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Mule-spinning room, Chace Cotton Mill, Burlington, Vt. Edward Marcotte, a "back-roping boy" who has been here one year. See also photo and label #730. Location: Burlington, Vermont.

Mule-spinning room, Chace Cotton Mill, Burlington, Vt. Edward Marcotte...

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

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

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Robert Magee (smallest), 270 Suffolk St., apparently 12 years, been working in Mule Room #1 Merrimac Mill, Lowell, one year. Michael Keefe (next in size) 32 Marion St., been at work in #1 Mule Room, Merrimac Mill, Lowell, for eight months; apparently 13 years old. Cornelius Hurley, 298 Adams St., been at work in #1 Mule Room, Merrimac Mill, Lowell, for six months; about 13 or 14 probably. Location: Salem, Massachusetts.

Robert Magee (smallest), 270 Suffolk St., apparently 12 years, been wo...

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Florence Valentino, 12 yrs. old, and sister Jennie, working on crochet hats in dirty kitchen tenement, 3126 Jerome Ave. (Bronx). They make heavy hats, muffs, scarfs, slippers, etc. Jennie, 15 yrs. old, works in a Tremont Av. factory part of the time. Can make 1Πdozen heavy hats in half a day. Florence makes five hats in half a day, being in school only half a day. Have been at it one year. Location: New York, New York (State)

Florence Valentino, 12 yrs. old, and sister Jennie, working on crochet...

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A Kincaider who is still proving his claim with one year to go. Pennington County, South Dakota

A Kincaider who is still proving his claim with one year to go. Pennin...

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Delta cooperative farm cabins and cotton. Hillhouse, Mississippi, after one year of operation

Delta cooperative farm cabins and cotton. Hillhouse, Mississippi, afte...

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One year of reciprocal aid. Australia has undertaken to expand the production and processing of her food, to supply the American armed forces in the Solomons, New Guinea, New Caledonia and the New Hebrides, in addition to those on the Australian mainland. Dried fruit is shown here, before being shipped to the fighting men

One year of reciprocal aid. Australia has undertaken to expand the pro...

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Young Driver in Mine: Had been driving one year. (7 A.M. to 5:30 P.M. Daily) Brown Mine, Brown , West Virginia. Location: Brown, West Virginia.

Young Driver in Mine: Had been driving one year. (7 A.M. to 5:30 P.M. ...

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Group of boys who work at the Brown Shoe Factory. Charlie Hopson, surely under 14, has been working there one year. Harry True, probably under 14, been working there one year. Harold Hopson appears to be under 14. Noon hour. Location: Moberly, Missouri.

Group of boys who work at the Brown Shoe Factory. Charlie Hopson, sure...

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Group of Workers in Peerless Box Co., Washington, Mo. Smallest one is Henry Grumpenberger. Been working there one year. Location: Washington, Missouri.

Group of Workers in Peerless Box Co., Washington, Mo. Smallest one is ...

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

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

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Lloyd McAbee been doffing several months in the Spartan Mill, Spartenberg [sic], S.C. His step brother Walter Brown been working for one year. The parents said they couldn't find the family record, that the boys were 12 and 13 years old. The father works the farm 3 miles away. Sister in the mill. Mother wouldn't be photographed. (See family group 2989.) Location: Spartanburg, South Carolina.

Lloyd McAbee been doffing several months in the Spartan Mill, Spartenb...

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Family of Manuel Mederas, 71 Davis St., Has been a sweeper for one year in Nashawena Mill; he says he gets six dollars a week. Has lived in New Bedford six years. His father, Joseph, works in the mill too. Home well kept. His brothers are 10 and 12 years old. Compare with Manuel. It was a bitter cold day and Manuel went to and from the mill with no overcoat nor muffler. "Gee, It's cold!". Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Family of Manuel Mederas, 71 Davis St., Has been a sweeper for one yea...

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Left hand boy is Broadus McCoy been sweeping one year, Cherry St. Makes 40 cents a day sweeping in the Belton Mfg. Co., Belton S.C. The family bible record said he has just reached 11 years (born April 5, 1901) so he was working at 10 years old. Father a carpenter. 13 year old sister spins. Right hand boy is Milton Homicutt [i.e., Honicutt?] been working one month. Belton Mfg. Co. 40 cents a day. Family bible record said born April 9, 1900 but it was plainly erased and changed from 1901 so he has just reached 11 years. The larger boy has been doffing two years there. Location: Belton, South Carolina.

Left hand boy is Broadus McCoy been sweeping one year, Cherry St. Make...

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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

A 12 year old girl who had been working in Weave room of Consolidated Duck Mill, La Grange, Ga., for one year and helping to support a father who works when sober. Location: La Grange, Georgia.

A 12 year old girl who had been working in Weave room of Consolidated ...

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John Huggins. Said he is fourteen years old and has been doffing for eight months in the Guadalupe Valley Cotton Mills. Violation of law. Gets a dollar a day now. Before he came here, he worked in the cotton mill at West, Tex., for five or six years. Said boys work in the Cuero mill under age. "They don't even bother to ask your age. Didn't ask mine. Easy 'nuff to git a job." The mills were not running on account of floods this week. I found only one other boy under age. - "Spider" Estes said he is fourteen years old and been working here, doffing, one year. Location: Cuero, Texas.

John Huggins. Said he is fourteen years old and has been doffing for e...

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Millie May Crews [?] (in front of her father) 369 B Street. She has been working in the weave room for one year. Began at eleven years. Just reached twelve according to Family Record which says she was born November 12, 1901. These two girls and one who is sick work in the Merrimack Mill. Father is a carpenter. See Hine report. Location: Huntsville, Alabama.

Millie May Crews [?] (in front of her father) 369 B Street. She has be...

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One year of reciprocal aid. Australia has built many facilities for the American forces, including airfields, barracks and motor vehicles. Here is shown the largest airfield in Australia, covering some forty square miles, with repair hangers, workshops and living quarters. This is one of 100 such fields built in Australia to service the U.S. planes

One year of reciprocal aid. Australia has built many facilities for th...

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One year of reciprocal aid. Labor resources of New Zealand, with its total population of less than 2,000,000 persons, have been strained by the demands of wartime and her women have turned to the farms and the factories to assure production of food and facilities for the American soldiers in the South Pacific

One year of reciprocal aid. Labor resources of New Zealand, with its t...

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One year of reciprocal aid. Australian sheep are producing wool for replacement uniforms for American soldiers and nurses, thus saving valuable shipping space for carrying munitions and supplies from the United States. They fill two roles in the war effort as hundreds of thousands of pounds of Australian mutton are served annually in the American soldiers' mess

One year of reciprocal aid. Australian sheep are producing wool for re...

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National Child Labor Committee. No. 191. Frank, a Miner Boy, going home. About 14 years old: has worked in the mine helping father pick and load for three years: was in hospital one year, when leg had been crushed by coal car

National Child Labor Committee. No. 191. Frank, a Miner Boy, going hom...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Coal mines. Hine no. 191. Caption card records date as "Oct. 1906," but surrounding cards would suggest 1908? No location recorde... More

Payne Cotton Mill, Macon, Ga. See photo and label 538. Girl with dropping eyes and hands on hips has been helping one year. Jan. 20, 1909. Location: Macon, Georgia

Payne Cotton Mill, Macon, Ga. See photo and label 538. Girl with dropp...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 542. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Andrew Stefanik, (on right hand). (see label 2637). Arthur Asslin, (on left) 118 Front St. Been working here one year. May be 14 or 15. Location: Chicopee, Massachusetts.

Andrew Stefanik, (on right hand). (see label 2637). Arthur Asslin, (on...

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5:30 A.M. Boys working in Bates Mfg. Co. Youngest one has been there one year. Location: Lewiston, Maine / Lewis W. Hine.

5:30 A.M. Boys working in Bates Mfg. Co. Youngest one has been there o...

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Royal Mills workers. Front Row; --Spinners: Left hand end, Simplis Leon (one year in mill); next Manuel Silvey (2 years in mill); next John Enos (2 years in mill). Back row;--Doffers etc. Some have been in mill 5 years and more. Left hand, Louis Silvey next Jesse Miller, next Manuel Fratos, next Tony Raposo, next Tony Furtado, next Manuel Brazil. Location: River Point, Rhode Island.

Royal Mills workers. Front Row; --Spinners: Left hand end, Simplis Leo...

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Nerva Wright, 119 William St., runs 4 sides in Saxon Mill, Spartenberg sic, S.C. Been spinning one year. 3 children are in the mill. "My eyes hurt me when I'm out doors. It's so dark in the spinnin room." Location: Spartanburg, South Carolina

Nerva Wright, 119 William St., runs 4 sides in Saxon Mill, Spartenberg...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2978. City recorded at top of caption card as "Spartanberg." Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collecti... More

Nerva Wright, 119 William St., runs 4 sides in Saxon Mill, Spartenberg [sic], S.C. Been spinning one year. 3 children are in the mill. "My eyes hurt me when I'm out doors. It's so dark in the spinnin room." Location: Spartanburg, South Carolina.

Nerva Wright, 119 William St., runs 4 sides in Saxon Mill, Spartenberg...

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Gladys Goodrum, 116 Short Street, Columbus, Ga. Said 12 years old. Seen working nearly one year as looper in Massey Hosiery Mill. Makes $9. a week sometimes. Location: Columbus, Gerogia.

Gladys Goodrum, 116 Short Street, Columbus, Ga. Said 12 years old. See...

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One year of reciprocal aid. Australian beef cattle on the long trek that leads to an American Army mess. Under reciprocal lend-lease, our armed forces have received from Australia 26,900,000 pounds of beaf and veal, lamb, mutton and pork, 20,000,000 pounds of potatoes, 1,800,000 dozens of eggs and 5,464,000 quarts of milk, and many other foodstuffs

One year of reciprocal aid. Australian beef cattle on the long trek th...

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One year of reciprocal aid. Australian beef cattle on the long trek that leads to an American Army mess. Under reciprocal lend-lease, our armed forces have received from Australia 26,900,000 pounds of beaf and veal, lamb, mutton and pork, 20,000,000 pounds of potatoes, 1,800,000 dozens of eggs and 5,464,000 quarts of milk, and many other foodstuffs

One year of reciprocal aid. Australian beef cattle on the long trek th...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Image source: Official Australian photo. Title and other information from caption card. Trans... More

Launching of 10,000 ton ships. The first of 90 sister ships to be built for the Maritime Commission slides off the dock into the Atlantic. Launched just one year from the time construction work started on the shipyards, this 10,000 ton vessel is of the "Virginia Dare" type. In the future these ships will slide down the runway at the rate of one per week. From laying of keel to launching takes only 90 days

Launching of 10,000 ton ships. The first of 90 sister ships to be buil...

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Japanese-American volunteers. Alumnus of Purdue University, Charles R. Yokochi, thirty-one, of Makaweli, Kauai, was one of the first AJA [Americans of Japanese ancestry] volunteers in the territory to take his physical examination when he went up with other registrants of ocal board no. 2, Lihue Armory. Tokochi was at Purdue from 1931 to 1935 and served two years in the ROTC (Reserve Officer Training Corps) artillery corps there. He had previously attended the University of Hawaii for one year and was a member of the ROTC there too. Formerly with the Honolulu City and County Bureau of Plans and Board of Water Supply, Yokochi was employed on Kauai as superintendent by the Nawiliwili Transportation Company

Japanese-American volunteers. Alumnus of Purdue University, Charles R....

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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

[Michael Mero, 2 West 4th St., Bootblack, 12 years of age, working one year of own volition. Don't smoke. Out after 11 P.M. on May 21, Ordinarily works 6 hours per day.] Location: Wilmington, Delaware.

[Michael Mero, 2 West 4th St., Bootblack, 12 years of age, working one...

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Newsboy. Little Fattie. Less than 40 inches high, 6 years old. Been at it one year. May 9th, 1910. Location: St. Louis, Missouri.

Newsboy. Little Fattie. Less than 40 inches high, 6 years old. Been at...

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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...

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Andrew Stefanik, (on right hand). (see label 2637). Arthur Asslin, (on left) 118 Front St. Been working here one year. May be 14 or 15. Location: Chicopee, Massachusetts.

Andrew Stefanik, (on right hand). (see label 2637). Arthur Asslin, (on...

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Youngest girl in the window has been spinning in Royal Mill, River Point, R.I. for one year. Girl standing on lower step has been spinning 3 years. Some of the others work also. Location: River Point, Rhode Island.

Youngest girl in the window has been spinning in Royal Mill, River Poi...

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

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

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

Doffer boys in Knoxville Cotton Mill. Smallest boy said he had been working there one year. Location: Knoxville, Tennessee.

Doffer boys in Knoxville Cotton Mill. Smallest boy said he had been wo...

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Elwood Palmer Cooper, 838 French St. (colored). Helper on miller's wagon. 7 years of age. Helper for one year. Carries bags of flour, weighing 25 pounds, from wagon to stores. Receives 25 cents per week. Money not needed at home. Wants money to spend. Investigator, Edward F. Brown. Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Lewis W. Hine, May 1910.

Elwood Palmer Cooper, 838 French St. (colored). Helper on miller's wag...

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

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

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

Joseph Frank Nugent, 22 Howard St., works in Department 8A of Dennison's Factory; makes paper boxes; "I nip the covers." "One year there, 'bout time for a raise." Location: South Framingham, Massachusetts.

Joseph Frank Nugent, 22 Howard St., works in Department 8A of Dennison...

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John Huggins. Said he is fourteen years old and has been doffing for eight months in the Guadalupe Valley Cotton Mills. Violation of law. Gets a dollar a day now. Before he came here, he worked in the cotton mill at West, Tex., for five or six years. Said boys work in the Cuero mill under age. "They don't even bother to ask your age. Didn't ask mine. Easy 'nuff to git a job." The mills were not running on account of floods this week. I found only one other boy under age, "Spider" Estes said he is fourteen years old and been working here, doffing one year. Location: Cuero, Texas.

John Huggins. Said he is fourteen years old and has been doffing for e...

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A 12 year old girl who has been working in Weave room of Conslidated [i.e., Consolidated] Duck Mills, La Grange, Ga., for one year and helping to support a father who works when sober. Location: La Grange, Georgia.

A 12 year old girl who has been working in Weave room of Conslidated [...

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"Renters." Itinerant Texas farmers who rent a farm for a year or so and then move on, giving them nomadic habits and everything is temporary. House unpainted and ill-cared for. The children from five years old up pick cotton and help with the farm work, but get little or no schooling. It is estimated by State University that 300,000 children are thus affected in Texas alone. See Hine report Texas. Beginning with the five year old girl here who picks some, all work including the women. The nine year old girl picks one hundred and fifty pounds a day. Father is in town. Farm comprises fifty acres, and they get about twenty bales of cotton this year, which is not a good year. Been here one year. Farm of J.W. Vaughn. Route 6. Location: Corsicana, Texas.

"Renters." Itinerant Texas farmers who rent a farm for a year or so an...

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Your blood is bad means you have syphilis You can give it to others through sexual intercourse and in other ways : You must keep up treatments for at least six months to one year following infection : Consult a reputable physician.

Your blood is bad means you have syphilis You can give it to others th...

Poster encouraging persons with syphilis to seek proper treatment and continue in treatment for at least one year, showing a test tube with blood. Date stamped on verso: Jun 4 1937. Work Projects Administration... More

Dust bowl farmer driving tractor with young son, near Cland, New Mexico. "I left cotton growing east of Wichita Falls to come out here to get to grow wheat. (The superior status of wheat over cotton farmers is traditional.) I guess I've made 1000 miles right up and down this field in the dust when you couldn't see that car on the road, and had to use headlights. This soil is the best there is anywhere, but it sure does blow when it's right. If you stay in the house and wait for the dust to stop you won't make a crop. But I"ve seen only one year since I came here in 1920 that I didn't make something"

Dust bowl farmer driving tractor with young son, near Cland, New Mexic...

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Miss Selma Barbour, manager of the Cecilian Specialty Hat Shop, 454 East 47th Street. Miss Barbour has been managing this store for one year, and has been in business for four years. She was born in New Orleans, and has eight brothers, seven of whom are eligible for the Army. Chicago, Illinois

Miss Selma Barbour, manager of the Cecilian Specialty Hat Shop, 454 Ea...

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[Michael Mero, 2 West 4th St., Bootblack, 12 years of age, working one year of own volition. Don't smoke. Out after 11 P.M. on May 21, Ordinarily works 6 hours per day.] Location: Wilmington, Delaware.

[Michael Mero, 2 West 4th St., Bootblack, 12 years of age, working one...

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Michael Mero, 2 West 4th St. Bootblack, 12 years of age, working one year of own volition. Don't smoke. Out after 11 P.M. on May 21. Ordinarily works 6 hours per day. Location: Wilmington, Delaware.

Michael Mero, 2 West 4th St. Bootblack, 12 years of age, working one y...

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These are all breaker-boys. (See photos taken at Ewen Breaker, later.) They were very suspicious of my motives. Sam Bellom (boy on left end of photo), 58 Pine Street. Been working in breaker #9 for two years, he says. He says, also, that he is 14 years old, but does not appear to be? Sam Topent (next to Bellom), 52 Pine Street. Been working at Ewen Breaker two years. Said, "I'm fourteen years, an' if you don' believe me, I kin show you de proofs." (They were all suspicious.) This boy had told the School Principal the other day that he was 13 years old, which may be too high. James Ritz (in middle), 28 Pine Street. Been working one year at Ewen Breaker. Said "14 years old," but this is unbelievable. Mikey Captan (small boy on James' left) 45 Pine St. Been working one year at Ewen Breaker, said he was 12 years old, but doesn't appear to be that. Tony Captan (right end of photo), 45 Pine St. Been working in Ewen Breaker one year. I found these boys and many others, working at Ewen Breaker, and photographed them (see photos). Boy on extreme right end of photo is Jo Topent, 52 Pine St. Been working at Ewen Breaker two years. Said he was 14 years old but does not appear to be. He was very suspicious of me and refused to be in first photo. Location: Pittston, Pennsylvania.

These are all breaker-boys. (See photos taken at Ewen Breaker, later.)...

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Thomas Alverriere in front row left hand of picture, 42 Prince street, appears 12 years old, has done one year of work here. Speaks no English. Alderio (or Alden) Sylvester, (next to Thomas) 210 Moody St. Works in spinning room. Majorique Boncalir [i.e., Bonclair] (in middle of front row), 42 Prince St., been in the spinning room 3 years. Cannot spell name of the mill. Said she [i.e., he] was 11 yrs. old. Location: Lowell, Massachusetts.

Thomas Alverriere in front row left hand of picture, 42 Prince street,...

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"Renters." Itinerant Texas farmers who rent a farm for a year or so and then move on, giving them nomadic habits and everything is temporary. House unpainted and ill-cared for. The children from five years old upward pick cotton and help with the farm work, but get little or no schooling. It is estimated by State University that 300,000 children are thus affected in Texas alone. See Hine report Texas. Beginning with the five year old girl here who picks some, all work including the women. The nine year old girl picks one hundred and fifty pounds a day. Father is in town. Farm comprises fifty acres and they get about twenty bales of cotton, this year which is not a good year. Been here one year. Farm of J.W. Vaughn. Route 6. Location: Corsicana, Texas.

"Renters." Itinerant Texas farmers who rent a farm for a year or so an...

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Tiny, seven year old oyster shucker (Henry's sister, No. 3291) does not go to school. Works steady. Been at it one year. Maggioni Canning Co. Location: Port Royal, South Carolina.

Tiny, seven year old oyster shucker (Henry's sister, No. 3291) does no...

An old photo of a young boy standing in front of a pile of rubble. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

James Boulware, doffer in Manchester Mill, Rock Hill, said 13 years, working off and on 3 years. Charlie Rhoades, 12 years old, one year working, 75 cents a day. Couldn't write his name. Location: Rock Hill, [South Carolina]

James Boulware, doffer in Manchester Mill, Rock Hill, said 13 years, w...

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Launching of 10,000 ton ships. Carolina Shipbuilding Company. One year ago this bustling shipyard was a river bog. Partial view of newly-constructed shipyards on the south-east Atlantic Coast, which are soon to be turning out one 10,000 ton cargo vessel every week for 90 weeks, a goal set by the U.S. Maritime Commission

Launching of 10,000 ton ships. Carolina Shipbuilding Company. One year...

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Lititz, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Julian Bachman shopping. She's twenty-three has been married one year, and works at the animal trap company from 7 to 4. Her husband is in Officers' Candidate School of the U.S. Army Air Corps in Kentucky, so she lives with her parents

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Julian Bachman shopping. She's twenty-three...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Michael Mero, 2 West 4th St., Bootblack, 12 years of age, working one year of own volition. Don't smoke. Out after 11 P.M. on May 21, Ordinarily works 6 hours per day. Location: Wilmington, Delaware

Michael Mero, 2 West 4th St., Bootblack, 12 years of age, working one ...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 1502. Hine no. 1503. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prin... More

Newsboy. Little Fattie. Less than 40 inches high, 6 years old. Been at it one year. May 9th, 1910. Location: St. Louis, Missouri.

Newsboy. Little Fattie. Less than 40 inches high, 6 years old. Been at...

An old black and white photo of a boy holding a bunch of papers. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

John Pento, 14 years old, has been selling for 7 years. Daniel and Angelo, are his twin brothers. They are 7 years old and been selling one year. Sell until 8 P.M. some nights. Location: Hartford, Connecticut.

John Pento, 14 years old, has been selling for 7 years. Daniel and Ang...

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This boy has been working in Warren Mfg. Co., Warren , R.I., one year. June 10, 1909. Location: Warren, Rhode Island.

This boy has been working in Warren Mfg. Co., Warren , R.I., one year....

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

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

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

All work in Delta Cotton Mills, Mc Comb, Miss. Smallest boy, a band boy, Johnnie Mathews, apparently only ten or eleven, but his mother assured me 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 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...

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

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

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

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

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

Bob Cook and Emmett Capps. Bob works in spinn[in]g 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 spinn[in]g room #2. Said he ha...

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[Eleven-year old Elizabeth who has been working in the sugar beets near Ordway, Colorado, for one year. The family moved here from Southern Russia three years ago. She said: "I don't like the work so much." See Hine Report, Colorado Beet Workers, July 1915.] Location: [Ordway vicinity, Colorado]

[Eleven-year old Elizabeth who has been working in the sugar beets nea...

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Pauline M. McVey (1723 G St., N.W., Wash. D.C.) a graduate of the Providence Hospital Training School, Washington, D.C. on staff of Washington Instruction Visiting Nurses' Association (one year) Supervisor, Wash. Visiting Nurse Association (Wash. D.C. six months), served under the A.E.F., Toul Sector, American front, France

Pauline M. McVey (1723 G St., N.W., Wash. D.C.) a graduate of the Prov...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC. Group title: Personnel. Used in: Dr. Green 3,1919 Gift; American National Re... More

Trailer house owned by Clifford Blum. They lived in this for one year while he was farming eighty acres without buildings

Trailer house owned by Clifford Blum. They lived in this for one year ...

One year of reciprocal aid. American soldiers can obtain British and American goods in commissary sale stores (better known as post exchanges) throughout the United Kingdom. All the British made foods, including some items as candy chocolate, medicaments and note paper, are given cash-free as reciprocal aid. Such payments as the soldiers make go to the U.S. Army Finance Department

One year of reciprocal aid. American soldiers can obtain British and A...

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One year of reciprocal aid. British labor has built hundreds of camps such as this, as part of a tremendous program to provide the American soldiers arriving in Britain. Hospitals, airfields, munitions, planes, and equipment of all kinds are included. Supplies given us by Britain in six months, exclusive of construction materials, would have required 1,200,000 ship-tons of space if transported from the United States

One year of reciprocal aid. British labor has built hundreds of camps ...

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These are all breaker-boys. (See photos taken at Ewen Breaker, later.) They were very suspicious of my motives. Sam Bellom (boy on left end of photo), 58 Pine Street. Been working in breaker #9 for two years, he says. He says, also, that he is 14 years old, but does not appear to be? Sam Topent (next to Bellom), 52 Pine Street. Been working at Ewen Breaker two years. Said, "I'm fourteen years, an' if you don' believe me, I kin show you de proofs." (They were all suspicious.) This boy had told the School Principal the other day that he was 13 years old, which may be too high. James Ritz (in middle), 28 Pine Street. Been working one year at Ewen Breaker. Said "14 years old," but this is unbelievable. Mikey Captan (small boy on James' left) 45 Pine St. Been working one year at Ewen Breaker, said he was 12 years old, but doesn't appear to be that. Tony Captan (right end of photo), 45 Pine St. Been working in Ewen Breaker one year. I found these boys and many others, working at Ewen Breaker, and photographed them (see photos). Boy on extreme right end of photo is Jo Topent, 52 Pine St. Been working at Ewen Breaker two years. Said he was 14 years old but does not appear to be. He was very suspicious of me and refused to be in first photo. Location: Pittston, Pennsylvania.

These are all breaker-boys. (See photos taken at Ewen Breaker, later.)...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

This boy has been working in Warren Mfg. Co., Warren , R.I., one year. June 10, 1909. Location: Warren, Rhode Island.

This boy has been working in Warren Mfg. Co., Warren , R.I., one year....

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Monongah Glass Co., Fairmont, West Virginia. Jo Before a glass wks boy going home, 5 P.M. He says he is 12 years old, and has been at it one year: is a "ketchin-up-boy" $.70 a day: says glass business is all right. Asked if he was going to be a glassblower when he grows up, he said "Sure!" (See 185) Goes to school during school term: asked is [sic] he had to, he answered "Don't unless I want to" asked why he went then, said "Want to learns something." 1908. Location: Fairmont, West Virginia.

Monongah Glass Co., Fairmont, West Virginia. Jo Before a glass wks boy...

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National Child Labor Committee. No. 191. Frank, a Miner Boy, going home. About 14 years old: has worked in the mine helping father pick and load for three years: was in hospital one year, when leg had been crushed by coal car.

National Child Labor Committee. No. 191. Frank, a Miner Boy, going hom...

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Mrs. Lawrence Townsend at the fourth annual rummage sale of the Child Welfare Society trims discarded hats for the price of one year's milk supply for a Washington baby

Mrs. Lawrence Townsend at the fourth annual rummage sale of the Child ...

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

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

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Carl Harden, doffer in Tupelo (Miss.) Cotton Mills. Said he was fourteen, but I doubt it. Couldn't write his own name. Been working in different mills about one year. Location: Tupelo, Mississippi.

Carl Harden, doffer in Tupelo (Miss.) Cotton Mills. Said he was fourte...

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A study of ages. The boy on the right said, "I ain't old enough to work in the mill; I am ten years." The boy in the middle, Buford Fox who has been working in the Merrimack Mills for one year said he was twelve years old, but School Record says ten years. Sanford Franklin, boy on the left has been working four months, and I could not prove his age. Merrimack Mfg. Co. See also Hine report. Location: Huntsville, Alabama.

A study of ages. The boy on the right said, "I ain't old enough to wor...

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The Fairbanks family has moved to three different places on the project in one year. Willow Creek area, Malheur County, Oregon. General caption number 66

The Fairbanks family has moved to three different places on the projec...

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Launching of 10,000 ton ships. The first of 90 sister ships to be built for the Maritime Commission slides off the dock into the Atlantic. Launched just one year from the time construction work started on the shipyards, this 10,000 ton vessel is of the "Virginia Dare" type. In the future these ships will slide down the runway at the rate of one per week. From laying of keel to launching takes only 90 days

Launching of 10,000 ton ships. The first of 90 sister ships to be buil...

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Thanksgiving, 1942. American workers give up the holiday to speed victory. The Blackwelder family celebrated Thanksgiving at their benches in a Glenn Martin Company plant. William P. Blackwelder works in the tool crib of the plane factory, and his wife and daughter are riveters. A son, Frank, in the Navy for one year, has been wounded four times. He has been awarded several medals

Thanksgiving, 1942. American workers give up the holiday to speed vict...

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Rushing the SS George Washington Carver to completion. Negro skilled workers played an important part in the construction of the SS George Washington Carver, second Liberty Ship named for a Negro, in the Richmond Shipyard No. 1 of the Kaiser Company. The first Negro to receive the Anchorman Award was I.H. Perry, a mechanic driller who worked for one year and one week without an unofficial day off or a single tardiness in reporting for work. Perry, forty-one years old, attended the pipe fitters school in Richmond after coming to California from his native Saint Louis, Missouri

Rushing the SS George Washington Carver to completion. Negro skilled w...

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A black and white photo of a man laying in a bed. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man laying in a bed. Office of War Inform...

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5:30 A.M. Boys working in Bates Mfg. Co. Youngest one has been there one year. Location: Lewiston, Maine Lewis W. Hine

5:30 A.M. Boys working in Bates Mfg. Co. Youngest one has been there o...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Mills. Hine no. 713. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the National ... More

Michael Mero, 2 West 4th St., Bootblack, 12 years of age, working one year of own volition. Don't smoke. Out after 11 P.M. on May 21, Ordinarily works 6 hours per day. Location: Wilmington, Delaware

Michael Mero, 2 West 4th St., Bootblack, 12 years of age, working one ...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 1502. Hine no. 1503. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prin... More

National Child Labor Committee. No. 191. Frank, a Miner Boy, going home. About 14 years old: has worked in the mine helping father pick and load for three years: was in hospital one year, when leg had been crushed by coal car.

National Child Labor Committee. No. 191. Frank, a Miner Boy, going hom...

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"Renters." Itinerant Texas farmers who rent a farm for a year or so and then move on, giving them nomadic habits and everything is temporary. House unpainted and ill-cared for. The children from five years old upward pick cotton and help with the farm work, but get little or no schooling. It is estimated by State University that 300,000 children are thus affected in Texas alone. See Hine report Texas. Beginning with the five year old girl here who picks some, all work including the women. The nine year old girl picks one hundred and fifty pounds a day. Father is in town. Farm comprises fifty acres and they get about twenty bales of cotton, this year which is not a good year. Been here one year. Farm of J.W. Vaughn. Route 6. Location: Corsicana, Texas.

"Renters." Itinerant Texas farmers who rent a farm for a year or so an...

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8 P.M. Smallest boy, Sammie Kaplen, 8 years old. Next, James Welled, 8 years old, been at it half a year. Next, Ben Kosmitsky, 13 years old, one year at work. Next, Sam Kaplen, 14 years old, two years at work. Location: Hartford, Connecticut.

8 P.M. Smallest boy, Sammie Kaplen, 8 years old. Next, James Welled, 8...

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Panama-Pacific International Exposition, Feb. 20, 1914, one year before opening day

Panama-Pacific International Exposition, Feb. 20, 1914, one year befor...

J190376 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; W. Wesley Swadley; March 3, 1914. On front: "White lines indicate the skyline of the exposition when finished". Landmarks labeled on image.

Western Washington, Grays Harbor County, northeast of Elma. Hand irrigation on small rented subsistence farm. Family have been on place for one year

Western Washington, Grays Harbor County, northeast of Elma. Hand irrig...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

One year of reciprocal aid. Flight Lieutenant Clifford Taite, Royal Air Force (RAF) takes Captain James R. Hendry, U.S. Army Air Force through the British experts' dossier on a German aircraft that fell into British hands. Reciprocal aid includes information whose value cannot be estimated in terms of money and which has been obtained at a cost measured in thousands of lives and three years of hard fighting

One year of reciprocal aid. Flight Lieutenant Clifford Taite, Royal Ai...

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National Child Labor Committee. No. 191. Frank, a Miner Boy, going home. About 14 years old: has worked in the mine helping father pick and load for three years: was in hospital one year, when leg had been crushed by coal car

National Child Labor Committee. No. 191. Frank, a Miner Boy, going hom...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Coal mines. Hine no. 191. Caption card records date as "Oct. 1906," but surrounding cards would suggest 1908? No location recorde... More

Newsboy. Little Fattie. Less than 40 inches high, 6 years old. Been at it one year. May 9th, 1910. Location: St. Louis, Missouri.

Newsboy. Little Fattie. Less than 40 inches high, 6 years old. Been at...

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Newsboy. Little Fattie. Less than 40 inches high, 6 years old. Been at it one year. May 9th, 1910. Location: St. Louis, Missouri.

Newsboy. Little Fattie. Less than 40 inches high, 6 years old. Been at...

A black and white photo of a little girl holding a book. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

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

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 1094. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Wren[?] Sinper said she is 12 years old, been spinning one year. Manchester Mill, Rock Hill, S.C. Said Nannie works in the winding room. Location: Rock Hill, South Carolina.

Wren[?] Sinper said she is 12 years old, been spinning one year. Manch...

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Bob Cook. Works in the Beaumont Mills, Spartenberg sic, S.C. The youngest boy on the right hand end is Bob Cook 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 other boys are questionable. Location: Spartanburg, South Carolina

Bob Cook. Works in the Beaumont Mills, Spartenberg sic, S.C. The young...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2999. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

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