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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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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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Commander of United States Labor Battalion and staff. Captain E.S. Jones and staff at Governor's Is . . . - NARA - 533501
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Stockton, California. So-called stoop laborers weeding celery field on large industrialized ranch . . . - NARA - 537599
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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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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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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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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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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.03886
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Albernesi Family, 126 W. Eagle St. Left to right- Frank Albernesi, 5 years old. Libori Albernesi, 15 years old, Joseph Albernesi, 13 years old. Family goes to country in summer to pick LOC cph.3b06597
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Boy on right hand is George Dagnais, 32 Forest St., a doffer in Mill No. 1, Cocheco Mfg. Co., Dover, N.H. Been there about half a year. 6 A.M. LOC nclc.01775
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10 year old Jimmie. Been shucking 3 years. 6 pots a day, and a 11 year old boy who shucks 7 pots. Also several members of an interesting family named Sherrica. Seven of them are in this LOC nclc.05337
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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.03825
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Groups of workers in Clayton (N.C.) Cotton Mills. Every one went in to work when whistle blew, and I saw most of them at work during the morning when I went through. Mr. W.H. Swift talked LOC nclc.02685
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Groups of workers in Clayton (N.C.) Cotton Mills. Every one went into work when the whistle blew, and I saw most of them at work during the morning when I went through. Mr. W.H. Swift talked LOC nclc.02681
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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.02673
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Groups of workers in Clayton (N.C.) Cotton Mills. Every one went in to work when whistle blew, and I saw most of them at work during the morning when I went through. Mr. W.H. Swift talked LOC nclc.02686
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Groups of workers in Clayton (N.C.) Cotton Mills. Every one went in to work when whistle blew, and I saw most of them at work during the morning when I went through. Mr. W.H. Swift talked LOC nclc.02688
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Groups of workers in Clayton (N.C.) Cotton Mills. Every one went into work when the whistle blew, and I saw most of them at work during the morning when I went through. Mr. W.H. Swift talked LOC nclc.02683
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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 month in one mill and two days LOC nclc.05067
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Group of boys working in American Woolen Mills, Winooski, Vt. Youngest 13 years. Oldest 15 years. All had been working one year or more. Most are illiterate. 27, apparently under 15 years LOC nclc.01853
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Group of boys working in American Woolen Mills, Winooski, Vt. Youngest, 13 years, oldest 15. All had been working one year or more. Most are illiterat(e) 27 Children apparently under 15 LOC nclc.01846
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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.00471
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Interior of tobacco shed, Hawthorn Farm. Girls in foreground are 8, 9, and 10 years old. The 10 yr. old makes 50 cents a day. 12 workers on this farm are 8 to 14 years old, and about 15 are LOC nclc.00735
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Interior of tobacco shed, Hawthorn Farm. Girls in foreground are 8, 9, and 10 years old. The 10 yr. old makes 50 cents a day. 12 workers on this farm are 8 to 14 years old, and about 15 are LOC nclc.00734
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9-00 P.M. March 4, 1909. Hartford, Conn. Group of newsies still selling although it was bitter cold and blizzardy. Smallest chap was 8 years old. The boys said he has been selling for 3 LOC nclc.03241
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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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A 9 year old boy, Jo Cafarella, 39 Warren Street, Somerville, Mass. His sister Lena, 10 years, and Mary Lazzaro, 13 years old, his cousin, lives at 17 South Street. This is typical of their LOC cph.3a18647
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6 P.M. May 6, 1909. Only a few young girls work in the Chace Cotton Mills, Burlington, Vt. In front row are Anna Grenier (2 yrs. in mill), Agnes Fountain. See photo and label -730. LOC nclc.01721
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Brown McDowell 12 year old usher in Princess Theatre. Works from 10 A.M. to 10 P.M. Can barely read; has reached the second grade in school only. Investigator reports little actual need for LOC cph.3b09162
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5-00 P.M. on a cold day. Frank Luzzi, a 10 years old newsie, who has been selling for 2 years. Begins at 5 A.M. sometimes and sells until 8 P.M. at times. Hartford, Conn. LOC cph.3b39335
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3-30 P.M. Picking nuts in dirty basement. The dirtiest imaginable children were pawing over the nuts, eating lunch on the table, etc. Mother had a cold, blew her nose frequently (without LOC cph.3b24279
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3-30 P.M. Group in tenement hallway. Ages, 14 months, 2, 5, and 7 years. Mother in shop sewing. Father out of work, bartender. Family, Novi, 189 Chrystie Street. LOC nclc.04628
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Carl Brown, eleven years old. He and his father run a farm of 160 acres, in Southern Vermont. He is overgrown, sluggish, but he said- 'I'd ruther go to school.' See Hine Report, Rural Child LOC cph.3a38573
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Jake is ten yrs old, Marie is 13, but neither could spell own name. Scheler family, near Sterling. The boy said he had recently stuck the hook into his knee while topping. Six in the family, LOC nclc.00352
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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.04016
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John Velcich, ten years old, picks shrimp at Peerless Oyster Co. This is his third year at the work. Earns 55 cents a day. His hands were all sore and swelled up from the acid in the shrimp. LOC nclc.00901
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Johnnie, Carrie and Jim Davenport picking cotton for Mr. J.P. Daws, Route 1, Shawnee. Johnnie picks 75 pounds, Carrie 100 pounds and Jim 150 to 200 pounds a day. Get $1.00 a hundred pounds. LOC nclc.00632
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Johnnie Burns a newsie who sells on Grand Avenue. 9 years old. Father says he is uncontrollable. May 9th, 1910. Father also said his 4 yr. old. twins would be selling soon. LOC nclc.03493
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Leopoldo Andreoli, 208 Elm St. Very young-appears 11 or 12 years old. Is a 'Loom boy' in spinning room of the Ayer Mill; has a steady job now and makes $5.15 a week now. LOC nclc.02359
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Lilly O'Sullivan, a frail 13 year old girl working in the Drayton Mills, Spartenberg (sic), S.C. Been working four years, weaving, spinning, etc. Ran from 4 to 6 looms. Gets $3 a week. LOC nclc.02602
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King Philip - Mule Spinning Room. Thomas Nicholls, 54 Kilburn St. Tube boy on the right - doffer on the left. Tube boy 14 years, doffer 16 years. Tube boy slips onto spindle holders. LOC cph.3b33429
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Lodi, California. Where a day laborer of Japanese ancestry lived in the vineyard section of San Joa . . . - NARA - 537622
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Louis Pelissier, 29 8th St., 16 year old (May 16, 1916) applicant 2nd grade - deficient mentality. Doesn't know name of place where he is going to work. Made it out for Small's mill, they LOC nclc.05060
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George Clendenon, 2807 Waverly Street, Columbus, Ga. Mother said he has just reached 11 years, (last month) and he has been working, off and on, for over a year at Massey Hosiery Mill. He LOC nclc.02801
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George Clendenon, 2807 Waverly Street, Columbus, Ga. Mother said he has just reached 11 years, (last month) and he has been working, off and on, for over a year at Massey Hosiery Mill. He LOC nclc.02801
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Eloy District, Pinal County, Arizona. Cotton pickers, Mexican children, in ditch bank at the edge of . . . - NARA - 522047
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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 cph.3b03533
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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.03578
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Dickson Mill, Laurinburg, N.C. Robert Black, (smallest) 1 year in mill. John Black, (next) 2 years in mill. Charlie Clark-4 years. Earl Lander-Beginning. Witness, S.R. Hine. LOC nclc.01508
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Eight year old newsie. Many youngsters get up early to sell papers. One ten year old starts out at 3 A.M. every day and goes to school. LOC nclc.05524
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Sam Galloway, 12 years and John Galloway, 16 years working out for Sam Crawley, who is 17 years old. The former live on a farm a few miles away and go to Keats and Bethel School, Div. 3, LOC nclc.00538
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School -45, Ash Grove; Miss Hazel McKay, Teacher. One-room school in fair condition. Opened September 4th-8 months term. Enrollment 22, average attendance 15; last year- enrollment 27, LOC nclc.00598
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Elbert Hollingsworth, ten year old cotton picker. Picks 125 pounds a day. Also Ruby Hollingsworth, seven year old cotton picker. Works all day, early and late, in the hot sun. Picks about LOC nclc.00195
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Mrs. L. Bosher, living in a rundown cotton mill village Matoaca, Va. Her husband has been a mill hand here for a long time but recently got work up town, as many of their neighbors have done LOC cph.3b36981
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Mrs. Larocca, 233 E. 107th St., N.Y., making willow plumes in an unlicensed tenement. Photo taken Feb. 29, 1912. License was revoked Dec. 19, 1911.Applied for again Feb 7, 1912, inspected LOC nclc.04203
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Nearly 9 A.M. Girl (about 8 yrs. old) carrying sack of hose supporters home, a long distance and she had to run to get home in time for school. Up hill and tiring work, resting frequently. LOC nclc.04296
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Night scene. 7-30 P.M. January 29, 1912. Making violets, and they often work later. Pollinni family, 5 Carmine St., N.Y. living in a reary (i.e., rear.) tenement. The six year old helps LOC nclc.04137
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Newsies-Isaac Solovitch, 12 years, David Solovitch, 7 years. 24 Maple St., sell after school until 9 -30 P.M. or 10 P.M. Earn about 15 cents each per day. LOC nclc.03376
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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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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 working LOC nclc.04693
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