Jerald Schaitberger of 416 W. 57th St., N.Y., who helps an older boy sell papers. until 10 P.M. on Columbus Circle. 7 yrs. old. 9:30 P.M., October 8, 1910. Location: New York, New York (State) Photo by Paul B. Schumm
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In album: Street trades.
Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 1601.
Hine no. 1602.
Non-Hine photographer: Schumm, Paul B.
Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
General information about the National Child Labor Committee collection is available at: loc.gov
Forms part of: National Child Labor Committee collection.
According to the 1900 US Census, a total of 1,752,187 (about 1 in every 6) children between the ages of five and ten were engaged in "gainful occupations" in the United States. The National Child Labor Committee, or NCLC, was a private, non-profit organization that served as a leading proponent for the national child labor reform movement. It headquartered on Broadway in Manhattan, New York. In 1908 the National Child Labor Committee hired Lewis Hine, a teacher and professional photographer trained in sociology, who advocated photography as an educational medium, to document child labor in the American industry. Over the next ten years, Hine would publish thousands of photographs designed to pull at the nation's heartstrings. The NCLC is a rare example of an organization that succeeded in its mission and was no longer needed. After more than a century of fighting child labor, it shut down in 2017.
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