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Lawrence Burns - Doffer - 14 years. Pocasset Mills. 43 Langley St. Eye defect.  Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

Lawrence Burns - Doffer - 14 years. Pocasset Mills. 43 Langley St. Eye...

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[Person with crossed eyes, head-and-shoulders view]

[Person with crossed eyes, head-and-shoulders view]

Illus. in: Ophthalmodouleia / George Bartisch. [Dresden : Gedruckt durch M. Stockwel], 1583, p. 13. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p. 147.

Lawrence Burns - Doffer - 14 years. Pocasset Mills. 43 Langley St. Eye defect.  Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

Lawrence Burns - Doffer - 14 years. Pocasset Mills. 43 Langley St. Eye...

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All working in May Hosiery Mills, youngest boy admitted ten years of age and been working there 9 months. He is already afflicted with eye-trouble and carries his head much on one side.  Location: Nashville, Tennessee.

All working in May Hosiery Mills, youngest boy admitted ten years of a...

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4 P.M. Ceru family, 143 Thompson St., near tenement, N.Y. In this dirty attic home with a dog and a cat adding to the other filth that accumulates, these three make artificial leaves. The little five-year-old helps some. She was sighing, "Tired." Her sister (about 10 years old) works until 9 P.M. some nights although she is near-sighted. At home she keeps her glasses on the shelf, 'because because Mother says I look funny with them. Now I got to go out and shop." Second card: Making artificial leaves in tenement attic. New York City, 1912. The 5-year-old helps. Her sister, aged 10, works till 9 P.M. some nights although she is near-sighted. Location: New York, New York (State)

4 P.M. Ceru family, 143 Thompson St., near tenement, N.Y. In this dirt...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 2810. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photogr... More

4 P.M. Ceru family, 143 Thompson St., near tenement, N.Y. In this dirty attic home with a dog and a cat adding to the other filth that accumulates, these three make artificial leaves. The little five-year-old helps some. She was sighing, "Tired." Her sister (about 10 years old) works until 9 P.M. some nights although she is near-sighted. At home she keeps her glasses on the shelf, 'because [because] Mother says I look funny with them. Now I got to go out and shop." [Second card:] Making artificial leaves in tenement attic. New York City, 1912. The 5-year-old helps. Her sister, aged 10, works till 9 P.M. some nights although she is near-sighted.  Location: New York, New York (State)

4 P.M. Ceru family, 143 Thompson St., near tenement, N.Y. In this dirt...

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A Product of the 4 H Club. Gradie Walton, 17 yrs. Old. See Photo No. 40 and 41.  Location: Pocahontas County, West Virginia / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

A Product of the 4 H Club. Gradie Walton, 17 yrs. Old. See Photo No. 4...

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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...

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

[Person with crossed eyes wearing corrective mask, head-and-shoulders view]

[Person with crossed eyes wearing corrective mask, head-and-shoulders ...

Illus. in: Ophthalmodouleia / George Bartisch. [Dresden : Gedruckt durch M. Stockwel], 1583, p. 15. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p. 147.

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, - 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 defi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century dust bowl era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

4 P.M. Ceru family, 143 Thompson St., near tenement, N.Y. In this dirty attic home with a dog and a cat adding to the other filth that accumulates, these three make artificial leaves. The little five-year-old helps some. She was sighing, "Tired." Her sister (about 10 years old) works until 9 P.M. some nights although she is near-sighted. At home she keeps her glasses on the shelf, 'because [because] Mother says I look funny with them. Now I got to go out and shop." [Second card:] Making artificial leaves in tenement attic. New York City, 1912. The 5-year-old helps. Her sister, aged 10, works till 9 P.M. some nights although she is near-sighted.  Location: New York, New York (State)

4 P.M. Ceru family, 143 Thompson St., near tenement, N.Y. In this dirt...

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A Product of the 4 H Club. Gradie Walton, 17 yrs. old. See Photo No. 40 and 41. Location: Pocahontas County, West Virginia Photo by Lewis W. Hine

A Product of the 4 H Club. Gradie Walton, 17 yrs. old. See Photo No. 4...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Children in West Virginia. Hine no. 5062. Number typed in upper left corner of caption card: 42. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congre... More

Mrs. Mary George, 74 Southbridge Street, Worcester, Massachusetts. Mother and Aaron, 13 yrs., and Elizabeth 12 yrs old, working on crochet slippers. The children work until 9 or 10:30 P.M. sometimes, and the mother later. Girl has so much trouble with eyes that she is very much behind in school. Mother has eye trouble, too. (See Report also.) Witness. F.A. Smith. Location: Worcester, Massachusettsachusetts

Mrs. Mary George, 74 Southbridge Street, Worcester, Massachusetts. Mot...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 3142. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photogr... More

[Two unidentified soldiers in Union privates' uniforms in front of painted backdrop]

[Two unidentified soldiers in Union privates' uniforms in front of pai...

Photograph shows two soldiers, one with a lazy eye. Case: Leather; geometric design. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:127). Purchased from: Matthew Fleming, Milan, Ohio, 2012. Forms part of: Liljenqu... More

Mrs. Mary George, 74 Southbridge Street, Worcester, Massachusetts. Mother and Aaron, 13 yrs., and Elizabeth 12 yrs old, working on crochet slippers. The children work until 9 or 10:30 P.M. sometimes, and the mother later. Girl has so much trouble with eyes that she is very much behind in school. Mother has eye trouble, too. (See Report also.) Witness. F.A. Smith.  Location: Worcester, Massachusettsachusetts.

Mrs. Mary George, 74 Southbridge Street, Worcester, Massachusetts. Mot...

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

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

Mary, 13 years old. Short-sighted girl with glasses working after school on flowers [?] with Mrs. Mary - her aunt. 4:30 P.M.  Location: New York, New York (State)

Mary, 13 years old. Short-sighted girl with glasses working after scho...

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

Lawrence Burns - Doffer - 14 years. Pocasset Mills. 43 Langley St. Eye defect. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts Lewis W. Hine

Lawrence Burns - Doffer - 14 years. Pocasset Mills. 43 Langley St. Eye...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Mills. Hine no. 4280. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the National... More

4 P.M. Ceru family, 143 Thompson St., near tenement, N.Y. In this dirty attic home with a dog and a cat adding to the other filth that accumulates, these three make artificial leaves. The little five-year-old helps some. She was sighing, "Tired." Her sister (about 10 years old) works until 9 P.M. some nights although she is near-sighted. At home she keeps her glasses on the shelf, 'because because Mother says I look funny with them. Now I got to go out and shop." Second card: Making artificial leaves in tenement attic. New York City, 1912. The 5-year-old helps. Her sister, aged 10, works till 9 P.M. some nights although she is near-sighted. Location: New York, New York (State)

4 P.M. Ceru family, 143 Thompson St., near tenement, N.Y. In this dirt...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 2810. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photogr... More

Mary, 13 years old. Short-sighted girl with glasses working after school on flowers ? with Mrs. Mary - her aunt. 4:30 P.M. Location: New York, New York (State)

Mary, 13 years old. Short-sighted girl with glasses working after scho...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 2699. No date recorded on caption card. Probably Dec. 1911, based on surrounding cards. Credit line: ... More

Isaac Cruikshank - A lying in visit; or a short sighted mistake

Isaac Cruikshank - A lying in visit; or a short sighted mistake

Cartoon of a woman in a striped dress, with her arms extended to a coal-scuttle being held by a uniformed footman. She smiles and bends over toward the coal-shuttle. Imp. Pub. Apr. 1, 1792 by SWFores No 3 Picc... More

All working in May Hosiery Mills, youngest boy admitted ten years of age and been working there 9 months. He is already afflicted with eye-trouble and carries his head much on one side. Location: Nashville, Tennessee

All working in May Hosiery Mills, youngest boy admitted ten years of a...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 1751. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

2:15 P.M. Some of the "crew" at ferry, Jersey City, N.J. On extreme left, Sam, 10 yrs. old - "I've got to support the family," he said. Small boy on right centre his brother, William 12 years old. Behind him another brother, 14 years old. This last has trachoma, and was excluded from school because of it. Sam had it recently. Mother wants these children to work because they bother her. Sam and William have been selling 2 and 5 years respectively. Location: Jersey City, New Jersey

2:15 P.M. Some of the "crew" at ferry, Jersey City, N.J. On extreme le...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 3220. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

2:15 P.M. Some of the "crew" at ferry, Jersey City, N.J. On extreme left, Sam, 10 yrs. old - "I've got to support the family," he said. Small boy on right centre his broth[er], William 12 years old. Behind him another brother, 14 years old. This last has trachoma, and was excluded from school because of it. Sam had it recently. Mother wants these children to work because they bother her. Sam and William have been selling 2 and 5 years respectively.  Location: Jersey City, New Jersey.

2:15 P.M. Some of the "crew" at ferry, Jersey City, N.J. On extreme le...

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Lawrence Burns - Doffer - 14 years. Pocasset Mills. 43 Langley St. Eye defect. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts Lewis W. Hine

Lawrence Burns - Doffer - 14 years. Pocasset Mills. 43 Langley St. Eye...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Mills. Hine no. 4280. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the National... More