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Campbell family picking cotton. W.W. Campbell, Route 1, Box 64, Shawnee. Children go to Pioneer School, 7 miles northwest of Shawnee (see photo of same) Father said- 'Both the girls can hoe LOC nclc.00625
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Young workers going home from the Beaumont Mill, Spartenberg (sic), S.C. In the front row are Jesse Farmer, makes 60 cents a day, been working here six months. Haskel Holt, 70 cents a day LOC nclc.02552
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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.02850
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Wilfred Levoie - 15 years - 120 Diman St. - Weaver, American Linen Co. Cut leg June 20, 1916. (See Mr. Wagner's schedule.) Was pushing and pulling basket along floor; basket caught a loose LOC nclc.05076
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Pinkie Durham eight year old sweeper. See label -3730, and his sister Eliza. She began at eleven; now twelve according to the School Record. She recently had her leg broken in the mill. Boy LOC cph.3b31141
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Luther Wharton, drug store delivery boy, twelve years old. Works from 4-00 P.M. to midnight in Sommers Drug Store. I saw him working at midnight. He goes to school in the daytime, then works LOC nclc.03876
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A young truant selling extras during school hours Monday, April 15th, on Pennsylvania Avenue. He said, 'I heard they was extras.' I stayed out of school.' 'I am 9 yrs. Old-I mean 11.' (He LOC nclc.03784
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Getting ready for the mixer to pour the first batch of concrete at Norris Dam site. This concrete was used for the... - NARA - 532712
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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.05585
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A Saturday ball game. Springstein Mills, Chester, S.C. Boy with glove, Malcom Rogers. (See photo 329). Next to him - Ben Deaton-12 years old. 52 inches high. Weaver. Runs 6 looms at $1.00 a LOC nclc.01423
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All are workers in the Rome (Ga.) Hosiery Mill. Two working are 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.02742
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All are workers in the Rome (Ga.) Hosiery Mill. Two working at 11 yrs old. Some working here only 9 and 10 y(ea)rs old. The youngest got about $3. a week for turning, knitting or looping. LOC nclc.02741
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Bank boss, (with lamp between knees) Motorman, Brake-boy and Driver. Gary Mine, Gary, W. Va. Boss said he would use more boys if he could get them but they went to school. Note live wire on LOC nclc.01056
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Boy on right Charlie Burton-9 Ozark Mill. This anaemic(sic), hollow chested, stoop shouldered under-sized and weight, said-'Been in mill 6 or 7 years. 12 years old. Haint grown none for 5 LOC nclc.01372
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Boys working in Calvine Mfg. Co., Charlotte, N.C. Shortest boy been in mill work 3 years. Next boy 4 years. Tallest boy 5 years. Superintendent would not permit me to take photos in mill. I LOC nclc.01575
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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.00472
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Children of night superintendent, in Dickson Mill, Laurinburg, N.C. (1) Bessie Moore - runs 4 sides. Has worked two years nights. (2) Frank (smallest). Doffs. Has worked 2 yrs. nights. (3) LOC nclc.01505
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Group of women in sweatshop of Mr. Sentrei, 87 Ridge Street, second inner court. Small girl is Mamie Gerhino, 202 Elizabeth Street. She might have been 14 years old. Photo 5 P.M., February LOC cph.3b03845
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Group of workers in Dwight Mfg., Co., Joseph Polchlopek, (tallest boy in middle, front), 37 West Front St. Last night he gave his name as Joseph Waraszy, 19 Dublin St. To-day he corrected LOC nclc.02410
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Group on Court St., selling around the 'Shea' Theater, 8 P.M. Boy in center - Vito Bucheto, 10 years old, 162 Court St. Behind him to left- Tony Gregoria 12 years old, 69 Front St.,. LOC nclc.03403
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Grace Harper (Looked 10 years old). Works in Lydia Mills, Clinton, S.C. Mother said she is very good hand at spinning. Been at it 3 years. Runs 4 and 5 sides, about 50 cents a day. Little LOC nclc.01465
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Harley Bruce. a young coupling-boy at tipple of Indian Mountain Mine, of Proctor Coal Co., near Jellico, Tenn. He appears to be 12 or 14 years old, and says he has been working there about a LOC cph.3b41699
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Harry Cherkos, 435 Catherine St, 7 years of age, sells papers, from 2-30 to 8 P.M. daily. 10 A.M. to midnight on Saturday. Income, 50 cents per day. This boy was caught gambling on Chestnut LOC nclc.03627
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Harry Silverstein, Newsboy, 703 W. 6th St., 7 years old. Sells papers, (selling 3 months average earnings 25 cents per week). Father working Morocco Mills, earns $18 weekly. Boy's earnings LOC nclc.03614
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Hard work and dangerous for such a young boy. James O'Dell, a greaser and coupler on the tipple of the Cross Mountain Mine, Knoxville Iron Co. in the vicinity of Coal Creek, Tenn. James has LOC nclc.05466
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Israel April, 314 I St., S.W., Washington, D.C. 'I serves the President'. 9 yr. old newsboy with no badge selling near Willard Hotel, Sunday P.M.,4-14-12. Been selling for several years. I LOC nclc.03778
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Italian family living 428 E. 116th St., 2 floor back. They were so illiterate I couldn't get their names. Have been in U.S. only one month. Mother is learning to make lace for factory near LOC nclc.04116
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From left to right. Joe, 12 years, Jacob, 8 years. Bonny, 10 yrs. Levi, 10 yrs. Teacher says Joe doesn't know anything, not even enough to be bad. He is always drowsy in class. 'Jacob is LOC nclc.03821
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Going back to work. Youngest boy is Richard Millsap. The family record in bible says he is 11 years old - born Jan 22, 1903 (doubtful), and father says 12 years old. He appears to be under 9. Works LOC nclc.02926
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Family of J.H. Burch, Route 1, Rockfield, Ky. Boys 12, 14 and 17 (stripping tobacco) working during school hours. Have been out a good deal. Go to Quarry School (6-12). Two families LOC nclc.00657
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Family of L.H. Kirkpatrick, Route 1, Lawton, Oklahoma. Children go to Mineral Wells School -39. Father, mother and five children (5, 6, 10, 11 and 12 years old) pick cotton. 'We pick a bale LOC cph.3b30502
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Family of L.H. Kirkpatrick, Route 1, Lawton, Okla. Children go to Mineral Wells School -39. Father, mother and five children (5, 6, 10, 11 and 12 years old) pick cotton. 'We pick a bale in LOC nclc.00591
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Field-workers, Amer(ican) Sumatra Tobacco Co. The Supt. called the boys out to the end of the rows and we found 47 boys from 9 to 15 yrs. old, all working but could not get hold of them all. LOC nclc.00704
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Glass Blower and Mold Boy. Boy has 4 1-2 hours of this at a stretch, then an hour's rest and 4 1-2 more- cramped position. Day shift one week- night shift next. (see label on photo 162.) LOC cph.3a13357
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Dillon Mills, Dillon S.C. (Boy) Ransom English-doffs, been in mill 6 years. (Next) Florence Burr-runs 5 sides. In mill 4 years. (Next) Bessie English - 3 sides, 3 years in mill. (Next) LOC nclc.01496
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A group of berry pickers on the farm of Mr. Giles, Seaford, Del. 3 children are 3 years of age, 3 are 4 years old, 1 is 5 years old, and 1 is 6 years old. During the berry season the LOC nclc.00093
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A 'Reader' in cigar factory, Tampa, Fla. He reads books and newspapers at top of his voice all day long. This is all the education many of these workers receive. He is paid by them and they LOC cph.3b36568
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6 year old George Greentree, 315 Dover Street sells for 12 year old brother. Both make $1. a day. George found selling in front of College Inn. Works the pathos game. Stays out often until LOC nclc.03855
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6 cents a gross. Make regularly from 10 to 12 gross a day. 122 Sullivan St. Mr. Malatesta - Helps because Health too bad work out. Mrs. Malatesta; Frank Malatesta, age 14; John Malatesta, LOC nclc.04072
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6 P.M. Callabria family, 647 E. 12th St., N.Y. (see schedule) Mother finishes clothing. The children paste needle packages onto cards and said they all work at times until 10 or 11 P.M. They LOC nclc.04149
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6-year old Warren Frakes. Mother said he picked 41 pounds yesterday 'An I don't make him pick; he picked some last year.' Has about 20 pounds in his bag. See 4574. LOC cph.3a46555
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6 P.M. Making hair-brushes. Hausner family, 310 E. 71 St., N.Y. Frank is 6 yrs old. and John is 12. The mother had a sore throat and wore a great rag rapped around it, but she took it off LOC nclc.05488
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Benton Hill, a renter, Tinney, Okla. Two other families were helping Mr. Hill and his children pick his cotton. Four adults and 10 children of following ages- 1 boy of 3 years, 2 boys and 1 LOC nclc.00615
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Byron, California. Field laborers of Japanese ancestry from a large delta ranch have assembled at W . . . - NARA - 537773
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3 doffer boys, Dickson Mill, Laurinburg, N.C. Charley Gregory (boy with white collar). Been in mill 8 years. Has worked nights four years. David and Dick work daytime. Witness, S.R. Hine. LOC nclc.01503
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3 of the many young oyster shuckers going home from the Pass Christian Cannery at 5 P.M. Lena Krueger, 7 years old (in the middle) had shucked 6 pots that day; Annie Kadeska, 9 years old on LOC nclc.01039
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3-30 P.M Mrs. Mary Femenella, 137 Thompson Street. Annie 12 yrs. old works sometimes until 10 P.M. making flowers. A brother 9 yrs. old not in the picture works after school also. Little LOC nclc.04124
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4-00 P.M. Making lace collars at home (usually in kitchen). Mrs. Vencique, 309 E. 110th St., working with baby asleep in lap. Her sister, Tessie Amendola, 15 years old, works all the time. LOC cph.3b22403
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2 P.M. Mrs. Katie -- (refused to give their name), 134 1-3 Thompson St., one flight up, front. Making artificial flowers in a crowded and dirty room used as kitchen, bed room, living room, LOC nclc.04125
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Arguelles Factory, Tampa, Fla. Not running to-day. Said to hire a good many young children as apprentices. A School Factory, advertised in papers 3 months ago, for apprentices at low prices. LOC nclc.04511
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Jose de Sousa Magano, 35 Aetna St., Fall River, Mass. Born in Fall River, June 2, 1901. Left for the Azores at 8 years of age because family moved back. Cannot read or write in his own LOC cph.3b21319
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Joseph Philip, 5 Wall St., pin boy in Les Miserables Bowling Alley, said 11 years old and worked until midnight every night- said he made $2.25 last week and $1.76 the week before. LOC cph.3b43678
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Joseph Severio. Peanut vendor. 11 years of age. Pushing cart 2 years. Out after midnight on May 21, 1910. Ordinarily works 6 hours per day. Works of own volition. Don't smoke. All earnings LOC cph.3a21174
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Joseph Wench, newsboy, 315 W. 2nd St. 7 years of age. Selling papers 2 years Average earnings 50 cents per week. Selling papers own choice. Earnings not needed at home. Visits saloons. Works LOC nclc.03593
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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.00633
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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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Left to right- Florence Lieto, 10 years old. Jennie Macola, 10 years old (hidden) Mamie Macola, 8 years old. Nicholas Macola, 6 years old. Picking coffee sweepings. The sweepings cost 25 LOC nclc.05454
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Left, Frank Chebarro, admitted 13 years old; been making bands all summer in Glenallen Mill. Said, 'I wouldn't go to school until they come after me.' Also brother Edgar, 8 years old, who LOC nclc.02311
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Katie (13 years) and Angeline Javella (11 years), 311 E. 149th St. 2(nd) floor front, making cuffs, Irish lace. Income about $1 a week. Said they work some nights until 8 P.M. LOC nclc.04129
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Maple Mills, Dillon, S.C. Soarbar Seris, has worked off and on in the mill for 5 years. Winds. Gets 70 cents and up. 'Recon I'm about 14.' Didn't look it. Has worked more nights than day LOC cph.3b21314
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Carrie Blanchard. 'Don't know how old I am. Mother can tell. She keeps track of these things. She begins to work in mill tomorrow. 'Speks I'll go to help.' (Mother said she was 10 years LOC nclc.01458
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Eleven-year old Elizabeth who has been working in the sugar beets near Ordway, Colorado, for one year. The family moved here from Southern Russia three years ago. She said- 'I don't like the LOC nclc.00261
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Eleven-year old Elizabeth who has been working in the sugar beets near Ordway, Colorado, for one year. The family moved here from Southern Russia three years ago. She said- 'I don't like the LOC nclc.00263
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Georgie Baldwin. According to the Family Record (which says born August 15, 1903) he has just been working nearly a year in the Merrimack Mfg. Mills. When his father read me the dates from LOC nclc.02900
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Edith, a five year old cotton picker on H.M. Lane's farm Bells, Tex. (Near Denison). 'She's a good steady picker. Works all day long,' her aunt said. See also other photos taken here. LOC nclc.05522
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Edith, a five year old cotton picker on H.M. Lane's farm Bells, Tex. (near Denison). 'She's a good steady picker. Works all day long,' her aunt said. See also other photos taken here. LOC cph.3b24276
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Edgar Kitchen 13 yrs. old gets $3.25 a week working for the Bingham Bros. Dairy. Drives a dairy wagon from 7 A.M. to noon. Works on farm in afternoon (10 hours a day) seven days a week-half LOC nclc.00492
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Salvin Nocito, 5 years old, carries 2 pecks of cranberries for long distance to the bushel man. Whites Bog. Brown... - NARA - 523267
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Sanitary Ice Cream Cone Co., 116 S. Dewey St. (Cisar, Manager). John Myers, 14 years old, who is in Grade 6 in Franklin School works after school and Saturday. He has been there 7 months. LOC cph.3b30503
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On right hand of front row is Arthur Houle, 24 E. Gardner St., fifth floor of Spinning Room -2. Left hand end front row is John Parent, 14 Congress St., Spinning Room -2, fifth floor. LOC nclc.02407
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Norman Hall, 210 Park Street, Lindale, Ga. Went to work over a year ago in Massachusetts Mills at 10 1-2 years old. Family Record says born Oct. 26, 1901. Doffing. No real reason for his LOC nclc.02774
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Ollie Hughes (11 years), Ruby Hughes (10 years), Help in Magnolia, (Miss.) Cotton Mills. One about 11 years (sick abed) works too. Mother and three others not in mill. Moved here two months LOC nclc.02035
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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.00580
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Springstein Mill, Chester, S.C. Malcolm Rogers (Boy with hat) 54 inches high. Be(e)n in mill 3 years. Started at 25 cents and now makes $1.00 a day. Spins part time and doffer part time. LOC nclc.01422
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Some of smaller 'hands' on the night shift waiting for the whistle to blow. Whitnel N.C. Cotton Mill. The smallest boy and girl were about 50 inches high. One of the medium sized boys has LOC nclc.01529
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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.04695
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Some samples (not all) of the children in the 'Kindergarten Factory' run by the High Point and Piedmont Hosiery Mills, High Point, N.C. Every child in these photos worked; I saw them at work LOC nclc.02689
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Small shack on Forsythe's Bog, occupied by De Marco family, 10 in the family living in this room. Room is 10 ft. x 11ft. X 5 1-2 ft. high and gable attic above. (See family picking LOC nclc.05308
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Manuel Miranda, 229 Alden St. Very young boy, has been doffer in card room of Cornell Mill for 6 months. Said, 'I'm goin' on 16' (but didn't say when he would reach it). Cornell Mill. LOC cph.3a20823
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Mary Prenda, 13 years old. Short-sighted girl with glasses working after school on flowers with Mary's aunt. New York... - NARA - 523494
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Rush Merrill, Loray Mill, Gastonia, N.C. 12 years old. Been in mill 3 years Doffer. Gets 75 cents a day. Said sometimes gets 3 to 5 hours a day resting between times. LOC nclc.05374
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Union Hospital - Lewis Palmer - 14 years - 455 Peckham St. - Rope hauler in Estes Mill, making mop rope. Began April 25th. Hand cut by rope May 18th. Laid up one month. Wages $4.60 - LOC nclc.05079
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These were all the young children I could get at the Athens Hosiery Mill at noon. And at 9 A.M., although when I went through the mill at 7 A.M. alone Dec. 9th, I saw six little girls LOC nclc.02025
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Tommy De Grandis, 109 Groham St. A week (i.e., weak) anaemic. Ten year old pin boy in Hennessey's Bowling Alley. Also his brother Leo (said 12 years). They said they work every night until LOC cph.3b43677
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Truants selling papers at Jefferson & Washington 11 A.M. Monday May 9th, 1910. Smallest boy is Marvin Adams, 2637 Wahington Ave. Said he got his papers 'off'n de other feller.' Other boy is LOC cph.3c07781
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Sula Bedford, nine years old. Lives in Tupelo, Miss. Mother said, 'Just as soon as she's 12, her father wants her to learn to weave. She could spin now, (heaps of 'em smaller'n she is does) LOC nclc.02045
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Sunday. Boys working in Bibb Mill -1, Macon, Ga. Tallest boy on right hand end (with cap) Grady Olford, been in mill work 5 years. Next, Claudie Bonner. Next, Willie Dix. Next Hermie Allen LOC nclc.01645
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Susie, said 6 years old. Picks about 5 pails a day. Clarence, said 7 years. Nine out of the seventy workers were from 6 to 12 years old. Mostly Syrians from Boston and Providence. LOC nclc.00150
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Part of the family of George Padroni, near Sterling, Colo. They have 9 children and some hired help. Only one child in school (see 4042). This is 6 yr. old Lena, who works some too. The 8 yr. old LOC nclc.00366
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Showing different ages reached by 4 H Club work - in the State. Steps in Club Work - 10 - 12, 13 - 14, 15 - 17 and 18 - 24 years. County Agents are drawn from the ranks below, having gone LOC nclc.04393
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Wilfred Clark, 10 years old, 24 Key St., going home at noon, after cutting five boxes of fish during the morning. Incidently, he cuts his fingers. See left fore-finger. Two other boys with LOC nclc.00952
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Willie Crocker, (barefoot) Wylie Mill, Chester, S.C. 13 years old- 'worked since I was 6 years old.' Lost part of finger in gear of machinery. Fred Crocker-11 years old. 1 year in mill. LOC nclc.01417
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Norman Hall, 210 Park Street, Lindale, Ga. Went to work over a year ago in Massachusetts Mills at 10 1-2 years old. Family record says born October 16, 1901. Doffing. No real reason for his LOC nclc.02798
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Michael Mero, 2 West 4th St. Bootblack, 12 years of age, working one year of own volition. Don't smoke. Out after 11 P.M. on May 21. Ordinarily works 6 hours per day. LOC cph.3b24285
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Michael Mero, 2 West 4th St., Bootblack, 12 years of age, working one year of own volition. Don't smoke. Out after 11 P.M. on May 21, Ordinarily works 6 hours per day. LOC cph.3b24285
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The girl berry carriers on Newton's Farm at Cannon, Del. Ann Parion, 13 years of age, working her 5th season carries 60 lbs. of berries from the fields to the sheds. Andenito Carro, 14 years LOC cph.3a20805
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