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Fifteen year old delivery boy for Linders Drug Store, which is located on the edge of the Reservation, Griffin Street. The boy has just returned from a trip to these Houses. He works from 8 A.M. to 8 P.M. (See Hine Report on Messengers, Texas.)  Location: Dallas, Texas.

Fifteen year old delivery boy for Linders Drug Store, which is located...

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Fourteen year old messenger #2 Western Union, Shreveport. Says he goes to the Red Light district all the time. See Hine report on Messengers. Location: Shreveport, Louisiana

Fourteen year old messenger #2 Western Union, Shreveport. Says he goes...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 3704. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

William Gross, 516 Tatnall St. Newsboy, 15 years of age. Selling papers 5 years. Average earnings 50 cents per week. Father, carpenter, $18 week. Selling newspapers own choice, to get money to go to moving picture shows. Visits saloons. Smokes sometimes. "Serves" papers to prostitutes. On May 25 William gave to investigator a list of houses of prostitution written in his own handwriting, to which he serves papers. He also tells a story of occasionally guiding strangers to these houses, for which he receives from 15 cents to a quarter. Investigator, Edward F. Brown. Wilmington, Del.  Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Louis [i.e. Lewis] W. Hine, May, 1910.

William Gross, 516 Tatnall St. Newsboy, 15 years of age. Selling paper...

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Fourteen year old messenger #2 Western Union, Shreveport. Says he goes to the Red Light district all the time. See Hine report on Messengers.  Location: Shreveport, Louisiana.

Fourteen year old messenger #2 Western Union, Shreveport. Says he goes...

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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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Marion Davis, Messenger #21 for Bellevue Messenger Service. Fourteen years old. "Been messenger, off and on, for two years. Not supposed to go to the Reservation under sixteen years, but I do just the same. The boss don't care and the cops don't stop me."  Location: Houston, Texas.

Marion Davis, Messenger #21 for Bellevue Messenger Service. Fourteen y...

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Marion Davies - American actress and film producer active during the silent and early sound film eras of the 19... More

Betty Baker & Ann Kittleson - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Betty Baker & Ann Kittleson - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain...

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Carl Cintron grins as he was booked early today in the fatal shooting of a rival gang member in downtown Brooklyn / World Telegram & Sun photo by Fernandez.

Carl Cintron grins as he was booked early today in the fatal shooting ...

Photograph shows , left to right, Transit Patrolman Ernest Fatoruso, Carl Cintron, and Patrolman Frank Collins of Safety Unit E at Popular St. police station, New York City. NYWT&S staff photograph. Title from ... More

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

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

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Young boy is Ciriakos Keiradimos, a young Greek shoe-shiner, working in shop at 511 Penn. Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. Said to be 16 yrs. old, but is absolutely illiterate. Has been in this country only 2 months. Works until 9 P.M. every day and until 11 P.M. Saturdays.  Location: Washington (D.C.), District of Columbia.

Young boy is Ciriakos Keiradimos, a young Greek shoe-shiner, working i...

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Oral history with 17 year old white male, Breathitt County, Kentucky (Transcript)

Oral history with 17 year old white male, Breathitt County, Kentucky (...

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: University of New Orleans. New Orleans, LA 17 year old (Appalachian) white male. Lives in a holler (small valley between mountains) outside Jackson, K... More

High school route boys. Adolescents. Some in back row have been newsboys for seven, eight and nine years.  Location: New Haven, Connecticut.

High school route boys. Adolescents. Some in back row have been newsbo...

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Rosa Lora - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Rosa Lora - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Showing recreation instructor Miss Eleanor Kenny teaching her teenage group how to dance--The pictures on the wall are the girls favorite screen stars / World Telegram & Sun photo by Fred Palumbo.

Showing recreation instructor Miss Eleanor Kenny teaching her teenage ...

NYWT&S staff photograph. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

[Teenage gang members arrested in fatal shooting of Brooklyn youth] / World Telegram & Sun photo by Fernandez.

[Teenage gang members arrested in fatal shooting of Brooklyn youth] / ...

Photograph shows, left to right, Carl Cintron, Transit Patrolman Ernest Fatoruso, Carlos Reyes, Patrolman Frank Collins, Melvin Torres and Israel Narvaes at the Popular St. police station, New York City.

Three of Uncle Sam's Pets. We get rations every 29 days. Our pulse is good. Expressive medium. We put in 60 minutes each hour in our present attitude

Three of Uncle Sam's Pets. We get rations every 29 days. Our pulse is ...

Three Lakota teenage boys in western clothing, sitting near a tree--probably on or near Pine Ridge Reservation.

School children, Manzanar Relocation Center, California / photograph by Ansel Adams.

School children, Manzanar Relocation Center, California / photograph b...

Teenagers walking along street, most carrying books. Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on verso of print. Original neg. no.: LC-A35-6-M-1. Gift; Ansel Adams; 1965-1968. Forms part of: Manzanar War Rel... More

Wilbur H. Woodward, 428 Third St., N.W., Washington, D.C., Western Union messenger 236, one of the youngsters on the border-line, (15 yrs. old) works until 8 P.M. only.  Location: Washington (D.C.), District of Columbia.

Wilbur H. Woodward, 428 Third St., N.W., Washington, D.C., Western Uni...

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Young boy is Ciriakos Keiradimos, a young Greek shoe-shiner, working in shop at 511 Penn. Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. Said to be 16 yrs. old, but is absolutely illiterate. Has been in this country only 2 months. Works until 9 P.M. every day and until 11 P.M. Saturdays.  Location: Washington (D.C.), District of Columbia.

Young boy is Ciriakos Keiradimos, a young Greek shoe-shiner, working i...

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Fourteen year old Western Union Messenger #43. Works until 10:30 P.M. Goes to Reservation some.  Location: Houston, Texas.

Fourteen year old Western Union Messenger #43. Works until 10:30 P.M. ...

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Preston DeCosta [i.e., De Costa?], fifteen year old messenger #3 for Bellevue Messenger Service. I ran across him and took photos while he was carrying notes back and forth between a prostitute in jail and a pimp in the Red Light. He had read all the notes and knew all about the correspondence. He was a fine grained adolescent boy. Has been delivering message and drugs in the Red Light for 6 months and knows the ropes thoroughly. "A lot of these girls are my regular customers. I carry 'em messages and get 'em drinks, drugs, etc. Also go to the bank with money for 'em. If a fellow treats 'em right, they'll call him by number and give him all their work. I got a box full of photos I took of these girls - some of 'em I took in their room." Works until 11:00 P.M.  Location: San Antonio, Texas.

Preston DeCosta [i.e., De Costa?], fifteen year old messenger #3 for B...

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Contact Sheet: 2-5 Campground; 6-9 Gary Tassone and Ed Matney; 11-16 Robinson Family Gets Ready for Evening Dance; 17-18 In Campground; 19 Whipman David Blackbird; 20-1 Teenagers; 22 Willard "Deanie" Phillips; 23-24 Renee Brown and Rosa McCauley; 25-26 Gourd Dance; 27-32 Signing Up Contest Entrants; 33-37 Friday Night Grand Entry Starts

Contact Sheet: 2-5 Campground; 6-9 Gary Tassone and Ed Matney; 11-16 R...

Gary Tassone and Ed Matney were CBS recordists. 1983 Omaha pow-wow. Macy, Nebraska.

Sixteen year old messenger boy entering "crib" in Red Light district. Location: San Antonio, Texas

Sixteen year old messenger boy entering "crib" in Red Light district. ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 3570. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

School children, Manzanar Relocation Center, California / photograph by Ansel Adams.

School children, Manzanar Relocation Center, California / photograph b...

Teenagers walking along street, most carrying books. Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on verso of print. Original neg. no.: LC-A35-6-M-1. Gift; Ansel Adams; 1965-1968. Forms part of: Manzanar War Rel... More

Willie Cheatham, Western Union messenger #1. Says he is 16 years now; been messenger for 6 years. Late Sunday night, October 4th, I talked with him, still on duty, until 10 P.M. "You bet I know every crooked house in town. Went to school with one of those girls when she was straight. He[r] mother died and she went bad. Some young girls were there too. I go out to Red Light some with messages and packages, and if I want to, I bust right in and sit down." Hard face.  Location: Montgomery, Alabama.

Willie Cheatham, Western Union messenger #1. Says he is 16 years now; ...

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Some results of messenger and newsboy work. For nine years this sixteen year old boy has been newsboy and messenger for drug stores and telegraph companies. He was recently brought before the Judge of the Juvenile Court for incorrigibility at home. Is now out on parole, and was working again for drug company when he got a job carrying grips in the Union Depot. He is on the job from 6:00 A.M. to 11:00 P.M. (seventeen hours a day) for seven days in the week. His mother and the Judge think[s] he uses cocaine, and yet they let him put in these long hours every day. He told me "There ain't a house in 'The Acre,' (Red Light) that I ain't been in. At the drug store, all my deliveries were down there." Says he makes from $15.00 to $18.00 a week. Eugene Dalton.  Location: Fort Worth, Texas.

Some results of messenger and newsboy work. For nine years this sixtee...

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Some results of messenger and newsboy work. For nine years this sixteen year old boy has been newsboy and messenger for drug stores and telegraph companies. He was recently brought before the Judge of the Juvenile Court for incorrigibility at home. Is now out on parole, and was working again for drug company when he got a job carrying grips in the Union Depot. He is on the job from 6:00 A.M. to 11:00 P.M. (seventeen hours a day) for seven days in the week. His mother and the Judge thinks he uses cocaine, and yet they let him put in these long hours every day. He told me "There ain't a house in 'The Acre,' (Red Light) that I ain't been in. At the drug store, all my deliveries were down there." Says he makes from $15.00 to $18.00 a week. Eugene Dalton. Location: Fort Worth, Texas

Some results of messenger and newsboy work. For nine years this sixtee...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 3666. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

[Durward Nickerson, Western Union messenger #55. One of the by-products of messenger work. Lives in Bessemer, R.F.D. #1. Saturday night, September 26, 1914 he took investigator through the old Red Light on Ave. A, pointed out the various resorts, told him about the inmates he has known there. Only a half dozen of them were open now, and those very quietly. Durward has put in 2 years in the messenger work and shows the result of temptations open to him. He recently returned from a hobo trip through 25 states. He was not inclined to tell much about the shady side of messenger work, but one could easily see that he has been through much that he might have avoided in a profitable kind of work. 18 years old. See Alabama report. ].  Location: [Birmingham, Alabama].

[Durward Nickerson, Western Union messenger #55. One of the by-product...

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Miss Martha Ellis - Public domain image related to music prformance, photograph

Miss Martha Ellis - Public domain image related to music prformance, p...

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N.Y.A. of Illinois--Exposition of Youth ... pageants, handcraft, music, sports

N.Y.A. of Illinois--Exposition of Youth ... pageants, handcraft, music...

Poster for National Youth Administration exposition showing a boxer. Attributed to Carken. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

Fifteen year old delivery boy for Linders Drug Store, which is located on the edge of the Reservation, Griffin Street. The boy has just returned from a trip to these Houses. He works from 8 A.M. to 8 P.M. (See Hine Report on Messengers, Texas.) Location: Dallas, Texas

Fifteen year old delivery boy for Linders Drug Store, which is located...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 3620. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

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Evora Bonet, daughter of P.A. Bonet, Attache, Cuban Legation

Evora Bonet, daughter of P.A. Bonet, Attache, Cuban Legation

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

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

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

Howard Williams, thirteen year old delivery boy for Shreveport, La. Drug Company. He works from 9:30 A.M. to 10:30 P.M.; has been here three months. Goes to the Red Light every day and night. Says that the company could not keep other messenger boys; they work them so hard. See Hine report on Messengers. Location: Shreveport, Louisiana

Howard Williams, thirteen year old delivery boy for Shreveport, La. Dr...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 3700. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Oral history with 16 year old white female, Jackson, Kentucky (Transcript)

Oral history with 16 year old white female, Jackson, Kentucky (Transcr...

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: University of New Orleans. New Orleans, LA 18 year old (Appalachian) white female. Lives in Jackson, KY; freshman at Lees junior College. Interview at... More

Sixteen year old messenger boy entering "crib" in Red Light district.  Location: San Antonio, Texas.

Sixteen year old messenger boy entering "crib" in Red Light district. ...

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Senior class, High school, Springfield, Massachusetts.

Senior class, High school, Springfield, Massachusetts.

Photograph shows classroom scene with some students doing work at the blackboard and the rest of the class at their desks reading.

Payette Lake, Idaho. 1912-1920? Girls playing volley ball at a Young Women's Christian Association camp

Payette Lake, Idaho. 1912-1920? Girls playing volley ball at a Young W...

Photograph shows a group of young ladies playing an outdoor game of volleyball. No. 4-4.

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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Army essay contest, 5/4/20 - Public domain politician photograph

Army essay contest, 5/4/20 - Public domain politician photograph

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[New York City Mayor Robert Wagner greeting the teenagers who integrated Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas] / World Telegram photo by Walter Albertin.

[New York City Mayor Robert Wagner greeting the teenagers who integrat...

Pictured, front row, left to right: Minnijean Brown, Elizabeth Eckford, Carlotta Walls, Mayor Wagner, Thelma Mothershed, Gloria Ray; back row, left to right: Terrance Roberts, Ernest Green, Melba Pattilo, Jeffe... More

Marion Davis, Messenger #21 for Bellevue Messenger Service. Fourteen years old. "Been messenger, off and on, for two years. Not supposed to go to the Reservation under sixteen years, but I do just the same. The boss don't care and the cops don't stop me." Location: Houston, Texas

Marion Davis, Messenger #21 for Bellevue Messenger Service. Fourteen y...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 3585. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Oral history with 16 year old white male, War Creek, Kentucky (Transcript)

Oral history with 16 year old white male, War Creek, Kentucky (Transcr...

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: University of New Orleans. New Orleans, LA 16 year old (Appalachian) white male. Junior in high school and lives in small community of War Creek. Youn... More

[High school route boys. Adolescents. Some in back row have been newsboys for seven, eight and nine years.]  Location: New Haven, Connecticut.

[High school route boys. Adolescents. Some in back row have been newsb...

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[A.C. Slitson (Franklin?), three-quarter length studio portrait, standing, facing slightly right, wearing uniform]

[A.C. Slitson (Franklin?), three-quarter length studio portrait, stand...

Printed on verso: Brady's National Photographic Portrait Galleries, Broadway & Tenth St., New York & No. 352 Pennsylvania Av., Washington, D.C.

"Spider" Estes, fourteen year old doffer. Been working in Guadalupe Valley Cotton Mills one year. Violation of the law.  Location: Cuero, Texas.

"Spider" Estes, fourteen year old doffer. Been working in Guadalupe Va...

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Some results of messenger and newsboy work. For nine years this sixteen year old boy has been newsboy and messenger for drug stores and telegraph companies. He was recently brought before the Judge of the Juvenile Court for incorrigibility at home. Is now out on parole, and was working again for drug company when he got a job carrying grips in the Union Depot. He is on the job from 6:00 A.M. to 11:00 P.M. (seventeen hours a day) for seven days in the week. His mother and the judge think he uses cocaine, and yet they let him put in these long hours every day. He told me "There ain't a house in 'The Acre' (Red Light) that I ain't been in. At the drug store, all my deliveries were down there." Says he makes from $15.00 to $18.00 a week. Eugene Dalton.  Location: Fort Worth, Texas.

Some results of messenger and newsboy work. For nine years this sixtee...

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Durward Nickerson, Western Union messenger #55. One of the by-products of messenger work. Lives in Bessemer, R.F.D. #1. Saturday night, September 26, 1914, he took investigator through the old Red Light on Ave. A, pointed out the various resorts, told him about the inmates he has known there. Only a half dozen of them were open now, and those very quietly. Durward has put in 2 years in the messenger work and shows the result of temptations open to him. He has recently returned from a hobo trip through 25 states. He was not inclined to tell much about the shady side of messenger work, but one could easily see that he has been through much that he might have avoided in a profitable kind of work. 18 years old. See Alabama report.  Location: Birmingham, Alabama.

Durward Nickerson, Western Union messenger #55. One of the by-products...

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Group of 14-16 year old messengers working for American Printing Co. Henry Moore - 15 years; Edwin Chadwick - 15 years; George Jones - 16 years; Everett Harrison - 15 years; William Schofield - 15 years; William Lees - 15 years. Mr. Dow is employment manager. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts Lewis W. Hine

Group of 14-16 year old messengers working for American Printing Co. H...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 4338. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the ... More

Willie Cheatham, Western Union messenger #1. Says he is 16 years now; been messenger for 6 years. Late Sunday night, October 4th, I talked with him, still on duty, until 10 P.M. "You bet I know every crooked house in town. Went to school with one of those girls when she was straight. Her mother died and she went bad. Some young girls were there too. I go out to Red Light some with messages and packages, and if I want to, I bust right in and sit down." Hard face. Location: Montgomery, Alabama

Willie Cheatham, Western Union messenger #1. Says he is 16 years now; ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 3795. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Sixteen year old messenger boy entering "crib" in Red Light district. Location: San Antonio, Texas

Sixteen year old messenger boy entering "crib" in Red Light district. ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 3570. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Three of Uncle Sam's Pets. We get rations every 29 days. Our pulse is good. Expressive medium. We put in 60 minutes each hour in our present attitude

Three of Uncle Sam's Pets. We get rations every 29 days. Our pulse is ...

Three Lakota teenage boys in western clothing, sitting near a tree--probably on or near Pine Ridge Reservation.

Myrtle Hazzard / S.S. Frizzell '68 ; drawn by Miss A.R. Sawyer ; lith. C.H. Crosby, Boston.

Myrtle Hazzard / S.S. Frizzell '68 ; drawn by Miss A.R. Sawyer ; lith....

Print shows a young woman, half-length, facing front, cutting her long hair with scissors. Caption continues: She lifted its heavy masses with one hand and severed it with a strong pair of scissors, with remor... More

Raymond Bykes, Western Union No. 23, Norfolk Virginia Said he was fourteen years old. Works until after 1:00 A.M. every night. He is precocious and not a little "tough." Has been here at this office for only three months, but he already knows the Red Light District thoroughly and goes there constantly. He told me he often sleeps down at the Bay Line boat docks all night. Several times I saw his mother hanging around the office, but she seemed more concerned about getting his pay envelope than anything else.  Location: Norfolk, Virginia.

Raymond Bykes, Western Union No. 23, Norfolk Virginia Said he was four...

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Essay contest, Army, 5/5/20 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Essay contest, Army, 5/5/20 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain...

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Army essay contest, 5420 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Army essay contest, 5420 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Date from caption list. Caption from caption list: Winners in the Army Essay Writing Contest who are being entertained in Washington at the expense of the War Dept. Prizes are to be awarded on May 5th. Today th... More

Essay contest, 5/5/20 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Essay contest, 5/5/20 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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[High school locker room gloom] / World Telegram & Sun photo by Walter Albertin.

[High school locker room gloom] / World Telegram & Sun photo by Walter...

Photograph shows a gloomy high school football team in locker room at the Freeport Municipal Stadium after the first half. NYWT&S staff photograph. Title from Football Nation inventory. Forms part of: New York ... More

Wilbur H. Woodward, 428 Third St., N.W., Washington, D.C., Western Union messenger 236, one of the youngsters on the border-line, (15 yrs. old) works until 8 P.M. only.  Location: Washington (D.C.), District of Columbia.

Wilbur H. Woodward, 428 Third St., N.W., Washington, D.C., Western Uni...

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Fourteen year old messenger #2 Western Union, Shreveport. Says he goes to the Red Light district all the time. See Hine report on Messengers.  Location: Shreveport, Louisiana.

Fourteen year old messenger #2 Western Union, Shreveport. Says he goes...

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High school route boys. Adolescents. Some in back row have been newsboys for seven, eight and nine years. Location: New Haven, Connecticut

High school route boys. Adolescents. Some in back row have been newsbo...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 628. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More

High school route boys. Adolescents. Some in back row have been newsboys for seven, eight and nine years. Location: New Haven, Connecticut

High school route boys. Adolescents. Some in back row have been newsbo...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 628. Hine no. 625. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints... More

"Spider" Estes, fourteen year old doffer, been working in Guadalupe Valley Cotton Mills, one year. Violation of the law.  Location: Cuero, Texas.

"Spider" Estes, fourteen year old doffer, been working in Guadalupe Va...

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

Preston De Costa, fifteen year old messenger #3 for Bellevue Messenger Service. I ran across him and took photos while he was carrying notes back and forth between a prostitute in jail and a pimp in the Red Light district. He had read all the notes and knew all about the correspondence. He was a fine grained adolescent boy. Has been delivering message and drugs in the Red Light for six months and knows the ropes thoroughly. "A lot of these girls are my regular customers. I carry 'em messages and get 'em drinks, drugs, etc. Also go to the bank with money for them. If a fellow treats 'em right, they'll call him by number and give him all their work. I got a box full of photos I took of these girls - some of 'em I took in their room." Works until 11:00 P.M. Location: San Antonio, Texas

Preston De Costa, fifteen year old messenger #3 for Bellevue Messenger...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 3568. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Betty Baker & Ann Kittleson - Public domain portrait photograph

Betty Baker & Ann Kittleson - Public domain portrait photograph

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves. Date from negatives in same range. Caption from caption list: Miss Betty Baker, daughter of the Secty. of ... More

Teenagers, Omaha pow-wow. Macy, Nebraska, 1983

Teenagers, Omaha pow-wow. Macy, Nebraska, 1983

Included in the photograph are Mark Grant (left) and Ted McCauley (right). 1983 Omaha pow-wow. Macy, Nebraska.

Willie Cheatham, Western Union messenger #1. Says he is 16 years now; been messenger for 6 years. Late Sunday night, October 4th, I talked with him, still on duty, until 10 P.M. "You bet I know every crooked house in town. Went to school with one of those girls when she was straight. He[r] mother died and she went bad. Some young girls were there too. I go out to Red Light some with messages and packages, and if I want to, I bust right in and sit down." Hard face.  Location: Montgomery, Alabama.

Willie Cheatham, Western Union messenger #1. Says he is 16 years now; ...

A black and white photo of a man wearing a hat. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Minnehaha view, photochrome print postcard.. Photochrom print, 1880-1890.

Minnehaha view, photochrome print postcard.. Photochrom print, 1880-18...

Copyright 1904 by Detroit Photographic Co. Detroit Publishing Co. no. "54124". Forms part of: Photochrom Print Collection. More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.... More

[Legs and feet of five teenage girls wearing dog collar anklets on their socks] / World-Telegram photo by Roger Higgins.

[Legs and feet of five teenage girls wearing dog collar anklets on the...

World-Telegram staff photograph. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

[Teenage girls add to grafitti on bottom of Elvis movie poster] / World Telegram & Sun photo by Phil Stanziola.

[Teenage girls add to grafitti on bottom of Elvis movie poster] / Worl...

NYWT&S staff photo. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection.

Group of slides: 1-2 Martie Morris and Family Eat Dinner Along the South Side of the Little Arena; 3 Campground; 4-5 Gary Tassone and Ed Matney (CBS Recordists); 7-8 Robinson Family  Gets Ready for Evening Dance; 9-10 In the Campground; 11-12 Whipman David Blackbird; 13-15 Teenagers; 16-17 Arena Director; 18-20 Renee Brown, Adele Grant, and Rosa McCauley

Group of slides: 1-2 Martie Morris and Family Eat Dinner Along the Sou...

1983 Omaha pow-wow. Macy, Nebraska. Public domain photograph - historical image of Nebraska, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

William Gross, 516 Tatnall St. Newsboy, 15 years of age. Selling papers 5 years. Average earnings 50 cents per week. Father, carpenter, $18 week. Selling newspapers own choice, to get money to go to moving picture shows. Visits saloons. Smokes sometimes. "Serves" papers to prostitutes. On May 25 William gave to investigator a list of houses of prostitution written in his own handwriting, to which he serves papers. He also tells a story of occasionally guiding strangers to these houses, for which he receives from 15 cents to a quarter. Investigator, Edward F. Brown. Wilmington, Del.  Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Louis [i.e. Lewis] W. Hine, May, 1910.

William Gross, 516 Tatnall St. Newsboy, 15 years of age. Selling paper...

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

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

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

Public domain photograph related to New York City, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Picryl description: Public domain image of byciclyst, bike, bicycle wheel, sport event, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Picryl description: Public domain image of byciclyst, bike, bicycle wh...

Picryl description: Public domain image of bicyclist, bike, bicycle wheel, sport event, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fourteen year old Western Union Messenger #43. Works until 10:30 P.M. Goes to Reservation some.  Location: Houston, Texas.

Fourteen year old Western Union Messenger #43. Works until 10:30 P.M. ...

An old photo of a man in uniform riding a bike. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Essay contest, 5520 (before 1920)

Essay contest, 5520 (before 1920)

Caption from caption list: Awarding of prizes in the Army Essay contest by the Secty. of War General marsh [i.e. March] and General Harris. Elaborate exercises were held at the Stadium of the Central High Schoo... More

Farewell to childhood - movie film screenshot

Farewell to childhood - movie film screenshot

Short film dramatizing relationship between a teenage girl and her parents. Eventually both come to understand that they both have their own issues and needs. Based on the original treatments by Len Peterson an... More

Wilbur H. Woodward, 428 Third St., N.W., Washington, D.C., Western Union messenger 236, one of the youngsters on the border-line, (15 yrs. old) works until 8 P.M. only. Location: Washington (D.C.), District of Columbia

Wilbur H. Woodward, 428 Third St., N.W., Washington, D.C., Western Uni...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 2914. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

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

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

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

Fourteen year old Western Union Messenger #43. Works until 10:30 P.M. Goes to Reservation some. Location: Houston, Texas

Fourteen year old Western Union Messenger #43. Works until 10:30 P.M. ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 3586. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Marion Davis, Messenger #21 for Bellevue Messenger Service. Fourteen years old. "Been messenger, off and on, for two years. Not supposed to go to the Reservation under sixteen years, but I do just the same. The boss don't care and the cops don't stop me." Location: Houston, Texas

Marion Davis, Messenger #21 for Bellevue Messenger Service. Fourteen y...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 3585. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Oral history with 16 year old white female, Jackson, Kentucky (Transcript)

Oral history with 16 year old white female, Jackson, Kentucky (Transcr...

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: University of New Orleans. New Orleans, LA 18 year old (Appalachian) white female. Lives in Jackson, KY; freshman at Lees junior College. Interview at... More

Conversation with 15 year old male, New York, New York (Transcript)

Conversation with 15 year old male, New York, New York (Transcript)

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Center for Applied Linguistics. Washington, DC 15 year old male. Puerto Rican heritage. Local games, description of TV, and social relations.

Conversation with 15 year old male, New York, New York (Transcript)

Conversation with 15 year old male, New York, New York (Transcript)

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Center for Applied Linguistics. Washington, DC 15 year old male. Puerto Rican heritage. Local games, description of TV, and social relations.

Oral history with 18 year old white male, Jackson, Kentucky (Transcript)

Oral history with 18 year old white male, Jackson, Kentucky (Transcrip...

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: University of New Orleans. New Orleans, LA Talks about growing up in Breathitt County. 18 year old (Appalachian) white male. Quit school in 8th grade;... More

Interview with 15 year old male, New York, New York (Transcript)

Interview with 15 year old male, New York, New York (Transcript)

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Center for Applied Linguistics. Washington, DC 15 year old male. Puerto Rican heritage. Local games, description of TV, and social relations.

Interview with 15 year old male, New York, New York (Transcript)

Interview with 15 year old male, New York, New York (Transcript)

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Center for Applied Linguistics. Washington, DC 15 year old male. Puerto Rican heritage. Local games, description of TV, and social relations.

Oral history with 17 year old white female, Jackson, Kentucky (Transcript)

Oral history with 17 year old white female, Jackson, Kentucky (Transcr...

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: University of New Orleans. New Orleans, LA Growing up in Breathitt County Kentucky. 17 year old (Appalachian) white female. Lives in community of Elka... More

Oral history with 17 year old white female, Jackson, Kentucky (Transcript)

Oral history with 17 year old white female, Jackson, Kentucky (Transcr...

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: University of New Orleans. New Orleans, LA Growing up in Breathitt County Kentucky. 17 year old (Appalachian) white female. Lives in community of Elka... More

Conversation with 13 year old white male, Detroit, Michigan (Transcript)

Conversation with 13 year old white male, Detroit, Michigan (Transcrip...

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Georgetown University. Washington, DC 13 year old white male; Polish American. Discusses hot rods, cars, and sports.

Oral history with 16 year old white male, War Creek, Kentucky (Transcript)

Oral history with 16 year old white male, War Creek, Kentucky (Transcr...

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: University of New Orleans. New Orleans, LA 16 year old (Appalachian) white male. Junior in high school and lives in small community of War Creek. Youn... More

Oral history with 16 year old white male, War Creek, Kentucky (Transcript)

Oral history with 16 year old white male, War Creek, Kentucky (Transcr...

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: University of New Orleans. New Orleans, LA 16 year old (Appalachian) white male. Junior in high school and lives in small community of War Creek. Youn... More

Evora Bonet, daughter of P.A. Bonet, Attache, Cuban Legation

Evora Bonet, daughter of P.A. Bonet, Attache, Cuban Legation

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

Conversation with 13 year old white male, West Virginia (Transcript)

Conversation with 13 year old white male, West Virginia (Transcript)

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Center for Applied Linguistics. Washington, DC 13 year old white male. Camping and outdoors activities.

Letter from Laura I. Oblinger to Uriah W. Oblinger, July 21, 1894
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