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Child Labor in America 1908-1912 Featuring the original photo captions by Lewis W. Hine.
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Faces of Lost Youth
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Furman Owens, 12 years old. Can't read. Doesn't know his A,B,C's. Said, "Yes I want to learn but can't when I work all the time."
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Adolescent girls from Bibb Co. in Macon
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The Mill
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Some boys and girls were so small they had to climb up on to the spinning frame to mend broken threads and to put back the empty bobbins. Bibb Mill No. 1. Macon, Ga.
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The overseer said apologetically, "She just happened in." She was working steadily. The mills seem full of youngsters who "just happened in" or "are helping sister."
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Newsies
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A small newsie downtown on a Saturday afternoon. St. Louis, Mo.
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Out after midnight selling extras. There were many young boys selling very late. Youngest boy in the group is 9 years old.
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Miners
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Harley Bruce, a young coupling-boy at Indian Mine. He appears to be 12 or 14 years old and says he has been working there about a year.
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Breaker boys. Smallest is Angelo Ross. Pittston, Pa
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The Factory
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9 p.m. in an Indiana Glass Works
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Rob Kidd, one of the young workers in a glass factory. Alexandria, Va.
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Seafood Workers
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Shrimp pickers, including little 8 year old Max on the right. Biloxi, Miss.
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Manuel the young shrimp picker, age 5, and a mountain of child labor oyster shells behind him. He worked last year. Understands not a word of English.
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Fruit Pickers
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Camille Carmo, age 7, and Justine, age 9. The older girl picks about 4 pails a day.
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Norris Luvitt. Been picking 3 years in berry fields near Baltimore.
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Little Salesmen
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Joseph Severio, peanut vender, age 11 [seen with photographer Hine]. Been pushing a cart 2 years. Out after midnight on May 21, 1910. Ordinarily works 6 hours per day. Works of his own volution. All earnings go to his father. Wilmington, Del
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A young candy seller in Boston, Mass.
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A Variety of Jobs
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Bowling Alley boys. Many of them work setting pins until past midnight. New Haven, Conn
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Young boys working for Hickok Lumber Co. Burlington, Vt
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Pastimes and Vices
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A.D.T. messenger boys. They all smoke. Birmingham, Ala.
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Richard Pierce, age 14, a Western Union Telegraph Co. messenger. Nine months in service, works from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Smokes and visits houses of prostitution. Wilmington, Del.
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Group Portraits
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Some of the workers in the Farrand Packing Co. Baltimore,
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At 5 p.m., boys going home from Monougal Glass Works. One boy remarked, "De place is lousey wid kids." Fairmont, W. Va.
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