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Young spinners and doffers in Richmond Spinning Mills, taken during working hours. Smallest girl said she had been working there for months. The other girl said she didn't know how long. LOC nclc.01966
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Workers in the Nokomis Cotton Mill, Lexington, N.C. The smallest boy said he was 11 years old and makes 50 cents a day. Been doffing there for some months. The Band Boy who seems much LOC nclc.02643
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View of Clinton Mills (S.C.) Superintendent would not allow me to take photos in mill. Many youngsters employed. See photos Nos. 359 and 375. Dec. 2, 1908. Witness, Sara R. Hine. LOC nclc.01466
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Some of the youngsters on day shift (next week on night shift) at Old Dominion Glass Co., Alexandria, Va. I counted 7 white boys and several colored boys that seemed to be under 14 years LOC cph.3c15374
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Union Hospital case - Estelle Poiriere, 137 Robeson St., 15 years old. Doffer at Granite No. 1 mill. Laceration of index and middle finger of right hand. Caught in card machine. Injured Dec. LOC cph.3b17935
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Union Hospital case - Manuel Costa Maiata. 301 Ferry St. Sweeper in Fall River Iron Works five weeks - 17 years old. Broke wrist while sweeping. Slipped on a banana skin. LOC cph.3b05705
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Manuel Sousa and family, 306-2(nd) St., On right end is brother-in-law; next (to) him is father who works on the river; next is Manuel (appears to be 12 years old) wearing sweater and has LOC cph.3b12096
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Teresa Lerre, 5 years old, cranberry picker. 1024 S. 9th St., Philadelphia. The father and four children are picking. A 'carrier' may be seen at one side. Whites Bog, Browns Mills, N.J. This LOC nclc.05298
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Tersea --- carrying peck of cranberries (weighing about 15 pounds) long distance to 'bushel man.' Did not know age. Forsythe's Bog, Turkeytown, near Pemberton, N.J. Sept. 29, 1910 Witness E. LOC nclc.05313
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The Duncan Family, West Point, Miss. All in the cotton mill except mother and babe. The boy, Bill, said, 'I'm fifteen now. Been workin' in this mill eight years. Wasn't no law fer little LOC nclc.02124
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The employees in Payne Cotton Mill, Macon, Ga. One of the Bibb Mfg. Co. mills. Overseer told me this mill made 70% profit last year and expected to make 100% this year. All these children LOC nclc.01634
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Three Boys Shoveling Zinc Ore from Car Into Wagon, Near Big Bonanza Mine, Aurora, Mo. Youngest boy is Robert Nichols, next larger is Hobart Crawford. They both go to school and work on LOC nclc.01090
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Three adults and six children from seven years to twelve years hard at work on a sugar beet farm near Greeley Colorado. The father said- 'The children can thin the beets better than grown LOC nclc.00255
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Three young cutters who work in the Seacoast Canning Co., Factory -4, Eastport, Me. They work at night when the rush is on. Youngest is Rob Collins, 10 years old; next is Dan Collins, 11 LOC nclc.00946
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Topping tobacco. Roland Lowe, 13 years old in field with two brothers. There are 7 boys and 2 girls in the family, and 4 are in school. Father, Mose Lowe, R. Route 1, Winchester. Children go LOC nclc.00439
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Two little pickers. Manuel Alvez - 12 years, Marion Alvez, 8 years. She picks 19 measures. He picks 10 measures. Live 320 Water St., New Bedford, Mass. LOC nclc.00182
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Two of the young oyster shuckers and baby-tenders going home at 5-00 P.M. after a day begun at 4-00 A.M. and spent shucking oysters and tending baby. Smallest one is 'Teeny.' Other is LOC nclc.00874
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Two boys exposed to all kinds of weather picking out slabs from chute with a heavy moving chain that carries up the wood. The younger boy said he was thirteen years old; the other might be LOC nclc.04907
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Two boys working in Coventry Co. Mill, Anthony, R. I. 6 P.M. April 16, 1909. I saw about 10 boys and girls who looked to be under 14 years of age. LOC nclc.01661
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Congres Wereldraad van Kerken in Utrecht, dr Moltmann, Bestanddeelnr 925-8071
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T.J. Fields and family. The father cards, two girls spin, boy on right end picks up bobbins, Washington Cotton Mills, Fries, Va. Been working a year or two. Mother and smallest children not LOC nclc.02143
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Wilbur Gold, Western Union Messenger -14, twelve years old; works until 11 P.M., usually, but all night when they are busy (See report of L.W.H.) Note sign above his head. LOC nclc.03561
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Minister Ruding tijdens het debat, Bestanddeelnr 934-3901
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Worming tobacco. Part of family of D.K. Pruett who owns a prosperous farm. In foreground is Wyatt Pruett, 14 years old. Goes to Pruett School, Div. 3, Henderson, Ky. There are 4 boys working LOC nclc.00540
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WOMAN SUFFRAGE. (MISC. INDIVIDUAL SUFFRAGETTES). Miss Doris Stevens, youngest member of the national executive committee of the National Woman's Party, was arrested and sentenced to 60 days LCCN2016868822
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Workers in the Nokomis Cotton Mill, Lexington, N.C. The smallest boy said he was 11 years old and makes 50 cents a day. Been doffing there for some months. The Band Boy who seems much LOC cph.3a47667
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Topping tobacco. Roland Lowe, 13 years old in field with two brothers. There are 7 boys and 2 girls in the family, and 4 are in school. Father, Mose Lowe, R. Route 1, Winchester. Children go LOC nclc.00440
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Topping tobacco. Roland Lowe, 13 years old in field with two brothers. There are 7 boys and 2 girls in the family, and 4 are in school. Father, Mose Lowe, R. Route 1, Winchester. Children go LOC nclc.00442
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Topping tobacco. Roland Lowe, 13 years old in field with two brothers. There are 7 boys and 2 girls in the family, and 4 are in school. Father, Mose Lowe, R. Route 1, Winchester. Children go LOC nclc.00441
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Theresa Quinlan - 14 years old April 14th - Spooler. Hand cut in Iron Works Mill. Was taking loose band off a spooler. Two weeks learning. Is in picture of girls play at King Philip LOC cph.3b33430
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These pupils - one 13 years old, one 12, one 11 and two 10 are in the second grade of the Rockwood Place School, December 1. The age in this grade should be 7 and 8 years. The teacher said LOC cph.3b37515
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This was the only small newsie I could find in the vicinity of Brooklyn Bridge after midnight. Said he stayed out until 3 o'clock. Moses Markowitz, 171 Allen St., 14 yrs. old. LOC nclc.03625
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Selling the 'Warheit' - Jewish paper, at midnight, on Delancey Street. M. Brown - 247 Monroe Street, Age 10 - on right. H. Brown - 247 Monroe Street, Age 12 - on left. Scheer - 263 Stanton LOC nclc.03862
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Scotland Neck Cotton Mill. Group showing some of the youngest workers taken in the mill at starting time. Tiniest girl, one apparently 8 or 9, I saw at work at her knitting machine perched LOC nclc.02952
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View of the Gorenflo Canning Co., Biloxi, Miss. Taken at 7 A.M. Many tiny workers here, some of whom began to arrive as early as 5 o'clock, and (sic) hour before they were allowed to begin LOC cph.3a01043
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Victoria Borsa, 1223 Catherine St., Philadelphia. 4 year old berry picker. Brother 7 years old. While I was photographing them, the mother was impatiently urging them to 'pick, pick.' Whites LOC nclc.00062
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Some of the workers in Munford Cotton Mills. Smallest boy, in middle, a frail anaemic youngster, said he had been doffing over a year. Said he was twelve, but I doubt it. Other small boy, on LOC nclc.01929
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Some of the youngsters on day shift (next week on night shift) at Old Dominion Glass Co., Alexandria, Va. I counted 7 white boys and several colored boys that seemed to be under 14 years LOC nclc.01295
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Some of the boys working in Chace Cotton Mill, Burlington, Vermont (see label to photo -730) for names. May 5, 1909. 6 P.M. (Caption -730- All these small boys, and more, work in the Chace LOC nclc.01712
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11 year old daughter of Mr. Schneider. She and her 7 year old sister are kept out of school to work in the beets in spite of the fact that the father owns a farm of 250 acres, and he boasted LOC nclc.00389
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A little log cabin, - relic of the old days, - now occupied by a small family (F.T. Castle) who are gradually giving up farming and depending upon mining and odd jobs. Oct. 12, 1921. (Dogs). LOC nclc.04416
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A quiet game of marbles. All the boys work in the Salisbury (N.C.) cotton mill. The boy shooting is Henry Dedman, a warper. Been in mill 5 years. His grandmother said 'I don't like to have ' LOC nclc.01558
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Barbara Lieber, nine-year old beet worker hoeing with her eleven-year old sister on a Wisconsin farm near St. John. See Hine Report, Wisconsin Sugar Beet, July 1915. LOC nclc.00281
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All are oyster shuckers in the Dunbar Cannery. Began work about 3-00 A.M. and worked until about 5-00 P.M. with half an hour for lunch. The great hill of shells is only part of the season's LOC nclc.00914
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All in photos worked (even smallest girl and boys) and they went to work at (noon) 12-45. Some of the following boys and girls mey be 14, many are not. John Gopen, 189 Elm St. Joseph Stonge, LOC nclc.02328
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All in photos worked (even smallest girl and boys) and they went to work at (noon) 12-45. Some of the following boys and girls mey be 14, many are not. John Gopen, 189 Elm St. Joseph Stonge, LOC nclc.02331
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Oyster shuckers at work in Barataria Canning Co. Small girls working on left of photo are Gertrude Kron, five years old, Pauline --, eight years old. Also a small boy. Mildred Kron, three LOC cph.3a01052
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5 year old Preston, a young cartoner in a Maine Canning Co. I saw him at work different times during the day - at 7 a.m., in the afternoon and at 6 p.m., and he kept at it very faithfully LOC nclc.00936
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Dependent (able-bodied) parents. Family of Robert Barnes, E. 15 Magnolia, Miss. Father works irregularly. 'I supplies places in the mill when others are gone.' Been here two months, Worked a LOC nclc.02090
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Comparison of Ages- Feft (i.e., left) end, Marion Deschere, just passed 13 years. Helps sister in mill 'some.' Next is Mildred Greenwood, 'going on 14.' Goes to school. Next is Mamie La LOC nclc.02302
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At side of mill gate (western gate beside office) Manuel Andrew, 14 Windsor St. Smallest in the picture; apparently under 14. See -2290. Manuel Jason, 58 First St. Thinnest in the picture; LOC nclc.02212
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Asleep while waiting for morning papers. 11 P.M. February 11th, 1908. A grating at side of World Building, through which came a stream of warm air from ventilators. Various boys and men may LOC cph.3a31124
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Eva Boylan (14 years old) Amsterdam Ave. Parents are dead. Eva is supported by an older half sister, who had tuberculosis 3 years ago, but is now cured and working in a pickle factory at 4' LOC nclc.04639
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Henry, 10 year old oyster shucker who does five pots of oyster (sic) a day. Works before school, after school, and Saturdays. Been working three years. Maggioni Canning Co. LOC nclc.05334
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Group containing the following boys who work in the Sagamore Mfg. Company, Fall River. Manuel Corieiia (i.e., Correira) , 144 Cove St., works in Spinning room on top floor. Said, 'I only LOC cph.3b32764
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Group of boys who work in Suncock (N. H.) Mills. It is a large corporation, employing 1200 hands, but in all the three mills, I found only 1 girl and three boys that seemed to be under 14. LOC nclc.01744
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Family of Louis Rizzo, a laborer who works some. The wife and four children (none could speak English at all) work on feathers and make about $3.00 a week. Been in U.S. five months. Do not LOC nclc.05480
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Hamilton Family, sardine works, Eastport. Father earns $15 to $25 a week irregularly during the work season for three months. Said that 20 years ago he made $5 a day as a boy, cutting. The LOC cph.3b33769
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From left to right - upper row- 'Joy' (figure 3) carries branch of flowers; 'Play' (4) a hoop; 'Legislation' (5) shield; 'Public Opinion' (6) a trumpet; 'Knowledge' (7) a key; 'Greed' (8) a LOC nclc.05000
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Danville Messengers. The smallest boy, Western Union No. 5 is only ten years old, and is working as extra boy. He said he was going to be laid off as the manager told him he was too young, LOC nclc.03720
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Noon Hour - Kerr Thread. Little boy in front always gets jollied and he answers the men back as tough as you please. Father in saloon. Boy went in to get money. Saloon on Pleasant St. in LOC cph.3b33424
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Noon hour in drawing-in room of American Woolen Co., Winooski, Vermont. (Not the youngest girls.) Right hand- Tessie McGarth, next Sadio Finnogan, next Bernice Bedard. Two of them look to be LOC cph.3b25724
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Noon hour, Avondale Mills. The next day, Nov. 24th, I went through the mills during working hours and saw this young girl and six others like her working in the spinning and weave rooms. LOC cph.3a29776
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Noon-hour at Riverside Cotton Mills, Danville, Va. All are workers. The Supt., who posed them, said, 'Be sure not to get any little dinner-toters in the photo. We have none working under LOC nclc.02166
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Noon-hour at Riverside Cotton Mills, Danville, Va. All are workers. The Suprt., who posed them, said, 'Be sure not to get any little dinner-toters in the photo. We have none working under LOC nclc.02167
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Marie and Albert Kawalski. 615 S. Band St., Baltimore, Md. Albert is 10 and Marie 11 years old. They worked, with mother, last winter, shucking oysters for Varn & Beard Packing Co., Young LOC nclc.00749
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Maud Daly, five years old. Grace Daly, three years old. Pick shrimp at the Peerless Oyster Co. Their mother said they both help, and their sister said the little one worked the fastest. Many LOC nclc.00894
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Photos taken during noon hour, October 23rd, 1912, at the Loray Mills, Gastonia, N.C. They said they were working and went in to work. At night I counted over thirty children coming out when LOC cph.3a42524
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Photos taken during noon hour, October 23rd, 1912, at the Loray Mills, Gastonia, N.C. They said they were working and went in to work. At night I counted over thirty children coming out when LOC nclc.02665
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Photos taken during noon hour, October 23rd, 1912, at the Loray Mills, Gastonia, N.C. They said they were working and went in to work. At night I counted over thirty children coming out when LOC nclc.02667
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Photos taken during noon hour, October 23rd, 1912, at the Loray Mills, Gastonia, N.C. They said they were working and went in to work. At night I counted over thirty children coming out when LOC nclc.02669
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Millie, four years old and Nellie five years old. Cotton pickers on a farm near Houston, Millie picks eight pounds a day and Nellie thirty pounds. This is nearly every day. Home conditions LOC nclc.05536
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Rader Copeland (Lake Park). He was plowing during school hours and will lose 10 weeks of schooling. His father said that he needed the boy's help. He plows, plants, chops cotton, picks LOC nclc.00248
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Rader Copeland (Lake Park). He was plowing during school hours and will lose 10 weeks of schooling. His father said that he needed the boy's help. He plows, plants, chops cotton, picks LOC nclc.00245
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Newkirk children picking blackberries. Father, Hildred Newkirk. Willie, 15 years, Catherine 13 years, Clarence, 10 years and Sam, 8 years. Will start school (Indian Field) soon. Mother said- LOC nclc.00454
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Part of the force at Tupelo (Miss.) Cotton Mills. All work. Smallest ones not in photo. Among youngest here are- Coleman Miller, has been working one year, cannot write name, said twelve LOC nclc.02133
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Part of the force at Tupelo (Miss.) Cotton Mills. All work. Smallest ones not in photo. Among youngest here are- Coleman Miller, has been working one year, cannot write name, said twelve LOC nclc.02135
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Ollie Allen. Been working in Harriet Cotton Mills 2 years. He is a violation according to both his brother and life insurance policy which say he is 12 years old now. These statements are LOC nclc.02980
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Postal messenger -6. Said he was 14, but he does not seem to be. Frail, tiny and stunted. Works until 11 P.M. Says he goes to the Red Light some, and gets 25 cents extra then. LOC nclc.03937
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Magnolia Cotton Mills, Magnolia, Miss. 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 LOC nclc.02084
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Most of the workers in Munford Cotton Mills. The smallest boy, in middle, a frail anaemic youngster, said he had been doffing over a year. Said he was 12 years old, but I doubt it. The other LOC nclc.01930
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John Dempsey (looked 11 or 12) years old. Said he helped only on Saturdays. Jackson Mill, Fiskeville, R. I. (One of the B. B. and R. Knight mills). He was working faithfully in the LOC cph.3a20285
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John Dempsey (looked 11 or 12) years old. Said he helped only on Saturdays. Jackson Mill, Fiskeville, R. I. (One of the B. B. and R. Knight mills). He was working faithfully in the LOC cph.3a01133
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Jack O'Neill, 516 1-2 N. Shartell St. 11-year-old messenger working this week for the S. & S. Messenger Co. 'School closed this week on account of epidemic.' Photographed during school LOC nclc.04029
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Joe said 6 years old and his sister said 8 years old. Nine out of the seventy workers were from 6 to 12 years old. Mostly Syrians from Boston and Providence. LOC nclc.00151
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James Lequlla, newsboy, 12 years of age. Selling newspapers 3 years. Average earnings 50 cents per week. Selling newspapers own choice. Earnings not needed at home. Don't smoke. Visits LOC cph.3a26036
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Inez Johnson (9 years old) and Lily, her cousin (7 years old). Both were helping Mrs. Johnson, a spooler in Tupelo (Miss.) Cotton Mills. Inez said she works regularly. LOC nclc.02138
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Joseph Buonasari, 207 7th Street, Buffalo, N.Y. Second Grade, School -1. 12 years old last summer. Worked on beans and apples and tomatoes in sheds and factory, getting 50 cents a day, LOC nclc.00769
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Lloyd McMahan seven year old cotton picker on a farm near McKinney. 'School hasn't begun yet.' Usually it does not begin until picking is over. The whole family picks - nine members. Home LOC nclc.00222
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Leo, 48 inches high, 8 years old. Picks up bobbins at 15 cents a day in Elk Cotton Mills. He said, 'No, I don't help me sister or mother, just myself.' LOC cph.3a17765
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Charlie Scott, who lives at 19 Third St. is 9 years old and a truant newsboy. Said- 'I dunno where the school is.' Has been in the city 2 months. Photographed during school hours. LOC nclc.04027
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5-year-old Rosie Passeralla, 1116 Annan Street, Philadelphia. Been picking here two years. Whites Bog, Browns Mills, N.J. Sept. 28, 1910. Witness E. F. Brown. LOC nclc.05304
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5-year-old Rosie Passeralla, 1116 Annan Street, Philadelphia. Been picking here two years. Whites Bog, Browns Mills, N.J. Sept. 28, 1910. Witness E. F. Brown. LOC nclc.05304
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Bertha Marshall a berry picker on Jenkins Farm, Rock Creek, near Baltimore, Md. Been at it 2 summers. Picks about 10 boxes a day. (2 cents a box). Photo July 7, 1909. LOC nclc.00004
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Applying for work paper first time Gertrude Pereira, 99 Stowe St., 14 years old - to be a ring spinner in Borden City Mill. 6th Grade, Wiley School. Learned to spin in school vacations. LOC nclc.05071
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Tallest girl-Kate McManus. Smallest (next) Zorobell Hatley; (next) Louis Blanchard (next) Edith McManus.They said they had been in mill work only few weeks or months. Evidently they had ben LOC nclc.01561
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Young girl working in American Woolen Mills, Winooski, Vt. Most are illiterate. Work slack, and force small. 27 Children apparently under 15 were counted at one gate. (See also N.C.L.C. LOC nclc.01849
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Youngest girl in the window has been spinning in Royal Mill, River Point, R.I. for one year. Girl standing on lower step has been spinning 3 years. Some of the others work also. LOC cph.3b09808
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Willie Roberts 11 year old delivery boy in Reiss Department Store. LOC nclc.03949
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Wilson Dry Goods Company, large department store. Employs large number of youngsters as cashboys and wrappers. Counted seven apparently 9 to 12 years old, one 9 and other 10. Week's work LOC nclc.04825
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