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Salisbury, (N.C.) Cotton Mill. A game of marbles. All these boys work in the mill. Location: Salisbury, North Carolina / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

Salisbury, (N.C.) Cotton Mill. A game of marbles. All these boys work ...

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Springstein Mills, Chester, S.C. Maggie Wooten (Largest), creels on warper. Lillie Anderson--Oldest of two sisters. Been in mill five years. Runs only 4 sides. Minnie Anderson, - youngest- runs 8 sides. Been in mill 4 year. One finds many such cases where youngest sister does twice the amount of work. Nov. 28/08. Witness Sara R. Hine. Location: Chester, South Carolina / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

Springstein Mills, Chester, S.C. Maggie Wooten (Largest), creels on wa...

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Groups showing a few of the workers stringing beans in the J. S. Farrand Packing Co., Baltimore, Md. Those too small to work are held on laps of workers or stowed away in boxes. Location: Baltimore, Maryland.

Groups showing a few of the workers stringing beans in the J. S. Farra...

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Workers in Bibb Mill #1, Macon, Ga. Boy on right on right hand end, Burdick Collins, 2 years in mill work. Next, Scoven Preston, 1 year in mill work. Next, Charlie Benson, 4 years in mill work. Next, Mason Matheson. Next, Robert Collins. Next, Leo House, 4 years in mill work. Next, Frank Leslie. Father in background. Witness S.R. Hine. Location: Macon, Georgia.

Workers in Bibb Mill #1, Macon, Ga. Boy on right on right hand end, Bu...

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Some of the workers in a Md. packing company. Plenty of work for even the tiniest hands. Many have to carry heavy boxes full of beans etc. Location: [Baltimore, Maryland].

Some of the workers in a Md. packing company. Plenty of work for even ...

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A study of ages. The boy on the right said, "I ain't old enough to work in the mill; I am ten years." The boy in the middle, Buford Fox who has been working in the Merrimack Mills for one year said he was twelve years old, but School Record says ten years. Sanford Franklin, boy on the left has been working four months, and I could not prove his age. Merrimack Mfg. Co. See also Hine report. Location: Huntsville, Alabama.

A study of ages. The boy on the right said, "I ain't old enough to wor...

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Scotland Neck Cotton Mill. Group showing some of the youngest workers taken in the mill at starting time. Tiniest girl, one apparently 8 or 9, I saw at work at her knitting machine perched up on a box, as she was too short to reach. The next in size I saw raveling. Both were steady workers. Location: Scotland Neck, North Carolina.

Scotland Neck Cotton Mill. Group showing some of the youngest workers ...

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All these children were working in the sugar beets for Louis Startz, a farmer near Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. The children are brought out from the nearby town to work the beets. See Hine Report, Wisconsin Sugar Beet, July, 1915. Location: Fond du Lac [vicinity], Wisconsin.

All these children were working in the sugar beets for Louis Startz, a...

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Pruett School which opened September 5th. 61 pupils in District and only 28 present. Expect an enrollment of 50. Only 1 boy of 11; the rest are 9 years and younger. Many out for work. Location: Henderson County--Hebbardsville [vicinity], Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Pruett School which opened September 5th. 61 pupils in District and on...

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Pressers of work on women's coats in the cooperative garment factory at Jersey Homesteads, Hightstown, New Jersey

Pressers of work on women's coats in the cooperative garment factory a...

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Mexican pecan workers union work committee assigning a man to work. San Antonio, Texas

Mexican pecan workers union work committee assigning a man to work. Sa...

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Children of migrant packinghouse workers, living in a "lean-to" made of pieces of rusty galvanized tin and burlap. They are left alone all day and often until three a.m. Both parents work when possible. Belle Glade, Florida

Children of migrant packinghouse workers, living in a "lean-to" made o...

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Pearl Harbor widows have gone into war work to carry on the fight with a personal vengeance, Corpus Christi, Texas. Mrs. Virginia Young (right) whose husband was one of the first casualties of World War II, is a supervisor in the Assembly and Repairs Department of the Naval Air Base. Her job is to find convenient and comfortable living quarters for women workers from out of the state, like Ethel Mann, who operates an electric drill

Pearl Harbor widows have gone into war work to carry on the fight with...

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Mr. L.L. Lecompt and his oxen. He plows three oxen, prefers them to other work stock because they use less corn. He owns eighty acres and cultivates thirty-nine. Coffee County, Alabama

Mr. L.L. Lecompt and his oxen. He plows three oxen, prefers them to ot...

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Miner who also runs a farm. At the end of a day's work at Dougherty's mine, near Falls Creek, Pennsylvania

Miner who also runs a farm. At the end of a day's work at Dougherty's ...

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Paper mill workers coming home after work. Berlin, New Hampshire

Paper mill workers coming home after work. Berlin, New Hampshire

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Miner at end of day's work. Mogollon, New Mexico

Miner at end of day's work. Mogollon, New Mexico

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Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). These are some of the 26,000 men whose hands are fashioning powerful new additions to Uncle Sam's rapidly expanding naval forces. A few miles away at the yards of the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, other thousands are also coming off their shifts. This scene is typical of dozens of shipyards throughout the nation. Shipyard workers have a lot to smile about, for invariably they have done their work so well and efficiently that production is ahead of schedule

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). These are some of the 26,000 men who...

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Farm worker who lives at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm family migratory labor camp. Yakima, Washington. He is attending the WPA (Work Projects Administration) apple packing school at the camp

Farm worker who lives at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm f...

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Production. Willow Run bomber plant. They're learning a fourth "R" at this school, and one that's highly important to the war effort. Young men in the Willow Run bomber plant attend a riveting school before going to work on the assembly lines. These "schoolrooms" are right in the plant proper; classes are held in many types of work. Ford plant, Willow Run

Production. Willow Run bomber plant. They're learning a fourth "R" at ...

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Women aircraft workers. Men and women work together training planes for Uncle Sam's fighing flyers at a West Coast plant. Here, Mrs. Fern Evans, Pearl Harbor widow, works on a radio bracket for a bomber with a young mechanic. Mrs. Evans, who had no previous mechanical experience when she applied for work in February, now reads blueprints and is able to proceed with various accessory assemblies for bombers with little supervision from leadmen

Women aircraft workers. Men and women work together training planes fo...

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Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. In a plant of the Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation, a worker stands ready with his iron ladle to transport molten glass from the furnace to the machine that forms it into glass marbles from which it is converted into glass fibers. As one of the men behind the men behind the guns, his work is an essential step in the production of fiberglass yarns being used in a wide variety of military and naval applications

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. In a plant of the...

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Company. Each day's work is surveyed and plotted on a chart by the mine engineers

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsbu...

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Production. Blood transfusion bottles. Sealing blood transfusion bottles with rubber diaphrams and aluminum closures at Baxter Laboratories, Glenview, Illinois. Scrap metal and rubber help provide critical materials needed for this important work

Production. Blood transfusion bottles. Sealing blood transfusion bottl...

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Fort Loudon [i.e., Loudoun] Dam, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Drillers at work

Fort Loudon [i.e., Loudoun] Dam, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority...

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Manpower. Handicapped workers. Despite physical handicaps, these women are doing work that's vital to Uncle Sam's war effort. At the Maryland League for Crippled Children, they're hand-burring Y's for airplane engines, on subcontract to a Baltimore engineering company. White Engineering Company, Baltimore, Maryland

Manpower. Handicapped workers. Despite physical handicaps, these women...

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National Youth Adminstration work center (NYA), Brooklyn, New York. Two men, white and Negro, who are receiving training in machine shop practice, shown setting up shaper work to cut forty-five degree angles at base for surface gauge

National Youth Adminstration work center (NYA), Brooklyn, New York. Tw...

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Women aircraft workers. Men and women work together at one of the West Coast's huge aircraft plants. These two are working on an electrical control panel

Women aircraft workers. Men and women work together at one of the West...

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Women in industry. Gas mask production. Formerly employed in a vacuum cleaner plant, these young women are now making gas masks for America's soldiers and civilians. Margaret Reed, left, who used to work in the vacuum brush department, now operates a precrimping machine which attaches eye rings to the mask proper. Note the "V" chalked on her machine. Eureka Vacuum, Detroit, Michigan

Women in industry. Gas mask production. Formerly employed in a vacuum ...

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Victory Corps boy doing shop work to relieve the manpower shortage

Victory Corps boy doing shop work to relieve the manpower shortage

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Company. Coal miner at end of the day's work

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsbu...

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Arkansas-Texas state line to Gurdon, Arkansas. War emergency pipeline from Longview, Texas to Norris City, Illinois. Electric welder at work

Arkansas-Texas state line to Gurdon, Arkansas. War emergency pipeline ...

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A poster comes to life. Almost dwarfed by the ladle which pours molten steel into ingot molds below, Sergeant Vineyard, George Woolslayer and Chief Evans stand in awe of the giant machine which processes steel into armaments. Woolslayer sums it up like this: "We're making the stuff for you to fight with to protect us." Thus America's men and her machines work together for victory. Allegheny-Ludlum Steel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

A poster comes to life. Almost dwarfed by the ladle which pours molten...

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Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. These hands used to turn out merry-go-rounds to gladden the hearts of the nation's children. The carrousel plant in which they work is now engaged in producing war parts on subcontracts from army and navy contractors. Above is a completed shell ejector getting its final testing. The brass bottom of a navy shell is applied on the testing stand, with the spring mechanism which actually ejects the shell getting the primary test. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. These hands used to turn out merry-g...

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Twenty-millimeter machine guns for planes. Since the days of early American gunsmiths, our arms manufacturers have taken pride in the quality of their work. Today, a skilled worker in a converted auto plant feels that same pride as he bores a machine gun barrel for Air Corps. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

Twenty-millimeter machine guns for planes. Since the days of early Ame...

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Massachusetts attack. Problems of production for war work are studied by apprentices in an eastern arsenal. Instructors explain the operation of a radical drill

Massachusetts attack. Problems of production for war work are studied ...

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Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Seedling topper at work on guayule nursery beds. This machine mows the seedlings off to a uniform height for ease in digging and packing. The tops are collected in a bin on the machine and disposed of outside of the nursery. The tops are worthless for rubber production. Guayule plantings will produce an estimated 600 tons of rubber in early 1943, provide a crop in 1944 which should yield 33,000 tons and a harvest in 1945 to yield 47,000 tons. An annual production of 70,000 tons to 80,000 tons will materialize if full capacity of nurseries now being built is utilized. Addition: This program is part of the Department of Agriculture's Emergency Rubber Project, administered by the Forest Service under congressional authorization "to make available a source of crude rubber for emergency and defense uses"

Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Seedling topper at work on guayule n...

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California shipyard workers. These shipbuilders enjoy a scenic ride to work every day aboard a special ferry going from San Francisco to the giant shipyards across the bay

California shipyard workers. These shipbuilders enjoy a scenic ride to...

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Washington, D.C. High school students who work as nurse's aides at emergency hospital learning to make a bed according to hospital standards

Washington, D.C. High school students who work as nurse's aides at eme...

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Daniel Senise releasing hand brakes on a car while at work in an Indiana Harbor Belt Line railroad yard

Daniel Senise releasing hand brakes on a car while at work in an India...

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Baltimore, Maryland. Workers hurrying to catch a conveyance for work at seven a.m.

Baltimore, Maryland. Workers hurrying to catch a conveyance for work a...

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Iden, New Mexico. The last few workers have breakfast in the dining car of work train on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe yard, between Clovis and Vaughn, New Mexico

Iden, New Mexico. The last few workers have breakfast in the dining ca...

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Spring pulpwood drive on the Brown Company timber holdings in Maine. At ten o'clock and two o'clock woodsmen eat near their work, serving themselves cafeteria style with plenty of opportunity for second helpings. They eat four meals daily throughout the drive

Spring pulpwood drive on the Brown Company timber holdings in Maine. A...

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Workers at work at Garden State Cutting Company.

Workers at work at Garden State Cutting Company.

Forms part of a group of images depicting scenes at Garden State Cutting Company, a garment-cutting shop at 66 Gray Street, Paterson, New Jersey on September 12, 1994.

Workers at work at Garden State Cutting Company.

Workers at work at Garden State Cutting Company.

Forms part of a group of images depicting scenes at Garden State Cutting Company, a garment-cutting shop at 66 Gray Street, Paterson, New Jersey on September 12, 1994.

Mary Tomlin at work on "tube winding" on first floor.

Mary Tomlin at work on "tube winding" on first floor.

Forms part of a group of images recorded on August 16, documenting scenes at the Joseph Teshon, Inc., jacquard-weaving mill, 196-200 21st Avenue, Paterson.

Workers at work at Garden State Cutting Company.

Workers at work at Garden State Cutting Company.

Forms part of a group of images depicting scenes at Garden State Cutting Company, a garment-cutting shop at 66 Gray Street, Paterson, New Jersey on September 12, 1994.

Daniel Mfg. Company, Lincolnton, N.C. Boy 6 years old, stays around in the mill all day. Mother and sister both work there. Helps a little. How soon will he be drafted into regular service?. Location: Lincolnton, North Carolina.

Daniel Mfg. Company, Lincolnton, N.C. Boy 6 years old, stays around in...

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View of the Gorenflo Canning Co., Biloxi, Miss., taken at 7 A.M. Many tiny workers here, some of whom began to arrive at the factory as early as 5 o'clock, an hour before they were allowed to begin work, and long before daylight on a damp-foggy day. The whistle had blown and they came and stood around merely to hold their places. When the "catch" has been good, they begin work early, but today it was not good so they were waiting for daylight. In this group I ascertained the ages of a few, as follows, 1 child of 6 years, 1 of 7, 2 of 8, 1 of 10 and there were many more. See report also. Location: Biloxi, Mississippi.

View of the Gorenflo Canning Co., Biloxi, Miss., taken at 7 A.M. Many ...

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Group, showing a few of the workers stringing beans in the J. S. Farrand Packing Co. Baltimore, Md. Those too small to work are held on laps of workers or stowed away in boxes. Location: Baltimore, Maryland.

Group, showing a few of the workers stringing beans in the J. S. Farra...

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Three cutters in Factory #7, Seacoast Canning Co., Eastport, Me. They work regularly whenever there are fish. (Note the knives they use.) Back of them and under foot is refuse. On the right hand is Grayson Forsythe, 7 years old. Middle is George Goodell, 9 years old, finger badly cut and wrapped up. Said, "the salt gets unto the cut." Said he makes $1.50 some days. Left end, Clarence Goodell, 6 years, helps brother. Location: Eastport, Maine.

Three cutters in Factory #7, Seacoast Canning Co., Eastport, Me. They ...

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Oscar Revinsky(?) - Born Jan. 11, 1900, 15 years old - 99 Oak Grove Ave. A scavenger on Pine St. Dump. Case known to S.P.C.C. (record No. 4322) since 1910. In 1913 parents refused to let child be committed to Wrentham, Massachusetts. In 1916 father came to office asking that boy be committed as he spent all his time on the dumps. Deficient mentality. Neck covered with scars and boils. "No work - no school" since 1912. Never cleans up. Doesn't go home to meals. Eats from dump and steals from dinner pails. Hard for him to tell where he lives. Thought 92 Oak Grove Ave. Was in baby grade at Ruggles School and was expelled. "Is father alive?" "No, he's a milkman." Fall River, Massachusetts. 6/22/16. Location: Fall River, Massachusettsachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

Oscar Revinsky(?) - Born Jan. 11, 1900, 15 years old - 99 Oak Grove Av...

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Colored School at Anthoston. Census 27, enrollment 12, attendance 7. Teacher expects 19 to be enrolled after work is over. "Tobacco keeps them out and they are short of hands." Ages of those present: 13 years = 1, 10 years = 2, 8 years = 2, 7 years = 1, 5 years = 1. Location: Henderson County, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Colored School at Anthoston. Census 27, enrollment 12, attendance 7. T...

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Plowing for wheat. Children are kept out of school for this work. Location: Hardin County--Long Grove [vicinity], Kentucky. / Lewis W. Hine.

Plowing for wheat. Children are kept out of school for this work. Loc...

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"Renters." Itinerant Texas farmers who rent a farm for a year or so and then move on, giving them nomadic habits and everything is temporary. House unpainted and ill-cared for. The children from five years old upward pick cotton and help with the farm work, but get little or no schooling. It is estimated by State University that 300,000 children are thus affected in Texas alone. See Hine report Texas. Beginning with the five year old girl here who picks some, all work including the women. The nine year old girl picks one hundred and fifty pounds a day. Father is in town. Farm comprises fifty acres and they get about twenty bales of cotton, this year which is not a good year. Been here one year. Farm of J.W. Vaughn. Route 6. Location: Corsicana, Texas.

"Renters." Itinerant Texas farmers who rent a farm for a year or so an...

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No. 1. Fairly good position. Right dorsal curvature. No. 2. Correct position for postural case. No. 3. Shows a below fair position for for right dorsal curve. If these correct positions could be maintained at work, chairs properly adjusted and exercise and fresh air given, work would not be harmful. Need for advice of examining physician. Location: Boston, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

No. 1. Fairly good position. Right dorsal curvature. No. 2. Correct po...

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Scene in Woodbury Bottle Works. They work nights. Location: Woodbury, New Jersey.

Scene in Woodbury Bottle Works. They work nights. Location: Woodbury,...

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Girls working in Tampa, Fla., Box Factory. I saw 10 small boys and girls. Has had reputation for employment of youngsters but work is slack now. Jan. 28, 1909. Location: Tampa, Florida.

Girls working in Tampa, Fla., Box Factory. I saw 10 small boys and gir...

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[Massachusetts. Lynn. shoe factories, 1895?: a lining stitcher (woman) at work]

[Massachusetts. Lynn. shoe factories, 1895?: a lining stitcher (woman)...

Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

Sailors at work aboard Amiral Aube, French ship

Sailors at work aboard Amiral Aube, French ship

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[Groups of girls workers at the gate of the American Tobacco Co., Wilmington, Delaware, noon period, May 24, 1910. Young girls obviously under 14 years of age, who work about 10 hours a day every day except Saturday. Investigator, Edward F. Brown]. Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Louis [i.e. Lewis] W. Hine, May, 1910.

[Groups of girls workers at the gate of the American Tobacco Co., Wilm...

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All work in Everett Mill top spinning room. Edward Pitochelli [i.e., Pitocelli?], 175 Newbury Street, the youngest in the picture is "surely under 14." Luigi De Guatro, Tommy De Guatro, 175 Newbury St., also workers. Tommy might possibly be fourteen. Location: Lawrence, Massachusetts.

All work in Everett Mill top spinning room. Edward Pitochelli [i.e., P...

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Interior of Magnolia (Miss.) Cotton Mills spinning room. See the little ones scattered through the mill. All work. See also other Magnolia photos and labels. Location: Magnolia, Mississippi.

Interior of Magnolia (Miss.) Cotton Mills spinning room. See the littl...

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The Virginia K. Johnson Home. A House of Refuge for Unmarried Mothers under twenty-one years old. A large proportion of the girls here came from the farms, their lives stunted by the monotonous work of cotton picking, many of them beginning at five and six years old. Surely this must be counted one of the by-products of such deadening work. See Hine report on Texas Child Labor. Location: Dallas, Texas.

The Virginia K. Johnson Home. A House of Refuge for Unmarried Mothers ...

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Twelve year old Selina Wall working at spooling room in the Brazos Valley Cotton Mill, West, Tex. Their Family Record says she was born, March 23, 1901. Her mother said: "She's just taking the place of her sister (fifteen years old). Selina could earn a dollar a day. She was raised up in a cotton mill over in Belton, but she has to stay home and do the cookin." The mother and the fifteen year old girl work regularly in the mill. Several older boys work. Selina keeps house. Nine in the family. Location: West, Texas.

Twelve year old Selina Wall working at spooling room in the Brazos Val...

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Group showing some of the youngest workers taken in the Scotland Neck Cotton Mill at starting time. Tiniest girl, one apparently 8 or 9, investigator saw at work at her knitting machine perched up on a box, as she was too short to reach. The next in size was seen raveling. Both were steady workers. Location: Scotland Neck, North Carolina.

Group showing some of the youngest workers taken in the Scotland Neck ...

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[Eight-year-old girl (see label 4006). She is very skilful [sic] topping the beets, but this work is very fatigueing [sic] and dangerous for such children. See Hine report for details of the work.] Location: [Iliff, Colorado] / Photo by Hine., Oct. 22/15.

[Eight-year-old girl (see label 4006). She is very skilful [sic] toppi...

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(See label 4010) Eight-year-old boy tugging at the beets. There is a great deal of physical strain in this work. See Hine report. Location: Sterling [vicinity], Colorado / Photo by Hine., Oct. 22/15.

(See label 4010) Eight-year-old boy tugging at the beets. There is a g...

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[12 year old Lahnert boy, near Ft. Collins, Colo., topping beets. The father, mother, and two boys (9 and 12 yrs.) expect to make $700 in about 2 months time in the beet work. "The boys can keep up with me all right, and all day long," the father said. Begin at 6 A.M. and work until 6 P.M. with hour off at noon. Several smaller children not work. See Hine Report for studies of amount of work done by these and other children. Oct. 30/15]. Location: [Ft. Collins vicinity, Colorado] / Photo by Hine.

[12 year old Lahnert boy, near Ft. Collins, Colo., topping beets. The ...

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Class in English for employees. Pocasset Mill. After day's work. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

Class in English for employees. Pocasset Mill. After day's work. Loca...

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Colored School at Anthoston. Census 27, enrollment 12, attendance 7. Teacher expects 19 to be enrolled after work is over. "Tobacco keeps them out and they are short of hands." Ages of those present: 13 years = 1, 10 years = 2, 8 years = 2, 7 years = 1, 5 years = 1. Location: Henderson County, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Colored School at Anthoston. Census 27, enrollment 12, attendance 7. T...

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Ora Fugate, 10 years old worming tobacco. They said they do not worm in middle of day when hot, but work right through when "suckering." See 4400. Location: Hedges Station, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Ora Fugate, 10 years old worming tobacco. They said they do not worm i...

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Group gathering tobacco on farm of Daniel Barrett, Spottsville, Ky., Star Route. He is a renter. Boys all belong to other families and will go to Bluff City School, Div. 3, Henderson Co., when work is over. School opened 2 weeks ago, and the boys expect to be out several weeks more. 10-year old boy, Edward Goldsberry carries and drops the sticks. 11-year old Aubrey Hazeland is piling the tobacco (in front). 13-year old Dolph Hazeland piling (behind Aubrey), and 14-years old Willie Goldsberry is spiking the tobacco. Location: Henderson County--Spottsville, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Group gathering tobacco on farm of Daniel Barrett, Spottsville, Ky., S...

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"Chopping corn" Everett Adams, 15 years and Ora Adams, 9 years. Address Hiatt, Ky. Go to Hickory Grove School, but they have been absent most of the past 6 weeks for work, sickness, etc. Location: Rockcastle County, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

"Chopping corn" Everett Adams, 15 years and Ora Adams, 9 years. Addres...

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Group gathering tobacco on farm of Daniel Barrett, Spottsville, Ky., Star Route. He is a renter. Boys all belong to other families and will go to Bluff City School, Div. 3, Henderson Co., when work is over. School opened 2 weeks ago, and the boys expect to be out several weeks more. 10-year old boy, Edward Goldsberry carries and drops the sticks. 11-year old Aubrey Hazeland is piling the tobacco (in front). 13-year old Dolph Hazeland piling (behind Aubrey), and 14-year old Willie Goldsberry is spiking the tobacco. Location: Henderson County--Spottsville, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Group gathering tobacco on farm of Daniel Barrett, Spottsville, Ky., S...

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Frank Hastings, 107 Hampshire Street, Cambridge. Said he was 14 last month. Just begun work for Metropolitan Messenger and Mailing Co. Taken in the morning. Location: Boston, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

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Betsay [i.e., Betsey] Price, - First year High School at her club sewing. 4 H Club work - Marlinton, West Virginia. Location: [Pocahontas County]--Marlinton, West Virginia / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

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The Palestine Electric Corporation power plant. Machine shops showing the lathes at work.

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Griffith Consumers Co. Men in work room with machinery

Griffith Consumers Co. Men in work room with machinery

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The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been termed an industrial melting pot, since men and women of fifty-eight national origins work side by side in pushing Americas's plane output. S. O. Porter, Douglas director of personnel, recently declared that Negros are doing an outstanding job in all plants. Lucille Little works in the El Segundo Plant of the Douglas Aircraft Company

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A black and white photo of people working in a factory, New Jersey. Farm Security Administration photograph

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Mural "Post Office work room," by Alfredo de Giorgio Crimi at the Ariel Rios Federal Building in Washington, D.C.

Mural "Post Office work room," by Alfredo de Giorgio Crimi at the Arie...

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Gist inspector, Mrs. Mary Betchner inspecting one of the 25 cutters for burrs before inserting it in the inside of a 105mm. howitzer at the Milwaukee, Wis. plant of the Chain Belt Co. Her son is in the army; her husband is in war work

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Migrant packinghouse workers crating celery. The amount of work depends on quantity of produce available. If many truckloads come in, they may work all night; otherwise, only an hour or two. If there is a frost (freeze-out) or drought, they may have to wait six or eight weeks for work in the next crop. Belle Glade, Florida

Migrant packinghouse workers crating celery. The amount of work depend...

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Bootmaker at work showing his workbench. Cowboy boot shop, Alpine, Texas

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Mexican pecan workers waiting in union hall for assignment to work. San Antonio, Texas

Mexican pecan workers waiting in union hall for assignment to work. Sa...

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Vegetable workers, migrants, waiting after work to be paid. Near Homestead, Florida

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A black and white photo of a man working on a machine, Texas, during Great Depression

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Negro day laborer moving from one man's farm to another to get work. He wasn't needed any more by former "employer." The son of his new employer said his father used to have tenants but that they "skinned" him too often by moving out on him all the time. So he just hires by the day now. Near Madison, Georgia

Negro day laborer moving from one man's farm to another to get work. H...

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Women at work on bomber, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.

Women at work on bomber, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.

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Vegetable workers, migrants, waiting after work to be paid. Near Homestead, Florida

Vegetable workers, migrants, waiting after work to be paid. Near Homes...

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Vegetable workers, migrants, waiting after work to be paid. Near Homestead, Florida

Vegetable workers, migrants, waiting after work to be paid. Near Homes...

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Mr. Leatherman, homesteader, with his work burros in front of his barn, Pie Town, New Mexico

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Riveter at work at the Douglas Aircraft Corporation plant in Long Beach, Calif.

Riveter at work at the Douglas Aircraft Corporation plant in Long Beac...

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Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to Haifa. Haifa. "Usha" Bros., barbed wire, fencing & screening. Interior view of the work rooms

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Daughter of agricultural day laborer doing work in the kitchen lean-to of their home. McIntosh County, Oklahoma

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Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to Haifa. Ramath Gan. The "Meshi" Silk Company. (Carding) the main work room, int[erior]

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The waterboy brings one of the cooperative members a drink while he chops grass out of sugarcane field. The foreman, chosen by group from among own members, is on horse supervising work. Terrebonne Project, Schriever, Louisiana

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Migrants are taught handicraft work. Tulare migrant camp. Visalia, California

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Wives of migratory laborers washing their family laundry at the Agua Fria Migratory Labor Camp, Arizona. The difference in the personal appearance of the migratory workers when hot water and laundry facilities are available is striking and indicates that hard work in the fields and life on the road has not dulled personal pride

Wives of migratory laborers washing their family laundry at the Agua F...

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