Child labor from 1908 to 1917
Young cigar maker in Englehardt & Co., Tampa, Fla. Under 14-years-old.
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Vance, a Trapper Boy, 15-years-old. Has trapped for several years in a West Va. Coal mine. $.75 a day for 10 hours work. All he does is to open and shut this door: most of the time he sits here idle, waiting for the cars to come.
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Charlie Foster has a steady job in the Merrimack Mills. School Record says he is now 10-years-old. Father said he could not read.
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Manuel, the young shrimp-picker, 5, and a mountain of child-labor oyster shells behind him. Understands not a word of English. Dukate Company.
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The "Manly art of self-defense" Newsboys' Protective Association.
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Messenger boy working for Mackay Telegraph Company. Said 15-years-old. Exposed to Red Light dangers.
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Pin boys in Les Miserables Alleys. Frank Jarose, 11, said he made $3.72 one week. Joseph Philip, 11, works until midnight every week night; said he made $2.25 one week and $1.75 another week. Willie Payton, 11, made over $2 one week, works there every night until midnight.
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Little Fannie, 7-years-old, 48 inches high, helps sister in Elk Mills. Her sister (in photo) said, "Yes, she helps me right smart. Not all day but all she can. Yes, she started with me at six this mornin'." These two belong to a family of 19 children.
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Brown McDowell, 12, usher in Princess Theatre. Works from 10 A.M. to 10 P.M. Can barely read; has reached the second grade in school only.
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Interior of tobacco shed, Hawthorn Farm. Girls in foreground are 8-, 9-, and 10-years-old. The 10-year-old makes 50 cents a day. 12 workers on this farm are 8- to 14-years-old, and about 15 are over 15-years-old.
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Eagle and Phoenix Mill. "Dinner-toters" waiting for the gate to open.
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Young cigar maker in Englehardt & Co., Tampa, Fla.
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Boys picking over garbage on "the Dumps." Boston.
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Young glass worker.
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Four-year-old Mary, who shucks two pots of oysters a day at Dunbar. The boss said that next year Mary will work steady as the rest of them. The mother is the fastest shucker in the place. Earns $1.50 a day. Works part of the time with her sick baby in her arms. Father works on the dock.
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A little "shaver," Indianapolis Newsboy, 41-inches-high. Said he was 6-years-old.
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2 newsgirls.
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Lunch time, Economy Glass Works, Morgantown, W. Va.
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John Howell, an Indianapolis newsboy, makes $.75 some days. Begins at 6 a.m., Sundays.
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Newsie, "flipping cars".
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One of the newsies at the newsboys' picnic, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Harry, a Cincinnati boy, attends school and earns $.25 daily, carrying bundles.
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Gastonia, N.C., boy from Loray Textile Mill.
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Boys at Lehr glass works, West Virginia.
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Fruit Venders, Indianapolis Market.
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A typical Glass Works boy working the night shift, Indiana. Said he was 16-years-old.
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A.D.T. messenger boy, Indianapolis, 10 P.M.
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Boy making melon baskets at a basket factory, Evansville, Ind.
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Girl in Cherryville Textile Mill.
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Francis Lance, 5-years-old, 41 inches high. Sells newspapers regularly on Grand Avenue, St. Louis, Miss.
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Going home from Loray Textile Mill. Smallest boy on the right, 13-years-old John Moore. Been in mill 6 years as sweeper.
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Noon hour in an Indianapolis Furniture Factory.
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Young glass worker.
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Tenjeta Calone, Philadelphia, 10-years-old. Been picking cranberries for 4 years. White's Bog, Browns Mills, N.J. This is the fourth week of school and the people here except to remain two weeks more.
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Jennie Rizzandi, 9-year-old girl, helping mother and father finish garments in a dilapidated tenement, 5 Extra Pl., N.Y.C. They all work until 9 P.M. when busy, and make about $2 to $2.50 a week.
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Albernesi Family, 126 W. Eagle St. Left to right: Frank Albernesi, 5-years-old. Libori Albernesi, 15-years-old, Joseph Albernesi, 13-years-old. Family goes to country in summer to pick fruit.
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Marie Costa, Basket Seller, 605 Elm St., Sixth St. Market, Cincinnati. 9 P.M. Had been there since 10 A.M. Sister and friend help her.
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Young cigar maker in Englehardt & Co., Tampa, Fla.
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Rhodes Mfg. Co., Lincolnton, N.C. Ten-year-old said she been working for over a year.
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Only 5 pupils present out of about 40 expected when beet work is over. The poor attendance in all these schools is due almost entirely to beet work.
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