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The population of the Aleutians, which is sparse, consists mainly of Aleuts and a few Russian and Russian-Aleut types. The Aleuts are a mongoloid people and are quite distinct from the Eskimo. Even in the cold, foggy Aleutians, youngsters like to go barefoot, as this picture shows. The Aleuts are under the protection of Interior Department's Office of Indian Affairs

The population of the Aleutians, which is sparse, consists mainly of Aleuts and a few Russian and Russian-Aleut types. The Aleuts are a mongoloid people and are quite distinct from the Eskimo. Even in the cold, foggy Aleutians, youngsters like to go barefoot, as this picture shows. The Aleuts are under the protection of Interior Department's Office of Indian Affairs

A black and white photo of two children, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

The 8 and 10 yr. old children here are working beets on a farm near Sterling, Colo, from 5:00 A.M. to 7:00 P.M. on rush days. Father said, "We have to get done.". Location: Sterling vicinity, Colorado Photo by Hine. Oct. 2215

Aibonito, Puerto Rico. Children outside a school

A black and white photo of two children, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

Andrea children, Vienna, Virginia, 1912

Trische family, tenant farmers, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana

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

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Tommy De Grandis, 109 Groham St. A week [i.e., weak] anaemic. Ten year old pin boy in Hennessey's Bowling Alley. Also his brother Leo (said 12 years). They said they work every night until midnight. Photo taken Sunday morning about 11 A.M. and Tommy had just gotten out of bed. Saturday evening I found Tommy eating his lunch (supper) in a dark, dirty closet (used as a lunch room evidently) with no ventilation. Location: Lowell, Massachusetts.

Tommy De Grandis, 109 Groham St. A week i.e., weak anaemic. Ten year old pin boy in Hennessey's Bowling Alley. Also his brother Leo (said 12 years). They said they work every night until midnight. Photo taken Sunday morning about 11 A.M. and Tommy had just gotten out of bed. Saturday evening I found Tommy eating his lunch (supper) in a dark, dirty closet (used as a lunch room evidently) with no ventilation. Location: Lowell, Massachusetts

Tommy De Grandis, 109 Groham St. A week i.e., weak anaemic. Ten year old pin boy in Hennessey's Bowling Alley. Also his brother Leo (said 12 years). They said they work every night until midnight. Photo taken Sunday morning about 11 A.M. and Tommy had just gotten out of bed. Saturday evening I found Tommy eating his lunch (supper) in a dark, dirty closet (used as a lunch room evidently) with no ventilation. Location: Lowell, Massachusetts

Harry McShane - 134 B'way [I,e, Broadway] -Cin. O. - 16 yrs. of age on June 29, 1908. Had his left arm pulled off near shoulder, and right leg broken through kneecap, by being caught on belt of a machine in Spring factory in May 1908. Had been working in factory more than 2 yrs. Was on his feet for first time after the accident, the day this photo was taken. No attention was paid by employers to the boy either at hospital or home according to statement of boy's father. No com- pensation. Location: Cincinnati, Ohio.

Leopoldo Andreoli, 208 Elm St. Very young--appears 11 or 12 years old. Is a "Loom boy" in spinning room of the Ayer Mill; has a steady job now and makes $5.15 a week now. Location: Lawrence, Massachusetts.

Witness F. A. Smith. Photo at 9 P.M. Home of Patrick McGurl (mechanic), 136 Exchange Street, Worcester, Massachusetts. Working on hose supporters. All work, 6-year-old, 8-year-old, 11-year-old, 12-year-old, and mother. Altogether earn about $3 a week. Work noons, after school and every night. A 9-year-old boy (not in photo) carries work back and forth. Heavy loads. (See report of F.A. Smith). Location: Worcester, Massachusettsachusetts.

[Ten-year-old Mollie Steuben topping beets. Many children of this age put in a full day's work, and many begin younger. The work is hard and the children sometimes cut themselves or are "hooked" by the long tooth on the end of the blade. Mollie and her two sisters, 12 and 14 yrs. old, work from 6 A.M. to 5 P.M., near Sterling. See also Hine report for further details about this work.] Location: [Sterling vicinity, Colorado] / Photo by Hine, Oct. 21/15.

5-year old Jack and 13-year old Bitsey are regular workers on their father's farm. Worming and suckering now. Bitsey goes to Wallonia School in Div. 1, Trigg Co. "He worms and he suckers. Quite a worker but he aint old enough to go to school yet." The mother said this about Jack. Father, B.F. Mitchell, Route 1, owns farm. Location: Trigg County--Gracey, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

5-year old Jack and 13-year old Bitsey are regular workers on their father's farm. Worming and suckering now. Bitsey goes to Wallonia School in Div. 1, Trigg Co. "He worms and he suckers. Quite a worker but he aint old enough to go to school yet." The mother said this about Jack. Father, B.F. Mitchell, Route 1, owns farm. Location: Trigg County--Gracey, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Tommy De Grandis, 109 Groham St. A week [i.e., weak] anaemic. Ten year old pin boy in Hennessey's Bowling Alley. Also his brother Leo (said 12 years). They said they work every night until midnight. Photo taken Sunday morning about 11 A.M. and Tommy had just gotten out of bed. Saturday evening I found Tommy eating his lunch (supper) in a dark, dirty closet (used as a lunch room evidently) with no ventilation. Location: Lowell, Massachusetts.

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New York, New York. Industrial training for war work offered to women by New York University under United States government sponsorship. Former jewelery [i.e., jewelry] designer, who made the pin and earrings she wears, learning to weld and solder by constructing these miniature radio towers

A black and white photo of people sitting on a bench. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

Meeting and picnic lunch at Pine Mountain settlement school near Harlan, Kentucky

Yabucoa, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Sugar cane workers on strike. The loaf of bread each one is holding is their lunch

Auctioning off the pies at pie supper in the school house. Muskogee County, Oklahoma. See general caption number 24

Whiteman Air Force Base, Oscar O-1 Minuteman Missile Alert Facility, Southeast corner of Twelfth & Vendenberg Avenues, Knob Noster, Johnson County, MO

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.

Family of unemployed oil worker, who is now living on relief, eating supper. Seminole, Oklahoma

Hot Shoppe restaurant at midnight. Washington, D.C.

Farmers in front of lunch shed, country auction, Aledo, Mercer County, Illinois

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

Bowling alley boys, New Haven, Conn. Many of these work until late at night. Location: New Haven, Connecticut

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