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Ellis Island Immigrant Portraits
Summary
Hine, Lewis Wickes.Flashlight photo of children on night shift going to work at 6. P.M. on a cold dark December night. They do not come out again until 6:00 A.M..Childworkers on their way to a night shift at Whitnel Cottton Mills. North Carolina, USA 1908. ..NMFF.003473
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Date
1908
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Preus museum
![[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]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1910/01/01/groups-of-girls-workers-at-the-gate-of-the-american-tobacco-co-wilmington-delaware-640.jpg "[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]")
![This photo shows what was formerly a chicken coop, in which during the berry season the Arnao family live on Hitchen's farm, Seaford, Del. 17 children and 5 elders live in this made over chicken coop. The age of 10 of the children is given below: 1 Child is 3 years old; 1 Child is 4 years old; 1 Child is 5 years old; 1 Child is 6 years old; 2 Children are 7 years old; 1 Child is 9 years old; 1 Child is 10 years old; 1 Child is 11 years old; 1 Child is 13 years old. Another photo in this collection shows the Arnao family on Truitt's Farm. On the day of the investigation no berries being picked on Hitchen's Farm. The family went over to the Truitt's farm to pick. [Handwritten notation:] See them picking strawberries (Sept 28, 1910) in photos & labels 1128-1129-1130. Edward F. Brown, Investigator. Location: Seaford, Delaware / Photo by [Lewis W. Hine].](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1910/01/01/this-photo-shows-what-was-formerly-a-chicken-coop-in-which-during-the-berry-1-640.jpg "This photo shows what was formerly a chicken coop, in which during the berry season the Arnao family live on Hitchen's farm, Seaford, Del. 17 children and 5 elders live in this made over chicken coop. The age of 10 of the children is given below: 1 Child is 3 years old; 1 Child is 4 years old; 1 Child is 5 years old; 1 Child is 6 years old; 2 Children are 7 years old; 1 Child is 9 years old; 1 Child is 10 years old; 1 Child is 11 years old; 1 Child is 13 years old. Another photo in this collection shows the Arnao family on Truitt's Farm. On the day of the investigation no berries being picked on Hitchen's Farm. The family went over to the Truitt's farm to pick. [Handwritten notation:] See them picking strawberries (Sept 28, 1910) in photos & labels 1128-1129-1130. Edward F. Brown, Investigator. Location: Seaford, Delaware / Photo by [Lewis W. Hine].")
