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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

Cherryville Mfg. Co., Cherryville, N.C. Plenty of young boys and girls. Location: Cherryville, North Carolina

Cherryville Mfg. Co., Cherryville, N.C. Plenty of young boys and girls...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 293. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... 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

Some of the night shift waiting to go to work. Cumberland Glass Works, Bridgeton, N.J. Location: Bridgeton, New Jersey

Some of the night shift waiting to go to work. Cumberland Glass Works,...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Glass factories. Hine no. 963. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... 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

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

3 girls working in Salvan Medicine Factory and in a Seed Store. Olive ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 1438. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

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

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

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 1101. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Angelo Rizzo, 5 Trenton Ave., Buffalo, N.Y. Worked 5 months in sheds of Albion Canning. Canning, stringing beans. Was 10 years old last summer. Worked from 7 A.M. until 9 P.M. Returned to school September 27th, losing 2 weeks time. School record good. Location: Buffalo, New York (State)

Angelo Rizzo, 5 Trenton Ave., Buffalo, N.Y. Worked 5 months in sheds o...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 1332. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div... More

Young girls going to work noon-hour Merrimac Mills. Location: Huntsville, Alabama

Young girls going to work noon-hour Merrimac Mills. Location: Huntsvil...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 1768. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Jeffries-Johnson Fight Extras. 7 P.M. Location: New York, New York (State)

Jeffries-Johnson Fight Extras. 7 P.M. Location: New York, New York (St...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 1666. Photograph relates to the boxing match between James J. Jeffries and Jack Johnson that took place o... More

All (except smallest boy) work in Sweetwater Hosiery Co. He is a dinner carrier, but others like him and smaller work in these knitting mills of this region. Location: Sweetwater, Tennessee

All (except smallest boy) work in Sweetwater Hosiery Co. He is a dinne...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 1866. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Dave, a young "pusher" at Bessie Mine, Alabama. (See photo and label #1835.) Location: Bessie Mine, Alabama

Dave, a young "pusher" at Bessie Mine, Alabama. (See photo and label #...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Coal mines. Hine no. 1834. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Di... More

Old newsboys. Location: St. Louis, Missouri

Old newsboys. Location: St. Louis, Missouri

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 1465. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Postal Telegraph messenger. Location: Birmingham, Alabama

Postal Telegraph messenger. Location: Birmingham, Alabama

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 1822. 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

Anne, small picker. Said 7 years old. Location: Rochester vicinity - Eldridge Bog, Massachusetts

Anne, small picker. Said 7 years old. Location: Rochester vicinity - E...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 2545. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

On right hand is Richard Fitzgerald, 53 Montgomery St., works in twisting room of Eclipse Mills, No. Adams. On left hand, Joseph Adams, 107 Front St., works in twisting room of Eclipse Mills,. Location: North Adams, Massachusetts

On right hand is Richard Fitzgerald, 53 Montgomery St., works in twist...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2338. No text recorded on caption card after final comma. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection,... More

Manuel White, father with two children - Johnnie, 7 years - Sylva 12 years. Live on Brook Street, Dighton, Massachusetts. Family picks 72 measures a day at 6 cents. Location: Falmouth - Baker Bog, Massachusettsachusetts

Manuel White, father with two children - Johnnie, 7 years - Sylva 12 y...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 2578. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Twin sisters Winnie and Jimmie. Spinners in Yazoo City (Miss.) Yarn Mills. Said thirteen years old, but see photo and label 2102. Location: Yazoo City, Mississippi

Twin sisters Winnie and Jimmie. Spinners in Yazoo City (Miss.) Yarn Mi...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2109. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

All work in Delta Cotton Mills, Mc Comb, Miss. Smallest boy, a band boy, is Johnnie Mathews, apparently only ten or eleven, but his mother assured me that he is nearly fourteen, which is very doubtful. Been working one year. Couldn't write his name. Next to him is Charlie Davis, a sweeper, seemed to be eleven but his mother told me twelve. Has been working a long time. Father and two brothers in the mill. They own their home. Other boys working there: Arthur Littleton, Harvey Green, Lee Kelley. Location: McComb, Mississippi

All work in Delta Cotton Mills, Mc Comb, Miss. Smallest boy, a band bo...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2086. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Housing conditions in the settlement of workers in Alabama Canning Co. Two families to a house, but they are separated. Housing conditions fairly good. Location: Bayou La Batre, Alabama

Housing conditions in the settlement of workers in Alabama Canning Co....

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 1996. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div... More

Stanley Sypeck, Jasimine St., W. Springfield. Works in the Dwight Mfg. Co., 6 months in spinning room. Location: Chicopee, Massachusetts

Stanley Sypeck, Jasimine St., W. Springfield. Works in the Dwight Mfg....

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2658. Typed lines on caption card overlap, so order of text is not clear. Credit line: National Child Labor Commi... More

A prospective sardine worker, one of the Goodell family. (See Photo #2433). Location: Eastport, Maine

A prospective sardine worker, one of the Goodell family. (See Photo #2...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2434. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div... More

On the border line. Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts

On the border line. Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2322. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

T.J. Fields and family. The father cards, two girls spin, boy on right end picks up bobbins, Washington Cotton Mills, Fries, Virginia Been working a year or two. Mother and smallest children not in photo. Location: Fries, Virginia

T.J. Fields and family. The father cards, two girls spin, boy on right...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2152. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Group of Workers in Glenallen Mill, including Adrienne Pagnette, Annie Dugas, Francis Pagnette, Anatole Gernon, apparently 11 or 12 years old, doffs on top floor spinning room of the above mill. Speaks no English. Location: Winchendon, Massachusetts

Group of Workers in Glenallen Mill, including Adrienne Pagnette, Annie...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2397. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Angelo Ross, 142 Panama Street, Hughestown Borough. A youngster who has been working in Breaker #9 Pennsylvania Company for four months, said he was 13 years old, but very doubtful. He has a brother Tony probably under 14, working. Location: Pittston, Pennsylvania

Angelo Ross, 142 Panama Street, Hughestown Borough. A youngster who ha...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Coal mines. Hine no. 1954. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Di... More

Johnnie Ostafan, 5 Boylston Street, Easthampton, Massachusetts. Been doffing nearly a year in West Boylston cotton mills and may be under legal age. Location: Easthampton, Massachusettsachusetts

Johnnie Ostafan, 5 Boylston Street, Easthampton, Massachusetts. Been d...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 3035. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Solomon Sickle, 11 yr. old gum vendor, 321 Seventh St., Washington, D.C., Says he sells until 8 P.M. Very illiterate, been in this country only six months. Location: Washington (D.C.), District of Columbia

Solomon Sickle, 11 yr. old gum vendor, 321 Seventh St., Washington, D....

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 2921. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Whole family rolling cigarette cases, the mother was licking the papers as she worked. (For complete details see Miss E.C. Watson's report.) Location: New York, New York (State)

Whole family rolling cigarette cases, the mother was licking the paper...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 3231. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photogr... More

Bob Cook and Emmett Capps. Bob works in spinning room #2. Said he had been working about a year. Began at 35 cents a day, now makes 50 cents. Their family bible gave his birthday June 25, 1901, making him 10 years old. Small boy on left end Emmett Capps been doffing one year. Doesn't seem to be 12 years old. The boys are questionable. Location: Spartanburg, South Carolina

Bob Cook and Emmett Capps. Bob works in spinning room #2. Said he had ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2998. No state or city recorded on caption card; based on captions for photos with neighboring numbers. Credit li... More

Home work at 52 Medford Street. Somerville, Massachusetts. Teresa Siuserella, 10 years old, lives here. Annie Capodana, 9 years old lives at 9 Ward Street. See Home Work report. Location: Somerville, Massachusettsachusetts

Home work at 52 Medford Street. Somerville, Massachusetts. Teresa Sius...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 2960-B. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photo... More

The smallest boy is a band boy, next in order is a doffer. The smallest girl is a spinner. Work in Cowpers' i.e., Cowpen's? Manufacturing Co., S. C., (See label 2970). Location: Cowpens, South Carolina

The smallest boy is a band boy, next in order is a doffer. The smalles...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2971. City not recorded on caption card; based on captions for related photos. Credit line: National Child Labor ... More

All are workers in Rome (Ga.) Hosiery Mills. The ages in this mill run from 9 and 10 years upward. Location: Rome, Georgia

All are workers in Rome (Ga.) Hosiery Mills. The ages in this mill run...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 3349. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Jane Addams of Hull House, Chicago, Ill

Jane Addams of Hull House, Chicago, Ill

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 3471. No date or location recorded on caption card; 1913 estimate based on captions for photos with neigh... More

Scene in a cotton field of the Baptist Orphanage near Waxahachie. These boys from seven years old upward pick cotton, helping this man outside of school hours. There are twenty children in this orphanage, mostly girls, and it is supported by the Baptists of Texas. Location: Waxahachie vicinity, Texas

Scene in a cotton field of the Baptist Orphanage near Waxahachie. Thes...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 3607. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Some of Tampa's youngest newsboys, waiting for the evening edition 4 P.M. Location: Tampa, Florida

Some of Tampa's youngest newsboys, waiting for the evening edition 4 P...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 3337. Date not recorded on caption card. March 1913 based on caption for #3333. Credit line: National Chi... More

Jimmie Michael, 10 years old. Shucks six pots a day. Been at it 3 years. Varn and Platt Canning Co. Location: Bluffton, South Carolina

Jimmie Michael, 10 years old. Shucks six pots a day. Been at it 3 year...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 3299. Year not recorded on caption card; 1913 based on cards for photographs with neighboring numbers taken i... More

Typical workers in Barker Cotton Mills where good conditions prevail. See Alabama report. Location: Mobile, Alabama

Typical workers in Barker Cotton Mills where good conditions prevail. ...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 3824. Hine no. 3830. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Housing conditions Adelaide Mill. The village is run down and greatly in need of sanitary improvements. Location: Anniston, Alabama

Housing conditions Adelaide Mill. The village is run down and greatly ...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 3805 Hine no. 3806. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

King Philip Weave Room. Drop wire boy. Gilberto Chicca, 165 King St. 16 years old. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts Lewis W. Hine

King Philip Weave Room. Drop wire boy. Gilberto Chicca, 165 King St. 1...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Mills. Hine no. 4304. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the National... More

General view of part of the force picking tomatoes on farm of W.T. Hill. There were about 25 children--most of them 8 to 15 years old. "When school opens next month you bet we have to quit workin'" they said. Usually earn 50 cents to $1.50 a day. Location: Cabool, Missouri Lewis W. Hine

General view of part of the force picking tomatoes on farm of W.T. Hil...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4543. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

Hickory Grove School. Location: Rockcastle Co., Kentucky Lewis W. Hine

Hickory Grove School. Location: Rockcastle Co., Kentucky Lewis W. Hine

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4431. "Div. 2" recorded on caption card as part of the geographic location; probably refers to a school district. Credit line: National Child Labor ... More

"Little Rosie (Berdich)" one of our former friends that I found in Bluffton 3 years ago. She has given up shucking, because her mother is afraid of the law, and is attending school regularly as long as they are in the south. Location: Bluffton, South Carolina L.W. Hine

"Little Rosie (Berdich)" one of our former friends that I found in Blu...

In album: Canneries. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 4093. Hine no. 4094. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General informat... More

Ora Fugate, 10 years old worming tobacco. They said they do not worm in middle of day when hot, but work right through when "suckering." See 4400. Location: Hedges Station, Kentucky Lewis W. Hine

Ora Fugate, 10 years old worming tobacco. They said they do not worm i...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4401. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

Dance Hall. See 4184. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts Lewis W. Hine

Dance Hall. See 4184. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts Lewis W. Hin...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 4179. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the ... More

13-year-old boy, Edgar Kitchen, working for Bingham Bros. Dairy. He gets $3 a week; is not working for his own parents. Starts on the wagon at 7 A.M.; works seven days in the week driving the wagon, and on the farm six afternoons. See report. Location: Bowling Green vicinity, Kentucky L.W. Hine

13-year-old boy, Edgar Kitchen, working for Bingham Bros. Dairy. He ge...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4128. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

King Philip - Mule Spinning. Back boy - Herbert Heywood, 43 Miller St. - age 14 years. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts Lewis W. Hine

King Philip - Mule Spinning. Back boy - Herbert Heywood, 43 Miller St....

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Mills. Hine no. 4310. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the National... More

Hanging around the saloon - 5 P.M. Location: Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts Lewis W. Hine

Hanging around the saloon - 5 P.M. Location: Chicopee Falls, Massachus...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 4369. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the ... More

Recess games in charge of grade teacher of Jefferson School. See Miss Folks' report. Location: Muskogee, Oklahoma Lewis W. Hine

Recess games in charge of grade teacher of Jefferson School. See Miss ...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4813. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

Bartrum Choate, a 12-year-old boy driving colts to town. Works for W.F. Barber, Route 3, Lawton, Okla. Location: Lawton vicinity, Oklahoma Lewis W. Hine

Bartrum Choate, a 12-year-old boy driving colts to town. Works for W.F...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4807. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

Just kids. Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. L.W. HINE

Just kids. Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. L.W. HINE

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 4798. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the ... More

Bessie Blitch, 15 years old. Sewing curtains on machine at Boutwell, Fairclough & Gold, 274 Summer Street Extension. Lewis W. Hine. (Mr. Fitzgerald, Manager.) Location: Boston, Massachusetts

Bessie Blitch, 15 years old. Sewing curtains on machine at Boutwell, F...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 4727. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Group of school children studying playground model in the Child Welfare Exhibit at St. Etienne

Group of school children studying playground model in the Child Welfar...

Caption from negative sleeve: The children were enchanted with the playground model in the Child Welfare Exhibition at St. Etienne. July 1918. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer nam... More

Types of many races fighting in the American Army. This man is from Austria. Picture taken at the American Red Cross hospital at Auteuil

Types of many races fighting in the American Army. This man is from Au...

Caption from negative sleeve: Isidore Sporn. Born in Austria. Auteuil. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Hine. Grou... More

Surgical dressings, 118 Rue de la Faisanderie, Paris. American Red Cross. Picking over Sphagnum moss which comes from the Coast of Ireland and Scotland and is used on wounds as an outer absorbant pad, in the AMERICAN RED CROSS workrooms for surgical dressings, Rue de la Faisanderie, Paris. The workers in these workrooms are Frenchwomen, most of whom have suffered in the war, and are glad to work for the wounded at the same time making a living under the direction of the A.R.C

Surgical dressings, 118 Rue de la Faisanderie, Paris. American Red Cro...

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

Both arms busy. Sammie entertaining his friends after the "parade"

Both arms busy. Sammie entertaining his friends after the "parade"

Both Arms Busy. A Yank entertaining his friends after the fourth of July parade in Paris. July 1918. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card ... More

Boy Scout lights a cigarette for one of the boys unable to help himself in hospital camp near Paris. A Helping Hand. AMERICAN RED CROSS Boy Scout Lighting a cigarette for one of the boys unable to help himself in a hospital near Paris

Boy Scout lights a cigarette for one of the boys unable to help himsel...

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

Trudeau Sanitarium, Hachette. Dressing. Putting on his new shoes at Truedeau Sanitarium, Hachette, near Paris. The manor house of Hachette is an AMERICAN RED CROSS hospital for tubercular women. In the grounds nearby barracks have been built where about 180 children are housed, each for a period of three months or more. They are under-nourished children of tuberculartendencies, many of whom have tubercular parents. They are brought from bad living conditions in the cities, and the good nourishment and outdoor life at Hachette go far to establish their health pemanently

Trudeau Sanitarium, Hachette. Dressing. Putting on his new shoes at Tr...

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

Am. hosp. military No. 1, Paris, wounded American soldiers with Red Cross nurse

Am. hosp. military No. 1, Paris, wounded American soldiers with Red Cr...

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

A game. Red Cross Hotel, 2 Rue Borghese

A game. Red Cross Hotel, 2 Rue Borghese

A consultatation with the manager of the Red Cross drivers' Hoetl at Neuilly. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Hin... More

Corps-men at Hospital #3 having "litter drill" Stretcher bearers drilling in the courtyard of American Military Hospital No. 5, Rue de Chevreuse, Paris. Before the war this was the home of a Club for American women art students under the patronage of Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, and has now been taken over by the AMERICAN RED CROSS as a hospital for American officers

Corps-men at Hospital #3 having "litter drill" Stretcher bearers drill...

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

The children saying grace before having luncheon under the trees 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

The children saying grace before having luncheon under the trees at La...

Caption from negative sleeve: Sanatorium of La Jonchere, near Paris. Lunch time under the trees. This institution is under the direction of Mrs. Bliss, and is for French, Belgian, and Alsatian orphans. Title, d... More

Patients enjoying a sun bath and a game of checkers in the Garden of General Malterre's Hospital for mutilated soldiers whose cases require repeated operations. The ARC has added a ward to this hospital

Patients enjoying a sun bath and a game of checkers in the Garden of G...

Caption from negative sleeve: Covalescent wounded French soldiers at Malaterre Hospital; Rue Edward Nortier, Neuilly. American Red Cross hospital barracks in background. Title, date and notes from Red Cross cap... More

At the Child Welfare Exhibit, St. Etienne, mothers studied the charts and demonstrations. Exhibit of Children's Bureau, ARC. July 1918

At the Child Welfare Exhibit, St. Etienne, mothers studied the charts ...

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

Hosp. Auteuil - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Hosp. Auteuil - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Title from negative or negative sleeve. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Hine. Date based on date of negatives in same range. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 ... More

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

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

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

Review of Boy Scouts in front of AMERICAN RED CROSS headquarters, 4 Place de la Concorde, Paris. These Scouts are loyal workers for the AMERICAN RED CROSS, being employed as messengers, office boys, etc

Review of Boy Scouts in front of AMERICAN RED CROSS headquarters, 4 Pl...

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 ARC. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 195... More

Miss Dorothy Gerberding, AMERICAN RED CROSS dietician, with two assistants preparing special diets in the kitchen of the School for professional re-education of the mutiles under the direction of the Union des Colonies Etrangeres on Favour des Victimes de la Guerre at 28 Avenue de Tokio, Paris

Miss Dorothy Gerberding, AMERICAN RED CROSS dietician, with two assist...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Hine. Group title: Re-Education of Mutiles. Gift; American National Red Cross 194... More

American Infantry marching down Avenue du President Wilson in the Fourth of July parade in Paris. Some of our wounded soldiers are watching the parade from the automobile on the right. July 1918

American Infantry marching down Avenue du President Wilson in the Four...

Troops. Avenue du President Wilson. Wounded boys in auto. Nurses watching. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Hine. ... More

American Red Cross man making friends with Belgian children at an American Hostel for refugees at 46 Rue du Dr. Blanche, Paris. June 1918

American Red Cross man making friends with Belgian children at an Amer...

Red Cross at home with the Belgian babes Maison de Repos, 46 Rue de Dr. Blanche American Hostels for Refugees. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from cap... More

The morning round, in a ward of the American Military Hospital No. 1, at Neuilly, which is supported by the American Red Cross

The morning round, in a ward of the American Military Hospital No. 1, ...

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

11 boys and 2 girls in Hillsboro are each taking a calf furnished by the County Farm Bureau on credit, - each agreeing to do the best to raise the calf and exhibit at the annual show. See Photo No. 90. Location: Pocahontas County--Hillsboro, West Virginia Photo by Lewis W. Hine

11 boys and 2 girls in Hillsboro are each taking a calf furnished by t...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Children in West Virginia. Hine no. 5111. Number typed in upper left corner of caption card: 91. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congre... More

Buckeye Graded School, - typical two-room consolidated school in Pocahontas Co. There are 15 like this. Very small playground and they are up against and in the fork of a main traveled road and branch road. One of the two school buildings abandoned to make this school was moved and turned into a woodshed. Oct. 6, 1921. Location: Pocahontas County, West Virginia Photo by L.W. Hine

Buckeye Graded School, - typical two-room consolidated school in Pocah...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Children in West Virginia. Hine no. 5025. Number typed in upper left corner of caption card: 5. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congres... More

A Product of the 4 H Club. Gradie Walton, 17 yrs. old. See Photo No. 40 and 41. Location: Pocahontas County, West Virginia Photo by Lewis W. Hine

A Product of the 4 H Club. Gradie Walton, 17 yrs. old. See Photo No. 4...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Children in West Virginia. Hine no. 5062. Number typed in upper left corner of caption card: 42. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congre... 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

Melville Mfg. Co., Cherryville, N.C. Location: Cherryville, North Carolina Photo by Lewis W. Hine

Melville Mfg. Co., Cherryville, N.C. Location: Cherryville, North Caro...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Mills. Hine no. 272. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the National ... More

Sweatshop of Mr. Goldstein 30 Suffolk St. Witness Mrs. L. Hosford. Location: New York, New York (State)

Sweatshop of Mr. Goldstein 30 Suffolk St. Witness Mrs. L. Hosford. Loc...

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

Bank Boss (on right) Brake Boy (in centre) Laura Mine, Red Star, West Virginia. Location: Red Star, West Virginia

Bank Boss (on right) Brake Boy (in centre) Laura Mine, Red Star, West ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Coal mines. Hine no. 168. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div... More

Noon hour, May 18 ?, 1909. Going to work in Great Falls Mfg. Co., Somersworth, N.H. Location: Somersworth, New Hampshire

Noon hour, May 18 ?, 1909. Going to work in Great Falls Mfg. Co., Some...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 804. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... 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

Noon hour, Amoskeag Mfg. Co. Manchester, N.H. Location: Manchester, New Hampshire

Noon hour, Amoskeag Mfg. Co. Manchester, N.H. Location: Manchester, Ne...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 800. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

One way to control the street boys. A common scene in the Bancroft-Foote Boys Club, New Haven, Conn. Location: New Haven, Connecticut

One way to control the street boys. A common scene in the Bancroft-Foo...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 649. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More

At the close of the day. Just up from the shaft. All work below ground in aPennsylvania Coal Mine. Smallest boy, next to right hand end is a nipper. On his right is Arthur, a driver, Jo on Arthur's right is a nipper. Frank, boy on left end of photo, is a nipper, works a mile underground from the shaft, which is 5000 Ft. down. Location: South Pittston?, Pennsylvania

At the close of the day. Just up from the shaft. All work below ground...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Coal mines. Hine no. 1915. No city or date recorded on caption card. Possibly South Pittston based on previous cards. Date based ... More

Newsie in cellar-room of a paper office in alley back of Main Street, waiting for evening papers, 4 P.M. Conditions here vile. Location: Rochester, New York (State)

Newsie in cellar-room of a paper office in alley back of Main Street, ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 1248. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

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