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Home of family of "Renters." 9 members, near West. Everything run down. See Hine report. Location: West, Texas.

Home of family of "Renters." 9 members, near West. Everything run down...

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Noon hour at Massachusetts Mill, Lindale, Ga. During the days following this, I proved the ages of nearly a dozen of these children, by gaining access to Family Records, Life Insurance papers, and through conversations with the children and parents, and found those that I could prove to be working now, or during the past year at 10 and 11 years of age, some of them having begun before they were ten. Further search would reveal more. (See Hine Report). Location: Lindale, Georgia.

Noon hour at Massachusetts Mill, Lindale, Ga. During the days followin...

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A study of ages. The boy on the right said, "I ain't old enough to work in the mill; I am ten years." The boy in the middle, Buford Fox who has been working in the Merrimack Mills for one year said he was twelve years old, but School Record says ten years. Sanford Franklin, boy on the left has been working four months, and I could not prove his age. Merrimack Mfg. Co. See also Hine report. Location: Huntsville, Alabama.

A study of ages. The boy on the right said, "I ain't old enough to wor...

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All these children were working in the sugar beets for Louis Startz, a farmer near Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. The children are brought out from the nearby town to work the beets. See Hine Report, Wisconsin Sugar Beet, July, 1915. Location: Fond du Lac [vicinity], Wisconsin.

All these children were working in the sugar beets for Louis Startz, a...

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This is recreation for Jack. See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, August 1915. Location: Western Massachusetts, Massachusetts.

This is recreation for Jack. See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, Augus...

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Dotheboys Hall in session tucked away upstairs over the store. Equipped with antique, dilapidated benches and chairs. The lessons begin at 6 A.M. and last for six hours, and these children who attend in the morning go into the mill in the afternoon and vice versa for the required eight weeks, which the law specifies. Taking everything into consideration it shows what travesty vocational guidance may become, and is in itself the best example of Dotheboys Hall I have ever seen, except that it is not half so practical as was Squeer's school. See Hine report. Location: Huntsville, Alabama.

Dotheboys Hall in session tucked away upstairs over the store. Equippe...

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

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

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Charlie Foster has a steady job in the Merrimack Mills. School Record says he is now ten years old. His father told me that he could not read, and still he is putting him into the mill. See Hine report. Location: Huntsville, Alabama.

Charlie Foster has a steady job in the Merrimack Mills. School Record ...

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"Pinkie" Durham one of the smallest sweepers in the Merrimack Mill. Been sweeping for several months. The School Record shows he is eight years old now, but because his mother insists he is twelve, he is permitted to work. Very small and very immature. The mother said that the Family Record "ain't here." See Hine report. Location: Huntsville, Alabama.

"Pinkie" Durham one of the smallest sweepers in the Merrimack Mill. Be...

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Millie May Crews [?] (in front of her father) 369 B Street. She has been working in the weave room for one year. Began at eleven years. Just reached twelve according to Family Record which says she was born November 12, 1901. These two girls and one who is sick work in the Merrimack Mill. Father is a carpenter. See Hine report. Location: Huntsville, Alabama.

Millie May Crews [?] (in front of her father) 369 B Street. She has be...

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Group of workers in the Massachusetts Mills, Lindale, Ga. Photo taken at noon, April 12, 1913, while they were being paid off. During the days following this, I proved the ages of nearly a dozen of these children, by gaining access to Family Records, Life Insurance papers, and through conversations with the children and parents, and found these that I could prove to be working now, or during the past year at 10 and 11 years of age, some of them having begun before they were ten. Further search would reveal dozens more. (See Hine Report). Location: Lindale, Georgia.

Group of workers in the Massachusetts Mills, Lindale, Ga. Photo taken ...

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Three Saunders children, nine, eleven, and thirteen years old, mowing away the grain. See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, August 1915.

Three Saunders children, nine, eleven, and thirteen years old, mowing ...

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Beet workers home after a few prosperous years near Sterling, adjacent to the home shown in 3950. See Hine Report, Colorado Beet Workers, July 1915. Location: Sterling [vicinity], Colorado.

Beet workers home after a few prosperous years near Sterling, adjacent...

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Percy Neville in the heart of the Red Light district. Just come out of one of the houses with message (which see in his hand). He said gleefully "She gimme a quarter tip." See also Hine report on Louisiana Messengers. Location: Shreveport, Louisiana

Percy Neville in the heart of the Red Light district. Just come out of...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 3701. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

"I don't never git no rest." This is the attitude that Henry, a six-year old beet worker takes toward life, on a Wisconsin farm. See Hine Report, Wisconsin Sugar Beet, July, 1915. Location: Wisconsin.

"I don't never git no rest." This is the attitude that Henry, a six-ye...

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Nearly the entire force, Yooona [i.e., Yocona] Mills, Water Valley, Miss. Some of the smallest workers not in photo. The three smallest ones in front row hang around and help some. Baby doesn't work, - yet. The rest are steady workers. (See Hine report for data about past earnings of the mill.) Location: Water Valley, Mississippi.

Nearly the entire force, Yooona [i.e., Yocona] Mills, Water Valley, Mi...

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Noon hour at Massachusetts Mill, Lindale, Ga. During the days following this, I proved the ages of nearly a dozen of these children, by gaining access to Family Records, Insurance papers, and through conversations with the children and parents, and found these that I could prove to be working now, or during the past year, at 10 and 11 years of age, some of them having begun before they were ten. Further search would reveal dozens or more. (See Hine Report). Lindale, Georgia.

Noon hour at Massachusetts Mill, Lindale, Ga. During the days followin...

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The Virginia K. Johnson Home. (A House of Refuge for Unmarried Mothers under twenty-one years old.) A large proportion of the girls here came from the farms, their lives stunted by the monotonous work of cotton picking, many of them beginning at five and six years old. Surely this must be counted one of the by-products of such deadening work. See Hine report on Texas Child Labor. Location: Dallas, Texas.

The Virginia K. Johnson Home. (A House of Refuge for Unmarried Mothers...

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The morning attendance at the mill school. See labels 3734 and 3735. See Hine report. Location: Huntsville, Alabama.

The morning attendance at the mill school. See labels 3734 and 3735. S...

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Charlie Foster has a steady job in the Merrimack Mills. School Record says he is now ten years old. His father told me that he could not read, and still he is putting him into the mill. See Hine report. Location: Huntsville, Alabama

Charlie Foster has a steady job in the Merrimack Mills. School Record ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 3729. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Eight-year old Jack on a Western Massachusetts farm. He is a type of child who is being overworked in many rural districts. See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, August, 1915. Location: Western Massachusetts, Massachusetts.

Eight-year old Jack on a Western Massachusetts farm. He is a type of c...

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Three adults and six children from seven years to twelve years hard at work on a sugar beet farm near Greeley Colorado. The father said: "The children can thin the beets better than grown ups. We all work fourteen hours a day at times because when the beets is ready they has to be done. About twelve weeks is about all the children can work on thinning and topping. Some of them hoe a little. See Hine Report, Colorado Bee[t] Workers, July, 1915. Location: Greeley [vicinity], Colorado.

Three adults and six children from seven years to twelve years hard at...

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Pinkie Durham eight year old sweeper. See label #3730, and his sister Eliza. She began at eleven; now twelve according to the School Record. She recently had her leg broken in the mill. Boy ran a doffing box into her. She has been working for one year in Merrimack Mfg. Co, 426 C Street. See Hine report. Location: Huntsville, Alabama.

Pinkie Durham eight year old sweeper. See label #3730, and his sister ...

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The home of a prosperous beet grower near Sterling, Colorado, who moved here six years ago from South Nebraska and owns four hundred acres now. In the distance is the home of a Russian who rents land from him and another who works on contract. See Hine Report, Colorado. Beet Workers, July 1915. Location: Sterling [vicinity], Colorado.

The home of a prosperous beet grower near Sterling, Colorado, who move...

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[Ten-year-old Mollie Steuben topping beets. Many children of this age put in a full day's work, and many begin younger. The work is hard and the children sometimes cut themselves or are "hooked" by the long tooth on the end of the blade. Mollie and her two sisters, 12 and 14 yrs. old, work from 6 A.M. to 5 P.M., near Sterling. See also Hine report for further details about this work.] Location: [Sterling vicinity, Colorado] / Photo by Hine, Oct. 21/15.

[Ten-year-old Mollie Steuben topping beets. Many children of this age ...

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Some of the cartoners, not the youngest, at Seacoast Canning Co., Factory #2. (See Hine report.) Location: Eastport, Maine.

Some of the cartoners, not the youngest, at Seacoast Canning Co., Fact...

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Group of some of the youngest workers in the Merrimack Mills. Everyone (except the boy behind the fence) has a steady job in the Merrimack Mills. See Hine report. Location: Huntsville, Alabama.

Group of some of the youngest workers in the Merrimack Mills. Everyone...

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[Eight-year-old girl (see label 4006). She is very skilful [sic] topping the beets, but this work is very fatigueing [sic] and dangerous for such children. See Hine report for details of the work.] Location: [Iliff, Colorado] / Photo by Hine., Oct. 22/15.

[Eight-year-old girl (see label 4006). She is very skilful [sic] toppi...

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[Families of Henry and John Miller: boy of eleven years, girl of eleven and girl of thirteen, hoeing the sugar beets. They have 80 acres in beets, come out here from the town in May and go back late in November. One of the families has been here for five years and owns its home. See Hine Report, Colorado. Beet Workers, July, 1915.] Location: [Colorado]

[Families of Henry and John Miller: boy of eleven years, girl of eleve...

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34 children present at the Grant School, Ft. Morgan, Colo., five weeks after school opened, out of a possible 200 that will be here when the beet work is over. They will overflow, this year, into a special school being prepared for them. Mrs. Bell, the Principal here has taught these beet children for years and has watched the effect of the work. She vigorously denounces it. (See Hine Report) Photo Oct. 26/15. Location: Ft. Morgan, Colorado.

34 children present at the Grant School, Ft. Morgan, Colo., five weeks...

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Postal Telegraph boy, Danville, Virginia That night he refused to show me through the Red Light District, said the manager did not permit them to go on such errands. A Western Union boy (tallest boy in photo 2182) eagerly took me around and revealed an appalling intimate acquaintance with the district and the inmates. (See Hine report on Virginia messengers.) Location: Danville, Virginia.

Postal Telegraph boy, Danville, Virginia That night he refused to show...

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"I don't never git no rest." This is the attitude that Henry, a six-year old beet worker takes toward life, on a Wisconsin farm. See Hine Report, Wisconsin Sugar Beet, July, 1915. Location: Wisconsin.

"I don't never git no rest." This is the attitude that Henry, a six-ye...

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The home of a prosperous beet grower near Sterling, Colorado, who moved here six years ago from South Nebraska and owns four hundred acres now. In the distance is the home of a Russian who rents land from him and another who works on contract. See Hine Report, Colorado. Beet Workers, July 1915. Location: Sterling [vicinity], Colorado.

The home of a prosperous beet grower near Sterling, Colorado, who move...

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[Ten-year-old Mollie Steuben topping beets. Many children of this age put in a full day's work, and many begin younger. The work is hard and the children sometimes cut themselves or are "hooked" by the long tooth on the end of the blade. Mollie and her two sisters, 12 and 14 yrs. old, work from 6 A.M. to 5 P.M., near Sterling. See also Hine report for further details about this work.] Location: [Sterling vicinity, Colorado] / Photo by Hine, Oct. 21/15.

[Ten-year-old Mollie Steuben topping beets. Many children of this age ...

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Madeline Causey ten year old worker in Merrimack Mills. Been working there for four months. Fills batteries. Her mother said she was born July 7, 1903. See Hine report. Location: Huntsville, Alabama.

Madeline Causey ten year old worker in Merrimack Mills. Been working t...

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Dotheboys Hall in session tucked away upstairs over the store. Equipped with antique, dilapidated benches and chairs. The lessons begin at 6 A.M. and last for six hours, and these children who attend in the morning go into the mill in the afternoon and vice versa for the required eight weeks, which the law specifies. Taking everything into consideration it shows what travesty vocational guidance may become, and is in itself the best example of Dotheboys Hall I have ever seen, except that it is not half so practical as was Squeer's school. See Hine report. Location: Huntsville, Alabama.

Dotheboys Hall in session tucked away upstairs over the store. Equippe...

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[Eleven-year old Elizabeth who has been working in the sugar beets near Ordway, Colorado, for one year. The family moved here from Southern Russia three years ago. She said: "I don't like the work so much." See Hine Report, Colorado Beet Workers, July 1915.] Location: [Ordway vicinity, Colorado]

[Eleven-year old Elizabeth who has been working in the sugar beets nea...

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Henry Kaiser, twelve-year old beet worker from Potter, Wisconsin, working on farm near Chilton. See Hine Report, Wisconsin Sugar Beet, July 1915. Location: Chilton [vicinity], Wisconsin.

Henry Kaiser, twelve-year old beet worker from Potter, Wisconsin, work...

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Six-year old Henry and three-year old Hilda, beet workers on a Wisconsin farm. See Hine Report, Wisconsin Sugar Beet, July 1915. Location: Wisconsin.

Six-year old Henry and three-year old Hilda, beet workers on a Wiscons...

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12 year old Lahnert boy, near Ft. Collins, Colo., topping beets. The father, mother, and two boys (9 and 12 yrs.) expect to make $700 in about 2 months time in the beet work. "The boys can keep up with me all right, and all day long," the father said. Begin at 6 A.M. and work until 6 P.M. with hour off at noon. Several smaller children not work. See Hine Report for studies of amount of work done by these and other children. Oct. 30/15. Location: Ft. Collins [vicinity], Colorado / Photo by Hine.

12 year old Lahnert boy, near Ft. Collins, Colo., topping beets. The f...

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Fifteen year old delivery boy for Linders Drug Store, which is located on the edge of the Reservation, Griffin Street. The boy has just returned from a trip to these Houses. He works from 8 A.M. to 8 P.M. (See Hine Report on Messengers, Texas.) Location: Dallas, Texas.

Fifteen year old delivery boy for Linders Drug Store, which is located...

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The morning attend[a]nce at the mill school. See labels 3734 and 3735. See Hine report. Location: Huntsville, Alabama.

The morning attend[a]nce at the mill school. See labels 3734 and 3735....

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The Virginia K. Johnson Home. A House of Refuge for Unmarried Mothers under twenty-one years old. A large proportion of the girls here came from the farms, their lives stunted by the monotonous work of cotton picking, many of them beginning at five and six years old. Surely this must be counted one of the by-products of such deadening work. See Hine report on Texas Child Labor. Location: Dallas, Texas.

The Virginia K. Johnson Home. A House of Refuge for Unmarried Mothers ...

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(See label 4010) Eight-year-old boy tugging at the beets. There is a great deal of physical strain in this work. See Hine report. Location: Sterling vicinity, Colorado Photo by Hine., Oct. 2215

(See label 4010) Eight-year-old boy tugging at the beets. There is a g...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4011. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

Three Saunders children, nine, eleven, and thirteen years old, mowing away the grain. See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, August 1915.

Three Saunders children, nine, eleven, and thirteen years old, mowing ...

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[Eight-year-old girl (see label 4006). She is very skilful [sic] topping the beets, but this work is very fatigueing [sic] and dangerous for such children. See Hine report for details of the work.] Location: [Iliff, Colorado] / Photo by Hine., Oct. 22/15.

[Eight-year-old girl (see label 4006). She is very skilful [sic] toppi...

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(See label 4010) Eight-year-old boy tugging at the beets. There is a great deal of physical strain in this work. See Hine report. Location: Sterling [vicinity], Colorado / Photo by Hine., Oct. 22/15.

(See label 4010) Eight-year-old boy tugging at the beets. There is a g...

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[12 year old Lahnert boy, near Ft. Collins, Colo., topping beets. The father, mother, and two boys (9 and 12 yrs.) expect to make $700 in about 2 months time in the beet work. "The boys can keep up with me all right, and all day long," the father said. Begin at 6 A.M. and work until 6 P.M. with hour off at noon. Several smaller children not work. See Hine Report for studies of amount of work done by these and other children. Oct. 30/15]. Location: [Ft. Collins vicinity, Colorado] / Photo by Hine.

[12 year old Lahnert boy, near Ft. Collins, Colo., topping beets. The ...

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Fourteen year old messenger #2 Western Union, Shreveport. Says he goes to the Red Light district all the time. See Hine report on Messengers. Location: Shreveport, Louisiana

Fourteen year old messenger #2 Western Union, Shreveport. Says he goes...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 3704. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Lucy Saunders hitching the team to the horse rake. See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, August 1915. Location: Western Massachusetts?, Massachusetts?

Lucy Saunders hitching the team to the horse rake. See Hine Report, Ru...

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Fourteen year old messenger #2 Western Union, Shreveport. Says he goes to the Red Light district all the time. See Hine report on Messengers. Location: Shreveport, Louisiana.

Fourteen year old messenger #2 Western Union, Shreveport. Says he goes...

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[Ten-year-old Mollie Steuben topping beets. Many children of this age put in a full day's work, and many begin younger. The work is hard and the children sometimes cut themselves or are "hooked" by the long tooth on the end of the blade. Mollie and her two sisters, 12 and 14 yrs. old, work from 6 A.M. to 5 P.M., near Sterling. See also Hine report for further details about this work.] Location: [Sterling vicinity, Colorado] / Photo by Hine, Oct. 21/15.

[Ten-year-old Mollie Steuben topping beets. Many children of this age ...

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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 ...

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Noon hour at Massachusetts. Mill, Lindale, Ga. During the days following this, I proved the ages of nearly a dozen of these children, by gaining access to Family Records, Life Insurance papers, and through conversations with the children and parents, and found those that I could prove to be working now, or during the past year at 10 and 11 years of age, some of them having begun before they were ten. Further search would reveal more. (See Hine Report.) Location: Lindale, Georgia.

Noon hour at Massachusetts. Mill, Lindale, Ga. During the days followi...

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A few of the San Antonio messengers. See Hine report on messenger service of Texas. Edgar Barnes is one of the smallest in front row. The messengers and their contact with the Red Light districts, in most of the large cities of Texas, is one of the worst phases of child labor in the state. Location: San Antonio, Texas.

A few of the San Antonio messengers. See Hine report on messenger serv...

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Eight-year old Jack driving horse rake. A small boy has difficulty keeping his seat on rough ground and this work is more or less dangerous. See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, August, 1915. Location: Western Massachusetts, Massachusetts.

Eight-year old Jack driving horse rake. A small boy has difficulty kee...

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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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Eight-year old Jack on a Western Massachusetts farm. He is a type of child who is being overworked in many rural districts. See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, August 1915. Location: Western Massachusetts, Massachusetts

Eight-year old Jack on a Western Massachusetts farm. He is a type of c...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 3974. Hine no. 3975. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints... More

12 year old Lahnert boy, near Ft. Collins, Colo., topping beets. The father, mother, and two boys (9 and 12 yrs.) expect to make $700 in about 2 months time in the beet work. "The boys can keep up with me all right, and all day long," the father said. Begin at 6 A.M. and work until 6 P.M. with hour off at noon. Several smaller children not work. See Hine Report for studies of amount of work done by these and other children. Oct. 30/15. Location: Ft. Collins [vicinity], Colorado / Photo by Hine.

12 year old Lahnert boy, near Ft. Collins, Colo., topping beets. The f...

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[Ten-year-old Mollie Steuben topping beets. Many children of this age put in a full day's work, and many begin younger. The work is hard and the children sometimes cut themselves or are "hooked" by the long tooth on the end of the blade. Mollie and her two sisters, 12 and 14 yrs. old, work from 6 A.M. to 5 P.M., near Sterling. See also Hine report for further details about this work.] Location: [Sterling vicinity, Colorado] / Photo by Hine, Oct. 21/15.

[Ten-year-old Mollie Steuben topping beets. Many children of this age ...

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Ten-year-old Mollie Steuben topping beets. Many children of this age put in a full day's work, and many begin younger. The work is hard and the children sometimes cut themselves or are "hooked" by the long tooth on the end of the blade. Mollie and her two sisters, 12 and 14 yrs. old, work from 6 A.M. to 5 P.M., near Sterling. See also Hine report for further details about this work. Location: Sterling [vicinity], Colorado / Photo by Hine, Oct. 21/15.

Ten-year-old Mollie Steuben topping beets. Many children of this age p...

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Carl Brown, eleven years old. He and his father run a farm of 160 acres, in Southern Vermont. He is overgrown, sluggish, but he said: "I'd ruther go to school." See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, August 1915. Location: Southern Vermont, Vermont.

Carl Brown, eleven years old. He and his father run a farm of 160 acre...

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Two of the workers in Merrimack Mills. See Hine report. Location: Huntsville, Alabama.

Two of the workers in Merrimack Mills. See Hine report. Location: Hun...

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A few of the San Antonio messengers. See Hine report on messenger service of Texas. Edgar Barnes is one of the smallest in front row. The messengers and their contact with the Red Light districts, in most of the large cities of Texas, is one of the worst phases of child labor in the state. Location: San Antonio, Texas.

A few of the San Antonio messengers. See Hine report on messenger serv...

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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.

Flossie Britt, 6 years old has been working several months steadily as...

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Eight-year old Jack on a Western Massachusetts farm. He is a type of child who is being overworked in many rural districts. See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, August, 1915. Location: Western Massachusetts, Massachusetts.

Eight-year old Jack on a Western Massachusetts farm. He is a type of c...

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Group blocking out the sugar beets on a Wisconsin farm. See Hine Report, Wisconsin Sugar Beet, July 1915. Location: Wisconsin.

Group blocking out the sugar beets on a Wisconsin farm. See Hine Repor...

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Katie Wohn, twelve-year-old topper. Said she cut a hole in her leg recently with the hook on the end of the knife. See Hine report. Photo Oct. 22/15. Location: Sterling [vicinity], Colorado.

Katie Wohn, twelve-year-old topper. Said she cut a hole in her leg rec...

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The summer quarters of a beet worker's family on a Colorado farm near Starling. See also 3953. See Hine Report, Colorado Beet Workers, July 1915. Location: Sterling [vicinity], Colorado.

The summer quarters of a beet worker's family on a Colorado farm near ...

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[Mexicans. Beet workers and the shacks they live in near Rocky Ford, Colorado. See Hine Report, Colorado. Sugar Beet Workers, July 1915.] Location: [Rocky Ford vicinity, Colorado].

[Mexicans. Beet workers and the shacks they live in near Rocky Ford, C...

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[Eight-year old Jack on a Western Massachusetts farm. He is a type of child who is being overworked in many rural districts. See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, August 1915.] Location: [Western Massachusetts, Massachusetts].

[Eight-year old Jack on a Western Massachusetts farm. He is a type of ...

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"I don't never git no rest." This is the attitude that Henry, a six-year old beet worker takes toward life on a Wisconsin farm. See Hine Report, Wisconsin Sugar Beet, July 1915. Location: Wisconsin

"I don't never git no rest." This is the attitude that Henry, a six-ye...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3955. No specific Wisconsin location recorded on caption card. Phrase "git no rest" is underlined on the ca... More

Barbara Lieber, nine-year old beet worker hoeing with her eleven-year old sister on a Wisconsin farm near St. John. See Hine Report, Wisconsin Sugar Beet, July 1915. Location: St. John [vicinity], Wisconsin.

Barbara Lieber, nine-year old beet worker hoeing with her eleven-year ...

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Carl Brown, eleven years old. He and his father run a farm of 160 acres, in Southern Vermont. He is overgrown, sluggish, but he said: "I'd ruther go to school." See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, August 1915. Location: Southern Vermont, Vermont.

Carl Brown, eleven years old. He and his father run a farm of 160 acre...

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Fifteen year old delivery boy for Linders Drug Store, which is located on the edge of the Reservation, Griffin Street. The boy has just returned from a trip to these Houses. He works from 8 A.M. to 8 P.M. (See Hine Report on Messengers, Texas.) Location: Dallas, Texas

Fifteen year old delivery boy for Linders Drug Store, which is located...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 3620. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Noon hour at Massachusetts Mill, Lindale, Ga. During the days following this, I proved the ages of nearly a dozen of these children, by gaining access to Family Records, Life Insurance papers, and through conversations with the children and parents, and found those that I could prove to be working now, or during the past year at 10 and 11 years of age, some of them having begun before they were ten. Further search would reveal more. (See Hine Report). Location: Lindale, Georgia.

Noon hour at Massachusetts Mill, Lindale, Ga. During the days followin...

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[Eight-year old Jack milking the cows. See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, August 1915.] Location: [Western Massachusetts, Massachusetts]

[Eight-year old Jack milking the cows. See Hine Report, Rural Child La...

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Pete Henson, 414 C Street. Mother said he was twelve two months ago, but has been sweeping in the Merrimack Mill for seven months, so he began at eleven years. Brother Edward said to be thirteen years, but doubtful. Mother said they had no Family Record here and gave me ages from memory. See Hine report. Location: Huntsville, Alabama.

Pete Henson, 414 C Street. Mother said he was twelve two months ago, b...

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Six-year old Tildy helps a little in the beet work, on a Colorado farm near Rocky Ford. Her father is German. He said: "I don't work my children until they are older." Another German farmer nearby said the same. Another father said: "Americans don't work their kids the way foreignors [i.e., foreigners] do." See Hine Report, Colorado Beet Workers, July 1915. Location: Rocky Ford [vicinity], Colorado.

Six-year old Tildy helps a little in the beet work, on a Colorado farm...

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Eight-year old Jack carrying cans of milk on stone boat. This involves some heavy lifting. See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, August, 1915. Location: Western Massachusetts, Massachusetts.

Eight-year old Jack carrying cans of milk on stone boat. This involves...

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[Eight-year old Jack driving horse rake. A small boy has difficulty keeping his seat on rough ground and this work is more or less dangerous. See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, August 1915.] Location: [Western Massachusetts, Massachusetts]

[Eight-year old Jack driving horse rake. A small boy has difficulty ke...

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Eight-year old Jack milking the cows. See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, August, 1915. Location: Western Massachusetts, Massachusetts.

Eight-year old Jack milking the cows. See Hine Report, Rural Child Lab...

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Group of workers in the Massachusetts Mills, Lindale, Ga. Photo taken at noon, April 12, 1913, while they were being paid off. During the days following this, I proved the ages of nearly a dozen of these children, by gaining access to Family Records, Life Insurance papers, and through conversations with the children and parents, and found these that I could prove to be working now, or during the past year at 10 and 11 years of age, some of them having begun before they were ten. Further search would reveal dozens more. (See Hine Report.) Massachusetts Mills, Lindale, Ga. Apr. 12, 1913. Location: Lindale, Georgia / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

Group of workers in the Massachusetts Mills, Lindale, Ga. Photo taken ...

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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, eigh...

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Rural Accident. Twelve-year old Clinton Stewart and his mowing machine which cut off his hand. See Hine Report, August 1915.

Rural Accident. Twelve-year old Clinton Stewart and his mowing machine...

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Carl Brown, eleven years old. He and his father run a farm of 160 acres in Southern Vermont. He is overgrown, sluggish, but he said: "I'd ruther go to school." See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, August 1915 Location: Southern Vermont, Vermont.

Carl Brown, eleven years old. He and his father run a farm of 160 acre...

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Mexicans. Beet workers and the shacks they live in near Rocky Ford, Colorado. See Hine Report, Colorado. Sugar Beet Workers, July, 1915. Location: Rocky Ford [vicinity], Colorado.

Mexicans. Beet workers and the shacks they live in near Rocky Ford, Co...

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[Eight-year old Jack on a Western Massachusetts farm. He is a type of child who is being overworked in many rural districts. See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, August 1915. Location: [Western Massachusetts, Massachusetts]

[Eight-year old Jack on a Western Massachusetts farm. He is a type of ...

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Rural Accident. Eleven-year old Wason, driving horse to the field. See photos of his brother Clinton Stewart. See Hine Report, August 1915.

Rural Accident. Eleven-year old Wason, driving horse to the field. See...

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Eight-year-old girl (see label 4006). She is very skilful [sic] topping the beets, but this work is very fatigueing [sic] and dangerous for such children. See Hine report for details of the work. Location: Iliff, Colorado / Photo by Hine., Oct. 22/15.

Eight-year-old girl (see label 4006). She is very skilful [sic] toppin...

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Lucy Saunders hitching the team to the horse rake. See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, August 1915. Location: [Western Massachusetts?, Massachusetts?].

Lucy Saunders hitching the team to the horse rake. See Hine Report, Ru...

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Nearly the entire force, Yooona [i.e., Yocona] Mills, Water Valley, Miss. Some of the smallest workers not in photo. The three smallest ones in front row hang around and help some. Baby doesn't work, - yet. The rest are steady workers. (See Hine report for data about past earnings of the mill.) Location: Water Valley, Mississippi.

Nearly the entire force, Yooona [i.e., Yocona] Mills, Water Valley, Mi...

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Nearly the entire force, Yooona i.e., Yocona Mills, Water Valley, Miss. Some of the smallest workers not in photo. The three smallest ones in front row hang around and help some. Baby doesn't work, - yet. The rest are steady workers. (See Hine report for data about past earnings of the mill.) Location: Water Valley, Mississippi

Nearly the entire force, Yooona i.e., Yocona Mills, Water Valley, Miss...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2117. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

A dilapidated "renters" home near West. The Tripp farm. Five in the family. Girl (apparently fifteen years old) is married. The farm contains a hundred and fifty acres now. A larger farm of eight hundred acres was cut up into this and three others - to rent. See Hine report. Location: West, Texas.

A dilapidated "renters" home near West. The Tripp farm. Five in the fa...

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Eight-year old Jack milking the cows. See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, August 1915. Location: Western Massachusetts, Massachusetts

Eight-year old Jack milking the cows. See Hine Report, Rural Child Lab...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 3966. Hine no. 3967. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints... More

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