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The donkey party game of putting the tail on the donkey. The funniest novelty of the age

The donkey party game of putting the tail on the donkey. The funniest ...

Print shows a donkey facing left with 28 tails to be cut out of the bottom half of the print; includes wood engraved illustration of the game in progress with printed "directions", metal pins, and cardboard "me... More

A few of the workers. P. San Martin Cigar Co. Tampa, Fla. Has reputation of employing children that have been through "School Factories" and not paying them anything. Not rushed, so, only few children.  Location: Tampa, Florida.

A few of the workers. P. San Martin Cigar Co. Tampa, Fla. Has reputati...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Noon-hour at Riverside Cotton Mills, Danville, Va. All are workers. The Supt., who posed them, said, "Be sure not to get any little dinner-toters in the photo. We have none working under fourteen." I did see some but not many.  Location: Danville, Virginia.

Noon-hour at Riverside Cotton Mills, Danville, Va. All are workers. Th...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a child labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

All these children were working in the sugar beets for Louis Startz, a farmer near Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. The children are brought out from the nearby town to work the beets. See Hine Report, Wisconsin Sugar Beet, July 1915.  Location: Fond du Lac [vicinity], Wisconsin.

All these children were working in the sugar beets for Louis Startz, a...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Poster - Uncle Tom's cabin - Public domain lithograph

Poster - Uncle Tom's cabin - Public domain lithograph

43307 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Uncle Tom & Eva. Created and "copyright 1899, Courier Litho. Co., Buffalo, N.Y." No. 596. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Charles Hopper in Chimmie Fadden by the author of the book, Edward W. Townsend.

Charles Hopper in Chimmie Fadden by the author of the book, Edward W. ...

Caption: Hully gee! Youse kids'll drive me croizy! Created and "copyright 1896 by The Strobridge Lith Co, Cinti & N.Y." Management of Frank McKee. No. 7386. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library ... More

Italian family crocheting bags. Father sick in bed (not contagious). (For complete details see Miss E.C. Watson's report.) Location: New York, New York (State)

Italian family crocheting bags. Father sick in bed (not contagious). (...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 3126. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photogr... More

The sidewalks of New York - Public domain portrait painting

The sidewalks of New York - Public domain portrait painting

Caption: A few of the characters shown on the sidewalks of New York. Created and "copyright 1899 by The Strobridge Litho Co, Cincinnati & New York." N.Y. no. 8614. Vignette captions: Herald Square at midnight ... More

George Thatcher's Greatest Minstrels

George Thatcher's Greatest Minstrels

Public domain scan of Amerian 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A "Reader" in cigar factory, Tampa, Fla. He reads books and newspapers at top of his voice all day long. This is all the education many of these workers receive. He is paid by them and they select what he shall read.  Location: Tampa, Florida.

A "Reader" in cigar factory, Tampa, Fla. He reads books and newspapers...

Public domain illustrated book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A "Reader" in cigar factory, Tampa, Fla. He reads books and newspapers at top of his voice all day long. This is all the education many of these workers receive. He is paid by them and they select what he shall read.  Location: Tampa, Florida.

A "Reader" in cigar factory, Tampa, Fla. He reads books and newspapers...

Public domain illustrated book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sporting life written by Cecil Raleigh & Seymour Hicks.

Sporting life written by Cecil Raleigh & Seymour Hicks.

Caption: Policeman Doxey's first arrest. Created and "copyright 1898 by The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cin'ti, N.Y." Jacob Litt, proprietor. N.Y. no. 8063. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Second edition of the funniest farce in the world, Shantytown everything new, funny comedians, pretty girls.

Second edition of the funniest farce in the world, Shantytown everythi...

Public domain scan of Amerian 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Noon Hour at an Indianapolis Meat Packing House. Aug. 1908. Wit. E.N. Clopper. Location: Indianapolis, Indiana

Noon Hour at an Indianapolis Meat Packing House. Aug. 1908. Wit. E.N. ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 108. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More

[Woman holding child on her lap, Old Bight, Cat Island, Bahamas]

[Woman holding child on her lap, Old Bight, Cat Island, Bahamas]

Title devised by Library staff based on caption information and inventory lists. Photos taken during Lomax-Hurston-Barnicle recording expedition to Georgia, Florida, and the Bahamas. Handwritten on back: "unkno... More

Food in Britain. In a British hospital, a child is given a drink of milk. Milk is distributed in Britain after the needs of priority classes--children under five, expectant and nursing mothers, older children, invalids, hospitals and schools--have been supplied. The basic allowance of fluid milk for adults in November, 1942 was two pints a week, but priority classes get more, according to their diet requirements

Food in Britain. In a British hospital, a child is given a drink of mi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman, nurse, caring, hospital, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Alice Barber Stephens - [She curled the whip-lash sharply round his legs]

Alice Barber Stephens - [She curled the whip-lash sharply round his le...

Title from Harper's. (DLC/PP-1933:0094). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Robinson's donkey" by Mary Densel, Harper's young people, 6:604 (July 21, 1885).

Gilmore & Leonard in their Irish nonsensicality, Hogan's alley by W.H. Macart.

Gilmore & Leonard in their Irish nonsensicality, Hogan's alley by W.H....

"3rd edition." "Piloted by Eugene Wellington, funnier than ever." Caption: It's awful fresh. Created and "copyright 1898 by The H.C. Miner Litho. Co., N.Y." No. 6297. Portrait caption: Ireland's kings. Forms pa... More

[Long line of boys and men at Vaudeville Show. Saturday P.M.]  Location: [Fall River, Massachusetts].

[Long line of boys and men at Vaudeville Show. Saturday P.M.] Locatio...

Public domain photograph of theater building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

(For Child Welfare Exhibit 1912-13.) Cigar factory of F. Delloiacono [?], 205 Atwells Av., Providence, R.I. Eight year old boy and ten year old girl are stripping. This room is the living, -sleeping-and-working room and adjoins the store. Nov 23, 1912. Very dirty and ill-kept.  Location: Providence, Rhode Island.

(For Child Welfare Exhibit 1912-13.) Cigar factory of F. Delloiacono [...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, economic conditions, children workers, exploitation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Swiping Behind the Cop's Back. Boston 1915 Exhibit. Location: Boston, Massachusetts

Swiping Behind the Cop's Back. Boston 1915 Exhibit. Location: Boston, ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 873. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More

Group of workers in Danville, (Va.) Knitting Works, Only a few of them would pose. I watched them going to and coming from work; also went through the factory during working hours. One morning I counted eighteen that I judged to be under fourteen, several of them were under twelve, and one about nine years. I saw them working and helping. The youngest ones dodged the camera.  Location: Danville, Virginia.

Group of workers in Danville, (Va.) Knitting Works, Only a few of them...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Poster - Robt. McWade as Rip Van Winkle - Public domain lithograph

Poster - Robt. McWade as Rip Van Winkle - Public domain lithograph

K13135 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyright Metropolitan Litho. Studio, 29 Warren St., N.Y., 1879." J.E. Jackson, agent. Signed: R. Muller. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Noon Hour at an Indianapolis Meat Packing House. Aug., 1908. Wit., E. N. Clopper.  Location: Indianapolis, Indiana.

Noon Hour at an Indianapolis Meat Packing House. Aug., 1908. Wit., E. ...

Public domain photograph of factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Old woman, Puck, and children with flashlights looking at object]

[Old woman, Puck, and children with flashlights looking at object]

Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1933:0080). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "A Doctor of Medicine" by Rudyard Kipling, Delineator, 74:296 (Oct. 1909).

[Eliz Austin and children with Cleveland Simmons, Old Bight, Cat Island, July 1935]

[Eliz Austin and children with Cleveland Simmons, Old Bight, Cat Islan...

Public domain photograph - 20th century group portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Noon hour, Singer Mfg. Co., The Boys work there. Location: South Bend, Indiana

Noon hour, Singer Mfg. Co., The Boys work there. Location: South Bend,...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 228. Caption card records date as Oct. 1914; surrounding cards would suggest 1908?. Credit line: National... More

Market scene.  Location: Boston, Massachusetts.

Market scene. Location: Boston, Massachusetts.

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of city street market, food vendors, downtown shopping, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A typical group of workers in the Aragon Mill, Rock Hill,. Location: Rock Hill, South Carolina

A typical group of workers in the Aragon Mill, Rock Hill,. Location: R...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2958. No text recorded on caption card after final comma. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection,... More

A Union Shop, Cigarmakers Tierra del Laga Cigar Co. Almost no hands under 20 years of age. (60 employees.) These are the conditions the labor organizations strive for. One third of the cigarmakers in Tampa are Union men.  Location: Tampa, Florida.

A Union Shop, Cigarmakers Tierra del Laga Cigar Co. Almost no hands un...

Public domain photograph of factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

I became David - Drawing. Public domain image.

I became David - Drawing. Public domain image.

"The psalms of David, page 17, ms" and "To many a sick person did I say a psalm, page 17, ms." Illustration rejected for "My Starry Solitude" by Elizabeth McCracken, Century magazine, vol. 87 (Dec. 1913). (DLC/... More

[A horrible monster glared at them]

[A horrible monster glared at them]

A fierce, ogre-like man with spectacles and a book under his arm clenches his fist at a group of small, frightened children who are seated on the ground before him. Illustration for Chapter XX, "The Woog and th... More

Whole family rolling cigarette cases, the mother was licking the papers as she worked. (For complete details see Miss E.C. Watson's report.)  Location: New York, New York (State)

Whole family rolling cigarette cases, the mother was licking the paper...

Picryl description: Public domain image, 19th-century cigarette card, free to use, no copyright restrictions. Cigarette cards are trading cards issued by tobacco manufacturers to stiffen cigarette packaging and... More

George Thatcher's Greatest Minstrels

George Thatcher's Greatest Minstrels

61763 U.S. Copyright Office Printed on upper right corner: N.Y. no. 8675. Forms part of: Minstrel poster collection (Library of Congress) Pieces missing from edges.

For her children's sake by Theo. Kremer : the companion play to The fatal wedding.

For her children's sake by Theo. Kremer : the companion play to The fa...

Caption: If you strike my mother, I'll shoot! Created and "copyright 1902 by The U.S. Lithograph Co, Russell-Morgan Print, Cincinnati & New York." Management, Sullivan, Harris & Woods. No. 6504. Forms part of: ... More

The season of brotherly love - Drawing. Public domain image.

The season of brotherly love - Drawing. Public domain image.

Title on verso. (DLC/PP-1932:0042). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Life, 8:418 (Dec. 30, 1886).

6:15 P.M., Going home from the Arkwright Mills, Spartenberg [sic], S.C.  Location: Spartanburg, South Carolina.

6:15 P.M., Going home from the Arkwright Mills, Spartenberg [sic], S.C...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Judge Landis in trouble

Judge Landis in trouble

Judge Landis, well-known "boss" of baseball, showing boy the proper way to shoot marbles. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, Chicago. No. CH 14817.

Free neighborhood classes for adults Enroll now : Classes in reading - writing - arithmetic - also art - music - psychology - language - social studies.

Free neighborhood classes for adults Enroll now : Classes in reading -...

Poster from the Adult Education Program of the Chicago Board of Education announcing free education classes for adults, showing a man, wearing a suit, reading. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Li... More

Poster - Uncle Tom's cabin - Public domain lithograph

Poster - Uncle Tom's cabin - Public domain lithograph

43307 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Uncle Tom & Eva. Created and "copyright 1899, Courier Litho. Co., Buffalo, N.Y." No. 596. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Ada Gray in the new East Lynne - Drawing. Public domain image.

Ada Gray in the new East Lynne - Drawing. Public domain image.

Z62722 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyright 1894, The Gribler Bank Note Company, Chicago, U.S.A." No. 24. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Sol Smith Russell's great play, A poor relation

Sol Smith Russell's great play, A poor relation

D15352 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyright 1900 by The Strobridge Litho Co, Cincinnati & New York." Management, Fred. G. Berger. N.Y. no. 9092. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Street Kids.  Location: Boston, Massachusetts.

Street Kids. Location: Boston, Massachusetts.

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Art - Free neighborhood classes for adults ... enroll now

Art - Free neighborhood classes for adults ... enroll now

Poster from the WPA Adult Education program of the Chicago Board of Education announcing free neighborhood art classes, showing men and women working at easels. Date stamped on verso: May 22 1937. Work Projects... More

Immigrant Children Learning to Play on the Roof Garden of the Washington School. Boston 1915 Exhibit. Location: Boston, Massachusetts

Immigrant Children Learning to Play on the Roof Garden of the Washingt...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 946. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More

Cigarmakers in factory of Filogamo & Alvarez, Tampa, Fla. Work was slack.  Location: Tampa, Florida.

Cigarmakers in factory of Filogamo & Alvarez, Tampa, Fla. Work was sla...

Public domain photograph of people in office, interior, the 1910s-1920s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Charles Frohman's dramatic production, The hand of destiny by Pierre Decourcelle.

Charles Frohman's dramatic production, The hand of destiny by Pierre D...

B245724 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: The young pickpocket. Created and "copyright 1896 by The Strobridge Lith Co, Cinti & N.Y." No. 7182. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

The singing comedian, Andrew Mack in the The last of the Rohans by Ramsay Morris.

The singing comedian, Andrew Mack in the The last of the Rohans by Ram...

Public domain scan of Amerian 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Long line of boys and men at Vaudeville Show. Saturday P.M.  Location: Fall River, Massachusetts.

Long line of boys and men at Vaudeville Show. Saturday P.M. Location:...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Some of the adults Payne Cotton Mill, Macon, Ga.  Location: Macon, Georgia.

Some of the adults Payne Cotton Mill, Macon, Ga. Location: Macon, Geo...

Public domain photograph of textile design, fabric pattern, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A Union Shop, Cigarmakers Tierra del Laga Cigar Co. Almost no hands under 20 years of age. (60 employees.) These are the conditions the labor organizations strive for. One third of the cigarmakers in Tampa are Union men.  Location: Tampa, Florida.

A Union Shop, Cigarmakers Tierra del Laga Cigar Co. Almost no hands un...

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

New Trier evening school Classes for adults, Wednesday evenings 7:30 - 9:30.

New Trier evening school Classes for adults, Wednesday evenings 7:30 -...

Poster showing a woman wearing an apron with her hand in a bowl of food. Date stamped on verso: Mar 25 1941. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

Nurse training. "Occupational therapy" for the very young. Convalescence in children, as in adults, is hastened by the encouragement of interest in normal activities. Thus, a nurse's duties in a children's hospital takes on many of the aspects of the nursery school teacher or playground director, as youngsters improve in health

Nurse training. "Occupational therapy" for the very young. Convalescen...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a school, preschool, children, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The sidewalks of New York - Drawing. Public domain image.

The sidewalks of New York - Drawing. Public domain image.

Caption: A few of the characters shown on the sidewalks of New York. Created and "copyright 1899 by The Strobridge Litho Co, Cincinnati & New York." N.Y. no. 8614. Vignette captions: Herald Square at midnight ... More

Poster - The war of wealth - Public domain lithograph

Poster - The war of wealth - Public domain lithograph

A240001 U.S. Copyright Office By C.T. Dazey, author of In old Kentucky. Caption: The child is mine, she shall go with me! Created and "copyright 1895 by The Strobridge Lith Co, Cin'ti & New York." Jacob Litt, p... More

The singing comedian, Andrew Mack in Myles Aroon

The singing comedian, Andrew Mack in Myles Aroon

A247720 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: The swing song. Created and "copyright 1895 by The Strobridge Lith Co., Cinti - N.Y." Direction of D.W. Truss & Co. No. 6672. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (... More

[African American children with a few adults in a pavilion]

[African American children with a few adults in a pavilion]

In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 3, no. 282. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in ... More

Going home, Winona (Miss.) Cotton Mills. All work. Location: Winona, Mississippi

Going home, Winona (Miss.) Cotton Mills. All work. Location: Winona, M...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2121. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

These were all working in the Century Cotton Mill, South Boston, Va., and the mill was running a very small force. One of the small boys belongs to family shown in photo 2206.  Location: South Boston, Virginia.

These were all working in the Century Cotton Mill, South Boston, Va., ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A typical group of workers in the Aragon Mill, Rock Hill,.  Location: Rock Hill, South Carolina.

A typical group of workers in the Aragon Mill, Rock Hill,. Location: ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Blind beggar.  Location: Lawton, Oklahoma. / L.W. Hine.

Blind beggar. Location: Lawton, Oklahoma. / L.W. Hine.

Public domain photograph of Oklahoma, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Jewish children and adults, one holding a Star of David banner, walking south on Nablus Road towards the grave of Shimon Hatzadik (Simon the Just), Jerusalem]

[Jewish children and adults, one holding a Star of David banner, walki...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an old ancient city, historic place, stone building architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Four year old cotton picker. A regular worker on farm. Scene on farm of S.N.[?] Whiteside. Children come out here from the town to pick cotton outside of school hours. Ages range from four and six years (ages of the two youngest boys who pick regularly) up to fifteen and more. Two adults.  Location: Waxahachie [vicinity], Texas.

Four year old cotton picker. A regular worker on farm. Scene on farm o...

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Johnnie, a nine-year-old oyster shucker. Man with pipe is a padrone who had brought these people from Baltimore for four years. He said, "I tell you I have to lie to 'em. Ther're never satisfied. Hard work to get them." He is boss of the shucking shed.  Location: Dunbar, Louisiana.

Johnnie, a nine-year-old oyster shucker. Man with pipe is a padrone wh...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of street life, food vendor, city market, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[He pushed on beyond her, calling as he went]

[He pushed on beyond her, calling as he went]

Title from handwritten notation on mat. (DLC/PP-1932:0033). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The Madonna of the Tubs" by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Harper's ma... More

[Woman sitting on sofa talking to child next to rocker]

[Woman sitting on sofa talking to child next to rocker]

"... Aunty I am so glad to hear that you are head of your class in geography Dickey, tell me what a peninsula is ... Dickey Well, I don't know that Aunty, but ask me what a mountain is ..." Verso. Title devised... More

Uncle George Washington Bings. "Well, the horse jumped over the sun, hey, he's bucking us off!"

Uncle George Washington Bings. "Well, the horse jumped over the sun, h...

Four-frame comic strip in which a toy-like horse bucks off a man (perhaps Uncle George) and two children who land in a pond lily. Inscribed in pencil upper right: The pond lily boat. No copyright information fo... More

The big scenic production, Man's enemy by Chas. A. Longdon & Eric Hudson : now in it's 4th year in England.

The big scenic production, Man's enemy by Chas. A. Longdon & Eric Huds...

D3668 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Only bad men get drunk, don't they? Created and "copyright, 1900, by The U.S. Printing Co., Russell-Morgan Print., Cincinnati & New York." No. 4385. Forms part of: Theatrica... More

[Miss Bradley cheerfully paid ninety cents for the headgear]

[Miss Bradley cheerfully paid ninety cents for the headgear]

Title from mat. (DLC/PP-1933:0080). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "A Soul Above Buttons" by Myra Kelly, McClure's magazine, 27:342 (Aug. 1906).

Speak out, or git out, one or t'other

Speak out, or git out, one or t'other

Title on verso. (DLC/PP-1935:0006). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Daughters of Zion" by Kate Douglas Wiggin, Scribner's, 40:413 (Oct. 1906).

Noon Hour at an Indianapolis Meat Packing House. Aug., 1908. Wit., E. N. Clopper.  Location: Indianapolis, Indiana.

Noon Hour at an Indianapolis Meat Packing House. Aug., 1908. Wit., E. ...

Public domain photograph of factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Groups of girls workers at the gate of the American Tobacco Co., Wilmington, Delaware, noon period, May 24, 1910. Young girls obviously under 14 years of age, who work about 10 hours a day every day except Saturday. Investigator, Edward F. Brown Location: Wilmington, Delaware Photo by Louis i.e. Lewis W. Hine, May, 1910

Groups of girls workers at the gate of the American Tobacco Co., Wilmi...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 1559. Hine no. 1563. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prin... More

[Groups of girls workers at the gate of the American Tobacco Co., Wilmington, Delaware, noon period, May 24, 1910. Young girls obviously under 14 years of age, who work about 10 hours a day every day except Saturday. Investigator, Edward F. Brown.]  Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Louis [i.e. Lewis] W. Hine, May, 1910]

[Groups of girls workers at the gate of the American Tobacco Co., Wilm...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Going to dinner. See photo and label 2256. Knitting Mill. June 1911. Berkley, Va.  Location: Berkley, Virginia / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

Going to dinner. See photo and label 2256. Knitting Mill. June 1911. B...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

All of the family of Antoinette Pothier, 32 Easton Street. Father and tallest girl in back row of the picture work. Antoinette is the center of the group in the front row. Her sister Anita is 11 years old. See 2477. Location: Lawrence, Massachusetts

All of the family of Antoinette Pothier, 32 Easton Street. Father and ...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 2480. Hine no. 2481. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Group of workers in Eclipse Mills. Second boy from right was afraid to give name.  Location: North Adams, Massachusetts.

Group of workers in Eclipse Mills. Second boy from right was afraid to...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Arthur Sarasin, 7 Acushnet Block. Works in weaving room. At his house his people said he was fourteen last week. Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts

Arthur Sarasin, 7 Acushnet Block. Works in weaving room. At his house ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2286. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Part of the force at Tupelo (Miss.) Cotton Mills. All work. Smallest ones not in photo. Among youngest here are: Coleman Miller, has been working one year, cannot write name, said twelve years old but doesn't appear to be. Zamie Scott, one year working. Guy Sanders, and Luceon Kendreck.  Location: Tupelo, Mississippi.

Part of the force at Tupelo (Miss.) Cotton Mills. All work. Smallest o...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a child labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

As the whistle blew at the Tidewater Knitting Mill, Portsmouth Va. I went through the mill several times while they were working and saw a number of boys and girls that were surely under 14.  Location: Portsmouth, Virginia.

As the whistle blew at the Tidewater Knitting Mill, Portsmouth Va. I w...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

As the whistle blew at the Tidewater Knitting Mill, Portsmouth, Va. I went through the mill several times while they were working and saw a number of boys and girls working and saw a number of boys and girls surely under fourteen. See photos and labels following.  Location: Portsmouth, Virginia.

As the whistle blew at the Tidewater Knitting Mill, Portsmouth, Va. I ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Force working in West Point (Miss.) Cotton Mills. (See succeeding photos and labels.) Location: West Point, Mississippi

Force working in West Point (Miss.) Cotton Mills. (See succeeding phot...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2129. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Force working in West Point (Miss.) Cotton Mills. (See Succeeding photos and labels.) Location: West Point, Mississippi

Force working in West Point (Miss.) Cotton Mills. (See Succeeding phot...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2130. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Dependent Parents (See also 2157) R.L. Witt. He is apparently working on the railroad, but his three oldest children, here work in the Roanoke (Va.) Cotton Mills. Mamie is only 12 years old and earns very little. Home is very poorly kept. Mother would not be in the photo. Location: Roanoke, Virginia

Dependent Parents (See also 2157) R.L. Witt. He is apparently working ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2160. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Nearly the entire force, Yooona [i.e., Yocona] Mills, Water Valley, Miss. Some of the smallest workers not in photo. The three smallest ones in front row hang around and help some. Baby doesn't work, - yet. The rest are steady workers. (See Hine report for data about past earnings of the mill.)  Location: Water Valley, Mississippi.

Nearly the entire force, Yooona [i.e., Yocona] Mills, Water Valley, Mi...

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Nearly the entire force, Yooona i.e., Yocona Mills, Water Valley, Miss. Some of the smallest workers not in photo. The three smallest ones in front row hang around and help some. Baby doesn't work, - yet. The rest are steady workers. (See Hine report for data about past earnings of the mill.) Location: Water Valley, Mississippi

Nearly the entire force, Yooona i.e., Yocona Mills, Water Valley, Miss...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2117. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Showing pickers at Swift's Bog. Location: Falmouth vicinity - Swift's Bog, Massachusetts

Showing pickers at Swift's Bog. Location: Falmouth vicinity - Swift's ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 2562. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Manuel Thomas, 2 years old. Was picking a little.  Location: Falmouth - Baker Bog, Massachusetts.

Manuel Thomas, 2 years old. Was picking a little. Location: Falmouth ...

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Joe Mello, 62 Grinnel i.e., Grinell? St., New Bedford. Appeared about eight or nine: could not speak English except to tell us that he was a sweeper in the spinning room (two other boys confirmed this); watched him go in at noon and come out at 6 P.M. on Aug. 21, 1911. At the houses his mother gave his name as Jose Mello, ten years old. There was no certificate for this boy at the superintendent's office. Birth records ambiguous. Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts

Joe Mello, 62 Grinnel i.e., Grinell? St., New Bedford. Appeared about ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2293. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

(For Child Welfare Exhibit 1912-13.) Exterior of Sprague House Settlement Providence, on Saturday morning. The house was so full that these children could not go in Location: Providence, Rhode Island

(For Child Welfare Exhibit 1912-13.) Exterior of Sprague House Settlem...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 3175. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Hard Workers. Grady Carroll, nine year old cotton picker. He picks two hundred pounds a day. Brother Ed, ten years old picks three hundred pounds a day. Another brother thirteen years old picks four hundred pounds. Mother picks three hundred. Adults pick about five hundred pounds, getting $1.00 a hundred. The father rents the farm.  Location: Waxahachie [vicinity], Texas.

Hard Workers. Grady Carroll, nine year old cotton picker. He picks two...

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Families of Henry and John Miller: boy of eleven years, girl of eleven and girl of thirteen, hoeing the sugar beets. They have 80 acres in beets, come out here from the town in May and go back late in November. One of the families has been here for five years and owns its home. See Hine Report, Colorado. Beet Workers, July, 1915.  Location: Colorado.

Families of Henry and John Miller: boy of eleven years, girl of eleven...

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Working boys in foreground. See 4184.  Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

Working boys in foreground. See 4184. Location: Fall River, Massachus...

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Blind beggar. Location: Lawton, Oklahoma. L.W. Hine

Blind beggar. Location: Lawton, Oklahoma. L.W. Hine

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 4786. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the ... More

[Man holding child, standing, facing front, possibly from the visit by Alan Lomax and Mary Elizabeth Barnicle to Andros Island in the Bahamas]

[Man holding child, standing, facing front, possibly from the visit by...

Title devised by Library staff based on caption information and inventory lists. Photo taken during Lomax-Hurston-Barnicle recording expedition to Georgia, Florida, and the Bahamas. Forms part of: Lomax collect... More

House on road to Goose Creek, Goose Creek vic., Berkeley County, South Carolina

House on road to Goose Creek, Goose Creek vic., Berkeley County, South...

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Home economics and home management class for adults, under supervision of Miss Evelyn M. Driver (standing in white uniform). Everything they make including the small handmade looms, utilizes materials of local origin as cornshucks, cane, flour and meal and feed sacks, etc. Flint River Farms, Georgia

Home economics and home management class for adults, under supervision...

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Family group in interior of house in Mexican section. This man is an agricultural worker. This family of two adults and eight children, with another on the way, live in three small rooms, with no bath for which they pay eleven dollars per month. They use an outside toilet shared with five other families

Family group in interior of house in Mexican section. This man is an a...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Two contact sheets showing young adults acting in a medical farce and in a song and dance production, and African American and other children playing around and climbing on street sign at the corner of Cowell and Pride streets, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]

[Two contact sheets showing young adults acting in a medical farce and...

Illus. in album: A city experienced: Pittsburgh, Pa., a photographic interpretation / W. Eugene Smith, v. 2, E5-R184 & E5-R185.

Mount Kisco Library, Mount Kisco, New York. Young adults' room

Mount Kisco Library, Mount Kisco, New York. Young adults' room

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Getting working papers. Location: New York, New York (State)

Getting working papers. Location: New York, New York (State)

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 17-A. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

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