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Noon Hour in an Indianapolis Furniture Factory. Aug. 1908. Wit. E.N. Clopper. Location: Indianapolis, Indiana

Noon Hour in an Indianapolis Furniture Factory. Aug. 1908. Wit. E.N. C...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 63. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.... More

Tipple & Elevator into shaft. Leads down to mine 200 ft. below. Gary Mine. Do more work by machinery than any mine in the state, yet have boys to trap and drive. They stay underground over 10 hrs. a day. 7 A.M. to 5 P.M. Location: Gary, West Virginia

Tipple & Elevator into shaft. Leads down to mine 200 ft. below. Gary M...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Coal mines. Hine no. 67. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divi... More

Frank Craneshaw. Has doffed for 3 years in Lancaster Cotton Mills, S.C. Gets 75 cents a day. Location: Lancaster, South Carolina

Frank Craneshaw. Has doffed for 3 years in Lancaster Cotton Mills, S.C...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 356. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Boys assisting at the Broom Machines. S. W. Brown Mfg. Co. Location: Evansville, Indiana

Boys assisting at the Broom Machines. S. W. Brown Mfg. Co. Location: E...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 202. No text recorded on caption card after final comma. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee coll... More

Some of smaller "hands" on the night shift waiting for the whistle to blow. Whitnel N.C. Cotton Mill. The smallest boy and girl were about 50 inches high. One of the medium sized boys has doffed 4 years,--some at night. Get 60 cents a night. Smallest girl looked 10 years old. Been in mill 2 years. 12 year at night. Runs 8 sides part of the time. Photo by flashlight. Location: Whitnel, North Carolina

Some of smaller "hands" on the night shift waiting for the whistle to ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 436. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Maple Mill, Dillon, S.C. Azy Warn--Winds. Stella Warn (little one) spins 4 sides. "Been at it a long time." Location: Dillon, South Carolina

Maple Mill, Dillon, S.C. Azy Warn--Winds. Stella Warn (little one) spi...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 391. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Girls employed in a Paper Box factory Cincinnati. Going out for things to help out their lunch. Location: Cincinnati, Ohio.

Girls employed in a Paper Box factory Cincinnati. Going out for things...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 34. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.... More

Ozark Mill, Gastonia, N.C. Work 12 hours at a stretch. No special time off to eat. "Eat a-workin'." 9:00 P.M. Friday, Nov. 6, 1908. Mill was running. Location: Gastonia, North Carolina Photo by Lewis W. Hine

Ozark Mill, Gastonia, N.C. Work 12 hours at a stretch. No special time...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Mills. Hine no. 285. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the National ... More

A spinner in the Mollahan Mills, Newberry, S.C. Dec. 308. Witness, Sara R. Hine. Location: Newberry, South Carolina Photo by Lewis W. Hine

A spinner in the Mollahan Mills, Newberry, S.C. Dec. 308. Witness, Sar...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Mills. Hine no. 379. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the National ... More

National Child Labor Committee, #200. S. W. Brown Mfg. Co., Evansville, Ind. Location: Evansville, Indiana

National Child Labor Committee, #200. S. W. Brown Mfg. Co., Evansville...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 200. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More

A Western Union Messenger Boy Leaving Office. Cincinnati. Location: Cincinnati, Ohio

A Western Union Messenger Boy Leaving Office. Cincinnati. Location: Ci...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 30. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

John Lewis (boy with hat) 12 years old. 1 year in mill. Weaver--4 looms. 40 cts. to start, 60 cents a day now. Brother and mother in mill. Morris Small (boy with cap) "Reckon I been in mill 2 yrs. Don't remember." Witness S.R. Hine. Location: Chester, South Carolina

John Lewis (boy with hat) 12 years old. 1 year in mill. Weaver--4 loom...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 331. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Immigrants in night school. Location: Boston, Massachusetts

Immigrants in night school. Location: Boston, Massachusetts

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 894. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More

Boys in front work in Amoskeag Mills, Manchester, N.H. Location: Manchester, New Hampshire

Boys in front work in Amoskeag Mills, Manchester, N.H. Location: Manch...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 802. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

6:30 A.M. May 19, 1909. One of the small boys going into Mill No. 1, Great Falls Mfg. Co., Somersworth, N.H. Saw 6 going into this mill under 14; some looked to be about 11. There are several other mills in this corporation, and they employ many more youngsters. Location: Somersworth, New Hampshire

6:30 A.M. May 19, 1909. One of the small boys going into Mill No. 1, G...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 809. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Noon hour in Macon Knitting Mill, Macon, Ga. Half a dozen other small boys did not get into photo. Location: Macon, Georgia

Noon hour in Macon Knitting Mill, Macon, Ga. Half a dozen other small ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 534. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

A midnight scene in More-Jonas i.e., Jones? Glass Works, Bridgeton, N.J. Four small boys are to be seen in this photo. Location: Bridgeton, New Jersey

A midnight scene in More-Jonas i.e., Jones? Glass Works, Bridgeton, N....

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Glass factories. Hine no. 983. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Jossph Harris a 9 year old newsboy in Hartford, Conn. Been selling 1 12 years. Location: Hartford, Connecticut

Jossph Harris a 9 year old newsboy in Hartford, Conn. Been selling 1 1...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 653. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More

One of the smallest apprentices I found. (Work being slack.) De Pedro Casellas Cigar Factory, Tampa, Fla. Jan. 28, 1909. Location: Tampa, Florida. L.W. Hine

One of the smallest apprentices I found. (Work being slack.) De Pedro ...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 573. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the N... More

Amoskeag Mills, Manchester, N.H. Many girls this age and much younger work here. Location: Manchester, New Hampshire

Amoskeag Mills, Manchester, N.H. Many girls this age and much younger ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 754. The words "much younger" are underlined on the caption card. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee col... More

Day Messenger - Joseph Bleot. 3638 Washington St. Location: Boston, Massachusetts

Day Messenger - Joseph Bleot. 3638 Washington St. Location: Boston, Ma...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 1182. No text recorded after final comma. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library... More

At the paper office, Bank Alley, 4 P.M. Location: Syracuse, New York (State)

At the paper office, Bank Alley, 4 P.M. Location: Syracuse, New York (...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 1256. Hine no. 1257. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prin... More

Shine! Canal St. Location: New York, New York (State)

Shine! Canal St. Location: New York, New York (State)

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 1633. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

3 girls working in Salvan Medicine Factory and in Seed store. Olive near 14th St. Noon, May 12th, 1910. Location: St. Louis, Missouri

3 girls working in Salvan Medicine Factory and in Seed store. Olive ne...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 1435. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

"Livers" a young newsie. Location: St. Louis, Missouri

"Livers" a young newsie. Location: St. Louis, Missouri

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 1458. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Group working in Holden-Leonard Co., Bennington, Vt. Smallest boy is Louis Godbout, 132 Lincoln St. Bennington, Vermont

Group working in Holden-Leonard Co., Bennington, Vt. Smallest boy is L...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 1063. No text recorded after final comma. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Cong... More

Karl Witklwskr, 812 Walnut St., Market vender. 11 years of age. 1 year at work. Works of own choice. Earns percentage of money received from stand, amounting to an average of 50 cents a week. Money not needed at home. Works of own volition. Investigator, Edward F. Brown. Location: Wilmington, Delaware Photo by Louis W. Hine, May, 1910

Karl Witklwskr, 812 Walnut St., Market vender. 11 years of age. 1 year...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 1506. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Millie, 13 years old last summer. Ignatio, 9 years old last summer. Jo, 6 years old last summer. Paresse Family, 4 Fly St., Buffalo, N.Y. All three worked in the Albion Canning Factory in the sheds (Jo, only a little) on peas, beans and corn. Jo was too small to get husks off the corn so they stopped his working. Millie and Ignatio made 40 to 50 cents a day each, at 8 cents and hour because the work was slack. Returned to Buffalo the last of October. Went out the last of May, losing about 11 weeks of school time. Millie would not go to school when she came back because she was behind the rest of the class. Was found out by the C.O.S. in January and was reported to truant officer and sent to school. Location: Buffalo, New York (State)

Millie, 13 years old last summer. Ignatio, 9 years old last summer. Jo...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 1327. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div... More

Donald Mallick, ("Happy"), 203 King Street. 9 years of age, selling newspapers 5 years. Average earnings 35 cents a week. Sells from choice. Father, rivet driver, $20 weekly. "Happy" is well known character in town. When first interviewed gave story of sleeping in broken buildings and lots at night. Found out in streets at 11 P.M. at night pitching pennies and working "last paper" scheme. Flips cars and has sister who is 8 years of age who begs and sells papers. Boy very imaginative, and when last seen had a rusty 5 inch knife which he said he found and was playing with same in gutter. Edward F. Brown, Investigator. Wilmington, Del. May, 1910. Location: Wilmington, Delaware Photo by Lewis W. Hine

Donald Mallick, ("Happy"), 203 King Street. 9 years of age, selling ne...

In album: Street trades. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 1513. Hine no. 1515. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General info... More

Girl and boys selling papers. Edward F. Brown, Investigator. Location: Wilmington, Delaware Photo by Lewis W. Hine

Girl and boys selling papers. Edward F. Brown, Investigator. Location:...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 1549. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the ... More

Young girls working in American Woolen Mills, Winooski, Vt. Most are illiterate. Work slack and force small. 27 Children apparently under 15 years were counted at one gate. (See also N.C.L.C. Photoes sic #720-745 May, 1909). Location: Winooski, Vermont

Young girls working in American Woolen Mills, Winooski, Vt. Most are i...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 1079. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

A young doffer working in Central Mills. Location: Sylacauga, Alabama

A young doffer working in Central Mills. Location: Sylacauga, Alabama

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 1824. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

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

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

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 1441. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Children under sixteen years are dismissed half an hour before the rest at Priscilla Knitting Mills, Meridian, Miss. 5:30 P.M. Location: Meridian, Mississippi

Children under sixteen years are dismissed half an hour before the res...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 1349. Similarly captioned images (#1449, 1489, 1967, 2006, 2011, 2030, 2031), dated April 1911. Credit line: Nati... More

Park Row Newsies. Location: New York, New York (State)

Park Row Newsies. Location: New York, New York (State)

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 1653. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Sunday morning at Lynchburg Cotton Mill (Virginia) Ed Tolley, the smallest, said 15 years old, but that is very doubtful. Others in these three photos, Lucien Tolley, Herbert Aultico, Henry Daly, John Crawley. (See my report for addresses.) Most of these boys could not spell own names. All claimed to be over 14, but their disputes showed "These's a reason." They get from three to four dollars a week and some pay board. One said, "I get all over $2.60." Some were surely under twelve. All work. Lindsey Witt has been working there 2 years. Dewey Anderson, three years. Myron Cole, some time. Location: Lynchburg, Virginia

Sunday morning at Lynchburg Cotton Mill (Virginia) Ed Tolley, the smal...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2026-A. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divis... More

Some of the boys working at the Tidewater Knitting Mills, Portsmouth, Virginia I went through the mill several times during working hours and saw a number of youngsters surely under fourteen. Some of them, especially the girls, refused to be in the Photos. Location: Portsmouth, Virginia

Some of the boys working at the Tidewater Knitting Mills, Portsmouth, ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2237. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Interior of Magnolia (Miss.) Cotton Mills spinning room. See the little ones scattered through the mill. All work. See also other Magnolia photos and labels. Location: Magnolia, Mississippi

Interior of Magnolia (Miss.) Cotton Mills spinning room. See the littl...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 1494. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

School in Mill District, Laurel, Miss. Location: Laurel, Mississippi

School in Mill District, Laurel, Miss. Location: Laurel, Mississippi

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2013-A. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divis... More

Camillo DeMarco, 129 Common St., been in the Washington Mill spinning room No. 1, 3 months. Birth certificate makes him 14. Location: Lawrence, Massachusetts

Camillo DeMarco, 129 Common St., been in the Washington Mill spinning ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2470. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Danville Messengers. The smallest boy, Western Union No. 5, is only ten years old, and is working as extra boy. He said he was going to be laid off as the manager told him he was too young, but an older messenger told me the reason was that the other messengers were having him put off because he cuts into their earnings. Location: Danville, Virginia

Danville Messengers. The smallest boy, Western Union No. 5, is only te...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 2184. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Some of Batise's illiterate neighbors. Location: Winchendon, Massachusetts

Some of Batise's illiterate neighbors. Location: Winchendon, Massachus...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2390. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Postal Telegraph boy, Danville, Virginia Location: Danville, Virginia

Postal Telegraph boy, Danville, Virginia Location: Danville, Virginia

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 2181. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Going into the Butler Mills at 6:50 A.M. All went into work at North Gate beside office. Sixs i.e., six seemed under 14. Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts

Going into the Butler Mills at 6:50 A.M. All went into work at North G...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2278. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Maud Cheek one of the young spinners in the Drayton Mill, Spartenberg sic, S.C., runs 7 sides. Worked in another mill before she came here. Maud's two sisters Blanche and Grace all in the spinning room with her. Father did not appear to be working. Location: Spartanburg, South Carolina

Maud Cheek one of the young spinners in the Drayton Mill, Spartenberg ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 3010. City recorded at top of caption card as "Spartenberg." Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collecti... More

Alfred Genalano - 12 Newark Street. 10 yrs. old - Carries to customers on River Street, in Segregated district - "Dunno how many." 3:30 P.M. Location: Hoboken, New Jersey

Alfred Genalano - 12 Newark Street. 10 yrs. old - Carries to customers...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 3239. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

9 P.M. Gum vendors still selling, near the National Theatre: Eli Marks, 505 4 12 St. S.W. (8 yrs. old, makes 25 cents a night;) Morris Marks (10 yrs. old, makes 50 cents a night;) Harvey Schneider (11 yrs. old, makes 50 cents a night;) 209 -- 10th St. S.W. "When they see us, they chase us home at 8:30, but when we see 'em coming we slid the boxes in our pockets, until the cop gets past. Then we stay 'til - or after sometimes." Location: Washington (D.C.), District of Columbia

9 P.M. Gum vendors still selling, near the National Theatre: Eli Marks...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 2903. No location recorded on caption card; probably Washington, D.C., based on content and captions for ... More

The Wilson twins going to work. Location: Belton, South Carolina

The Wilson twins going to work. Location: Belton, South Carolina

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 3022-A. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divis... More

1:30 A.M. Peter, 15 years old (on left). Employed in camphor works. Air full of camphor. Sells papers Saturday nights until 3 A.M. One of a dozen boys who sleep in car barn these nights. Charles, 11 years old (on right). Gets supper in restaurant. Sells every day. Brother of #3117. Location: Jersey City, New Jersey

1:30 A.M. Peter, 15 years old (on left). Employed in camphor works. Ai...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 3116. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Italian family crocheting bags. Father sick in bed (not contagious). (For complete details see Miss E.C. Watson's report.) Location: New York, New York (State)

Italian family crocheting bags. Father sick in bed (not contagious). (...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 3126. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photogr... More

Accident to young cotton mill worker. Giles Edmund Newsom (Photo October 23rd, 1912), while working in Sanders Spinning Mill, Bessemer City, N.C., August 21st, 1912, a piece of the machine fell on to his foot mashing his toe. This caused him to fall on to a spinning machine and his hand went into unprotected gearing, crushing and tearing out two fingers. He told the Attorney he was 11 years old when it happened. His parents are now trying to make him 13 years old. The school census taken at the time of the accident makes him12 years (parents' statement) and school records say the same. His school teacher thinks that he is 12. His brother (photo 3071) is not yet 11 years old. Both of the boys worked in the mill several months before the accident. His father, (R.L. Newsom) tried to compromise with the Company when he found the boy would receive money and not the parents. The mother tried to blame the boys for getting jobs on their own hook, but she let them work several months. The aunt said "Now he's jes got to where he could be of some help to his ma an' then this happens and he can't never work no more like he oughter." Location: Bessemer, North Carolina

Accident to young cotton mill worker. Giles Edmund Newsom (Photo Octob...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 3070. Hine no. 3071. In phrase "when he found the boy," the word boy is underlined on the caption card. Credit... More

Joseph Roposa, 376 Webster St. Young Greek, said been working in weave room of Cornell Mill a short time. Going to dinner. Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts

Joseph Roposa, 376 Webster St. Young Greek, said been working in weave...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2790. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

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

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

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 2952-A. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photo... 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, 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...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 3365. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Fourteen year old spinner in a Brazos Valley Cotton Mill at West. Violation of the law. Matty Lott runs six sides. See family group and their story. Location: West, Texas

Fourteen year old spinner in a Brazos Valley Cotton Mill at West. Viol...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 3642. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Nine year old newsie who is up at 4:00 A.M. Sundays. Paul Luna. Photo Sunday morning. Location: Austin, Texas

Nine year old newsie who is up at 4:00 A.M. Sundays. Paul Luna. Photo ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 3576. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Wilson Dry Goods Company, large department store. Employs large number of youngsters as cash-boys and wrappers. Counted seven apparently 9 to 12 years old, one 9 and other 10. Weeks work consists of nearly 65 hours, usually. Location: Jacksonville, Florida

Wilson Dry Goods Company, large department store. Employs large number...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 3323. No date recorded on caption card. March 1913 based on caption for #3333 (same location). Credit lin... More

Composite photograph of child laborers made from cotton mill children

Composite photograph of child laborers made from cotton mill children

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 3258. No state or location recorded on caption card. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Libr... More

Owen R. Lovejoy, General Sec. N.C.L.C

Owen R. Lovejoy, General Sec. N.C.L.C

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 3261. No state or location recorded on caption card. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collecti... More

Their faces show whether they like the pictures. Photograph taken in a French school, now used for American Red Cross movie shows, in charge of ChaplainH.N. Arrowsmith. Base Hospital No. 57, Paris

Their faces show whether they like the pictures. Photograph taken in a...

Caption from negative sleeve: Base Hosp. N57 Paris. Chapter H.D. Arrowsmith to A.R.C. Base Hosp, 57 Paris. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption... More

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

A sign with a list of items on it, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, D.C. and el... More

Housing conditions of families working in Woodstock Mills. Much improvement needed. Location: Anniston, Alabama

Housing conditions of families working in Woodstock Mills. Much improv...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 3804. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

(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

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

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

In album: Agriculture. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 4067. Hine no. 4068. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General inform... More

Going to School. About 14-16 years. Watson School - Flint Village. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts. Lewis W. Hine

Going to School. About 14-16 years. Watson School - Flint Village. Loc...

In album: Miscellaneous. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 4216 Hine no. 4220. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General infor... More

Bell School opened yesterday with only 8 in school. Probable it will be closed. Location: Nicholas County, Kentucky Lewis W. Hine

Bell School opened yesterday with only 8 in school. Probable it will b...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4512. "Div. 3" recorded on caption card as part of the geographic location; probably refers to a school district. Credit line: National Child Labor ... More

Typical farm home surrounded by tobacco and corn. Location: Warren County, Kentucky Lewis W. Hine

Typical farm home surrounded by tobacco and corn. Location: Warren Cou...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4524. "Div. 5" recorded on caption card as part of the geographic location; probably refers to a school district. Credit line: National Child Labor ... More

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

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

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4587. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Street gang - corner Margaret & Water Streets - 4:30 P.M. Location: Springfield, Massachusetts Lewis W. Hine

Street gang - corner Margaret & Water Streets - 4:30 P.M. Location: Sp...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 4361. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the ... 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 month 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...

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

Woodburn School (consolidated). See Kentucky report. Location: Warren County, Kentucky Lewis W. Hine

Woodburn School (consolidated). See Kentucky report. Location: Warren ...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 4602. Hine no. 4603. "Div. 5, Dist. 9" recorded on caption card as part of the geographic location; prob... More

Girls worming tobacco. Myrtle 10, Zelina 12 and Florence 13 years old. Brother 14 and sister 16. Father, John Richard rents farm near Centre School. Location: Nicholas County, Kentucky Lewis W. Hine

Girls worming tobacco. Myrtle 10, Zelina 12 and Florence 13 years old....

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4519. "Div. 3" recorded on caption card as part of the geographic location; probably refers to a school district. Credit line: National Child Labor ... More

Case of Frank Wiegel, 3916 - # Ave., Brooklyn N.Y., injured after working 18 hours a day. He was injured at 1:55 A.M. January 18, 1914. Age 15 years. Employed by the Henry Bosch Paper Co., makers of wallpaper sample books. On Saturday, or rather Sunday morning at 1:55, Frank must have fallen asleep and in some way he knocked against the controlling pedal, and the next thing he knew his hand was caught in the machine. He sued the Co. for damages and after 2 years' litigation he received an award of $10,000 - $5,000 for each of 2 fingers which were amputated. The lawyer's fee has not yet been decided upon by the court. Location: New York--Brooklyn, New York (State)

Case of Frank Wiegel, 3916 - # Ave., Brooklyn N.Y., injured after work...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 4075. Hine no. 4076. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prin... More

Abe Singer, 14-year old helper at Wax Florists, 143 Tremont Street. He delivers bundles, tends the door, etc. Location: Boston, Massachusetts Lewis W. Hine

Abe Singer, 14-year old helper at Wax Florists, 143 Tremont Street. He...

In album: Street trades. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 4743. Hine no. 4744. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General info... More

Street scenes. Delivery boy. Location: Boston, Massachusetts Lewis W. Hine

Street scenes. Delivery boy. Location: Boston, Massachusetts Lewis W. ...

In album: Street trades. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 4719. Hine no. 4720. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General info... More

Continuation School group at Ipswich Mills, South Boston, studying textiles. Location: Boston, Massachusetts Lewis W. Hine

Continuation School group at Ipswich Mills, South Boston, studying tex...

In album: Miscellaneous. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 4739. Hine no. 4742. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General info... More

A.F.F.W. Drivers. Chauffeurs of the American Fund for French Wounded. They have assisted the AMERICAN RED CROSS by driving cars for the Children's Bureau, but are now attached to the Service de Sante, under the French Government. From left to right they are; Miss Roger, Miss Hughes, Miss Robeson, Miss Caspari, Mrs. Crean, Miss Kennerly, Miss Wilde and Miss Washburn

A.F.F.W. Drivers. Chauffeurs of the American Fund for French Wounded. ...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Hine. Group title: Women War Relief Corps and Other Auxiliary Associations. Gift;... More

French soldier whose face was mutilated in the war, wearing the artificial chin made him by Madame Ladd of the American Red Cross. Profile view

French soldier whose face was mutilated in the war, wearing the artifi...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name from caption card or negative sleeve for LC-A6199-3741. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: A.R.C. ... More

ARC Barracks, 58 Rue Edouard Nortier, Neuilly

ARC Barracks, 58 Rue Edouard Nortier, Neuilly

Resting in the garden at General Malterre's hospital. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Hine. Group title: Hospital... More

Lucie Denonne lived for months in the cellar of her home in Reims, quite near the Cathedral and almost every day heard or felt the Boche shells come over the city. Now she lives in a refugee colony at the seashore where she is getting fat and brown. She is a "Stars and Stripes" orphan. Her own father was killed at Verdun but she has the whole corps of the "Division Quartermasters" for her Godfathers. The ARC administers the funds for the maintanence of all the children adopted by the American troops

Lucie Denonne lived for months in the cellar of her home in Reims, qui...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name from LC-A6199-3898. Source of original on caption card: ARC France. Group title: Children, France. On caption card: (3898) Used in: Woman's M... More

His father died for France and the American Red Cross is helping him live for her. One of the babies at the American Red Cross Nursing Home near Paris. June 1918

His father died for France and the American Red Cross is helping him l...

One of the products of sun and air at La Ponponmere. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Hine. Group title: Children'... More

Mutilated French soldier in Mrs. Ladd's studio wearing face mask by Mrs. Ladd

Mutilated French soldier in Mrs. Ladd's studio wearing face mask by Mr...

Caption from negative sleeve: (To go with 3741) French soldier whose face was mutilated in the war, wearing the artificial mask made for him by Madame Ladd of the American Red Cross. (Front View). Title, date a... More

Jeanne D'Arc dispensary, Malakoff

Jeanne D'Arc dispensary, Malakoff

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

The mother of Andre Claudel died a year ago. His father was killed in the Argonne and Andre is so quiet, so serious, that he seems much more than ten years old. He is like a young old man in all he says and does. He is one of the best students at the refugee colony at Caen where he has lived ever since he was driven away from his home in Lorraine by the shells and poison gas of the Germans. His teacher says: "il travaille dans al perfection," his work is perfect. Sometime he will go back to Lorraine when the Boches have been driven out. He says: "I like the American soldiers. They have come to protect my country. And I like especially my Godfathers." They are the Army Field Clerks of Section ... General Staff. The American Red Cross administers the funds for the maintenance of all the children adopted by the American troops

The mother of Andre Claudel died a year ago. His father was killed in ...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name from LC-A6199-3904. Source of original on caption card: A.R.C., R.C. Commission to France. Group title: Adopted children. France. Used in: Yo... More

One of the St. Etienne mothers taking in Child Welfare Exhibit. This St. Etienne mother finds much to think about in the AMERICAN RED CROSS Child Welfare Exhibition at St. Etienne

One of the St. Etienne mothers taking in Child Welfare Exhibit. This S...

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

Major Osborn, Chief of Transportation Dept. Tran. Review

Major Osborn, Chief of Transportation Dept. Tran. Review

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

Military Hospital #1. Ask Miss Sullivan. This nurse form Mercy Hospital, Chicago, who has tended many French and British wounded, is now caring for an American soldier whose leg came into collision with a bullet from a Boche machine gun. He is recovering, on the roof of the American Military Hospital No. 1 at Neuilly which is supported by the AMERICAN RED CROSS

Military Hospital #1. Ask Miss Sullivan. This nurse form Mercy Hospita...

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

Military Hospital #1. Ask Miss Sullivan. Sunshine, fresh air and friendly conversation contribute to the recovery of this convalescent American soldier on the roof of the American Military Hospital No. 1 at Neuilly, supported by the AMERICAN RED CROSS

Military Hospital #1. Ask Miss Sullivan. Sunshine, fresh air and frien...

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

Alfred, a little repatrie boy, getting acquainted with the animals at Grand Val, a large estate near Paris, where a country home has been established for delicate children among the refugees received at St. Sulpice, Paris. The AMERICAN RED CROSS sends doctors and nurses to care for these children whose condition shows remarkable improvement in the healthy surroundings

Alfred, a little repatrie boy, getting acquainted with the animals at ...

On negative sleeve: (To go with 4114, 4115 and 4119) Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Hine. Group title: Children'... More

A "Yank" and his French cousin watching the parade of American troops in Paris on the Fourth of July from the base of one of the columns in the Place de la Concorde. July 1918

A "Yank" and his French cousin watching the parade of American troops ...

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

Colonie Mancienne, Riva Bella. At Riva Bella on the seashore near Caen. A colony of 60 refugee children has been established here under the direction of the Prefet Mirman. The picture shows the children in front of their school barracks decorated in honor of the 4th of July when the children learned to sing the "Star Bangled Banner". Among these there are three "Stars and Stripes" children French wards of American soldiers, the funds for whose maintanence are administered by the AMERICAN RED CROSS

Colonie Mancienne, Riva Bella. At Riva Bella on the seashore near Caen...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Hine. Group title: Children's Work. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 19... More

Devoted friends of the American Red Cross. These two soldiers gave up their one day off in order that they might build a woodshed, and make some furniture for the American Red Cross canteen at Chateauroux

Devoted friends of the American Red Cross. These two soldiers gave up ...

Caption from negative sleeve: Rally. 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 Cross 1944... More

Paris. American troops marching down the Champs Elysees watched by cheering crowds and the helmeted soldiers of the French guard

Paris. American troops marching down the Champs Elysees watched by che...

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

Living up to the tradition of her name, Miss Clara Barton, Grand Rapids, Mich. Burn treatment of machine gun wound, 3D operation, Hospital #5. Living up to the tradition of her name, Miss Clara Barton of Grand Rapids, Michigan, is caring for the wounded American soldiers at American Military Hospital No. 5 at Auteuil, a tent hospital put up and supported by the AMERICAN RED CROSS. This man is having the sun cure. The treatment consists in exposing the wound to the full sunshine with only the protection of a mosquito netting stretched above it to protect against insects, etc

Living up to the tradition of her name, Miss Clara Barton, Grand Rapid...

Caption from negative sleeve: The sun's rays in general are germicidal and the treatment is especially successful in tubercular wounds. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or so... 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 notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Hine. Gift; American National Red Cr... More

Paris. General Headquarters of the American Red Cross #2, Place de Rivoli, Paris

Paris. General Headquarters of the American Red Cross #2, Place de Riv...

Caption from negative sleeve: Doughboy set: Visits R.C. Headquarters. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Hine. Gift;... More

Of a family of 7 children, all but 2 work stringing tags. The oldest child is 12. The nurse of the school which these children attend, reports that they are continually being sent home because of their dirty condition. A little fellow who looked about 6 was quite an expert. The children received 20 cents for stringing a thousand tage i.e. tags they tie a knot in a piece of string, and run the string thru sic the tag. They moisten the ends of their fingers in their mouths to tie the knots. They can string about a thousand tags in half an hour. One member of a second family which is stringing tags has impetigo, or skin disease, according to the school nurse. Location: Newark, New Jersey

Of a family of 7 children, all but 2 work stringing tags. The oldest c...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 4916. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photogr... More

Cheney Silk Mills. Favorable working conditions. Location: South Manchester, Connecticut

Cheney Silk Mills. Favorable working conditions. Location: South Manch...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 4971. Single card covers 4966-5008. No state or city recorded on caption card; South Manchester, Connecticut, bas... More

Homework pictures taken in connection with investigation (see report TE-NY-39). Location: New York, New York (State)

Homework pictures taken in connection with investigation (see report T...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 4921. Recorded on a single caption card spanning 4919-4931. Credit line: National Child Labor Committ... More

Cheney Silk Mills. Favorable working conditions. Location: South Manchester, Connecticut

Cheney Silk Mills. Favorable working conditions. Location: South Manch...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 4981. Single card covers 4966-5008. No state or city recorded on caption card; South Manchester, Connecticut, bas... More

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