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8 P.M. Farrell family, 151 Eleventh St., Brooklyn. (See schedule.) They had temporarily discontinued the brush making, but sent to a neighbor for materials and posed for me, just as they had been doing it. The little five year old on the right is very deft. Her eyes seemed to be troubling her. Boy on left is a neighbor who makes them too. The father complained of the little money there is in the work.  Location: New York--Brooklyn, New York (State)

8 P.M. Farrell family, 151 Eleventh St., Brooklyn. (See schedule.) The...

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Notion Peddlers.  Location: Boston, Massachusetts.

Notion Peddlers. Location: Boston, Massachusetts.

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Photo of advertisement appearing in the April number of Magazine called, The Fabrics, Fancy Goods and Notions. (See also 2893).
6 P.M. Making hair-brushes. Hausner family, 310 E. 71 St., N.Y. Frank is 6 yrs old. and John is 12. The mother had a sore throat and wore a great rag rapped around it, but she took it off for the photo. They said they all (including the 6 yr old) worked until 10 P.M. when busy. Their neighbor corroborated this. She said, "It's a whole lot better for the boys than doin' nothin'." The mother said the night work hurts their eyes and John said so too. He was not very enthusiastic about the beauties of work. All together, they make about $2 a week. Father is a motorman. 6 P.M. Jan 31, -12.  Location: New York, New York (State)

6 P.M. Making hair-brushes. Hausner family, 310 E. 71 St., N.Y. Frank ...

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Contrabands accompanying the line of Sherman's march through Georgia / / from a sketch by our special artist. The last scene. John Garth and Olivia Ruthermayne. The blot on the Ruthermayne escutcheon

Contrabands accompanying the line of Sherman's march through Georgia /...

Four illustrations: contrabands accompaning the line of Sherman's march through Georgia; dead girl(?) on bed and man standing alongside; John Garth and Olivia Ruthermayne seated; Ruthermayne escutcheon (barber supplies).

Photo of advertisement appearing in April number of Fabrics, Fancy Goods and Notions. (See also 2892)

Photo of advertisement appearing in April number of Fabrics, Fancy Goo...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 2893. No location recorded on caption card. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, L... More

Powder puffs, 45 cents per gross. Family attempting to finish 9 gross in less than a week. Boy's hands were very dirty.  Location: New Jersey.

Powder puffs, 45 cents per gross. Family attempting to finish 9 gross ...

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Potomac Electric Power Co. electric appliances. Hair dryer and curling iron

Potomac Electric Power Co. electric appliances. Hair dryer and curling...

Potomac Electric Power Company (PEPCO) is a publicly traded utility company that provides electric service to customers in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area, including the District of Columbia and parts of ... More

The Way it is done / D.H. Goodspeed(?)

The Way it is done / D.H. Goodspeed(?)

Two photos showing rear view of woman using gadget to close(?) back of skirt. 48436 U.S. Copyright Office.

Mrs. Eugene Lampron, Reservoir Street, Leeds, Massachusetts., putting the bristles into tooth brushes in the kitchen of her home. She has been doing it for 9 years, and showed the effect of it. See also Home Work report.  Location: Leeds, Massachusettsachusetts.

Mrs. Eugene Lampron, Reservoir Street, Leeds, Massachusetts., putting ...

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Brush-making late at night. Photo taken at 9:00 P.M., and they work later. Girls are 12 and 14 years old and go to school working in the morning before school and at night after studying is finished. Mother said, "It is better for children to learn something useful to do." The three average one dozen brushes a day. (30 cents.) One of the girls said she would rather work then [i.e., than?] study. Shultz family, 476 Third Ave., Brooklyn. February 5, 1912.  Location: New York--Brooklyn, New York (State)

Brush-making late at night. Photo taken at 9:00 P.M., and they work la...

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Photo of advertisement appearing in April number of Fabrics, Fancy Goods and Notions. (See also 2892)
Potomac Electric Power Co. electric appliances. Beautysage from Beauty Appliance Corp.

Potomac Electric Power Co. electric appliances. Beautysage from Beauty...

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Photo of advertisement appearing in the April number of Magazine called, The Fabrics, Fancy Goods and Notions. (See also 2893)

Photo of advertisement appearing in the April number of Magazine calle...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 2892. No location recorded on caption card. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, L... More

Shibori kanzashi benichoku - Public domain  drawing

Shibori kanzashi benichoku - Public domain drawing

Still life arrangement of hair ornaments and toilet articles. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Shikishi Nishikie Surimono. Mode... More

Shibori kanzashi benichoku - Public domain  drawing

Shibori kanzashi benichoku - Public domain drawing

Still life arrangement of hair ornaments and toilet articles. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Shikishi Nishikie Surimono. Mode... More

Photo of newspaper adv., calling for workers on hair-brushes. See photo 2892 and 2893.  Location: New York, New York (State)

Photo of newspaper adv., calling for workers on hair-brushes. See phot...

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8 P.M. Farrell family, 151 Eleventh St., Brooklyn. (See schedule.) They had temporarily discontinued the brush making, but sent to a neighbor for materials and posed for me, just as they had been doing it. The little five year old on the right is very deft. Her eyes seemed to be troubling her. Boy on left is a neighbor who makes them too. The father complained of the little money there is in the work. Location: New York--Brooklyn, New York (State)

8 P.M. Farrell family, 151 Eleventh St., Brooklyn. (See schedule.) The...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 2827. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photogr... More

Representative Shannon of Missouri. Articles bought at Army canteen

Representative Shannon of Missouri. Articles bought at Army canteen

The Theodor Horydczak Collection documents the architecture and social life of the Washington DC metropolitan area in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.

6 P.M. Making hair-brushes. Hausner family, 310 E. 71 St., N.Y. Frank is 6 yrs old. and John is 12. The mother had a sore throat and wore a great rag rapped around it, but she took it off for the photo. They said they all (including the 6 yr old) worked until 10 P.M. when busy. Their neighbor corroborated this. She said, "It's a whole lot better for the boys than doin' nothin'." The mother said the night work hurts their eyes and John said so too. He was not very enthusiastic about the beauties of work. All together, they make about $2 a week. Father is a motorman. 6 P.M. Jan. 31, -12. Location: New York, New York (State)

6 P.M. Making hair-brushes. Hausner family, 310 E. 71 St., N.Y. Frank ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 2819. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photogr... More

Brush-making late at night. Photo taken at 9:00 P.M., and they work later. Girls are 12 and 14 years old and go to school working in the morning before school and at night after studying is finished. Mother said, "It is better for children to learn something useful to do." The three average one dozen brushes a day. (30 cents.) One of the girls said she would rather work then i.e., than? study. Shultz family, 476 Third Ave., Brooklyn. February 5, 1912. Location: New York--Brooklyn, New York (State)

Brush-making late at night. Photo taken at 9:00 P.M., and they work la...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 2829. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photogr... More

Photo of newspaper adv., calling for workers on hair-brushes. See photo 2892 and 2893. Location: New York, New York (State)

Photo of newspaper adv., calling for workers on hair-brushes. See phot...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 2886. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photogr... More

6 P.M. Making hair-brushes. Hausner family, 310 E. 71 St., N.Y. Frank is 6 yrs old. and John is 12. The mother had a sore throat and wore a great rag rapped around it, but she took it off for the photo. They said they all (including the 6 yr old) worked until 10 P.M. when busy. Their neighbor corroborated this. She said, "It's a whole lot better for the boys than doin' nothin'." The mother said the night work hurts their eyes and John said so too. He was not very enthusiastic about the beauties of work. All together, they make about $2 a week. Father is a motorman. 6 P.M. Jan. 31, -12. Location: New York, New York (State)

6 P.M. Making hair-brushes. Hausner family, 310 E. 71 St., N.Y. Frank ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 2819. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photogr... More

Potomac Electric Power Co. electric appliances. Hair dryer and curling iron

Potomac Electric Power Co. electric appliances. Hair dryer and curling...

Item title devised. The Theodor Horydczak Collection is a collection of photographs taken by Theodor Horydczak (1890-1971) a Polish-born American photographer who worked in Washington D.C. from the 1910s to th... More

8 P.M. Farrell family, 151 Eleventh St., Brooklyn. (See schedule.) They had temporarily discontinued the brush making, but sent to a neighbor for materials and posed for me, just as they had been doing it. The little five year old on the right is very deft. Her eyes seemed to be troubling her. Boy on left is a neighbor who makes them too. The father complained of the little money there is in the work. Location: New York--Brooklyn, New York (State)

8 P.M. Farrell family, 151 Eleventh St., Brooklyn. (See schedule.) The...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 2827. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photogr... More

Notion Peddlers. Location: Boston, Massachusetts

Notion Peddlers. Location: Boston, Massachusetts

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 925. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More

Photo of newspaper adv., calling for workers on hair-brushes. See photo 2892 and 2893.  Location: New York, New York (State)

Photo of newspaper adv., calling for workers on hair-brushes. See phot...

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6 P.M. Making hair-brushes. Hausner family, 310 E. 71 St., N.Y. Frank is 6 yrs old. and John is 12. The mother had a sore throat and wore a great rag rapped around it, but she took it off for the photo. They said they all (including the 6 yr old) worked until 10 P.M. when busy. Their neighbor corroborated this. She said, "It's a whole lot better for the boys than doin' nothin'." The mother said the night work hurts their eyes and John said so too. He was not very enthusiastic about the beauties of work. All together, they make about $2 a week. Father is a motorman. 6 P.M. Jan 31, -12.  Location: New York, New York (State)

6 P.M. Making hair-brushes. Hausner family, 310 E. 71 St., N.Y. Frank ...

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Mrs. Eugene Lampron, Reservoir Street, Leeds, Massachusetts., putting the bristles into tooth brushes in the kitchen of her home. She has been doing it for 9 years, and showed the effect of it. See also Home Work report. Location: Leeds, Massachusettsachusetts

Mrs. Eugene Lampron, Reservoir Street, Leeds, Massachusetts., putting ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 3031. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photogr... More

Powder puffs, 45 cents per gross. Family attempting to finish 9 gross in less than a week. Boy's hands were very dirty. Location: New Jersey

Powder puffs, 45 cents per gross. Family attempting to finish 9 gross ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 4918. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photogr... More

Representative Shannon of Missouri. Articles bought at Army canteen

Representative Shannon of Missouri. Articles bought at Army canteen

Public domain photograph of 1940s-1950s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Potomac Electric Power Co. electric appliances. Beautysage from Beauty Appliance Corp

Potomac Electric Power Co. electric appliances. Beautysage from Beauty...

Item title devised. The Theodor Horydczak Collection is a collection of photographs taken by Theodor Horydczak (1890-1971) a Polish-born American photographer who worked in Washington D.C. from the 1910s to th... More

Photo of newspaper adv., calling for workers on hair-brushes. See photo 2892 and 2893. Location: New York, New York (State)

Photo of newspaper adv., calling for workers on hair-brushes. See phot...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 2886. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photogr... More

8 P.M. Farrell family, 151 Eleventh St., Brooklyn. (See schedule.) They had temporarily discontinued the brush making, but sent to a neighbor for materials and posed for me, just as they had been doing it. The little five year old on the right is very deft. Her eyes seemed to be troubling her. Boy on left is a neighbor who makes them too. The father complained of the little money there is in the work.  Location: New York--Brooklyn, New York (State)

8 P.M. Farrell family, 151 Eleventh St., Brooklyn. (See schedule.) The...

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