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Typical workers in Barker Cotton Mills where good conditions prevail. See Alabama report. Location: Mobile, Alabama

Picking turkeys at cooperative poultry house. Brownwood, Texas

Arlington Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia. American Legion color bearer listening to "Taps" being played at the Memorial services in the amphitheater

A black and white photo of two men working on a pile of rubble. Great Depression Era FSA/OWI Photograph

Left to Right: Doris Stevens, Mrs. J.A.H. Hopkins [Alison Turnbull Hopkins], N.J., Mrs. John Winters Brannan [Eunice Dana Brannan], N.Y.

A black and white photo of two men working on a pile of rubble. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

Parke, Davis and Company, manufacturing chemists, Detroit, Michigan. Filling gelatin capsules ready for transfer to the finishing department

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Mary, 13 years old. Short-sighted girl with glasses working after school on flowers ? with Mrs. Mary - her aunt. 4:30 P.M. Location: New York, New York (State)

4 P.M. Katie and Josie, 137 Thompson St. Cassana and father working on artificial flowers. They work sometimes until 8 P.M., usually after school. Mother refused to be in the picture (see Miss Watson's schedule for data.) Location: New York, New York (State)

Woman crossing Astor Place with home-work. Location: New York, New York (State)

[Newsboys and newsgirl. (Mary Malchade) (9 years old.) Getting afternoon papers, Park Row.] Location: New York, New York (State)

Mother and son carrying home-work. Near Astor Place, New York. Location: New York, New York (State)

3:30 P.M. Group in tenement hallway. Ages, 14 months, 2, 5, and 7 years. Mother in shop sewing. Father out of work, bartender. Family, Novi, 189 Chrystie Street. Location: New York, New York (State)

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 dock. Location: New York, New York (State)

Homework pictures taken in connection with investigation (see report TE-NY-39). Location: New York, New York (State)

Mrs. A.L.A. She [?] & her 3 children - 11, 9, & 6 yrs old work at flower making. The 2 year [old?] is learning, & they say ought[?] to be able to help in a year or so. Mother receives a pension. Location: [New York (State)].

Mary, 13 years old. Short-sighted girl with glasses working after school on flowers [?] with Mrs. Mary - her aunt. 4:30 P.M. Location: New York, New York (State)

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01/01/1911
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Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
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Initial survey photos prior to project, Rhode Island (East Greenwich, Pawtucket, Central Falls)

LATHROP, JULIA. HEAD OF CHILDREN'S BUREAU, LABOR DEPT. WITH ASSISTANCE IN CHILDREN'S BUREAU

Artificial flower making at 8 cents a gross. Youngest child working is 5 years old. Location: New York, New York (State)

Old aunt Lucy, ballad - Public domain American sheet music

Churchill House, 51 State Street, Portland, Cumberland County, ME

Home work on tags. Home of Martin Gibbons, 268 [?] Centre Street, Roxbury Massachusetts. James 11, years old; Helen 9 years and Mary 6, work on tags. Helen said she could tie the most (5,000 a day at 30 cents). Mary does some but can do only 1000 a day. They work nights a good deal. The night before Helen and James worked until 11:00 P.M. See also Home Work report. Location: Roxbury, Massachusettsachusetts.

Mrs. Mary George, 74 Southbridge Street, Worcester, Massachusetts. Mother and Aaron, 13 yrs., and Elizabeth 12 yrs old, working on crochet slippers. The children work until 9 or 10:30 P.M. sometimes, and the mother later. Girl has so much trouble with eyes that she is very much behind in school. Mother has eye trouble, too. (See Report also.) Witness. F.A. Smith. Location: Worcester, Massachusettsachusetts.

Mrs. Larocca, 233 E. 107th St., N.Y., making willow plumes in an unlicensed tenement. Photo taken Feb. 29, 1912. License was revoked Dec. 19, 1911.Applied for again Feb 7, 1912, inspected Feb. 13 and refused Feb 14, 1912. Feb. 29, 1912 I found nine families (including the janitress) at work on feathers or with traces of the day's work still on the floor. Still other families were reported to be doing the work also, but were not home. When our investigator made her first calls here, she found the whole tenement in much worse condition (see schedule) Children had bad skin trouble, fever, etc. Grandmother was working the day this photo was taken. New York, New York (State)

Alton Lear House, 2016-2018 Louisiana Avenue, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA

Family of Louis Rizzo, a laborer who works some. The wife and four children (none could speak English at all) work on feathers and make about $3.00 a week. Been in U.S. five months. Do not go to school yet. Through an interpreter they said Peter is 15, Jimmie 14, Carbo 9 and John 7 years old; but those seemed to me too high. They were working in a very dim light. Location: New York, New York (State)

10 year old Jimmie. Been shucking 3 years. 6 pots a day, and a 11 year old boy who shucks 7 pots. Also several members of an interesting family named Sherrica. Seven of them are in this factory. The father, mother, four girls shuck and pack. Older brother steams. 10 year old boy goes to school. Been in the oyster business 5 years. Father worked for 25 years in the Pennsylvania Coal Mine, and the oldest brother there? They said they liked the oysters business better because the family makes more. Varn & Platt Canning Co. Location: Bluffton, South Carolina

The Shop, Seneca Street Vocational School. Location: Buffalo, New York (State)

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