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These were all of the small boys I found working at the Suffolk (Virginia) Knitting Mills, the day I was there. One of the smallest boys had been working there for two years. Not many under fourteen. Location: Suffolk, Virginia.

22 year old father and wife who worked in oyster cannery. He said "We bring the baby (2 months old) down to the shucking shed 4 A.M. and she stays in the cradle until night. We earn about $12. a week. The mother does housework as well as the factory work. Varn & Platt Canning Co. Location: Bluffton, South Carolina

Penasco, New Mexico. The waiting room of the clinic operated by the Taos County cooperative health association

Men sitting on a bench at county fair, Gonzales, Texas

Noon hour at a cotton mill, Indianapolis. Aug., 1908. Wit., E. N. Clopper. Location: Indianapolis, Indiana.

Noon hour at a cotton mill, Indianapolis. Aug. 1908. Wit. E.N. Clopper. Location: Indianapolis, Indiana

Men sitting on a bench at county fair, Gonzales, Texas

A few of the young boys working in the Cigarette Factory, Danville (Virginia) Branch of the American Tobacco Co. Photo taken at 6:30 A. M., June 6, 1911 and they all went in to work. Said they were rollers and bunch-breakers. See other photos taken in morning and at noon. Location: Danville, Virginia.

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All these are workers in Sweetwater Hosiery Co., except smallest boy. Location: Sweetwater, Tennessee

All these are workers in Sweetwater Hosiery Co., except smallest boy. Location: Sweetwater, Tennessee.

All these are workers in the Sweetwater Hosiery Co., except smallest boy in the middle and he is a representative of many (even smaller) in mills of this region. Location: Sweetwater, Tennessee

All these are workers in the Sweetwater Hosiery Co., except smallest boy in the middle and he is a representative of many (even smaller) in mills of this region. Location: Sweetwater, Tennessee

All workers in Mascot Knitting Mills,. Location: Sweetwater, Tennessee.

All workers in Mascot Knitting Mills. Location: Sweetwater, Tennessee

All these are workers in the Sweetwater Hosiery Co., except smallest boy in the middle and he is a representative of many (even smaller) in mills of this region. Location: Sweetwater, Tennessee.

All workers that are in Sweetwater Hosiery Co., except smallest boy in middle, and there are many others even smaller than he in mills of this region. Location: Sweetwater, Tennessee

All workers that are in Sweetwater Hosiery Co., except smallest boy in middle, and there are many others even smaller than he in mills of this region. Location: Sweetwater, Tennessee.

All these are workers in Sweetwater Hosiery Co.,. Location: Sweetwater, Tennessee.

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01/01/1910
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Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
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Adrian Lornager, 8 Bowditch St. (Apparently 13.) Has been sweeper in Grinnell Mill Nearly a year. Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Every one of these was working in the cotton mill at North Pormal [i.e., Pownal], Vt. and they were running a small force. Rosie Lapiare, 15 years; Jane Sylvester, 15 years; Runie[?] Cird, 12 years; R. Sylvester, 12 years; E. [H.?] Willett, 13 years; Nat. Sylvester, 13 years; John King, 14 years; Z. Lapear, 13 years. Standing on step. Clarence Noel 11 years old, David Noel 14 years old. Location: No[rth] Pownal, Vermont / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

[Two young girls reading book] - Public domain document scan of painting

Payne Cotton Mill, Macon, Ga. See photo and label 538. Girl with dropping eyes and hands on hips has been helping one year. Jan. 20, 1909. Location: Macon, Georgia.

Two of the workers in Merrimack Mills. See Hine report. Location: Huntsville, Alabama.

Detroit, Michigan. Little girls at a drinking fountain in the zoological park

A black and white photo of a woman working in a factory, Florida. Farm Security Administration photograph

Scene in the cotton field of the Baptist Orphanage, near Waxahachie. These boys, from seven years old and upward, pick cotton, helping this man, outside of school hours., There are 20 children in the Orphanage, mostly girls, and it is supported by the Baptists of Texas. Location: Waxahachie [vicinity], Texas.

Jamie Sherley, (girl) Wylie Mills, Chester, S.C. Been in mill 6 years. Ambro Sherley--11 years old. Been in mill over 1 year. Location: Chester, South Carolina.

Olga Schubert, 855 Gruenwald St. The little 5 yr. old after a day's work that began about 5:00 A.M. helping her mother in the Biloxi Canning Factory, begun at an early hour, was tired out and refused to be photographed. The mother said, "Oh, She's ugly." Both she and other persons said picking shrimp was very hard on the fingers. See also photo 2021. Location: Biloxi, Mississippi.

All of these are workers in the Stearns Silk Factory, Petersburg, Virginia Not all of the youngsters would get into the photo. I went through the factory during working hours and saw many others like these. A neighbor's testimony corroborated the foregoing. Noon hour. Location: Petersburg, Virginia.

Central High girls, 2/9/27 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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