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Group of girls, adolescents. A young fellow made a very vulgar remark and they all laughed. Next day I heard one of the girls use profanity before all the men and boys. LOC nclc.02428
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Group of oyster shuckers in Barataria Canning Co. In this group are Gertrude Kohn, five years old, and Pauline --, eight years old. See also photos 1973, 1976, 1997, 1998. LOC cph.3a01056
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Group of young cutters in Seacoast sardine factory, going for a swim Sunday morning. They all work. Even the smallest makes $.50 to $1.00 a day. They all said they cut their fingers a good LOC nclc.00976
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Group of young cutters, Seacoast Canning Co., Factory -2, waiting for more fish. They all work, but they waste a great deal of time as the adults do also, waiting for fish to arrive. LOC cph.3a26040
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Group of Glass Workers in Shop 6, Illinois Glass Co. The smallest boy is Polish and does not understand English (Illiterate) I saw him at work just before 1 P.M. LOC nclc.01292
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Beaumont is overrun with little newsies. This boy, Vincent Serio, eight years old, is up at 5-00 A.M. daily. 'Have sold papers since I was four years old.' LOC nclc.03914
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Home of Johnnie Merkle, 5110 N. Broadway. He is a regular newsie 6 years old. Father owns his home and butcher shop. Johnnie's brother owns and runs a nickelodeon. LOC nclc.03519
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John Holland. Said he was 10 years old. Has had a regular job for some months rolling bobbins in the Deep River Mill. Been helping the father and brother a year. LOC nclc.02835
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Young cotton mill worker. A piece of the machine fell on his foot mashing his toe. This caused him to fall on to a spinning machine and his hand went into the unprotected gearing, crushing LOC cph.3a21309
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Where it happened. (See photos 3070 to 3074) Sanders Cotton Mfg. Co., Bessemer City, N.C. In this and the adjoining mill (run by the same company) there were still many dangerous unprotected LOC nclc.02661
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Where it happened. (See photos 3070 to 3074) Sanders Cotton Mfg. Co., Bessemer City, N.C. In this and the adjoining mill (run by the same company) there were still many dangerous unprotected LOC nclc.02660
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Vitto Romano, 76 Charter Street, Boston, Mass., carrying load of garments from 30 Blackstone Street. Said 12 years old and that only his mother finishes them. LOC nclc.04241
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Girls worming tobacco. Myrtle 10, Zelina 12 and Florence 13 years old. Brother 14 and sister 16. Father, John Richard rents farm near Centre School. LOC nclc.00556
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Girls worming tobacco. Myrtle 10, Zelina 12 and Florence 13 years old. Brother 14 and sister 16. Father, John Richard rents farm near Centre School. LOC nclc.00557
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Cherryville Graded School, Cherryville, N.C. These are all the children in town who attend school. 2,000 population. One-third of these raised their hands when asked, 'How many have worked LOC nclc.01403
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Mill family and relations. Magnolia Miss. Boy in front is Wilbert Bennett. Said he was thirteen, but it is highly improbable. Said he has been doffing in the mill off and on for five years. LOC nclc.02092
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Machine used in Gary W. Va. mine that digs the coal and loads it on the car. With it 3 men can do the work of 50 in the old way. Yet they use boys to drive and trap. LOC nclc.01050
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Mamie Witt. Runs one side in Roanoke Cotton Mills, Roanoke, Va. She is twelve years old and helps support an able-bodied, dependent father. (see photo 2160). LOC nclc.02148
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Little girl, apparently 6 yrs. old - but didn't know her name or age - tending stand at Washington and 3rd St. for older sister (-3234). Saloon on corner. 3 P.M. LOC nclc.03824
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Photo of boys working in Arcade Bowling Alley. Photo taken late at night. The boys work until midnight and later.... - NARA - 523246
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Part of a group of itinerant cotton pickers leaving a farm at which they had finished picking a bale and a half a day. They live in these wagons. Note how many children - all pick except the LOC nclc.00220
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Name- Mule-spinning room in Chace Cotton Mill, Raoul Julien, 'a back-roping boy.' Has been here 2 yrs. see label No.730. May 7, 1909. LOC cph.3a17764
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Near Mission San Jose, California. Family of Japanese ancestry laboring in their strawberry field a . . . - NARA - 537836
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Newsies selling at 10 P.M. Boy on left- Joseph Mandi, 11 years old, 241, 7th St.; James Yarnell, 13 years old, 179 N. Division St. LOC nclc.03397
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Mrs. L. Bosher, living in a run down cotton mill village. Her husband has been a mill hand here for a long time but... - NARA - 523437
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Luther Dories. Been doffing some months in Spinning Room -2, Massachusett(s) Mills, Lindale, Ga. Said 12 years old, but very doubtful. Father and brother work. LOC nclc.05342
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Mrs. Eugene Lampron, Reservoir Street, Leeds, Mass., putting the bristles into tooth brushes in the kitchen of her home. She has been doing it for 9 years, and showed the effect of it. See LOC nclc.04261
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Ten-year-old Mollie Steuben topping beets. Many children of this age put in a full day's work, and many begin younger. The work is hard and the children sometimes cut themselves or are LOC cph.3a25269
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Ten-year-old Mollie Steuben topping beets. Many children of this age put in a full day's work, and many begin younger. The work is hard and the children sometimes cut themselves or are LOC cph.3a01109
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The Tate School, abondoned (i.e., abandoned) two years ago. (See photo of the United Consolidated School. Photo No. 32.) Next to the school is the home of the Tate family, - a run-down shack LOC nclc.04370
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Some of the boys working at the Tidewater Knitting Mills, Portsmouth, Va. I went through the mill several times during working hours and saw a number of youngsters surely under fourteen. LOC nclc.02195
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Some of the children who go to school half a day, and shuck four hours before school and several hours after school and eight or nine hours on Saturday. Maggioni Canning Co. LOC nclc.00993
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Some of the shrimp-pickers in an Oyster Co. The bosses refused to allow the children to be in the photo, so I was compelled to wait until they had gone home to dinner, before I could get LOC nclc.00896
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Some of the workers in the Pickett Cotton Mill, High Point, N.C., but could not get the smallest ones into the picture. LOC nclc.02693
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Some of the young girls who roll cigarettes in the Danville (Va.) Cigarette Factory. I could not induce the very smallest ones to get into the photos. See other photos taken at noon and in LOC nclc.04752
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Some young boys and girls work in the Elizabeth Knitting Mills, Berkley, Va. I did not see very many. Following are names of some of the youngest-working in the finishing and seaming rooms- LOC nclc.02206
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Smallest boy is Joseph Fortin. His mother (at home) said he is 14 years old. He does not look it. 6 A.M. Group going... - NARA - 523199
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These are cashiers in Holmes Department Store, New Orleans. The youngest girls working in the store and illustrate how well the law is being enforced in all the department stores here. LOC nclc.04920
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Subject -Coal. -70 Welch Mining Co., Welch W. Va. Boy running 'trip rope' at tipple. Overgrown, but looked 13 yrs. old. Worked 10 hours a day. LOC nclc.05353
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Sunday morning at Lynchburg Cotton Mill (Va.) Ed Tolley, the smallest, said 15 years old, but that is very doubtfull. Others in these three photos, Lucien Tolley, Herbert Aultico, Henry LOC nclc.02043
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Eight-year-old girl (see label 4006). She is very skilful (sic) topping the beets, but this work is very fatigueing (sic) and dangerous for such children. See Hine report for details of the LOC nclc.00331
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9 year old Johnnie and the shucking boss. He is also a padrone. For four years he has brought these people from... - NARA - 523419
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Closing hour, Saturday noon, at Dallas Mill. Every child in photos, so far as I was able to ascertain, works in that mill. When I questioned some of the youngest boys as to their ages, they LOC nclc.01912
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Closing hour, Saturday noon, at Dallas Mill. Every child in photos, so far as I was able to ascertain, works in the mill. When I questioned some of the youngest boys as to their ages, they LOC nclc.01911
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Jo Wohn, ten-year-old topper in beet field near Sterling, Colorado. He works from 6 A.M. to 6-30 P.M., with about half an hour for lunch. LOC nclc.00335
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Jennie Williams, 1529 Titten St., Philadelphia. 5 years old. First summer. Theodore Budd's Bog, at Turkeytown, near Pemberton, N.J. This is fourth week of school in Philadelphia and people LOC nclc.05292
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Hyman Lapcoff, 1526 Fourteenth St., N.W., Washington, D.C., a ten year old newsie from a good family, carrying a heavy load of newspapers quite a distance. This is a common occurrence and is LOC cph.3c24950
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In this group are some of the youngest workers in Spinning Room of Cornell Mill. The smallest is Jo Benevidos, 5 Merion St. Other small ones are- John Sousa, 84 Boutwell St., Anthony LOC nclc.02505
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Earle Griffith and Eddie Tahoory, working for the Dime Messenger Service. They said they never knew when they were going to get home at night. Usually work one or more nights a week, and LOC nclc.03757
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Byron, California. Laborers of Japanese ancestry are returning to large-scale asparagus ranch after . . . - NARA - 537696
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Byron, California. Laborers of Japanese ancestry from a large-scale asparagus ranch are at the Wart . . . - NARA - 537694
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As the whistle blew at the Tidewater Knitting Mill, Portsmouth, Va. I went through the mill several times while they were working and saw a number of boys and girls working and saw a number LOC nclc.02191
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A few of the employees in the Clinton Mills, Clinton, S.C., going home from work. Many others as small were in evidence. Superintendent wouldn't allow me to take photos inside. Photo by LOC nclc.01452
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Richards Diercks, Messenger, 305 Montgomery St. And John Sennick, 89 Morris St., Jersey City. The newsboy had sold out at 9-30 P.M. and was on his way home. LOC nclc.03366
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Ruth Rous. She said she was 11 yrs old, but others there said she was not 10. She has a regular job, and several sisters are working. Deep River Cotton Mills. LOC nclc.02836
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Postal Telegraph Boy. David Caplan, 9 Monroe Street. Said he was 15 years old. Works from 11 P.M. to 8 A. M., often down around the docks. LOC nclc.03177
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Ronald Webb, twelve year old doffer boy and Frank Robinson, seven year old who helps sweep and doff. Father is cardroom boss, Roanoke (Va.) Cotton Mills. LOC cph.3a20815
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General view of the 'hulling' station of the H. A. Johnson Company at Seaford, Del. There are about 400 workers at this station of which it is estimated 220 are children ranging from 2 years LOC nclc.00785
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5 year old Helen and her stepsisters hulling strawberries at Johnson's Hulling Sta. Helen is an orphan, who, one... - NARA - 523316
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Annie Maier (or Meyer), making Campbell-kids' pinafores in her basement home. 71 E. 108 Street. She was reported to have tuberculosis. Working in the kitchen. (see also No. 2713). LOC cph.3b01099
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8 P.M. Harry Laudeman, 13 years old. Has sold papers for 7 years. Brother, Morris, 7 years old 46 inches high. Beginning. Hartford, Conn. LOC nclc.03294
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2 A.M. February 12,1908. Papers just out. Boys starting out on morning round. Ages 13 years and upward. At the side door of Journal Building near Brooklyn Bridge. LOC cph.3b01716
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A typical view of Carmina Caruso, a ten year old Home Worker as she walks around crocheting as she goes. See also other photos of her and Home Work report. LOC nclc.05500
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Albert Schafer, eight year old newsboy who usually begins at 8-00 A.M. Sundays. Sells some on week-days. Is a cripple. Makes one to two dollars a day. LOC cph.3c15371
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Close-up of an applicant for employment with the TVA taking the examination for skilled and unskilled labor at the... - NARA - 532814
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All are oyster-shuckers in Barataria Canning Company. The boy reaching into the car is Bill May, five years old, who makes 15 cents a day, 'when he wants to work.' LOC cph.3a01055
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A Suggestion for Dependent Widows. Mrs. Bessie Hicks, a widow in the mill settlement at Matoaca, Va. She has no children large enough for the cotton mill, so she is starting a little store LOC cph.3b36982
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A moment's rest. These bundles are often carried long distances. When the man gets tired, he drops the clothing onto a convenient box or railing, disregarding dust or dirt. Makes button LOC cph.3b01106
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Packed House: Listening to the speaker at the Conference to Aid Agricultural Organization during the cotton strike (Steinbeck Committee). Bakersfield, Kern County, California. November 1938.
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Swing Shift: Third shift defense workers waiting in a combination delicatessen and restaurant to be picked up by their car pools around midnight. Baltimore, Maryland. April 1943.
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Any Questions: Miss Eleanor Nelson, Secretary and Treasurer of the United Federal Workers of America, teaches the class in union organization at the federal workers school. 1937.
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How insignificant a newsie is in comparison with matters of State. Peter Pepe, 24 Wonders Court, 10 yr. old newsie, selling on the Capitol steps. Been selling for 2 yrs. Makes 20 cents a LOC nclc.03756
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High Shoals (N.C.) School. This is average attendance. Enrollment is 80. Only one other school in town and about 15 attend that. See photo 279 (St. John's Mission School) Population of town LOC nclc.01373
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Hazel family (very poorly educated). Children have not been to school this year although living within 1 1-2 miles of school 5-7. See Kentucky report and special card. LOC cph.3a31146
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Herschel Bonham, Route A, Box 118, an 11-year-old boy cultivating peas. He belongs to a cotton club in school. Father says he can pick 200 pounds of cotton a day. LOC nclc.00677
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Families of Henry and John Miller- boy of eleven years, girl of eleven and girl of thirteen, hoeing the sugar beets. They have 80 acres in beets, come out here from the town in May and go LOC nclc.00271
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Fannie Bowman, 15 years old. Postural deformity. Correct position in work most essential. Can undertake either sitting or standing position if takes care to keep good posture. Picture shows LOC nclc.05142
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Eugene Bell, House 48 Loray Mill. Said he was 12 years old. (question). 'Leastwise that's what mother says.' (I am convinced that many children believe they are as old as they say they LOC nclc.01343
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Group gathering tobacco on farm of Daniel Barrett, Spottsville, Ky., Star Route. He is a renter. Boys all belong to other families and will go to Bluff City School, Div. 3, Henderson Co., LOC nclc.00510
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Group of 66 spinners in -7 spinning room. They were the most openly profane and vulgar I have ever encountered in mill work. Florida St. Cyr (smallest girl), 24 Cray St. LOC nclc.02449
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Group gathering tobacco on farm of Daniel Barrett, Spottsville, Ky., Star Route. He is a renter. Boys all belong to other families and will go to Bluff City School, Div. 3, Henderson Co., LOC nclc.00509
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Group showing typical workers in the small mills of Virginia, while industry is at ebb-tide. Matoaca, Va. June 1911. The little ones on left end 'only help some. Have to be 14 to work.' LOC cph.3b36985
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Free Kindergarten (in Girards Ala.) run by the Eagle and Pho(e)nix Mills, Columbus, (Ga.) Has been closed over a year. The mill owners get a deal of free newspaper advertising about their LOC nclc.02821
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Frank Baldwin. Been spinning and doffing in Merrimack Mills for a year and a half, so he went to work at least at eleven years old, if we can believe the Family Record which says he is LOC nclc.02904
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