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A young mill worker, Columbus, Ga., who in six months' time worked in 4 or 5 mills--getting the roving habit early. Location: Columbus, Georgia.

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Joseph Wench, newsboy, 315 W. 2nd St. 7 years of age. Selling papers 2 years Average earnings 50 cents per week. Selling papers own choice. Earnings not needed at home. Visits saloons. Works 6 hours per day. Mother and father separated. Lives with grandmother. This boy was found on King St. (marked), eating rotted orange which he picked up from the gutter. He was bare footed, shabbily clad and seemed under fed. When asked whether grandmother needed his earnings, he replied that she was comfortable and that he wanted money to go to moving pictures and buy candy. May, 1910 Investigator, Edward F. Brown. Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

Joseph Wench, newsboy, 315 W. 2nd St. 7 years of age. Selling papers 2 years Average earnings 50 cents per week. Selling papers own choice. Earnings not needed at home. Visits saloons. Works 6 hours per day. Mother and father separated. Lives with grandmother. This boy was found on King St. (marked), eating rotted orange which he picked up from the gutter. He was bare footed, shabbily clad and seemed under fed. When asked whether grandmother needed his earnings, he replied that she was comfortable and that he wanted money to go to moving pictures and buy candy. May, 1910 Investigator, Edward F. Brown. Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

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Monongah Glass Co., Fairmont, West Virginia. Jo Before a glass wks boy going home, 5 P.M. He says he is 12 years old, and has been at it one year: is a "ketchin-up-boy" $.70 a day: says glass business is all right. Asked if he was going to be a glassblower when he grows up, he said "Sure!" (See 185) Goes to school during school term: asked is [sic] he had to, he answered "Don't unless I want to" asked why he went then, said "Want to learns something." 1908. Location: Fairmont, West Virginia.

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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

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"I don't never git no rest." This is the attitude that Henry, a six-year old beet worker takes toward life on a Wisconsin farm. See Hine Report, Wisconsin Sugar Beet, July 1915. Location: Wisconsin

"I don't never git no rest." This is the attitude that Henry, a six-year old beet worker takes toward life on a Wisconsin farm. See Hine Report, Wisconsin Sugar Beet, July 1915. Location: Wisconsin

"I don't never git no rest." This is the attitude that Henry, a six-year old beet worker takes toward life on a Wisconsin farm. See Hine Report, Wisconsin Sugar Beet, July, 1915. Location: Wisconsin.

"I don't never git no rest." This is the attitude that Henry, a six-year old beet worker takes toward life on a Wisconsin farm. See Hine Report, Wisconsin Sugar Beet, July, 1915. Location: Wisconsin.

A young mill worker, Columbus, Ga., who in six months' time worked in 4 or 5 mills--getting the roving habit early. Location: Columbus, Georgia.

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01/01/1913
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Columbus (Ga.), 32.46111, -84.98778
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