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1353 ----- A Pool Room Branch (Chouteau & Manchester). These boys were playing pool and smoking in the pool room while waiting for papers . The smallest boy is 9 years old and sells until 9 P.M. (See also 1351-1352. 4 P.M.) Location: St. Louis, Missouri.

1353 ----- A Pool Room Branch (Chouteau & Manchester). These boys were playing pool and smoking in the pool room while waiting for papers . The smallest boy is 9 years old and sells until 9 P.M. (See also 1351-1352. 4 P.M.) Location: St. Louis, Missouri

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

Group of colored flood refugees housed in the Baptist church at Sikeston, Missouri

A little girl standing in front of a house Farmers of Great Depression. Dust bowl refugees, Resettlement program.

Negro boys in crowd, National Rice Festival, Crowley, Louisiana

Group of colored flood refugees housed in the Baptist church at Sikeston, Missouri

Mother and child, flood refugees in a schoolhouse at Sikeston, Missouri

#113 Indianapolis Newsboys waiting for the Base Ball edition, in a Newspaper office. Bad environment. Tough negroes etc. Location: Indianapolis, Indiana.

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Springstein Mills, Chester, S.C. Otis Mehaffy. 4 years in mill. Small boy "helps sister" Saturdays and after school. Witness S.R. Hine. Location: Chester, South Carolina

Group of boys from Wylie Mill, Chester, S.C. Spending Saturday behind the barn. Overseer came up and I couldn't get names or ages. Location: Chester, South Carolina.

Springstein Mills, Chester, S.C. Archie Love (See Photo 328). Said (after hesitating) "I am 14 years old." Doesn't look it. Been in mill 3 years. Worked 5 months nights at the start. Location: Chester, South Carolina.

Johns Lewis. Springstein Mill. A typical cotton mill boy. 12 years old --1 year in mill. Weaver--4 looms. Got 40 cents at start--60 cents now. Brother and Pa, in mills. Witness S.R. Hine. Location: Chester, South Carolina

Group of boys from Wylie Mill, Chester, S.C. Spending Saturday behind the barn. Overseer came up and I couldn't get names or ages. Location: Chester, South Carolina

Wylie Mill, Chester, S.C. Plenty of young children. Location: Chester, South Carolina.

Types of adolescents. Boys working in Eureka Cotton Mills, Chester, S.C. Rob Dover--(Tallest boy). Been in mill eight or nine years. Melvin Reilly (next). In mill one year. Boyd McKowan (shortest boy). About 15 years old. Been in mill 5 years. Sunday, Nov. 29, 08. Witness Sara R. Hine. Location: Chester, South Carolina / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

Wylie Mill, Chester, S.C. Plenty of young children. Location: Chester, South Carolina

Ernest Chester, 5 years old lives at 624 S. Robinson St. Sells with his older brother Emmet, who is 9 years old. They are up very early. Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma / Lewis W. Hine.

Springstein Mills, Chester, S.C. Otis Mehaffy. 4 years in mill. Small boy "helps sister" Saturdays and after school. Witness S.R. Hine. Location: Chester, South Carolina.

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Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
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label_outline Explore Springstein, Springstein Mills, Chester Sc

The launching of the "Amcross", Chester, Pennsylvania Members of the christening party on the launching stand. At the left are Mrs. Livingston Farrand and Miss Margaret Farrand, sponsor of the "Amcross"

The ruins of Charleston, S.C., showing the Sister Churches

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.

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.

Small, irrigated, very productive farm. Santa Clara, Utah. See general caption

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.

Sweeper and Doffer Boys, Lancaster Mills (Cotton). S.C. Many more as small. Location: Lancaster, South Carolina.

On the Pleasant Street Dump. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

Girl - Baner? Carswell. Been in mill 4 years. 12 years old. Runs 6 sides = 60 cents a day. Soon will run 8 = 80 cents a day. Father said "the wife of neighbor made $7.40 last week, $1.40 more than her husband. Women and girls makes more than the men." Child 8 yrs. old helps sister. Location: Gastonia, North Carolina

Resting with the load at the head of the slope. Shaft #6 Pennsylvania Coal Co., Small boy is Jo Puma, a Nipper, 163 Pine Street. Jo's mother showed me the passport which shows Jo to be 14 years old, but he has no school certificate, although working inside the mine. Location: Pittston, Pennsylvania

One of the youngest boys I found working in the Naomi Mill apparently 10 yrs old. There were two others about as young. Location: Randleman, North Carolina

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boys textile mill workers south carolina chester photographic prints chester sc springstein mills springstein mills otis mehaffy otis mehaffy mill small boy small boy sister saturdays school hine library of congress