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Going home to lunch! Two boys from Singer Mfg. Co., Small boy -- Charles Bailey, 316 Scholum St., Is he Fourteen years old?. Location: South Bend, Indiana.

Going home to lunch! Two boys from Singer Mfg. Co., Small boy -- Charl...

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Going home to lunch! Two boys from Singer Mfg. Co., Small boy -- Charles Bailey, 316 Scholum St., Is he Fourteen years old?. Location: South Bend, Indiana.

Going home to lunch! Two boys from Singer Mfg. Co., Small boy -- Charl...

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"Hell's Half Acre," a row of disreputable houses at the edge of the mill settlement at Avondale. These houses harbor the scum of the negroes and whites of the vicinity, and are separated from the mill village by a shallow ditch, which gave Gov. Comer, owner of the mills, the excuse that they were not on the mill property when the question of their removal was taken to him a while ago. A prominent social worker told me that not only do the mill people patronize these resorts, but that the broken down mill girls end up in these houses and that there are, on court record, three cases within a year of girls under fourteen years of age ruined in Hell's Half Acre. Told me, that there are innumerable instances showing the bad moral influence of the cotton mill settlement. (See report on Avondale conditions). Location: Birmingham, Alabama.

"Hell's Half Acre," a row of disreputable houses at the edge of the mi...

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Beet workers, ten years, twelve years, fourteen years and eighteen years, hoeing for father, Jacob Dill, in Sugar City, Colorado. They moved here ten years ago from Southern Russia, work all summer and after the topping is over in the fall they go to school. See Hine Report, Colorado Beet Workers, July, 1915. Location: Sugar City, Colorado.

Beet workers, ten years, twelve years, fourteen years and eighteen yea...

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Going home to lunch! Two boys from Singer Mfg. Co., Small boy -- Charles Bailey, 316 Scholum St., Is he Fourteen years old?. Location: South Bend, Indiana.

Going home to lunch! Two boys from Singer Mfg. Co., Small boy -- Charl...

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Going home to lunch! Two boys from Singer Mfg. Co., Small boy -- Charles Bailey, 316 Scholum St., Is he Fourteen years old?. Location: South Bend, Indiana

Going home to lunch! Two boys from Singer Mfg. Co., Small boy -- Charl...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 231. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More

A small brick building where lobster rolls are sold stands below the Brooklyn side of the historic Brooklyn Bridge, one of the oldest roadway bridges in the United States. Started in 1869 and completed fourteen years later in 1883, it connects the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn, spanning the East River

A small brick building where lobster rolls are sold stands below the B...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:052-2) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Ca... More

Curtin Hines. Western Union messenger #36. Fourteen years old. Goes to school. Works from four to eight P.M. Been with W[estern] U[nion] for six months, one month delivering for a drug store. "I learned a lot about the 'Reservation' while I was at the drug store and I go there some times now." Location: Houston, Texas.

Curtin Hines. Western Union messenger #36. Fourteen years old. Goes to...

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Comparison of Ages. Some of the youngest workers in Roanoke (Virginia) Cotton Mills. On right-hand end is seven year old Frank, a helper. Next to him is twelve year old Ronald, a doffer. On his right is Mamie Witt, twelve year old spinner. Girl on her right said fourteen years old, but doubtful. On her right, (with curl on shoulder) is Inex Kennedy, just fourteen. The second girl on her right is probably under fourteen. This is a small mill, running a small [force]. Location: Roanoke, Virginia.

Comparison of Ages. Some of the youngest workers in Roanoke (Virginia)...

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Raymond Bykes, Western Union No. 23, Norfolk Virginia Said he was fourteen years old. Works until after 1:00 A.M. every night. He is precocious and not a little "tough." Has been here at this office for only three months, but he already knows the Red Light District thoroughly and goes there constantly. He told me he often sleeps down at the Bay Line boat docks all night. Several times I saw his mother hanging around the office, but she seemed more concerned about getting his pay envelope than anything else. Location: Norfolk, Virginia.

Raymond Bykes, Western Union No. 23, Norfolk Virginia Said he was four...

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Family of J. W. Lott at West. The father and three oldest children (two of them under legal age) work regularly in the Brazos Valley Cotton Mill. Charlie is thirteen years old. Family Record said he was born March 12, 1900. Mattie is fourteen years old. Family Record says born November 14, 1898. Both of them have been working in a cotton mill at Laurel, Miss., for one year. Been working here for two weeks. Have steady jobs. Get about $1.25 a day. Charlie was put right to work in spite of the fact that he is in very bad shape physically. Probably malaria. The other worker is sixteen. Location: West, Texas.

Family of J. W. Lott at West. The father and three oldest children (tw...

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[Beet workers, ten years, twelve years, fourteen years and eighteen years, hoeing for father, Jacob Dill, in Sugar City, Colorado. They moved here ten years ago from Southern Russia, work all summer and after the topping is over in the fall they go to school. See Hine Report, Colorado Beet Workers, July, 1915.]]. Location: [Sugar City, Colorado].

[Beet workers, ten years, twelve years, fourteen years and eighteen ye...

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Adolescent spinners in the Suffolk (Virginia) Knitting Mills. One of these, fourteen years old, said she had been working here, off and on, for four years, and earns about one dollar a day now. Location: Suffolk, Virginia.

Adolescent spinners in the Suffolk (Virginia) Knitting Mills. One of t...

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John Huggins. Said he is fourteen years old and has been doffing for eight months in the Guadalupe Valley Cotton Mills. Violation of law. Gets a dollar a day now. Before he came here, he worked in the cotton mill at West, Tex., for five or six years. Said boys work in the Cuero mill under age. "They don't even bother to ask your age. Didn't ask mine. Easy 'nuff to git a job." The mills were not running on account of floods this week. I found only one other boy under age, "Spider" Estes said he is fourteen years old and been working here, doffing one year. Location: Cuero, Texas.

John Huggins. Said he is fourteen years old and has been doffing for e...

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Marion Davis, Messenger #21 for Bellevue Messenger Service. Fourteen years old. "Been messenger, off and on, for two years. Not supposed to go to the Reservation under sixteen years, but I do just the same. The boss don't care and the cops don't stop me." Location: Houston, Texas.

Marion Davis, Messenger #21 for Bellevue Messenger Service. Fourteen y...

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Marion Davies - American actress and film producer active during the silent and early sound film eras of the 19... More

Comparison of Ages. Some of the youngest workers in Roanoke (Virginia) Cotton Mills. On right-hand end is seven year old Frank, a helper. Next to him is twelve year old Ronald, a doffer. On his right is Mamie Witt, twelve year old spinner. Girl on her right said fourteen years old, but doubtful. On her right, (with curl on shoulder) is Inex [i.e., Inez?] Kennedy, just fourteen. The second girl on her right is probably under fourteen. This is a small mill, running a small force. Location: Roanoke, Virginia.

Comparison of Ages. Some of the youngest workers in Roanoke (Virginia)...

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Cincinnati, Ohio. Mr. Bernard Cochran, who has been a Greyhound bus driver for fourteen years, and his wife

Cincinnati, Ohio. Mr. Bernard Cochran, who has been a Greyhound bus dr...

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Curtin Hines. Western Union messenger #36. Fourteen years old. Goes to school. Works from four to eight P.M. Been with Western Union for six months, one month delivering for a drug store. "I learned a lot about the 'Reservation' while I was at the drug store and I go there some times now." Location: Houston, Texas

Curtin Hines. Western Union messenger #36. Fourteen years old. Goes to...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 3584. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Adolescent spinners in the Suffolk (Virginia) Knitting Mills. One of these, fourteen years old, said she had been working here, off and on, for four years, and earns about one dollar a day now. Location: Suffolk, Virginia

Adolescent spinners in the Suffolk (Virginia) Knitting Mills. One of t...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2228. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Young spinner in Roanoke (Virginia) Cotton Mills. Said fourteen years old, but it is doubtful. See exterior photos and age comparisons in 2161 to 2163. Location: Roanoke, Virginia.

Young spinner in Roanoke (Virginia) Cotton Mills. Said fourteen years ...

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Comparison of Ages. Some of the youngest workers in Roanoke (Virginia) Cotton Mills. On right-hand end is seven year old Frank, a helper. Next to him is twelve year old Ronald, a doffer. On his right is Mamie Witt, twelve year old spinner. Girl on her right said fourteen years old, but doubtful. On her right, (with curl on shoulder) is Inex Kennedy, just fourteen. The second girl on her right is probably under fourteen. This is a small mill, running a small force. Location: Roanoke, Virginia

Comparison of Ages. Some of the youngest workers in Roanoke (Virginia)...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2163. Text cut off; no continuation text found. Final word based on previous caption. Credit line: National Child... More

Beet workers, ten years, twelve years, fourteen years and eighteen years, hoeing for father, Jacob Dill, in Sugar City, Colorado. They moved here ten years ago from Southern Russia, work all summer and after the topping is over in the fall they go to school. See Hine Report, Colorado Beet Workers, July, 1915. Location: Sugar City, Colorado

Beet workers, ten years, twelve years, fourteen years and eighteen yea...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 3940. Hine no. 3941. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints... More

John Huggins. Said he is fourteen years old and has been doffing for eight months in the Guadalupe Valley Cotton Mills. Violation of law. Gets a dollar a day now. Before he came here, he worked in the cotton mill at West, Tex., for five or six years. Said boys work in the Cuero mill under age. "They don't even bother to ask your age. Didn't ask mine. Easy 'nuff to git a job." The mills were not running on account of floods this week. I found only one other boy under age. - "Spider" Estes said he is fourteen years old and been working here, doffing, one year. Location: Cuero, Texas.

John Huggins. Said he is fourteen years old and has been doffing for e...

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Marion Davis, Messenger #21 for Bellevue Messenger Service. Fourteen years old. "Been messenger, off and on, for two years. Not supposed to go to the Reservation under sixteen years, but I do just the same. The boss don't care and the cops don't stop me." Location: Houston, Texas

Marion Davis, Messenger #21 for Bellevue Messenger Service. Fourteen y...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 3585. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

A black and white photo of a man and a woman. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man and a woman. Office of War Informatio...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Going home to lunch! Two boys from Singer Mfg. Co., Small boy -- Charles Bailey, 316 Scholum St., Is he Fourteen years old?. Location: South Bend, Indiana

Going home to lunch! Two boys from Singer Mfg. Co., Small boy -- Charl...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 231. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More

Curtin Hines. Western Union messenger #36. Fourteen years old. Goes to school. Works from four to eight P.M. Been with W[estern] U[nion] for six months, one month delivering for a drug store. "I learned a lot about the 'Reservation' while I was at the drug store and I go there some times now." Location: Houston, Texas.

Curtin Hines. Western Union messenger #36. Fourteen years old. Goes to...

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Young spinner in Roanoke (Virginia) Cotton Mills. Said fourteen years old, but it is doubtful. See exterior photos and age comparisons in 2161 to 2163. Location: Roanoke, Virginia.

Young spinner in Roanoke (Virginia) Cotton Mills. Said fourteen years ...

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"Hell's Half Acre," a row of disreputable houses at the edge of the mill settlement at Avondale. These houses harbor the scum of the negroes and whites of the vicinity, and are separated from the mill village by a shallow ditch, which gave Gov. Comer, owner of the mills, the excuse that they were not on the mill property when the question of their removal was taken to him a while ago. A prominent social worker told me that not only do the mill people patronize these resorts, but that the broken down mill girls end up in these houses and that there are, on court record, three cases within a year of girls under fourteen years of age ruined in Hell's Half Acre. Told me, that there are innumerable instances showing the bad moral influence of the cotton mill settlement. (See report on Avondale conditions). Location: Birmingham, Alabama.

"Hell's Half Acre," a row of disreputable houses at the edge of the mi...

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Mr. Oscar J. Freeman, barber, owns the Metropolitan Barber Shop, 4654 South Parkway, Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Freeman has been in business for fourteen years

Mr. Oscar J. Freeman, barber, owns the Metropolitan Barber Shop, 4654 ...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Young spinner in Roanoke (Virginia) Cotton Mills. Said fourteen years old, but it is doubtful. See exterior photos and age comparisons in 2161 to 2163. Location: Roanoke, Virginia.

Young spinner in Roanoke (Virginia) Cotton Mills. Said fourteen years ...

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Hard work and dangerous. This "river-boy" Lyman Frugia, poles the heavy logs into the incline that takes them to the mill. It is not only hard work, but he is exposed to all kinds of weather, and is dangerous too. Said he is fourteen years old and has worked here several months. Gets $1.00 a day. Miller and Vidor Lumber Company. This was the only mill I found around Beaumont that employed boys - likely because they are located some distance from town. Location: Beaumont, Texas.

Hard work and dangerous. This "river-boy" Lyman Frugia, poles the heav...

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Cincinnati, Ohio. Mr. Bernard Cochran, who has been a Greyhound bus driver for fourteen years, and his wife

Cincinnati, Ohio. Mr. Bernard Cochran, who has been a Greyhound bus dr...

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Beet workers, ten years, twelve years, fourteen years and eighteen years, hoeing for father, Jacob Dill, in Sugar City, Colorado. They moved here ten years ago from Southern Russia, work all summer and after the topping is over in the fall they go to school. See Hine Report, Colorado Beet Workers, July, 1915. Location: Sugar City, Colorado

Beet workers, ten years, twelve years, fourteen years and eighteen yea...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3940. The "c" in "city" is not capitalized in the caption card text, but appears to be in the handwritten l... More

Adolescent spinners in the Suffolk (Virginia) Knitting Mills. One of these, fourteen years old, said she had been working here, off and on, for four years, and earns about one dollar a day now. Location: Suffolk, Virginia

Adolescent spinners in the Suffolk (Virginia) Knitting Mills. One of t...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2228. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Fascinated by the playground model "Alex", a fourteen years old working boy at ... can't tear himself away from the American Red Cross Child Welfare Exhibition. Alex has been working since he was eleven years old and now says with pride "On account of the high cost of living I now get four and a half francs a day"

Fascinated by the playground model "Alex", a fourteen years old workin...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Commission to France. Group title: Child Welfare, France. On caption card: 33... More

View from the Brooklyn side of the historic Brooklyn Bridge, one of the oldest roadway bridges in the United States. Started in 1869 and completed fourteen years later in 1883, it connects the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn, spanning the East River

View from the Brooklyn side of the historic Brooklyn Bridge, one of th...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:052-2) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Ca... More

Group of "cartoners" in Seacoast Canning Co., Factory #7. Everyone of them works putting cans of sardines into paper cartons. Eleven out of the fourteen were under twelve years. Several from eight to ten. Smallest girl in front is Erna Hamilton, eight years old. (See family story #2453.) The older girls, from twelve to fourteen years, earn several dollars a day. One fourteen year old girl said she made $3 to $4 when she packed all day and in the evening. Location: Eastport, Maine

Group of "cartoners" in Seacoast Canning Co., Factory #7. Everyone of ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2432. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div... More

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Bernard Cochran, Greyhound bus driver. He has a perfect record of fourteen years, never having had an accident while driving a bus

Bernard Cochran, Greyhound bus driver. He has a perfect record of four...

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Young spinner in Roanoke (Virginia) Cotton Mills. Said fourteen years old, but it is doubtful. See exterior photos and age comparisons in 2161 to 2163. Location: Roanoke, Virginia

Young spinner in Roanoke (Virginia) Cotton Mills. Said fourteen years ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2158. Reproduction no. LC-USZ6-1231. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress,... More

John Huggins. Said he is fourteen years old and has been doffing for eight months in the Guadalupe Valley Cotton Mills. Violation of law. Gets a dollar a day now. Before he came here, he worked in the cotton mill at West, Tex., for five or six years. Said boys work in the Cuero mill under age. "They don't even bother to ask your age. Didn't ask mine. Easy 'nuff to git a job." The mills were not running on account of floods this week. I found only one other boy under age. - "Spider" Estes said he is fourteen years old and been working here, doffing, one year. Location: Cuero, Texas

John Huggins. Said he is fourteen years old and has been doffing for e...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 3577. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Raymond Bykes, Western Union No. 23, Norfolk Virginia Said he was fourteen years old. Works until after one A.M. every night. He is precocious and not a little "tough." Has been here at this office for only three months, but he already knows the Red Light District thoroughly and goes there constantly. He told me he often sleeps down at the Bay Line boat docks all night. Several times I saw his mother hanging around the office, but she seemed more concerned about getting his pay envelope than anything else. Location: Norfolk, Virginia

Raymond Bykes, Western Union No. 23, Norfolk Virginia Said he was four...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 2258. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Group of "cartoners" in Seacoast Canning Co., Factory #7. Everyone of them works putting cans of sardines into paper cartons. Eleven out of the fourteen were under twelve years. Several from eight to ten. Smallest girl in front is Erna Hamilton, eight years old. (See family story #2453.) The older girls, from twelve to fourteen years, earn several dollars a day. One fourteen year old girl said she made $3 to $4 when she packed all day and in the evening. Location: Eastport, Maine.

Group of "cartoners" in Seacoast Canning Co., Factory #7. Everyone of ...

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A black and white photo of a man and a woman. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man and a woman. Office of War Informatio...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Going home to lunch! Two boys from Singer Mfg. Co., Small boy -- Charles Bailey, 316 Scholum St., Is he Fourteen years old?. Location: South Bend, Indiana

Going home to lunch! Two boys from Singer Mfg. Co., Small boy -- Charl...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 231. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More

Raymond Bykes, Western Union No. 23, Norfolk Virginia Said he was fourteen years old. Works until after one A.M. every night. He is precocious and not a little "tough." Has been here at this office for only three months, but he already knows the Red Light District thoroughly and goes there constantly. He told me he often sleeps down at the Bay Line boat docks all night. Several times I saw his mother hanging around the office, but she seemed more concerned about getting his pay envelope than anything else. Location: Norfolk, Virginia

Raymond Bykes, Western Union No. 23, Norfolk Virginia Said he was four...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 2258. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Group of "cartoners" in Seacoast Canning Co., Factory #7. Everyone of them works putting cans of sardines into paper cartons. Eleven out of the fourteen were under twelve years. Several from eight to ten. Smallest girl in front is Erna Hamilton, eight years old. (See family story #2453.) The older girls, from twelve to fourteen years, earn several dollars a day. One fourteen year old girl said she made $3 to $4 when she packed all day and in the evening. Location: Eastport, Maine

Group of "cartoners" in Seacoast Canning Co., Factory #7. Everyone of ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2432. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div... More

Marion Davis, Messenger #21 for Bellevue Messenger Service. Fourteen years old. "Been messenger, off and on, for two years. Not supposed to go to the Reservation under sixteen years, but I do just the same. The boss don't care and the cops don't stop me." Location: Houston, Texas

Marion Davis, Messenger #21 for Bellevue Messenger Service. Fourteen y...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 3585. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

An ice-cream factory stands below the Brooklyn side of the historic Brooklyn Bridge, one of the oldest roadway bridges in the United States. Started in 1869 and completed fourteen years later in 1883, it connects the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn, spanning the East River

An ice-cream factory stands below the Brooklyn side of the historic Br...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:052-2) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Ca... More

John Huggins. Said he is fourteen years old and has been doffing for eight months in the Guadalupe Valley Cotton Mills. Violation of law. Gets a dollar a day now. Before he came here, he worked in the cotton mill at West, Tex., for five or six years. Said boys work in the Cuero mill under age. "They don't even bother to ask your age. Didn't ask mine. Easy 'nuff to git a job." The mills were not running on account of floods this week. I found only one other boy under age, "Spider" Estes said he is fourteen years old and been working here, doffing one year. Location: Cuero, Texas

John Huggins. Said he is fourteen years old and has been doffing for e...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 3578. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Hard work and dangerous. This "river-boy" Lyman Frugia, poles the heavy logs into the incline that takes them to the mill. It is not only hard work, but he is exposed to all kinds of weather, and is dangerous too. Said he is fourteen years old and has worked here several months. Gets $1.00 a day. Miller and Vidor Lumber Company. This was the only mill I found around Beaumont that employed boys - likely because they are located some distance from town. Location: Beaumont, Texas

Hard work and dangerous. This "river-boy" Lyman Frugia, poles the heav...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 3675. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Marion Davis, Messenger #21 for Bellevue Messenger Service. Fourteen years old. "Been messenger, off and on, for two years. Not supposed to go to the Reservation under sixteen years, but I do just the same. The boss don't care and the cops don't stop me." Location: Houston, Texas.

Marion Davis, Messenger #21 for Bellevue Messenger Service. Fourteen y...

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Marion Davies - American actress and film producer active during the silent and early sound film eras of the 19... More

Louis Dupree, Western Union messenger #168. Has just reached fourteen years, and knows the Red Light district pretty well. Was eager to show me around town there. See Hine report on Messengers. Location: New Orleans, Louisiana

Louis Dupree, Western Union messenger #168. Has just reached fourteen ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 3690. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

View from the Brooklyn side of the historic Brooklyn Bridge, one of the oldest roadway bridges in the United States. Started in 1869 and completed fourteen years later in 1883, it connects the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn, spanning the East River

View from the Brooklyn side of the historic Brooklyn Bridge, one of th...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:052-2) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Ca... More

Young spinner in Roanoke (Virginia) Cotton Mills. Said fourteen years old, but it is doubtful. See exterior photos and age comparisons in 2161 to 2163. Location: Roanoke, Virginia

Young spinner in Roanoke (Virginia) Cotton Mills. Said fourteen years ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2158. Reproduction no. LC-USZ6-1231. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress,... More

Young spinner in Roanoke (Virginia) Cotton Mills. Said fourteen years old, but it is doubtful. See exterior photos and age comparisons in 2161 to 2163. Location: Roanoke, Virginia

Young spinner in Roanoke (Virginia) Cotton Mills. Said fourteen years ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2158. Reproduction no. LC-USZ6-1231. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress,... More

Group of "cartoners" in Seacoast Canning Co., Factory #7. Everyone of them works putting cans of sardines into paper cartons. Eleven out of the fourteen were under twelve years. Several from eight to ten. Smallest girl in front is Erna Hamilton, eight years old. (See family story #2453.) The older girls, from twelve to fourteen years, earn several dollars a day. One fourteen year old girl said she made $3 to $4 when she packed all day and in the evening. Location: Eastport, Maine.

Group of "cartoners" in Seacoast Canning Co., Factory #7. Everyone of ...

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

Raymond Bykes, Western Union No. 23, Norfolk, Virginia Said he was fourteen years old. Works until after 1:00 A.M. every night. He is precocious and not a little "tough." Has been here at this office for only three months, but he already knows the Red Light District thoroughly and goes there constantly. He told me he often sleeps down at the Bay Line boat docks all night. Several times I saw his mother hanging around the office, but she seemed more concerned about getting his pay envelope than anything else. Location: Norfolk, Virginia

Raymond Bykes, Western Union No. 23, Norfolk, Virginia Said he was fou...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 2259. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Louis Dupree, Western Union messenger #168. Has just reached fourteen years, and knows the Red Light district pretty well. Was eager to show me around town there. See Hine report on Messengers. Location: New Orleans, Louisiana.

Louis Dupree, Western Union messenger #168. Has just reached fourteen ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, warehouse, depot, train station, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A thrill of horror passed over the courtroom as the Judge pronounced the fateful words -- you are sentenced to fourteen years in the United States

A thrill of horror passed over the courtroom as the Judge pronounced t...

Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Life, 73:791 (May 8, 1919).

View of New York City's Brooklyn borough, or county-like administrative jurisdiction, from the Brooklyn Bridge, which crosses the East River between the borough of Manhattan and Brooklyn. One of the oldest roadway bridges in the United States, the span was started in 1869 and completed fourteen years later in 1883

View of New York City's Brooklyn borough, or county-like administrativ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:052-2) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Ca... More

Curtin Hines. Western Union messenger #36. Fourteen years old. Goes to school. Works from four to eight P.M. Been with Western Union for six months, one month delivering for a drug store. "I learned a lot about the 'Reservation' while I was at the drug store and I go there some times now." Location: Houston, Texas

Curtin Hines. Western Union messenger #36. Fourteen years old. Goes to...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 3584. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Adolescent spinners in the Suffolk (Virginia) Knitting Mills. One of these, fourteen years old, said she had been working here, off and on, for four years, and earns about one dollar a day now. Location: Suffolk, Virginia.

Adolescent spinners in the Suffolk (Virginia) Knitting Mills. One of t...

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