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1 Child Labor in America 1908-1912 Featuring the original photo captions by Lewis W. Hine.

2 Faces of Lost Youth

3 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."

4 Adolescent girls from Bibb Co. in Macon

5 The Mill

6 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.

7 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."

8 Newsies

9 A small newsie downtown on a Saturday afternoon. St. Louis, Mo.

10 Out after midnight selling extras. There were many young boys selling very late. Youngest boy in the group is 9 years old.

11 Miners

12 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.

13 Breaker boys. Smallest is Angelo Ross. Pittston, Pa

14 The Factory

15 9 p.m. in an Indiana Glass Works

16 Rob Kidd, one of the young workers in a glass factory. Alexandria, Va.

17 Seafood Workers

18 Shrimp pickers, including little 8 year old Max on the right. Biloxi, Miss.

19 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.

20 Fruit Pickers

21 Camille Carmo, age 7, and Justine, age 9. The older girl picks about 4 pails a day.

22 Norris Luvitt. Been picking 3 years in berry fields near Baltimore.

23 Little Salesmen

24 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

25 A young candy seller in Boston, Mass.

26 A Variety of Jobs

27 Bowling Alley boys. Many of them work setting pins until past midnight. New Haven, Conn

28 Young boys working for Hickok Lumber Co. Burlington, Vt

29 Pastimes and Vices

30 A.D.T. messenger boys. They all smoke. Birmingham, Ala.

31 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.

32 Group Portraits

33 Some of the workers in the Farrand Packing Co. Baltimore,

34 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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