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Lewis Hine
Photos taken by Lewis Wickes Hine for the National Child Labor Commission and its report to Congress.
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A Boy Can Dream: 1918
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Dearest One: 1918
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Powerhouse: 1921
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Re-Becca: 1909
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Carnival Ride From Hell: 1911
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Breaker Boys: 1911
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Tobacco Tim: 1917
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Bowdoin Boot-Blacks: 1909
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The Apprentice: 1917
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The Gleaners: 1910
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Judges Avert Probe: 1913
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A Double Shot: 1909
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Cherryville Warper: 1908
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Back-Ropers: 1909
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Sunshine & Shadow: 1916
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Gutterball U.: 1910
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Wee Lads: 1910
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Tipple Boy: 1908
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The Pecans of Wrath: 1911
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Liberty Garter: 1908
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Printer's Helper: 1917
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Boston Manglers: 1917
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Louis Gitney: 1917
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Made in America: 1909
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Elbows and the Boy: 1909
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Company Men: 1911
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Liberté, Fraternité: 1918
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![January 1912. Fall River, Mass. "In this group are some of the youngest workers in Spinning Room of Cornell Mill. The smallest is Jo Benevidos, 5 Merion Street. Other small ones are: John Sousa, 84 Boutwell St.; Anthony Valentin, 203 Pitman St.; Manuel Perry, 124 Everett St.; John Travaresm [Taveresm?], 90 Cash St. The difficulty they had in writing their names was pathetic. When I asked the second hand in charge of the room to let the boys go outside a moment and let me get a snap-shot, he objected, saying they would stay out and not be in shape to work. When they carry dinners, they breathe the close air of the spinning room from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. with no let-up." Photo by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size.](jpg/shorpy-02505u.thumbnail.jpg "Other Small Ones: 1912")
Other Small Ones: 1912
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Cannery Bro: 1908
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Tough Tomatoes: 1908
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Goals: 1918
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A Happy Time: 1918
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Resting Comfortably: 1918
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Glass League: 1908
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Overflow Crowd: 1918
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A Close Shave: 1918
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Nicotine Angel: 1918
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Dressing the Wound: 1918
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Brazos Mill Boys: 1913
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Mill Maids: 1913
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Employee of the Week: 1909
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Honest Household: 1912
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Doffer & Spooler: 1908
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Where the Bogs Are: 1911
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Waxahachie Pickers: 1913
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Young Rush: 1908
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Tiny Shucker: 1912
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About Us: 1913
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Skeeters Branch Newsies: 1910
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Larry the Doffer: 1916
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Topper in the Beets: 1915
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Bottle Boys: 1909
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Newark Newsies: 1909
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Working His Way Up: 1916
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![March 15, 1917. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. "Manley Creasson [Creason], 914 West Sixth Street. Messenger #6, MacKay Telegraph Co. Says he is 14; school records say 13. Says he has steady job -- 'Been a messenger for years. Get $15 for 2 weeks' pay'." Silver gelatin print by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size.](jpg/shorpy-04020u.thumbnail.jpg "Manley Boy: 1917")
Manley Boy: 1917
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Raggedy Henry: 1912
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Big & Tall: 1908
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Cutting Bee: 1912
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Warping Boy: 1908
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![January 1912. "Tenement homework, New York, 309 W. 146th Street. Mrs. De Levo [?] and her 7-year-old daughter, Lorenza, embroidering ladies' waists in their dirty kitchen-living room. Lorenza makes the stems of the flowers. Her mother said, 'See how smart she is. I show her how and right away she makes them. She is so little because she's been sick so much.' She works after school. Father is out of a job. 'They pay too cheap for lace.' Said they make about $2 a week." Glass nega­tive by Lewis Wickes Hine for the National Child Labor Committee. View full size.](jpg/shorpy_05487u.thumbnail.jpg "Work From Home: 1912")
Work From Home: 1912
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First the Paperwork: 1913
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Charley Humble: 1913
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Mission School: 1908
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Tiny Seamstress: 1924
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Shorpy Higginbotham: 1910
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![February 1911. Bayou La Batre, Alabama. "Little Julia tending the baby at home. All the older ones are at the factory. She shucks [oysters] also. Alabama Canning Co." Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size.](jpg/shorpy_00850u.thumbnail.jpg "Step Sisters: 1911")
Step Sisters: 1911
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Pell City Doffers: 1910
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Jonas Glass Works: 1909
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Industrious George: 1909
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![ The incorrigibly industrious Eugene Dalton 100 years ago -- we last saw him in 2007, in the second photo ever posted on Shorpy.
November 1913. Fort Worth, Texas. "Some results of messenger and newsboy work. For nine years this 16-year-old boy has been newsboy and messenger for drug stores and telegraph companies. He was recently brought before the Judge of the Juvenile Court for incorrigibility at home. Is now out on parole, and was working again for drug company when he got a job carrying grips in the Union Depot. He is on the job from 6 A.M. to 11 P.M. (seventeen hours a day) for seven days in the week. His mother and the Judge think he uses cocaine, and yet they let him put in these long hours every day. He told me 'There ain't a house in "The Acre" [Red Light] that I ain't been in. At the drug store, all my deliveries were down there.' Says he makes from $15 to $18 a week. Eugene Dalton." Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size.](jpg/shorpy_03911u.thumbnail.jpg "Hard Worker: 1913")
Hard Worker: 1913
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Bottomley's Berry Farm: 1909
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Brother Red: 1915
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Play Ball: 1912
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Winter Job: 1910
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Archie Love: 1908
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Salty Alice: 1909
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Newsboys Club: 1909
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Five-Tube Chassis: 1937
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Final Inspector: 1936
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The Young Man and the Shoe: 1933
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Stiner's Store: 1933
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