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Meyer Slein a 12 year old newsie who has been on streets until late at night and with bad associates. Kept irregular hours. Stole from large retail stores. Often stayed away from home all LOC nclc.03511
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Noon hour at Obear-Nestor Glass Co., East. St. Louis, Ill. Names of the smallest boys are- Walter Kohler, 981 N. 18th St.; Walter Riley, 918 N. 17th. St.; Will Convery, 1828 Natalie Ave.; LOC cph.3a13361
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Teresa Lerre, cranberry picker
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Left to right- Florence Lieto, 10 years old. Jennie Macola, 10 years old (hidden) Mamie Macola, 8 years old. Nicholas Macola, 6 years old. Picking coffee sweepings. The sweepings cost 25 LOC nclc.05454
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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.04694
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Some samples (not all) of the children in the 'Kindergarten Factory' run by the High Point and Piedmont Hosiery Mills, High Point, N.C. Every child in these photos worked- I saw them at work LOC nclc.02633
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Some samples (not all) of the children in the 'Kindergarten Factory' run by the High Point and Piedmont Hosiery Mills, High Point, N.C. Every child in these photos worked- I saw them at work LOC nclc.02632
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Some samples (not all) of the children in the 'Kindergarten Factory' run by the High Point and Piedmont Hosiery Mills, High Point, N.C. Every child in these photos worked; I saw them at work LOC nclc.02640
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Some samples (not all) of the children in the 'Kindergarten Factory' run by the High Point and Piedmont Hosiery Mills, High Point, N.C. Every child in these photos worked; I saw them at work LOC nclc.02635
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Some samples (not all) of the children in the 'Kindergarten Factory' run by the High Point and Piedmont Hosiery Mills, High Point, N.C. Every child in these photos worked; I saw them at work LOC nclc.02690
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Six-year old boy, Louis Shuman, and his 11 year old brother. Dallas Newsboys. The little fellow usually has a brother who makes him do most of the work. Dallas has too many of these little LOC nclc.03904
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These were all the young children I could get at the Athens Hosiery Mill at noon. And at 9 A.M., although when I went through the mill at 7 A.M., alone, Dec. 9th, I saw six little girls LOC nclc.02024
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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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H.H. Allison and 2 boys 10 and 12 years old gathering rye. Should be in school which opened several days ago. Several girls of school age also out. Owns farm of 112 acres. May go to Shady LOC cph.3a29790
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H.H. Allison and 2 boys 10 and 12 years old gathering rye. Should be in school which opened several days ago. Several girls of school age also out. Owns farm of 112 acres. May go to Shady LOC nclc.00460
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H.H. Allison and 2 boys 10 and 12 years old gathering rye. Should be in school which opened several days ago. Several girls of school age also out. Owns farm of 112 acres. May go to Shady LOC nclc.00459
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Elsie Shaw, a 6 year old cartoner in the summer, Seacoast Canning Co., Factory -2. Her father is boss of cutting room in Factory -1. He asked me to take some photos of her, as he has her do LOC nclc.00931
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Elsie Shaw, a 6 year old cartoner during the summer, Seacoast Canning Co., Factory -2. Her father is boss of cutting room in Factory -1. He asked me to take some photos of her, as he has her LOC cph.3b37900
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Cleo Campbell, 9 years old, picks 75 to 100 pounds of cotton a day. Expects to start school soon. Said- 'I'd ruther go to school and then I wouldn't have ter work.' Father said she and her LOC nclc.00627
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Maple Mill, Dillon S.C. Tebie Calder-Been in mill 1 year-runs 4 sides. Little sister- Tince-Mother said, 'She helps.' Bystander said she works regularly and that plenty of other little ones LOC nclc.01492
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Jim Waldine, 1023 Carpenter St., Philadelphia. 6 years old, been picking cranberries two years. Also Sam Frohue, 9 years old, been picking two years, could not spell his own name. 1106 LOC nclc.05291
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James Boulware, doffer in Manchester Mill, Rock Hill, said 13 years, working off and on 3 years. Charlie Rhoades, 12 years old, one year working, 75 cents a day. Couldn't write his name. LOC nclc.02534
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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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Fourteen year old messenger -2 Western Union, Shreveport. Says he goes to the Red Light district all the time. See Hine report on Messengers. LOC nclc.05549
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Leo Franklin, 419 E. 3d St. 12 years of age. Selling papers 2 years. Average earnings 50 cents a day. Selling papers own choice. Earnings not needed at home. Visits saloons. Don't smoke. LOC nclc.03598
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Robert Magee (smallest), 270 Suffolk St., apparently 12 years, been working in Mule Room -1 Merrimac Mill, Lowell, one year. Michael Keefe (next in size) 32 Marion St., been at work in -1 LOC nclc.02393
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Robert Paul, 216 Johnson Street. 10 year old newsy. Found at 11 P.M. with 12 papers near Seminole Hotel. Been at it 4 years. Often sells until midnight. He and brother make about $1.50 a LOC nclc.03852
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Rosina Goyette, Maple St. Apparently 12 but says she is 14; has steady job doffi(ng) and spinning in Spring Village Mill. She said at first she had been working six months, later she changed LOC nclc.02301
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Rosemary Mfg. Co. Uriah and Eva Westbrook. Both violations. Uriah is 12 years old now (Bible record said born May 24, 1903) and he has been working there 2 months. Eva began at 12 years; LOC nclc.02972
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General Utility Boy at Lutcher & Moore Lumber Co. 'I'm fourteen years old; been here one year. Get $1.00 a day.' He runs errands and helps around. I saw him pushing some of these empty cars. LOC nclc.04904
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General Utility Boy at Lutcher & Moore Lumber Co. 'I'm fourteen years old; been here one year. Get $1.00 a day.' He runs errands and helps around. I saw him pushing some of these empty cars. LOC nclc.05544
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General view of part of the force picking tomatoes on farm of W.T. Hill. There were about 25 children-most of them 8 to 15 years old. 'When school opens next month you bet we have to quit LOC nclc.00578
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Erenne La Prise, on left, apparently 13 years old, a doffer at Spring Village Mill, said he had been working a year and a half. Als de Gauthier, apparently under 14 (next Erenne) also a LOC nclc.02305
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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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S. Russell, 33 E. 22nd St. Newsboy, 12 years of age. Selling newspapers 2 years. Average earnings 20 cents daily. Selling newspapers own choice. Father earns $18 weekly. Boy deposits LOC cph.3a21176
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Dillon Mills, Dillon, S.C. Lizzie Davis, (smallest). Been in mill 2 years. Next-Nettie Arnet - Been in mill 8 years. Next-Monnie McCraney, been in mill 3 years. Next-Vater Arnet, been in LOC nclc.01490
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488 Macon, Ga. Lewis W. Hine 1-19-1909. Bibb Mill No. 1 Many youngsters here. Some boys were so small they had to climb up on the spinning frame to mend the broken threads and put back the LOC cph.3a01131
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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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3 Boys going to work at 1 P.M. May 21, 1909. Photo taken in outer hall of spinning room of one of the mills of Amoskeag Mfg. Co., Manchester, N.H., where I found them working. Smallest boy LOC nclc.01783
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6 year old Leslie Cooper. Sells with 10 year old brother Eric. Found 7 A.M. Sunday. Started at 5 P.M. Starts 6 A.M. week days. Doesn't go to school. Works the begging dodge. LOC nclc.03857
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6 yr. old Earle Holt (or Hope) 712 H St., S.W., 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 forget to LOC nclc.03775
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8-00 P.M. January 29, 1912. Cardinale family making silk flowers. Father wears a cast. Does not work. (See report on schedule.) Boy, 11 years old, helps some, even at night. 43 Carmine St., LOC nclc.04138
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2 violations. Simon Birdsong (left hand boy) said- 'I'm about 12.' His mother said- 'He's old enough to work all right,' but the boy admitted that she had to sign up that he was older than LOC nclc.02974
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12 year old Lahnert boy, near Ft. Collins, Colo., topping beets. The father, mother, and two boys (9 and 12 yrs.) expect to make $700 in about 2 months time in the beet work. 'The boys can LOC nclc.00361
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All are workers in the Rome (Ga.) Hosiery Mill. Two working at 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.02743
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A modest young French girl of 13 years. Spinner in the Spring Village Mill, runs six sides. Mr. Hine saw her working Sept. 2. Said, 'I'd rather work.' Been working since last February. LOC cph.3a19294
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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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143 Hudson St., ground floor. Mrs. Salvia; Joe, 10 years old; Josephine, 14 years old; Camille, 7 years old. Picking nuts in a dirty tenement home. The bag of cracked nuts (on chair) had LOC nclc.05479
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Boys working in Amoskeag Mills, Manchester, N.H. Smallest boy is Napoleon Cammery, 194 Merrimac St. Been in mill 1 year. Next boy is Jerry Moore, 352 Chestnut St. Martin Markey, 33 State St. LOC nclc.01808
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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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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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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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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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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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Group of field-workers at Huttings Tobacco Farm. One of 9 years, two of 11 years, 8 of 12 years, 5 of 13 years, 3 of 14 years, 1 of 15. Four of 11 and 12 had gone home and were not counted. LOC nclc.00739
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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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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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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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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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Laura Petty, a 6 year old berry picker on Jenkins farm, Rock Creek near Baltimore, Md. 'I'm just beginnin'. Picked two boxes yesterday. (2 cents a box). (See my report July 10, 1909.) July LOC cph.3a01106
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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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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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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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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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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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6 P.M. April 23, 1909. Sweepers, etc., in Hill and Bates Mills. Lewiston, Me. Boy next to right hand end is Jo. Been in Hill Mill 2 years (see photo 709). Only one or two could speak LOC cph.3c27563
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6 year old Leslie Cooper. Sells with 10 year old brother Eric. Found 7 A.M. Sunday. Starts at 5 A.M. and sells all day. 6 A.M. week days. Doesn't go to school. Works the begging dodge. LOC nclc.03840
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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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4-30 P.M. Flora Anseline, a busy girl. 5 Carmine St., N.Y. She goes to school, helps mother with housework, and makes flowers, working some nights until 10 P.M. The little boy helps some. LOC nclc.04127
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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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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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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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Bill May, a bright, freckled five year old, who works in Barataria Canning Co., said he made fifteen cents the day before and his mother said, 'He can make fifteen cents any day he wants to LOC cph.3a01058
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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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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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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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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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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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Bowery bootblack. New York City. - NARA - 523325
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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.04380
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2 of the young table boys in Burke's ice cream parlor. LOC nclc.04980 (cropped)
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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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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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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 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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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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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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10-30 P.M. At Center Market. 11 yr. old Celery Vendor Gus Strateges, 212 Jackson Hall Alley. He sold until 11 P.M. and was out again Sunday morning selling papers ana gum. Has been in this LOC cph.3c14497
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Joseph Bernstein, 1518 Fifth St. N.W., a 10 yr. old news-boy who had been selling in saloons along the way, says he makes a dollar a day, sells until 8-30 P.M. Is a bright Jewish boy. LOC nclc.03763
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Arnao family, 831 Catherine St., Rear -2. Whole family works. Jo. Is 3 years old. Boy is 6 years old, Girl is 9 years old. We found this family, children and all working on Hichens farm, LOC nclc.05302
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A few of the hands on night shift Highland Park Hill, No. 3, Charlotte, N.C. 10-30 P.M. January 7-09. (See photo and label 484) Boy in middle been in mill 2 years. Girl next to him in mill 4 LOC nclc.01578
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Workers in the Phoenix Mill, Phoenix, R.I. Boy left hand end, Joseph Le Vier is beginning to work. Next, Regina La Plant (has worked 1-2 year). Next Rosabell La Plant (2 years). Next Armond LOC nclc.01689
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Young Chicken Venders, Sixth St. Market, Cincinnati. Heyman Mormer, 732 Kenyon Ave., 9 years old. Willie Mormer, 732 Kenyon Ave., 12 years old. Reubenstein, 567 W. 6th St., 12 years old. LOC cph.3c15370
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Pin boys in Les Miserables Alleys, Frank Jarose, 7 Fayette St., Mellens Court, said 11 years old, made $3.72 last week. Joseph Philip, 5 Wall St., said 11 years old, and works until midnight LOC cph.3b41554
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Pin boys in Les Miserables Alleys, Frank Jarose, 7 Fayette St., Mellens Court, said 11 years old, made $3.72 last week. Joseph Philip, 5 Wall St., said 11 years old, and works until midnight LOC cph.3b41554
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I Put Away Childish Things: From toy trains to parachute flare casings, Stephanie Cewe has turned to the aid of Uncle Sam. She used to assemble toy locomotives; today, she uses the same screwdriver to assemble flare casings. New Haven, Connecticut, Feb 19
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