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Noon hour at the Queen City Mill, Burlington, Vt. (Not a large mill) About a dozen small boys like the smallest here, names of small ones here are Dorio Charptier, Arthur Tessier. Location: Burlington, Vermont

Noon hour at the Queen City Mill, Burlington, Vt. (Not a large mill) A...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 732. 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. 505. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

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

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

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Noon hour Richmond Hosiery Co. Location: Rossville, Georgia

Noon hour Richmond Hosiery Co. Location: Rossville, Georgia

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 1855. No text recorded after final comma on caption card. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection,... More

Noon hour at Brown Shoe Factory. Location: Moberly, Missouri.

Noon hour at Brown Shoe Factory. Location: Moberly, Missouri.

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Noon hour. Going to work in Avondale Mills. I saw these girls at work inside. Location: Birmingham, Alabama

Noon hour. Going to work in Avondale Mills. I saw these girls at work ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 1805. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Noon-hour at Riverside Cotton Mills, Danville, Virginia 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, Virginia All are worker...

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Noon-hour at Riverside Cotton Mills, Danville, Virginia 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, Virginia All are worker...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2178. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Charlie going to dinner. See Photo and label 2254. Knitting Mill. Berkley, Virginia June 1911. Berkley, Virginia Photo by Lewis W. Hine

Charlie going to dinner. See Photo and label 2254. Knitting Mill. Berk...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2252. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the National... More

Young workers adolescence and younger in Manomet, Nonquitt and Nashawena Mills. Going to dinner and back to wrk. Noon. January 9, 1912. Richard K. Conand, witness. Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts

Young workers adolescence and younger in Manomet, Nonquitt and Nashawe...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 2780. Hine no. 2783. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Noon hour, Dwight Mfg. Co. This represents the average age of the children, not many of whom are under 14, and very few under 12. The mill has a good reputation. Location: Alabama City, Alabama

Noon hour, Dwight Mfg. Co. This represents the average age of the chil...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 3857. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Break - Drawing. Public domain image.

Break - Drawing. Public domain image.

Sketch showing soldiers sitting with rifles while stationed at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. In album: World War II sketchbooks from the Victor A. Lundy Archive, v. 2, [p. 7] Victor A. Lundy Archive (Library o... More

Noon, May 22, 1909. Amoskeag Mills, Manchester, N.H. Location: Manchester, New Hampshire

Noon, May 22, 1909. Amoskeag Mills, Manchester, N.H. Location: Manches...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 755. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

The Flint Cotton Mill, Spinning room. Small girls are employed here but not in evidence this noon. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts

The Flint Cotton Mill, Spinning room. Small girls are employed here bu...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 2759. Hine no. 2761. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and P... 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

Jo Benevidos, 5 Merion St. Curled up in a doffing box, eating his lunch. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts

Jo Benevidos, 5 Merion St. Curled up in a doffing box, eating his lunc...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2776. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

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, M...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Mills. Hine no. 4211. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the National... More

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

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

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Noon hour in drawing-in room of American Woolen Co., Winooski, Vermont. (Not the youngest girls.) Right hand: Tessie McGarth, next Sadio Finnogan, next Bernice Bedard. Two of them look to be under 14. I counted 20 girls like these and younger going in at 7 a.m. Location: Winooski, Vermont.

Noon hour in drawing-in room of American Woolen Co., Winooski, Vermont...

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Noon-hour at Riverside Cotton Mill, Danville, Virginia June 2, 1911. All work. Not very many under fourteen. Location: Danville, Virginia.

Noon-hour at Riverside Cotton Mill, Danville, Virginia June 2, 1911. A...

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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. C...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 51. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.... More

Noon Hour, Bosse Furniture Co., Evansville, Ind. Oct. 1908. Location: Evansville, Indiana

Noon Hour, Bosse Furniture Co., Evansville, Ind. Oct. 1908. Location: ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 204. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More

One of the many young girls working in the Natick (R.I.) Mills. Noon hour. Location: Natick, Rhode Island.

One of the many young girls working in the Natick (R.I.) Mills. Noon h...

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Noon hour. Herman Rette (right hand), Arsene Lussier. Both been working in Chace Cotton Mill, Burlington, Vt. for over a year. (See #730.) Location: Burlington, Vermont

Noon hour. Herman Rette (right hand), Arsene Lussier. Both been workin...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 725. "Negative destroyed." Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints an... 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. 504. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Group of boys who work in Suncock (N.H.) Mills. It is a large corporation, employing 1200 hands, but in all the three mills, I found only 1 girl and three boys that seemed to be under 14. Unusual conditions for a large N.H. Mill. Sanitary conditions here are exceptionally good, for this section. I investigated all three mills freely and was unknown and usually unattended by anyone. Location: Suncock, New Hampshire

Group of boys who work in Suncock (N.H.) Mills. It is a large corporat...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 753. 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...

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Noon hour at Brown Shoe Factory. Location: Moberly, Missouri

Noon hour at Brown Shoe Factory. Location: Moberly, Missouri

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 1734. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

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

Young Girls going to work noon-hour Merrimac Mills. Location: Huntsvi...

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

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

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 1684. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

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

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 1695. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

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

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

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 1967. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div... 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, 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 or 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. 3362. 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. 4213. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information ... More

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

Lunch vendors, Treasury Annex - Glass negative photogrpah. Public doma...

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The Flint Cotton Mill, Spinning room. Small girls are employed here but not in evidence this noon. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts

The Flint Cotton Mill, Spinning room. Small girls are employed here bu...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 2759. Hine no. 2761. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Doughboys of 89th Div. resting before review, Treves, Germany

Doughboys of 89th Div. resting before review, Treves, Germany

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. V19229. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DL... More

Noon hour at Newberry, (S.C.) Mill. Plenty of youngsters here. Note: In handwriting on the back of this photo it says: "Two of the many small children I found at work at the Newberry Cotton Mills, Newberry, S.C." Location: Newberry, South Carolina / Photo by Lewis W. Hine., Dec. 3/08

Noon hour at Newberry, (S.C.) Mill. Plenty of youngsters here. Note: I...

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

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

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Noon hour. Muncie Wheel & Jobbing Co. Most of the boys were gone home to dinner. Location: Muncie, Indiana

Noon hour. Muncie Wheel & Jobbing Co. Most of the boys were gone home ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 224. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More

Newberry Mills, Newberry, S.C. Going home to dinner. Dec. 308. Witness Sara R. Hine. Location: Newberry, South Carolina Photo by Lewis W. Hine

Newberry Mills, Newberry, S.C. Going home to dinner. Dec. 308. Witness...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Mills. Hine no. 381. 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. All are working here. Witness, Sara R. Hine. Location: Newberry, South Carolina.

Newberry Mills (S.C.) Noon hour. All are working here. Witness, Sara R...

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One of the many young girls working in the Natick (R.I.) Mills. Noon hour. Location: Natick, Rhode Island

One of the many young girls working in the Natick (R.I.) Mills. Noon h...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 679. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... 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 em...

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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. 769. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

A few of the youngsters in King Mfg. Co., Augusta, Ga. Taken at noon, Jan. 14, 1909. A party of us under the guidance of the Vice President had been shown through the mill but no evidences of these children were to be seen. See also photos #501, 502. Location: Augusta, Georgia.

A few of the youngsters in King Mfg. Co., Augusta, Ga. Taken at noon, ...

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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...

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Noon hour May 12th, 1910. These girls work 9 to 10 hours a day in Inland Type Foundry. Location: St. Louis, Missouri

Noon hour May 12th, 1910. These girls work 9 to 10 hours a day in Inla...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 1430. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

In the group are: 2 four year old boys, 1 five year old boy, 1 six year old boy, 1 ten year old boy, 1 eleven year old boy, 1 twelve year old boy, 2 five year old girls, 1 six year old girl, 2 nine year old girls, 1 ten year old girl, 1 twelve year old girl. In front of shacks at noon, Florence colony ?, Whites Bog, Browns Mills, N.J. This is the fourth week of school and the people expect to remain two weeks more. E.F. Brown Witness. Location: Browns Mills, New Jersey

In the group are: 2 four year old boys, 1 five year old boy, 1 six yea...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 1121. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

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

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

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Noon-hour card game--Mill Boys. Pacific Mills. Location: Lawrence, Massachusetts.

Noon-hour card game--Mill Boys. Pacific Mills. Location: Lawrence, Ma...

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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...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 1802. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

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...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 2008. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Div... More

Noon hour, Winona (Miss.) Cotton Mills. All work. Location: Winona, Mississippi

Noon hour, Winona (Miss.) Cotton Mills. All work. Location: Winona, Mi...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2125. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Spinning room Overseer and his flock. He said, "Every one of 'em works or helps." I saw them all working in the morning and when the whistle blew at noon they all went in to work. See photos 1490 to 1495. Also 2091 to 2100 (and labels). Location: Magnolia, Mississippi.

Spinning room Overseer and his flock. He said, "Every one of 'em works...

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Noon hour. Two of the young doffer-boys working in the Laurel Cotton Mills, Laurel, Miss. Location: Laurel, Mississippi

Noon hour. Two of the young doffer-boys working in the Laurel Cotton M...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2075. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Magnolia Cotton Mills, Magnolia, Miss. Spinning room Overseer and his flock. He said, "Every one of 'em works or helps." I saw them all working in the morning and when the whistle blew at noon they all went in to work. See photos 1490 to 1495. Also 2091 to 2100 (and labels). Location: Magnolia, Mississippi

Magnolia Cotton Mills, Magnolia, Miss. Spinning room Overseer and his ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2092. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

[Young workers adolescence and younger in Manomet, Nonquitt and Nashawena Mills. Going to dinner and back to wrk. Noon. January 9, 1912. Richard K. Conant, witness.] Location: [New Bedford, Massachusetts].

[Young workers adolescence and younger in Manomet, Nonquitt and Nashaw...

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Young workers adolescence and younger in Manomet, Nonquitt and Nashawena Mills. Going to dinner and back to wrk. Noon. January 9, 1912. Richard K. Conant, witness. Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts

Young workers adolescence and younger in Manomet, Nonquitt and Nashawe...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 2780. Hine no. 2784. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Noon hour at Texas cotton mill. I found none under fifteen. Location: McKinney, Texas

Noon hour at Texas cotton mill. I found none under fifteen. Location: ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 3625. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Lunch time, Kesler Mfg. Co. The little one carries the lunch. Usually the hands all go home to dinner. Location: Salisbury, North Carolina

Lunch time, Kesler Mfg. Co. The little one carries the lunch. Usually ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 429. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Noon hour in drawing-in room of American Woolen Co., Winooski, Vermont. (Not the youngest girls.) Right hand: Tessie McGarth, next Sadio Finnogan, next Bernice Bedard. Two of them look to be under 14. I counted 20 girls like these and younger going in at 7 a.m. Location: Winooski, Vermont

Noon hour in drawing-in room of American Woolen Co., Winooski, Vermont...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 728. "Negative destroyed." Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints an... 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 at Priscilla Knitting Mills, Meridian, Miss. Small Boy works. Location: Meridian, Mississippi

Noon hour at Priscilla Knitting Mills, Meridian, Miss. Small Boy works...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 1489. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Noon-hour at Riverside Cotton Mill, Danville, Virginia June 2, 1911. All work. Not very many under fourteen. Location: Danville, Virginia

Noon-hour at Riverside Cotton Mill, Danville, Virginia June 2, 1911. A...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2177. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Noon Hour, Kerr Thread. Little boy in front always gets jollied and he answers the men back as tough as you please. Father in saloon. Boy went in to get money. Saloon on Pleasant St. in Flint Village. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts Lewis W. Hine

Noon Hour, Kerr Thread. Little boy in front always gets jollied and he...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Mills. Hine no. 4281. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the National... More

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

Operatives in Indianapolis Cotton Mill. Noon Hour. Aug. 1908. Wit. E.N...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 96. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.... More

Noon hour, Millville Mfg. Co. One of six young boys and girls that I saw working in the cotton mill. Some were younger than this one. Location: Millville, New Jersey

Noon hour, Millville Mfg. Co. One of six young boys and girls that I s...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 1005. The word "in" is underlined on the caption card. Also in LOT 7479, v. 2. Credit line: National Child Labor ... 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., So...

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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. 100. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... 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. Locatio...

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Noon hour, May 19, 1909. Some of the small girls working in the Great Falls Mfg. Co., Somersworth, N.H. Location: Somersworth, New Hampshire

Noon hour, May 19, 1909. Some of the small girls working in the Great ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 751. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... 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 ...

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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...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 1840. 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 youngsters working there. Work was slack and the force small. Location: Bennington, Vermont

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

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 1062. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... 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...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 1801. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Young girl working Brookside Cotton Mills. Not the smallest. Location: Knoxville, Tennessee

Young girl working Brookside Cotton Mills. Not the smallest. Location:...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 1909. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Noon-hour at the Riverside Cotton Mills, Danville, Virginia Group of spinners, doffers, etc. All work. Some here are surely under fourteen, but not many. Location: Danville, Virginia

Noon-hour at the Riverside Cotton Mills, Danville, Virginia Group of s...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2187. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

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...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Mills. Hine no. 268. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the National ... More

Noon Hour, Republic Iron & Steel Co., Muncie, Ind. A few go home to lunch. (Couldn't get inside.) Location: Muncie, Indiana

Noon Hour, Republic Iron & Steel Co., Muncie, Ind. A few go home to lu...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 206. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More

Kerr Thread - Noon hour. Having good time with the camera man. This mill has a high type of operatives. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts Lewis W. Hine

Kerr Thread - Noon hour. Having good time with the camera man. This mi...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Mills. Hine no. 4209. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the National... 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...

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

Noon hour. Group of workers in American Yarn Mfg. Co., Pawtucket, R.I. Location: Pawtucket, Rhode Island

Noon hour. Group of workers in American Yarn Mfg. Co., Pawtucket, R.I....

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 702. No month nor year recorded on caption card. May be April 1909 based on surrounding captions. Credit line: Na... 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

Noon, May 22, 1909. Amoskeag Mills, Manchester, N.H. Location: Manchester, New Hampshire

Noon, May 22, 1909. Amoskeag Mills, Manchester, N.H. Location: Manches...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 755. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Noon-hour at the Riverside Cotton Mills, Danville, Virginia Group of spinners, doffers, etc. All work. Some here are surely under fourteen, but not many. Location: Danville, Virginia

Noon-hour at the Riverside Cotton Mills, Danville, Virginia Group of s...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2187-A. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divis... More

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. ...

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Noon hour, Republic Iron & Steel Company, Muncie, Ind. A few of the boys go home. Location: Muncie, Indiana

Noon hour, Republic Iron & Steel Company, Muncie, Ind. A few of the bo...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 207. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More

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 wo...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 670. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

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.) Where they disappeared, I never found out. They were the size of the smallest boy on right of photo 190[., i.e., 1907?]. Location: Athens, Tennessee.

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

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Noon hour Brown Shoe Factory. Note young girl in photo - not the youngest employed there. Location: Moberly, Missouri

Noon hour Brown Shoe Factory. Note young girl in photo - not the young...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 1737. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Dangerous Noon-hour Recreation. Doffer boys and others from Pacific Mills. Location: Lawrence, Massachusetts

Dangerous Noon-hour Recreation. Doffer boys and others from Pacific Mi...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 1174. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... 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. 1770. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Noon-hour at Riverside Cotton Mills, Danville, Virginia 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, Virginia All are worker...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2180. Also in LOT 7483, v. 1. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints... More

[Young workers adolescence and younger in Manomet, Nonquitt and Nashawena Mills. Going to dinner and back to wrk. Noon. January 9, 1912. Richard K. Conant, Witness.] Location: [New Bedford, Massachusetts].

[Young workers adolescence and younger in Manomet, Nonquitt and Nashaw...

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Young workers adolescence and younger in Manomet, Nonquitt and Nashawena Mills. Going to dinner and back to wrk. Noon. January 9, 1912. Richard K. Conant, Witness. Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts

Young workers adolescence and younger in Manomet, Nonquitt and Nashawe...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 2780. Hine no. 2781. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

[Young workers adolescence and younger in Manomet, Nonquitt and Nashawena Mills. Going to dinner and back to wrk. Noon. January 9, 1912. Richard K. Conant, Witness.] Location: [New Bedford, Massachusetts]

[Young workers adolescence and younger in Manomet, Nonquitt and Nashaw...

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

Kerr Thread - Noon. Young workers. Nearly all 14-16 years old. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts Lewis W. Hine

Kerr Thread - Noon. Young workers. Nearly all 14-16 years old. Locatio...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Mills. Hine no. 4214. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the National... More

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

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

Public domain historic photograph of Washington DC, 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...

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

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