10 year old leaf boy and three "stringers" 10, 12, and 13 years old. Tobacco shed of American Sumatra Tobacco Co. In these two sheds were 41 girls and boys from 10 to 15 years old, and only 24 girls and women of 16 years and over. The leaf-boys get $1.50 a day and some of the stringers of 10 and 12 make $1.20 a day, according to the Supt. Location: S[outh] Windsor, Connecticut / L.W. Hine.
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Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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Date
01/01/1917
Contributors
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer
Location
South Windsor (Conn.), 41.82361, -72.62111
Source
Library of Congress
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