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H.H. Allison and 2 boys 10 and 12 years old gathering rye. Should be in school which opened several days ago. Several girls of school age also out. Owns farm of 112 acres. May go to Shady LOC cph.3a29790
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H.H. Allison and 2 boys 10 and 12 years old gathering rye. Should be in school which opened several days ago. Several girls of school age also out. Owns farm of 112 acres. May go to Shady LOC nclc.00460
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H.H. Allison and 2 boys 10 and 12 years old gathering rye. Should be in school which opened several days ago. Several girls of school age also out. Owns farm of 112 acres. May go to Shady LOC nclc.00459
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Elsie Shaw, a 6 year old cartoner in the summer, Seacoast Canning Co., Factory -2. Her father is boss of cutting room in Factory -1. He asked me to take some photos of her, as he has her do LOC nclc.00931
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Elsie Shaw, a 6 year old cartoner during the summer, Seacoast Canning Co., Factory -2. Her father is boss of cutting room in Factory -1. He asked me to take some photos of her, as he has her LOC cph.3b37900
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Cleo Campbell, 9 years old, picks 75 to 100 pounds of cotton a day. Expects to start school soon. Said- 'I'd ruther go to school and then I wouldn't have ter work.' Father said she and her LOC nclc.00627
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Maple Mill, Dillon S.C. Tebie Calder-Been in mill 1 year-runs 4 sides. Little sister- Tince-Mother said, 'She helps.' Bystander said she works regularly and that plenty of other little ones LOC nclc.01492
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Jim Waldine, 1023 Carpenter St., Philadelphia. 6 years old, been picking cranberries two years. Also Sam Frohue, 9 years old, been picking two years, could not spell his own name. 1106 LOC nclc.05291
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James Boulware, doffer in Manchester Mill, Rock Hill, said 13 years, working off and on 3 years. Charlie Rhoades, 12 years old, one year working, 75 cents a day. Couldn't write his name. LOC nclc.02534
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Human Junk. A product of the mill (See -2963) 'Ben workin fer 10 years. Began when I was six years old for 5 cents a day. Lately I was workin $1.25 a day but got to spittin blood and had to LOC nclc.02548
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Fourteen year old messenger -2 Western Union, Shreveport. Says he goes to the Red Light district all the time. See Hine report on Messengers. LOC nclc.05549
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Leo Franklin, 419 E. 3d St. 12 years of age. Selling papers 2 years. Average earnings 50 cents a day. Selling papers own choice. Earnings not needed at home. Visits saloons. Don't smoke. LOC nclc.03598
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Robert Magee (smallest), 270 Suffolk St., apparently 12 years, been working in Mule Room -1 Merrimac Mill, Lowell, one year. Michael Keefe (next in size) 32 Marion St., been at work in -1 LOC nclc.02393
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Robert Paul, 216 Johnson Street. 10 year old newsy. Found at 11 P.M. with 12 papers near Seminole Hotel. Been at it 4 years. Often sells until midnight. He and brother make about $1.50 a LOC nclc.03852
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Rosina Goyette, Maple St. Apparently 12 but says she is 14; has steady job doffi(ng) and spinning in Spring Village Mill. She said at first she had been working six months, later she changed LOC nclc.02301
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Rosemary Mfg. Co. Uriah and Eva Westbrook. Both violations. Uriah is 12 years old now (Bible record said born May 24, 1903) and he has been working there 2 months. Eva began at 12 years; LOC nclc.02972
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General Utility Boy at Lutcher & Moore Lumber Co. 'I'm fourteen years old; been here one year. Get $1.00 a day.' He runs errands and helps around. I saw him pushing some of these empty cars. LOC nclc.04904
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General Utility Boy at Lutcher & Moore Lumber Co. 'I'm fourteen years old; been here one year. Get $1.00 a day.' He runs errands and helps around. I saw him pushing some of these empty cars. LOC nclc.05544
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General view of part of the force picking tomatoes on farm of W.T. Hill. There were about 25 children-most of them 8 to 15 years old. 'When school opens next month you bet we have to quit LOC nclc.00578
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Erenne La Prise, on left, apparently 13 years old, a doffer at Spring Village Mill, said he had been working a year and a half. Als de Gauthier, apparently under 14 (next Erenne) also a LOC nclc.02305
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Raymond Bykes, Western Union No. 23, Norfolk Va. Said he was fourteen years old. Works until after one A.M. every night. He is precocious and not a little 'tough.' Has been here at this LOC cph.3c30786
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S. Russell, 33 E. 22nd St. Newsboy, 12 years of age. Selling newspapers 2 years. Average earnings 20 cents daily. Selling newspapers own choice. Father earns $18 weekly. Boy deposits LOC cph.3a21176
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Dillon Mills, Dillon, S.C. Lizzie Davis, (smallest). Been in mill 2 years. Next-Nettie Arnet - Been in mill 8 years. Next-Monnie McCraney, been in mill 3 years. Next-Vater Arnet, been in LOC nclc.01490
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488 Macon, Ga. Lewis W. Hine 1-19-1909. Bibb Mill No. 1 Many youngsters here. Some boys were so small they had to climb up on the spinning frame to mend the broken threads and put back the LOC cph.3a01131
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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.00369
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3 Boys going to work at 1 P.M. May 21, 1909. Photo taken in outer hall of spinning room of one of the mills of Amoskeag Mfg. Co., Manchester, N.H., where I found them working. Smallest boy LOC nclc.01783
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6 year old Leslie Cooper. Sells with 10 year old brother Eric. Found 7 A.M. Sunday. Started at 5 P.M. Starts 6 A.M. week days. Doesn't go to school. Works the begging dodge. LOC nclc.03857
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6 yr. old Earle Holt (or Hope) 712 H St., S.W., 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 forget to LOC nclc.03775
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8-00 P.M. January 29, 1912. Cardinale family making silk flowers. Father wears a cast. Does not work. (See report on schedule.) Boy, 11 years old, helps some, even at night. 43 Carmine St., LOC nclc.04138
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2 violations. Simon Birdsong (left hand boy) said- 'I'm about 12.' His mother said- 'He's old enough to work all right,' but the boy admitted that she had to sign up that he was older than LOC nclc.02974
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12 year old Lahnert boy, near Ft. Collins, Colo., topping beets. The father, mother, and two boys (9 and 12 yrs.) expect to make $700 in about 2 months time in the beet work. 'The boys can LOC nclc.00361
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All are workers in the Rome (Ga.) Hosiery Mill. Two working at 11 y(ea)rs old. Some working here only 9 and 10 y(ea)rs old. The youngest got about $3. a week for turning, knitting or LOC nclc.02743
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A modest young French girl of 13 years. Spinner in the Spring Village Mill, runs six sides. Mr. Hine saw her working Sept. 2. Said, 'I'd rather work.' Been working since last February. LOC cph.3a19294
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Children hoeing on farm near Mt. Vernon, Ky. Go to Mt. Vernon Graded School. Mamie, 7 years, Grace, 9 years, Marguerite, 12 years and Everett 14 years. Father, Alfred Bryant, Mt. Vernon P.O. LOC nclc.00474
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143 Hudson St., ground floor. Mrs. Salvia; Joe, 10 years old; Josephine, 14 years old; Camille, 7 years old. Picking nuts in a dirty tenement home. The bag of cracked nuts (on chair) had LOC nclc.05479
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Boys working in Amoskeag Mills, Manchester, N.H. Smallest boy is Napoleon Cammery, 194 Merrimac St. Been in mill 1 year. Next boy is Jerry Moore, 352 Chestnut St. Martin Markey, 33 State St. LOC nclc.01808
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Angelo Rizzo, 5 Trenton Ave., Buffalo, N.Y. Worked 5 months in sheds of Albion Canning. Canning, stringing beans. Was 10 years old last summer. Worked from 7 A.M. until 9 P.M. Returned to LOC nclc.00770
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John Gannon (14 years old) 104 Cherry St. John cannot secure an employment certificate because he lacks weight and cannot pass the physical test; he is also under sized for his age; has LOC nclc.04637
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A typical group of Postal Messengers. Smallest on left end, Wilmore Johnson, been there one year. Works days only.... - NARA - 523438
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Photo at 4 P.M. Witness F. A. Smith. Home of Thomas Murry, 8 1-2 Milton St., rear, top floor, Worcester, Mass. Mother and children, 6 yrs., 8 yrs. two of 12 yrs. old. The 3-year-old helps a LOC nclc.04286
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Nearly all of family works in mill. Father in doorway, Mrs. A.L. Conyers (at end) not in mill. Llewlyn, Bessie... - NARA - 523132
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Italian newsies selling on Main St. at 10 P.M. Left to right- Lawrence Ferrer, 12 years old, 76 Front Ave.; Mathew Chinera, 11 years old, 58 E. Prier St.; Steve Cajuto, 11 years old, 218 7 LOC nclc.03402
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Hodges Gallop, Western Union Messenger No. 16, Norfolk, Va. Lives, 201 Freeman Street. Been working here one month. He, and several other very young boys, work until 10-30 P.M. See also LOC nclc.03727
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Sold out at 8-30 P.M. Left to right- Pasquale Lolara, 13 years, 147 Jay St. Ercola Guallilo, 13 years, 53 1-2 Park Ave. Jerry Paciello, 12 years, 410 Catherine St. Frank Graciana, 13 years, LOC nclc.03435
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Selling on Main Street, 9-30 P.M. Left to right- Joseph Magus, 10 years old, 80 Melody St. Guy Casacali, 12 years old, 31 Maple St. Morris Stein, cripple, 14 years old, 53 Sullivan St. Asked LOC nclc.03420
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4 P.M. Basso family, 2 Carmine St., N.Y. Apt 17. Making roses in dirty, poorly lighted kitchen. They work some at night. Pauline, 6 years old, works after school, Peter, 8 works until 8 LOC cph.3a38583
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8 P.M. Smallest boy, Sammie Kaplen, 8 years old. Next, James Welled, 8 years old, been at it half a year. Next, Ben Kosmitsky, 13 years old, one year at work. Next, Sam Kaplen, 14 years old, LOC nclc.03257
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A family making silk flowers. Father wears a cast. Does not work. Boy, 11 years old, helps some. New York City. - NARA - 523516
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5-15 P.M. Father hanging around the home while family works on feathers. Said, 'I not work. Got some sickness. Dunno what.' Mother; Millie, 16 yrs.; Jimmie, 11 yrs.; Mary, 12; Camilla, 5 all LOC nclc.04105
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William Lynch, 11 years of age, and Cornelius Lynch, 9 years of age, 607 ('606' crossed out) E. 6th Street. Newsboys. William has been selling papers 4 years, average earnings 25 cents per LOC nclc.03581
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Bella Roy, said 11 years old. 'Been comin' here 7 years, been pickin' since I was 5 years old.' Lives 44 Bowler St., Fall River. Sister Jeanette said 6 years old beginning to pick now. Also LOC nclc.00130
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Mart Payne, 5 years old, picks from 10 to 20 pounds a day. Mother said- 'Mart, he haint old nuff to go to school much, but he kin pick his 20 pounds a day. Mostly 10 or 15 pounds.' See 4560. LOC nclc.00597
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George H. Bogart, 720 Pine Street. Market vender, 11 years of age. Tends stand for 1 year. Father owns same, Gets 25 cents per week. Norman Colt, 331 E. 7th St. Market vender, 12 years old, LOC nclc.03568
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Gizzi family, 175 Sullivan St., 3-30 P.M. Make little roses which are easier than violets, but bring only 9 cents gross. Left to right- Leo, 11 years old. Louise 14 years old. Jose 12 years LOC nclc.04081
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Amelia Sousa, 12 years old, picks 22 measures. Balmeda, 4 years old. Children said she doesn't pick, but she was... - NARA - 523482
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Mart Payne, 5 years old, picks from10 to 20 pounds a day. Mother said- 'Mart, he haint old nuff to go to school much, but he kin pick his 20 pounds a day. Mostly 10 or 15 pounds.' See 4560. LOC cph.3a20269
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Millie, 13 years old last summer. Ignatio, 9 years old last summer. Jo, 6 years old last summer. Paresse Family, 4 Fly St., Buffalo, N.Y. All three worked in the Albion Canning Factory in the sheds (Jo, only LOC nclc.00765
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Five cranberry pickers - all cousins. Smallest is Joe Sylva, 618 Water St., New Bedford, said 10 years old. Picks 10 pails a day at 7 cents. Arthur Sylva, said 13 years, picks 30 pails a LOC nclc.00156
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Interior of workshop of Sanitary Ice Cream Cone Co. See 4830. Boys packing cones are John Myers, 14 years old (see 4830) and a boy 12 years old who is working steady now. Boss said- 'He said LOC cph.3b30503
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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 cph.3c30780
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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.05302
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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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Bellenti Family. Crosoria, 10 years, Joe 9, Sam, 7, Tony, 4. Live on Garcia Avenue. All commence selling 6 A.M. and sell until late at night. Two oldest make 50 cents each, and two youngest LOC nclc.03841
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Bellenti Family- Crosoria, 10 years, Joe, 9 Sam, 7, Tony, 4. Live on Garcia Avenue. All commence selling 6 A.M. and sell until late at night. Two eldest make 50 cents each, and two youngest LOC nclc.03849
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John Lewis (boy with hat) 12 years old. 1 year in mill. Weaver-4 looms. 40 cts. to start, 60 cents a day now. Brother and mother in mill. Morris Small (boy with cap) 'Reckon I been in mill 2 LOC nclc.01424
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Yetta Leider, making hair-goods for Mowshowitz (of 178 E. 2nd St., N.Y., see photo 2878) 2nd floor front in dirty and ill-kept bed-room at 81 Ridge St., N.Y. Dark kitchen and inner bed-room LOC nclc.04201
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Willie Cheatham, Western Union messenger -1. Says he is 16 years now; been messenger for 6 years. Late Sunday night, October 4th, I talked with him, still on duty, until 10 P.M. 'You bet I LOC nclc.05561
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Face detail, 'Teeny' Adams, eleven years old. Picks shrimp at Biloxi Canning Co. Makes $1.15 on good days. Lost three weeks of school last month. Expects to work before school now, - I saw her beginning LOC cph.3a01044 (cropped)
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Compare ages- Veronica Mikula, says 12 years old, 93 N. Front St., Steven Mikula, (in mill) says 15 years, appears less than 14. Photo taken in spare unused room too cold to warm. They crowd LOC cph.3a47663
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Charlie Lawson, 18 year old member of 4 H Club, showing his Hereford Heifer (on which he won a prize at the county fair) and now competing for a university scholarship at the Annual 4 H Fair LOC nclc.04400
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Nick Pilisotta, ten years old, 899 Fayard St. Works some in the Biloxi Canning Co. 'I want to quit school and work steady. Make 50 cents a day. Made $1.30 one day last year when shrimp was LOC cph.3a01042
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Manley Creasson, 914 W. 6 St. Messenger -6, Mackay Telegraph Co. Says he is 14; school records say 13. Says he has steady job - 'Been a messenger for years. Get $15 for 2 weeks' pay.' LOC nclc.04020
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Maggie Burton, 14 years old. A typical adolescent. Sister to Charley Burton (see large photo - 277). Been Spinning 6 years. Can run 7 sides = 70 cents a day . Does run 5 sides = 50 cents a LOC nclc.01408
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Newsies starting to sell at 3-30 P.M. after school. Left to right- Tony Tomasula, 9 years, 11 Fly St.; Frank Thomas, 10 years, 26 State St.; Morris Bookbinder, 12 years, 212 Eagle St. LOC nclc.03389
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Little Fannie, 7 years old, 48 inches high, helps sister in Elk Mills. Her sister (in photo) said, 'Yes, she he'ps me right smart. Not all day but all she can. Yes, she started with me at LOC nclc.01893
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Tessie Sposato, 12 yrs. old girl and her mother picking nuts in attic of tenement, 141 Hudson St., N.Y. She holds the nuts against her dirty apron as she picks them out. Works until 9 p.m. LOC nclc.04093
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See 4053) Only one pupil is now present out of a possible 20 pupils, in School -9, Dist. 3, Ft. Morgan, Oct. 27-15, over five weeks after school began, (Sept. 20). They try to have 9 months LOC nclc.00376
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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. (See family picking LOC nclc.05309
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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. (See family picking LOC nclc.05307
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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. (See family picking LOC nclc.05307
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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. (See family picking LOC nclc.05309
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This boy has worked in Payne Cotton Mill, for 2 yrs Macon, Ga. Runs 4 sides and earns 52 cents a day. Overseer has hand on boy' s shoulder. He said this mill made 70% profit last year and LOC cph.3a29770
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Tootsie, six yr. old news-boy, sells every day and Sunday for a young uncle who had to spend a good deal of his time driving Tootsie back on the job. Harry Murphy, 809 4-1-2 St., S.W., LOC nclc.03783
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Sweepers and doffers in Royal Mill, River Point, R.I. Boy on right hand end, Frank Jetro has been in mill 3 years. Next Jos. Jetro, nearly 3 years. Next Manuel Ray; 2 years. Next Jo. Jolian; LOC nclc.01685
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Sunday morning, March 7, 1909. Morris Hurowitz, 10 years old. Been selling 2 years. Sells Saturday until 8 P.M. Starts out again Sunday at 7 A.M. Sells 25 or more Sunday papers. Is a bright LOC cph.3c07779
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Elm Pool Room (inside)- Nathan Sher, 69 Walden St. William Donovan, Elm Pool Room. George, 28 Elm St. (youngest pin boy). Bill Simmons (manager). Frank Worcester, 28 Elm St. Alton Tripp, 31 LOC nclc.04778
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Lea Clemner, 5 Trenton Street, Gastonia, N.C. 8 years old. Beginning to doff. Said he gets only 15 cents a day. Works part time in mill (4 days a week and part time goes to school. Query, LOC nclc.01407
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Joe Rose. Dumps cranberries for his father. Said he was 11 years old. Lived at Hourwich, Mass. 7 out of 57 workers were 6 to 12 years old. Working from 9 a.m. til 5 p.m. they said. LOC nclc.00108
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James Morgan, 119 French St. Newsboy. 9 years of age. Selling newspaper 4 years. Average earnings 50 cents per week. Selling papers own choice. Don't smoke. Visits saloons. Works 6 hours per LOC nclc.03605
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Four-year-old Mary Davis, tending the sick baby when not working. (See photo 2039). LOC nclc.00921
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Left hand boy of three, Anton Perry, 723 Water Street, Ward 6. Works in Mill. Birth certificate makes him 14. Right hand boy Joseph Oliver, 164 Fourth Street, Ward 5. Works in drawing room LOC nclc.02228
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Left hand boy is Broadus McCoy been sweeping one year, Cherry St. Makes 40 cents a day sweeping in the Belton Mfg. Co., Belton S.C. The family bible record said he has just reached 11 years LOC nclc.02611
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Rose Sarosa, Room 42, 62 Main St., Buffalo, N.Y. 13 years old last summer. Sarah, 9 years old last summer. Jo, 6 years old last summer. Worked in Albion Canning Factory on beans and LOC nclc.00763
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Royal Mills workers. Front Row; -Spinners- Left hand end, Simplis Leon (one year in mill); next Manuel Silvey (2 years in mill); next John Enos (2 years in mill). Back row;-Doffers etc. Some LOC nclc.01681
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Demetra Jones. Father, G.G. Jones, R. 3, Sonora, Ky. 11-year old farm hand. Father said- 'She's the only farm hand I got. She helps a lot in the field work and house work too. Is good in LOC nclc.00467
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Demetra Jones. Father, G.G. Jones, R. 3, Sonora, Ky. 11-year old farm hand. Father said- 'She's the only farm hand I got. She helps a lot in the field work and house work too. Is good in LOC cph.3c26794
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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.05545
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Raymond Bykes, Western Union No. 23, Norfolk Va. Said he was fourteen years old. Works until after 1-00 A.M. every night. He is precocious and not a little 'tough.' Has been here at this LOC nclc.03737
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5 P.M. Mrs. Mary Mauro, 309 E. 110th St., 2nd floor. Family work on feathers. Make $2.25 a week. In vacation 2 or 3 times as much. Victoria, 8 yrs. Angelina 10 yrs. (a neighbor). Frorandi 10 LOC cph.3b17530
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Annette Roy, the youngest worker. Said 7 years old. Picked last year. Lives 171 Orange Street, Fall River, Mass. Also Napoleon Ruel, 53 Hopkins Street, Fall River, Mass. Said 9 years old. LOC nclc.00128
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