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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

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

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

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

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

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

One of the spinners in Whitnel Cotton Mfg. Co. N.C. She was 51 inches high. Had been in mill 1 year. Some at night. Runs 4 sides, 48 cents a day. When asked how old, she hesitated, then said "I don't remember." Then confidentially, "I'm not old enough to work, but I do just the same." Out of 50 employees, ten children about her size. See 463. Location: Whitnel, North Carolina

One of the spinners in Whitnel Cotton Mfg. Co. N.C. She was 51 inches ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 462. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Sadie Pfeifer, 48 inches high, has worked half a year. One of the many small children at work in Lancaster Cotton Mills. Nov. 30, 1908. Location: Lancaster, South Carolina. L.W. Hine

Sadie Pfeifer, 48 inches high, has worked half a year. One of the many...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Mills. Hine no. 362. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the National ... More

9 P.M. in an Indiana Glass Works, Aug. 1908. Location: Indiana

9 P.M. in an Indiana Glass Works, Aug. 1908. Location: Indiana

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Glass factories. Hine no. 120. No city recorded on caption card. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library ... More

Little spinner in Mollahan Cotton Mills, Newberry, S.C. Many others as small. Dec. 308 Witness Sara R. Hine. Location: Newberry, South Carolina Photo by Lewis W. Hine

Little spinner in Mollahan Cotton Mills, Newberry, S.C. Many others as...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Mills. Hine no. 370. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the National ... More

Newsboy Club. Boston 1915 Exhibit. Location: Boston, Massachusetts

Newsboy Club. Boston 1915 Exhibit. Location: Boston, Massachusetts

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 950. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More

The Petrino children, 290 First Ave. Peter, Mary, (baby), Katherine. Entire family spends summer working in a fruit picking center. Location: Buffalo, New York (State)

The Petrino children, 290 First Ave. Peter, Mary, (baby), Katherine. E...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 1226. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div... More

A group of newsies selling evenings in saloons and stores. Taken in alley back of City Jail at 10 P.M. Left to right: Dominick Mardilo, 28 12 Fulton Street; Roderick Towle, 44 Sheridan Ave.; William Towle, brother, 44 Sheridan Ave.; Louis Strasburg, 40 Mulberry Street; Max Erlich, 101 Dallius Street. Location: Albany, New York (State)

A group of newsies selling evenings in saloons and stores. Taken in al...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 1289. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

A young raveler in London Hosiery Mills. Location: Loudon, Tennessee

A young raveler in London Hosiery Mills. Location: Loudon, Tennessee

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 1887. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Arthur Havard, a young driver, Shaft #6, Pennsylvania Coal Company. Location: South Pittston, Pennsylvania

Arthur Havard, a young driver, Shaft #6, Pennsylvania Coal Company. Lo...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Coal mines. Hine no. 1914. Hard to tell whether handwritten date is 1910 or 1911; 1910 seems more likely based on surrounding car... More

The Dependent Widower. (see Label 2071). Location: Meridian, Mississippi

The Dependent Widower. (see Label 2071). Location: Meridian, Mississip...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2070. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Annie Maier (or Meyer), making Campbell-Kids' pinafores in her basement home, 71 ? E. 108th St. She was reported to have tuberculosis. Working in the Kitchen. (See also #2715). Location: New York, New York (State)

Annie Maier (or Meyer), making Campbell-Kids' pinafores in her basemen...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 2713. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photogr... More

Alice Deon (See 2479). Location: Lawrence, Massachusetts

Alice Deon (See 2479). Location: Lawrence, Massachusetts

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2482. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Arthur Fernande or Fernando? Said 8 years old. Picking cranberries by hand, and brother Charlie said he was 9 picking with a scoop. Said they worked from 9 till 5. Location: Hollow Branch Bog, near Wareham, Massachusetts

Arthur Fernande or Fernando? Said 8 years old. Picking cranberries by ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 2510. UMBC records name as "Fernande." Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of C... More

Averzano family, Room 24, 2-4 Prince St., N.Y. Photo taken at 1:30 P.M. Mar. 6th, a school day, and Josephine said she wasn't going to school this week on account of the work. "I like to work, and I like to go to school too." Our investigator reports her as 13 yrs. old, and a truant. The 8 yr. old sister can speak no English and has never been to school. The work was strewn all over the dirty floor. Location: New York, New York (State)

Averzano family, Room 24, 2-4 Prince St., N.Y. Photo taken at 1:30 P.M...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 2884. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photogr... More

Children playing with Campbell Kid dolls. See photos showing where they are made. Location: New York, New York (State)

Children playing with Campbell Kid dolls. See photos showing where the...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 2888. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photogr... More

4 P.M. Ceru family, 143 Thompson St., near tenement, N.Y. In this dirty attic home with a dog and a cat adding to the other filth that accumulates, these three make artificial leaves. The little five-year-old helps some. She was sighing, "Tired." Her sister (about 10 years old) works until 9 P.M. some nights although she is near-sighted. At home she keeps her glasses on the shelf, 'because because Mother says I look funny with them. Now I got to go out and shop." Second card: Making artificial leaves in tenement attic. New York City, 1912. The 5-year-old helps. Her sister, aged 10, works till 9 P.M. some nights although she is near-sighted. Location: New York, New York (State)

4 P.M. Ceru family, 143 Thompson St., near tenement, N.Y. In this dirt...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 2810. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photogr... More

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

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

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

Millie, four years old and Nellie five years old. Cotton pickers on a farm near Houston, Millie picks eight pounds a day and Nellie thirty pounds. This is nearly every day. Home conditions bare and bad. Location: Houston vicinity, Texas

Millie, four years old and Nellie five years old. Cotton pickers on a ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3598. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

The Twombley School, Brush, Colo., with 13 pupils present out of a possible 25, on Oct. 27, seven weeks after school opened, and a few of the beet workers families have already finished and returned to town. The school is very well equipped and well kept, with a capable man teacher, good playground apparatus, etc. Location: Brush, Colorado Photo by Hine

The Twombley School, Brush, Colo., with 13 pupils present out of a pos...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4054. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

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

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

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3978. No location recorded on caption card; possibly Western Massachusetts based on cards for photos with n... More

14 year old Spooler tender. Berkshire Cotton Mills. Location: Adams, Massachusetts Lewis W. Hine

14 year old Spooler tender. Berkshire Cotton Mills. Location: Adams, M...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Mills. Hine no. 4385. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the National... 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. 4972. Single card covers 4966-5008. No state or city recorded on caption card; South Manchester, Connecticut, bas... More

Noon hour at a cotton mill, Indianapolis. Aug. 1908. Wit. E.N. Clopper. Location: Indianapolis, Indiana

Noon hour at a cotton mill, Indianapolis. Aug. 1908. Wit. E.N. Clopper...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 75. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.... More

Tygart Valley Glass Co., Grafton, West Virginia. Plenty of boys. (see label on 162). Location: Grafton, West Virginia

Tygart Valley Glass Co., Grafton, West Virginia. Plenty of boys. (see ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Glass factories. Hine no. 143. Additional copy in LOT 7478. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Co... More

Messenger Boys, Indianapolis Western Union. Aug. 1908. Wit. E.N. Clopper. Location: Indianapolis, Indiana

Messenger Boys, Indianapolis Western Union. Aug. 1908. Wit. E.N. Clopp...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 49. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

One of the spinners in Whitnel Cotton Mfg. Co. N.C. She was 51 inches high. Had been in mill 1 year. Some at night. Runs 4 sides, 48 cents a day. When asked how old, she hesitated, then said "I don't remember." Then confidentially, "I'm not old enough to work, but I do just the same." Out of 50 employees, ten children about her size. See 463. Location: Whitnel, North Carolina

One of the spinners in Whitnel Cotton Mfg. Co. N.C. She was 51 inches ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 462. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Citizens' Glass Co., Evansville, Ind. Over ten small boys on day shift in one department, were counted. Location: Evansville, Indiana

Citizens' Glass Co., Evansville, Ind. Over ten small boys on day shift...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Glass factories. Hine no. 193. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Fruit Vendors, Indianapolis Market, Aug. 1908. Wit. E.N. Clopper. Location: Indianapolis, Indiana

Fruit Vendors, Indianapolis Market, Aug. 1908. Wit. E.N. Clopper. Loca...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 84. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

A young oyster fisher ? Others smaller employed in busy season. Apalachicola, Fla. Randsey Summerford says he starts out at 4 A.M. one day, is out all night in the little oyster boat and back next day some time. Gets a share of the proceeds. Said he was 16 years old and been at it 4 years. Lives in Georgia and is here 6 months a year. Location: Apalachicola, Florida

A young oyster fisher ? Others smaller employed in busy season. Apalac...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 574. The word "season" is underlined on the caption card. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collect... More

A little spinner in a Georgia Cotton Mill. Location: Georgia

A little spinner in a Georgia Cotton Mill. Location: Georgia

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 545. No city recorded on caption card. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congres... More

Young negroes working in Cape May Glass Co., N.J. Been there some time. Location: Cape May, New Jersey

Young negroes working in Cape May Glass Co., N.J. Been there some time...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Glass factories. Hine no. 990. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

A group working on night shift at Hereford Glass Works, Cape May Court House, N.J. November 19, 1909. I saw the smallest boy carrying in shortly before midnight, November 18th. Location: Cape May Court House, New Jersey

A group working on night shift at Hereford Glass Works, Cape May Court...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Glass factories. Hine no. 987. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Donald Mallick, (see #1513.) And Myrtle Mallick. Myrtle is 8 years. Selling papers 1 12 years, average earnings 35 cents per day. Sells from choice. Begs pennies and works "last paper" scheme. Earnings not needed at home. Visits saloons. (See general report for further information.) Edward F. Brown, Investigator. Location: Wilmington, Delaware Photo by Lewis W. Hine

Donald Mallick, (see #1513.) And Myrtle Mallick. Myrtle is 8 years. Se...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 1541. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the ... More

Mildred Kron, three years old, and Gertrude Kron, five years old. Help shuck oysters every day in the Barataria Canning Co. Live in New Orleans, (See also photos 1973, 1976, 1977, 1997, 1998.) Location: Biloxi, Mississippi

Mildred Kron, three years old, and Gertrude Kron, five years old. Help...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 1972. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div... More

Alfred Beniot, 191 North St. Sweeper in Bennett Mill, in spinning room #2 has been there two months; seemed to be 11 yrs. old. Alfred recorded as 12 years old. Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts

Alfred Beniot, 191 North St. Sweeper in Bennett Mill, in spinning room...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2720. Pencilled on card: "2721?". Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Pr... More

Mr. A. Langerfeld and one of his machines for picking coal which does away completely with the use of breaker boys. The percent of slate that goes in with the coal separated by this machine is 1% to 2%, where the percent with the old primitive method of using boys is from 15% to 60%. This picture was taken at the breaker of the Spencer Coal Co., at Scranton, Pennsylvania, on March, 18, 1913. Location: Scranton, Pennsylvania

Mr. A. Langerfeld and one of his machines for picking coal which does ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 3504. 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 black and white photo of a poster, 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 ... More

Drawer-in. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts Lewis W. Hine

Drawer-in. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts Lewis W. Hine

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Mills. Hine no. 4252. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the National... More

Exchange Luncheon. Delia Kane, 14 years old. 99 C Street, South Boston. A young waitress. Location: Boston, Massachusetts Lewis W. Hine

Exchange Luncheon. Delia Kane, 14 years old. 99 C Street, South Boston...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 4712. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the ... More

Mary Donahue, 15 years old (on right of photo), curling petals at the Boston Floral Supply Co., 347-357 Cambridge Street. Said to be the only flower factory in Massachusetts. Pauline Steele, 15 years old (on Mary's right) makes carnations. Beatrice Sicco, 15 years old (left side of photo), curling. Location: Boston, Massachusetts Lewis W. Hine

Mary Donahue, 15 years old (on right of photo), curling petals at the ...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 4695. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the ... More

Exhibit panel Location: New York, New York (State)

Exhibit panel Location: New York, New York (State)

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 4150. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Day Scene in an Indiana Glass Works. Aug. 1908. Location: Indiana

Day Scene in an Indiana Glass Works. Aug. 1908. Location: Indiana

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Glass factories. Hine no. 125. No city recorded on caption card. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library ... More

8,9 and 10 years old starting out at 6 A.M. Sunday. Caption #602: "6:00 A.M. Sunday, March 7, 1909. Boys starting out with Sunday papers. Some were only 8 and 9 years old. Many more youngsters start out at 7 A.M. Some of these little fellows had been selling until 7 and 8 P.M. and later Saturday night."Caption #663: "Hartford, Conn. 6 A.M. Sunday.". Location: Hartford, Connecticut. Photo by ...

8,9 and 10 years old starting out at 6 A.M. Sunday. Caption #602: "6:0...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Title from photo and label for Hine no. 602 and 663. Hine no. 664. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, ... More

Overgrown Messenger Boys. Boston 1915 Exhibit. Location: Boston, Massachusetts

Overgrown Messenger Boys. Boston 1915 Exhibit. Location: Boston, Massa...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 902. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More

In the spool cotton dept. Bibb Mfg. Co., No. 1, Macon, Ga. Jan. 19, 1909. L.W.H. Location: Macon, Georgia

In the spool cotton dept. Bibb Mfg. Co., No. 1, Macon, Ga. Jan. 19, 19...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 524. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

These boys were surely under 14. Cigarmakers in Englehardt Co., Tampa, Fla. See photo 564. Location: Tampa, Florida

These boys were surely under 14. Cigarmakers in Englehardt Co., Tampa,...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 565. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More

Truant hanging around boats in the harbor during school hours. Location: Boston, Massachusetts

Truant hanging around boats in the harbor during school hours. Locatio...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 904. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More

9:00 P.M. March 4, 1909. Hartford, Conn. Group of newsies still selling although it was bitter cold and blizzardy. Smallest chap was 8 years old. The boys said he has been selling for 3 years. Boy next him (and) has been selling 4 years (called Bologna). Location: Hartford, Connecticut

9:00 P.M. March 4, 1909. Hartford, Conn. Group of newsies still sellin...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 600. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More

Berman Katzman a nine-year-old newsie in Hartford, Conn. Has been selling 2 years. Sells until 8 P.M. at times. Location: Hartford, Connecticut

Berman Katzman a nine-year-old newsie in Hartford, Conn. Has been sell...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 658. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More

Newsgirl. Grand Central Depot, N.Y. Location: New York, New York (State)

Newsgirl. Grand Central Depot, N.Y. Location: New York, New York (Stat...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 1671. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Boy collecting discarded papers in Union Square. He sells them to store-keepers. Location: New York, New York (State)

Boy collecting discarded papers in Union Square. He sells them to stor...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 1632. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Group from school #1, Buffalo, N.Y. (from left to right) 1. Michael Giglia, 48 Carolina St., 10 years old last summer. The whole family string beans at S. Haven and Albion, N.Y. 2. Anthony Litterie, 79 Seventh St., 9 years old last summer. Worked from 7 A.M. to 6 P.M., sometimes in the evening stringing beans and hulling strawberries in sheds, N. Collins, N.Y. 3. Vito Bargio, 48 Carolina St., 12 years old last summer. Stringing beans in sheds of Albion, N.Y. and returned to school Oct. 17th. 4. Ben Madonia, 205 Seventh St., 9 years old last summer. Stringing beans in sheds, Hamburg, N.Y., sometimes until 8 P.M. Entered school on time, good record. 5. Sam Pecararo, 107 Trenton Ave., 9 years old last summer. Stringing beans in sheds, Hamburg, N.Y. Worked until 8 P.M. sometimes. Entered school Nov. 18th, but has good record, nevertheless. Buffalo, N.Y. 6. Charles Ponnepinto, 106 Seventh Ave., 8 years old last summer. Location: Buffalo, New York (State)

Group from school #1, Buffalo, N.Y. (from left to right) 1. Michael Gi...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 1333. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div... More

Two smallest boys working for Champlain Wood Working Mfg. Co., Burlington, Vt. Wood Working. Location: Burlington, Vermont

Two smallest boys working for Champlain Wood Working Mfg. Co., Burling...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 1083. Handwrritten notation "Wood Working" inserted after "Champlain." Credit line: National Child Labor ... More

Newsboys. Location: Utica, New York (State)

Newsboys. Location: Utica, New York (State)

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 1272. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Applicants for positions, Main office Postal Telegraph Co., N.Y., as messengers have recommendations looked up by several special investigators. Location: New York, New York (State)

Applicants for positions, Main office Postal Telegraph Co., N.Y., as m...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 1689. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Cocoanut Shaver -Kibbe's Factory. Isaac Futterman, 15 years, 108 Sharon St. Been working one year. Earns $3.50. Location: Springfield, Massachusetts

Cocoanut Shaver -Kibbe's Factory. Isaac Futterman, 15 years, 108 Sharo...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 1187. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Group of children playing on the stoop of a house next to 229 Tatnall St., a reputed house of prostitution. Investigator, Edward F. Brown. Location: Wilmington, Delaware Photo by Louis W. Hine, May, 1910

Group of children playing on the stoop of a house next to 229 Tatnall ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 1517. No date recorded on caption card. Date based on date recorded on cards for photos with neighboring ... More

Wanamaker's 8:30 A.M. Location: New York, New York (State)

Wanamaker's 8:30 A.M. Location: New York, New York (State)

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 1317. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Noon, May 12th, 1910. Girls working in Inland Type Foundry, 9 to 10 hours a day. Location: St. Louis, Missouri

Noon, May 12th, 1910. Girls working in Inland Type Foundry, 9 to 10 ho...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 1429. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Three youngsters in Avondale Mills. Boy in middle, John Douglas said, "I've been to school my eight weeks. Work now. Been workin' a year." (None of them, even the tiniest, would admit being under twelve.) Location: Birmingham, Alabama

Three youngsters in Avondale Mills. Boy in middle, John Douglas said, ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 1804. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Newsboy at P.O. Said he was 8 years old. Location: Burlington, Vermont

Newsboy at P.O. Said he was 8 years old. Location: Burlington, Vermont

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 1099. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Name: Children from school No. 2 in the Italian district Terrace? nr. Genesee St. 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)

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

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

John Sims, 7 year old newsie, New Bedford, Massachusetts. August 22, 1911. Evening. Richard K. Conant, Witness. Location: New Bedford, Massachusettsachusetts

John Sims, 7 year old newsie, New Bedford, Massachusetts. August 22, 1...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 2304. No text recorded on caption card after final comma. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee col... More

All of these are workers in the Stearns Silk Factory, Petersburg, Virginia Not all of the youngsters would get into the photo. I went through the factory during working hours and saw many others like these. A neighbor's testimony corroborated the foregoing. Noon hour. Location: Petersburg, Virginia

All of these are workers in the Stearns Silk Factory, Petersburg, Virg...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 2222. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Alfred Corriveau, 14 Perkins St., works in Spinning Room #2, fifth floor. Location: Salem, Massachusetts

Alfred Corriveau, 14 Perkins St., works in Spinning Room #2, fifth flo...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2608. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Joe Mello, 62 Grinnel i.e., Grinell? St., New Bedford. Appeared about eight or nine: could not speak English except to tell us that he was a sweeper in the spinning room (two other boys confirmed this); watched him go in at noon and come out at 6 P.M. on Aug. 21, 1911. At the houses his mother gave his name as Jose Mello, ten years old. There was no certificate for this boy at the superintendent's office. Birth records ambiguous. Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts

Joe Mello, 62 Grinnel i.e., Grinell? St., New Bedford. Appeared about ...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 2293. Hine no. 2283. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Noon hour, Delta Cotton Mills, McComb, Miss. All work. Location: McComb, Mississippi

Noon hour, Delta Cotton Mills, McComb, Miss. All work. Location: McCom...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2085. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Millie (about seven yrs. old) and Mary John (with the baby) eight years old. Both shuck oysters at the Alabama Canning Co. This is Mary's second year. She said, "I shucks six pots if I don't got the baby; two pots if I got him." (Many of the little ones, too young to work all the time, tend the baby when not working.) Location: Bayou La Batre, Alabama

Millie (about seven yrs. old) and Mary John (with the baby) eight year...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2001. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div... More

All these, including boys in middle and left end of photo, work underground in the Bliss Colliery of the D.L.&W., near Nanticoke, Pennsylvania Location: Nanticoke vicinity, Pennsylvania

All these, including boys in middle and left end of photo, work underg...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Coal mines. Hine no. 1936. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Di... More

Noon hour, Delta Cotton Mills, McComb, Miss. Location: McComb, Mississippi

Noon hour, Delta Cotton Mills, McComb, Miss. Location: McComb, Mississ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2083. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Part of the force at Tupelo (Miss.) Cotton Mills. All work. Smallest ones not in photo. Among youngest here are: Coleman Miller, has been working one year, cannot write name, said twelve years old but doesn't appear to be. Zamie Scott, one year working. Guy Sanders, and Luceon Kendreck. Location: Tupelo, Mississippi

Part of the force at Tupelo (Miss.) Cotton Mills. All work. Smallest o...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2144. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Vitto Romano, 76 Charter Street, Boston, Massachusetts., carrying load of garments from 30 Blackstone Street. Said 12 years old and that only his mother finishes them. Location: Boston, Massachusettsachusetts

Vitto Romano, 76 Charter Street, Boston, Massachusetts., carrying load...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 2972-A. Text on caption card is blurred. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Libr... More

Gold Day! Young workers running to work at close of noon hour at New Bedford Mill. Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts

Gold Day! Young workers running to work at close of noon hour at New B...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2729. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Photo of advertisement appearing in April number of Fabrics, Fancy Goods and Notions. (See also 2892)

Photo of advertisement appearing in April number of Fabrics, Fancy Goo...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 2893. No location recorded on caption card. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, L... More

Some of the youngsters working in Belton Mfg. Co., Belton S.C. Two of the youngest and J. Henderson, Kelly Street. Percy Morrison, Eugene Simper. Location: Belton, South Carolina

Some of the youngsters working in Belton Mfg. Co., Belton S.C. Two of ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 3015. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

(For Child Welfare Exhibit 1912-13.) View of warping room, Lonsdale, R.I. Mills. Location: Lonsdale, Rhode Island

(For Child Welfare Exhibit 1912-13.) View of warping room, Lonsdale, R...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 3154. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

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

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

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 3050. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Groups of doffers, etc., all working in the Liberty Cotton Mill, Clayton, N.C., taken at 10:00 A.M., October 29th, 1912. I saw a few very young spinners, one apparently ten years old, working, but could not get them out. Location: Clayton, North Carolina

Groups of doffers, etc., all working in the Liberty Cotton Mill, Clayt...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 3089. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Groups of workers in Clayton (N.C.) Cotton Mills. Every one went in to work when whistle blew, and I saw most of them at work during the morning when I went through. Mr. W.H. Swift talked with a boy recently who said he was ten years old and works in the Clayton Cotton Mill, also that others the same age worked. Here they are. I couldn't get the youngest girls in the photos. Clayton is but a short ride from the State Capitol. (The Superintendent watched the photographing without comment.) Location: Clayton, North Carolina

Groups of workers in Clayton (N.C.) Cotton Mills. Every one went in to...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 3101. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

(For Child Welfare Exhibit 1912-13.) Elvira Christofano, 110 Spruce ? St., Providence, making chain-bags. Location: Providence, Rhode Island

(For Child Welfare Exhibit 1912-13.) Elvira Christofano, 110 Spruce ? ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 3176. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photogr... More

The medicine bottle - National child labor committee

The medicine bottle - National child labor committee

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 3264. No state, location or date recorded on caption card. Date based on captions for photos with neighbo... More

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