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Barney Goldstein, 83 W. 5th St. Newsboy, 10 years of age. Selling newspapers 1 year. Average earnings 50 cents per week. Selling papers own choice. Don't smoke. Visits saloons. Works 5 hours per day. Investigator, Edward F. Brown. Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Lewis W. Hine., May, 1910.

Barney Goldstein, 83 W. 5th St. Newsboy, 10 years of age. Selling news...

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Interior of tobacco shed, Hawthorn Farm. Girls in foreground are 8, 9, and 10 years old. The 10 yr. old makes 50 cents a day. 12 workers on this farm are 8 to 14 years old, and about 15 are over 15 yrs. Location: Hazardville, Connecticut. / L.W. Hine.

Interior of tobacco shed, Hawthorn Farm. Girls in foreground are 8, 9,...

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Type house at Garden Homes, Arvin (Kern County) California. This is an Farm Security Administration housing project for low income farm workers. Rent of eight dollars and twenty cents monthly includes electricity and water

Type house at Garden Homes, Arvin (Kern County) California. This is an...

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A black and white photo of people in a field, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of people in a field, Great Depression. FSA/OW...

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Interior of one-room cabin for migratory fruit workers. Rent is one dollar and seventy-five cents a week. Berrien County, Michigan

Interior of one-room cabin for migratory fruit workers. Rent is one do...

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Guanica, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Farm laborer employed in cutting sugar cane at one dollar and fifty-one cents per day

Guanica, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Farm laborer employed in cutting suga...

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[Some of the youngest workers in Laurel Cotton Mills, Miss. Tallest man is Mr. Hollingworth. Two of his boys in front row. Sylvester, ten years old, "Only helps in the mill afternoons and Saturdays." "But if I was twelve," he said, "I'd go to work to-morrow." The other boy, Floyd, said he was thirteen, but he doesn't seem to be. He said, "I sweeps. Get thirty cents a day. Sweepin' keeps you at it right steady. Not much chance to rest. You have to be twelve to work." Location: Laurel, Mississippi.

[Some of the youngest workers in Laurel Cotton Mills, Miss. Tallest ma...

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Woman and child picking coal from a slag heap. They are paid ten cents for each 100 pound sack, Nanty Glo, Pennsylvania

Woman and child picking coal from a slag heap. They are paid ten cents...

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Pennsylvania motor police on duty at the King Farm during the strike of workers against seventeen cents an hour wages. Near Morrisville, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania motor police on duty at the King Farm during the strike o...

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Pennsylvania motor police on duty at the King Farm during the strike of workers against seventeen cents and twenty cents an hour. Near Morrisville, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania motor police on duty at the King Farm during the strike o...

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Working on jigs, with dormitories in the background at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp for defense workers. The dormitories at this project will accommodate, when finished, 952 single men. Dormitory residents will pay five dollars weekly for single rooms and three dollars and fifty cents weekly for each occupant sharing a double room. San Diego, California

Working on jigs, with dormitories in the background at the FSA (Farm S...

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Guanica, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Farm laborer employed in cutting sugar cane at one dollar and fifty-one cents per day

Guanica, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Farm laborer employed in cutting suga...

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Daytona Beach, Florida. This boy, who is a NYA (National Youth Administration) student, receives thirty-five cents an hour for chopping wood. By doing this he is able to pay his tuition fees

Daytona Beach, Florida. This boy, who is a NYA (National Youth Adminis...

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Mrs. Roosevelt is served a Victory lunch on her visit to General Motors' Eastern Aircraft Division in Linden, New Jersey. Consisting of a small steak, two vegetables, salad, enriched breads, custard and a glass of milk, this highly nutritious lunch is provided war workers for forty-seven cents in the plant cafeteria. Mrs. Clairs C. Curthrie, plant nutritionist, hands Mrs. Roosevelt the tray, while welder-trainee Emmie Banys stands by

Mrs. Roosevelt is served a Victory lunch on her visit to General Motor...

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Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Katie Sablejack, forty-five, a Hungarian, employed as a blacksmith's helper in the Pennsylvania Railroad yards, earning seventy-two cents per hour. She is operating a half-ton steam hammer. Mrs. Sablejack is a widow and mother of two children

Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Katie Sablejack, forty-five, a Hungarian,...

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Johns Lewis. Springstein Mill. A typical cotton mill boy. 12 years old --1 year in mill. Weaver--4 looms. Got 40 cents at start--60 cents now. Brother and Pa, in mills. Witness S.R. Hine. Location: Chester, South Carolina

Johns Lewis. Springstein Mill. A typical cotton mill boy. 12 years old...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 334. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Some of the younger workers in the Beaumont Mills, Spartenberg [sic], S.C. The youngest boy on the right hand end is Bob Cook, works in spinning room #2. Said he had been working about a year. Began at 35 cents a day now makes 50 cents. Their family bible gave his birth day June 25th, 1901, making him 10 years old. Small boy on left end Emmett Capps been doffing one year. Doesn't seem to be 12 years old. The other boys are questionable. Location: Spartanburg, [South Carolina]

Some of the younger workers in the Beaumont Mills, Spartenberg [sic], ...

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Partially completed homes for agricultural workers to enable them to settle permanently. These houses rent for eight dollars and twenty cents per month which includes water and electricity. This tract adjoins the migratory labor camp. Farmersville, California. Compare 19550 and 19546

Partially completed homes for agricultural workers to enable them to s...

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Guanica, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Farm laborer employed in cutting sugar cane at one dollar and fifty-one cents per day

Guanica, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Farm laborer employed in cutting suga...

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Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Miss Helen Gusmerotti, twenty-nine, and Miss Mary Mignogna, employed as car repairmen's helpers at the steel car shop in the Pennsylvania Railroad yards, earning seventy-two cents per hour. Miss Gusmerotti and Miss Mignogna are burning holes in the hopper car sides

Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Miss Helen Gusmerotti, twenty-nine, and Miss M...

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Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Katie Sablejack, forty-five, a Hungarian, employed as a blacksmith's helper in the Pennsylvania Railroad yards, earning seventy-two cents per hour. She is operating a half-ton steam hammer. Mrs. Sablejack is a widow and mother of two children

Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Katie Sablejack, forty-five, a Hungarian,...

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Some of the young workers in Laurel Cotton Mills, Laurel, Miss. Tallest man is Mr. Hollingsworth. Two of his boys in front row. Sylvester, ten years old, "Only helps in the mill afternoons and Saturdays." "But if I was twelve," he said, "I'd go to work to-morrow." The other boy, Floyd, said he was thirteen, but he doesn't seem to be. He said, "I sweeps. Get thirty cents a day. Sweepin' keeps you at it right steady. Not much time to rest. You have to be twelve to work." Location: Laurel, Mississippi.

Some of the young workers in Laurel Cotton Mills, Laurel, Miss. Talles...

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James Lequlla, newsboy, 12 years of age. Selling newspapers 3 years. Average earnings 50 cents per week. Selling newspapers own choice. Earnings not needed at home. Don't smoke. Visits saloons. Works 7 hours per day. Investigator, Edward F. Brown. Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Lewis W. Hine., May 1910.

James Lequlla, newsboy, 12 years of age. Selling newspapers 3 years. A...

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Frank Craneshaw. Has doffed for 3 years in Lancaster Cotton Mills, S.C. Gets 75 cents a day. Location: Lancaster, South Carolina.

Frank Craneshaw. Has doffed for 3 years in Lancaster Cotton Mills, S.C...

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Grace Harper (Looked 10 years old). Works in Lydia Mills, Clinton, S.C. Mother said she is very good hand at spinning. Been at it 3 years. Runs 4 and 5 sides, about 50 cents a day. Little sister Lettie helps. Mother said "she is learnin'." Looked 7 years old. Dec. 2/08. Witness Sara R. Hine. Location: Clinton, South Carolina / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

Grace Harper (Looked 10 years old). Works in Lydia Mills, Clinton, S.C...

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Leo Franklin, 419 E. 3d St. 12 years of age. Selling papers 2 years. Average earnings 50 cents a day. Selling papers own choice. Earnings not needed at home. Visits saloons. Don't smoke. Investigator, Edward F. Brown. Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Lewis W. Hine., May, 1910.

Leo Franklin, 419 E. 3d St. 12 years of age. Selling papers 2 years. A...

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William Lynch, 11 years of age, and Cornelius Lynch, 9 years of age, 607 ["606" crossed out] E. 6th Street. Newsboys. William has been selling papers 4 years, average earnings 25 cents per week. Sells from choice. Don't smoke. Visits saloons. Works 5 hours a day. Cornelius selling 3 years, average earnings 35 cents a week. Earnings not needed at home. Sells from choice. Don't smoke. Visits saloons. Works 7 hours a day. Edward F. Brown, Investigator. Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

William Lynch, 11 years of age, and Cornelius Lynch, 9 years of age, 6...

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Elwood Palmer Cooper, 838 French St. (colored). Helper on miller's wagon. 7 years of age. Helper for one year. Carries bags of flour, weighing 25 pounds, from wagon to stores. Receives 25 cents per week. Money not needed at home. Wants money to spend. Investigator, Edward F. Brown. Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Lewis W. Hine, May 1910.

Elwood Palmer Cooper, 838 French St. (colored). Helper on miller's wag...

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General view of part of the force picking tomatoes on farm of W.T. Hill. There were about 25 children--most of them 8 to 15 years old. "When school opens next month you bet we have to quit workin'" they said. Usually earn 50 cents to $1.50 a day. Location: Cabool, Missouri / Lewis W. Hine.

General view of part of the force picking tomatoes on farm of W.T. Hil...

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Potato workers earn three cents per bushel gathering and sacking potatoes, near East Grand Forks, Minnesota

Potato workers earn three cents per bushel gathering and sacking potat...

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8 a.m. Migratory field workers pulling carrots in a field. Note carrot digging tractor in background. "They'll sleep in the row (to hold a place in the field) to earn sixty cents a day." Near Meloland, Imperial County, California

8 a.m. Migratory field workers pulling carrots in a field. Note carrot...

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Partially completed homes for agricultural workers to enable them to settle permanently. These houses rent for eight dollars and twenty cents per month, which includes water and electricity. This tract adjoins the migratory labor camp, Farmersville, California. (compare 19550 and 19546)

Partially completed homes for agricultural workers to enable them to s...

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Boy dancing for arrivals at hotel, price five cents, Cairo, Illinois

Boy dancing for arrivals at hotel, price five cents, Cairo, Illinois

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Mrs. Butler had moved from the Camp Stewart area to Hazlehurst Farms only a few weeks ago. Her husband and son were clearing land at twenty-five cents per hour

Mrs. Butler had moved from the Camp Stewart area to Hazlehurst Farms o...

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Jeffersontown, Kentucky. The Jefferson County community cannery, started by the WPA (Work Projects Administration), now conducted by the state (?) vocational education department. Women pay three cents each for cans and two cents per can for use of the pressure cooker. Women preparing cans to be heated and cooked

Jeffersontown, Kentucky. The Jefferson County community cannery, start...

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Leo, 48 inches high, 8 years old. Picks up bobbins at 15 cents a day in Elk Cotton Mills. He said, "No, I don't help me sister or mother, just myself." Location: Fayetteville, Tennessee.

Leo, 48 inches high, 8 years old. Picks up bobbins at 15 cents a day i...

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Workers in the Nokomis Cotton Mill, Lexington, N.C. The smallest boy said he was 11 years old and makes 50 cents a day. Been doffing there for some months. The Band Boy who seems much younger would not be photographed. Also several other young workers. Location: Lexington, North Carolina.

Workers in the Nokomis Cotton Mill, Lexington, N.C. The smallest boy s...

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Interior of tobacco shed, Hawthorn Farm. Girls in foreground are 8, 9, and 10 years old. The 10 yr. old makes 50 cents a -day. 12 workers on this farm are 8 to 14 years old, and about 15 are over 15 years. Location: Hazardville, Connecticut / L.W. Hine.

Interior of tobacco shed, Hawthorn Farm. Girls in foreground are 8, 9,...

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Looking from the camp to adjoining tract where the Farm Security Administration (FSA) has just completed forty homes to be occupied by low income workers. These homes represent a first step in stabilization of this group. Rent is eight dollars and twenty cents monthly, which includes gas and electricity. Shafter migrant camp, California

Looking from the camp to adjoining tract where the Farm Security Admin...

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Near Los Banos, California. Migratory agricultural workers. Cotton hoers leave the field at end of the day. Wages twenty cents an hour

Near Los Banos, California. Migratory agricultural workers. Cotton hoe...

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West Mine, West Frankfort, Illinois. Now abandoned. This mine has been down about a year. General caption: Many of the miners displaced by machinery in the larger mines are left stranded after mines are abandoned; have opened shallow primitive workings on the coal seam where it occurs close to the surface. The output of these shallow mines, known locally as gopher holes, is processed by a crude method and sold to truckers at about half the price of deep-vein coal. Many of the gopher holes have no storage in the tipple, and the miners underground are idle when no truck is waiting at the chute to load coal. Wages of gopher hole miners run from seventy-five cents to five dollars per day, and many miners earn less than WPA (Works Progress Administration) workers. Some of the larger gopher holes, such as Blue Ribbon Number 2 at Spillertown, Williamson County, are better equipped, pay better wages, and produce as high as 40,000 tons a year

West Mine, West Frankfort, Illinois. Now abandoned. This mine has been...

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Jones Trailer Camp where army men and construction workers and their families live. They pay two dollars and fifty cents weekly for space only. One said "It's nothing but a mud hole, only running water, you can't find a decent place to live in Columbus, and nobody will allow children in their homes--it's a shame. We was all children once. Most folks got children."

Jones Trailer Camp where army men and construction workers and their f...

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Migratory agricultural workers getting in line to be paid for picking beans. They get seven cents a hundred pounds

Migratory agricultural workers getting in line to be paid for picking ...

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A black and white photo of a man smoking a pipe, North Carolina. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a man smoking a pipe, North Carolina. Farm ...

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Day labor now is used almost exclusively on Hopson Plantation, displacing the old tenants on the place. Cotton choppers are hired in nearby towns for seventy-five cents to one dollar a day and trucked to the plantation. Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

Day labor now is used almost exclusively on Hopson Plantation, displac...

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Jones Trailer Camp where Army men and construction workers and their families live. They pay two dollars and fifty cents weekly for space only. One said "It's nothing but a mud hole, only running wate, you can't find a decent place to live in Columbus and nobody will allow children in their homes. It's a shame. We was all children once. Most folks got children."

Jones Trailer Camp where Army men and construction workers and their f...

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Clinton, Iowa. Blackboard in the Disher rooming house for railroad workers. It lists the names and room numbers of the men. This enables the "caller" to find the men and wake them. If men come in very late and go out very early they simply enclose their fifty cents in one of the envelopes, write their name on it, and drop it in the slot in the little box in the corner

Clinton, Iowa. Blackboard in the Disher rooming house for railroad wor...

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Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Twins Amy and Mary Rose Lindich, twenty-one, employed at the Pennsylvania Railroad as car repairmen helpers, earning seventy-two cents per hour. They reside in Jeanette, Pennsylvania, and carpool with fellow workers

Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Twins Amy and Mary Rose Lindich, twenty-one, e...

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[Donald Mallick, ("Happy"), 203 King Street. 9 years of age, selling newspapers 5 years. Average earnings 35 cents a week. Sells from choice. Father, rivet driver, $20 weekly. "Happy" is well known character in town. When first interviewed gave story of sleeping in broken buildings and lots at night. Found out in streets at 11 P.M. at night pitching pennies and working "last paper" scheme. Flips cars and has sister who is 8 years of age who begs and sells papers. Boy very imaginative, and when last seen had a rusty 5 inch knife which he said he found and was playing with same in gutter. Edward F. Brown, Investigator. Wilmington, Del. May, 1910.] Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

[Donald Mallick, ("Happy"), 203 King Street. 9 years of age, selling n...

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Some of the young workers in Laurel Cotton Mills, Laurel, Miss. Tallest man is Mr. Hollingsworth. Two of his boys in front row. Sylvester, ten years old, "Only helps in the mill afternoons and Saturdays." "But if I was twelve," he said, "I'd go to work to-morrow." The other boy, Floyd, said he was thirteen, but he doesn't seem to be. He said, "I sweeps. Get thirty cents a day. Sweepin' keeps you at it right steady. Not much time to rest. You have to be twelve to work." Location: Laurel, Mississippi.

Some of the young workers in Laurel Cotton Mills, Laurel, Miss. Talles...

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A Saturday ball game. Springstein Mills, Chester, S.C. Boy with glove, Malcom Rogers. (See photo 329). Next to him - Ben Deaton--12 years old. 52 inches high. Weaver. Runs 6 looms at $1.00 a day. 2 years in mill. I asked him if it wasn't hard work. "Hardest part if it is I have to stretch so much to reach up." (Tallest boy) John Lewis--12 years old. 1 yr. in mill. Weaves--4 looms. Got 40 cents to start. 60 cents now a day. Brother and father in mills. Nov. 28/08 Witness Sara R. Hine. Location: Chester, South Carolina / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

A Saturday ball game. Springstein Mills, Chester, S.C. Boy with glove,...

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Walter Ray, 400 Walnut St. 8 years of age. Selling papers 1 year. Average earnings 35 cents per week. Selling papers own choice. Don't smoke. Earnings not needed at home. Visits saloons. Works 5 hours per day. Investigator, Edward F. Brown. Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Lewis W. Hine., May, 1910.

Walter Ray, 400 Walnut St. 8 years of age. Selling papers 1 year. Aver...

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Looking from the camp to adjoining tract where Farm Security Administration (FSA) has just completed forty homes to be occupied by low income workers. These homes represent a first step in stabilization of this group. Rent is eight dollars and twenty cents monthly, which includes gas and electricity. Shafter migrant camp, California

Looking from the camp to adjoining tract where Farm Security Administr...

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Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Miss Mary DaVanzo, twenty-two, employed at the Pennsylvania Railroad steel car shop boiler room as a stationary firemen's helper, earning seventy-two cents per hour. She lives on a farm in nearby Delmont and was formerly a waitress in the Mercy Hospital, Pittsburgh

Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Miss Mary DaVanzo, twenty-two, employed at the...

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[Donald Mallick, ("Happy"), 203 King Street. 9 years of age, selling newspapers 5 years. Average earnings 35 cents a week. Sells from choice. Father, rivet driver, $20 weekly. "Happy" is well known character in town. When first interviewed gave story of sleeping in broken buildings and lots at night. Found out in streets at 11 P.M. at night pitching pennies and working "last paper" scheme. Flips cars and has sister who is 8 years of age who begs and sells papers. Boy very imaginative, and when last seen had a rusty 5 inch knife which he said he found and was playing with same in gutter. Edward F. Brown, Investigator. Wilmington, Del. May, 1910.] Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

[Donald Mallick, ("Happy"), 203 King Street. 9 years of age, selling n...

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Three related drought refugee families stalled on the highway near Lordsburg, New Mexico. From farms near Claremore, Oklahoma. Have been working as migratory workers in Calfornia and Arizona, now trying to get to Roswell, New Mexico, for work chopping cotton. Have car trouble and pulled up alongside the highway. "Would go back to Oklahoma but can't get along there. Can't feed the kids on what they give you (relief budget) and ain't made a crop there you might say for five years. Only other work there is fifty cents a day wages and the farmers can't pay it anyways." One of these families has lost two babies since they left their home in Oklahoma. The children, seventeen months and three years, died in the county hospital at Shafter California, from typhoid fever, resulting from unsanitary conditions in a labor camp

Three related drought refugee families stalled on the highway near Lor...

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Robert Reynolds, newsboy, 228 Parrish St. 14 years of age. Selling papers 4 weeks. Average earnings 50 cents per week. Own choice. Earnings not needed at home. Visits saloons. Don't smoke. Investigator, Edward F. Brown. Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Lewis W. Hine., May, 1910.

Robert Reynolds, newsboy, 228 Parrish St. 14 years of age. Selling pap...

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Nardie[?] Diffondall, 328 E. 8th St. 7 years of age. Selling papers 1 year. Average earnings 25 cents per week. Selling newspapers own choice. Don't smoke. Earnings not needed at home. Visits saloons. Works "last paper" scheme. Investigator, Edward F. Brown. Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Lewis W. Hine., May, 1910.

Nardie[?] Diffondall, 328 E. 8th St. 7 years of age. Selling papers 1 ...

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General view of the "hulling" station of the H. A. Johnson Company at Seaford, Del. There are about 400 workers at this station of which it is estimated 220 are children ranging from 2 years of age up. Whole families are congregated here and smallest child is engaged in the work of hulling berries for which 2 cents a quart is paid. Location: Seaford, Delaware.

General view of the "hulling" station of the H. A. Johnson Company at ...

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James Morgan, 119 French St. Newsboy. 9 years of age. Selling newspaper 4 years. Average earnings 50 cents per week. Selling papers own choice. Don't smoke. Visits saloons. Works 6 hours per day. Investigator, Edward F. Brown. Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Lewis W. Hine., May, 1910.

James Morgan, 119 French St. Newsboy. 9 years of age. Selling newspape...

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Young workers going home from the Beaumont Mill, Spartenberg [sic], S.C. In the front row are Jesse Farmer, makes 60 cents a day, been working here six months. Haskel Holt, 70 cents a day six months working. A 13 year old sister been spinning his own name. Location: Spartanburg, South Carolina.

Young workers going home from the Beaumont Mill, Spartenberg [sic], S....

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Morris Levine, 212 Park Street. 11 years old and sells papers every day--been selling five years. Makes 50 cents Sundays and 30 cents other days. Location: Burlington, Vermont / Lewis W. Hine.

Morris Levine, 212 Park Street. 11 years old and sells papers every da...

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Civarro family, 2106 Second Avenue, second floor back, working on patriotic flag pins. They get 3 cents a gross for inserting pin and putting onto card. Mrs. Civarro with her three-months-old baby in her arms is working with four children aged 10, 9, 7 and 5, and a younger child that does not work (2 years). They work irregularly (as Mrs. Civarro does the janitor work for the building which is in fair condition, and receives in return only the rent free of three small rooms), and their net income for this work is $2 a week. 8 members of the family sleep in one small inner room. The tenement is not licensed for homework. Baby was a premature child and very small and frail. "It is so skinny." Husband is a laborer. Location: New York, New York (State) / Lewis W. Hine.

Civarro family, 2106 Second Avenue, second floor back, working on patr...

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A woman in a white coat is preparing food, Texas, during Great Depression

A woman in a white coat is preparing food, Texas, during Great Depress...

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Calipatria, Imperial Valley, In Farm Security Administration (FSA) emergency migratory labor camp. Daughter of ex-tenant farmers on thirds and fourths in cotton. Had fifty dollars when set out. Went to Phoenix, picked cotton, pulled bolls made eighty cents a day with two people pulling bolls. Stayed until school closed. Went to Idaho, picked peas until August. Left McCall with forty dollars "in hand." Went to Cedar City and Parowan, Utah, a distance of 700 miles. Picked peas through September. Went to Hollister, California. Picked peas through October. Left Hollister for Calipatria for early peas which froze. Now receiving Farm Security Administration food grant and waiting for work to begin. "Back in Oklahoma, we are sinking. You work your head off for a crop and then see it burn up. You live in debts that you can never get out of. This isn't a good life, but I say that it's a better life than it was."

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The "pick-table" of the grader at Belcross, North Carolina. Grader men get twenty cents an hour here

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Workers in the Nokomis Cotton Mill, Lexington, N.C. The smallest boy said he was 11 years old and makes 50 cents a day. Been doffing there for some months. The Band Boy who seems much younger would not be photographed. Also several other young workers. Location: Lexington, North Carolina.

Workers in the Nokomis Cotton Mill, Lexington, N.C. The smallest boy s...

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William Gross, 516 Tatnall St. Newsboy, 15 years of age. Selling papers 5 years. Average earnings 50 cents per week. Father, carpenter, $18 week. Selling newspapers own choice, to get money to go to moving picture shows. Visits saloons. Smokes sometimes. "Serves" papers to prostitutes. On May 25 William gave to investigator a list of houses of prostitution written in his own handwriting, to which he serves papers. He also tells a story of occasionally guiding strangers to these houses, for which he receives from 15 cents to a quarter. Investigator, Edward F. Brown. Wilmington, Del. Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Louis [i.e. Lewis] W. Hine, May, 1910.

William Gross, 516 Tatnall St. Newsboy, 15 years of age. Selling paper...

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Dangerous work. Charlie McBride. Said twelve years old. This twelve year old boy has a steady job with the Miller & Vidor Lumber Company. He takes slabs out of a chute which has a moving endless chain to carry the wood up the chute. He passes the slabs onto the other boy who saws them on an unguarded circular saw. Charlie runs the saw himself whenever he gets the chance. He is exposed not only to the above danger, but to the weather - no roof even. Has been here for some months. "Get four bits a day." Fifty cents. Works ten hours. This was the only mill that I found around Beaumont that employed boys, likely because they are located some distance out of town. Location: Beaumont, Texas.

Dangerous work. Charlie McBride. Said twelve years old. This twelve ye...

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James Lequlla, newsboy, 12 years of age. Selling newspapers 3 years. Average earnings 50 cents per week. Selling newspapers own choice. Earnings not needed at home. Don't smoke. Visits saloons. Works 7 hours per day. Investigator, Edward F. Brown. Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Lewis W. Hine., May 1910.

James Lequlla, newsboy, 12 years of age. Selling newspapers 3 years. A...

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Some of the younger workers (not all) who work in the Biloxi Canning Factory. On right-hand end of photo is Lazro Boney, 12 years old, been working 4 years at this factory. Both he and his mother said he makes $1.75 a day when shrimp are large and plentiful. He made $57.00 last year in 3 months. His brother Ed (not in photo) 14 years old, makes $2.25 on good days. Another brother, Pete, (one of the smallest in the photo) and 10 years old makes 50 cents a day. Two other brothers work at raw oysters; one, 17 years old, makes $4.00 a day. Eight ch[ildre]n in family. The mother said, "Lazro goes to school when he ain't workin; but he's gettin' so he'd rather stay home with the boys than go to school." Family lives at 616 Charter St. Next to Lazro (in photo) is Jim Kriss, 11 years old, been working at this factory two years; makes $1.50 on good days. His brother Jo Kriss (in photo next to girl on left end) 12 years old, makes $1.00 a day. Another brother Ed, not in photo, 14 years averages $2.50 a day. Sister Marie 7 years old (see photo at home) works when not tending the baby, and makes 25 cents a day. Mother picks also. Youngest boy in photo is Tommy Davis, 8 years old. 918 Charter St. Worked last year. Ester Barton, a 12 year old boy also is the photo, couldn't spell his own name. Been working two years. "Teeny" Adams, girl on left end of photo, 11 years old, makes $1.15 some days. Missed three weeks of school last month, working. Works now before school, or all day. See also summary of young workers I found (on other label). Location: Biloxi, Mississippi.

Some of the younger workers (not all) who work in the Biloxi Canning F...

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[Donald Mallick, (#1513.) And Myrtle Mallick. Myrtle is 8 years. Selling papers 1 years, average earnings 35 cents per day. Sells from choice. Begs pennies and works "last paper" scheme. Earnings not needed at home. Visits saloons. (general report for further information.) Edward F. Brown, Investigator ]. Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

[Donald Mallick, (#1513.) And Myrtle Mallick. Myrtle is 8 years. Selli...

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Eight-year-old Lizzie, earns 30 cents a day shucking oysters in the Dunbar Cannery. I saw her working steady all day, at top speed. Could not speak a word of English. Location: Dunbar, Louisiana.

Eight-year-old Lizzie, earns 30 cents a day shucking oysters in the Du...

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Flossie Britt, 6 years old has been working several months steadily as spinner in the Lumberton Cotton Mills. Makes 30 cents a day. Lonnie Britt, 7 years old has been working steadily for 1 year as spinner. Makes 40 cents a day. Ages and data given me by their grandmother at home, and I saw them going and coming early and late. 2 smallest in group. When Mr. Swift made his last visit to Lumberton he was shown through these mills by Mr. Jennings, who asked Mr. Swift how many children he thought there were under age. Mr. Swift said about 20, Mr. Jennings told him there were at least 30, and called one of his men to prove he was right. He told Mr. Swift that all the mills were employing children under age. N.B. SEE OTHER SIDE BEFORE USING LABEL (over) Important. [verso of card]: N.B. April 1915: A subsequent visit to this family brought out the information that Flossie was 8 years old and Lonnie 10 years old when I saw them. That the boss asked the mother to bring Lonnie to work, and that she worked about 1/2 year as steadily as she could. That another boss asked the mother to bring Flossie to work and that the girl soon became sick. The mother became disgusted and quit the mill for life on her father's farm where they are now located. There was no need for the children working. Since they moved to the farm the superintendent and 2 other persons visited the family and tried to intimidate them and get them to make mis-statements about the children's ages and work. See Hine report for additional details, all given to Mr. Hine in the presence of a prominent Lumberton attorney. Location: Lumberton, North Carolina.

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General view of part of the force picking tomatoes on farm of W.T. Hill. There were about 25 children--most of them 8 to 15 years old. "When school opens next month you bet we have to quit workin" they said. Usually earn 50 cents to $1.50 a day. Location: Cabool, Missouri / Lewis W. Hine.

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Interior of tobacco shed, Hawthorn Farm. Girls in foreground are 8, 9, and 10 years old. The 10 yr. old makes 50 cents a day. 12 workers on this farm are 8 to 14 years old, and about 15 are over 15 yrs. Location: Hazardville, Connecticut. / L.W. Hine.

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A black and white photo of people working in a field, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of people working in a field, Great Depression...

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Sunray, Texas. Sacking carbon black in a plant. Carbon black is worth 3 1/2 cents a pound

Sunray, Texas. Sacking carbon black in a plant. Carbon black is worth ...

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Guanica, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Farm laborer employed in cutting sugar cane at one dollar and fifty-one cents per day

Guanica, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Farm laborer employed in cutting suga...

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New Britain, Connecticut. Mrs. Dorothy Bell, Irish-German descent, twenty-seven years old, mother of two children, employed at the American Railway Express Company, sorting packages, weighting them, etc., earning seventy-nine and one-half cents an hour

New Britain, Connecticut. Mrs. Dorothy Bell, Irish-German descent, twe...

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Jeffersontown, Kentucky. The Jefferson County ommunity cannery, started by the WPA (Work Projects Administration), now conducted by the state (?) vocational education department. Women pay three cents each for cans and two cents per can for use of the pressure cooker. Mrs. Thomas Benton of Louisville, whose husband is in the U.S. Army, skinning beets that she bought in town

Jeffersontown, Kentucky. The Jefferson County ommunity cannery, starte...

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[Harry Silverstein, Newsboy, 703 W. 6th St., 7 years old. Sells papers, (selling 3 months average earnings 25 cents per week). Father working Morocco Mills, earns $18 weekly. Boy's earnings not needed at home. Don't smoke. Visits saloons. Works 8 hours per day. Edward F. Brown, Investigator. ]. Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

[Harry Silverstein, Newsboy, 703 W. 6th St., 7 years old. Sells papers...

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Al. Brown, newsboy, 219 W. 2nd [3rd?] St. 11 years of age. Selling newspaper 3 years. Average earnings 50 cents per week. Father merchant tailor, $26 weekly. Selling papers own choice. Earnings not needed at home. Don't smoke. Visits saloons. Works 7 hours a day. Wants money to spend . Investigator, Edward F. Brown. Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Lewis W. Hine., May, 1910.

Al. Brown, newsboy, 219 W. 2nd [3rd?] St. 11 years of age. Selling new...

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Interior of tobacco shed, Hawthorn Farm. Girls in foreground are 8, 9, and 10 years old. The 10 yr. old makes 50 cents a day. 12 workers on this farm are 8 to 14 years old, and about 15 are over 15 years. Location: Hazardville, Connecticut / L.W. Hine.

Interior of tobacco shed, Hawthorn Farm. Girls in foreground are 8, 9,...

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Near Los Banos, California. Migratory agricultural workers. Cotton hoers. Leave the field at the end of the day. Wages twenty cents an hour

Near Los Banos, California. Migratory agricultural workers. Cotton hoe...

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Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Hazel Stokum, thirty-seven, mother of six girls, employed at the Pennsylvania Railroad steel car shops as a car repairman's helper, earning seventy-two cents per hour. Mrs. Stokum lives in Jeanette, Pennsylvania, and travels to and from work by train. Her husband works in a defense plant

Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Hazel Stokum, thirty-seven, mother of six...

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James Lequlla, newsboy, 12 years of age. Selling newspapers 3 years. Average earnings 50 cents per week. Selling newspapers own choice. Earnings not needed at home. Don't smoke. Visits saloons. Works 7 hours per day. Investigator, Edward F. Brown. Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Lewis W. Hine., May 1910.

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Three related drought refugee families stalled on the highway near Lordsburg, New Mexico. From farms near Claremore, Oklahoma. Have been working as migratory workers in Calfornia and Arizona, now trying to get to Roswell, New Mexico, for work chopping cotton. Have car trouble and pulled up alongside the highway. "Would go back to Oklahoma but can't get along there. Can't feed the kids on what they give you (relief budget) and ain't made a crop there you might say for five years. Only other work there is fifty cents a day wages and the farmers can't pay it anyways." One of these families has lost two babies since they left their home in Oklahoma. The children, seventeen months and three years, died in the county hospital at Shafter California, from typhoid fever, resulting from unsanitary conditions in a labor camp

Three related drought refugee families stalled on the highway near Lor...

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Donald Mallick, (see #1513.) And Myrtle Mallick. Myrtle is 8 years. Selling papers 1 1/2 years, average earnings 35 cents per day. Sells from choice. Begs pennies and works "last paper" scheme. Earnings not needed at home. Visits saloons. (See general report for further information.) Edward F. Brown, Investigator. Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

Donald Mallick, (see #1513.) And Myrtle Mallick. Myrtle is 8 years. Se...

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Some of the younger workers (not all) who work in the Biloxi Canning Factory. On right-hand end of photo is Lazro Boney, 12 years old, been working 4 years at this factory. Both he and his mother said he makes $1.75 a day when shrimp are large and plentiful. He made $57.00 last year in 3 months. His brother Ed (not in photo) 14 years old, makes $2.25 on good days. Another brother, Pete, (one of the smallest in the photo) and 10 years old makes 50 cents a day. Two other brothers work at raw oysters; one, 17 years old, makes $4.00 a day. Eight ch[ildre]n in family. The mother said, "Lazro goes to school when he ain't workin; but he's gettin' so he'd rather stay home with the boys than go to school." Family lives at 616 Charter St. Next to Lazro (in photo) is Jim Kriss, 11 years old, been working at this factory two years; makes $1.50 on good days. His brother Jo Kriss (in photo next to girl on left end) 12 years old, makes $1.00 a day. Another brother Ed, not in photo, 14 years averages $2.50 a day. Sister Marie 7 years old (see photo at home) works when not tending the baby, and makes 25 cents a day. Mother picks also. Youngest boy in photo is Tommy Davis, 8 years old. 918 Charter St. Worked last year. Ester Barton, a 12 year old boy also is the photo, couldn't spell his own name. Been working two years. "Teeny" Adams, girl on left end of photo, 11 years old, makes $1.15 some days. Missed three weeks of school last month, working. Works now before school, or all day. See also summary of young workers I found (on other label). Location: Biloxi, Mississippi.

Some of the younger workers (not all) who work in the Biloxi Canning F...

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Arthur H. Toody, 536 Market St. Newsboy, 8 years of age. Selling papers 1 years [sic] Average earnings 20 cents per week. Selling newspapers own choice. Earnings not needed at home. Don't smoke. Visits saloons. Works 5 hours per day. Wants money for moving picture. May, 1910. Investigator, Edward F. Brown. Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

Arthur H. Toody, 536 Market St. Newsboy, 8 years of age. Selling paper...

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[Donald Mallick, ("Happy"), 203 King Street. 9 years of age, selling newspapers 5 years. Average earnings 35 cents a week. Sells from choice. Father, rivet driver, $20 weekly. "Happy" is well known character in town. When first interviewed gave story of sleeping in broken buildings and lots at night. Found out in streets at 11 P.M. at night pitching pennies and working "last paper" scheme. Flips cars and has sister who is 8 years of age who begs and sells papers. Boy very imaginative, and when last seen had a rusty 5 inch knife which he said he found and was playing with same in gutter. Edward F. Brown, Investigator. Wilmington, Del. May, 1910.] Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

[Donald Mallick, ("Happy"), 203 King Street. 9 years of age, selling n...

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Negro field hand getting ready to go to town on a Saturday afternoon. His wages seventy-five cents a day and cabin. He has six children

Negro field hand getting ready to go to town on a Saturday afternoon. ...

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One of a Mexican field gang of migratory laborers thinning and weeding cantaloupe plants. The young plants are "capped" with wax paper spread over a wire wicket to protect against cold and accelerate growth. The laborers' wages are thirty cents an hour. Imperial Valley, California

One of a Mexican field gang of migratory laborers thinning and weeding...

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Migratory field workers picking cotton in the San Joaquin Valley, California. Negroes, Mexicans, and refugee whites pick cotton together in this field. These pickers are being paid seventy-five cents per one hundred poounds of picked cotton. Strikers, organizing under the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), are demanding one dollar

Migratory field workers picking cotton in the San Joaquin Valley, Cali...

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Wages [an] Hour Div. of Apparel Industry Committee met today at Raleigh Hotel to try to establish a minimum wage above the present 25 cents an hour. Lft. to rt. Joseph P. McCurdy, President of Maryland Fed. of Labor. Arthur J. Patton, retired employer. Charles Ray, retired manufacturer and former member of Conn. Minimum Wage Board. David Dubinsky, President of International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Sumner H. Slichter, Professor of Business Economics at Harvard. Louis B. Hopkins, Pres. of Wabash College. S.L. Hoffman, active employer. Seated: Burton E. Oppenheim, Chief of Industry Committee Division; Louis E. Kirstein, Chairman of Committee and Vice Pres. of William Filenes Sons Co. Inc. Delos Walker, Vice Chairman, and Vice Pres. of R.H. Macy and Co.

Wages [an] Hour Div. of Apparel Industry Committee met today at Raleig...

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Near Los Banos, California. Migratory agricultural workers, cotton hoers. Leave field at the end of the day. Wages twenty cents per hour

Near Los Banos, California. Migratory agricultural workers, cotton hoe...

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This Texan worked at the grading station in Belcross, North Carolina. He was getting 20 cents an hour. His one wish was someday to have a 100 acre sweet potato farm of his own in Florida

This Texan worked at the grading station in Belcross, North Carolina. ...

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Flophouse of about thirty-seven beds at fifty cents each, constantly crowded with construction workers sleeping in several shifts. Some of them had flu. Alexandria, Louisiana

Flophouse of about thirty-seven beds at fifty cents each, constantly c...

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Picking hops, Yakima County, Washington. Workers were paid this year two and a half to four cents per pound. This man said he could pick one hundred pounds a day

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