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Taft finds tearing the budget a difficult task. Washington, D.C., Jan. 2. Senator Robert A. Taft, Republican of Ohio, found tearing the budget a difficult task as he told reporters at a press conference today that it would take at least two years to balance the budget

Taft finds tearing the budget a difficult task. Washington, D.C., Jan....

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Most of the workers in Munford Cotton Mills. The smallest boy, in middle, a frail anaemic youngster, said he had been doffing over a year. Said he was 12 years old, but I doubt it. The other small boy, on left, is a spinner, runs four sides, been working there two years. Said he was 12; - but --?. Location: Munford, Alabama.

Most of the workers in Munford Cotton Mills. The smallest boy, in midd...

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Rose Winslow of New York; daughter of Polish miner and steel worker in Pennsylvania. She worked in textile mills from the age of eleven to nineteen, until tuberculosis forced her to cease work altogether for two years. She has done factory inspection and trade union organization for women in the Consumers' League and Women's Trade Union League. Spent last three years, when able to work, campaigning for women suffrage. Took part in anti-Democratic campaign of California with Lucy Burns. Spokeswoman in working women's deputation to President Wilson, February, 1914.

Rose Winslow of New York; daughter of Polish miner and steel worker in...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Half-length portrait of Rose Winslow (born Ruza Wenclawska, Poland], wearing dark jumper and white blouse, with dark tam. Cropped version of the photograph published in The... More

Mississippi Negress hoeing cotton. She was born a slave "two years before the surrender"

Mississippi Negress hoeing cotton. She was born a slave "two years bef...

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New Executive Director of Social Security Board. Washington, D.C., Nov. 1. Oscar M. Powell, who was recently appointed to succeed Frank Bane as executive director of the Social Security Board, pictured at his desk today. He is a native of Louisiana but has lived in San Antonio, Texas, for the last 20 years. He has been on the Texas Board of Social Security for two years, 10/1/38

New Executive Director of Social Security Board. Washington, D.C., Nov...

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Child with rickets, son of relief client near Jefferson, Texas. This child has never talked though he is two years old. He has never received any medical attention

Child with rickets, son of relief client near Jefferson, Texas. This c...

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National Child Labor Committee No. 954. 1-legged boy. Neil Gallagher, Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania Born January 14, 1891. Went to work at about 9 years. Worked about two years in breaker. Went inside at about 11 years. "Tripper," tending door. 83 cents [a] day. Injured May 2, 1904. Leg crushed between cars. Amputated at Mercy Hospital, Wilkes Barre. "Baltimore Tunnell" - "Black Diamond" D. & H. Co. Thomas Lewellin Superintendent (inside boys); Samuel Morgan, Superintendent. In Hospital 9 weeks. Amputated twice. No charge. Received nothing from company. "Was riding between cars and we aren't supposed to ride between them." No written rules, but they tell you not to. Mule driver (who was on for first day) had taken his lamp and he tried to reach across car to get it. Slipped between bumpers. Been working in breakers since. Same place $1.10 a day. Work only about 1/2 time. Work about 6 hour day. Left 3 months ago. Been in N.Y. - no work. Trying to get work in Poolroom. Applicant at Bureau for Handicapped, 105 E. 22nd Street, N.Y. Nov. 1, 1909. Father living, (Mother dead.) Miner same place. Hurt month ago Rock fall. 2 brothers 25, 27. Home 15 Pennsylvania St. Location: Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania.

National Child Labor Committee No. 954. 1-legged boy. Neil Gallagher, ...

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The Famous jackass "New York City" preparing for another two years' journey

The Famous jackass "New York City" preparing for another two years' jo...

Caricature showing man on donkey carrying baby, bags "taxation, aldermanic jobs, bribery and corruption", and sign "Fernando Wood", etc. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1861, p. 104.

Some of the workers in Munford Cotton Mills. Smallest boy, in middle, a frail anaemic youngster, said he had been doffing over a year. Said he was twelve, but I doubt it. Other small boy, on left, spinner, runs four sides, been working there two years. Location: Munford, Alabama

Some of the workers in Munford Cotton Mills. Smallest boy, in middle, ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 1794. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Mrs. A.H. Walker of Northampton, Massachusetts. is assistant to the Director of Canteens for the American Red Cross in Great Britain. She has done a great deal of canteen work at the English ports and along the lines of communication by which American soldiers travel across England. She has been identified with the work of the A.R.C. in Great Britain for more than two years

Mrs. A.H. Walker of Northampton, Massachusetts. is assistant to the Di...

Title and note information from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: A.R.C. Data: Local Phil. Papers. 10/18. Central Div. 11/18. Lake Div. 11/18.... More

Frank Moody and family lived in this home for two years. Near Anthon, Iowa

Frank Moody and family lived in this home for two years. Near Anthon, ...

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Fort Myer commandant gets Generals' stars. Fort Myer, Virginia, Nov. 1. Col. Jonathan M. Wainwright, commanding officer of the cavalry post here who was recently promoted to the rank of Brigadier General, was today given the stars of his new rank at a colorful ceremony. Sergt. Maj. Timothy Carragher, left, of the 16th Field Artillery, and Sergt. Maj. Frank Benegas of the Third Cavalry, highest ranking non-commissioned officers of the post, were chosen to make the presentation. Brig. General Wainwright has commanded the Third Cavalry for more than two years, 11/1/38

Fort Myer commandant gets Generals' stars. Fort Myer, Virginia, Nov. 1...

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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

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

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

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Gastonia, N.C. Boy from Loray Mill. "Been at it right smart two years." Location: Gastonia, North Carolina.

Gastonia, N.C. Boy from Loray Mill. "Been at it right smart two years....

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Group. Smallest boy is Stanislaus Beauvais, 25 Pingree St., works on #2 Spinning Room, has been there two years. Next smallest boy is Percy Dupell (back of Stanislaus), 15 Perkins St., has worked in #1 Spinning Room two months. The next in size is Joseph Richard, (see #2626). Location: Salem, Massachusetts.

Group. Smallest boy is Stanislaus Beauvais, 25 Pingree St., works on #...

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Eb Karns been "sweepin here two years" couldn't write his name, couldn't spell it. Appears to be under 12. Pelzer, S.C. Mfg. Co. Location: [Pelzer, South Carolina].

Eb Karns been "sweepin here two years" couldn't write his name, couldn...

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

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

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Native Texas tenant farmer. Near Goodliet, Texas. Aged seventy; seventeen years on the same farm. Is to be "tractored out" at the end of 1938. One son has been tractored out and has been on WPA (Work Projects Administration) for two years. Another son was tractored out in 1937. Has moved to town and remains temporarily off relief by selling his livestock. "What are my boys going to do? It's not a question of what they're going to do. It's a question of what they're going to have to do. They're not any up there in Congress but what are big landowners and they're going to see that the program is in their interest. As long as the government is paying the landowner more to let the land out than they make by renting it, they won't rent it."

Native Texas tenant farmer. Near Goodliet, Texas. Aged seventy; sevent...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a New Deal program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 as a response to the high unemployment during the Great Depression. The program put people t... More

Goats grazing on ranch of rehabilitation borrower from Kimble County, Texas. With the funds borrowed from FSA (Farm Security Administration), this ranchman restored his ranch with highbred sheep and goats and is repaying his loan and has also showed a substantial profit for the last two years

Goats grazing on ranch of rehabilitation borrower from Kimble County, ...

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

Her husband works at Fort Bragg, and expects to be laid off any day. They come from South Carolina and have been living in a trailer for two years. Don't know where they will go next. Near Fort Bragg, North Carolina

Her husband works at Fort Bragg, and expects to be laid off any day. T...

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

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

Doffer in Mellville Mfg. Co., Cherryville, N.C. Said he had been working for two years. Many of them below age. Location: Cherryville, North Carolina.

Doffer in Mellville Mfg. Co., Cherryville, N.C. Said he had been worki...

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Louis Zabawa, 33 East St. Has been a band boy in #10 Mill, two years and six months. He says. Location: Ludlow, Massachusetts.

Louis Zabawa, 33 East St. Has been a band boy in #10 Mill, two years a...

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Alexander Ferrier, 6 Hampton St., (on left hand). Has been band boy in #8 mill for two years. He said that a short time ago an unprotected gear on his machine caught his sleeve and tore it off completely. Another boy had a large part of his hand taken off by the same machine. David Ferrier (brother to Alexander) has been doffer in #10 mill one month. Location: Ludlow, Massachusetts.

Alexander Ferrier, 6 Hampton St., (on left hand). Has been band boy in...

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Petrograd Children's Colony at Turgoyak, Siberia, maintained by the American Red Cross. Alexandra Kirsanova is ten years old. She comes from Petrograd and has been one of the "war waifs" of Siberia for nearly two years

Petrograd Children's Colony at Turgoyak, Siberia, maintained by the Am...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC. Siberian Comm. Group title: Children, Siberia. Used in: Junior Red Cross ind... More

A Product of the 4 H Club. Gradie Walton, 17 yrs. old, - is very deficient in most school branches (except in mathematics where he shines). He is much handicapped physically, - lost one eye in an accident and the other is weak. This year he raised 135 bushels of corn on one acre (his father raised about one half as much and complained that the boy's land was better). The secret was that the boy worked hard on the plot, a sic fertilizing and cultivating, even bringing soil in from the woods. He got the First Prize for two years. Location: Pocahontas County, West Virginia Photo by Lewis W. Hine

A Product of the 4 H Club. Gradie Walton, 17 yrs. old, - is very defic...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Children in West Virginia. Hine no. 5061. Number typed in upper left corner of caption card: 41. The phrase "the boy has worked hard on" is repeated in the text of the ca... More

Cotton sharecropper. She was born "two years before the surrender." Mississippi

Cotton sharecropper. She was born "two years before the surrender." Mi...

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Home, self-built in two years, bit by bit. Have cow, calf, chickens, barn. Family originally came from Michigan. Husband now has job in garage. Yakima, Washington

Home, self-built in two years, bit by bit. Have cow, calf, chickens, b...

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Her husband works at Fort Bragg, and expects to be laid off any day. They come from South Carolina and have been living in a trailer for two years. Don't know where they will go next. Near Fort Bragg, North Carolina

Her husband works at Fort Bragg, and expects to be laid off any day. T...

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Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Bach festival. Younger members of the choir. Left to right: Betty Gordon, eighteen, who sings in the soprano section, has been with the choir for one year; she is employed in the City Treasure's office; Kathleen Rea, twenty-three, who sings soprano, has been with the choir for two years. She is a graduate of Lehigh University

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Bach festival. Younger members of the choir. ...

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Lacy (12 yrs. old) and Savannah (11 yrs old) Have worked two years. Father said "The little one is a cracker jack on spinnin', at least so the boss says. She ain't satisfied unless in the mill. The oldest one isn't so good at it. Not as quick.["] (Note the tense, serious looks on the younger. Older one more like a real girl.) Location: Gastonia, North Carolina.

Lacy (12 yrs. old) and Savannah (11 yrs old) Have worked two years. Fa...

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Bill to ban beer advertising on radio not necessary of desirable. Sturgis. Washington, D.C., March 31. Testifying on a proposed bill to ban beer advertising on the radio, Wesley Strugis, Director of the Distilled Spirits Institute, today told the Senate Interstate Commerce Subcommittee that the bill is "Neither necessary nor desirable" he urged the bill not be reported despite the fact that members of the Hard Liquor Industry voluntarily abandoned radio advertising two years ago. 3-31-39

Bill to ban beer advertising on radio not necessary of desirable. Stur...

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Pennsylvania section of the war emergency twenty-four inch pipeline to carry oil from Texas to eastern refineries, completed in July, 1943. Blackie Durham, government inspector. Mr Durham worked two years on the pipeline in Iraq

Pennsylvania section of the war emergency twenty-four inch pipeline to...

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A black and white photo of a door and window. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a door and window. Office of War Informatio...

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

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Air Service Command. Mobile Chief Technical Sergeant Vasile Chokem, whose home is in Akron, Ohio. In civilian life he drove a truck, ran a filling station, and spent two years in the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Air Service Command. Mobile Chief Techni...

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Lacy (12 yrs. old) and Savannah (11 yrs old) Have worked two years. Father said "The little one is a cracker jack on spinnin', at least so the boss says. She ain't satisfied unless in the mill. The oldest one isn't so good at it. Not as quick.["] (Note the tense, serious looks on the younger. Older one more like a real girl.) Location: Gastonia, North Carolina.

Lacy (12 yrs. old) and Savannah (11 yrs old) Have worked two years. Fa...

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Washington whitened by heaviest snowfall in two years. Washington, D.C., Jan. 8. With a fall of 5.2 inches of snow, Washingtonians awoke this morning to find their Capital blanketed by the heaviest snowfall since 1938. This is a scene on Capitol Hill

Washington whitened by heaviest snowfall in two years. Washington, D.C...

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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...

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Iran Legation re-opened. Washington, D.C., Feb. 4. Akbar Daftary, Charge D'Affaires for [Iran], today took up his duties at the Iran Legation signaling reopening of official cordiality between Iran and this country. The legation has been closed for two years following the recall of the then Iranian Minister, Ghaffar Djalar, as a result of the Minister's arrest in nearby Elkton, Md., in a traffic case, 2-4-39

Iran Legation re-opened. Washington, D.C., Feb. 4. Akbar Daftary, Char...

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A black and white photo of a man smoking a cigarette. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man smoking a cigarette. Office of War In...

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

Artwork on the grounds of the French Legation Museum, in Austin, Texas, where the Empire of France kept a mission for two years during the period when Texas was an independent nation from 1836 to 1846. As the name suggests, it is now a historical house museum

Artwork on the grounds of the French Legation Museum, in Austin, Texas...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

The site of a spill of leftover fuel when a storage tank was removed in 2006 from a Sinclair gasoline station that had closed two years earlier in Montezuma County, Colorado, near Mancos

The site of a spill of leftover fuel when a storage tank was removed i...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Under Colorado law, owners of such stations that close must remove existing underground tanks. The landowner posted a series of inflam... More

Gastonia, N.C. Boy from Loray Mill. "Been at it right smart two years." Location: Gastonia, North Carolina

Gastonia, N.C. Boy from Loray Mill. "Been at it right smart two years....

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 248. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

[Unidentified man and woman, both about 30 years of age, with a child about two years of age seated on woman's knee, full-length portraits, facing front, seated on chairs on carpet]

[Unidentified man and woman, both about 30 years of age, with a child ...

Scratched on back of plate: 178; 196. Two edges trimmed. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.

Joseph Polchlopek (alone), 37 W. Front St. Says, "Been working here two years and a half." (See #2638). Location: Chicopee, Massachusetts.

Joseph Polchlopek (alone), 37 W. Front St. Says, "Been working here tw...

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"In a bicycle built for two," Washington, D.C. September 8. Dr. Loo S. Rowe greets Victor Scarraffia and Vincente Gregori ? (front to rear) two Argentinian cyclists who left Buenos Aires January 1, 1934 in their bicycle. After two years and a half of privations which included being lost in the desert, attacks of tropical fever, etc., they have finally completed their "goodwil visit." Doctor Rowe is the Director General of the Pan-American Union

"In a bicycle built for two," Washington, D.C. September 8. Dr. Loo S....

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Senator Holt and Sister Jane. Washington D.C., July 29. Miss Jane Holt is shown with her brother Senator Rush Holt(Democrat) of West Virginia. Miss Holt who has been acting as secretary and hostess for her Senator brother for the past two years will announce her engagement to Ralph K. Chase, lawyer, with the Maritime Commission, it was learned today, 7/29/37

Senator Holt and Sister Jane. Washington D.C., July 29. Miss Jane Holt...

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Mississippi Negress hoeing cotton. She was born a slave "two years before the surrender"

Mississippi Negress hoeing cotton. She was born a slave "two years bef...

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

Child of former sharecropper eating at table. Southeast Missouri Farms. This is the same boy shown in negative 31215-D, two years later

Child of former sharecropper eating at table. Southeast Missouri Farms...

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Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Two-year-old guayule plants. At two years, the guayule contains about nine percent rubber of dry weight. To supply the emergency needs for rubber, these shrubs would have to be planted closer together if a two year harvest cycle were planned. Rubber yield per acre would then closely approximate the yield from mature shrubs

Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Two-year-old g...

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5-year-old Rosie Passeralla, 1116 Annan Street, Philadelphia. Been picking here two years. Whites Bog, Browns Mills, N.J. Sept. 28, 1910. Witness E. F. Brown. Location: Browns Mills, New Jersey / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

5-year-old Rosie Passeralla, 1116 Annan Street, Philadelphia. Been pic...

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Day scene in New Jersey Glass House. Boy is Howard ---, 15 years old but has been in the glass works for two years, and has worked some at night. Location: New Jersey.

Day scene in New Jersey Glass House. Boy is Howard ---, 15 years old b...

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Day scene in New Jersey Glass House. Boy is Howard ---, 15 years old but has been in the glass works for two years, and has worked some at night. Location: New Jersey.

Day scene in New Jersey Glass House. Boy is Howard ---, 15 years old b...

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

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

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

Manuel Sousa and family, 306-2[nd] St., On right end is brother-in-law; next [to] him is father who works on the river; next is Manuel (appears to be 12 years old) wearing sweater and has arms folded, he has been a cleaner in the Holmes Cotton Mill for two years. John, Manuel's brother (next to him in photo) works in City Cotton Mill. Next is sister. At left of end is cousin. Small fry sprinkled around. All are very illiterate. John and Manuel are the only ones who can speak English and they only a little. Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Manuel Sousa and family, 306-2[nd] St., On right end is brother-in-law...

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Departure of two-years men from the Army of the Potomac. A scene near Falmouth, Virginia

Departure of two-years men from the Army of the Potomac. A scene near ...

Gift; J.P. Morgan; 1919; (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.67). Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Poland's tribute to America. Warsaw's Russian church, in their desire to eliminate everything Russian, Poles, since the war, at first planned to tear down the magnificient cathedral of Alexander Nevski, a great edifice erected during the Russian domination in the hope that the religion of the Poles could be changed. After tearing the dome from the bell tower, however, the policy of the government was changed and the beautiful piece of architecture will now remain and probably will become a national museum. In this cathedral on July 4 was held the service at which blessings were invoked upon the Americans who have helped Poland by relief work during the past two years during which the country has been struggling to establish itself as a nation

Poland's tribute to America. Warsaw's Russian church, in their desire ...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Paris Office. Group title: Motion pictures. Gift; American National Red Cross 194... More

Hull and Roosevelt discuss neutrality policy. Washington, D.C., May 9. William H. Malone, former Chairman of the Illinois Tax Commission who has been sentences to two years in preison for Income Tax fraud, flew to Washington today to appeal personally to President Roosevelt for a pardon. Upon arrival at the airport, Malone stated that he felt confident that when President Roosevelt knew all of the facts in the case he would not tolerate what they are planning to do with me," 5/9/38

Hull and Roosevelt discuss neutrality policy. Washington, D.C., May 9....

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Young family on ditch bank, waiting to enter farm family labor camp (FSA - Farm Security Administration). They came from North Dakota, have young baby. "Two years in this kind of work." Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon

Young family on ditch bank, waiting to enter farm family labor camp (F...

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Her husband works at Fort Bragg, and expects to be laid off any day. They come from South Carolina and have been living in a trailer for two years. Don't know where they will go next. Near Fort Bragg, North Carolina

Her husband works at Fort Bragg, and expects to be laid off any day. T...

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Ola, Idaho. FSA (Farm Security Administration) Ola self-help cooperative. Home of a member. Practically all houses have been enlarged and improved in the last two years. Lumber from the cooperative mill is used for such construction

Ola, Idaho. FSA (Farm Security Administration) Ola self-help cooperati...

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In war time. Two years in the Confederacy and two years north. With many reminiscences of the days long before the war

In war time. Two years in the Confederacy and two years north. With ma...

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5-year-old Rosie Passeralla, 1116 Annan Street, Philadelphia. Been picking here two years. Whites Bog, Browns Mills, N.J. Sept. 28, 1910. Witness E. F. Brown. Location: Browns Mills, New Jersey / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

5-year-old Rosie Passeralla, 1116 Annan Street, Philadelphia. Been pic...

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Lawrence Purdie (right end) has been spinning in the mule room of the cotton mill at Matoaca, Virginia, for two years. His brother, next to him, helps in the mill. The others in the photo are not working yet. The father is not at work now as work is slack. Location: Matoaca, Virginia.

Lawrence Purdie (right end) has been spinning in the mule room of the ...

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Frances Frigineto, 3 years old. Marie Frigineto, 5 years old, latter been picking two years. 711 Patchionk Ave., Philadelphia. Whites Bog, Brown Mills, N.J. This is the fourth week of school and the people expect to remain here for two weeks more. E.F. Brown. Location: Browns Mills, New Jersey.

Frances Frigineto, 3 years old. Marie Frigineto, 5 years old, latter b...

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Frances Frigineto, 3 years old. Marie Frigineto, 5 years old, latter been picking two years. 711 Patchionk Ave., Philadelphia. Whites Bog, Brown Mills, N.J. This is the fourth week of school and the people expect to remain here for two weeks more. E.F. Brown. Location: Browns Mills, New Jersey.

Frances Frigineto, 3 years old. Marie Frigineto, 5 years old, latter b...

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Doffer in Mellville Mfg. Co., Cherryville, N.C. Said he had been working for two years. Many of them below age. Location: Cherryville, North Carolina.

Doffer in Mellville Mfg. Co., Cherryville, N.C. Said he had been worki...

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Manuel Sousa and family, 306-2[nd] St., On right end is brother-in-law; next [to] him is father who works on the river; next is Manuel (appears to be 12 years old) wearing sweater and has arms folded, he has been a cleaner in the Holmes Cotton Mill for two years. John, Manuel's brother (next to him in photo) works in City Cotton Mill. Next is sister. At left of end is cousin. Small fry sprinkled around. All are very illiterate. John and Manuel are the only ones who can speak English and they only a little. Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Manuel Sousa and family, 306-2[nd] St., On right end is brother-in-law...

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

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

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A young doffer who has been working for two years in Indian Head Cotton Mills. Location: Cordova, Alabama.

A young doffer who has been working for two years in Indian Head Cotto...

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Joseph Mika, (smallest), 80 Tremont St. Spinning Room. Said, "Two years working there." (See 2637) Joseph Ciosek, (young), 74 School St. Six months working there. Location: Chicopee, Massachusetts.

Joseph Mika, (smallest), 80 Tremont St. Spinning Room. Said, "Two year...

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Famous actress urges admittance into U.S. of 20,000 German refugee children. Washington, D.C., April 20. Speaking 'as an American mother,' actress Helen Hayes today appealed to a senate immigration subcommittee to approve legislation to admit 20,000 German refugee children into the United States during the next two years. She is pictured with Senator Robert F. Wagner, left, of New York, and Rep. Edith Nourse Rogers, right, of Massachusetts

Famous actress urges admittance into U.S. of 20,000 German refugee chi...

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Iran [Legation] Washington, D.C., Feb. 4. Akbar Daftary, Charge D'Affaires for [Iran], today took up his duties at the Iran Legation signaling reopening of official cordiality between Iran and this country. The legation has been closed for two years following the recall of the then Iranian Minister, Ghaffar Djalar, as a result of the Minister's arrest in nearby Elkton, Md., in a traffic case, 2-4-39

Iran [Legation] Washington, D.C., Feb. 4. Akbar Daftary, Charge D'Affa...

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Washington, D.C., Feb. 4. Dr. Ali Akbar Daftary, Charge D'Affaires for Iran, today took up his duties at the Iran Legation signaling reopening of official cordiality between Iran and this country. The Legation has been closed for two years following the recall of the then Iranian Minister, Ghaffar Djalar, as a result of the Minister's arrest in nearby Elkton, Md., in a traffic case, 2-4-39

Washington, D.C., Feb. 4. Dr. Ali Akbar Daftary, Charge D'Affaires for...

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Lacy (12 yrs. old) and Savannah (11 yrs old) Have worked two years. Father said "The little one is a cracker jack on spinnin', at least so the boss says. She ain't satisfied unless in the mill. The oldest one isn't so good at it. Not as quick." (Note the tense, serious looks on the younger. Older one more like a real girl.) Location: Gastonia, North Carolina

Lacy (12 yrs. old) and Savannah (11 yrs old) Have worked two years. Fa...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 245. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More

Accident case - Union Hospital. Molla Mesuretta, 17 years. Weaver at Sagamore Mill. Worked two years. Laceration and partial evulsion of tip of finger and nail. Hurt September 1915 while cleaning loom in motion. "They all clean when the machine is going." She will always be handicapped. Not able to go back yet. Finger is tender. Nail split and finger tip cit to the quick. Wages $7.50; compensation $4.67. Finger that she needs most in weaving was hurt. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts Lewis W. Hine

Accident case - Union Hospital. Molla Mesuretta, 17 years. Weaver at S...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Mills. Hine no. 4303. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the National... More

Jim Waldine, 1023 Carpenter St., Philadelphia. 6 years old, been picking cranberries two years. Also Sam Frohue, 9 years old, been picking two years, could not spell his own name. 1106 Titten St., Philadelphia. Theodore Budd's Bog at Turkeytown, near Pemberton, N.J. This is the fourth week of school in Philadelphia and people will stay here two weeks more. E.F. Brown Wit[ness]. Location: Pemberton, New Jersey.

Jim Waldine, 1023 Carpenter St., Philadelphia. 6 years old, been picki...

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These two little brothers were brought from a dangerous frontier village a year ago. The elder one, at the left, is five old, but so stunted that he is no taller than little Jean, who is about two and a half. The two years of frontier life have left Pierre with legs which will be permanentely twisted from rickets, the result of undernourishment Jean was taken away in time by an American woman and now is leading a healthy life at a French chateau a half an hour out of Paris. These children are cared for by organizations working in cooperation with the American Red Cross

These two little brothers were brought from a dangerous frontier villa...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Commission to France. Group Title: Children, Refugees. Data: H.E. 50266. Gift... More

A Product of the 4 H Club. Gradie Walton, 17 yrs. old, - is very deficient in most school branches (except in mathematics where he shines). He is much handicapped physically, - lost one eye in an accident and the other is weak. This year he raised 135 bushels of corn on one acre (his father raised about one half as much and complained that the boy's land was better). The secret was that the boy worked hard on the plot . , - a [sic] fertilizing and cultivating, even bringing soil in from the woods. He got the First Prize for two years. Location: Pocahontas County, West Virginia / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

A Product of the 4 H Club. Gradie Walton, 17 yrs. old, - is very defic...

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Mississippi Negress hoeing cotton. She was born a slave "two years before the surrender"

Mississippi Negress hoeing cotton. She was born a slave "two years bef...

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Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Charles Sawer, gateman at Union Station for two years. He also serves as an interpreter in Jewish, Polish, German, Russian, Slovak, and Spanish

Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Charles Sawer, gateman at Union Station for two...

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Gastonia, N.C. Boy from Loray Mill. "Been at it right smart two years." Location: Gastonia, North Carolina.

Gastonia, N.C. Boy from Loray Mill. "Been at it right smart two years....

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Some of the younger workers (not all) who work in the Biloxi Canning Factory. On right-hand end of photo is Lazro Boney, 12 years old, been working 4 years at this factory. Both he and his mother said he makes $1.75 a day when shrimp are large and plentiful. He made $57.00 last year in 3 months. His brother Ed (not in photo) 14 years old, makes $2.25 on good days. Another brother, Pete, (one of the smallest in the photo) and 10 years old makes 50 cents a day. Two other brothers work at raw oysters; one, 17 years old, makes $4.00 a day. Eight ch[ildre]n in family. The mother said, "Lazro goes to school when he ain't workin; but he's gettin' so he'd rather stay home with the boys than go to school." Family lives at 616 Charter St. Next to Lazro (in photo) is Jim Kriss, 11 years old, been working at this factory two years; makes $1.50 on good days. His brother Jo Kriss (in photo next to girl on left end) 12 years old, makes $1.00 a day. Another brother Ed, not in photo, 14 years averages $2.50 a day. Sister Marie 7 years old (see photo at home) works when not tending the baby, and makes 25 cents a day. Mother picks also. Youngest boy in photo is Tommy Davis, 8 years old. 918 Charter St. Worked last year. Ester Barton, a 12 year old boy also is the photo, couldn't spell his own name. Been working two years. "Teeny" Adams, girl on left end of photo, 11 years old, makes $1.15 some days. Missed three weeks of school last month, working. Works now before school, or all day. See also summary of young workers I found (on other label). Location: Biloxi, Mississippi.

Some of the younger workers (not all) who work in the Biloxi Canning F...

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Peter Pluta (right hand boy), 2 Bertha Ave. Works in spinning room. Two years there Henry Fritz (left hand), 56 Cheever St. Has worked in spinning room two or three months. Location: Chicopee, Massachusetts.

Peter Pluta (right hand boy), 2 Bertha Ave. Works in spinning room. Tw...

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These were all of the small boys I found working at the Suffolk (Virginia) Knitting Mills, the day I was there. One of the smallest boys had been working there for two years. Not many under fourteen. Location: Suffolk, Virginia.

These were all of the small boys I found working at the Suffolk (Virgi...

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Peasant Villages in Roumania that were not absolutely stripped by the Germans, Bulgars and Turks, during the enemy occupation of the country during the last two years of War, to-day have a population that is able to dress respectably on holidays or when occasion demands. These youngsters, who were photographed by a Red Cross man in Roumania, represent the most prosperous element of the peasantry

Peasant Villages in Roumania that were not absolutely stripped by the ...

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

Jack Neill, "migratory fruit tramp," on banks of Pulah Creek near Winters, California. He owns one acre subsistence farm near Porterville. Represented migratory laborers as speaker at Commonwealth Club, San Francisco (See published "Transactions" of the Club). Education: two years to University of Montana

Jack Neill, "migratory fruit tramp," on banks of Pulah Creek near Wint...

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Note on "mobile housing." Car and homemade trailer on U.S. 101 near King City. Man and wife, middle-aged, from Wisconsin to California. "Old Man Depression sent us out on the road. Been out two years. You don't know anything about how many people are living in trailers, till you 'hit' Florida"

Note on "mobile housing." Car and homemade trailer on U.S. 101 near Ki...

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Jerry Vardiman's income from the cooperative will probably increase in value as the livestock and poultry enterprises reach their productive peak. The project has been in operation only two years. Osage Farms, Missouri

Jerry Vardiman's income from the cooperative will probably increase in...

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Jack Neill, "migratory fruit tramp," on banks of Pulah Creek near Winters, California. He owns one acre subsistence farm near Porterville. Represented migratory laborers as speaker at Commonwealth Club, San Francisco (See published "Transactions" of the Club). Education: two years to University of Montana

Jack Neill, "migratory fruit tramp," on banks of Pulah Creek near Wint...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). File print and print in microfilmed lot misnumbered LC-USF341-038052-B; file print corrected 1998. File print is reversed; printed backwards. Title and... More

A black and white photo of a man smiling. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man smiling. Office of War Information Ph...

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

Japanese-American volunteers. Assistant Kauai county agricultural agent, Morito Kawakami held a position important in the island's economy but nonetheless volunteered for duty with the AJA [Americans of Japanese ancestry] combat unit for which Kauai held the territory's first physical examinations. He is examined by Captain E.P. Danforth, U.S. Army, at one of the last stages in the stiff physical examination. Kawakami, thirty-one, was born in Eleele, Kauai, and latterly lived in Lihue. He married in November, 1939 and Mrs. Kawakami is chief operator for the Kauai Telephone Company. Mr. Kawakami attended the University of Hawaii from 1929 to 1933 and was a member of the ROTC (Reserve Officer Training Corps) for two years. He has two sisters and three brothers, one of the latter, Keiji, is a fellow volunteer for duty with the U.S. Army

Japanese-American volunteers. Assistant Kauai county agricultural agen...

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The Gonzales, Texas, Memorial Museum and Amphitheater, commissioned in 1935 and completed two years later with funds provided by the Texas Centennial Commission

The Gonzales, Texas, Memorial Museum and Amphitheater, commissioned in...

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Mike Murphy, ten years old. Annie Healy, seven years old. Ross Healy, ten years old, and been at it two years. From Baltimore. Regular shuckers in Alabama Canning Co. Location: Bayou La Batre, Alabama.

Mike Murphy, ten years old. Annie Healy, seven years old. Ross Healy, ...

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Accident case - Union Hospital. Molla Mesuretta, 17 years. Weaver at Sagamore Mill. Worked two years. Laceration and partial evulsion of tip of finger and nail. Hurt September 1915 while cleaning loom in motion. "They all clean when the machine is going." She will always be handicapped. Not able to go back yet. Finger is tender. Nail split and finger tip cit to the quick. Wages $7.50; compensation $4.67. Finger that she needs most in weaving was hurt. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

Accident case - Union Hospital. Molla Mesuretta, 17 years. Weaver at S...

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Some of the younger workers (not all) who work in the Biloxi Canning Factory. On right-hand end of photo is Lazro Boney, 12 years old, been working 4 years at this factory. Both he and his mother said he makes $1.75 a day when shrimp are large and plentiful. He made $57.00 last year in 3 months. His brother Ed (not in photo) 14 years old, makes $2.25 on good days. Another brother, Pete, (one of the smallest in the photo) and 10 years old makes 50 cents a day. Two other brothers work at raw oysters; one, 17 years old, makes $4.00 a day. Eight ch[ildre]n in family. The mother said, "Lazro goes to school when he ain't workin; but he's gettin' so he'd rather stay home with the boys than go to school." Family lives at 616 Charter St. Next to Lazro (in photo) is Jim Kriss, 11 years old, been working at this factory two years; makes $1.50 on good days. His brother Jo Kriss (in photo next to girl on left end) 12 years old, makes $1.00 a day. Another brother Ed, not in photo, 14 years averages $2.50 a day. Sister Marie 7 years old (see photo at home) works when not tending the baby, and makes 25 cents a day. Mother picks also. Youngest boy in photo is Tommy Davis, 8 years old. 918 Charter St. Worked last year. Ester Barton, a 12 year old boy also is the photo, couldn't spell his own name. Been working two years. "Teeny" Adams, girl on left end of photo, 11 years old, makes $1.15 some days. Missed three weeks of school last month, working. Works now before school, or all day. See also summary of young workers I found (on other label). Location: Biloxi, Mississippi.

Some of the younger workers (not all) who work in the Biloxi Canning F...

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Hartford newsboys and girls. Girl in middle, Nellis, is 9 years old. See label on photo 640. [Caption #640: A 9 year old newsgirl in Hartford, Conn. She sold later than this sometimes. Been selling two years.] Location: Hartford, Connecticut.

Hartford newsboys and girls. Girl in middle, Nellis, is 9 years old. S...

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Some of the workers in Munford Cotton Mills. Smallest boy, in middle, a frail anaemic youngster, said he had been doffing over a year. Said he was twelve, but I doubt it. Other small boy, on left, spinner, runs four sides, been working there two years. Location: Munford, Alabama.

Some of the workers in Munford Cotton Mills. Smallest boy, in middle, ...

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The Yelverton Family. Ten in the family. Live in a six-room house, "The only one on the street," they told me repeatedly. Two years ago the came here from the farm fifty miles away and a mile from the R.R. where they owned 135 acres. Father and four oldest boys have been working in the Laurel Cotton Mills for two years. Father said, "the little girls don't work, an' we're not goin' to let 'em if we can help it. We'll send 'em to school an' make ladies out of em. I don't reckon we'll ever go back to the farm. They all like the mill work. It's light work, but not very healthy though." The boys said, "We'd ruther work in the mill, It's easier. No hot sun an' no cold in winter 'cause they heat the mill then." The two youngest boys, eleven and thirteen years old, the father said, have been in the mill two years, and have had almost no schooling, and no likelihood of getting any more. The mother said, "I don't like to live in the city near so well. We're more shut in, an' we can't give the boys the schoolin' they ought to have 'cause they've got to work in the mill (wages is so low). We haven't been so well as on the farm." Location: Laurel, Mississippi.

The Yelverton Family. Ten in the family. Live in a six-room house, "Th...

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