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Closing hour Loray Mill, Gastonia, N.C. November 7, 1908. Location: Gastonia, North Carolina / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

Guy Haywood, 10 years old, helps his brother. Harvey doff[s] in Columbus (Ga.) Mill. Location: Columbus, Georgia.

Portrait photograph of Sibley, Frank, C.M.Bell Studio

School #2, Buffalo, N.Y. Vincent Cannici, 13 years old last summer. Ran apple machine in cannery, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada. Lost 9 weeks school in the fall. Did not make good in promotion. Angelo, Brimo, 11 years old last summer. Ran apple machine in cannery, $1.25 to $1.50 a day, worked sometimes until 9 or 10 p.m. Lost 15 weeks schooling. Is a repeater. Buffalo, New York (State)

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Smallest boy, Max Case, 19 S. 16th St. 8 years old. Makes from 20 cents a day up. Made $3 at Christmas time. Large boy Jo Bruzen 2026 Market St., 9 years. Location: St. Louis, Missouri

8 year old boy selling at 7th and Olive. Saturday P.M. May 7th, 1910. Witness E.N. Clopper,. Location: St. Louis, Missouri.

Team work. Older brother makes smaller boy do the work. Small boy said he was 9 years old. Appears to be 7. May 7th, 1910. Witness E.N. Clopper. Location: St. Louis, Missouri

Team work. Older brother makes smaller boy do the work. Small boy said he was 9 years old. Appears to be 7. May 7th, 1910. Witness E.N. Clopper. Location: St. Louis, Missouri.

Two boys working in Inland Type Foundry 12th & Locust Sts. Work 9 to 10 hours a day. Noon. Location: St. Louis, Missouri.

Juvenile Court. Small boy who is habitual truant. A street boy. Thursday, May 5, 1910. Location: St. Louis, Missouri

Boy named Gurley. An eight year old newsie. 18th & Washington Sts. Location: St. Louis, Missouri

8 year old boy selling at 7th and Olive. Saturday P.M. May 7th, 1910. Witness E.N. Clopper,. Location: St. Louis, Missouri

Boy named Gurley. An eight year old newsie. 18th & Washington Sts. Location: St. Louis, Missouri

Smallest boy, Max Case, 19 S. 16th St. 8 years old. Makes from 20 cents a day up. Made $3 at Christmas time. Large boy Jo Bruzen 2026 Market St., 9 years. Location: St. Louis, Missouri.

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01/01/1910
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Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
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Old North Saint Louis ,  38.64910, -90.19590
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7 year old oyster shucker. Speaks no English. Father and mother earn about $15 a week, and this little one works steady and her six year old brother same. Lowden Canning Co. Location: Bluffton, South Carolina.

Eight-year old Jack on a Western Massachusetts farm. He is a type of child who is being overworked in many rural districts. See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, August, 1915. Location: Western Massachusetts, Massachusetts.

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

Count Max Lynar Loudon [i.e., Louden]

Max Baff - Public domain portrait photograph

"Teaching the young Idea How to Sell." Gus Hodges, age 11, instructing his brother Julius, age 5. I found Gus selling as late as 9:00 P.M., and he said that he had made over one dollar a day. Julius and another brother, 9 years old, has made 25 cents that day. Norfolk, Virginia.

A typical Glass Works Boy, Indiana, Night Shift, Said he was 16 years old. 1 A.M. Location: Indiana

Newsies. Bowery. Frank & Johnnie Yatemark. 12 Delaney St. Location: New York, New York (State)

Maud Daly, five years old. Grace Daly, three years old. Each picks about one pot of shrimp a day for the Peerless Oyster Co. The youngest said to be the fastest worker. Location: Bay St. Louis, Mississippi

School #2, Buffalo, N.Y. Vincent Cannici, 13 years old last summer. Ran apple machine in cannery, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada. Lost 9 weeks school in the fall. Did not make good in promotion. Angelo, Brimo, 11 years old last summer. Ran apple machine in cannery, $1.25 to $1.50 a day, worked sometimes until 9 or 10 p.m. Lost 15 weeks schooling. Is a repeater. Buffalo, New York (State)

A typical Glass Works Boy, Indiana, Night Shift, Said he was 16 years old. 1 A.M. Location: Indiana

Nick Pilisotta, ten years old, 899 Fayard St. Works some in the Biloxi Canning Co. "I want to quit school and work steady. Make 50 cents a day. Made $1.30 one day last year when shrimp was big." Location: Biloxi, Mississippi

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