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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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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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Group showing typical workers in the small mills of Virginia, while industry is at ebb-tide. Matoaca, Va. June 1911. The little ones on left end 'only help some. Have to be 14 to work.' LOC cph.3b36985
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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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Families of Henry and John Miller- boy of eleven years, girl of eleven and girl of thirteen, hoeing the sugar beets. They have 80 acres in beets, come out here from the town in May and go LOC nclc.00271
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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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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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Frank F. Gibson, 1305 Linden St. Western Union Telegraph Co. Messenger No. 7. 14 years of age. 1 year in service. Visits houses of prostitution. Guides soldiers to segregated district. LOC nclc.03583
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Hazel family (very poorly educated). Children have not been to school this year although living within 1 1-2 miles of school 5-7. See Kentucky report and special card. LOC cph.3a31146
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Home and fruit stand of the Cavicchio family. 64 Bedford Street. Somerville, Mass. Both the mother and Mary, 10 years old, worked off and on all day out here with the soot from the passing LOC nclc.04789
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High Shoals (N.C.) School. This is average attendance. Enrollment is 80. Only one other school in town and about 15 attend that. See photo 279 (St. John's Mission School) Population of town LOC nclc.01373
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Hiram Pulk, 9 years old, cuts some in Seacoast Canning Co., Factory -1. 'I aint very fast-only about five boxes a day. They pay five cents a box.' LOC nclc.00949
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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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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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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 of 66 spinners in -7 spinning room. They were the most openly profane and vulgar I have ever encountered in mill work. Florida St. Cyr (smallest girl), 24 Cray St. LOC nclc.02449
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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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Eugene Bell, House 48 Loray Mill. Said he was 12 years old. (question). 'Leastwise that's what mother says.' (I am convinced that many children believe they are as old as they say they LOC nclc.01343
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Charley Lawson, one of the 4 H Club Members who has been raising wool, explains to a visitor a new project the Club boys are interested in. Instead of selling the wool at 20 cents a pound, LOC nclc.04403
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Some of the smallest boys in Cass & Daley Shoe Co., Salem. Stephen Indroski, (right end), 19 Turner St., has worked a year and a half in the factory. William Prasecki (next Stephen), 36 LOC nclc.04772
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Some of the younger boys working in Brazos Valley Cotton Mills at West. One Charlie Lott was thirteen years old according to Family Record. Another Norman Vaughn apparently twelve year old LOC nclc.02871
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Some of the younger workers 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 LOC nclc.02590
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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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Solomon Sickle, 11 yr. old gum vendor, 321 Seventh St., Washington, D.C., Says he sells until 8 P.M. Very illiterate, been in this country only six months. LOC nclc.03768
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Shrimp-pickers in Peerless Oyster Co. Photo taken just as they stood. On other side of the shed, still younger children were working. Out of sixty working (only half were there) I counted LOC nclc.00892
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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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Mildred Benjamin, 17 years old. Right dorsal curvature. Scoliosis. Right shoulder higher than left. Shows incorrect position required to perform this kind of work. Stopping use of right arm. LOC nclc.05149
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Mildred Benjamin, 17 years old. Right dorsal curvature. Scoliosis. Right shoulder higher than left. Shows incorrect position required to perform this kind of work. Stopping use of right arm. LOC nclc.05144
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Millie Cornaro, Philadelphia, 10 years old. Been picking cranberries for 6 years. White's Bog, Browns Mills, N. J. This is the fourth week of school and the people here expect to remain here LOC nclc.00047
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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 nclc.03008
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At Certificate Office. M.A. Lillian Gurmond, 597 Lawton. French - Born Sept. 2, 1900. Geo. B. Stone. Left at 14 in the 5th grade to be a 'braider tender' at the Fall River Webbing Co. LOC nclc.05038
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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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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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A group working on night shift at Hereford Glass Works, Cape May Court House, N.J. Nov. 19, 1909. I saw the smallest boy carrying in shortly before midnight, November 18th. LOC cph.3a47677
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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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Working Boys' Glee Club and Minstrel Group - King Philip Settlement - Walter Miller, 16 years, 812 Charles, works for father, a Painter; belongs to Junior Ball Team and Glee Club. James LOC nclc.05090
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Wilbur H. Woodward, 428 Third St., N.W., Washington, D.C., Western Union messenger 236, one of the youngsters on the border-line, (15 yrs. old) works until 8 P.M. only. LOC nclc.05494
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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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Trapper Boy, Turkey Knob Mine, Macdonald, W. Va. Boy had to stoop on account of low roof, photo taken more than a mile inside the mine. Witness E. N. Clopper. LOC cph.3a24700
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Upper floor of hallway, opening into 12 rooms (see photo -1145) in large shack occupied by cranberry pickers on Forsythe's Bog, Turkeytown, near Pemberton, N.J. 12 rooms on first floor. One LOC nclc.00075
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Wylie Mill, Chester, S.C. Girl at end of porch Daisy Estis (Couldn't spell her name) Worked 2 years. other two not in the mill. No school within reach. All chewed tobacco. LOC nclc.01411
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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 that mill. When I questioned some of the youngest boys as to their ages, they LOC cph.3a01136
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6 P.M. April 23, 1909. A few of the young workers in Bates Mfg. Co., Lewiston, Me. Many more and younger. This mill is as bad as the average South Carolina mill in regard to child labor. LOC cph.3b21715
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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 nclc.01664
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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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A Sunday hand-out of doffers and other mill fellows. Reputed a bad lot. Smallest boy is Arthur, said he was 13 (doubtful) & been in mill 4 years. Get $3.50 a week now. LOC nclc.02129
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Another 'Dependent Father.' He is so recorded in the Ordinary's office where he made application for his mino(r) children to work. He has three children in the mill. When he married the LOC nclc.02843
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See 2823) 8-00 P.M. and not yet finished. The little one on the left is not yet four years, yet she works, irregularly, on flowers all day and sometimes until eight at night. In spite of a LOC nclc.04195
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Supt. and overseers with the 'Relief Crowd,' in Yazoo City (Miss.) Yarn Mills. The Supt. said, 'We relieve all children under sixteen for two hours a day except the doffers, who get plenty LOC nclc.02095
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Springstein Mills, Chester, S.C. Maggie Wooten (Largest), creels on warper. Lillie Anderson-Oldest of two sisters. Been in mill five years. Runs only 4 sides. Minnie Anderson, - youngest- LOC nclc.01425
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Some of the 'Caesar Gang' boys demonstrating how to cull chickens to improve quality and quantity of product. Under direction of J. A. Wolfram County Agent, Webster Co. W. Va. State 4 H LOC nclc.04391
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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, but only a small part, of the workers who pick shrimp in the Biloxi Canning Factory. Ages range from five years upward. Little Bernice, on the end of line about five years old, and LOC cph.3a01065
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Total attendance at the Rockwood Place School October 20, over 6 weeks after school opened. There were 40 present on this date, and over 150 are expected. 74 have been in attendance part of LOC nclc.00388
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The home of a prosperous beet grower near Sterling, Colorado, who moved here six years ago from South Nebraska and owns four hundred acres now. In the distance is the home of a Russian who LOC cph.3b32037
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Shanties and cooking shacks on berry farm of Bottomley's, near Baltimore. Md. At times, four families live in one shanty- three families is the rule-two rooms. (See report July 10, 1909.) LOC cph.3b38164
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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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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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Extremes meet. One of the youngest and one of the older messenger boys in Mobile. The small boy is Emmet Brewster, Postal messenger -3. 11 years old; been working there 7 months. Makes $10 LOC nclc.03938
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Families of Henry and John Miller- boy of eleven years, girl of eleven and girl of thirteen, hoeing the sugar beets. They have 80 acres in beets, come out here from the town in May and go LOC nclc.00272
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Family of A.P. Stata (he is at church). Father, son and two oldest girls in photo work in Washington Cotton Mills, Fries, Va. The little spinner on left of photo has been working three LOC nclc.02145
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Family of Mrs. Donovan, 293 1-2 Highland Street, Roxbury, Mass., tying tags for Dennison Co. This is the family that has worked on tags for 7 years and makes an average from that work $30. LOC nclc.04249
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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.05141
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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, eleven year old messenger boy. Messenger boy -6 for Mackay Telegraph Company. Says he has been messenger for different companied (i.e., companies) for four years. Goes to the LOC cph.3b47643
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Pulling and Topping Beets. A sample of 'Economic Need'. Part of the family of Jacob Walker, a prosperous beet raiser near Sterling. His 6, 8 & 10 yr. old children are kept out of school and LOC nclc.00341
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Scene at Camp Gordon, Georgia. - NARA - 533498
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Schoolfield Cotton Mills, Danville Va. Going to work; 6-30 A.M. June 9, 191(1) A few young boys and girls under 14, work in these mills, but not many, and they are large mills. LOC nclc.02159
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Sandy Beach. Two girls in foreground about 15. Mr. Tebbutt says dance hall bad conditions. Saturday evening dancing would be about the same as this. Penny picture machine attracting crowds. LOC nclc.05027
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Batise Joseph. Winchendon. Doffer in Glenakkeb (i.e., Glenallen) Mill. Father and Mother said, 'He is 12 years old. Has been doffing all summer. Will go to school.' Query- Will he go to LOC nclc.02308
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Part of the family of R.D. Thomas. He and a boy of 15 are working in the Century Cotton Mill, South Boston, Va. The girl on the ground does not work now, but said she was 12 years old (which LOC nclc.02176
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Rose Oquoto, 6 years old, and Flora Oquoto, 7 years old, live at 837 Kimball St., Philadelphia, Pa. Picking cranberries at Theodore Budd's Bog at Turkeytown, near Pemberton, N.J. This is the LOC nclc.05287
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Row of tenements, 260 to 268 Elizabeth St., N.Y., in which a great deal of finishing of clothes is carried on. See photo of 2824, which shows condition of halls. See also photo 2828, one of LOC cph.3a29807
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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 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.02279
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Group of workers in the spinning and twisting rooms. Second from left, Wm. Pritchard, McKabe St., Dartmouth, Mass. Fourth from left, James Pritchard, McKabe St., Dartmouth, Mass. Right-hand LOC nclc.02233
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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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Hazel family (very poorly educated). Children have not been to school this year although living within 1 1-2 miles of school 5-7. See Kentucky report and special card. LOC nclc.00652
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Kuyrkendall family, recently from farm. Three children in front row (one ten and one twelve) and one boy not here, work in Magnolia Cotton Mills, Magnolia, Miss. See also 2096. LOC nclc.02089
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Hughes children. All except two smallest work and help in Magnolia, (Miss.) Cotton Mill. Oldest is fifteen, next is fourteen, next eleven, next ten. 'We like the work first rate.' LOC nclc.02036
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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.00676
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Jeff Miller. A young delivery boy for Magnolia Pharmacy. This is especially bad for him as he has recently returned from the Seabrook Reform School where he had spent a year. He would not LOC nclc.03891
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Kesler Mfg. Co., Salisbury, N.C. Tallest man is Supt. Mason. He was willing I should take photos so long as I promised to represent conditions as they were. He is afraid of being LOC nclc.01520
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In an alley back of a moving picture theatre on First Street. Children were hanging about the 'stage' entrance-'peeking in.' Photo taken at 10-30 P.M. Little tot on right said was 5 years LOC nclc.04622
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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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All are workers in a Pass Christian oyster cannery. Going home at 5 P.M. The youngest ones shuck before and after school. Two youngest are Lillie and Sadie Bilski, 8 and 6 years old. They LOC nclc.01035
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All these pick shrimp at the Oyster Co. I had to take photo while bosses were at dinner as they refused to permit the children to be in photos. Out of 60 workers, 15 were apparently under 12 LOC nclc.00898
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All these shuck oysters in the Dunbar Cannery. They began work about 3-00 A.M., and worked until about 5-00 P.M. with half an hour for lunch at noon. The great hill of oyster shells is but LOC nclc.00913
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Breaker -9, Hughestown Borough, Pennsylvania Coal Co. One of these is James Leonard. Corner Central St. & Ross St., Pittston, Pa. Another is Stanley Rasmus, Main Street Near Church Street, LOC cph.3a24716
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Breaker of the Chauncy (Pa.) Colliery, where a 15 year old breaker-boy was smothered to death and another badly burned, Jan. 7, 1911. (Photo of newspaper clipping -1946.) The Coroner told me LOC cph.3c30781
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Noon hour, Cocheco Mfg. Co., Dover, N.H. May 17, 1909. Young girls working regularly. A number of others there, some even younger. LOC nclc.01772
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Max Rosenthal (brother of David), 1220 Sixth St., S.W., Washington, D.C., 8 yrs. old, no badge. Very immature. Didn't know the name of the paper he was selling. Clever about whistling, LOC nclc.03770
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Mike Murphy, ten years old. Annie Healy, seven years old. Ross Healy, ten years old, and been at it two years. From Baltimore. Regular shuckers in Alabama Canning Co. LOC cph.3a36289
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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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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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Meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council- Cuba Crisis. President Kennedy, Secretary of... - NARA - 194246
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Lillian Dambrinio, an eleven-year-old shrimp picker in Peerless Oyster Co. She is an American and lives here. Says picking makes her hands sore. (Not(e) the condition of her shoes. One LOC nclc.00903
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Louis A. Caulfield, 37 Belfort Street, Dorchester. Delivering a heavy type-writer about half a mile. Works for Model Typewriter Inspection Co. Says he is sixteen years old and gets $6 a LOC nclc.03988
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