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Charles Willson Peale - [Silhouette of unidentified girl facing left, no. 1]

Charles Willson Peale - [Silhouette of unidentified girl facing left, ...

Bust silhouette portrait shows an unidentified girl facing left. She wears a bow high in her hair. A lock of hair hangs over her forehead. (DLC/PP-44431).

Mexican Girls. Costumes of the Poblanas

Mexican Girls. Costumes of the Poblanas

Print shows two young women standing in doorway, smoking. Public domain scan of 18th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Types Algériens. Jeune fille des Ouled Naı̈ls ND

Types Algériens. Jeune fille des Ouled Naı̈ls ND

Young girl, full-length portrait, standing, facing front, wearing coin? necklace, holding bowl on head, Algeria. No. L. 172.

[Italian peasant girl] / E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm), 501 Broadway, N.Y.

[Italian peasant girl] / E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm), 501 Broadway, N.Y.

Gift; Mrs. Norman P. Mason; 1963 Oct. In album: Cartes-de-visite portraits of U.S. Army officers, children, and others, p. 1, right.

Little sunshine - Print, Library of Congress collection

Little sunshine - Print, Library of Congress collection

5097 U.S. Copyright Office. Signed on stone on lower left: F. Jones chro. Signed on stone on lower right: J.G. Brown 1868. Publication date based on copyright statement on item. Title, publication statement, a... More

Christmas morning. Before daylight. J.M.K

Christmas morning. Before daylight. J.M.K

Print shows two young girls asleep in their bed with toys arranged at the foot of the bed. B8351 U.S. Copyright Office. Signed on stone with initials on lower left. Publication date based on copyright number i... More

Listening to the birds / original by G.G. Fish 1872 ; chromo-lithographed and published by A. & C. Kaufmann, 366 Broadway, New York.

Listening to the birds / original by G.G. Fish 1872 ; chromo-lithograp...

Print shows a young girl lying on a window seat, looking out an open window, listening to the birds. D6803 U.S. Copyright Office. Stamped on bottom of print and printed on label: Entered according to Act of Co... More

[Students, middle school Molla Gürani Rüşdiyesi] / Abdullah Frères, photographes de S.M.I. le Sultan.

[Students, middle school Molla Gürani Rüşdiyesi] / Abdullah Frères, ph...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. In album: Portraits of schoolgirls, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection (Library of Congress).

Preparing for the ball - Drawing. Public domain image.

Preparing for the ball - Drawing. Public domain image.

General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Willimantic Linen Co., copyright claimant. Bencke,... More

"Sympathy," by Briton Riviere, R.A., reproduced by kind permission of the Governors of the Royal Holloway College

"Sympathy," by Briton Riviere, R.A., reproduced by kind permission of ...

General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Riviere, Briton, designer. Illustrated London News... More

The speaking likeness, portrait print, engraving, Library of Congress

The speaking likeness, portrait print, engraving, Library of Congress

Print showing a woman holding a frame in front of her daughter's face, creating a living portrait. Copyright 1892 by William Sartain, Phila.

Arnold Genthe - The street of the slave girls, Chinatown, San Francisco

Arnold Genthe - The street of the slave girls, Chinatown, San Francisc...

Public domain photograph of San Francisco Chinatown, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Costumes and characters, etc. Girls of Ramallah

Costumes and characters, etc. Girls of Ramallah

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a 19th-century costume, fashion, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Under the mistletoe - Print, Library of Congress collection

Under the mistletoe - Print, Library of Congress collection

65150 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Knapp, Joseph P., cop... More

[African American girl, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

[African American girl, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 3, no. 215. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P ... More

[Girls and boys seated at desks in classroom, Washington, D.C.]

[Girls and boys seated at desks in classroom, Washington, D.C.]

Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. No. 127. In album: "1st Division." Public domain photograph of historic place in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[African American girl, full-length portrait, seated on stool, facing slightly right]

[African American girl, full-length portrait, seated on stool, facing ...

Attribution to Askew is from Photography on the color line. In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 1, no. 59. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as s... More

Virginia Hall - dining rooms and girls room

Virginia Hall - dining rooms and girls room

Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va. Exterior. Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). LOT subdivision subject: Hampton Normal and Agric... More

[Five girls lying on mat in gymnasium in front of basketball scoreboard, Western High School, Washington, D.C.]

[Five girls lying on mat in gymnasium in front of basketball scoreboar...

No. 37 In album: "Western High School." Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).

[African American girl, half-length portrait, standing at table with illustrated book, facing slightly right]

[African American girl, half-length portrait, standing at table with i...

Public domain scan of portrait art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Edwin Arden's romantic play, Zorah

Edwin Arden's romantic play, Zorah

48669 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: The Governor General sentences Zorah to the mines of Siberia. Created and "copyright 1899 by The Strobridge Litho Co, Cin'ti & New York." Jacob Litt, proprietor. No. 8619 Up... More

American beauties - Public domain portrait drawing

American beauties - Public domain portrait drawing

Young girl holding rose. Copyright by E.E. Seavy, New Castle, Pa.

"Baby Service, Inc." Washington, D.C., Aug. 18. "Enjoy your baby, let us work for him" is the motto of a brand new business started here recently by Mrs. John McGee, the former Narcissa Sullivan, daughter of Mark Sullivan, the political writer. Baby service, Inc. will prepare and deliver baby food made according to special formulae, sterlize bottles, provide girls who will stay with children at night, shop for supplies, make layettes, or render baby needs, scaling all prices to the clients purse. #1--Getting a call for baby service, Mrs. McGee, at the phone

"Baby Service, Inc." Washington, D.C., Aug. 18. "Enjoy your baby, let ...

A woman sitting at a desk talking on a phone. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Helen Wright, age 12, niece of the Wright brothers, daughter of Reuchlin Wright]

[Helen Wright, age 12, niece of the Wright brothers, daughter of Reuch...

Title based on: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 156. Attributed to to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference co... More

Edward S. Curtis - Zuni girl - Public domain portrait print

Edward S. Curtis - Zuni girl - Public domain portrait print

Three-quarter length portrait of Zuni girl peering around building. H34031 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 825.

You have been very successful with the girls -- what's your rule in making love to one? : I have no set rule : I merely try, with all the power there is in me, to make as big an ass of myself as possible

You have been very successful with the girls -- what's your rule in m...

(DLC/PP-1935:0140). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Life, 43:139 (Feb. 11, 1904).

A little colleen of the West Coast -- Ireland

A little colleen of the West Coast -- Ireland

Girl dressed in cape shades her eyes as she looks down coastal hillside path. H49964 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by C.H. Graves. No. 7677.

Iggerote woman - Public domain portrait print

Iggerote woman - Public domain portrait print

Photograph shows portrait of Igorot woman taken at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Missouri. Copyrighted 1904 by Gerhard Sisters, St. Louis, Mo.

Ellis Island, N.Y. - one of the "1000 marriageable girls" on the "Baltic"

Ellis Island, N.Y. - one of the "1000 marriageable girls" on the "Balt...

Picryl description: Public domain image of Ellis Island, New York harbor, immigrants, immigration, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Girls in Daniel Mill, Lincolnton, N.C. Location: Lincolnton, North Carolina Photo by Lewis W. Hine

Girls in Daniel Mill, Lincolnton, N.C. Location: Lincolnton, North Car...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Mills. Hine no. 292. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the National ... More

One of the little spinners in Amoskeag Mfg. Company, Manchester, N.H. She was about 48 inches high and about 11 or 12 years old. Location: Manchester, New Hampshire.

One of the little spinners in Amoskeag Mfg. Company, Manchester, N.H. ...

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

Name: Little girl (48 inches high) work in Amoskeag Mfg. Co., Manchester, N.H. She seemed to be 11 or 12 yrs. old. Photo taken at noon, May 25, 1909. Location: Manchester, New Hampshire.

Name: Little girl (48 inches high) work in Amoskeag Mfg. Co., Manchest...

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

Some of the girls who work in Amoskeag Mills, Manchester, N.H. Location: Manchester, New Hampshire

Some of the girls who work in Amoskeag Mills, Manchester, N.H. Locatio...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 803. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

From Bibb Mill No. 1, Macon Ga. Smallest girl--Pampa Barrow, helper 1 yr. in mill. Next, Hellie Dix, helper 3 years in mill. Next, Ola Dix, helper 4 years in mill. Next, Minnie Lane, helper 1 year in mill. Next, Mammie Lane, Regular hand, 6 yrs. in mill. Next, Alma Cross helper, Regular hand, 3 yrs. in mill. Location: Macon, Georgia.

From Bibb Mill No. 1, Macon Ga. Smallest girl--Pampa Barrow, helper 1 ...

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

Annie Bissie, a little picker in the fields near Baltimore. (See label 835). Location: Baltimore, Maryland

Annie Bissie, a little picker in the fields near Baltimore. (See label...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 836. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Di... More

Girls baseball - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Girls baseball - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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

Girls baseball - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Girls baseball - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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

Doffer girls in Brookside Worsted Mills. Westford, Massachusetts. These were the youngest. Young children are said to be working there, but they were not there that day. Location: Westford, Massachusettsachusetts.

Doffer girls in Brookside Worsted Mills. Westford, Massachusetts. Thes...

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

6 A.M. April 24, 1909. One of the many young girls working in Bates Mfg. Co., Lewiston, Me. Location: Lewiston, Maine.

6 A.M. April 24, 1909. One of the many young girls working in Bates Mf...

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

A few of the small girls and boys (not the smallest ones) that I found working in the spinning room of one of the Amoskeag Mfg. Co. mills at Manchester, N.H. Photo taken at 1:00 p.m., May 21, 1909, in hallway of spinning room. Many others there and in the other mills. Smallest boy (on left hand) is Geroge Brown, No. 1 Corporation. Corner of Granite and Bedford Sts. Next is, Eugene Lamy, 16 Marion St. Girls: Melvina Proulx, 145 Cartier St. Laura Oclair, 145 Cartier St. Location: Manchester, New Hampshire / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

A few of the small girls and boys (not the smallest ones) that I found...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph group portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bringing Home the Wood. Location: Boston, Massachusetts

Bringing Home the Wood. Location: Boston, Massachusetts

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 934. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More

Young girl working 9 to 10 hours a day in Inland Type Foundry. Location: St. Louis, Missouri.

Young girl working 9 to 10 hours a day in Inland Type Foundry. Locati...

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

These young girls all work in Richmond Hosiery Mills,. Location: Rossville, Georgia.

These young girls all work in Richmond Hosiery Mills,. Location: Ross...

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

Young spinners in Elk Cotton Mills. Youngest girl hardly knew her name. Youngest boy runs two sides at ten cents each a day. Location: Fayetteville, Tennessee.

Young spinners in Elk Cotton Mills. Youngest girl hardly knew her name...

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

All are workers in Knoxville Knitting Mills. Smallest boy "ravels," smallest girl is a steady worker. Location: Knoxville, Tennessee.

All are workers in Knoxville Knitting Mills. Smallest boy "ravels," sm...

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

One of the children working in Knoxville Cotton Mill. Location: Knoxville, Tennessee.

One of the children working in Knoxville Cotton Mill. Location: Knoxv...

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

Millie Cornaro, Philadelphia, 10 years old. Been picking cranberries for 6 years. White's Bog, Browns Mills, N. J. This is the fourth week of school and the people here expect to remain here two weeks more. Sept. 28, 1910. Witness, E. F. Brown. Location: Browns Mills, New Jersey / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

Millie Cornaro, Philadelphia, 10 years old. Been picking cranberries f...

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

Workers in Knoxville Cotton Mill. Location: Knoxville, Tennessee.

Workers in Knoxville Cotton Mill. Location: Knoxville, Tennessee.

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

Clyde Fitch's greatest comedy, "Girls"

Clyde Fitch's greatest comedy, "Girls"

Caption: Miss Pam. Created by Dana T. Bennett Co., New York. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

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

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

Public domain photograph related to child labor, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Champion girls basketball team of Kansas

Champion girls basketball team of Kansas

Six women posed with two trophy cups. Copyright by J.M Moore, Chanute, Kansas. Unprocessed in PR 03 (F) Sports Basketball.

Part of the Nettles family. Nine in family. Five in the Magnolia Cotton Mills. Little girl in front is Lillian (see 2091). Location: Magnolia, Mississippi.

Part of the Nettles family. Nine in family. Five in the Magnolia Cotto...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Lillie Robertson, a young spinner in Century Cotton Mills, South Boston, Virginia Runs four sides. Sister Mamie (with cup) helps her and is ten years old. Baby doesn't work yet. Father works in wagon factory. Cotton Mills work is slack. Location: South Boston, Virginia.

Lillie Robertson, a young spinner in Century Cotton Mills, South Bosto...

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

Elsie and Sadie at their machines, Yazoo City (Miss.) Yarn Mills. Both said thirteen years old, but see photo and label 2102. Location: Yazoo City, Mississippi.

Elsie and Sadie at their machines, Yazoo City (Miss.) Yarn Mills. Both...

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

Mary Kosco, four-year-old shucker. (See photo 2050). Location: Dunbar, Louisiana.

Mary Kosco, four-year-old shucker. (See photo 2050). Location: Dunbar...

Picryl description: Public domain portrait of a child, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Group of girls, adolescents. A young fellow made a very vulgar remark and they all laughed. Next day I heard one of the girls use profanity before all the men and boys. Location: Chicopee, Massachusetts.

Group of girls, adolescents. A young fellow made a very vulgar remark ...

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

Mamie Witt. Runs one side in Roanoke Cotton Mills, Roanoke, Virginia She is twelve years old and helps support an able-bodied, dependent father. (see photo 2160). Location: Roanoke, Virginia.

Mamie Witt. Runs one side in Roanoke Cotton Mills, Roanoke, Virginia S...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory worker, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

When the whistle blows. Closing hour at the Danville (Virginia) Cigarette Factory. Location: Danville, Virginia.

When the whistle blows. Closing hour at the Danville (Virginia) Cigare...

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

Dependent (able-bodied) Parents. Smith Family, West Point, Miss. Three girls (in front) work in the mill. This boy and others work up town. Came from an Alabama farm six months ago. Smallest spinner runs two sides. "Father just putters around. Don't work steady." "We all like the mill work better'n the hot sun on farm." House barren and run down. Location: West Point, Mississippi.

Dependent (able-bodied) Parents. Smith Family, West Point, Miss. Three...

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

When the whistle blows. Closing hour at the Danville (Virginia) Cigarette Factory. Location: Danville, Virginia

When the whistle blows. Closing hour at the Danville (Virginia) Cigare...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 2201. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

One of the young spinners and the Supt. Yazoo City Yarn Mills. Location: Yazoo City, Mississippi

One of the young spinners and the Supt. Yazoo City Yarn Mills. Locatio...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2104. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Some samples (not all) of the children in the "Kindergarten Factory" run by the High Point and Piedmont Hosiery Mills, High Point, N.C. Every child in these photos worked; I saw them at work and I saw them go in to work at 6:30 A.M. and noons and out at 6 P.M. One morning I counted 22 of these little ones (12 years and under) going to work at about 6:15 A.M. Some of them told me their ages: 1 boy said 8 yrs. (worked when he was 7). 1 girl said 10 yrs. (apparently 7). 3 other girls said 10 yrs. 2 boys said 10 yrs. (1 got $3.00 a week). 1 boy said 11 yrs. 2 boys said 12 yrs. (1 said he makes $1. a day). (See also report.) High Point, North Carolina.

Some samples (not all) of the children in the "Kindergarten Factory" r...

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

Group of girls and women, Aragon Mills, Rock Hill, S.C. Location: Rock Hill, South Carolina.

Group of girls and women, Aragon Mills, Rock Hill, S.C. Location: Roc...

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

A group of children attending the public school, Kannapolis, N.C., every one of which said he or she had worked in the Cotton Mills there. The two smallest boys said ten years old. Location: Kannapolis, North Carolina.

A group of children attending the public school, Kannapolis, N.C., eve...

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

Group of girls and women working in Aragon Mill, Rock Hill, S.C. Location: Rock Hill, South Carolina.

Group of girls and women working in Aragon Mill, Rock Hill, S.C. Loca...

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

Some samples (not all) of the children in the "Kindergarten Factory" run by the High Point and Piedmont Hosiery Mills, High Point, N.C. Every child in these photos worked; I saw them at work and I saw them go in to work at 6:30 A.M. and noons and out at 6 P.M. One morning I counted 22 of these little ones (12 years and under) going to work at about 6:15 A.M. Some of them told me their ages: 1 boy said 8 yrs. (worked when he was 7). 1 girl said 10 yrs. (apparently 7). 3 other girls said 10 yrs. 2 boys said 10 yrs. (1 got $3.00 a week). 1 boy said 11 yrs. 2 boys said 12 yrs. (1 said he makes $1. a day). (See also report.) Location: High Point, North Carolina.

Some samples (not all) of the children in the "Kindergarten Factory" r...

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

Some samples (not all) of the children in the "Kindergarten Factory" run by the High Point and Piedmont Hosiery Mills, High Point, N.C. Every child in these photos worked: I saw them at work and I saw them go in to work at 6:30 A.M. and noons and out at 6 P.M. One morning I counted 22 of these little ones (12 years and under) going to work at about 6:15 A.M. Some of them told me their ages: 1 boy said 8 yrs. (worked when he was 7). 1 girl said 10 yrs. (apparently 7). 3 other girls said 10 yrs. 2 boys said 10 yrs. (1 got $3.00 a week). 1 boy said 11 yrs. 2 boys said 12 yrs. (1 said he makes $1. a day). (See also report.) Location: High Point, North Carolina.

Some samples (not all) of the children in the "Kindergarten Factory" r...

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

Photos taken during noon hour, October 23rd, 1912, at the Loray Mills, Gastonia, N.C. They said they were working and went in to work. At night I counted over thirty children coming out when the whistle blew, and they seemed to be from ten to twelve years old. The Superintendent was much disturbed over the photos. Location: Gastonia, North Carolina

Photos taken during noon hour, October 23rd, 1912, at the Loray Mills,...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 3082. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Some of the young girls working in the Pelzer S.C. Mfg. Co. Not the youngest. Some of them seem surely under 12. All in the photo work. Location: [Pelzer, South Carolina]

Some of the young girls working in the Pelzer S.C. Mfg. Co. Not the yo...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph group portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Nearly 9 A.M. Girl (about 8 yrs. old) carrying sack of hose supporters home, a long distance and she had to run to get home in time for school. Up hill and tiring work, resting frequently. (See also Report.) Witness F.A. Smith. Location: Worcester, Massachusetts.

Nearly 9 A.M. Girl (about 8 yrs. old) carrying sack of hose supporters...

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

Annie Fedele crocheting on underwear out in the filthy back yard. This is one of the places she works on crochet. See other photos and Home Work report. Location: Somerville, Massachusetts.

Annie Fedele crocheting on underwear out in the filthy back yard. This...

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

Doing tags on steps of house near Dennison factory on Vale Street, Roxbury, Massachusetts. Location: Roxbury, Massachusettsachusetts.

Doing tags on steps of house near Dennison factory on Vale Street, Rox...

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

Group of workers in Lane Cotton Mill, New Orleans, showing the youngest workers, and typical of conditions in New Orleans. Violations of the law are rare. Location: New Orleans, Louisiana.

Group of workers in Lane Cotton Mill, New Orleans, showing the younges...

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

Gracie Clark, 268 A Street (with a white dress) has been a spinner in the filling room of Merrimack Mill for three years. Her Life Insurance Policy gives her age thirteen years now, so she began working at ten years. See Hine report. Location: Huntsville, Alabama.

Gracie Clark, 268 A Street (with a white dress) has been a spinner in ...

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

"Dinner-Toters" waiting for the gate to open. This is carried on more in Columbus than in any other city I know, and by smaller children. (See photos.) Many of them are paid by the week for doing it, and carry, sometimes, ten or more a day. They go around in the mill, often help tend to machines, which often run at noon, and so learn the work. A teacher told me the mothers expect the children to learn this way, long before they are of proper age. (See also Vaughn's Georgia Report, April, 1913.) Eagle and Pho[e]nix Mill. Location: Columbus, Georgia.

"Dinner-Toters" waiting for the gate to open. This is carried on more ...

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

Ruby Hollingsworth, seven year old cotton picker. Works all day, early and late, in the hot sun. Picks about thirty-five pounds a day. Father, mother and several brothers and sisters pick. They get only five or six months of schooling. "It's not 'nuff," the father said. The children said "We'd ruther go to school." Address Box 18, R.F.D. Location: Denison, Texas

Ruby Hollingsworth, seven year old cotton picker. Works all day, early...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3546. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

One of the smallest workers in Walker County Hosiery Mills, Lafayette, Ga. I saw only two I thought under 12. Location: Lafayette, Georgia

One of the smallest workers in Walker County Hosiery Mills, Lafayette,...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 3378. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

[New York City school children. Teen-aged girls dancing at May Pole, May 1913]

[New York City school children. Teen-aged girls dancing at May Pole, M...

Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Children Misc.; New York NYC Misc. 1913; M... More

I found some young helpers like his one in the Muscogee Mills, Columbus, Ga. Location: Columbus, Georgia.

I found some young helpers like his one in the Muscogee Mills, Columbu...

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Rosemary Mfg. Co. Uriah and Eva Westbrook. Both violations. Uriah is 12 years old now (Bible record said born May 24, 1903) and he has been working there 2 months. Eva began at 12 years; been working there 1 year. Born May 4, 1901. The real need for the work of the children is not apparent, although the father is sick, for there are 6 children in the mill. The mother said: "We kin go back to the farm any time, and I wisht we would. It's a heap easier living there than in the mill." Some of the children agreed with her. Location: Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina

Rosemary Mfg. Co. Uriah and Eva Westbrook. Both violations. Uriah is 1...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 3879. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Nine-year old Pauline Reiber topping beets, a dangerous and hard job for such a child. Location: Sterling [vicinity], Colorado / Photo by Hine, Oct. 23/15.

Nine-year old Pauline Reiber topping beets, a dangerous and hard job f...

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5 pupils present out of 100 expected to be here when beet work is over. 53 attended before the work opened up. School began Sept. 6, over 7 weeks ago. Runs for 9 mos. It is a beautiful two-room school, well equipped. Knearl school, Brush, Colorado, Morgan Co[unty] Location: Brush, Colorado / Photo by Hine. Oct 27/15.

5 pupils present out of 100 expected to be here when beet work is over...

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School #9, District #3. This was the attendance on December 3, and several children were absent on account of sickness. Compare photographs 4052 and 4053 with attendance consisting of one pupil on October 27 - 5 weeks after school began. Location: Morgan County, Colorado / L.W. Hine.

School #9, District #3. This was the attendance on December 3, and sev...

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Sugar beet workers, Sugar City, Colorado. Mary, six years, Lucy, eight, Ethel, ten. Family has been here ten years. Children go to school in the winter. See Hine Report, Colorado Beet Workers, July 1915. Location: Sugar City, Colorado.

Sugar beet workers, Sugar City, Colorado. Mary, six years, Lucy, eight...

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Camp Fire Girls campain [i.e., campaign] emblem

Camp Fire Girls campain [i.e., campaign] emblem

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[Johnnie, Carrie and Jim Davenport picking cotton for Mr. J. P. Daws, Route 1, Shawnee. Johnnie picks 75 pounds, Carrie 100 pounds and Jim 150 to 200 pounds a day. Get $1.00 a hundred pounds. No School yet. Mother is a renter; moves about a great deal.] Location: [Potawotamie County, Oklahoma] / [Lewis W. Hine]

[Johnnie, Carrie and Jim Davenport picking cotton for Mr. J. P. Daws, ...

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Rock Creek School #32 (5 miles east of Shawnee) opened September 11th--8 months term. 34 present. J.W. Evans, Principal, P.O. Route 2, Shawnee, said there are only half as many as he expects after cotton picking is over. Lewis W. Hine. See W. H. Swift Report. Location: Potawotamie County, Oklahoma.

Rock Creek School #32 (5 miles east of Shawnee) opened September 11th-...

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A Kentucky school. Name and data to be added later if possible. Location: Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

A Kentucky school. Name and data to be added later if possible. Locat...

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Anthoston School which opened September 5th. 54 present out of an enrollment of 62; Census 84. Work is interfering. See photo of school 2 weeks before it opened. Location: Henderson County, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Anthoston School which opened September 5th. 54 present out of an enro...

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[Callie Campbell, 11 years old, picks 75 to 125 pounds of cotton a day, and totes 50 pounds of it when sack gets full. "No, I don't like it very much." Lewis W. Hine. See 4590. See W.H. Swift Report.] Location: [Potawotamie County, Oklahoma]

[Callie Campbell, 11 years old, picks 75 to 125 pounds of cotton a day...

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3 of the many young oyster shuckers going home from the Pass Christian Cannery at 5 P.M. Lena Krueger, 7 years old (in the middle) had shucked 6 pots that day; Annie Kadeska, 9 years old on the right, has shucked 10 pots; and Rosie Zinsoska on the left (did not know her age) had shucked 6 pots. Location: Pass Christian, Mississippi / L.W. Hine.

3 of the many young oyster shuckers going home from the Pass Christian...

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Phelps School #56; Miss Gray, Teacher. Miss Gray has been there just this year. School opened September 4th--7 months term. 16 present; 22 out on account of cotton. Entrollment 28, average attendance 14; last year: enrollment 44, average attendance 19. 12 out of those enrolled, out for cotton; 10 more not enrolled also out for cotton. No other causes for absence. Location: Comanche County, Oklahoma Lewis W. Hine

Phelps School #56; Miss Gray, Teacher. Miss Gray has been there just t...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4578. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

[Series showing the day's work of Estelle and Felix Humphrey. See card reports of same. L.W. Hine] Location: [Elizabethtown vicinity, Kentucky]

[Series showing the day's work of Estelle and Felix Humphrey. See card...

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[Aldea Balanger - French - Weaver. Cornell Mills - 14 years old July 12, 1915, getting her certificate for her 5th position. Face broken out as most of weavers have from the machine oil, handling it and not washing hands. Lint gets into pores.] Location: Fall River, Massachusetts. / Lewis W. Hine.

[Aldea Balanger - French - Weaver. Cornell Mills - 14 years old July 1...

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[Calvin Humphrey family. See cards of Estelle and Felix, also report. L.W. Hine] Location: [Elizabethtown vicinity, Kentucky].

[Calvin Humphrey family. See cards of Estelle and Felix, also report. ...

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Tending the chicks--16-year old girl. Home of William Olliges. The children go to Parochial School. Location: Hardin County--Stithton, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Tending the chicks--16-year old girl. Home of William Olliges. The chi...

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Scenes from "The Twig of Thorn" given by a club of working girls in King Philip Settlement. Most of them are weavers. All girls. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

Scenes from "The Twig of Thorn" given by a club of working girls in Ki...

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Scenes from "The Twig of Thorn" given by a club of working girls in King Philip Settlement. Most of them are weavers. All girls. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts. Lewis W. Hine

Scenes from "The Twig of Thorn" given by a club of working girls in Ki...

In album: Miscellaneous. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 4325. Hine no. 4326. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General info... More

[Girls working at mangle in Bonanno Laundry, 12 Foster Wharf. All are 15 years old and go to continuation school.] Location: [Boston, Massachusetts] / Lewis W. Hine.

[Girls working at mangle in Bonanno Laundry, 12 Foster Wharf. All are ...

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Folding filing-folders. Boston Index Card Co., 113 Purchase Street. Boston, Massachusetts. Location: Boston, Massachusettsachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

Folding filing-folders. Boston Index Card Co., 113 Purchase Street. Bo...

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