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A black and white photo of a factory with old cars. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white photo of a factory with old cars. Dodge Brothers Mot...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

A black and white photo of men working in a factory. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white photo of men working in a factory. Dodge Brothers Mo...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

[Railroad construction workers] (Andrew J. Russel)

[Railroad construction workers] (Andrew J. Russel)

No. 63 (handwritten) and 2563 (stamped) on mount. Forms part of Civil War photos, military construction and transportation in Northern Virginia and elsewhere / United States Military Railway Department (Librar... More

[The barracks of the dock workers]

[The barracks of the dock workers]

Workers barracks at the great dock of the Imperial Naval Arsenal. Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 21. No. 48. In album: Naval personnel, the Imperial Naval Arse... More

The laster - Drawing. Public domain image.

The laster - Drawing. Public domain image.

(DLC/PP-1936:0044). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "A Pair of Shoes," Harper's magazine, 70:283 (Jan. 1885).

Small girl standing by vegetable exhibit at Custer County fair, Broken Bow, Nebraska.

Small girl standing by vegetable exhibit at Custer County fair, Broken...

original size: 6x8 Public domain photograph - historical image of Nebraska, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[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.

[Wilbur Wright working in the bicycle shop]

[Wilbur Wright working in the bicycle shop]

Title from reference print. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy in LOT 11512. Forms part of: Glass negatives from the Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright.

[Students in a bricklaying class, Hampton Institute, Hampton, Virginia]

[Students in a bricklaying class, Hampton Institute, Hampton, Virginia...

Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Public domain photograph of industrial workers, factory building, work, assembly line, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Stuffing a Teddy Bear - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Stuffing a Teddy Bear - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

English women making aeroplane [i.e. aeroplane] shafts

English women making aeroplane [i.e. aeroplane] shafts

Public domain photograph of industrial building, factory, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Van Eps - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Van Eps - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Coming under canvas, George the magician and a full supporting cast of wonder workers and funmakers presenting a spectacle rich in scenic and electrical effects surpassing in splendor and magnitude all that has before it.

Coming under canvas, George the magician and a full supporting cast of...

"All Europe marvelled at George, the show which you will never forget ...." "Magician of the kings and the king of magicians." Forms part of: Magic poster collection (Library of Congress)

Sailors at work aboard Amiral Aube, French ship

Sailors at work aboard Amiral Aube, French ship

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Making buoyancy boxes - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Making buoyancy boxes - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain image of a group of people, ceremony, event, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

The Woodmill, Merchants' Despatch Transportation Co.

The Woodmill, Merchants' Despatch Transportation Co.

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Maritime Union pickets U.S. Dept. of Commerce. Washington, D.C., May 17. More than 500 members of the National Maritime Union picketed the U.S. Commerce Department Building today in protest against what they said was indiscriminate issuance of seaman's certificates. Patrick D. Whalen, Chairman of the Baltimore branch of the NMU, said the marine workers had no quarrel with Secretary Hopkins but were directing their picketing against the Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation, a division of the Department

Maritime Union pickets U.S. Dept. of Commerce. Washington, D.C., May 1...

A group of people standing in front of a building. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Assembling department, National Cash Register, Dayton, O[hio]

Assembling department, National Cash Register, Dayton, O[hio]

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

The testing room, Leland & Faulconer Manufacturing Co., Detroit, Mich.

The testing room, Leland & Faulconer Manufacturing Co., Detroit, Mich.

Photo shows men working in foundry and machine shop that produced automobile engines and merged with Cadillac Motor Co. in 1905. Title from jacket. Date based on negative LC-D4-43032. Detroit Publishing Co. no.... More

C & P TELEPHONE CO. SWITCHBOARDS

C & P TELEPHONE CO. SWITCHBOARDS

Public domain photograph of industrial building, factory, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gov't. Printing Office, postal card printing machine

Gov't. Printing Office, postal card printing machine

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

McKINLEY SCHOOL. SHOP - Public domain  photograph

McKINLEY SCHOOL. SHOP - Public domain photograph

A group of men working in a factory, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Date span based on active dates of Harris & ... More

[Hughes and Hammond, steeplejacks, posed full-length, standing, holding ropes]

[Hughes and Hammond, steeplejacks, posed full-length, standing, holdin...

H65129 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1905 by George Grantham Bain. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Laying the keel of the North Dakota at Fore River Yards, first of the Amer. dreadnoughts - 20,000 tons

Laying the keel of the North Dakota at Fore River Yards, first of the ...

Photograph showing shipyard works at the construction of the battleship U.S.S. North Dakota at Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts. Bain News Service photograph. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Co... More

A spinner in Clyde Cotton Mill, Newton, N.C.  Location: Newton, North Carolina / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

A spinner in Clyde Cotton Mill, Newton, N.C. Location: Newton, North ...

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

Frank Craneshaw. Has doffed for 3 years in Lancaster Cotton Mills, S.C. Gets 75 cents a day. Location: Lancaster, South Carolina

Frank Craneshaw. Has doffed for 3 years in Lancaster Cotton Mills, S.C...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 356. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Boys assisting at the Broom Machines. S. W. Brown Mfg. Co. Location: Evansville, Indiana

Boys assisting at the Broom Machines. S. W. Brown Mfg. Co. Location: E...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 202. No text recorded on caption card after final comma. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee coll... More

A Glimpse from the Outside into The World Furniture Co., Evansville, Ind. During working hours.  Location: Evansville, Indiana.

A Glimpse from the Outside into The World Furniture Co., Evansville, I...

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

Young women (spooler) Kelser Mfg. Co., Salisbury, N.C.  Location: Salisbury, North Carolina.

Young women (spooler) Kelser Mfg. Co., Salisbury, N.C. Location: Sali...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory worker, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

This is where the mill children go to school. Lancaster, S.C. Enrollment 163-- attendance, usually about 100. There are over 1,000 operatives in the mill. These are all that go to school from this mill settlement, which is geographically a part of Lancaster, but on account of the taxes has been kept just out of the corporate limits. Nov. 30/08.  Location: Lancaster, South Carolina / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

This is where the mill children go to school. Lancaster, S.C. Enrollme...

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

A spinner in the Mollahan Mills, Newberry, S.C. Dec. 308. Witness, Sara R. Hine. Location: Newberry, South Carolina Photo by Lewis W. Hine

A spinner in the Mollahan Mills, Newberry, S.C. Dec. 308. Witness, Sar...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Mills. Hine no. 379. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the National ... More

National Child Labor Committee, #200. S. W. Brown Mfg. Co., Evansville, Ind. Location: Evansville, Indiana

National Child Labor Committee, #200. S. W. Brown Mfg. Co., Evansville...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 200. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More

Stetson Hat Co. mfg. soft army hats

Stetson Hat Co. mfg. soft army hats

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Weighing, filling and sewing 25 lb. sacks of sugar

Weighing, filling and sewing 25 lb. sacks of sugar

Three employees filling, weighing, and sewing 25 lb. sacks of C and H sugar. National Photo Company Collection. No. 390.

A midnight scene in More-Jonas i.e., Jones? Glass Works, Bridgeton, N.J. Four small boys are to be seen in this photo. Location: Bridgeton, New Jersey

A midnight scene in More-Jonas i.e., Jones? Glass Works, Bridgeton, N....

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Glass factories. Hine no. 983. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Cotton mills spinning frames, Coolidge Mills, Manchester, N.H

Cotton mills spinning frames, Coolidge Mills, Manchester, N.H

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National Pho... More

[Group of striking women - shirtwaist workers. NYC. 1909]

[Group of striking women - shirtwaist workers. NYC. 1909]

Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Shelf. Clothing industry strikes New York (State).

Bldg. concrete ships - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Bldg. concrete ships - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

John Lavigul. Has been doffer-boy in mule-spinning room for over a year in Chace Cotton Mill, Burlington, Vt. See photo and label #730.  Location: Burlington, Vermont.

John Lavigul. Has been doffer-boy in mule-spinning room for over a yea...

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

[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...

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

Diffusion battery in circular arrangement. Chute from slicers overhead delivering cosettes into one of the cells

Diffusion battery in circular arrangement. Chute from slicers overhead...

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Diffusion battery in circular arrangement. Chute from slicers overhead delivering cosettes into one of the cells

Diffusion battery in circular arrangement. Chute from slicers overhead...

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National Pho... More

Arthur H. Toody, 536 Market St. Newsboy, 8 years of age. Selling papers 1 years [sic] Average earnings 20 cents per week. Selling newspapers own choice. Earnings not needed at home. Don't smoke. Visits saloons. Works 5 hours per day. Wants money for moving picture. May, 1910. Investigator, Edward F. Brown.  Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

Arthur H. Toody, 536 Market St. Newsboy, 8 years of age. Selling paper...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children, kids, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A group of girl workers at Greenabaum's Cannery, Seaford, Del. The girls in the front row are "cappers" and "layers." They range from 6 years of age up. Working from 10 to 12 hours per day. Among the unguarded belting machinery of the Cannery.  Location: Seaford, Delaware.

A group of girl workers at Greenabaum's Cannery, Seaford, Del. The gir...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph group portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Donald Mallick, ("Happy"), 203 King Street. 9 years of age, selling newspapers 5 years. Average earnings 35 cents a week. Sells from choice. Father, rivet driver, $20 weekly. "Happy" is well known character in town. When first interviewed gave story of sleeping in broken buildings and lots at night. Found out in streets at 11 P.M. at night pitching pennies and working "last paper" scheme. Flips cars and has sister who is 8 years of age who begs and sells papers. Boy very imaginative, and when last seen had a rusty 5 inch knife which he said he found and was playing with same in gutter. Edward F. Brown, Investigator. Wilmington, Del. May, 1910.]  Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

[Donald Mallick, ("Happy"), 203 King Street. 9 years of age, selling n...

Public domain scan of portrait art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hotel de Gink -- barber - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Hotel de Gink -- barber - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows a barber at the Hotel de Gink, a hotel for "hobos" and itinerant workers located at Centre and Worth Streets, the Bowery, New York City. The barber was reported to have been able to "do thirty-... More

These are all workers in Richmond Hosiery (See report).  Location: Rossville, Georgia.

These are all workers in Richmond Hosiery (See report). Location: Ros...

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

Group of workers. Boy on left refused to pose. Merrimac Mills.  Location: Huntsville, Alabama.

Group of workers. Boy on left refused to pose. Merrimac Mills. Locati...

Public domain image of personnel, army, group of people in uniform, parade, historic place, military activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Oppenheimer's Dress Shop, Wash., D.C.

Oppenheimer's Dress Shop, Wash., D.C.

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The Marnielli family. Forsythe's Bog, Turkeytown, near Pemberton, N.J. Sept. 29, 1910. Witness E.F. Brown,.  Location: Pemberton, New Jersey / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

The Marnielli family. Forsythe's Bog, Turkeytown, near Pemberton, N.J....

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

Radio - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Radio - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

A woman sitting at a desk in front of a machine, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from negative or negative sleeve. Date based on date of negatives in same range. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc... More

Group of workers in Central Mills.  Location: Sylacauga, Alabama.

Group of workers in Central Mills. Location: Sylacauga, Alabama.

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.

Tenjeta Calone, Philadelphia, 10 years old. Been picking cranberries 4 years. White's Bog, Browns Mills, N.J. This is the fourth week of school and the people here expect to remain two weeks more. Sept. 28, 1910. Witness E. F. Brown.  Location: Browns Mills, New Jersey / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

Tenjeta Calone, Philadelphia, 10 years old. Been picking cranberries 4...

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

A young doffer working in Central Mills. Location: Sylacauga, Alabama

A young doffer working in Central Mills. Location: Sylacauga, Alabama

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 1824. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Pete, the Padrone, and family and neighbors. Girl tending baby in sun. Forsythe's Bog, Turkeytown, near Pemberton, N.J. Sept. 29, 1910. Witness E. F. Brown,.  Location: Pemberton, New Jersey / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

Pete, the Padrone, and family and neighbors. Girl tending baby in sun....

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

Group of workers in Indian Head Mills. Youngest ones would not be photo'd. (See label 1839.)  Location: Cordova, Alabama.

Group of workers in Indian Head Mills. Youngest ones would not be phot...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an 18th-19th century military conflict, armed forces, infantry, militia, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Costa Rica - workers cutting bananas from trees - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Costa Rica - workers cutting bananas from trees - Frank G. Carpenter c...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. LOT subdivision subject: Costa Rica. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress).

[John Towers, 627 S. Connell Street. Postal Telegraph Company, Messenger # 9. 15 years of age. In service 1 year. Visits houses of prostitution. Sometimes smokes. Edward F. Brown, Investigator. ].  Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

[John Towers, 627 S. Connell Street. Postal Telegraph Company, Messeng...

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

One of the labor camps for workers in Peerless Oyster Co. About 18 families live here. While conditions are not so bad here as I have seen them in their Maryland and Delaware quarters, they are not far from ideal.  Location: Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.

One of the labor camps for workers in Peerless Oyster Co. About 18 fam...

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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...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 1494. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Erenne La Prise, a doffer, apparently 13 year[s] old, doffing at his machine in Spring Village Mill. Said he had been working a year and a half.  Location: Winchendon, Massachusetts.

Erenne La Prise, a doffer, apparently 13 year[s] old, doffing at his m...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Richard Mills, 8 years old, showing a severely cut finger. Is a cutter in Eastport, Me., canneries.  Location: Eastport, Maine.

Richard Mills, 8 years old, showing a severely cut finger. Is a cutter...

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

Pile of refuse, waste, and salt water in which these sardine workers stand at times.  Location: Eastport, Maine.
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...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

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...

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

Housing conditions in the settlement of workers in Alabama Canning Co. Two families to a house, but they are separated. Housing conditions fairly good.  Location: Bayou La Batre, Alabama.

Housing conditions in the settlement of workers in Alabama Canning Co....

Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential building, house, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Workers in Berkshire Mills.  Location: Adams, Massachusetts.

Workers in Berkshire Mills. Location: Adams, Massachusetts.

Public domain image of personnel, army, group of people in uniform, parade, historic place, military activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Typical group of workers on tags. Steps of Mrs. Dolan, 279 Highland Street, Roxbury, Massachusetts.  Location: Roxbury, Massachusettsachusetts.

Typical group of workers on tags. Steps of Mrs. Dolan, 279 Highland St...

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

A few of the young workers in Beaumont Mill, Spartenberg [sic].  Location: Spartanburg, South Carolina.

A few of the young workers in Beaumont Mill, Spartenberg [sic]. Locat...

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.

Allen ---, Northampton, Massachusetts., thinks he is 8 years old. Sells on the streets of Northampton until 6:30 every night.  Location: Northampton, Massachusettsachusetts.

Allen ---, Northampton, Massachusetts., thinks he is 8 years old. Sell...

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.

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

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

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

[Woman "French drawing" - finishing wool, at the American Woolen Co., Boston]

[Woman "French drawing" - finishing wool, at the American Woolen Co., ...

Photo copyrighted by the American Woolen Co., Boston. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Wool trade & industry; Woman Employ 1912; Textile machinery; Shelf.

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

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

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of city street life, vendor, shop sign, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Housing conditions of the white workers in Varn & Platt Canning Co.  Location: Bluffton, South Carolina.

Housing conditions of the white workers in Varn & Platt Canning Co. L...

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All these are workers in the Cherokee Hosiery Mill, Rome, Ga. Noon, April 10, 1913. The youngest are turners and loopers. Other Hosiery Mills around here employ children of 8 and 9 years. Some of these appear to be as young.  Location: Rome, Georgia.

All these are workers in the Cherokee Hosiery Mill, Rome, Ga. Noon, Ap...

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

[S]ome of the youngest spinners in Floyd Cotton Mill, Rome, Ga. I saw but a few young workers [h]ere.  Location: Rome, Georgia.

[S]ome of the youngest spinners in Floyd Cotton Mill, Rome, Ga. I saw ...

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

The morning attend[a]nce at the mill school. See labels 3734 and 3735. See Hine report.  Location: Huntsville, Alabama.

The morning attend[a]nce at the mill school. See labels 3734 and 3735....

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

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...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory worker, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

Fourteen year old spinner in Brazos Valley Cotton Mill at West. Violation of the law. Matty Lott runs six sides. See family group and their story.  Location: West, Texas.

Fourteen year old spinner in Brazos Valley Cotton Mill at West. Violat...

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

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 ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a victorian era building, victorian house, 19th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fourteen year old spinner in a Brazos Valley Cotton Mill at West. Violation of the law. Matty Lott runs six sides. See family group and their story. Location: West, Texas

Fourteen year old spinner in a Brazos Valley Cotton Mill at West. Viol...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 3642. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Bureau Printing & Engraving: weighing macerated money pulp for baling & sale, 1914

Bureau Printing & Engraving: weighing macerated money pulp for baling ...

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from related neg. LC-F82-410. Copy neg. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the Na... More

This group represents most of the workers in the Cape Fear Cotton Mills, except the very smallest. There were 5 or 6 apparently under 13. See North Carolina report.  Location: Fayetteville, North Carolina.

This group represents most of the workers in the Cape Fear Cotton Mill...

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

Artillery vehicles - Camouflaging Dept., American Car & Foundry Company, Detroit, Michigan

Artillery vehicles - Camouflaging Dept., American Car & Foundry Compan...

Women employees in ordnance plant during the first World War. No. 35851. U.S. Army Signal Corps photo.

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 ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph group portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bureau Printing & Engraving. Manufactureing macerated money pulp . board, 1914, Washington, D.C

Bureau Printing & Engraving. Manufactureing macerated money pulp . boa...

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from related neg. LC-F82-410. Copy neg.? Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the N... More

A Giddings beet-puller, drawn by 4 horses. The two knives pass along the sides of the beet rows and loosen the soil -- but they do not pull the beets -- the workers finish pulling by hand, often with some extra exertion. A kind of hand plow puller is often used on small farms. Near Sterling, Oct. 23/15.  Location: Sterling [vicinity], Colorado.

A Giddings beet-puller, drawn by 4 horses. The two knives pass along t...

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Garment workers, Webster Hall - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Garment workers, Webster Hall - Glass negative photogrpah. Public doma...

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Ring facing, George Grantham Bain Collection

Ring facing, George Grantham Bain Collection

Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General information about the George Grantha... More

Newsies. See California report.  Location: Los Angeles, California / Lewis W. Hine.

Newsies. See California report. Location: Los Angeles, California / L...

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Views of "The Jungle," in Ft. Collins, the section in which the beet workers live when not away working the beets. In Greeley, this segregated section is called "The Pansy Bed" (from the varied and vivid coloring of homes). In Sterling, it is called "Petersburg."  Location: Fort Collins, Colorado / Photo by Hine, Oct. 30/15.

Views of "The Jungle," in Ft. Collins, the section in which the beet w...

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Woman blacksmith -- Eng. i.e. England

Woman blacksmith -- Eng. i.e. England

Photograph shows a woman blacksmith in England during World War I. Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Photograph reproduced in British pamphlet "Carry on: British Women's work in... More

Three Saunders children, nine, eleven, and thirteen years old, mowing away the grain. See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, August 1915.

Three Saunders children, nine, eleven, and thirteen years old, mowing ...

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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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[Views of "The Jungle," in Ft. Collins, the section in which the beet workers live when not away working the beets. In Greeley, this segregated section is called "The Pansy Bed" (from the varied and vivid coloring of homes). In Sterling, it is called "Petersburg." Location: [Fort Collins, Colorado] / Photo by Hine, Oct. 30/15]

[Views of "The Jungle," in Ft. Collins, the section in which the beet ...

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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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Barn of Daniel Barrett and group shown in photos 4464-5-6.  Location: Henderson County--Spottsville, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Barn of Daniel Barrett and group shown in photos 4464-5-6. Location: ...

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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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