9,193 Free Images of Labor

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Maggie Burton, 14 years old. A typical adolescent. Sister to Charley Burton (see large photo - 277). Been Spinning 6 years. Can run 7 sides = 70 cents a day . Does run 5 sides = 50 cents a LOC nclc.01408
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Monongah Glass Co., Fairmont, W. Va. Jo Before a glass wks boy going home, 5 P.M. He says he is 12 years old, and has been at it one year- is a 'ketchin-up-boy' $.70 a day- says glass LOC cph.3a21698
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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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Left hand boy of three, Anton Perry, 723 Water Street, Ward 6. Works in Mill. Birth certificate makes him 14. Right hand boy Joseph Oliver, 164 Fourth Street, Ward 5. Works in drawing room LOC nclc.02228
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Men and boys of this family all work in Eureka Cotton Mills. H.O. Roof. B. F. Roof -10 years in mill. Lawrence Roof-4 years in mill. Albert Roof-(Smallest) 1 year in mill. Doffs-50 cents a LOC nclc.01460
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Home of Ansley Westover, rear of 8 1-2 Milton St., Worcester, Mass. Mother and children, 4 yrs., 8 yrs., 10 yrs., 11 yrs., and 12 yrs., earn about $4 to $5 a week. Work until 9 P.M. LOC nclc.05505
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Willie Cohen, 1210 So. 6th St., 8 years of age, newsboy, attends John Hay School. Was selling papers at Phila. & Reading Terminal 10-30 A.M. Monday June 13th, Said it was Jewish Holiday. Max LOC nclc.03626
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Small shack on Forsythe's Bog, occupied by De Marco family, 10 in the family living in this one room. Room is 10 ft. x 11 ft. X 5 1-2 ft. high and gable attic above. (See family picking LOC nclc.05309
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Small shack on Forsythe's Bog, occupied by De Marco family, 10 in the family living in this one room. Room is 10 ft. x 11 ft. x 5 1-2 ft. high and gable attic above. Wooden toilets near at LOC nclc.05310
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Jo Veal, 219 Park Street, Lindale, Ga. Family Record shows him born August 20, 1901, and he went to work (4 mos. ago) just over 11 years. His wages are not necessary. Father and three boys LOC cph.3b32761
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Sunday. 7 yr. old news-boy, without a badge, who tried to 'short-change' me when he sold me a paper. 'He can rustle de poipers'another boy said. William Parralla, 313 Second St., S.W.,. LOC cph.3b38483
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Sweepers and doffers in Royal Mill, River Point, R.I. Boy on right hand end, Frank Jetro has been in mill 3 years. Next Jos. Jetro, nearly 3 years. Next Manuel Ray; 2 years. Next Jo. Jolian; LOC nclc.01685
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Sarah Crutcher, 12-year-old girl herding cattle. Route 4, c-o S.O. Crutcher. She was out of school (-49 Comanche County) only 2 weeks this year and that was to herd 100 head of cattle for LOC nclc.00683
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Demetra Jones. Father, G.G. Jones, R. 3, Sonora, Ky. 11-year old farm hand. Father said- 'She's the only farm hand I got. She helps a lot in the field work and house work too. Is good in LOC nclc.00467
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Demetra Jones. Father, G.G. Jones, R. 3, Sonora, Ky. 11-year old farm hand. Father said- 'She's the only farm hand I got. She helps a lot in the field work and house work too. Is good in LOC cph.3c26794
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Maple Mill, Dillon, S.C. Bertie Collins (girl). Has been spinning 3 years. Runs 6 sides 60 cents a day. Rudolph Collins. Has doffed 3 years. Is 12 years old. Three others will join the ranks LOC cph.3b32763
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Little Fannie, 7 years old, 48 inches high, helps sister in Elk Mills. Her sister (in photo) said, 'Yes, she he'ps me right smart. Not all day but all she can. Yes, she started with me at LOC nclc.01893
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6 yr. old Earle Holt (or Hope), 712 H St., S.W., Washington, D.C., sells papers for a neighbor boy. When I met him, within an hour he had forgotten that I had photographed him, but he didn't LOC cph.3c11184
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8,9 and 10 years old starting out at 6 A.M. Sunday. (Caption -602- '6-00 A.M. Sunday, March 7, 1909. Boys starting out with Sunday papers. Some were only 8 and 9 years old. Many more LOC nclc.03302
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4 P.M. Right - Frank Pristare, 456 Sixth St. 11 years old. Work 'ain't good. Sells to a half-dozen customers, and a few extras. Spends all his money. Left - Chas. Ciensola, 115 Grand St. 14 LOC nclc.03831
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Annette Roy, the youngest worker. Said 7 years old. Picked last year. Lives 171 Orange Street, Fall River, Mass. Also Napoleon Ruel, 53 Hopkins Street, Fall River, Mass. Said 9 years old. LOC nclc.00128
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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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A typical group of Postal Messengers. Smallest on left end, Wilmore Johnson, been there one year. Works days only.... - NARA - 523438
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A.D.T. Messenger Boy. 10 P.M. Indianapolis, Ind. - NARA - 523085
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A) L. Seizwater, 333 Christian St., age 13, sells papers in subway. Works from 2 P.M. to 11 P.M. daily. Saturdays from 9 A.M. to 2 A.M. Sundays. Earnings 25 cents daily. (b) Jacob Cross, LOC nclc.03635
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A group of berry pickers at Newton's Farm, Bridgeville, Del. 2 Children are 7 years of age. 2 Children are 8 years of age. 2 Children are 9 years of age. 2 Children are 11 years of age. 3 LOC nclc.00105
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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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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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Arts of laborant achter een schrijftafel, Bestanddeelnr 900-7646
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Two girls and boy beginning work in Amoskeag Mfg. Co., Manchester, N. H. 1-00 P.M., May 21, 1909. Photo taken in outer hall of spinning room where I saw them working. Left hand is Diana LOC nclc.01737
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Nerva Wright, 119 William St., runs 4 sides in Saxon Mill, Spartenberg (sic), S.C. Been spinning one year. 3 children are in the mill. 'My eyes hurt me when I'm out doors. It's so dark in LOC nclc.02566
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Sarah Crutcher, 12-year-old girl herding cattle. Route 4, c-o S.O. Crutcher. She was out of school (-49 Comanche County) only 2 weeks this year and that was to herd 100 head of cattle for LOC nclc.00682
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Room 21 in Shanty - 2, in settlement called Rome, on White's Bog, Browns Mills, N.J. 3 persons live here, cranberry pickers. Family of Rocco De Gruerio. Room is 6 ft. x 7 ft. and 7 ft. high. LOC cph.3b10485
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On streets near Daniel Mill. Lincolnton, N.C. Right hand boy-Dan Biggerstaff. 10 years old. Has worked 3 years. Goes to school now (he says). Left hand, John Erwin. Said 11 years old. Has LOC nclc.01384
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Only 5 pupils present out of about 40 expected when beet work is over. School -1, Dist. 3, Ft. Morgan, Colo. Oct. 26-15, over five weeks after school opened. The poor attendance in all these LOC nclc.00380
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Orley Shrouce, 8 Ozark Mill. 10 years old. Said he worked a year, but when new law came in a while ago the mill people turned him off,-too young. 'Then they came again and hired me back.' LOC nclc.01370
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Raymond Bykes, Western Union No. 23, Norfolk Va. Said he was fourteen years old. Works until after one A.M. every night. He is precocious and not a little 'tough.' Has been here at this LOC cph.3c30786
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Raymond Bykes, Western Union No. 23, Norfolk Va. Said he was fourteen years old. Works until after one A.M. every night. He is precocious and not a little 'tough.' Has been here at this LOC cph.3c30786
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Roy Young, said 10 years old. Works with brother Willis, 12 years old in Massey Hosiery Mills. Roy has worked some nights, once until 10 P.M. and he fell asleep in school next day. Haywood LOC nclc.02815
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Five cranberry pickers - all cousins. Smallest is Joe Sylva, 618 Water St., New Bedford, said 10 years old. Picks 10 pails a day at 7 cents. Arthur Sylva, said 13 years, picks 30 pails a LOC nclc.00156
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James Morgan, 119 French St. Newsboy. 9 years of age. Selling newspaper 4 years. Average earnings 50 cents per week. Selling papers own choice. Don't smoke. Visits saloons. Works 6 hours per LOC nclc.03605
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Interior of tobacco shed, Hawthorn Farm. Girls in foreground are 8, 9, and 10 years old. The 10 yr. old makes 50 cents a day. 12 workers on this farm are 8 to 14 years old, and about 15 are LOC nclc.00737
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Interior of tobacco shed, Hawthorn Farm. Girls in foreground are 8, 9, and 10 years old. The 10 yr. old makes 50 cents a day. 12 workers on this farm are 8 to 14 years old, and about 15 are LOC nclc.00736
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Israel April, 314 I St., S.W., Washington, D.C. 'I serves the President'. 9 yr. old news boy with no badge selling near Willard Hotel, Sunday P.M., 4-14-12. Been selling for several years. I LOC nclc.03780
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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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Family of W.T. Frakes, Route 5, Lawton, Okla. Mother said 6-year old Warren picked 41 pounds of cotton yesterday 'An I don't make him pick; he picked last year.' Had about 20 pounds in his LOC nclc.00609
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Family of J. M. Payne, Route 1, Lawton, Okla. Mrs. Payne and four children picking cotton. Mart, 5 years, picks from 10 to 20 pounds a day (average) Harley, 7 years, picks 40 pounds a day LOC nclc.00595
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Home of Ansley Westover, rear of 8 1-2 Milton St., Worcester, Mass. Mother and children, 4 yrs., 8 yrs., 10 yrs., 11 yrs., and 12 yrs., earn about $4 to $5 a week. Work until 9 P.M. LOC nclc.05505
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Group of tobacco pickers in Bermant plantation, 3 were 10 yrs, 3 were 11 yrs, 13 were 12 yrs, 12 were 13 yrs, 2-14 yrs old. The owner said, 'They all get $1.25 a day.' LOC nclc.00700
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Face detail, 'Teeny' Adams, eleven years old. Picks shrimp at Biloxi Canning Co. Makes $1.15 on good days. Lost three weeks of school last month. Expects to work before school now, - I saw her beginning LOC cph.3a01044 (cropped)
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Going to work on the night shift, Amoskeag Mfg. Co., 6 P.M. Manchester, N.H. This boy has been working all night here for 5 months. Geo. Crossley lives on Arath St., R. FF. D. No. 1- Box 7 LOC cph.3b18635
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Compare ages- Veronica Mikula, says 12 years old, 93 N. Front St., Steven Mikula, (in mill) says 15 years, appears less than 14. Photo taken in spare unused room too cold to warm. They crowd LOC cph.3a47663
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Eleven year old newsie who has been selling for three years. He gets up at 2-30 A.M. Sundays, and at 5-00 A.M. school days. Makes about $1.25 a day. Norval Sharp. Photo taken early Sunday LOC nclc.03883
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Elm Pool Room (inside)- Nathan Sher, 69 Walden St. William Donovan, Elm Pool Room. George, 28 Elm St. (youngest pin boy). Bill Simmons (manager). Frank Worcester, 28 Elm St. Alton Tripp, 31 LOC nclc.04778
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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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Boy with coat in hand is 11 years old. Been there 9 months. Started at 50 cents a day. Now gets 60 cents. Loray Mill. 'When I sweeps double space I gets 90 cents a day, but it makes you LOC cph.3a48536
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Boys going home from Sunday School. Right to left. Willie Long - in mill 4 yrs.; James Hurley; Lloyd Long - 12 yrs., in mill 2 yrs.; Spurgeon Price - 13 yrs., in mill 3 yrs.; Clarence Price LOC nclc.01337
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Callie Campbell, 11 years old, picks 75 to 125 pounds of cotton a day, and totes 50 pounds of it when sack gets full. 'No, I don't like it very much.' Lewis W. Hine. See 4590. See W.H. Swift LOC nclc.00629
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5 P.M. Mrs. Mary Molinari and family, 304 E. 107th St. 'We made feathers some, but not much.' Six-year-old Antoinette ties like an old hand. Dominick, 9 years old, works some. Annie 9, the LOC nclc.04122
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5 P.M. Mrs. Mary Mauro, 309 E. 110th St., 2nd floor. Family work on feathers. Make $2.25 a week. In vacation 2 or 3 times as much. Victoria, 8 yrs. Angelina 10 yrs. (a neighbor). Frorandi 10 LOC cph.3b17530
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5 P.M. Mrs. Mary Mauro, 309 E. 110th St., 2nd floor. Family work on feathers. Make $2.25 a week. In vacation 2 or 3 times as much. Victoria, 8 yrs. Angelina 10 yrs. (a neighbor). Frorandi 10 LOC cph.3b17530
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Mrs. S. J. Bonner and 2 boys. Work in Bibb Mill No. 1, Macon, Ga. She earns $3.50 a week. Boys together earn $4.90 a week. Husband died when they lived on a farm. She couldn't get any heavy LOC nclc.01591
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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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Lea Clemner, 5 Trenton Street, Gastonia, N.C. 8 years old. Beginning to doff. Said he gets only 15 cents a day. Works part time in mill (4 days a week and part time goes to school. Query, LOC nclc.01407
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Bowery bootblack. New York City. - NARA - 523325
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A reflection on the parent. Reflection in looking glass shows the father who has been picking nuts but refused to... - NARA - 523493
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8 A.M. A cold and windy day. Small boy, Paul Zozzaro, 9 years old, begins at 7 A.M. daily. Then goes to school. Sells after school until 6 P.M. and later. Older brother, Tony, gets up at 5 LOC cph.3b38157
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Sunday morning, March 7, 1909. Morris Hurowitz, 10 years old. Been selling 2 years. Sells Saturday until 8 P.M. Starts out again Sunday at 7 A.M. Sells 25 or more Sunday papers. Is a bright LOC nclc.03249
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Small shack on Forsythe's Bog, occupied by De Marco family, 10 in the family living in this one room. Room is 10 ft. x 11 ft. x 5 1-2 ft. high and gable attic above. Wooden toilets near at LOC nclc.05310
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Small shack on Forsythe's Bog, occupied by De Marco family, 10 in the family living in this one room. Room is 10 ft. x 11 ft. X 5 1-2 ft. high and gable attic above. (See family picking LOC nclc.05309
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Nick Pilisotta, ten years old, 899 Fayard St. Works some in the Biloxi Canning Co. 'I want to quit school and work steady. Make 50 cents a day. Made $1.30 one day last year when shrimp was LOC cph.3a01042
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The Davison Family, 1312 Tampa Street. William, 14 years. Been selling for 9 years. George, 12 years. Peter, 7 years. All start this morning at 4 A.M. (Sunday). Up to 9-30 Peter had sold 3 LOC nclc.03859
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See 4053) Only one pupil is now present out of a possible 20 pupils, in School -9, Dist. 3, Ft. Morgan, Oct. 27-15, over five weeks after school began, (Sept. 20). They try to have 9 months LOC nclc.00376
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General Utility Boy in Miller & Vidor Saw-mill. 14 years old (he said). Part of the time he throws slabs into the chute that has chain carrying them to the mill. I saw him helping a man LOC nclc.05545
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Yetta Leider, making hair-goods for Mowshowitz (of 178 E. 2nd St., N.Y., see photo 2878) 2nd floor front in dirty and ill-kept bed-room at 81 Ridge St., N.Y. Dark kitchen and inner bed-room LOC nclc.04201
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Wylie Mill, Chester, S.C. Tommy Ashville, (smaller boy) 2 years in mill. 'Specks I'm about 11.' Arthur Shelly, 8 years in mill. 14 years old. Other boys agreed he had been in mill 8 years. LOC nclc.01416
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2 of the young table boys in Burke's ice cream parlor. LOC nclc.04980 (cropped)
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After midnight April 17, 1912 G St., near 14th, these three boys 10 yrs, 11 yrs. and 12 yrs. old, were stuck with over 50 papers on their hands, and vowed they would stay until they sold out LOC nclc.03788
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B.F. Howell, Route 4, Bowling Green, Ky. and part of his family stripping tobacco. The 8 and 10-year old boys in photo 'tie up waste'; his 12-year old boy and 14-year old girl (not in photo LOC nclc.00649
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B.F. Howell, Route 4, Bowling Green, Ky. and part of his family stripping tobacco. The 8 and 10-year old boys in photo 'tie up waste'; his 12-year old boy and 14-year old girl (not in photo LOC nclc.00650
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B.F. Howell, Route 4, Bowling Green, Ky. and part of his family stripping tobacco. The 8 and 10-year old boys in photo 'tie up waste'; his 12-year old boy and 14-year old girl (not in photo LOC nclc.00651
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B.F. Howell, Route 4, Bowling Green, Ky. and part of his family stripping tobacco. The 8 and 10-year old boys in photo 'tie up waste'; his 12-year old boy and 14-year old girl (not in photo LOC cph.3a17768
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Donald Mallick, (see -1513.) And Myrtle Mallick. Myrtle is 8 years. Selling papers 1 1-2 years, average earnings 35 cents per day. Sells from choice. Begs pennies and works 'last paper' LOC cph.3b03534
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Three pickers going home from work. Anne Benotte, said 7 years old. Brother Vincent said 11. Vincent picked last year. Inez, sister said 6 years old, 'and picked last year wid me mudder.' LOC cph.3a15212
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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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Tootsie, six yr. old news-boy, sells every day and Sunday for a young uncle who had to spend a good deal of his time driving Tootsie back on the job. Harry Murphy, 809 4-1-2 St., S.W., LOC nclc.03783
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Small shack on Forsythe's Bog, occupied by De Marco family, 10 in the family living in this one room. Room is 10 ft. x 11 ft. x 5 1-2 ft. high and gable attic above. (See family picking LOC nclc.05307
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Small shack on Forsythe's Bog, occupied by De Marco family, 10 in the family living in this one room. Room is 10 ft. x 11 ft. x 5 1-2 ft. high and gable attic above. (See family picking LOC nclc.05307
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Small shack on Forsyth's Bog, occupied by De Marco family, 10 in the family living in this one room. Room is 10 ft. x 11 ft. x 5 1-2 ft. high and gable attic above. (See family picking LOC nclc.00072
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Trazor Tatro a 13 year old boy who worked in the N. Pomal (Vt.) Mfg. Co. Mill two years ago (in summer) when he was only 11 years old. Expects to work again soon as they start up. LOC cph.3b24161
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Sunday, 7 yr. old news-boy, without a badge, who tried to 'short-change' me when he sold me a paper. 'He can rustle de poipers' another boy said. William Parralla, 313 Second St., S.W., LOC nclc.03779
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Sunday morning, March 7, 1909. Morris Hurowitz, 10 years old. Been selling 2 years. Sells Saturday until 8 P.M. Starts out again Sunday at 7 A.M. Sells 25 or more Sunday papers. Is a bright LOC cph.3c07779
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Tessie Sposato, 12 yrs. old girl and her mother picking nuts in attic of tenement, 141 Hudson St., N.Y. She holds the nuts against her dirty apron as she picks them out. Works until 9 p.m. LOC nclc.04093
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Theodore Librizzi, 8 yrs. old. Dewey Librizzi, 10 yrs. old. Solomon Milkman, 15 yrs. old. Solomon has been selling 4 yrs. His father is dead. Asked how he liked the trade - 'It keeps me in LOC nclc.03837
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The boy standing is Manuel Baptiste, 605 Acushnet Ave., Fall River, Mass. Said 10 years old. 7 year old Alphonse and 12 year old Alphonse Derosies, of 587 E. End Ave., Fall River, Mass., was LOC nclc.00129
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Group of glass workers Shops 6 & 7, Illinois Glass Co. 12-45 P.M. Even the tiny chap on left end of photo was working. He is a Polish boy who cannot understand English. I saw him at work LOC nclc.01291
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Group of tobacco pickers in Bermant plantation, 3 were 10 yrs., 3 were 11 yrs., 13 were 12, 12 were 13 yrs., 2 - 14 yrs. old. The owner said, 'They all get $1.25 a day.' LOC nclc.00699
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Group working in Ayer Mill. Joe Christy, 21 Common St.; Sam Gangi, 82 Pleasant Valley St.; Harold Olds, 81 Springfield St.; Wallace Hager, 12 Baily St.; Sebastino Genovese, 50 1-2 Common LOC cph.3b39332
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Four-year-old Mary Davis, tending the sick baby when not working. (See photo 2039). LOC nclc.00921
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Hazel MacKaye and dog by Harris & Ewing
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