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Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. After the Labor Day queen coronation ceremony, a d . . . - NARA - 538464
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Minnie Thomas, 9 years old, showing average size of sardine knife used in cutting. Some of the children used a knife as large as this. Minnie works regularly in Seacoast Canning Co., Factory LOC nclc.05475
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Basso family, making roses in dirty poorly lighted kitchen. Pauline, 6 years old, works after school. Peter, 8, works... - NARA - 523515
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Cutting out embroidery on the dirty kitchen floor. Battista family, 259 E. 151 St. N.Y. On the right is the married daughter, who lives down stairs and usually works there. On her right next LOC nclc.04128
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Alberta Mc Nadd on Chester Truitt's Farm. Alberta is 5 years old and has been picking berries since she was 3. Her... - NARA - 523320
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A Product of the 4 H Club. Gradie Walton, 17 yrs. old, - is very deficient in most school branches (except in mathematics where he shines). He is much handicapped physically, - lost one eye LOC nclc.04378
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All are workers in the Ross Cannery, Seaford, Del. The smallest girl seen in the picture was at work 8 o'clock in the morning of the investigation and was seen the same night at 9 P.M. LOC nclc.00793
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All in the picture work in the spinning room of the Washington Mill. Front row, left end, Joseph Cratano, 55 Railroad St. Apparently 11 or 12. Center, Thomas Murphy, 24 Spruce St., LOC nclc.02362
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All working in May Hosiery Mills, youngest boy admitted ten years of age and been working there 9 months. He is already afflicted with eye-trouble and carries his head much on one side. LOC nclc.01891
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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.02153
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Conrad Helmut's two girls, 6 and 8 yrs. old, pulling beets, near Sterling, Colo. The ground was hard and the little ones tugged away at the beets steadily. There are three smaller children LOC nclc.00323
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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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Camille Carmo, Justine, 7 and 9 years old. The older one picks about 4 pails a day. Youngest was picking also.... - NARA - 523474
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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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The whole force in Elk Cotton Mills. Tiny boy in white waist on extreme left, 'Just helps his mother,' the superintendent said. Next boy is Leo, with a 'steady job,' see photo 1753. LOC nclc.01900
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Some of the padrones on Whites Bog, Browns Hills (i.e., Mills), N.J. The chief padrone (in straw hat) is Gus Denato (see report of E.F. Brown). Sept. 28, 1910. Witness, E.F. Brown. LOC nclc.05306
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Some of the padrones on Whites Bog, Browns Hills (i.e., Mills), N.J. The chief padrone (in straw hat) is Gus Denato (see report of E.F. Brown). Sept. 28, 1910. Witness, E.F. Brown. LOC nclc.05306
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Some of the young workers in Laurel Cotton Mills, Laurel, Miss. Tallest man is Mr. Hollingsworth. Two of his boys in front row. Sylvester, ten years old, 'Only helps in the mill afternoons LOC cph.3c07334
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Isidor Rothandler, 80 Ridge Street, New York. Idiopathic Idiocy. Mother worked hard before marriage, and was ailing while Isidor was coming. Further data in their files; -1695 Nurse LOC nclc.04883
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Estice Webb Herrmann, who left the seventh grade of the Elizabethtown, Ky. Public School in October 1915 soon after commencing the grade to be married. Was only 15 years old. Now living on a LOC nclc.00402
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Freddie Kafer, a very immature little newsie selling Saturday Evening Posts and newspapers at the entrance to the State Capitol. He did not know his age, nor much of anything else. He was LOC cph.3a26048
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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 workers from Indian Orchard Mfg. Co. including following names and others- Mose Fournier, 297 Worcester St.; in Mr. Karnes' room. Wilfred Croteau lives on Worcester St., in front of LOC nclc.02278
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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 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.02793
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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.02790
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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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Forest Kellison, 4 H Club member treating his sheep for internal parasites under direction of Harold Willey, Farm Bureau Agent. 250 of these club boys and girls in the county. (See Photo No. LOC nclc.04427
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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. 2, Henderson Co. LOC nclc.00511
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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 coming out of Great Falls Mfg. Co., Somersworth, N.H., 6 p.m. May 18, 1909. See photos and labels -(not filled in). Many of these young boys and girls go in as 'helpers' to mothers, LOC nclc.01753
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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 of boys working in -9 Breaker, Pennsylvania Coal Co., Hughestown Borough, Pittston, Pa. In this group were Sam Belloma, Pine Street, Angelo Ross, 142 Panama Street, and others LOC nclc.01146
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Evelyn Casey, 129 Gaynore St., 14 years, 6 months - Irish. Went to work on 14th birthday cleaning harnesses in Borden Mills. Left because of no work and expects to learn weaving in Flint LOC nclc.05036
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Jo Durco. This man, his wife and two children, Mary 8 years, Tony 10 years, do all the work on a large plot of beets. They are blocking and thinning now. LOC cph.3a38907
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John Towers, 627 S. Connell Street. Postal Telegraph Company, Messenger -9. 15 years of age. In service 1 year. Visits houses of prostitution. Sometimes smokes. Edward F. Brown, LOC cph.3a01148
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Johnnie Merkle 6 yr. Old newsie. Home of Johnnie Merkle, 5110 N. Broadway. Father owns this home and a butcher shop. Johnnie's brother owns and runs a nickelode(o)n. LOC nclc.03522
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Family of B. A. Tucker, 79 Oregon Street. Father, oldest daughter and two boys work in the Lynchburg Cotton Mills, (Va.) Been there a couple of years. Boys are about twelve years old. LOC nclc.02050
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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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Farrand Packing Co. A young berry picker on Curran's farm, Rock Creek. This boy, Irvan Stevans, and the other (see 828) were the only whites working with a large number of negroes that day, LOC nclc.00001
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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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One of the smallest boys I found at the Converse Manufacturing Co., Converse, S.C. just beginning to spin. 33 cents a day. Very few young children here but I was told it was due to the LOC nclc.02597
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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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Rhea Quintin - 14 years old. Hand drawing in on Webb frame. Been at it about 3 months. Requires great deal of mental application and accuracy and good oversight. Takes over a year to learn. LOC nclc.05602
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Rhea Quintin - 14 years old. Hand drawing in on Webb frame. Been at it about 3 months. Requires great deal of mental application and accuracy and good oversight. Takes over a year to learn. LOC cph.3b33418
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Rhea Quintin - 14 years old. Hand drawing in on Webb frame. Been at it about 3 months. Requires great deal of mental application and accuracy and good oversight. Takes over a year to learn. LOC nclc.03051
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Flashlight photo of boys going home from King Mfg. Co., 6 P.M. Augusta, Ga. Smallest boy-Otis Pollard been there 2 years. Other boy been there 4 years. LOC nclc.01602
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Fifteen year old delivery boy for Linders Drug Store, which is located on the edge of the Reservation, Griffin Street. The boy has just returned from a trip to these Houses. He works from 8 LOC nclc.03899
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Going to dinner from Great Falls Mfg. Co., Somersworth, N.H. May 18, 1909. A number of young boys and girls work regularly (during school hours) as 'helpers' to mother, father or sister. LOC nclc.01768
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Postal Telegraph boy, Danville, Va. That night he refused to show me through the Red Light District, said the manager did not permit them to go on such errands. A Western Union boy (tallest LOC cph.3c21884
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Pensacola Navy Yard log book entries for 1 -3 July 1836, entry for 1 July 1836 includes names of enslaved laborers
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Photograph of Wilbur H. Woodward, Western Union Messenger 236, is one of the youngsters on the border line. He is 15... - NARA - 306621
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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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Hazel Davis, Tinney, Okla. 7 years old. Picks 50 pounds of cotton in half a day, according to testimony of father and brother. Father owns farm. Hazel goes to Prairie Lee School. LOC nclc.00607
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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 LOC nclc.00455
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Making neckties in the kitchen. The 11 year old girl and 13 year old boy work on the ties every day after school. The... - NARA - 523523
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Kibbe's Candy Factory. Freddie Reed, 14 years, Hayden St., been working a few months. Left school this year as soon as he reached the legal work age. Is earning $ 4.00. LOC cph.3a29837
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Mery Horn, a hunchback. The doctor told her it was a severe case and was being aggravated by the heavy load of papers she carried and so she must stop. She replied 'But I need the spending LOC nclc.03232
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Noon, June 10, 1909. Parker Mill, Warren, R.I. I saw these and nearly a dozen youngsters who looked to be under 14 at work there that A.M. when I went through the mill as a visitor. LOC nclc.01813
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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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Mrs. Montemora, Fifty-five years old, is janitress for a large tenement, 133 W. Houston St., (lives Apt. 7) housing 26 families. When not tending the furnace or occupied with other duties LOC nclc.04145
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Mrs. Fannie Foster, a widow in the cotton mill at Matoaca, Va. The smallest girl has been in the mill for a year. The other one has been in the mill but work was so slack that she made only LOC cph.3b36983
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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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Young girls working in Seaconnet Mill. The boys and men had just been hauling the girls around and pawing them over in 'rough house' as these noon hours sometimes are. Some of the girls make LOC nclc.02498
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Workers in Phoenix, Mill, Phoenix, R.I. Two largest boys, Joseph and Albert Paranthean have been in the mill over a year. Boy on left hand end, Joseph Miclette is beginning to work. Sunday LOC nclc.01688
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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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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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Small boy on the floor is Johnnie Schraker, 8 years old, earns 45 cents a day, been at it three years. Note how they stand on the rough, sharp shells. Alabama Canning Co.,. LOC nclc.00831
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Jo Durco. This man, his wife and two children, Mary 8 years, Tony 10 years, do all the work on a large plot of beets. They are blocking and thinning now. LOC nclc.00692
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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.3a19626
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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 Schuman left alone at the shack with all these babies and the adults far off in the field, out of sight. Mollie tops and piles too. Nine persons live in this one-room LOC nclc.00354
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Team work. Older brother makes smaller boy do the work. Small boy said he was 9 years old. Appears to be 7. May 7th, 1910. Witness E.N. Clopper. LOC nclc.03485
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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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Basil Roberts and James Hopper, both 12 years old, go to school when in session and work at Coleman Bros. Zinc Mine, Aurora, Mo., Saturdays and holidays, culling 'waste' from the zinc ore on LOC cph.3a24704
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Basil Roberts and James Hopper, both 12 years old, go to school when in session and work at Coleman Bros. Zinc Mine, Aurora, Mo., Saturdays and holidays, culling 'waste' from the zinc ore on LOC nclc.01088
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Lloyd McAbee been doffing several months in the Spartan Mill, Spartenberg (sic), S.C. His step brother Walter Brown been working for one year. The parents said they couldn't find the family LOC nclc.02578
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7-year old Rosie. Regular oyster shucker. Her second year at it. Illiterate. Works all day. Shucks only a few pots a day. (Showing process) Varn & Platt Canning Co. LOC nclc.01014
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A beautiful young spinner and doffer in Interlaken Mill, Arkwirght, R. I. She has worked there 1 year. Looked 12 yrs. old and had a hectic flush caused by warm, close atmosphere. LOC cph.3b07717
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A family making silk flowers. Father wears a cast. Does not work. Boy, 11 years old, helps some. New York City. - NARA - 523516
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Applying for certificate - Leo Mette, 205 Albany St., 14 years. Application for Flint Mill as sweeper. Left school in 3rd grade. Slightly defective speech. 2nd application. Worked two weeks LOC nclc.05063
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Archie Haydon, 12 years old helping his father, John A. Haydon worm tobacco. Father says their school (Cerulean) was not opened until the first Monday in September on account of so many LOC nclc.00573
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34 children present at the Grant School, Ft. Morgan, Colo., five weeks after school opened, out of a possible 200 that will be here when the beet work is over. They will overflow, this year, LOC nclc.00367
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Daisy Langford, 8 yrs. old works in Ross' canneries. She helps at the capping machine, but is not able to 'keep up.' She places caps on the cans at the rate of about 40 per minute working LOC cph.3a03544
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Mother and children hulling strawberries at Johnson's Hulling Station. Cyral (in baby cart) is 2 yrs. old this May and works steadily hulling berries. At times Cyral would rest his little LOC nclc.05326
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Dunbar School, a shack belonging to the City Schools of Lawton and in the city limits. Has been in use a good many years - some say since the country opened up, 16 years ago. The Country LOC nclc.00673
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Estice Webb Herrmann, who left the seventh grade of the Elizabethtown, Ky. Public School in October 1915 soon after commencing the grade to be married. Was only 15 years old. Now living on a LOC nclc.00401
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Flashlight photo 6 P.M. going home from King Mfg. Co. Two of the smallest boys been in mill 2 years. One of the... - NARA - 523150
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Group of workers in Danville, (Va.) Knitting Works, Only a few of them would pose. I watched them going to and coming from work; also went through the factory during working hours. One LOC cph.3b05703
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Group of boys who were suspicious and refused to give name. But some of the names were obtained from other boys. Peter Horency, County St., at left of picture. He is 14 according to Birth LOC nclc.02242
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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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Freddie Kafer, a very immature little newsie selling Saturday Evening Posts and newspapers at the entrance to the State Capitol. He did not know his age, nor much of anything else. He was LOC nclc.05577
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Freddie Kafer, a very immature little newsie selling Saturday Evening Posts and newspapers at the entrance to the State Capitol. He did not know his age, nor much of anything else. He was LOC nclc.05577
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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 months in one mill and two LOC nclc.05068
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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.02134
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Percy Neville, eleven year old messenger boy. Messenger boy -6 for Mackay Telegraph Company. He has been messenger for different companies for four years. Goes to the Reservation every day. LOC nclc.05548
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Percy Neville in the heart of the Red Light district. Just come out of one of the houses with message (which see in his hand). He said gleefully 'She gimme a quarter tip.' See also Hine LOC cph.3b47848
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