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Hot Weather Delights, Newsboys' Protective Association, Cincinnati. Location: Cincinnati, Ohio

Hot Weather Delights, Newsboys' Protective Association, Cincinnati. Lo...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 22. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Men and boys of this family all work in Eureka Cotton Mills. H.O. Roof. B. F. Roof --10 years in mill. Lawrence Roof--4 years in mill. Albert Roof--(Smallest) 1 year in mill. Doffs--50 cents a day. 56 inches high. Witness S.R. Hine. Location: Chester, South Carolina

Men and boys of this family all work in Eureka Cotton Mills. H.O. Roof...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 367. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Sack Race, the Newsboys' Picnic. Location: Cincinnati, Ohio

Sack Race, the Newsboys' Picnic. Location: Cincinnati, Ohio

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 20. After the word "Picnic" text is cut off on caption card. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee ... More

Noon Hour at an Indianapolis Meat Packing House. Aug. 1908. Wit. E.N. Clopper. Location: Indianapolis, Indiana

Noon Hour at an Indianapolis Meat Packing House. Aug. 1908. Wit. E.N. ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 108. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More

Boys taking away from saws and brading. Schultze, Waltman & Co. Planing Mill Evansville, Ind. Location: Evansville, Indiana

Boys taking away from saws and brading. Schultze, Waltman & Co. Planin...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 194. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More

A doffer in the Melville Mfg. Co., Cherryville, N.C. Location: Cherryville, North Carolina

A doffer in the Melville Mfg. Co., Cherryville, N.C. Location: Cherryv...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 269. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Glass works. Location: West Virginia

Glass works. Location: West Virginia

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Glass factories. Hine no. 180. No city recorded on caption card. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library ... More

Mrs. Finkelstein, 127 Monroe St. Bessie (age 13), Sophie (age 7). Girls attend school. Making garters for Liberty Garter works, 413 Broadway. Mother, a widow, earns 75 cents a day by working all day until 12 at night. Bessie works until 10 P.M. Sophie until 9 P.M. They expected to work until 10 P.M. to finish the job, although they did not know when more work would come in. Witness Mrs. Hosford. Location: New York, New York (State)

Mrs. Finkelstein, 127 Monroe St. Bessie (age 13), Sophie (age 7). Girl...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. Hine no. 10-A. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General inform... More

Orley Shrouce, 8 Ozark Mill. 10 years old. Said he worked a year, but when new law came in a while ago the mill people turned him off,--too young. "Then they came again and hired me back." Doffer--60 cents a day. Location: Gastonia, North Carolina

Orley Shrouce, 8 Ozark Mill. 10 years old. Said he worked a year, but ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 275. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

One of The Newsies at The Newsboys' Picnic, Cincinnati. Location: Cincinnati, Ohio

One of The Newsies at The Newsboys' Picnic, Cincinnati. Location: Cinc...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 28. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Noon hour, Singer Mfg Co., Boys work there: girls carry lunch. Location: South Bend, Indiana

Noon hour, Singer Mfg Co., Boys work there: girls carry lunch. Locatio...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 232. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More

Clyde Cotton Mills, Newton, N.C. Doffers in the above mill. 50 operatives, 10 of them small boys and girls like these. Location: Newton, North Carolina

Clyde Cotton Mills, Newton, N.C. Doffers in the above mill. 50 operati...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 454. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Arthur Therion, 66 South Street. Has been at work ("helping father") in Mill #3, Great Falls Mfg. Co., Somersworth, N.H. for 3 years. Location: Somersworth, New Hampshire

Arthur Therion, 66 South Street. Has been at work ("helping father") i...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 763. The phrase "3 years" is underlined on the card. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Libr... More

A Typical Errand Boy Minding Another Boy's Business. Boston 1915 Exhibit. Location: Boston, Massachusetts

A Typical Errand Boy Minding Another Boy's Business. Boston 1915 Exhib...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 940. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More

George Cartwright, 401 North Laurel St., Bridgeton, N.J., is out of School. Hangs around the Cumberland Works looking for job. Says he is 14 years old now (questionable) and has worked off and on since he was 11. (See photo 958). Location: Bridgeton, New Jersey

George Cartwright, 401 North Laurel St., Bridgeton, N.J., is out of Sc...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Glass factories. Hine no. 985. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

A group of people standing in front of a brick building Noon hour, King Mfg. Co., Augusta, Ga. We had not seen these children when we were shown through the mill. See photos 500 to 509. Jan. 14, 1909. Location: Augusta, Georgia

A group of people standing in front of a brick building Noon hour, Kin...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 501. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Workers in Bibb Mill #1, Macon, Ga. Boy on right on right hand end, Burdick Collins, 2 years in mill work. Next, Scoven Preston, 1 year in mill work. Next, Charlie Benson, 4 years in mill work. Next, Mason Matheson. Next, Robert Collins. Next, Leo House, 4 years in mill work. Next, Frank Leslie. Father in background. Witness S.R. Hine. Location: Macon, Georgia

Workers in Bibb Mill #1, Macon, Ga. Boy on right on right hand end, Bu...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 499. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Night shift going work. N.J. Nov. 15, 1909. Cumberland Glass Works. Location: Bridgeton, New Jersey

Night shift going work. N.J. Nov. 15, 1909. Cumberland Glass Works. Lo...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Glass factories. Hine no. 969. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

6 A.M., June 9, 1909. I found only a few youngsters going into this mill. American Thread Co., Westerly, R.I. Location: Westerly, Rhode Island

6 A.M., June 9, 1909. I found only a few youngsters going into this mi...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 818. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Group of boys from canning factories. School #1, Buffalo, N.Y. (from left to right): 1) Frank Lefasso, 13 years old last summer. Worked in canning factory at Barker. 2) Anthony Traeisi?, 10 years old last summer. Worked on beans South Dayton, Cannery. 3) James Schillacer, 12 years old last summer. Earned 50 cents a day putting cans in holes in factory St. Catherines, Canada. 4) Peter Delsalvo, 13 years old last summer. Worked in the factory at Brant, N.Y. 5) Anthony Baraone, 11 years old last summer. Worked on apples, beans, tomatoes, in factory at Wilson, N.Y. 6) Thoma Laessi, 12 years old last summer. Worked on beans in sheds at Hamburg, N.Y. 7-9 A.M.; 3-5 P.M. 7) Joseph Lanca, 12 years old last summer. Strings beans in sheds. (All these boys worked on tomatoes.) Location: Buffalo, New York (State)

Group of boys from canning factories. School #1, Buffalo, N.Y. (from l...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 1336. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div... More

Closing hour, Saturday noon, at Dallas Mill. Every child in photos, so far as I was able to ascertain, works in that mill. When I questioned some of the youngest boys as to their ages, they said they were 12, and then other boys said they were lying. (Which sentiment I agreed with.) Location: Huntsville, Alabama

Closing hour, Saturday noon, at Dallas Mill. Every child in photos, so...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 1777. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Group of boys working in American Woolen Mills, Winooski, Vt. Youngest, 13 years, oldest 15. All had been working one year or more. Most are illiterate 27 Children apparently under 15 years, were counted at one gate. (See also N.C.L.C. Photos) (May 1909. 720-745). Location: Winooski, Vermont

Group of boys working in American Woolen Mills, Winooski, Vt. Youngest...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 1077. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Some of the workers in Munford Cotton Mills. Smallest boy, in middle, a frail anaemic youngster, said he had been doffing over a year. Said he was twelve, but I doubt it. Other small boy, on left, spinner, runs four sides, been working there two years. Location: Munford, Alabama

Some of the workers in Munford Cotton Mills. Smallest boy, in middle, ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 1794. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Noon hour at Obear-Nestor Glass Co., East St. Louis, Ill. Names of the smaller boys are: Walter Sohler i.e. Kohler?, 918 N. 18th. St.; Walter Riley, 918 N. 17th St.; Will Convery, 1828 Natalie Ave.; Clifford Matheny, 1927 Summit Ave. All these boys were working at above glass works. See 1405. Location: St. Louis, Missouri

Noon hour at Obear-Nestor Glass Co., East St. Louis, Ill. Names of the...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Glass factories. Hine no. 1406. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Francis Lance, 5 years old, 41 inches high. Sells regularly on Grand Avenue. He jumps on and off moving cars at risk of life. Location: St. Louis, Missouri

Francis Lance, 5 years old, 41 inches high. Sells regularly on Grand A...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 1394. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Children from school No. 2 in the Italian district Terrace? nr. GeneSt. Many of these children spend their summer vacations in the canning and fruit picking settlements where their parents go to work during the season. Feb. 8, 1910, Buffalo, N.Y. Location: Buffalo, New York (State)

Children from school No. 2 in the Italian district Terrace? nr. GeneSt...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 1220. Hine no. 1221. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints a... More

Some of the Young Boys Working in the Robert Johnson Rand Shoe Factory, Washington, Mo. (Branch of St. Louis firm making Star shoes.) On left end is Henry Detmer, who said he has been working there three years. Fred Schraneuer, right hand end, has been working there since June. I did not get photos of all the youngsters. (also 1711 to 1714.). Location: Washington, Missouri

Some of the Young Boys Working in the Robert Johnson Rand Shoe Factory...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 1710. Hine no. 1713. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prin... More

John Bryan, a young turner in London i.e., Loudon? Hosiery Mills. Location: Loudon, Tennessee

John Bryan, a young turner in London i.e., Loudon? Hosiery Mills. Loca...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 1889. There is both a Loudon and a London, Tennessee. UMBC records similar photos as "Loudon," however. Credit li... More

Young boys working in Vermont Marble Co., Proctor, Vt. Very illiterate. Location: Proctor, Vermont

Young boys working in Vermont Marble Co., Proctor, Vt. Very illiterate...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 1070. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Boy working in Inland Type Foundry, May 12th, 1910. Location: St. Louis, Missouri

Boy working in Inland Type Foundry, May 12th, 1910. Location: St. Loui...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 1428. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Robert Magee (smallest). 270 Suffolk St., Apparently 12 years old Been working in Mule Room #1, Merrimac Mill, Lowell, 1 year. Michael Keefe (next in size), 32 Marion St., been working in #1 Mule Room, Merrimac Mill, Lowell, for 8 months, about 13 or 14. Cornelius Hurley, 298 Adams St., been at work in #1 Mule Room, Merimac Mill, Lowell, for 6 months, about 13 or 14. Location: South Framingham, Massachusetts

Robert Magee (smallest). 270 Suffolk St., Apparently 12 years old Been...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2618. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Boy of 12 years picking cranberries with the scoop. Most of the scooping is done by adult workers, but some scoops ? are made small enough for the children to use. Location: Hollow Branch Bog, near Wareham, Massachusetts

Boy of 12 years picking cranberries with the scoop. Most of the scoopi...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 2507. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Ethel Shumate (see photo 2190). Has been rolling cigarettes in Danville (Virginia) Factory for six months. Lives, 614 Upper Street. Said she was thirteen years old, but it is doubtful. Location: Danville, Virginia

Ethel Shumate (see photo 2190). Has been rolling cigarettes in Danvill...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 2192. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Camille Carmo, Justine Carmo, seven and nine years old. The older one picks about 4 pails a day. Youngest was picking also. Location: Rochester vicinity Eldridge Bog, Massachusetts

Camille Carmo, Justine Carmo, seven and nine years old. The older one ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 2540. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Making willow plumes under unsanitary conditions. A dirty home, the father and several friends had been rushing the growler and booze was literally flowing around over table and floor. The father is a truck-driver out of work. The mother, Freddie (11yrs. old) and Antoinette (8 yrs. old) all work $1.50 to $2.00 a week now, "but we make $3.00 a week in summer when we can work all day and not go to school." Vincent Tranutolo, 309 E. 110th St., ground floor. Location: New York, New York (State)

Making willow plumes under unsanitary conditions. A dirty home, the fa...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 2706. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photogr... More

Mary Gomez, 10 years old. Lives Waquoit. Picked 19 pails one day, generally picks 8 or 10. Location: Falmouth, Massachusetts

Mary Gomez, 10 years old. Lives Waquoit. Picked 19 pails one day, gene...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 2505. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Smallest boy is Dorris Fabanks?, been working in Yocona Mill, Water Valley Miss., one year. Larger boy (brother) been there six years. Housing conditions bad. Location: Water Valley, Mississippi

Smallest boy is Dorris Fabanks?, been working in Yocona Mill, Water Va...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2118. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Hodges Gallop, Western Union Messenger No. 16, Norfolk, Virginia Lives, 201 Freeman Street. Been working here one month. He, and several other very young boys, work until 10:30 P.M. See also photo and label 2258, and report on messengers of Virginia Location: Norfolk, Virginia

Hodges Gallop, Western Union Messenger No. 16, Norfolk, Virginia Lives...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 2231. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Group of workers. The smallest boy in the middle of group is Secondino Libro, 34 Walnut Street. Apparently 10 or 11. Works in No. 4 Spinning room. Location: Lawrence, Massachusetts

Group of workers. The smallest boy in the middle of group is Secondino...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 2498. Hine no. 2497. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Young "Band-boy" and overseer, Yazoo City Yarn Mills. Location: Yazoo City, Mississippi

Young "Band-boy" and overseer, Yazoo City Yarn Mills. Location: Yazoo ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2105. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Illiterate boy who understands no English. Stanley Cherpial, 13 Gardner Rd. Works in Room #7. Location: Chicopee, Massachusetts

Illiterate boy who understands no English. Stanley Cherpial, 13 Gardne...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2648. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Lillian Nettles, an eleven year old spinner in Magnolia Cotton Mills, Magnolia, Miss. Her sister said, " She ain't old 'nuff to draw pay," but she helps regularly, and says she can run two sides. Worked steadily all the time I was in the mill. There are nine in the family; five in the mill, including the father. "We like the mill work much better than farming," they said. Recently moved in from a small farm 50 miles a way. Location: Magnolia, Mississippi

Lillian Nettles, an eleven year old spinner in Magnolia Cotton Mills, ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2091. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Smallest girl in picture is Antionette Pothier, 32 Easton St. (See 2477). Location: Lawrence, Massachusetts

Smallest girl in picture is Antionette Pothier, 32 Easton St. (See 247...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2499. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

The youngest children I saw going into Tombigbee Cotton Mill, Columbus, Miss., at 6:30 A.M. May 15, 1911. Not many youngsters there. Not working a full force. Location: Columbus, Mississippi

The youngest children I saw going into Tombigbee Cotton Mill, Columbus...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2139. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Ebb-tide in the industry. Home of Mrs. Edwards. Her boy (photo 2203) works in Century Cotton Mill, South Boston, Virginia Gets forty cents a day. Husband has a job in a North Caroline cotton mill not far away, and spends Sunday with the family here. They moved here a while ago, expecting steady work which was promised by the mill. Disappointed, as mill work very slack. Two girls (said to be 15 and 17) work in the shirt factory here, where I afterwards found some young children at work. Location: South Boston, Virginia

Ebb-tide in the industry. Home of Mrs. Edwards. Her boy (photo 2203) w...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2206. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

One of the youngsters working in the Danville Knitting works, Danville, Virginia See also photo and label 2193. Location: Danville, Virginia

One of the youngsters working in the Danville Knitting works, Danville...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2033-A. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divis... More

Stephen Warren, 284 Main St., Indian Orchard. Has doffed all summer in Indian Orchard Mfg. Co. Quit a few days ago but expects to get another job soon. Says he will not go to school. Location: Indian Orchard, Massachusetts

Stephen Warren, 284 Main St., Indian Orchard. Has doffed all summer in...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2355. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Young messenger in New Bedford. Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts

Young messenger in New Bedford. Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 2317. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Arthur Newell, doffer in Manchester Mills, Rock Hill. 3 weeks at it. 70 cents a day. Said 12 years old. His father in the mill gets $12 a week, mother $9, sister $4.80, he gets $4.20, total $30 a week. "I had ruther go to school but the mill wanted me." Location: Rock Hill, South Carolina

Arthur Newell, doffer in Manchester Mills, Rock Hill. 3 weeks at it. 7...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2951. State not recorded on caption card; based on captions for related photos. Phrase "mill wanted me" is underl... More

Woman carrying corset covers made on Macdougal St. to factory, 171 Wooster Street, N.Y. Location: New York, New York (State)

Woman carrying corset covers made on Macdougal St. to factory, 171 Woo...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 2848. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photogr... More

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

A black and white photo of a woman in a dress, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington,... More

Little girl, apparently 6 yrs. old - but didn't know her name or age - tending stand at Washington and 3rd St. for older sister (#3234). Saloon on corner. 3 P.M. Location: Hoboken, New Jersey

Little girl, apparently 6 yrs. old - but didn't know her name or age -...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 3235. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Ten-year old Sephie, a young oyster shucker, says she does six pots of oysters a day. Her mother works also. "She don't go to school. Works all the time." Maggioni Canning Co. Location: Port Royal, South Carolina

Ten-year old Sephie, a young oyster shucker, says she does six pots of...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 3277. Year not recorded on caption card; 1912 based on year that appears to be recorded on card for photograp... More

Elmer Skinner, 10 yrs. old. Turner in Massey Hosiery Mill, Columbus, Ga. Been working there four months. Works all day. No school. Does not work nights. Location: Columbus, Georgia

Elmer Skinner, 10 yrs. old. Turner in Massey Hosiery Mill, Columbus, G...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 3442. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Noon hour at the Dallas Cotton Mill. Location: Dallas, Texas

Noon hour at the Dallas Cotton Mill. Location: Dallas, Texas

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 3604. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Neil Power, 10 years old, he said, "Turns stockings in Rome (Ga.) Hosiery Mill." A shy, pathetic figure. "Hain't been to school much." Location: Rome, Georgia

Neil Power, 10 years old, he said, "Turns stockings in Rome (Ga.) Hosi...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 3355. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

A poster with a picture of a man on a bicycle, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington,... More

Ollie Allen. Been working in Harriet Cotton Mills 2 years. He is a violation according to both his brother and life insurance policy which say he is 12 years old now. These statements are based on the parents' statement, which is probably high. He appears to be 10 years old, and has been working 2 years. His father and older brother are in the mill. They have a house full of children, and the sanitary conditions are frightful. Location: Henderson, North Carolina

Ollie Allen. Been working in Harriet Cotton Mills 2 years. He is a vio...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 3888. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Edgar Kitchen 13 yrs. old gets $3.25 a week working for the Bingham Bros. Dairy. Drives dairy wagon from 7 A.M. to noon. Works on farm in afternoon (10 hours a day) seven days a week--half day on Saturday. Thinks he will work steady this year and not go to school. See previous labels in June. Not in Div. 5 or 6. Lives in Bowling Green. Location: Bowling Green vicinity, Kentucky Lewis W. Hine

Edgar Kitchen 13 yrs. old gets $3.25 a week working for the Bingham Br...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4449. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

French - Albertine Angelhart, 35 Gangion St. - 14 years old January 2nd - left in 4th grade. Weaver in Flint Mill. Apply for certificate. Had been a weaver one months in one mill and two days in next but it was a stop motion loom which she didn't know how to operate. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts. Lewis W. Hine

French - Albertine Angelhart, 35 Gangion St. - 14 years old January 2n...

In album: Miscellaneous. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 4295. Hine no. 4296. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General info... More

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...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4520. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

King Philip Spinning Room. Spare Hand on spinning frames Hannah Mills, 603 Dwelly St. 15 years old. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts. Lewis W. Hine

King Philip Spinning Room. Spare Hand on spinning frames Hannah Mills,...

In album: Mills. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 4260. Hine no. 4261. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information ... More

Amos is 6 and Horace 4 years old. Their father, John Neal is a renter and raises tobacco. He said (and the owner of the land confirmed it) that both these boys work day after day from "sun-up to sun-down" worming and suckering, and that they are as steady as grown-ups. Location: Warren County--Albaton, Kentucky Lewis W. Hine

Amos is 6 and Horace 4 years old. Their father, John Neal is a renter ...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4540. "Div. 5" recorded on caption card as part of the geographic location; probably refers to a school district. Credit line: National Child Labor ... More

Part of the Merchants Mill. One section built in 1867 and one in 1871. Most of the windows closed even in mid-June. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts Lewis W. Hine

Part of the Merchants Mill. One section built in 1867 and one in 1871....

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Mills. Hine no. 4285. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the National... More

Picking strawberries on Clagett and Covington farm. They will have 500 pickers in the height of the season. Not many young workers yet. Location: Bowling Green vicinity, Kentucky L.W. Hine

Picking strawberries on Clagett and Covington farm. They will have 500...

In album: Agriculture. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 4131. Hine no. 4137. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General inform... More

Learning typesetting. Training School for Deaf Mutes. See 4843-4851. Location: Sulphur, Oklahoma Lewis W. Hine

Learning typesetting. Training School for Deaf Mutes. See 4843-4851. L...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 4850. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the ... More

Incorrect sitting position for postural deformity and dorsal curvature cases. Scoliosis. Stooping, lopsided or humped over position. Work in this position is harmful. Need for advice of examining physician. Location: Boston, Massachusetts Lewis W. Hine

Incorrect sitting position for postural deformity and dorsal curvature...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 4673. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the ... More

75 Sixth Grade children (colored) crowded into 1 small room in an old store building near Negro High School, with 1 teacher. Location: Muskogee, Oklahoma Lewis W. Hine

75 Sixth Grade children (colored) crowded into 1 small room in an old ...

In album: Agriculture. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 4772. Hine no. 4773. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General inform... More

Shell Shock patient who is recovering. (see number 7705) One of the cures effected by the treatment for war neurosis, as the scientists now call the condition that used to be described as "shell shock". Capt. A.E. Dennis, AMERICAN RED CROSS hospital representative for the U.S. Army at Blois, has obtained wonderful results by taking a number of these patients away from the noise and congestion of hospital life to the quiet of an outdoor life in the woods

Shell Shock patient who is recovering. (see number 7705) One of the cu...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Hine. Group title: Recreation for Wounded American Soldiers. Gift; American Natio... More

Refugee women employed by the American Red Cross at Orleans making mattresses for the Bureau of Refugees in Orleans. These are sold to refugee families at a very low price. Refugee women employed by the AMERICAN RED CROSS at Orleans making mattresses. These are sold to refugees families at a very low price

Refugee women employed by the American Red Cross at Orleans making mat...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Hine. Group title: Refugees and relief. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 an... More

World War I - American Red Cross

World War I - American Red Cross

An old black and white photo of a woman and children, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Wash... More

Covalescent wounded French soldiers at Malaterre Hospital; Rue Edward Nortier, Neuilly. American Red Cross hospital barracks in background

Covalescent wounded French soldiers at Malaterre Hospital; Rue Edward ...

Caption from negative sleeve: In the Garden at General Malterre's Hospital life is made as pleasant as possible for these mutilated soldiers whose cases require repeated operations. In the background is the war... More

These are not inmates of a Turkish Harem but French girls making cotton balls for the front parcel at the American Red Cross workrooms for surgical dressings Rue St. Didier, Paris. The workers wear the gauze bandage over nose and mouth as protection against small particles of cotton. The "Front Parcel" which is a specialty of these workrooms contains the first dressings which the wounded soldier gets when he comes from the field of battle

These are not inmates of a Turkish Harem but French girls making cotto...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name from caption card or negative sleeve for LC-A6199-3639. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC, R.... More

Refugees & Home Relief, 128 Rue Cligancourt

Refugees & Home Relief, 128 Rue Cligancourt

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Hine. Group title: Refugees and relief. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 an... More

Sanatorium of La Jonchere, Bath, under the direction of Mrs. Bliss

Sanatorium of La Jonchere, Bath, under the direction of Mrs. Bliss

Title from negative or negative sleeve. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Hine. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General information about the America... More

Representative of Home Communication Service distributing in cigarettes in Hosp. al Centreville

Representative of Home Communication Service distributing in cigarette...

Title from negative or negative sleeve. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Hine. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General information about the America... More

Making doughnuts for doughboys in Mary Elizabeth's kitchen in the basement of American Red Cross Headquarters, Paris

Making doughnuts for doughboys in Mary Elizabeth's kitchen in the base...

Caption from negative sleeve: Mary Elizabeth Kitchener. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Second date on caption card: November 6, 1918. Photographer name or source of original from caption car... More

Boy Scouts directing American soldiers who have lost themselves in Paris. AMERICAN RED CROSS Boy Scout directing two American soldiers who have lost themselves in Paris

Boy Scouts directing American soldiers who have lost themselves in Par...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Hine. Group title: Boy Scouts A.R.C. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1... More

American soldiers getting their bowls of chocolate and their sandwich rolls in the canteen established in the basement of the American Red Cross Bureau of refugees at Toulouse. One of the soldiers and a French civilian have volunteered to help in the service. Oct. 1918

American soldiers getting their bowls of chocolate and their sandwich ...

Caption from negative sleeve: Cellar Canteen. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Hine. Gift; American National Red C... More

The American Red Cross comfort bag in the American Military Hospital No. 1, at Neuilly, which is supported by the American Red Cross

The American Red Cross comfort bag in the American Military Hospital N...

Packing up his troubles in the Red Cross bag Military Hospital 1, Neuilly. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Hine. ... More

American band & Troops passing down Avenue du President Wilson. Also auto-load of wounded soldiers and group of nurses watching them

American band & Troops passing down Avenue du President Wilson. Also a...

Band leading regiment of American troops in 4th of July parade entering Place d'Iena Automobile containing wounded Americans in foreground. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name o... More

Jeanne d'Arc Dispensary, Malakoff. The Red Cross Tuberculosis Bureau gave money to build this dispensary. Work with the people is done by Sisters of St. Vincent de Paul

Jeanne d'Arc Dispensary, Malakoff. The Red Cross Tuberculosis Bureau g...

Caption from negative sleeve: Neighborhood children going into the Jeanne d'Arc Dispensary at Malakoff near Paris. The American Red Cross gave money to build this dispensary and the work with the people is done... More

Jeanne Septvents is a beautiful French girl, 10 years old, whose father, for nearly a year a prisoner in Germany, has given his life for France. Jeanne has been adopted by Company "E", 6th Battalion of the 20th Engineers. When the AMERICAN RED CROSS photographer found her in the garden of her little stone house at Caen, she was playing with knuckle-bones that she had painted red, white and blue in honor of her God-fathers. She wrote them soon after she was adopted saying: "I hope you are all in good health and not too unhappy at the front and I send big kisses to you all." The AMERICAN RED CROSS administers the funds for the maintanence of all the children adopted by the American troops. September 1918

Jeanne Septvents is a beautiful French girl, 10 years old, whose fathe...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Hine. Group title: Adopted children. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1... More

Paris. Interior of the American Red Cross Canteen at Gare St. Lazare, Paris. This is the largest and best equipped canteen in the city. Here a typical American soldiers lunching and talking over their experiences

Paris. Interior of the American Red Cross Canteen at Gare St. Lazare, ...

Caption from negative sleeve: Canteen, Paris. Title, date and creator name from Red Cross caption card information for related, adjacent negative. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General inform... More

Devastation in northern France, April 1919. The Junior Red Cross has since supplied furniture to these homes

Devastation in northern France, April 1919. The Junior Red Cross has s...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Hine. Data: Miss Hussey July 1921. Classification: Reconstruction. Gift; American... More

Planning rompers from a discarded shirt

Planning rompers from a discarded shirt

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Lewis Hine. Group title: Garment conservation, U.S. Gift; American National Red C... More

A Pupil in Pleasant Green School - Pocahontas Co. (See No. 6.) Location: Pocahontas County--Marlinton, West Virginia Photo by L.W. Hine

A Pupil in Pleasant Green School - Pocahontas Co. (See No. 6.) Locatio...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Children in West Virginia. Hine no. 5027. Number typed in upper left corner of caption card: 7. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congres... More

The Mullens children (& some neighbors) ready for school. See Photo No. 81. Location: Charleston vicinity, West Virginia Photo by Lewis W. Hine

The Mullens children (& some neighbors) ready for school. See Photo No...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Children in West Virginia. Hine no. 5102. Number typed in upper left corner of caption card: 82. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congre... More

W.A. Copen's old home at Big Chimney, West Virginia. Windows out on upper floor and generally run down. Location: Big Chimney, West Virginia Photo by Lewis W. Hine

W.A. Copen's old home at Big Chimney, West Virginia. Windows out on up...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Children in West Virginia. Hine no. 5092. Number typed in upper left corner of caption card: 72. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congre... More

Bootblacks in and around City Hall Park, New York City - July 25, 1924. Location: New York, New York (State)

Bootblacks in and around City Hall Park, New York City - July 25, 1924...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 4935. "104, 105, 106, 107, 108" recorded in pencil in lower right of caption card. Single caption card co... More

Maple Mill, Dillon, S.C. Bertie Collins (girl). Has been spinning 3 years. Runs 6 sides 60 cents a day. Rudolph Collins. Has doffed 3 years. Is 12 years old. Three others will join the ranks soon as they grow a bit. Location: Dillon, South Carolina

Maple Mill, Dillon, S.C. Bertie Collins (girl). Has been spinning 3 ye...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 394. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Brantley Henson (boy near porch). Been in mill 8 years. Jasper Henson, (in middle) Been in 3 years. Thedie Miller (Shooting). Been in 3 years. All doffers. Salisbury Cotton Mills, (N.C.) Location: Salisbury, North Carolina

Brantley Henson (boy near porch). Been in mill 8 years. Jasper Henson,...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 433. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Mill at High Shoals, N.C. 8 P.M. Mill was running. Location: High Shoals, North Carolina Photo by Lewis W. Hine

Mill at High Shoals, N.C. 8 P.M. Mill was running. Location: High Shoa...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Mills. Hine no. 265. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the National ... More

Catawba Cotton Mill, Newton, N.C. Doffer and spooler. Location: Newton, North Carolina

Catawba Cotton Mill, Newton, N.C. Doffer and spooler. Location: Newton...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 458. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

S. Russell, 33 E. 22nd St. Newsboy, 12 years of age. Selling newspapers 2 years. Average earnings 20 cents daily. Selling newspapers own choice. Father earns $18 weekly. Boy deposits earnings in du Pont Savings Bank, and on Saturday night works for Reynold's candy shop, delivering packages. Don't smoke. Visits saloons. Works 5 hours daily, except Saturday, when he works 11. Location: Wilmington, Delaware

S. Russell, 33 E. 22nd St. Newsboy, 12 years of age. Selling newspaper...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 1511. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

The smallest girl is Josephine Ramie, 10 years old, Maniyunk, Pennsylvania (Near Philadelphia). Padrone stands over them, urging them, urging them and often swearing at and threatening them. Theodore Budd's Bog at Turkeytown near Pemberton, N.J. This is the fourth week of school in Philadelphia and people will stay here two weeks more. Witness E.F. Brown. Location: Pemberton, New Jersey

The smallest girl is Josephine Ramie, 10 years old, Maniyunk, Pennsylv...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 1107. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Daisy Langford, 8 yrs. old works in Ross' canneries. She helps at the capping machine, but is not able to "keep up." She places caps on the cans at the rate of about 40 per minute working full time. This is her first season in the cannery. Location: Seaford, Delaware

Daisy Langford, 8 yrs. old works in Ross' canneries. She helps at the ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 1593. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div... More

Willie ---, a Richmond, Virginia newsboy. Told me first he was 8, then admitted 7, and finally 6 years old. Compare 5 year old with him in photo 2210B. Location: Richmond, Virginia

Willie ---, a Richmond, Virginia newsboy. Told me first he was 8, then...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 2210. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

All these boys are cutters in the Seacoast Canning Co., Factory #7. Ages range from 7 to 12. They live near the factory. Seven year old boy in front, Byron Hamilton, has a badly cut finger, but helps his brother regularly. Behind him is his brother, George, 11 years. He cut his finger half off while working. They and many other youngsters said they were always cutting their fingers. (See photo #2435 and label.) George earns $1.00 some days, $.75 usually. Some of the others said they earn $1.00 when they work all day. At times they start at 7 A.M. Work all day, and until midnight, but the work is very irregular. Names of those in the photo are George Mathews, Johnny Rust, John Surles, Fulsom McCutchin (11 yrs.), Albert Robinson, Morris McConnell. Location: Eastport, Maine

All these boys are cutters in the Seacoast Canning Co., Factory #7. Ag...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2420. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div... More

Oyster shuckers at work in Barataria Canning Co. Small girls working on left of photo are Gertrude Kron, five years old, Pauline ---, eight years old. Also a small boy. Mildred Kron, three years old (not working in photo) works some every day, mother said. See preceding photos. Location: Biloxi, Mississippi

Oyster shuckers at work in Barataria Canning Co. Small girls working o...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 1997. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div... More

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