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Lacy (12 yrs. old) and Savannah (11 yrs old) Have worked two years. Father said 'The little one is a cracker jack on spinnin', at least so the boss says. She ain't satisfied unless in the LOC cph.3b05700
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Two Portuguese girls working in Royal Mill, River Point, R.I. Younger girl, Mary Fartado 'Works on lace.' Been in mill 3 years. Other girl 3 years too. they do not speak English. LOC nclc.01679
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Young girl working in American Woolen Mills Winooski, Vt. Most are illiterate. Work slack and force small. 27 Children apparently under 15 were counted at one gate. (See also N.C.L.C. Photos LOC nclc.01850
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Young girls working in American Woolen Mills, Winooski, Vt. Most are illiterate. Work slack, and force small. (See N.C.L.C. Photos -720-745, May 1909.) 27 Children apparently under 15, were LOC nclc.01855
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Wilson Dry Goods Company, large department store. Employs large number of youngsters as cash-boys and wrappers. Counted seven apparently 9 to 12 years old, one 9 and other 10. Weeks work LOC nclc.04824
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Whistle blows noon Opelika Cotton Mill. Smallest girl in photograph is Velma Smith a tiny little spinner with a steady job all day. I found her at home crying bitterly because her father LOC cph.3b31142
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Noon, June 10, 1909. Parker Mills, Warren, R.I. All these and about a dozen more I saw working in this mill that A.M. when I visited the mill. The smallest boy in middle has been working LOC nclc.01814
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John Huggins. Said he is fourteen years old and has been doffing for eight months in the Guadalupe Valley Cotton Mills. Violation of law. Gets a dollar a day now. Before he came here, he LOC nclc.03886
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John Huggins. Said he is fourteen years old and has been doffing for eight months in the Guadalupe Valley Cotton Mills. Violation of law. Gets a dollar a day now. Before he came here, he LOC nclc.03885
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Making dresses for Campbell Kid Dolls in a dirty tenement room, 59 Thompson St., N.Y. 4th floor front. Romana family. The older boy, about 12 years old, operates the machine when the mother LOC nclc.05492
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Mrs. Mary Rena, 46 Laight St., 3d floor front, picking nuts with dirty baby in lap. Two neighbors helping. Girl is cracking nuts with her teeth, not an uncommon sight. Mr. Rena works on LOC cph.3b01098
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Mrs. Finkelstein, 127 Monroe St. Bessie (age 13), Sophie (age 7). Girls attend school. Making garters for Liberty Garter works, 413 Broadway. Mother , a widow, earns 75 cents a day by LOC nclc.05348
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Mrs. Gay, 33 James Street, Attleboro, Mass., and children - 5, 7, 12, and 13 years old, setting stones in cheap jewelry. There were 244 stones in this lot. She said they earned about $5 a LOC nclc.05579
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Alber Therien at right end of picture, 30 Salem Street, appears 13 years old, has been 4 weeks in spinning room No. 9, on the fourth floor of the Lawrence mills. Joseph Guerard, left hand LOC cph.3b25351
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Antoinette Pothier, been doffing six months at Ayer mill. Has a walk of nearly 30 minutes each way to work morning and night. Leaves home at 6 A.M. and gets back 6-30 P.M. LOC cph.3b21263
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Applying for certificate - Menuel Cabral - Portuguese. 15 years old Oct. 9, 67 Aetna St. Been spinning 1 month Laurel Lake and sweeper 1 month American Linen. Now to be a braider at Estes LOC nclc.05066
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Angelo Ross, 142 Panama Street, Hughestown Borough, a youngster who has been working in Breaker -9 Pennsylvania Co. for four months, said he was 13 years old, but very doubtful. He has a LOC nclc.01142
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Children in Grade 4, School -2, Buffalo, N.Y. All of them worked in Cannery Sheds at Albion, Wilson, Hamburg, etc., last summer. Ages run from 10 to 13 years. Entered school late. LOC nclc.00779
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Children of Mrs. Lawrence, a renter near Tinney, Okla. They go to Prairie Lee School. Beula is 13 years old and picks about 200 pounds a day when cotton is good. She drags and carries a bag LOC nclc.00605
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Dangerous work. Charlie McBride. Said twelve years old. This twelve year old boy has a steady job with the Miller & Vidor Lumber Company. He takes slabs out of a chute which has a moving LOC cph.3a20816
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Rural Accident. Four weeks after the accident Clinton was using his remaining hand to help in the farm work as best he could. His mother said- 'Now we will have to educate him.' See Hine LOC nclc.00307
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King Philip Mill. Drawer-in - Young learner - 14 years old, Yvette Frappier, and teacher who has been a drawer-in 9 years. Only girl in department has been learning a few weeks. Drawing LOC cph.3b33427
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Group of men and girls working in the Aragon Mill. Rock Hill, S.C. - NARA - 523538
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Group of workers in Dwight Mfg. Co. Stanley Twarog (one of the smallest boys), 81 Park St. Works in spinning room. Tony Sccha (i.e., Soccha), (Shortest boy in front, overalls. Very young. 65 LOC nclc.02413
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Group. Smallest boy is Stanislaus Beauvais, 25 Pingree St., works on -2 Spinning Room, has been there two years. Next smallest boy is Percy Dupell (back of Stanislaus), 15 Perkins St., has LOC nclc.02399
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Groups of girls workers at the gate of the American Tobacco Co., Wilmington, Delaware, noon period, May 24, 1910. Young girls obviously under 14 years of age, who work about 10 hours a day LOC nclc.04674
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Groups of girls workers at the gate of the American Tobacco Co., Wilmington, Delaware, noon period, May 24, 1910. Young girls obviously under 14 years of age, who work about 10 hours a day LOC nclc.04671
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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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For Child Welfare Exhibit 1912-13.) A patient. A sick worker receiving First Aid, in room set apart for hospital use and library, Brym & Marsh, Pawtucket, R.I Ma(nu)f(acture)rs of electric LOC nclc.02717
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Family of J. J. Moore. All but mother and two smallest children on steps work in Washington Cotton Mills, Fries Va. Smallest spinner (right hand end of front row) said she was 14, but she LOC nclc.02127
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Four-year-old Mary, who shucks two pots of oysters a day at Dunbar. Tends the baby when not working. (See photo 2062). The boss said that next year Mary will work steady as the rest of them. LOC cph.3a01116
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Gracie Clark, 268 A Street (with a white dress) has been a spinner in the filling room of Merrimack Mill for three years. Her Life Insurance Policy gives her age thirteen years now, so she LOC nclc.02891
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Gracie Clark, 269 A Street (with white dress) has been a spinner in the filling room of Merrimack Mill for three years. Her Life Insurance Policy gives her age thirteen years now, so she LOC nclc.02898
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Frances Frigineto, 3 years old. Marie Frigineto, 5 years old, latter been picking two years. 711 Patchionk Ave., Philadelphia. Whites Bog, Brown Mills, N.J. This is the fourth week of school LOC nclc.05293
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Hartford newsboys and girls. Girl in middle, Nellis, is 9 years old. See label on photo 640. (Caption -640- A 9 year old newsgirl in Hartford, Conn. She sold later than this sometimes. Been LOC nclc.03300
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HIGH COST OF LIVING. INVESTIGATORS AT LABOR DEPT. MISS DORTHEA C. DAVIS; MRS. MINNIE E.PATTERSON; MISS MABEL E. WINSLOW; MISS IDA M. PECK; MISS ETHEL M. SMITH; MISS ELIZABETH CHAMBERLAIN; LCCN2016867561
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Durward Nickerson, Western Union messenger -55. One of the by-products of messenger work. Lives in Bessemer, R.F.D. -1. Saturday night, September 26, 1914, he took investigator through the old Red Light on Ave. LOC nclc.03932
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Donato Dandrea, 231 W. Genesee St. Said he was 14 years old, but if so is undersized. Does not go to school. Sells all day and in the evening, on cars, at corner on Main St., (See Nos. 1215, LOC nclc.03399
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Scott School -41; Miss Smith, Teacher. Opened September 4th-8 months term. 19 present to-day-should be 60. 20 are enrolled and 16 was the average attendance last month. Teacher expects 60 LOC nclc.00619
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Spinning room Overseer and his flock. He said, 'Every one of 'em works or helps.' I saw them all working in the morning and when the whistle blew at noon they all went in to work. See photos LOC nclc.02087
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Stockton, California. So-called stoop laborers weeding celery field on large industrialized ranch . . . - NARA - 537599
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Spiking tobacco on Lowe farm. Roland 13 and Bush 14 years old will go to Pretty Run School in a week or two, when tobacco is all in. It is a school day and school began 2 months ago. Boys LOC nclc.00531
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Some of the Young Boys Working in the Robert Johnson Rand Shoe Factory, Washington, Mo. (Branch of St. Louis firm making Star shoes). On left end is Henry Detmer, who said he has been LOC nclc.04692
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Small boy works as helper - backroping in Great Falls Mfg. Co., Somersworth, N.H. Charles Chasse, 201 Main Street. When I inquired about him in the home, his mother very reluctantly admitted LOC nclc.01759
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Some of the girls from the Chace Cotton Mill, Burlington, Vt. Girl on left hand end is Cora Collette. Girl in middle is Anna Grenier. Been in mill 2 years. 6 P.M. May 5, 1909. LOC nclc.01713
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The 8 and 10 yr. old children here are working beets on a farm near Sterling, Colo, from 5-00 A.M. to 7-00 P.M. on rush days. Father said, 'We have to get done.' LOC nclc.00343
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Beet workers, ten years, twelve years, fourteen years and eighteen years, hoeing for father, Jacob Dill, in Sugar City, Colorado. They moved here ten years ago from Southern Russia, work all LOC nclc.00265
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Commander of United States Labor Battalion and staff. Captain E.S. Jones and staff at Governor's Is . . . - NARA - 533501
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Carrie, a seven year old oyster shucker at Pass Packing Co., going home at 5-00 P.M. after a day beginning at 4-00 A.M., and spent shucking oysters and tending the baby. A common practice LOC nclc.00873
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Bob Cook. Works in the Beaumont Mills, Spartenberg (sic), S.C. The youngest boy on the right hand end is Bob Cook works in spinning room -2. Said he had been working about a year. Began at LOC nclc.02592
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5-year old Jack and 13-year old Bitsey are regular workers on their father's farm. Worming and suckering now. Bitsey goes to Wallonia School in Div. 1, Trigg Co. 'He worms and he suckers. LOC nclc.00565
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A 12 year old girl who has been working in Weave room of Condolidated (i.e., Consolidated) Duck Mills, La Grange, Ga., for one year, and helping to support a father who works when sober. LOC nclc.02809
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A few of the hands on the night shift in Highland Park Mill No. 3, Charlotte, N.C. 10-30 P.M. January 7-09. 100 hands in all. Ten children as small as smallest in photo to some smaller. One LOC nclc.01577
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A few of the pin boys in Donahue's Bowling Alley. James Syeros, (in middle), 25 Femirck St. George Spanos, (left end), said 12 years old, lives at 1 Merrimac St. Louis Papas, (next to the LOC cph.3b37910
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A few of the young workers in Hughes Brothers Candy Factory, S. Ervay St., I counted five going and coming at night and at noon, that appeared to be from 12 to 15 years old. One girl told me LOC nclc.04903
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5-year old Jack and 13-year old Bitsey are regular workers on their father's farm. Worming and suckering now. Bitsey goes to Wallonia School in Div. 1, Trigg Co. 'He worms and he suckers. LOC nclc.00566
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5-year old Jack and 13-year old Bitsey are regular workers on their father's farm. Worming and suckering now. Bitsey goes to Wallonia School in Div. 1, Trigg Co. 'He worms and he suckers. LOC nclc.00568
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A young chauffeur. See Hine report re- 15-year-old chauffeur in Oklahoma City who killed a man by careless driving. His case was dismissed because he was 'too young to prosecute.' Yet he was LOC nclc.04036
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All these boys are cutters in the Seacoast Canning Co., Factory -7. Ages range from 7 to 12. They live near the factory. Seven year old boy in front, Byron Hamilton, has a badly cut finger, LOC cph.3a38912
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All these boys are cutters in the Seacoast Canning Co., Factory -7. Ages range from 7 to 12. They live near the factory. Seven year old boy in front, Byron Hamilton, has a badly cut finger, LOC nclc.00941
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All these children five years, six years, seven years, nine years and two a little older, were picking cotton on H.M. Lane's farm Bells, Tex. Only one adult, an aunt was picking. Father was LOC cph.3b11413
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All these children five years, six years, seven years, nine years and two a little older, were picking cotton on H.M. Lane's farm Bells, Tex. Only one adult, an aunt was picking. Father was LOC nclc.00203
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Aldea Balanger - French - Weaver. Cornell Mills - 14 years old July 12, 1915, getting her certificate for her 5th position. Face broken out as most of weavers have from the machine oil, LOC nclc.03068
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Western Union Messengers on night duty, 10-30 P.M. Left to right, Joseph Strassburg (had just gotten off), Leo... - NARA - 523279
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Whistle blows noon Opelika Cotton Mill. Smallest girl in photograph is Velma Smith a tiny little spinner with a steady job all day. I found her at home crying bitterly because her father LOC cph.3b24296
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Wilson Dry Goods Company, large department store. Employs large number of youngsters as cash-boys and wrappers. Counted seven apparently 9 to 12 years old, one 9 and other 10. Week's work LOC nclc.03856
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Three youngsters in Avondale Mills. Boy in middle, John Douglas said, 'I've been to school my eight weeks. Work now. Been workin' a year.' (None of them, even the tiniest, would admit being LOC nclc.01939
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This little six-year helper in Rock Creek berry field, near Baltimore, Md., was working hard. They begin about 4-30 A.M. and sometimes work until sunset. Her family (Scholtz) has been LOC nclc.00020
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Tolar, Hart and Holt Mills. All the children went in when the whistle blew, and I saw most of them at work the next day when I went through the spinning room at 10 A.M. Some of them are LOC nclc.02955
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Tolar, Hart and Holt Mills. All the children went in when the whistle blew, and I saw most of them at work the next day when I went through the spinning room at 10 A.M. Some of them are LOC nclc.02970
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Twelve year old messenger -7. Edison Green. Works on day shift now. 'I got acquainted with the Red Light people over in Oklahoma City where I was messenger for three years, but I carry LOC nclc.03889
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Trenton Mill, Gastonia, N.C. Smallest boy, Tom Jenkins. Said 13 years old. Been in mill 3 years. Brother Walter Jenkins. Said 15 years old. Been in mill four years. LOC nclc.01405
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Two mill boys (small boys between the men) Jo Viera, Antone Mello. Loafing around the beach near the mill Sunday P.M. with some school boys. Compare the ages of the school boys (12 and 13 LOC nclc.02480
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Young girls working in American Woolen Mills, Winooski, Vt. Most are illiterate. Work slack, force small. 27 children apparently under 15 years were counted at one gate. (See also N.C.L.C. LOC nclc.01851
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Group of workers in Moritas Mill, Columbus, Ga. Could not get the youngest. I went through the mill in the morning and saw some very young workers, and a number of little dinner toters who LOC nclc.02826
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Group of workers in the Massachusetts Mills, Lindale, Ga. Photo taken at noon, April 12, 1913, while they were being paid off. During the days following this, I proved the ages of nearly a LOC nclc.02791
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Group of Workers in Glenallen Mill, including Adrienne Pagnette, Annie Dugas, Francis Pagnette, Anatole Gernon, apparently 11 or 12 years old, doffs on top floor spinning room of the above LOC nclc.02318
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Group showing some of the youngest workers taken in the Scotland Neck Cotton Mill at starting time. Tiniest girl, one apparently 8 or 9, investigator saw at work at her knitting machine LOC nclc.02962
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Isaac Boyett, 'I'm de whole show.' The twelve year old proprietor, manager and messenger of the Club Messenger Service, 402 Austin Street, Waco. The photo shows him in the heart of the Red LOC cph.3a31143
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Isaac Boyett, 'I'm de whole show.' The twelve year old proprietor, manager and messenger of the Club Messenger Service, 402 Austin Street, Waco Tex. The photo shows him in the heart of the LOC nclc.05542
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Isaac Boyett, 'I'm de whole show.' The twelve year old proprietor, manager and messenger of the Club Messenger Service, 402 Austin Street, Waco Tex. The photo shows him in the heart of the LOC nclc.05542
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Gordon Peter, using scoop with metal teeth not covered. Said 10 years old. One of the smallest scoopers that we found. Usually scooping is done by adults. Been picking 3 years. LOC nclc.00120
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Group at Tidewater Knitting Mills, Portsmouth, Va. I went through the mill several times during working hours and saw a number of youngsters surely under fourteen. Some of them, especially LOC nclc.02194
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Group of 'cartoners' in Seacoast Canning Co., Factory -7. Everyone of them works putting cans of sardines into paper cartons. Eleven out of the fourteen were under twelve years. Several from LOC cph.3b33767
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Kibbe's Candy Factory. Joseph Giordano 14 years, Feeding Hills, Mass. Had just received his work certificate and left school. Tended a chocolate machine at $3.50. This was as small a boy as LOC nclc.04603
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Waiting for the 'Forwards' - Jewish paper - at 1 A.M. Group includes boys 10 years old. Taken on steps of 'Forwards' building at 1-15 A.M. just as the papers were being issued. LOC nclc.3c34588
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Young girl carrying bundle of coats home to be finished. New York City. - NARA - 523520
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Willie Nall, 11 years old; Raymond Jones, 10 years old; Denver Jones, 5 years old; plowing on farm. They had just finished a job of hauling. See report. LOC cph.3a38575
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Westley, Stanislaus County, San Joaquin Valley, California. Migratory labor camp (F.S.A.) seen from . . . - NARA - 521762
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Two families working together on Kimball farm near Waxahachie. The four year old picks nine pounds a day regularly and the eleven year old picks three hundred pounds a day. LOC nclc.00238
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Watch Co., (6 boys of questionable age, but could not get photo of them.) These machines automatically make the tiny screws used in watches- One man tends to 14 machines. A lesson for glass LOC cph.3b15914
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Gladys Goodrum, 116 Short Street, Columbus, Ga. Said 12 years old. Seen working nearly one year as looper in Massey Hosiery Mill. Makes $9. a week sometimes. LOC nclc.02802
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