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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

Some of the boys working at the Tidewater Knitting Mills, Portsmouth, Virginia I went through the mill several times during working hours and saw a number of youngsters surely under fourteen. Some of them, especially the girls, refused to be in the Photos. Location: Portsmouth, Virginia

Some of the boys working at the Tidewater Knitting Mills, Portsmouth, ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2237. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... 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

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

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

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

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

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

Group showing typical workers in the small mills of Virginia, while industry is at ebb-tide. Matoaca, Virginia June 1911. The little ones on left end "only help some. Have to be 14 to work." Found very few very young workers. Times are slack. Many of the hands have found work in Petersburg. Location: Matoaca, Virginia

Group showing typical workers in the small mills of Virginia, while in...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2215. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Rolling cigarette cases. East Side tenement. (For complete details see Miss E.C. Watson's report.) Location: New York, New York (State)

Rolling cigarette cases. East Side tenement. (For complete details see...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 3230. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photogr... More

Sulak family, frugal Bohemian farmers own an eighty acre farm near West. Will raise twenty bales of cotton this year. These are all members of family. The five year old picks cotton some. The seven year old picks one hundred pounds a day. The nine year old picks about a hundred pounds. The eleven year old two hundred pounds, thirteen year old two hundred and fifty pounds. The adults pick three or four hundred a day. Note the care they take of the children and of the home. (It was the end of a week and a sort of holiday, but the whole situation shows how much better standard the farm owners keep than do the "renters". See Hine report. Contrast with this photo some of those of the "renters."). Location: West, Texas

Sulak family, frugal Bohemian farmers own an eighty acre farm near Wes...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3645. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

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

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 ...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 2293. Hine no. 2283. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and P... 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...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2144. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... 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...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2343. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Scene on the farm of S.N.? Whiteside, near Waxahachie. 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

Scene on the farm of S.N.? Whiteside, near Waxahachie. Children come o...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3614. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Anne, small picker. Said 7 years old. Location: Rochester vicinity - Eldridge Bog, Massachusetts

Anne, small picker. Said 7 years old. Location: Rochester vicinity - E...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 2545. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... 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...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 3231. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photogr... More

Dance Hall. See 4184. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts Lewis W. Hine

Dance Hall. See 4184. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts Lewis W. Hin...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 4179. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the ... More

A young table boy in Newsome's ice cream parlor. Location: Birmingham, Alabama

A young table boy in Newsome's ice cream parlor. Location: Birmingham,...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 3810. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Applicants for working papers at Department of Education Building. Location: Boston, Massachusetts

Applicants for working papers at Department of Education Building. Loc...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 951. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More

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

Carmino Fascinoe, 142 Common St. Worker in Ayer Mill. Location: Lawrence, Massachusetts

Carmino Fascinoe, 142 Common St. Worker in Ayer Mill. Location: Lawren...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2491. UMBC database records as "Fascinoe." Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Con... More

A Group of Children out for a Ride with Their Teachers on the Swan Boats on Frog Pond. Location: Boston, Massachusetts

A Group of Children out for a Ride with Their Teachers on the Swan Boa...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 916. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More

Noon-hour at Riverside Cotton Mills, Danville, Virginia All are workers. The Suprt., 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, Virginia All are worker...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 2180-A. Also in LOT 7483, v. 1. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congre... More

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. ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2979. City recorded at top of caption card as "Spartanberg." Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collecti... More

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...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 566. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More

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

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2193. Also in LOT 7479, v. 3. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints... More

Going back to work. Youngest boy is Richard Millsap. The family record in bible says he is 11 years old - born Jan. 22, 1903 (doubtful), and father says 12 years old. He appears to be under 9. Works every day at spinning, and has been working for some weeks. Boss saw investigator photographing him and whistled to him to get out. This photograph was gotten as he went in to work. Then boss took him off his regular job and put him helping others. Mother was furious at boss for not giving Richard and sister (a little older) more steady work. "He keeps changin em around and helpin others. I'll tell him that if he doesn't give em plenty of work there is plenty of mills that will." Father and mother both well and able to support family. Location: Opelika, Alabama

Going back to work. Youngest boy is Richard Millsap. The family record...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 3820. Also in LOT 7483, v. 3. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress... More

Young pickers on Swift's Bog. All working: including baby in foreground. (See names on other label.) Location: Falmouth vicinity - Swift's Bog, Massachusetts

Young pickers on Swift's Bog. All working: including baby in foregroun...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 2566. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Family of L.W. Money. Father, daughter and two boys work in spinning room of Washington Cotton Mills. Fries, Virginia Smallest worker said he was thirteen, but it is doubtful. Location: Fries, Virginia

Family of L.W. Money. Father, daughter and two boys work in spinning r...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2150. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Exterior of home shown in 3129. (For complete details see Miss E. C. Watson's report.) Location: New York, New York (State)

Exterior of home shown in 3129. (For complete details see Miss E. C. W...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 3127. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photogr... More

Typical cooking and eating quarters of berry pickers. Anne Arundel Co., Maryland. Courtesy of Maryland Child Labor Committee. Location: Anne Arundel County, Maryland

Typical cooking and eating quarters of berry pickers. Anne Arundel Co....

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3526. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... 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

Group of workers in Glenallen Mill. Smallest girl helps her sister Dora Roberts in mill. Lives at 13 Woodlawn St., there are 13 in the family, five or six working. Apparently prosperous. In this group is also Corinne Cuillette. Location: Winchendon, Massachusetts

Group of workers in Glenallen Mill. Smallest girl helps her sister Dor...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2398. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Going into the Butler Mills at 6:50 A.M. All went into work at North Gate beside office. Sixs i.e., six seemed under 14. Witness R.K. Conant. Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts

Going into the Butler Mills at 6:50 A.M. All went into work at North G...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 2278. Hine no. 2279. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Joe carrying cranberries. Said 10 years old. Picks also. Location: Falmouth vicinity - Swift's Bog, Massachusetts

Joe carrying cranberries. Said 10 years old. Picks also. Location: Fal...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 2565. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... 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

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: ...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 2769. Hine no. 2770. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prin... More

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. 16-A. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Market scene. Location: Boston, Massachusetts

Market scene. Location: Boston, Massachusetts

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 868. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More

Noon Hour, Republic Iron & Steel Co., Muncie, Ind. A few go home to lunch. (Couldn't get inside.) Location: Muncie, Indiana

Noon Hour, Republic Iron & Steel Co., Muncie, Ind. A few go home to lu...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 206. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More

Applying for Working Certificates. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts Lewis W. Hine

Applying for Working Certificates. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 4227. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the ... More

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

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

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2253. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the National... More

Typical cooking and eating quarters of berry pickers. Anne Arundel Co., Maryland. Courtesy of Maryland Child Labor Committee. Location: Anne Arundel County, Maryland

Typical cooking and eating quarters of berry pickers. Anne Arundel Co....

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3526. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Street Kids. Location: Boston, Massachusetts

Street Kids. Location: Boston, Massachusetts

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 945. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More

Going to work in Brown Shoe Factory. 6:30 to 7 A.M. Factory employs between 300 and 400 hands. Location: Moberly, Missouri

Going to work in Brown Shoe Factory. 6:30 to 7 A.M. Factory employs be...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 1730. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Juvenile Court. Small boy who is habitual truant. A street boy. Thursday, May 5, 1910. Location: St. Louis, Missouri

Juvenile Court. Small boy who is habitual truant. A street boy. Thursd...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 1359. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Noon-hour at Riverside Cotton Mills, Danville, Virginia 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, Virginia All are worker...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2179. 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 the 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 this 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. 2115. 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...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2142. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Firewood. Location: Boston, Massachusetts Lewis W. Hine

Firewood. Location: Boston, Massachusetts Lewis W. Hine

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 4682. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the ... More

"Gimme a smoke." Street boys. Location: Boston, Massachusetts

"Gimme a smoke." Street boys. Location: Boston, Massachusetts

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 867. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More

S.D. Ison and family. Father works some. Both boys on right of photo have been in Washington Cotton Mills, Fries, Virginia, for four years. When I asked the smallest worker how old he was, he said, "Don't know," and looked at his father, who said, "Going' on 14." (but he did not say how near to 14 he was). Location: Fries, Virginia

S.D. Ison and family. Father works some. Both boys on right of photo h...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2151. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Scene on the farm of S.N.? Whiteside, near Waxahachie. 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

Scene on the farm of S.N.? Whiteside, near Waxahachie. Children come o...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3613. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

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

A young table boy in Newsome's ice cream parlor. Location: Birmingham, Alabama

A young table boy in Newsome's ice cream parlor. Location: Birmingham,...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 3810. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Workers in Fargo & Phelps Shoe Co., Saw six boys and two girls probably under 14. Note face of very young girl in window. Large sign up, "Boys Wanted." Location: Louisiana, Missouri

Workers in Fargo & Phelps Shoe Co., Saw six boys and two girls probabl...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 1729. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Widow in the mill. Girl at home. The McFarland Family, Winona Miss. Cotton Mills. Mother and sons work in the mill. The girl keeps house. Youngest boy has been in the mill five years. Location: Winona, Mississippi

Widow in the mill. Girl at home. The McFarland Family, Winona Miss. Co...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2124. Phrase "girl at home" underlined on the caption card. McFarland typed as Mc Farland. Credit line: National ... More

Shots at the young workers going in to Ayer Mill, 6:30 to 7 A.M., Sept. 11, 1911. All work. Location: Lawrence, Massachusetts

Shots at the young workers going in to Ayer Mill, 6:30 to 7 A.M., Sept...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2275. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Shots at the young workers going in the Ayer Mill. 6:30 to 7 A.M. All work. Location: Lawrence, Massachusetts

Shots at the young workers going in the Ayer Mill. 6:30 to 7 A.M. All ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2275-A. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divis... More

Going into the Butler Mills at 6:50 A.M. All went into work at North Gate beside office. Sixs i.e., six seemed under 14. Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts

Going into the Butler Mills at 6:50 A.M. All went into work at North G...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2278. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Family of Mrs. Donovan, 293 12 Highland Street, Roxbury, Massachusetts., tying tags for Dennison Co. This is the family that has worked on tags for 7 years and makes an average from that work $30. One month they made $42. Mrs. D. said: "Will we ever be able to do it again?" All the children aged 13, 9, 11, 7 and the twins 4 12 years, help the mother. They often have to work late at night to get done. See Home Work report. Location: Roxbury, Massachusettsachusetts

Family of Mrs. Donovan, 293 12 Highland Street, Roxbury, Massachusetts...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 2982-B. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photo... More

Workers in Reiss Department Store. The age limit is very high. Mr. Reiss does not believe in working children. Location: Mobile, Alabama

Workers in Reiss Department Store. The age limit is very high. Mr. Rei...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 3871. Hine no. 3872. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prin... More

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

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

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 4183. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the ... More

Noon-hour at the Riverside Cotton Mills, Danville, Virginia Group of spinners, doffers, etc. All work. Some here are surely under fourteen, but not many. Location: Danville, Virginia

Noon-hour at the Riverside Cotton Mills, Danville, Virginia Group of s...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2187-A. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divis... More

Noon-hour at Riverside Cotton Mills, Danville, Virginia All are workers. The Suprt., 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, Virginia All are worker...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 2180-A. Also in LOT 7483, v. 1. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congre... More

Carmino Fascinoe, 142 Common St. Worker in Ayer Mill. Location: Lawrence, Massachusetts

Carmino Fascinoe, 142 Common St. Worker in Ayer Mill. Location: Lawren...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2491. UMBC database records as "Fascinoe." Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Con... More

Group containing the following boys who work in the Sagamore Mfg. Company, Fall River. Manuel Corieiia i.e., Correira, 144 Cove St., works in Spinning room on top floor. Said, "I only help mother." He was apparently 13 or 14. Manuel Oliver, George Street, works in card room. Seems surely only 12 years old. Manuel Benevirdes, 30 Otto Street, works on top floor. Manuel Rage, 51 George Street, works in spinning room on fourth floor. John Oliver, 93 Slater Street, works in spinning room on third floor. Joseph Ariuda, 23 Shorr Street, works in spinning room on third floor. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts

Group containing the following boys who work in the Sagamore Mfg. Comp...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2333. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Group of children acting in the Majestic Theatre on Amateur Night. The children are (alleged) amateurs, the older ones are mostly amateurs, with a few professionals. (for further details see report of L.W. Hine, April 1912). Following are names of youngest: Little Audrey Shrier (8 yrs. old), Arthur Goldbert (4 yrs. old), Frank Goldberg (6 yrs. old), Jeannette Goldberg (10 yrs.old), 463 Pennsylvania Ave, N.W., Washington D.C., Marion Skinner (4yrs. old), Gertrude Skinner (12 yrs. old), 910 Pennsylvania Ave., S.E., Washington D.C. Ann Suter (7 yrs.), 27 H St., N.W. Grace George (9 yrs. old), 425--7th, S.W. Rose Friedberg (12 yrs. old), 129 Heckman St., S? W. Devid Zeregen (13 years old), 1215 E St., N.W. Portland Ratcliffe, (15 yrs. old), 66 I St., N.W. Location: Washington (D.C.), District of Columbia

Group of children acting in the Majestic Theatre on Amateur Night. The...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 2937. Date not recorded on caption card; April 1912 based on content and captions for photos with neighbo... 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., 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

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

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

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

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 (Virginia) 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

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

Mamie La Barge and a part of her family of which there are 13 in all, nine in the mill. Location: Winchendon, Massachusetts

Mamie La Barge and a part of her family of which there are 13 in all, ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2370. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Group showing typical workers in the small mills of Virginia, while industry is at ebb-tide. Matoaca, Virginia June 1911. The little ones on left end "only help some. Have to be 14 to work." Found very few very young workers. Times are slack. Many of the hands have found work in Petersburg. Location: Matoaca, Virginia

Group showing typical workers in the small mills of Virginia, while in...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2215. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

General view of the spinning room, Cornell Mill, showing some of the young boys and girls employed there. Cornell Mill. See names on other photo. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts

General view of the spinning room, Cornell Mill, showing some of the y...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 2762. Hine no. 2763. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

J.A. Leazer a 19 year old weaver and his family. Highland Park Mill, Rock Hill, S.C., Began working at 9 years. Makes $1.50 a day now and says he probably can't get any more as a weaver. Many of them marry young. Location: Rock Hill, South Carolina

J.A. Leazer a 19 year old weaver and his family. Highland Park Mill, R...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2953. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Young workers leaving mill of Sagamore Manufacturing Company, Fall River, August 26, 1911. Noon. Richard K. Conant. Witness. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts

Young workers leaving mill of Sagamore Manufacturing Company, Fall Riv...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2332. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

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...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2058. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div... More

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

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2193. Also in LOT 7479, v. 3. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints... More

Scene on the farm of S.N.? Whiteside, near Waxahachie. 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

Scene on the farm of S.N.? Whiteside, near Waxahachie. Children come o...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3613. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Dental work in Hospital. Hood Rubber Co., Cambridge. Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts Lewis W. Hine

Dental work in Hospital. Hood Rubber Co., Cambridge. Location: Cambrid...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 4706. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the ... More

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. 100. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More

Abraham Straus Co. Location: New York--Brooklyn, New York (State)

Abraham Straus Co. Location: New York--Brooklyn, New York (State)

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 1314. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Patching Up a Meal. Boston Slums. Boston 1915 Exhibit. Location: Boston, Massachusetts

Patching Up a Meal. Boston Slums. Boston 1915 Exhibit. Location: Bosto...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 918. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More

Going to work in Brown Shoe Factory. 6:30 to 7 A.M. Location: Moberly, Missouri

Going to work in Brown Shoe Factory. 6:30 to 7 A.M. Location: Moberly,...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 1731. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

A few of the youngsters working in the Cigarette Factory of the American Tobacco Co., at Petersburg, Virginia All work. I went through the factory during working hours and saw dozens of little boys and girls working and helping, who were apparently from 11 to 14 years old. Many of the smallest ones would not be photographed. Photo at 6:30 A.M. Location: Petersburg, Virginia

A few of the youngsters working in the Cigarette Factory of the Americ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 2217-A. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Group of workers going in at noon. Joe Viora, 9 Stapelton St., the smallest boy in the picture, works in the spinning room. Apparently 10 yrs. old. Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts

Group of workers going in at noon. Joe Viora, 9 Stapelton St., the sma...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2303. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Noon-hour at the Riverside Cotton Mills, Danville, Virginia Group of spinners, doffers, etc. All work. Some here are surely under fourteen, but not many. Location: Danville, Virginia

Noon-hour at the Riverside Cotton Mills, Danville, Virginia Group of s...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2187. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Two families working together on Kimball farm, near Waxahachie. The four year old picks nine pounds a day regularly and the eleven year old picks three hundred pounds a day. Location: Waxahachie vicinity, Texas

Two families working together on Kimball farm, near Waxahachie. The fo...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3619. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Noon Hour, Republic Iron & Steel Co., Muncie, Ind. A few go home to lunch. (Couldn't get inside.) Location: Muncie, Indiana

Noon Hour, Republic Iron & Steel Co., Muncie, Ind. A few go home to lu...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 206. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More

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

Young workers leaving mill of Sagamore Manufacturing Company, Fall River, August 26, 1911. Noon. Richard K. Conant. Witness. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts

Young workers leaving mill of Sagamore Manufacturing Company, Fall Riv...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2332. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... 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. 2120. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

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