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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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Group of workers in the Massachusetts Mills, Lindale, Ga. Photo taken at noon, April 12, 1913, while they were being paid off. During the days following this, I proved the ages of nearly a LOC nclc.02791
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Group of Workers in Glenallen Mill, including Adrienne Pagnette, Annie Dugas, Francis Pagnette, Anatole Gernon, apparently 11 or 12 years old, doffs on top floor spinning room of the above LOC nclc.02318
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Group showing some of the youngest workers taken in the Scotland Neck Cotton Mill at starting time. Tiniest girl, one apparently 8 or 9, investigator saw at work at her knitting machine LOC nclc.02962
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Gladys Goodrum, 116 Short Street, Columbus, Ga. Said 12 years old. Seen working nearly one year as looper in Massey Hosiery Mill. Makes $9. a week sometimes. LOC nclc.02802
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Every one of these youngsters went into work when the whistle blew, noon June 15, 1911, in the Chesapeake Knitting Mills, Berkley, Va. See also photos and labels 2245 to 2249. Following are LOC nclc.02200
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On right hand is Richard Fitzgerald, 53 Montgomery St., works in twisting room of Eclipse Mills, No. Adams. On left hand, Joseph Adams, 107 Front St., works in twisting room of Eclipse LOC nclc.02262
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Nearly the entire force, Yooona (i.e., Yocona) Mills, Water Valley, Miss. Some of the smallest workers not in the photo. The three smallest ones in front row hang around and help some. Baby LOC nclc.02107
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The Dickerson Family, Dependent Parents. Father (not in photo) works in a machine shop. All except mother and two babes work in the cotton mill, Winona. Mother said, 'Father earns good pay. LOC nclc.02114
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These boys all said they worked in the Everett Mill, another boy told me that the smallest boys do not work. There (sic) names are John Pickacki, 84 Union Street, smallest boy in the picture LOC nclc.02342
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The only school near the Cotton Mills, Winona, Miss. A private school taught by Miss. McIntosh, who for several years off and on has conducted it, charging each pupil only one dollar a LOC nclc.02118
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Sunday morning at Lynchburg Cotton Mill (Va.) Ed Tolley, the smallest, said 15 years old, but that is very doubtful. Others in these three photos, Lucien Tolley, Herbert Aultico, Henry Daly, LOC nclc.02044
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Asahel Curtis panorama of Bolcom Mills, Ballard district, Seattle (1910)
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A few of the youngsters in King Mfg. Co., Augusta, Ga. Taken at noon, Jan. 14, 1909. A party of us under the guidance of the Vice President had been shown through the mill but no evidences LOC nclc.01593
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A few of the small girls and boys (not the smallest ones) that I found working in the spinning room of one of the Amoskeag Mfg. Co. mills at Manchester, N.H. Photo taken at 1-00 p.m., May LOC nclc.01738
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All working in May Hosiery Mills. Youngest boy admitted 5 years of age and had been working there 9 months. He is... - NARA - 523342
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A spinner in Cycle Cotton Mill, Newton, N.C. She was 49 inches high. Been there 'bout 2 years.' 50 operatives and there were 10 children that looked to be under 12 years of age. LOC nclc.01545
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Dependent Parents (See also 2157) R.L. Witt. He is apparently working on the railroad, but his three oldest children, here work in the Roanoke (Va.) Cotton Mills. Mamie is only 12 years old LOC nclc.02151
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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 nclc.03093
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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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The whole force in Elk Cotton Mills. Tiny boy in white waist on extreme left, 'Just helps his mother,' the Superintendent said. Next boy to him is Leo, with a 'steady job,' see photo 1753. LOC nclc.01901
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Smallest boy does not work in the mill. The rest do. Great Falls Mfg. Co., Somersworth, N.H. Boy next in size to that one is James Carrigan, 24 Highland St. The other small boy is Fred LOC nclc.01767
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Smallest boy in front of man (in centre of photo) is Jo -- wouldn't give his name, very suspicious. He and the other boys said he is a sweeper in Acushnet Mill; lives at 697 S. Water St. LOC cph.3b46590
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Teddy Szlosek, (Josef's Brother) (on right hand). Stanley Rogesky, 8 Joy St., Illiterate. A band boy in -10 mill. His playmates at school say he may be fourteen but not any more, and that he LOC nclc.02440
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Teddy Szlosek, (Josef's Brother) (on right hand). Stanley Rogesky, 8 Joy St., Illiterate. A band boy in -10 mill. His playmates at school say he may be fourteen but not any more, and that he LOC nclc.02440
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Family of J. W. Lott at West. The father and three oldest children (two of them under legal age) work regularly in the Brazos Valley Cotton Mill. Charlie is thirteen years old. Family Record LOC nclc.02874
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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.02666
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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.02668
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Ralph Kuyrkendall. 'I'm learnin' to spin in Magnolia Cotton Mill. Work with Blanch --. I'm 10 years old. Been in the First Grade three years and Second Grade one year.' See photo of family, LOC nclc.02088
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Rose Biodo, 1216 Annan St., Philadelphia. 10 years old. Working 3 summers. Minds baby and carries berries, two pecks at a time. Whites Bog, Brown Mills, N.J. This is the fourth week of LOC nclc.05296
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Group of workers at Sagamore Mills -1. Some of these were boys we saw on Friday P.M., four on two floor, three on next floor, dodging about behind spinning frames as though trying to avoid LOC nclc.02259
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Group of workers going to work at 6-45 A.M. In Spring Village Mill. In this group are Mamie La Barge, Elizabeth and Lumina Demarais, Als de Gauthier, Erena La Prise (See previous labels for LOC nclc.02307
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John Doyle (smallest boy in street), apparently 12 or 13 years old. Small and Wizened. Been sweeping for a short time in Wamsutta Mill in -3 spinning room. Lives at 3 Mt. Pleasant St. LOC nclc.02482
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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.02164
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Young doffer and spinner boys in Seaconnet Mill. The youngest are Manuel Perry, 111 Pitman St. John E. Mello, 229 Alden St. Manuel Louis. None of these could write their own names. The last LOC nclc.02501
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Young girls working in American Woolen Mills, Winooski, Vt. Most are illiterate. Work slack and force small. 27 Children apparently under 15 years were counted at one gate. (See also LOC nclc.01848
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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.3a47666
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Portugal. On the site of the new mill, a laborer puts his shoulder to the job of dumping a loaded cart full of dirt.... - NARA - 541755
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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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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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Préveli La meule - Baud-bovy Daniel Boissonnas Frédéric - 1919
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Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. Junkies breaking up old looms, to be sold for scrap-iron and said to be sent to... - NARA - 518540
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Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. Junkies breaking up old looms, to be sold for scrap-iron and said to be sent to... - NARA - 518539
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King Philip Mill. Drawer-in - Young learner - 14 years old, Yvette Frappier, and teacher who has been a drawer-in 9 years. Only girl in department has been learning a few weeks. Drawing LOC cph.3b33427
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Group of men and girls working in the Aragon Mill. Rock Hill, S.C. - NARA - 523538
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Family of J. J. Moore. All but mother and two smallest children on steps work in Washington Cotton Mills, Fries Va. Smallest spinner (right hand end of front row) said she was 14, but she LOC nclc.02127
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Gracie Clark, 268 A Street (with a white dress) has been a spinner in the filling room of Merrimack Mill for three years. Her Life Insurance Policy gives her age thirteen years now, so she LOC nclc.02891
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Gracie Clark, 269 A Street (with white dress) has been a spinner in the filling room of Merrimack Mill for three years. Her Life Insurance Policy gives her age thirteen years now, so she LOC nclc.02898
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Frances Frigineto, 3 years old. Marie Frigineto, 5 years old, latter been picking two years. 711 Patchionk Ave., Philadelphia. Whites Bog, Brown Mills, N.J. This is the fourth week of school LOC nclc.05293
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High Point, North Carolina - Housing. Row of hovels occupied by colored workers from furniture and cotton mills ... - NARA - 518530
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Child Labor: Boy lost arm running saw in box factory, 1909
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6-00 P.M. Flashlight photo of part of force going home. Sibley Mfg. Co. Augusta, Ga. Some of the smallest boys said been in mill from one to several yrs. Jan. 15, 1909. LOC nclc.01644
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A 12 year old girl who has been working in Weave room of Conslidated (i.e., Consolidated) Duck Mills, La Grange, Ga., for one year and helping to support a father who works when sober. LOC nclc.02810
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Dependent (able-bodied) Parents. Smith Family, West Point, Miss. Three girls (in front) work in the mill. This boy and others work up town. Came from an Alabama farm six months ago. Smallest LOC nclc.02126
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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 nclc.02343
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These subjects went to work at 6-45 A.M. and many of them came out at 6 P.M. for they 'work' in this mill. New Bedford, Mass. August 24, 1911. 6-30 A.M. Richard K. Conant, Witness,) LOC nclc.02243
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These subjects went to work at 6-45 A.M. and many of them came out at 6 P.M. for they 'work' in this mill. New Bedford, Mass. August 24, 1911. 6-30 A.M. Richard K. Conant, Witness) LOC nclc.02240
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Sunday morning by the river. All of these boys work in Washington Cotton Mills, Fries, Va. Smallest boy doffs. Asked him his age, and he said, after hesitation, 'I don't know.' One of his LOC nclc.02144
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Jo Bradford, 405 Park Street, Lindale, Ga. Worked in Massachusetts Mills when 10 years old. Insurance record shows him 11 now. Works in the weave shop. No need, apparently, as father and 5 LOC nclc.02799
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The Norton boys and father on the way home to dinner. Smallest boy Edgar been sweeping 3 months in Saxon Mill, Spartanberg. Makes about 40 cents a day. His brother makes 60 cents. Father LOC nclc.02563
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Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. Numerous mail boxes indicate numerous tenants in the mill building, 185 Sixth Avenue. - NARA - 518779
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France. Shown here is the Voelklingen Iron and Steel Works, largest steel mill in the Saar. In addition to numerous... - NARA - 541686
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Joseph Boucher, 472 Moody, smallest boy in picture, appears 12 years old. Works in the mill-room. His father is boss of another room. Frank Matley next in right end of picture lives at 25 LOC cph.3b43675
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Group fo (i.e., of) workers going to work at 6-45 A.M. In Spring Village Mill. In this group are Mamie La Barge, Elizabeth and Lumina Demarais, Als de Gauthier, Erena La Prise (See previous LOC nclc.02306
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Group of boys working in Woodstock Cotton Mills. Smallest boy is Will Earwood, said he had been working there six years. Another small boy said he had been working there nearly ten years. LOC nclc.01928
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All work in Delta Cotton Mills, Mc Comb Miss. Smallest boy, a band-boy, is Johnnie Mathews, apparently only ten or eleven, but his mother assured me he is nearly fourteen, which is very LOC nclc.02082
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Mike Peoki, 707 South 7th St., Philadelphia. Didn't know age. Mother said 9 years. White's Bog, Brown Mills, N.J. This is the fourth week of school and the people here expect to remain two LOC nclc.05294
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Lillie Robertson, a young spinner in Century Cotton Mills, South Boston, Va. Runs four sides. Sister Mamie (with cup) helps her and is ten years old. Baby doesn't work yet. Father works in LOC nclc.02175
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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. Photos LOC nclc.01850
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Young girls working in American Woolen Mills, Winooski, Vt. Most are illiterate. Work slack, and force small. (See N.C.L.C. Photos -720-745, May 1909.) 27 Children apparently under 15, were LOC nclc.01855
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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.3b31142
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Papierfabriek in Imatra, Bestanddeelnr 920-4765
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Waldeisenbahnzug der Paepcke-Leicht, Chicago Mill and Lumber Co., Vereinigte Staaten von Nord-Amerika. Big Lake, Arkansas unweit Memphis, den 9. September 1904
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Comparison of Ages. Some of the youngest workers in Roanoke (Va.) Cotton Mills. On right-hand end is seven year old Frank, a helper. Next to him is twelve year old Ronald, a doffer. On his LOC nclc.02154
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Bibb Mill No. 1, Macon, Ga. Many youngsters here. Some boys and girls were so small they had to climb up on to the... - NARA - 523148
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Mill boys pitching pennies on the Main St. in the afternoon. One said he sweeps. One said 'I was workin' but got canned 'cause I was not fast enough.' The other was 'jest hangin' around.' LOC cph.3b33406
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One way to keep the children out of the mill. Mrs. D.E. Hudson, South Boston, Va. Her children are seated around her. In the chairs are some of her boarders. Children are well-kept. The home LOC cph.3a29780
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Madeline Causey ten year old worker in Merrimack Mills. Been working there for four months. Fills batteries. Her mother said she was born July 8, 1903. See Hine report. LOC nclc.02909
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Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. Mill at 185 Sixth Avenue which houses a number of family shops. - NARA - 518780
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Mrs. Streety (a widow) and family. West Point, Miss. The four children on the ground work in the mill. Oldest makes 90 cents a day, - the next, 70 cents, - the boy 30 cents, ('He's slow,' LOC nclc.02125
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Myrtle Bagwell, one of the youngest of the spinners in Spartan Mills, Spartenberg (sic), S.C. Lives 104 Duncan Street. Been working nearly 2 years. Older sister said she could not find the LOC cph.3b36987
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Taos County, New Mexico. This flour mill at Can-Oncito is about 80 years old. - NARA - 521859
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Tenjeta Calone, Philadelphia, 10 years old. Been picking cranberries 4 years. White's Bog, Browns Mills, N.J. This is the fourth week of school and the people here expect to remain two weeks LOC nclc.00048
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