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Daisy Chapman, a prize winner from Webster Springs, W. Va. She has been a 4 H Club Member for several years. Sewing is her main line now. Also one of the 'Caesar Gang' from Webster Co(unty) LOC nclc.04384
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10 year old leaf boy and three 'stringers' 10, 12, and 13 years old. Tobacco shed of American Sumatra Tobacco Co. In these two sheds were 41 girls and boys from 10 to 15 years old, and only LOC nclc.00702
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Children hoeing on farm near Mt. Vernon, Ky. Go to Mt. Vernon Graded School. Mamie, 7 years, Grace, 9 years, Marguerite, 12 years and Everett 14 years. Father, Alfred Bryant, Mt. Vernon P.O. LOC nclc.00474
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Children hoeing on farm near Mt. Vernon, Ky. Go to Mt. Vernon Graded School. Mamie, 7 years, Grace, 9 years, Marguerite, 12 years and Everett 14 years. Father, Alfred Bryant, Mt. Vernon P.O. LOC nclc.00472
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Children hoeing on farm near Mt. Vernon, Ky. Go to Mt. Vernon Graded School. Mamie, 7 years, Grace, 9 years, Marguerite, 12 years and Everett, 14 years. Father, Alfred Bryant, Mt. Vernon LOC nclc.00473
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Boys working in Great Falls Mfg. Co., Somersworth, N.H. Alcide Turcotte, 15 1-2 Union Street. Albert Beaupre, 1 Kings Lane. Edgar Routher, 65 Union Street. Peter Gague, 165 Main St. One of LOC nclc.01764
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Boy on right Charlie Burton-9 Ozark Mill. This anaemic(sic), hollow chested, stoop shouldered under-sized and weight, said-'Been in mill 6 or 7 years. 12 years old. Haint grown none for 5 LOC nclc.01372
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Civarro family, 2106 Second Avenue, second floor back, working on patriotic flag pins. They get 3 cents a gross for inserting pin and putting onto card. Mrs. Civarro with her three-months-old baby in LOC nclc.04316
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Angelo Rizzo, 5 Trenton Ave., Buffalo, N.Y. Worked 5 months in sheds of Albion Canning. Canning, stringing beans. Was 10 years old last summer. Worked from 7 A.M. until 9 P.M. Returned to LOC nclc.00770
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All these I saw regularly at work during work hours in Richmond Spinning Mills. Tiny girl on left, five years old, is Goldie, who helps her sister, girl back of her. When I tried to get a LOC nclc.01970
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6 P.M. Making hair-brushes. Hausner family, 310 E. 71 St., N.Y. Frank is 6 yrs old. and John is 12. The mother had a sore throat and wore a great rag rapped around it, but she took it off LOC nclc.05488
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6 P.M. Francesco Forzaro, 313 E. 107th St., N.Y. Fifty-five year old man adding a little to income by making feathers. Can make about one dollar a week. Works by dim lamp-light in dark LOC nclc.04136
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6 P.M. Making hair-brushes. Hausner family, 310 E. 71 St., N.Y. Frank is 6 yrs old. and John is 12. The mother had a sore throat and wore a great rag rapped around it, but she took it off LOC nclc.05488
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Arthur H. Toody, 536 Market St. Newsboy, 8 years of age. Selling papers 1 years (sic) Average earnings 20 cents per week. Selling newspapers own choice. Earnings not needed at home. Don't LOC nclc.03590
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Arguelles Factory, Tampa, Fla. Not running to-day. Said to hire a good many young children as apprentices. A School Factory, advertised in papers 3 months ago, for apprentices at low prices. LOC nclc.04511
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Ben Ebbson, 2321 Pine St. 9 years of age. 7 seems nearer truth. Selling papers 3 years. Average earnings 25 cents per week. Selling papers own choice. Earnings not needed at home. Don't LOC nclc.03615
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Benton Hill, a renter, Tinney, Okla. Two other families were helping Mr. Hill and his children pick his cotton. Four adults and 10 children of following ages- 1 boy of 3 years, 2 boys and 1 LOC nclc.00615
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Byron, California. Field laborers of Japanese ancestry from a large delta ranch have assembled at W . . . - NARA - 537773
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5 pupils present out of 100 expected to be here when beet work is over. 53 attended before the work opened up. School began Sept. 6, over 7 weeks ago. Runs for 9 mos. It is a beautiful LOC nclc.00369
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A 10 yr. old newsie, who had just been selling in this saloon for the other boy, his boss, E. Street, near 13th, Washington, D.C., The boss is Herbert Solomon, 452 D. St., N.W., Washington, LOC nclc.03750
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A 9 year old boy, Jo Cafarella, 39 Warren Street, Somerville, Mass. His sister Lena, 10 years, and Mary Lazzaro, 13 years old, his cousin lives at 17 South Street. This is typical of their LOC cph.3b39334
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Dillon Mills, Dillon S.C. (Boy) Ransom English-doffs, been in mill 6 years. (Next) Florence Burr-runs 5 sides. In mill 4 years. (Next) Bessie English - 3 sides, 3 years in mill. (Next) LOC nclc.01496
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Aerial view of woman on a marigold field. Bali island.
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Henry George by George de Forest Brush, George de Forest Brush, 1888
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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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Boys working in Bibb Cotton Mill No. 1, Macon, Ga. Smallest boy-Otto Sheldo-2 yrs. in mill. Next, Jack Bowman-4 yrs. in mill. Next, Clement Olford-5 years in mill gets .75 a day. Next, LOC nclc.01589
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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.00648
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A group of workers at Greenabaum's Cannery, Seaford, Del. 1 Child is 7 years of age. 4 Children are 12 years of age. 1 Child is 13 years of age. 4 Children are 15 years of age. 3 of these LOC nclc.00799
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122 Sullivan St. 2nd Floor rear. Leveroni family. Earn 4 cents a gross making violets. Can make 20 gross a day when children work all day. Father has work. Mrs. Leveroni; Tessie Leveroni, LOC nclc.04071
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Bank boss, (with lamp between knees) Motorman, Brake-boy and Driver. Gary Mine, Gary, W. Va. Boss said he would use more boys if he could get them but they went to school. Note live wire on LOC nclc.01056
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Barney Goldstein, 83 W. 5th St. Newsboy, 10 years of age. Selling newspapers 1 year. Average earnings 50 cents per week. Selling papers own choice. Don't smoke. Visits saloons. Works 5 hours LOC nclc.03587
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Donimeco Cipella works in he card room of the Natick Mills, Natick, R. I. Has been there 2 years. 'Once dey made me stop and said I should go to school but I'm workin' again.' Does he look LOC cph.3b46696
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Dominick Carroll, 8 years old (appears 6). Newsboy. Sells from 3 P.M. to 7 P.M. income 25 cents per day. This boy sells papers for his brother who is 12 years old. Does not gamble, drink or LOC nclc.03630
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Charlie Lawson, 18 year old member of 4 H Club, showing his Hereford Heifer (on which he won a prize at the county fair) and now competing for a university scholarship at the Annual 4 H Fair LOC nclc.04400
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Chester Burnside, 16 yr. old member of 4 H Club with his Prize Hereford Heifer. It won a prize for him at the county fair and now he has it up at the State 4 H. Fair, at Charleston. LOC nclc.04401
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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.' See 4590. Lewis W. Hine. See W.H. Swift LOC cph.3b01720
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Bob Cook and Emmett Capps. Bob works in spinn(in)g room -2. Said he had been working about a year. Began at 35 cents a day, now makes 50 cents. Their family bible gave his birthday June 25, LOC nclc.02591
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Bellenti Family. Crosoria, 10 years, Joe 9, Sam, 7, Tony, 4. Live on Garcia Avenue. All commence selling 6 A.M. and sell until late at night. Two oldest make 50 cents each, and two youngest LOC nclc.03841
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Bellenti Family- Crosoria, 10 years, Joe, 9 Sam, 7, Tony, 4. Live on Garcia Avenue. All commence selling 6 A.M. and sell until late at night. Two eldest make 50 cents each, and two youngest LOC nclc.03849
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Workin' on the Railroad: Portrait of Abbie Caldwell, employed in the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad yard to clean out potash cars. Clovis, New Mexico. March 1943.
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Interior of workshop of Sanitary Ice Cream Cone Co. See 4830. Boys packing cones are John Myers, 14 years old and a boy 12 years old who is working steady now. Boss said- 'He said he wasn't LOC nclc.05241
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Group of newsies selling on Capitol steps, April 11, 1912. Tony Passaro, (8 yrs. old). Dan Mercurio, (9 yrs. old). Joseph Tucci (10 years old). Peter Peper (10 yrs. old). John Carlino (11 LOC nclc.05493
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Eureka Cotton Mills. John Madison, 11 years old; 53 inches high. Beginning to sweep. Floyd Root, 10 years old. 50 inches high . Helps cousin spin every day after school. Witness S.R. Hine. LOC nclc.01459
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John Lewis (boy with hat) 12 years old. 1 year in mill. Weaver-4 looms. 40 cts. to start, 60 cents a day now. Brother and mother in mill. Morris Small (boy with cap) 'Reckon I been in mill 2 LOC nclc.01424
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Family of C.J. Walker, Route 2, Box 78, Geronimo, Oklahoma. 6-year old Jewel and 5-year old Harold picks 20 to 25 pounds of cotton a day. Father said- 'I promised em a little wagon if they'd LOC nclc.00599
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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.00610
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Human Junk. A product of the mill (See -2963) 'Ben workin fer 10 years. Began when I was six years old for 5 cents a day. Lately I was workin $1.25 a day but got to spittin blood and had to LOC nclc.02548
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Part of the family of George Padroni, near Sterling, Colo. They have 9 children and some hired help. Only one child in school (see 4042). This is 6 yr. old Lena, who works some too. The 8 yr. old LOC nclc.00366
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Right Hand boy) John Campbell, (Box 294 Gastonia N.C.) 10 years old. Been three years in mill. In school part of this time. (Left hand boy) Roy Little. Said 12 years old. 2 years in mill and LOC nclc.01348
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Rosa Sarosa, room 42, 62 Main Street, Buffalo, N.Y. 13 years old last summer. Sarah, 9 years old last summer. Jo, 6 years old, last summer. Worked in Albion Canning Factory on beans and LOC nclc.00764
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Rose Sarosa, Room 42, 62 Main St., Buffalo, N.Y. 13 years old last summer. Sarah, 9 years old last summer. Jo, 6 years old last summer. Worked in Albion Canning Factory on beans and LOC nclc.00763
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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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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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Flower making. A night scene (Photo at 10-30 P.M. and not finished, Jan 29, 1912). Carrie Brindisi,12 years old, 134 1-2 Thompson Street, 2(nd) fl(oor) front. Carries (sic) goes to school. LOC nclc.04139
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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 cph.3b15897
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