. This is the fourth week of school LOC nclc.00051
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Dependent (able-bodied) Parents. Fries, Va. Family of Albert Senter. He said, 'I don't work steady. Have a garden here.' Eleven year old Mandy has learned to 'spin' by 'helping.' She said, LOC nclc.02140
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Charlie Foster has a steady job in the Merrimack Mills. School Record says he is now ten years old. His father told me that he could not read, and still he is putting him into the mill. See LOC nclc.02901
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Donald Mallick, ('Happy'), 203 King Street. 9 years of age, selling newspapers 5 years. Average earnings 35 cents a week. Sells from choice. Father, rivet driver, $20 weekly. 'Happy' is well LOC nclc.03579
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Olga Schubert, 855 Gruenwald St. The little 5 yr. old after a day's work that began about 5-00 A.M. helping her mother in the Biloxi Canning Factory, begun at an early hour, was tired out LOC cph.3a01114
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Ollie Johnson. Bible records shows her 10 years old. She goes into the Anniston Mfg. Co. regularly to help her sister Annie spin. Her mother admits it also. Says all the children learn to LOC nclc.02940
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Mildred Kron, three years old, and Gertrude Kron, five years old. Help shuck oysters every day in the Barataria Canning Co. Live in New Orleans, (See also photos 1973, 1976, 1977, 1997, LOC cph.3a01061
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Mule room - Group of back boys 14 -16 years old. Overseer kept two boys out of picture because below par physically. Two boys on right had adenoids so that they had great difficulty in LOC cph.3b15894
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Lillian Nettles, an eleven year old spinner in Magnolia Cotton Mills, Magnolia, Miss. Her sister said, ' She ain't old 'nuff to draw pay,' but she helps regularly, and says she can run two LOC nclc.02083
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Phelps School -56; Miss Gray, Teacher. Miss Gray has been there just this year. School opened September 4th-7 months term. 16 present; 22 out on account of cotton. Entrollment 28, average LOC nclc.00613
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Nannie Coleson, looper who said she was 11 years old, and has been working in the Crescent Hosiery Mill for some months. Makes about $3 a week. Has been through the 5th grade in school. She LOC cph.3b19288
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Nearly Sold Out! 'Basket ! Five Cents Each!' Antoinette Siminger, 12 years old, 4219 Glenway Ave., Price Hill, Sixth St., Market, Cincinnati. 10 P.M. Had been selling since morning. LOC nclc.03198
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Mrs. Raphael Marengin, (...) St., first floor rear. Pepine, 10 yrs. old, cracking nuts with her teeth. The mother had just been doing the same. Carmine, 8 years old, has cross eyes, and with LOC cph.3a39222
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Mother and three children - Roderez family, E. Falmouth, Mass. James - 8 years; Manuel 5; Marion, the baby, 4. They pick 28 measures a day. Mother sayd, 'We can't pick fast cause the baby is LOC nclc.00183
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Ten-year old Sephie, a young oyster shucker, says she does six pots of oysters a day. Her mother works also. 'She don't go to school. Works all the time.' Maggioni Canning Co. LOC nclc.00987
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Jewel and Harold Walker, 6 and 5 years old, pick 20 to 25 pounds of cotton a day. Father said- 'I promised em a little wagon if they'd pick steady, and now they have half a bagful in just a LOC cph.3a32050
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Stephen Warren, 284 Main St., Indian Orchard. Has doffed all summer in Indian Orchard Mfg. Co. Quit a few days ago but expects to get another job soon. Says he will not go to school. LOC nclc.02277
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Slebzak family (Polish) working on Bot(t)omley farm, near Baltimore, Md. They have worked here 3 years and one winter at Avery Island, Louisiana. All work except the very smallest. She hangs LOC nclc.00011
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Six-year old Tildy helps a little in the beet work, on a Colorado farm near Rocky Ford. Her father is German. He said- 'I don't work my children until they are older.' Another German farmer LOC nclc.00257
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These boys work in Amoskeag Mills, Manchester, N.H. Emil Brassaid, 364 Collegiate St. Adolph Belodern, 441 Vernon St. Oscar Pronla, 174 Cartier St. E. W. Lord, witness. He counted 30 LOC nclc.01804
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Sugar beet workers, Sugar City, Colorado. Mary, six years, Lucy, eight, Ethel, ten. Family has been here ten years. Children go to school in the winter. See Hine Report, Colorado Beet LOC nclc.00267
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Eight year old Syrian girl, Pheobe (i.e. Phoebe) Thomas, going to work at 6 a.m., August 14, with great butcher knife, to cut sardines in Seacoast Canning Co. Factory -4, Eastport Me. Said LOC nclc.00965
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9-00 P.M. Bridgeport, Conn. These boys 8 and 10 years old, had been pitching pennies all evening. After 9 P.M. I saw the little one going into saloons with a big bunch of papers and a LOC nclc.05411
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Lawrence McCarthy, 75 Hafford St. Henry Doyal (smaller boy), 721 Bay St. Matthias Rindan, 823 Grinnell St. Edward Myles, (smallest), 198 Tecumseh St., Fall River, August 26, 1911. LOC nclc.03746
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Sarah Crutcher, 12-year-old girl herding cattle. Route 4, c-o S.O. Crutcher. She was out of school (-49 Comanche County) only 2 weeks this year and that was to herd 100 head of cattle for LOC nclc.00684
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Sarah Crutcher, 12-year-old girl herding cattle. Route 4, c-o S.O. Crutcher. She was out of school (-49 Comanche County) only 2 weeks this year and that was to herd 100 head of cattle for LOC nclc.00683
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5 pupils present at School -6, Dist 3, Ft. Morgan, out of 35 expected as soon as beet work is done. School opened Sept. 20, over 5 weeks ago, and the attendance went up to 17 and then LOC nclc.00381
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6-30 A.M. May 19, 1909. One of the small boys going into Mill No. 1, Great Falls Mfg. Co., Somersworth, N.H. Saw 6 going into this mill under 14; some looked to be about 11. There are LOC nclc.01805
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8-30 A.M., Nov. 12, 1912. Two young girls, Murry and Westover, carrying home sacks full of hose-supporters for home work, from American Narrow Fabric Co., Worcester, Mass. Loads are heavy LOC nclc.04288
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Antonio Martina, 53 Carolina Street, Buffalo, N.Y. 11 years old last summer. Attends School -1. He, and a 13-year-old sister worked in sheds of Ellis-Canning Factory, Brant, N.Y., snipping LOC nclc.00767
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Addie Card, 12 years. Spinner in North Pormal (i.e., Pownal) Cotton Mill. Vt. Girls in mill say she is ten years. She admitted to me she was twelve; that she started during school vacation LOC cph.3a20286
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A typical group of Postal Messengers in Norfolk, Va. Smallest on left end, Wilmore Johnson, been there one year. Works days only. The Postal boys are not nearly so young, in Norfolk and also LOC nclc.03730
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A typical San Antonio newsboy. Nine years old. Youngsters like this abound, here and in many other Texas cities. Some sell early in morning and late at night. LOC nclc.03872
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Acme School -24 (4 miles northwest of Shawnee)- Miss Lois Millard, Principal. (P.O. Dale, Okla., Route 1). 26 present, 40 expected after all families return from southern part of the state LOC nclc.00624
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10 yr. old girl tending stand at 4th and Garden Streets. On right is entrance to bar room of saloon. Stand is owned by Mr. Rakoff, whose daughters, 11 yrs. and 13 yrs. old take turns tending LOC nclc.03826
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1 A.M. near the World Building, ready to start out. Two of the sleepers (See No. 21(A)) Larger boy Abraham Jachnes, 13 years old. Newsboys Lodging House, 14 Chambers St. Has not been home LOC nclc.03175
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Alexander Ferrier, 6 Hampton St., (on left hand). Has been band boy in -8 mill for two years. He said that a short time ago an unprotected gear on his machine caught his sleeve and tore it LOC nclc.02442
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Cutting tobacco on farm of A.G.W. Gish, Route 3, Henderson. Boys 10, 13 and 15 years will all go to Niagara School, Div. 4, Henderson Co., when it opens next week. New building. The 2 LOC nclc.00521
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Boys working in Scotland Mill, Laurinburg, N.C. Smallest boy-Junior Bounds-Beginning. Next, Rollin Hudson - 3 years in mill. Next, Lloyd Willoughby - 3 years in mill. Next, Preston Torrent - LOC nclc.01509
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Branch of St. Louis firm.) Peter's Shoe Co. Boy on left end is Harry Chrystal, (Add. Box -9, De Soto) an inveterate smoker. He is a 'brusher,' gets $3 a week; has worked one summer; is on LOC nclc.04686
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Drie mannen in een afgraving Steenoven te Kuilenburg, RP-P-1884-A-8229, Gerardus Emaus de Micault, 1860
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Callie Campbell, 11 years old, picks 75 to 125 pounds of cotton a day, and totes 50 pounds of it when sack gets full. 'No, I don't like it very much.' See 4590. Lewis W. Hine. See W.H. Swift LOC nclc.00628
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6 yr. old Earle Holt (or Hope), 712 H St., S.W., Washington, D.C., sells papers for a neighbor boy. When I met him, within an hour he had forgotten that I had photographed him, but he didn't LOC cph.3c11184
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6 P.M. April 23, 1909. Sweepers, etc., in Hill and Bates Mills. Lewiston, Me. Boy next to right hand end is Jo. Been in Hill Mill 2 years (see photo 709). Only one or two could speak LOC cph.3c27563
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6 year old Leslie Cooper. Sells with 10 year old brother Eric. Found 7 A.M. Sunday. Started 5 P.M. Works all day. 6 A.M. week days. Doesn't go to school. Works the begging dodge. LOC nclc.03861
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Arnao family, 831 Catherine St., Rear - 2. Whole family works. Jo. Is 3 years old, Boy is 6 years old, Girl is 9 years old. We found this family, children and all working on Hichens farm, LOC nclc.05301
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5 pupils present out of 100 expected to be here when beet work is over. 53 attended before the work opened up. School began Sept. 6, over 7 weeks ago. Runs for 9 mos. It is a beautiful LOC nclc.00368
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8,9 and 10 years old starting out at 6 A.M. Sunday. (Caption -602- '6-00 A.M. Sunday, March 7, 1909. Boys starting out with Sunday papers. Some were only 8 and 9 years old. Many more LOC nclc.03302
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A reflection on the parent. Reflection in looking glass shows the father who has been picking nuts but refused to... - NARA - 523493
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Donimeco Cipella works in he card room of the Natick Mills, Natick, R. I. Has been there 2 years. 'Once dey made me stop and said I should go to school but I'm workin' again.' Does he look LOC cph.3b46696
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B.F. Howell, Route 4, Bowling Green, Ky. and part of his family stripping tobacco. The 8 and 10-year old boys in photo 'tie up waste'; his 12-year old boy and 14-year old girl (not in photo LOC nclc.00651
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4 P.M. John Sachatello, a barber with a steady job helping family make flowers, 302 Mott St. Making 'bluettes' at $2.00 a gross. Makes $12.00 to $13.00 a week when all work. Mary 5 yrs. old. LOC nclc.04101
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4-00 P.M. Mrs. Frances Rosep, 309 E. 110th St., New York., ground floor; and three children who work on willow plumes. Tony is 7 years old, Annie, 10. They are learning. Ruby, 12 years old, LOC nclc.04107
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Theodore Librizzi, 8 yrs. old. Dewey Librizzi, 10 yrs. old. Solomon Milkman, 15 yrs. old. Solomon has been selling 4 yrs. His father is dead. Asked how he liked the trade - 'It keeps me in LOC nclc.03837
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General Utility boy in Miller & Vidor Saw-mill. 14 years old (he said). Part of the time he throws slabs into the chute that has chain carrying them to the mill. I saw him helping a man LOC nclc.04909
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Sunday, 7 yr. old news-boy, without a badge, who tried to 'short-change' me when he sold me a paper. 'He can rustle de poipers' another boy said. William Parralla, 313 Second St., S.W., LOC nclc.03779
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Sunday. 7 yr. old news-boy, without a badge, who tried to 'short-change' me when he sold me a paper. 'He can rustle de poipers'another boy said. William Parralla, 313 Second St., S.W.,. LOC cph.3b38483
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Sweepers & mule-room boys in Royal Mill, River Point, R.I. Boy left hand end, Manuel Mites has been in mill 2 years. Clinton Silvey and Louis Perry (centre boys) have been in mill one year LOC nclc.01682
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Small shack on Forsythe's Bog, occupied by De Marco family, 10 in the family living in this one room. Room is 10 ft. x 11 ft. x 5 1-2 ft. high and gable attic above. Wooden toilets near at LOC nclc.05310
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Small shack on Forsythe's Bog, occupied by De Marco family, 10 in the family living in this one room. Room is 10 ft. x 11 ft. x 5 1-2 ft. high and gable attic above. Wooden toilets near at LOC nclc.05310
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Jo Veal, 219 Park Street, Lindale, Ga. Family Record shows him born August 20, 1901, and he went to work (4 mos. ago) just over 11 years. His wages are not necessary. Father and three boys LOC cph.3b32761
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The Davison Family, 1312 Tampa Street. William, 14 years. Been selling for 9 years. George, 12 years. Peter, 7 years. All start this morning at 4 A.M. (Sunday). Up to 9-30 Peter had sold 3 LOC nclc.03859
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Eureka Cotton Mills. John Madison, 11 years old; 53 inches high. Beginning to sweep. Floyd Root, 10 years old. 50 inches high . Helps cousin spin every day after school. Witness S.R. Hine. LOC nclc.01459
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Family of C.J. Walker, Route 2, Box 78, Geronimo, Oklahoma. 6-year old Jewel and 5-year old Harold picks 20 to 25 pounds of cotton a day. Father said- 'I promised em a little wagon if they'd LOC nclc.00599
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Family of W.T. Frakes, Route 5, Lawton, Okla. Mother said 6-year old Warren picked 41 pounds of cotton yesterday 'An I don't make him pick; he picked last year.' Had about 20 pounds in his LOC nclc.00609
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Family of J. M. Payne, Route 1, Lawton, Okla. Mrs. Payne and four children picking cotton. Mart, 5 years, picks from 10 to 20 pounds a day (average) Harley, 7 years, picks 40 pounds a day LOC nclc.00595
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On streets near Daniel Mill. Lincolnton, N.C. Right hand boy-Dan Biggerstaff. 10 years old. Has worked 3 years. Goes to school now (he says). Left hand, John Erwin. Said 11 years old. Has LOC nclc.01384
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Only 5 pupils present out of about 40 expected when beet work is over. School -1, Dist. 3, Ft. Morgan, Colo. Oct. 26-15, over five weeks after school opened. The poor attendance in all these LOC nclc.00380
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Pearl said she was 10 years old and helps her mother in the weave room of the Pickett Cotton Mill, High Point, N.C. She said her brother 8 years old helps too. LOC nclc.02694
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Pearl said she was 10 years old and helps her mother in the weave room of the Pickett Cotton Mill, High Point, N.C. She said her brother 8 years old helps too. LOC cph.3a21310
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Resting with the load at the head of the slope. Shaft -6 Pennsylvania Coal Co., Small boy is Jo Puma, a Nipper, 163 Pine Street. Jo's mother showed me the passport which shows Jo to be 14 LOC cph.3a24709
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Sam Pine, 8-year-old truant newsboy, who lives at 717 W. California St. Said- 'I was late getting up and don't want to get the rubber tube fo(r) being tardy so I staid away to-day.' LOC nclc.04024
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Group of field-workers at Hunttings' Tobacco Farm. One of 9 years, two of 11 yrs., 8 of 12 yrs., 5 of 13 yrs., 3 of 14 yrs., 1 of 15. Four of 11 and 12 had gone home and were not counted. LOC nclc.00709
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Group of newsies selling on Capitol steps, April 11, 1912. Tony Passaro, (8 yrs. old). Dan Mercurio, (9 yrs. old). Joseph Tucci (10 years old). Peter Peper (10 yrs. old). John Carlino (11 LOC nclc.05493
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Interior of workshop of Sanitary Ice Cream Cone Co. See 4830. Boys packing cones are John Myers, 14 years old and a boy 12 years old who is working steady now. Boss said- 'He said he wasn't LOC nclc.05241
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Harry McShane - 134 B'way (I,e, Broadway) -Cin. O. - 16 yrs. of age on June 29, 1908. Had his left arm pulled off near shoulder, and right leg broken through kneecap, by being caught on belt LOC cph.3c19630
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Harry McShane - 134 B'way (I,e, Broadway) -Cin. O. - 16 yrs. of age on June 29, 1908. Had his left arm pulled off near shoulder, and right leg broken through kneecap, by being caught on belt LOC cph.3c19630
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Hartford, Conn. 6 A.M. Sunday. See photo and label 602 (Caption -602- '6-00 A.M. Sunday, March 7, 1909. Boys starting out with Sunday papers. Some were only 8 and 9 years old. Many more LOC nclc.03301
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