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Noon Hour In an Indianapolis Cotton Mill, Aug., 1908. Wit., E. N. Clopper.  Location: Indianapolis, Indiana.

Noon Hour In an Indianapolis Cotton Mill, Aug., 1908. Wit., E. N. Clop...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph group portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Noon hour. Goodall Worsted Co., Sanford, Me. These are not the youngest. Young girls too. Location: Sanford, Maine

Noon hour. Goodall Worsted Co., Sanford, Me. These are not the younges...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 704. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Noon-hour at Riverside Cotton Mills, Danville, Va. All are workers. The Supt., who posed them, said, "Be sure not to get any little dinner-toters in the photo. We have none working under fourteen." I did see some but not many.  Location: Danville, Virginia.

Noon-hour at Riverside Cotton Mills, Danville, Va. All are workers. Th...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a child labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dog team resting by an iceberg

Dog team resting by an iceberg

Photograph shows two men resting with a dogsled team near an iceberg, during the British Antarctic Expedition. J195188 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 80. Copyright 1914 August 14, by Herbert G. Ponting. Blind stam... More

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

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

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

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

Noon hour, Delta Cotton Mills, Mc Comb, Miss. All work. Location: McC...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Modern illustrated sheets with pictorial envelope]

[Modern illustrated sheets with pictorial envelope]

Each illustration, including front of envelope, is signed with Japanese characters and chops. Japanese text appears in the left and right margins of the eight printed sheets. Gift; Oliver Wendell Holmes; 1935.... More

Lunch hour. Singer Mfg. Co., The boys works there: girl carries lunch.  Location: South Bend, Indiana.

Lunch hour. Singer Mfg. Co., The boys works there: girl carries lunch....

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, economic conditions, children workers, exploitation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Puck magazine cover - A little suggestion / J.S. Pughe.

Puck magazine cover - A little suggestion / J.S. Pughe.

Print shows President McKinley taking a break to smoke a cigar while a wax figure sits at his desk to suggest that he is hard at work reviewing applications from office seekers who are clamoring in the backgrou... More

Noon hour at Delta Cotton Mills, Mc Comb, Miss. The tiny spinner pushing into the doorway tried to avoid me.  Location: McComb, Mississippi.

Noon hour at Delta Cotton Mills, Mc Comb, Miss. The tiny spinner pushi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of girl workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Noon hour ball-game at Quidwick Co. Hill, Anthony, R. I. All of them work in the mill. Note the boy nearest.  Location: Anthony, Rhode Island.

Noon hour ball-game at Quidwick Co. Hill, Anthony, R. I. All of them w...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a picnic in the park, outdoor activity, leisure time, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

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

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

Noon hour at the Dallas Cotton Mill.  Location: Dallas, Texas.

Noon hour at the Dallas Cotton Mill. Location: Dallas, Texas.

Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Going home to lunch! Two boys from Singer Mfg. Co., Small boy -- Charles Bailey, 316 Scholum St., Is he Fourteen years old?.  Location: South Bend, Indiana.

Going home to lunch! Two boys from Singer Mfg. Co., Small boy -- Charl...

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

Noon Hour. Workers in Enterprize [sic?] Cotton Mill, Augusta, Ga. The wheels are kept running through noon hour (which is only 40 minutes) so employees may be tempted to put in part of this time at machine if they wish.  Location: Augusta, Georgia.

Noon Hour. Workers in Enterprize [sic?] Cotton Mill, Augusta, Ga. The ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a child labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

One of the young workers in Indian Head Mills. Going to work at noon-hour.  Location: Cordova, Alabama.

One of the young workers in Indian Head Mills. Going to work at noon-h...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A group of shrimp pickers in Peerless Oyster Co., working during the short noon recess. Many workers, including the children, utilize part of the lunch time this way, when there is a lunch time allowed. In many canneries, they snatch their lunches as best they may while the work goes on and others are getting ahead of them.  Location: Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.

A group of shrimp pickers in Peerless Oyster Co., working during the s...

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

Noon hour at the Dallas Cotton Mill. Location: Dallas, Texas

Noon hour at the Dallas Cotton Mill. Location: Dallas, Texas

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 3603. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Kerr Thread. Young workers on Ball Ground at noon. Two leagues - Junior and Senior. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts Lewis W. Hine

Kerr Thread. Young workers on Ball Ground at noon. Two leagues - Junio...

In album: Mills. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 4212. Hine no. 4215. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information ... More

Noon hour, Quidwick Mill, Anthony, R.I. Location: Anthony, Rhode Island

Noon hour, Quidwick Mill, Anthony, R.I. Location: Anthony, Rhode Islan...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 666. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

One of the young spinners in the Quidwick Co. Mill. Anthony, R. I. (A Polish boy Willie) who was taking his noon rest in a doffer-box. Location: Anthony, Rhode Island

One of the young spinners in the Quidwick Co. Mill. Anthony, R. I. (A ...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 668. Hine no. 669. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Pho... 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...

Picryl description: Public domain image of boy workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Going home to lunch! Two boys from Singer Mfg. Co., Small boy -- Charles Bailey, 316 Scholum St., Is he Fourteen years old?. Location: South Bend, Indiana

Going home to lunch! Two boys from Singer Mfg. Co., Small boy -- Charl...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 231. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More

Noon hour Brookside Cotton Mills. Not the smallest youngsters. Location: Knoxville, Tennessee

Noon hour Brookside Cotton Mills. Not the smallest youngsters. Locatio...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 1908. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

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

Noon Hour in a Furniture Factory, Indianapolis, Aug., 1908. Wit., E. N...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

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

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. L...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Noon hour, King Mfg. Co., Augusta, Ga. See photos 500 to 509.  Location: Augusta, Georgia.

Noon hour, King Mfg. Co., Augusta, Ga. See photos 500 to 509. Locatio...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph group portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Noon-hour, Indian Head Mills. All are workers. The very youngest refused to be photo'd. The Supt. seemed worried about my photographing the workers. He said, "Now we observe the child labor law thoroughly, but there are lots of persons in the North who like nothing better than a chance to rap at the Southern Cotton Mills."  Location: Cordova, Alabama.

Noon-hour, Indian Head Mills. All are workers. The very youngest refus...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Noon hour on berry farm, Bottomley's near Baltimore, Md. The dining room. (See report July 10, 1909). Location: Baltimore, Maryland

Noon hour on berry farm, Bottomley's near Baltimore, Md. The dining ro...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 851. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Di... More

Noon Hour at an Indianapolis Meat Packing House. Aug. 1908. Wit. E.N. Clopper. Location: Indianapolis, Indiana

Noon Hour at an Indianapolis Meat Packing House. Aug. 1908. Wit. E.N. ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 108. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More

Noon hour, King Mfg. Co., Augusta, Ga. We had not seen these children when we were shown through the mill. See photos 500 to 509. Jan. 14, 1909. Location: Augusta, Georgia

Noon hour, King Mfg. Co., Augusta, Ga. We had not seen these children ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 501. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Noon Hour at an Indianapolis Meat Packing House. Aug., 1908. Wit., E. N. Clopper.  Location: Indianapolis, Indiana.

Noon Hour at an Indianapolis Meat Packing House. Aug., 1908. Wit., E. ...

Public domain photograph of factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

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

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

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...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Noon hour at An Indianapolis Cannery. Aug., 1908.  Location: Indianapolis, Indiana.

Noon hour at An Indianapolis Cannery. Aug., 1908. Location: Indianapo...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Noon-hour Indian Head Cotton Mills. Some of the girls are much younger than these.  Location: Cordova, Alabama.

Noon-hour Indian Head Cotton Mills. Some of the girls are much younger...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children, kids, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

All these children were shucking oysters and tending babies at the Pass Christian Company. (Dunbar, Lopez, Dukate Co.) before daybreak and until about 5 P.M. Photos taken at noon in absence of Supt., who permits no photos on account of Child Labor agitation.  Location: Pass Christian, Mississippi.

All these children were shucking oysters and tending babies at the Pas...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Noon hour at Massachusetts Mill, Lindale, Ga. During the days following this I proved the ages of nearly a dozen of these children, by gaining access to Family Records, Life Insurance papers, and through conversations with the children and parents, and found these that I could prove to be working now, or during the past year at 10 and 11 years of age, some of them having begun before they were ten. Further search would reveal dozens more. (See Hine Report).  Location: Lindale, Georgia.

Noon hour at Massachusetts Mill, Lindale, Ga. During the days followin...

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

Noon Hour. All these boys (and more) worked in the Quidwick Co. Mill, Anthony, R. I. (a medium sized mill). They went in when the signal was given.  Location: Anthony, Rhode Island.

Noon Hour. All these boys (and more) worked in the Quidwick Co. Mill, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of war, military conflict, infantry, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[One of the young spinners in the Quidwick Co. Mill. Anthony, R. I. (A Polish boy Willie) who was taking his noon rest in a doffer-box.]  Location: Anthony, Rhode Island.

[One of the young spinners in the Quidwick Co. Mill. Anthony, R. I. (A...

Picryl description: Public domain image of boy workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Shimada, Andō Hiroshige - Public domain portrait drawing

Shimada, Andō Hiroshige - Public domain portrait drawing

Print shows travelers fording a small river as others wait their opportunity to continue the journey; also shows some travelers with horses and many porters at the Shimada station on the Tōkaidō Road. Title and... More

[Farmers nooning, from the original picture in the possession of Jona. Sturges Esqr.] / Wm. S. Mount 1836.

[Farmers nooning, from the original picture in the possession of Jona....

Print shows workmen resting in the shade of a tree, one man is sharpening a tool, an African American man reclining on a stack of hay, a young boy is leaning over the stack, tickling the man's ear with a piece ... More

A mumble-peg game

A mumble-peg game

Photograph shows several cowboys sitting on the ground playing mumbly peg during a break at the Turkey Track Ranch in Texas in 1906. H118425 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1908 by Erwin E. Smith. Amon Carter... More

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

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

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Noon Hour at an Indianapolis Meat Packing House. Aug., 1908. Wit., E. N. Clopper.  Location: Indianapolis, Indiana.

Noon Hour at an Indianapolis Meat Packing House. Aug., 1908. Wit., E. ...

Public domain photograph of factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Noon Hour Meal at an Indianapolis Packing House, Aug. 1908. Wit. E.N. Clopper. Location: Indianapolis, Indiana

Noon Hour Meal at an Indianapolis Packing House, Aug. 1908. Wit. E.N. ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 77. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Noon hour. Goodall Worsted Co., Sanford, Me. These are not the youngest. Young girls too.  Location: Sanford, Maine.

Noon hour. Goodall Worsted Co., Sanford, Me. These are not the younges...

Picryl description: Public domain image of girl workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Noon Hour. Queen City Mill, Burlington, Vt. I saw several girls much younger than these. Location: Burlington, Vermont

Noon Hour. Queen City Mill, Burlington, Vt. I saw several girls much y...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 735. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

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

Noon hour. Boys working in Great Falls Mfg. Co., Somersworth, N.H. Lo...

Picryl description: Public domain image of boy workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Noon hour, April 17, 1909. Natick, (R. I.) Mills.  Location: Natick, Rhode Island.

Noon hour, April 17, 1909. Natick, (R. I.) Mills. Location: Natick, R...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, warehouse, depot, train station, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Noon hour, April 17, 1909. All these boys (and many others) work in the Natick (R.I.) Mills. Some of the smaller ones said they worked there two years.  Location: Natick, Rhode Island.

Noon hour, April 17, 1909. All these boys (and many others) work in th...

Picryl description: Public domain image of boy workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Noon, Saturday, May 22, 1909. Young girls working in Amoskeag Mills, Manchester, N.H. Many this size (and smaller) work here.  Location: Manchester, New Hampshire.

Noon, Saturday, May 22, 1909. Young girls working in Amoskeag Mills, M...

Picryl description: Public domain image of girl workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

One of the young workers in Indian Head Mills. Going to work at noon-hour. Location: Cordova, Alabama

One of the young workers in Indian Head Mills. Going to work at noon-h...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 1836. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Noon hour, Holden-Leonard Co., Bennington, Vt. Some of the youngster working there, work was slack and force small. Location: Bennington, Vermont

Noon hour, Holden-Leonard Co., Bennington, Vt. Some of the youngster w...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 1060. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Coming out at noon, Merrimac Mills. All workers, even the boys at the side of the gate. Location: Huntsville, Alabama

Coming out at noon, Merrimac Mills. All workers, even the boys at the ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 1766. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Wilfred Clark, 10 years old, 24 Key St., going home at noon, after cutting five boxes of fish during the morning. Incidently, he cuts his fingers. See left fore-finger. Two other boys with him had fingers badly cut and healed up. Location: Eastport, Maine

Wilfred Clark, 10 years old, 24 Key St., going home at noon, after cut...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2430. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div... More

Noon at Delta Cotton Mills, McComb, Miss. Three of the young workers. Location: McComb, Mississippi

Noon at Delta Cotton Mills, McComb, Miss. Three of the young workers. ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2081. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Going to dinner. See photo and label 2256. Knitting Mill. June 1911. Berkley, Va.  Location: Berkley, Virginia / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

Going to dinner. See photo and label 2256. Knitting Mill. June 1911. B...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

One of the young doffers in Washington Cotton Mills, Fries, Va., going to dinner. Said he was 15 years old, but it is doubtful.  Location: Fries, Virginia.

One of the young doffers in Washington Cotton Mills, Fries, Va., going...

Picryl description: Public domain image of boy workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Group going out at noon from the Kilburn Mills. Little girl running is one of the workers. Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts

Group going out at noon from the Kilburn Mills. Little girl running is...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2297. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Noon hour at Massachusetts Mill, Lindale, Ga. During the days following this I proved the ages of nearly a dozen of these children, by gaining access to Family Records, Life Insurance papers, and through conversations with the children and parents, and found these that I could prove to be working now, or during the past year at 10 and 11 years of age, some of them having begun before they were ten. Further search would reveal dozens more. (See Hine Report). Location: Lindale, Georgia

Noon hour at Massachusetts Mill, Lindale, Ga. During the days followin...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 3363. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Noon hour at Massachusetts Mill, Lindale, Ga. During the days following this, I proved the ages of nearly a dozen of these children, by gaining access to Family Records, Life Insurance papers, and through conversations with the children and parents, and found these that I could prove to be working now, [or] during the past year at 10 and 11 years of age, some of them having begun before they were ten. Further search would reveal dozens more. (See Hine Report).  Lindale, Georgia.

Noon hour at Massachusetts Mill, Lindale, Ga. During the days followin...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Noon hour. Montgomery Cotton Mill. Investigator saw none under 14.  Location: Montgomery, Alabama.

Noon hour. Montgomery Cotton Mill. Investigator saw none under 14. Lo...

Picryl description: Public domain image of girl workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Lunch time, Treasury Annex - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Lunch time, Treasury Annex - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National P... More

Lunch vendors, Treasury Annex (before 1920)

Lunch vendors, Treasury Annex (before 1920)

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National P... More

Early automobiles - Lunch, Treasury Annex

Early automobiles - Lunch, Treasury Annex

Public domain historic photograph of Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Resting soldier] - Drawing. Public domain image.

[Resting soldier] - Drawing. Public domain image.

Sketch showing a soldier reclining in his helmet and knapsack while stationed at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. In album: World War II sketchbooks from the Victor A. Lundy Archive, v. 1, [p. 4] Victor A. Lundy ... More

Noon hour, Manchester Cotton Mill, Macon, Ga. See photos 517 to 520. Location: Macon, Georgia

Noon hour, Manchester Cotton Mill, Macon, Ga. See photos 517 to 520. L...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 519. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Noon hour, Avondale Mills. The next day, Nov. 24th, I went through the mills during working hours and saw this young girl and six others like her working in the spinning and weave rooms. Location: Birmingham, Alabama

Noon hour, Avondale Mills. The next day, Nov. 24th, I went through the...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 1806. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Noon hour, Knoxville Cotton Mill. Location: Knoxville, Tennessee

Noon hour, Knoxville Cotton Mill. Location: Knoxville, Tennessee

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 1895. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Noon hour at Massachusetts Mill, Lindale Ga. During the days following this, I proved the ages of nearly a dozen of these children, by gaining access to Family Records, Life Insurance papers, and through conversations with the children and parents, and found these that I could prove to be working now, or during the past year at 10 and 11 years of age, some of them having begun before they were ten. Further search would reveal dozens more. (See Hine Report). Location: Lindale, Georgia

Noon hour at Massachusetts Mill, Lindale Ga. During the days following...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 3361. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

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

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

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 52. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.... More

Noon hour. Goodall Worsted Co., Sanford, Me. More young boys and young girls. Couldn't get the latter to pose. Location: Sanford, Maine

Noon hour. Goodall Worsted Co., Sanford, Me. More young boys and young...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 703. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Noon hour at Delta Cotton Mills, Mc Comb, Miss. The tiny spinner pushing into the doorway tried to avoid me. Location: McComb, Mississippi

Noon hour at Delta Cotton Mills, Mc Comb, Miss. The tiny spinner pushi...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2089. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Noon recreation. Danville Cigarette Factory.  Location: Danville, Virginia.

Noon recreation. Danville Cigarette Factory. Location: Danville, Virg...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Noon Hour - Kerr Thread. Smallest boy in foreground chews and smokes and is as tough as he can be. Albert Heon' - 87 Campbell Street. Twisting room. 8 or 10, 14-16, in front wanted to be in ball team 5 to 6 P.M. No volunteers for it.  Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

Noon Hour - Kerr Thread. Smallest boy in foreground chews and smokes a...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a child labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Kerr Thread Ball field at noon hour. See 4212.  Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

Kerr Thread Ball field at noon hour. See 4212. Location: Fall River, ...

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Going home to lunch! Two boys from Singer Mfg. Co., Small boy -- Charles Bailey, 316 Scholum St., Is he Fourteen years old?.  Location: South Bend, Indiana.

Going home to lunch! Two boys from Singer Mfg. Co., Small boy -- Charl...

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Noon hour at Priscilla Knitting Mills, Meridian, Miss. Some of the youngest workers.  Location: Meridian, Mississippi.

Noon hour at Priscilla Knitting Mills, Meridian, Miss. Some of the you...

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All these children (except babies) shuck oysters and tend babies at the Pass Packing Co. I saw them all at work there long before daybreak. Photos taken at noon in the absence of the Supt. who refused me permission because [of?] Child Labor agitation. Factory belongs to Dunbar, Lopez, Dukate Co.  Location: Pass Christian, Mississippi.

All these children (except babies) shuck oysters and tend babies at th...

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

Noon Hour in a Furniture Factory, Indianapolis, Aug., 1908. Wit., E. N...

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Noon hour at Vivian Cotton Mills, Cheryville, N.C. Shows the character of the "hands" in a better class mill, --well ventilated and lighted.  Location: Cherryville, North Carolina / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

Noon hour at Vivian Cotton Mills, Cheryville, N.C. Shows the character...

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[Modern illustrated sheets with pictorial envelope]

[Modern illustrated sheets with pictorial envelope]

Each illustration, including front of envelope, is signed with Japanese characters and chops. Japanese text appears in the left and right margins of the eight printed sheets. Gift; Oliver Wendell Holmes; 1935.... More

Fukuroi, Andō Hiroshige - Public domain portrait drawing

Fukuroi, Andō Hiroshige - Public domain portrait drawing

Print shows travelers resting at a rest stop, two are tending to a large teapot, and a porter may be asleep, at the Fukuroi station on the Tōkaidō Road. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichi... More

[Farmers nooning, from the original picture in the possession of Jona. Sturges Esqr.] / Wm. S. Mount 1836.

[Farmers nooning, from the original picture in the possession of Jona....

Print shows workmen resting in the shade of a tree, one man is sharpening a tool, an African American man reclining on a stack of hay, a young boy is leaning over the stack, tickling the man's ear with a piece ... More

Noon hour, Singer Mfg. Co. Boys work there: girls carry lunch. Location: South Bend, Indiana

Noon hour, Singer Mfg. Co. Boys work there: girls carry lunch. Locatio...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 227. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More

A bad New Years start for the children. A group of doffer boys who were cleaning up in the Atherton Mill, Charlotte, N.C., during the noon hour. The superintendent had forbidden my taking any photos on the company's premises, so I slipped in at noon when authorities were away, gathered the boys together and took this. See photos 472 to 479. Location: Charlotte, North Carolina by Lewis W. Hine. Jan. 1, 1909

A bad New Years start for the children. A group of doffer boys who wer...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Mills. Hine no. 475. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the National ... More

Noon hour, Sanford Mfg. Co. Sanford, Me. Some young boys and girls employed here. Location: Sanford, Maine

Noon hour, Sanford Mfg. Co. Sanford, Me. Some young boys and girls emp...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 706. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Noon, Saturday, May 22, 1909. Young girls working in Amoskeag Mills, Manchester, N.H. Many this size (and smaller) work here. Location: Manchester, New Hampshire

Noon, Saturday, May 22, 1909. Young girls working in Amoskeag Mills, M...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 757. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Noon hour, King Mfg. Co., Augusta, Ga. See photos 500 to 509. Location: Augusta, Georgia

Noon hour, King Mfg. Co., Augusta, Ga. See photos 500 to 509. Location...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 506. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Noon Hour. Queen City Mill, Burlington, Vt. I saw several girls much younger than these.  Location: Burlington, Vermont.

Noon Hour. Queen City Mill, Burlington, Vt. I saw several girls much y...

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Noon at the Willingham Cotton Mills, Macon, Ga. Owned by one of the richest families in the section. President said some time ago that he didn't want to hire children but was forced to.  Location: Macon, Georgia.

Noon at the Willingham Cotton Mills, Macon, Ga. Owned by one of the ri...

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Noon Hour at Quidwick Mill, Anthony, R.I. Location: Anthony, Rhode Island

Noon Hour at Quidwick Mill, Anthony, R.I. Location: Anthony, Rhode Isl...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 673. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Noon hour at Avondale Mills. I saw this young girl working at her machine in the mill.  Location: Birmingham, Alabama.

Noon hour at Avondale Mills. I saw this young girl working at her mach...

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These were all the young children I could get at the Athens Hosiery Mill at noon. And at 9 A.M., although when I went through the mill at 7 A.M. alone Dec. 9th, I saw six little girls industriously at work standing on boxes so they could reach and helping their mothers and sisters. They appeared to be about 5 and 7 years old. (See report.) Location: Athens, Tennessee

These were all the young children I could get at the Athens Hosiery Mi...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 1907. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Lunch Time, 14th St., N.Y.  Location: New York, New York (State)

Lunch Time, 14th St., N.Y. Location: New York, New York (State)

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