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The prairie-wagon home of a family of itinerant beet workers, now camped near Ft. Collins, Colo. Street family. The children 7- 8- 10- and 12 work steadily and I saw the tiny girl pulling beets after sunset on the following Sunday, and they had not yet finished. The father told me "We got squeezed out of the mountains," one of the neighbors said they has been chased out because they wouldn't send their children to school. Living on the edge of Ft. Collins, they boldly work the children and violate school law. Came from Log Cabin, Colo. Location: Fort Collins vicinity, Colorado Photo by Hine, Oct. 3015

The prairie-wagon home of a family of itinerant beet workers, now camp...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4050. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Rock Spring School which opened September 5th. Census 49, Enrollment of 28, attendance 25. Expect an enrollment of 35. Tobacco is chief cause of absence. Location: Henderson County, Kentucky Lewis W. Hine

Rock Spring School which opened September 5th. Census 49, Enrollment o...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4481. "Div. 3" recorded on caption card as part of the geographic location; probably refers to a school district. Credit line: National Child Labor ... More

Colored School at Anthoston. Census 27, enrollment 12, Attendance 7. Teacher expects 19 to be enrolled after work is over. "Tobacco keeps them out and they are short of hands." Ages of those present: 13 years = 1, 10 years = 2, 8 years = 2, 7 years = 1, 5 years = 1. Location: Henderson County, Kentucky Lewis W. Hine

Colored School at Anthoston. Census 27, enrollment 12, Attendance 7. T...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4479. "Div. 4" recorded on caption card as part of the geographic location; probably refers to a school district. Credit line: National Child Labor ... More

James Donovan - Irish Sweeper in Fall River Iron Works. Said he was 17 years. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts Lewis W. Hine

James Donovan - Irish Sweeper in Fall River Iron Works. Said he was 17...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 4232. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the ... More

A typical farm home. Tobacco and corn surrounding the house. Location: Warren County--Plano vicinity, Kentucky Lewis W. Hine

A typical farm home. Tobacco and corn surrounding the house. Location:...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4452. "Div. 5" recorded on caption card as part of the geographic location; probably refers to a school district. Credit line: National Child Labor ... More

12-year old boy carrying heavy crate of tomatoes on farm of W.T. Hill. He has been earning $1.25 a day steady all Summer. Location: Cabool, Missouri Lewis W. Hine

12-year old boy carrying heavy crate of tomatoes on farm of W.T. Hill....

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4547. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

Colored School at Anthoston. Census 27, enrollment 12, attendance 7. Teacher expects 19 to be enrolled after work is over. "Tobacco keeps them out and they are short of hands." Ages of those present: 13 years = 1, 10 years = 2, 8 years = 2, 7 years = 1, 5 years = 1. Location: Henderson County, Kentucky Lewis W. Hine

Colored School at Anthoston. Census 27, enrollment 12, attendance 7. T...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4480. "Div. 4" recorded on caption card as part of the geographic location; probably refers to a school district. Credit line: National Child Labor ... More

Lummie Durrett. See report. Location: Elizabethtown vicinity, Kentucky L.W. Hine

Lummie Durrett. See report. Location: Elizabethtown vicinity, Kentucky...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4115. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

P.M. Delivery boys on Tremont Street, "getting a hitch." Location: Boston, Massachusetts Lewis W. Hine

P.M. Delivery boys on Tremont Street, "getting a hitch." Location: Bos...

In album: Street trades. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 4642. Hine no. 4643. "P.M." recorded at top of caption card in area where date is recorded. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collect... More

Associated Charities. See Joffe report. Location: Lawton, Oklahoma Lewis W. Hine

Associated Charities. See Joffe report. Location: Lawton, Oklahoma Lew...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 4788. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the ... More

John Dowers, 7 years old, lives at 108 W. Frisco St. Starts out at 5 a.m. some days. Father is blind and sells newspapers. John is a pretty good beggar. Was seen trying to borrow a dollar from the bank to "get father a watch" (father is blind). Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Lewis W. Hine

John Dowers, 7 years old, lives at 108 W. Frisco St. Starts out at 5 a...

In album: Street trades. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 4749. Hine no. 4750. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General info... More

Lemon boy. Market. Location: Boston, Massachusetts Lewis W. Hine

Lemon boy. Market. Location: Boston, Massachusetts Lewis W. Hine

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 4684. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the ... More

Teaching a deaf-mute to talk. Training School for Deaf Mutes. See 4843-4851. Location: Sulphur, Oklahoma. Lewis W. Hine

Teaching a deaf-mute to talk. Training School for Deaf Mutes. See 4843...

In album: Miscellaneous. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 4845. Hine no. 4846. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General info... More

Boy Scout totes a sack of laundry in Camp near Paris. One of the AMERICAN RED CROSS Boy Scouts totes a sack of laundry in a hospital camp near Paris

Boy Scout totes a sack of laundry in Camp near Paris. One of the AMERI...

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

Getting well at the American Military Hospital No. 5, at Auteuil a portable tent hospital supported by the American Red Cross

Getting well at the American Military Hospital No. 5, at Auteuil a por...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name from negative sleeve for LC-A6196-3662. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: A.R.C. Commission to Fr... More

A game of billiards in the American Red Cross recreation hut at Base Hospital No. 9, at Chateauroux

A game of billiards in the American Red Cross recreation hut at Base H...

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 and 1952. General information about ... More

A load of clothing being taken from the vestiare of the A.R.C. Bureau of Refugees in Orleans for distribution by mairie in a neighboring village. A Vestiaire is maintained by the AMERICAN RED CROSS in Orleans for the purpose of supplying needy refugees with clothing. The picture shows a load of garments being taken from the Vestiaire for distribution at the Mairie in a neighboring Village

A load of clothing being taken from the vestiare of the A.R.C. Bureau ...

Caption from negative sleeve: A Vestiaire is maintained by the American Red Cross in Orleans for the purpose of supplying needy refugees with clothing. The picture shows a load of garments being taken from the ... More

The children having calisthenics in the garden at La Jonchere, one of the colonies established by the Comite Franco-Americain pour la Protection des Enfants de la Frontiere, which, with aid from the American Red Cross, provides a home and education for about 1500 children

The children having calisthenics in the garden at La Jonchere, one of ...

On caption card: The orphan scholars of Trevi college. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name from LC-A6299-3586. Source of original on caption card: ARC, R.C. Commission to France... More

Distributing goodies to the negro troops as they arrive at Auteuil. AMERICAN RED CROSS workers distribute chocolate, cigarettes etc. to the wounded negro soldiers arriving at AMERICAN RED CROSS military hospital No 5 at Auteuil

Distributing goodies to the negro troops as they arrive at Auteuil. AM...

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

Having lots of fun feeding the chickens at La Jonchere. This is one of the colonies established by the Comite Franco-Americain pour la Protection des Enfants de la Frontiere, which, with aid from the American Red Cross, provides a home and education for about 1500 children made destitute by the war

Having lots of fun feeding the chickens at La Jonchere. This is one of...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name from caption card or negative sleeve for: LC-A6196-3579. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC, R... More

CHATEAU DE GRAND VAL. Sucy-en-Brie. Country home for refugee children from St. Sulpice. Games for the children at Grand Val a large estate near Paris which has been converted into a country home for the delicate children among the refugees received at St. Sulpice in Paris. The AMERICAN RED CROSS sends doctors and nurses for these children whose condition improves remarkably in the healthy surroundings

CHATEAU DE GRAND VAL. Sucy-en-Brie. Country home for refugee children ...

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

Washing the wound. American soldier in the American Military Hospital No. 1, at Neuilly, which is supported by the American Red Cross. Each man has his American Red Cross comfort bag where he can reach it. June 1918

Washing the wound. American soldier in the American Military Hospital ...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Hine, Paris Office files. Group title: Military Hospitals. Hospitals, U.S. in Fra... More

This soldier's face was terribly mutilated in the war. Mrs. Ladd, the sculptress, working under the American Red Cross, after making a study of him, has a mask which covers the lower part of his face, thus hiding his terrible injuries

This soldier's face was terribly mutilated in the war. Mrs. Ladd, the ...

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

Big Chief Henry being fixed up for the day. Chippewa Indian from Michigan. St. Denis Hospital. Big Chief Henry, a Chippewa Indian from Michigan, one of the patients at AMERICAN RED CROSS hospital No 41 Saint Denis, is being fixed up for the day

Big Chief Henry being fixed up for the day. Chippewa Indian from Michi...

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

A peaceful scene of the AMERICAN RED CROSS farm near the hospital at Vittel

A peaceful scene of the AMERICAN RED CROSS farm near the hospital at V...

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 Farms and Gardens. Gift; American National Red Cross ... More

Miss Matilda Spence, who directs this American Red Cross canteen in a basement at Toulouse, is often glad to have the help which the boys offer in preparing sandwiches etc. for the American troops

Miss Matilda Spence, who directs this American Red Cross canteen in a ...

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

The coffee well never runs dry for the constant stream of American soldiers at the AMERICAN RED CROSS Canteen, St. Pierre des Corps (Tours)

The coffee well never runs dry for the constant stream of American sol...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. On caption card: same as number 7693. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Hine. Group title: L.O.C. Canteens. Gift; A... More

Letters Home. Soldiers are able to mail letters to their families at home thanks to the A.R.C. which has provided a rest station must behind the lines in an American sector

Letters Home. Soldiers are able to mail letters to their families at h...

Letters home ARC canteen, Toul. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Hine. Group title: Canteens at the Front. Gift; A... More

Paris. Preparing for the rush hours at the American Red Cross Canteen at Gare St. Lazarre, Paris, France. Personnel left to right: Miss Stellwagon, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Miss LaVenture, Tacoma, Wash.; Miss Lyon, Elizabeth, N.J.; Miss Ranney, Paris, France; and at the left of the table Lt. Boardman, A.R.C. in charge of the canteen

Paris. Preparing for the rush hours at the American Red Cross Canteen ...

Caption from negative sleeve: A.R.C. Canteen, Gare St. Lagare, getting ready for supper. Miss La Venture, Mrs. Lyon, Miss Ramsay, Mr. Boardinan, Miss Stilluagor. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption car... More

Paris. The Eiffel Tower is a most uncanny structure, no matter in which part of Paris one is visiting, the tower dominates the landscape. Here is the view the "doughboy" got of it from the doorway of an apartment house

Paris. The Eiffel Tower is a most uncanny structure, no matter in whic...

Caption from negative sleeve: Eiffel Tower from door of TrocadÚro. Doughboy set. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ... More

Harry Harper, one of the 4 H Club boys with his registered calf. Location: Pocahontas County--Hillsboro, West Virginia Photo by Lewis W. Hine

Harry Harper, one of the 4 H Club boys with his registered calf. Locat...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Children in West Virginia. Hine no. 5110. Number typed in upper left corner of caption card: 90. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congre... 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. 4966. Single card covers 4966-5008. No state or city recorded on caption card; South Manchester, Connecticut, bas... More

African American boy holding a piece of fruit received through the Red Cross drought relief work in Mississippi

African American boy holding a piece of fruit received through the Red...

American National Red Cross Collection (Library of Congress). No. RC - 23361. Hine no. 112. Unprocessed in PR 06 CN 089 (Lewis Hine Disaster relief Drought of 1930-1931)

Boy going home to lunch from Singer Mfg. Co., Said he was 15 years old. Question? Been there one year. Location: South Bend, Indiana

Boy going home to lunch from Singer Mfg. Co., Said he was 15 years old...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 230. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More

Doffer boys in Bibb Mill #1, Macon, Ga. Location: Macon, Georgia

Doffer boys in Bibb Mill #1, Macon, Ga. Location: Macon, Georgia

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 531. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

6 A.M., June 10, 1909. Boys going to work in Warren Mfg. Co., Warren, R.I. Plenty of youngsters here. Location: Warren, Rhode Island

6 A.M., June 10, 1909. Boys going to work in Warren Mfg. Co., Warren, ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 814. Reproduction no. LC-USZ62-62155. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress... More

This boy has worked in Payne Cotton Mill, for 2 yrs Macon, Ga. Runs 4 sides and earns 52 cents a day. Overseer has hand on boy' s shoulder. He said this mill made 70% profit last year and excepts to make 100% this year. This is owned by Bibb Mfg. Co. Location: Macon, Georgia

This boy has worked in Payne Cotton Mill, for 2 yrs Macon, Ga. Runs 4 ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 538. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Tersea ------ carrying peck of cranberries (weighing about 15 pounds) long distance to "bushel man." Did not know age. Forsythe's Bog, Turkeytown, near Pemberton, N.J. Sept. 29, 1910 Witness E.F. Brown. Location: Pemberton, New Jersey Photo by Lewis W. Hine

Tersea ------ carrying peck of cranberries (weighing about 15 pounds) ...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 1149. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

Newspaper comments on new child labor law in Penn. Location: Pennsylvania

Newspaper comments on new child labor law in Penn. Location: Pennsylva...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 1199. Text cut off, probably "Photo by Lewis W. Hine." Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collec... More

Group containing the following boys who work in the Sagamore Mfg. Company, Fall River. Manuel Corieiia i.e., Correira, 144 Cove St., works in Spinning room on top floor. Said, "I only help mother." He was apparently 13 or 14. Manuel Oliver, George Street, works in card room. Seems surely only 12 years old. Manuel Benevirdes, 30 Otto Street, works on top floor. Manuel Rage, 51 George Street, works in spinning room on fourth floor. John Oliver, 93 Slater Street, works in spinning room on third floor. Joseph Ariuda, 23 Shorr Street, works in spinning room on third floor. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts

Group containing the following boys who work in the Sagamore Mfg. Comp...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 2333. Hine no. 2334. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Housing conditions at Clove ? sardine factory, North Lubec, Me. They are much congested and run down. Children work in the factory, but I did not get them that day. Location: North Lubec, Maine

Housing conditions at Clove ? sardine factory, North Lubec, Me. They a...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2438. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div... More

The smallest shrimp-picker, standing on the box is Manuel, about five years old, who worked here last year also. Cannot understand a word of English. Dunbar, Lopez, Dukate Co. Location: Biloxi, Mississippi

The smallest shrimp-picker, standing on the box is Manuel, about five ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 1979. No text recorded after final comma on caption card. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collect... More

All these are shrimp-pickers in Dunbar, Lopez, Dukate Company. The youngest boys are 5 and 6 years old. Location: Biloxi, Mississippi

All these are shrimp-pickers in Dunbar, Lopez, Dukate Company. The you...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 1981. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div... More

Alexander Durand, 35 Tucker Street, next boy in middle of picture appears 12 years old. Is in mill room No. 2. Joseph Courtois, 33 Tucker St., at the right Alex. appears about 13 years old. Works in the spinning room. Majorie Bonclair, at left of Alex. see 2592. Location: Lowell, Massachusetts

Alexander Durand, 35 Tucker Street, next boy in middle of picture appe...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2593. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Young girl carrying bundle of coats home to be finished. Near Astor Place, N.Y. Location: New York, New York (State)

Young girl carrying bundle of coats home to be finished. Near Astor Pl...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 2858. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photogr... More

Four year old cotton picker. A regular worker on farm. Scene on farm of S.N.? Whiteside. Children come out here from the town to pick cotton outside of school hours. Ages range from four and six years (ages of the two youngest boys who pick regularly) up to fifteen and more. Two adults. Location: Waxahachie vicinity, Texas

Four year old cotton picker. A regular worker on farm. Scene on farm o...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3615. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

10 year old Jimmie. Been shucking 3 years. 6 pots a day, and a 11 year old boy who shucks 7 pots. Also several members of an interesting family named Sherrica. Seven of them are in this factory. The father, mother, four girls shuck and pack. Older brother steams. 10 year old boy goes to school. Been in the oyster business 5 years. Father worked for 25 years in the Pennsylvania Coal Mine, and the oldest brother there? They said they liked the oysters business better because the family makes more. Varn & Platt Canning Co. Location: Bluffton, South Carolina

10 year old Jimmie. Been shucking 3 years. 6 pots a day, and a 11 year...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 3306. Year not recorded on caption card; 1913 based on cards for photographs with neighboring numbers taken i... More

Curtin Hines. Western Union messenger #36. Fourteen years old. Goes to school. Works from four to eight P.M. Been with Western Union for six months, one month delivering for a drug store. "I learned a lot about the 'Reservation' while I was at the drug store and I go there some times now." Location: Houston, Texas

Curtin Hines. Western Union messenger #36. Fourteen years old. Goes to...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 3584. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Portuguese. Spinner. See 4159. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts Lewis W. Hine

Portuguese. Spinner. See 4159. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts Lew...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Mills. Hine no. 4246. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the National... More

Frank De Natale, a 12-year old barber. Lathers and shaves customers in father's shop, 416 Hanover Street, after school and Saturday. Location: Boston, Massachusetts Lewis W. Hine

Frank De Natale, a 12-year old barber. Lathers and shaves customers in...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 4729. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the ... More

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

Indianapolis Market. Aug. 1908. Wit. E.N. Clopper. Location: Indianapo...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 97. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Doffers in Cherryville Mfg. Co., N.C. Plenty of others. Location: Cherryville, North Carolina

Doffers in Cherryville Mfg. Co., N.C. Plenty of others. Location: Cher...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 263. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Part of exhibit, N.Y.C.L. and Consumers League. Location: New York, New York (State)

Part of exhibit, N.Y.C.L. and Consumers League. Location: New York, Ne...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 39-C. No date recorded on caption card. Estimate based on date recorded on caption cards for photos with ... More

488 Macon, Ga. Lewis W. Hine 1-19-1909. Bibb Mill No. 1 Many youngsters here. Some boys were so small they had to climb up on the spinning frame to mend the broken threads and put back the empty bobbins. Location: Macon, Georgia

488 Macon, Ga. Lewis W. Hine 1-19-1909. Bibb Mill No. 1 Many youngster...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 488. Reproduction no. LC-USZ6-1222. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, ... More

Scene in More-Jonas Glass Co., Bridgeton, N.J. Several young boys are to be seen in photo. Location: Bridgeton, New Jersey

Scene in More-Jonas Glass Co., Bridgeton, N.J. Several young boys are ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Glass factories. Hine no. 980. Caption card for #980 contains place, date, and negative number, but no caption. Title based on ca... More

Little spinner in Bibb Mill No. 1, Macon, Ga. She was so small she had to climb up on to the spinning frame to mend broken threads. See also photo 488. Jan. 19, 1909. Location: Macon, Georgia

Little spinner in Bibb Mill No. 1, Macon, Ga. She was so small she had...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 530. The words "climb up" are underlined on the caption card. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collect... More

1353 ----- A Pool Room Branch (Chouteau & Manchester). These boys were playing pool and smoking in the pool room while waiting for papers . The smallest boy is 9 years old and sells until 9 P.M. (See also 1351-1352. 4 P.M.) Location: St. Louis, Missouri

1353 ----- A Pool Room Branch (Chouteau & Manchester). These boys were...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 1353. Reproduction no. LC-USZ6-1236. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of C... More

Harley Bruce, a young coupling-boy at tipple of Indian Mountain Line of Proctor Coal Co., near Jellico, Tenn. He appears to be 12 or 14 years old, and says he has been working there about a year. It is hard work and dangerous. Not many young boys employed in or about the mines of this region. Location: Jellico vicinity, Tennessee

Harley Bruce, a young coupling-boy at tipple of Indian Mountain Line o...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Coal mines. Hine no. 1918. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Di... More

Hard work and dangerous for such a young boy. James O'Dell, a greaser and coupler on the tipple of the Cross Mountain Mine, Knoxville Iron Co., in the vicinity of Coal Creek, Tenn. James has been there four months. Helps push these heavily loaded cars. Appears to be about 12 or 13 years old. Location: Coal Creek, Tennessee

Hard work and dangerous for such a young boy. James O'Dell, a greaser ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Coal mines. Hine no. 1917. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Di... More

One of the young girls working in the Richmond Hosiery Co. (See report.) Location: Rossville, Georgia

One of the young girls working in the Richmond Hosiery Co. (See report...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 1854. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Group of Breaker Boys in #9 Breaker, Hughestown Borough, Pennsylvania Coal Co. Smallest boy is Angelo Ross (see photos and labels #1953 & #1954). Location: Pittston, Pennsylvania

Group of Breaker Boys in #9 Breaker, Hughestown Borough, Pennsylvania ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Coal mines. Hine no. 1949. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Di... More

Mildred Kron, three years old, and Gertrude Kron, five years old. Help shuck oysters every day in the Barataria Canning Company. 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. 1973. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div... More

Adolescent spinners in the Suffolk (Virginia) Knitting Mills. One of these, fourteen years old, said she had been working here, off and on, for four years, and earns about one dollar a day now. Location: Suffolk, Virginia

Adolescent spinners in the Suffolk (Virginia) Knitting Mills. One of t...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2228. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Three cutters in Factory #7, Seacoast Canning Co., Eastport, Me. They work regularly whenever there are fish. (Note the knives they use.) Back of them and under foot is refuse. On the right hand is Grayson Forsythe, 7 years old. Middle is George Goodell, 9 years old, finger badly cut and wrapped up. Said, "the salt gets unto the cut." Said he makes $1.50 some days. Left end, Clarence Goodell, 6 years, helps brother. Location: Eastport, Maine

Three cutters in Factory #7, Seacoast Canning Co., Eastport, Me. They ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2421. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div... More

Lumina Demarais, admitted 12 years old Been doffing in Spring Mill all summer. Location: Winchendon, Massachusetts

Lumina Demarais, admitted 12 years old Been doffing in Spring Mill all...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2379. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Three young cutters who work in Seacoast Canning Co., Factory #4. Ages 10 to 12. Work regularly. Location: Eastport, Maine

Three young cutters who work in Seacoast Canning Co., Factory #4. Ages...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2450. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div... 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. 1492. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

"I cut my finger nearly off, cutting sardines the other day." Seven year old Byron. (See photo of family, #2453, and label.) Location: Eastport, Maine

"I cut my finger nearly off, cutting sardines the other day." Seven ye...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2425. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div... More

Mule power and motor power. A Young Driver, Shaft #6, Pennsylvania Coal Company. Location: Pittston, Pennsylvania

Mule power and motor power. A Young Driver, Shaft #6, Pennsylvania Coa...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Coal mines. Hine no. 1924. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Di... More

Young girl carrying bundle of coats home to be finished. Near Astor Place, N.Y. Location: New York, New York (State)

Young girl carrying bundle of coats home to be finished. Near Astor Pl...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 2858. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photogr... More

View of Red Light District on C. Street, N.W., near 13th, with Griffin Veatch, who was showing me around. No. 6 Special Messenger Service, 1223 New York Ave., N.W.; he lives 1643 Cramer St., N.E. He said he commenced the messenger service at 11 yrs. old. Has worked all night a couple of years, and now works until 10 P.M. Is known to Truant Officers. Family has had trouble with him. Says he is 17 but doesn't look it. Quite profane, but (apparently) not very wise about this district although he says he goes to these houses occasionally. Location: Washington (D.C.), District of Columbia

View of Red Light District on C. Street, N.W., near 13th, with Griffin...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 2940. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

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

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

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3645. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... 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

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

A drawing of a woman standing in front of a machine, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washi... More

Noon hour, Singer Mfg. Co., The Boys work there. Location: South Bend, Indiana

Noon hour, Singer Mfg. Co., The Boys work there. Location: South Bend,...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 228. Caption card records date as Oct. 1914; surrounding cards would suggest 1908?. Credit line: National... More

12 year old Lahnert boy, near Ft. Collins, Colo., topping beets. The father, mother, and two boys (9 and 12 yrs.) expect to make $700 in about 2 months time in the beet work. "The boys can keep up with me all right, and all day long," the father said. Begin at 6 A.M. and work until 6 P.M. with hour off at noon. Several smaller children not work. See Hine Report for studies of amount of work done by these and other children. Oct. 3015. Location: Ft. Collins vicinity, Colorado Photo by Hine

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

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4037. The words "amount" and "work" are underlined on the caption card. Credit line: National Child Labor C... More

Back boy - Mule room - 14 years. Berkshire Cotton Mills. Location: Adams, Massachusetts Lewis W. Hine

Back boy - Mule room - 14 years. Berkshire Cotton Mills. Location: Ada...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Mills. Hine no. 4383. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the National... More

Demetra Jones. Father, G.G. Jones, R. 3, Sonora, Ky. 11-year old farm hand. Father said: "She's the only farm hand I got. She helps a lot in the field work and house work too. Is good in school--5th grade." He owns the farm and expects to build soon. Location: Hardin County--Sonora vicinity, Kentucky Lewis W. Hine

Demetra Jones. Father, G.G. Jones, R. 3, Sonora, Ky. 11-year old farm ...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4419. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... 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...

In album: Miscellaneous. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 4361. Hine no. 4362. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General info... More

Ethel Selansky, 15 years old. Typist for Standard Neckwear Co., 91 Essex Street. Location: Boston, Massachusetts Lewis W. Hine

Ethel Selansky, 15 years old. Typist for Standard Neckwear Co., 91 Ess...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 4652. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the ... More

Bob Burton, Gastonia, N.C. 15 years old. A typical adolescent, overgrown, thin, anaemic sic. Been in mill for 8 years. Doffing still in Ozark Mills. Gastonia, North Carolina

Bob Burton, Gastonia, N.C. 15 years old. A typical adolescent, overgro...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 240. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Noon hour, Ivey mill, Hickory, N.C. Location: Hickory, North Carolina. Photo by ...

Noon hour, Ivey mill, Hickory, N.C. Location: Hickory, North Carolina....

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 281. After "photo by" the text is cut off on caption card. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection... More

John Ghent has worked at spinning for 1 year. Goes to school now. Been Sick. Lancaster, S.C. Cotton Mills. Location: Lancaster, South Carolina

John Ghent has worked at spinning for 1 year. Goes to school now. Been...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 337. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Boys going home from Glass Works, Monongah Glass Works, Fairmont, West Virginia. Location: Fairmont, West Virginia

Boys going home from Glass Works, Monongah Glass Works, Fairmont, West...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Glass factories. Hine no. 189. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Tallest boy Johnnie Younts, 72 Kirk Street. Works in Salisbury Mills, N.C. Has worked in cotton mill for 8 years. Began at 7 years old. When can he get any education? Other boy one year in mill. Location: Salisbury, North Carolina

Tallest boy Johnnie Younts, 72 Kirk Street. Works in Salisbury Mills, ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 421. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Newberry Mills, (S.C.) Noon hour. Dec. 3, 08. Witness Sara R. Hine. Location: Newberry, South Carolina Photo by Lewis W. Hine

Newberry Mills, (S.C.) Noon hour. Dec. 3, 08. Witness Sara R. Hine. Lo...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Mills. Hine no. 380. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the National ... More

Glue Room, N.Y. Dimension Supply Co., Evansville, Ind. Oct. 1908. Location: Evansville, Indiana

Glue Room, N.Y. Dimension Supply Co., Evansville, Ind. Oct. 1908. Loca...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 197. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More

Interior of cotton mill. Location: Newton, North Carolina

Interior of cotton mill. Location: Newton, North Carolina

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 467. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Slide No. 404. Smallest girl, runs and 4 sides, been in this mill for 3 years. The oldest girl said she goes to school but couldn't spell her own name

Slide No. 404. Smallest girl, runs and 4 sides, been in this mill for ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 404. No location or date recorded on caption card. Date based on date recorded on cards for photos with neighbori... More

Drift Mouth, San Lick Mine, near Grafton, West Virginia. Bank Boss in centre: driver on his right: trapper boy outside. Alfred, about 14. He trapped several years during vacation: said he is going to school this year: asked if it were because school is more fun he said. "This yere hain't no fun!". Location: Grafton, West Virginia

Drift Mouth, San Lick Mine, near Grafton, West Virginia. Bank Boss in ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Coal mines. Hine no. 140. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div... More

Day scene, Wheaton Glass Works. Location: Millville, New Jersey

Day scene, Wheaton Glass Works. Location: Millville, New Jersey

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Glass factories. Hine no. 1011. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Boys working in Great Falls Mfg. Co., Somersworth, N.H. Alcide Turcotte, 15 12 Union Street. Albert Beaupre, 1 Kings Lane. Edgar Routher, 65 Union Street. Peter Gague, 165 Main St. One of the smaller boys said he has been working here for six years. Location: Somersworth, New Hampshire

Boys working in Great Falls Mfg. Co., Somersworth, N.H. Alcide Turcott...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 769-A. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisi... More

Flashlight photo of boys going home from King Mfg. Co., 6 P.M. Augusta, Ga. Smallest boy--Otis Pollard been there 2 years. Other boy been there 4 years. Location: Augusta, Georgia

Flashlight photo of boys going home from King Mfg. Co., 6 P.M. Augusta...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 509. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Noon hour, May 19, 1909. Boys working in Great Falls Mfg. Co., Somersworth, N.H. Location: Somersworth, New Hampshire

Noon hour, May 19, 1909. Boys working in Great Falls Mfg. Co., Somersw...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 768-A. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisi... More

Workers in More-Jones Glass Co., Bridgeton, N.J. Small boy in middle is Harry Simpkins, 52 South Ave. (dirty, noisome conditions). See him in photos 978 & 979. Location: Bridgeton, New Jersey

Workers in More-Jones Glass Co., Bridgeton, N.J. Small boy in middle i...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Glass factories. Hine no. 973. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

A group of spinners in Brookside Worsted Mills, Westford, Massachusetts. These were the youngest there. Location: Westford, Massachusettsachusetts

A group of spinners in Brookside Worsted Mills, Westford, Massachusett...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 700. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

The Beginning of the Theatre Habit. Location: Boston, Massachusetts

The Beginning of the Theatre Habit. Location: Boston, Massachusetts

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 939. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More

Small newsie at depot, Burlington, Vt. Location: Burlington, Vermont

Small newsie at depot, Burlington, Vt. Location: Burlington, Vermont

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 1087. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Kibbe's Candy Factory. Freddie Reed, Jos. Giordano, Willard Leavenworth, Francis Clancy. Location: Springfield, Massachusetts

Kibbe's Candy Factory. Freddie Reed, Jos. Giordano, Willard Leavenwort...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 1194. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Pete Trombetta, 10 years of age, 6th season of work. Salvatore Trombetta, 14 years of age, 8th season of work, picks 200 quarts of berries a day. Mary Trombetta, 11 years of age, 6th season, picks 100 quarts berries per day on Johnson's Farm, Seaford, Del. These children start picking at about 5:30 A.M. and continue until 6 P.M. in the evening. The padrone estimated that the family of 6 can make from $9 to $12 per day picking 12 to 13 hours. Edward F. Brown, Investigator. Seaford, Del. May 28, 1910. Location: Seaford, Delaware Photo by Lewis W. Hine

Pete Trombetta, 10 years of age, 6th season of work. Salvatore Trombet...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 1584. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

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