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Madison, Wisconsin. Farm short course school at the University of Wisconsin. Robert A. Janowsky, who is eighteen years old and a high school graduate, comes from a sixty-four acre farm of which five acres are cultivated. His father works as an automobile mechanic in Chicago

Madison, Wisconsin. Farm short course school at the University of Wisc...

Public domain photograph of Great Depression, farm, farmer, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Three pickers going home from work. Anne Benotte, said 7 years old. Brother Vincent said 11. Vincent picked last year. Inez, sister said 6 years old, "and picked last year wid me mudder." Smallest one not quite large enough to work. Father works in Parker Mills. Location: Parker Mills [vicinity], Massachusetts.

Three pickers going home from work. Anne Benotte, said 7 years old. Br...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of children, kids, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Madison, Wisconsin. Farm short course school at the University of Wisconsin. Robert A. Janowsky, who is eighteen years old and a high school graduate, comes from a sixty-four acre farm with five acres cultivated. His father works as an automobile mechanic in Chicago

Madison, Wisconsin. Farm short course school at the University of Wisc...

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

S.D. Ison and family. Father works some. Both boys on right of photo have been in Washington Cotton Mills, Fries, Virginia, for four years. When I asked the smallest worker how old he was, he said, "Don't know," and looked at his father, who said, "Going' on 14." (but he did not say how near to 14 he was). Location: Fries, Virginia.

S.D. Ison and family. Father works some. Both boys on right of photo h...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

11:30 A.M. 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. Father works on street, when he has work. Jennie was a truant, "I staid home 'cause a lady was comin'.-". Location: [New York, New York (State)].

11:30 A.M. Jennie Rizzandi, 9 year old girl, helping mother and father...

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1 P.M. Family of Onofrio Cottone, 7 Extra Pl., N.Y., finishing garments in a terribly run down tenement. The father works on the street. The three oldest children help the mother on garments. Joseph, 14, Andrew, 10, Rosie, 7, and all together they make about $2 a week when work is plenty. There are two babies. Location: New York, New York (State)

1 P.M. Family of Onofrio Cottone, 7 Extra Pl., N.Y., finishing garment...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 3255. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photogr... More

11:30 A.M. 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. Father works on street, when he has work. Jennie was a truant, "I staid home 'cause a lady was comin'.-". Location: [New York, New York (State)].

11:30 A.M. Jennie Rizzandi, 9 year old girl, helping mother and father...

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Lillie Robertson, a young spinner in Century Cotton Mills, South Boston, Virginia Runs four sides. Sister Mamie (with cup) helps her and is ten years old. Baby doesn't work yet. Father works in wagon factory. Cotton Mills work is slack. Location: South Boston, Virginia.

Lillie Robertson, a young spinner in Century Cotton Mills, South Bosto...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Verona, Wisconsin. Loren Mead, sixteen, from Soyer County, Wisconsin, was placed on the Fleming farm after completing the farm short course at the University of Wisconsin and can do only light work for which he gets thirty-five dollars per month. He comes from a 160-acre farm which is nearly all woodland. His father works in a sawmill. He has three younger brothers and two sisters

Verona, Wisconsin. Loren Mead, sixteen, from Soyer County, Wisconsin, ...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Dependent (able-bodied) parents. Family of Robert Barnes, E. 15 Magnolia, Miss. Father works irregularly. "I supplies places in the mill when others are gone." Been here two months, Worked a farm near McComb, where the children worked in the mill and went to school. Note how the ages jump from(1) Children not in the mill; who are 2, 5, and 8 years old.to(2) Children in the mill, (front row), said to be 14, 15 and 17 years old. Location: Magnolia, Mississippi.

Dependent (able-bodied) parents. Family of Robert Barnes, E. 15 Magnol...

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An old photo of a woman holding a baby, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

An old photo of a woman holding a baby, West Virginia. Farm Security A...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Log home of rural non-farm family. Father works in a chair making factory. Orange County, North Carolina

Log home of rural non-farm family. Father works in a chair making fact...

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Verona, Wisconsin. Loren Mead, sixteen, from Soyer County, Wisconsin, was placed on the Fleming farm after completing the farm short course at the University of Wisconsin and can do only light work for which he gets thirty-five dollars per month. He comes from a 160-acre farm which is nearly all woodland. His father works in a sawmill. He has three younger brothers and two sisters

Verona, Wisconsin. Loren Mead, sixteen, from Soyer County, Wisconsin, ...

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Three pickers going home from work. Anne Benotte, said 7 years old. Brother Vincent said 11. Vincent picked last year. Inez, sister said 6 years old, "and picked last year wid me mudder." Smallest one not quite large enough to work. Father works in Parker Mills. Location: Parker Mills vicinity, Massachusetts

Three pickers going home from work. Anne Benotte, said 7 years old. Br...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 2515. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Four-year-old Mary, who shucks two pots of oysters a day at Dunbar. Tends the baby when not working. (See photo 2062). 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. Location: Dunbar, Louisiana.

Four-year-old Mary, who shucks two pots of oysters a day at Dunbar. Te...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a child labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Lloyd McAbee been doffing several months in the Spartan Mill, Spartenberg [sic], S.C. His step brother Walter Brown been working for one year. The parents said they couldn't find the family record, that the boys were 12 and 13 years old. The father works the farm 3 miles away. Sister in the mill. Mother wouldn't be photographed. (See family group 2989.) Location: Spartanburg, South Carolina.

Lloyd McAbee been doffing several months in the Spartan Mill, Spartenb...

Picryl description: Public domain image of boy workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Home in Charleston, West Virginia. Mother has TB, father works on WPA (Work Progress Administration). See 50119-D

Home in Charleston, West Virginia. Mother has TB, father works on WPA ...

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Log home of non-farm family. The father works in a chair making factory in Hillsboro. They keep a cow and a small garden. Orange County, North Carolina

Log home of non-farm family. The father works in a chair making factor...

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1 P.M. Family of Onofrio Cottone, 7 Extra Pl., N.Y., finishing garments in a terribly run down tenement. The father works on the street. The three oldest children help the mother on garments. Joseph, 14, Andrew, 10, Rosie, 7, and all together they make about $2 a week when work is plenty. There are two babies. Location: [New York, New York (State)]

1 P.M. Family of Onofrio Cottone, 7 Extra Pl., N.Y., finishing garment...

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Lloyd McAbee and Walter Brown (in front) and the rest of the family except the mother. The parents said they couldn't find the family record, that the boys were 12 and 13 years old. The father works the farm 3 miles away. Sister in the mill. Mother wouldn't be photographed. (See family group 2989 [sic?]). Location: [Spartanburg, South Carolina]

Lloyd McAbee and Walter Brown (in front) and the rest of the family ex...

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New York, New York. Benny Romano, age one month. His father works in the Brooklyn Navy Yard

New York, New York. Benny Romano, age one month. His father works in t...

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S.D. Ison and family. Father works some. Both boys on right of photo have been in Washington Cotton Mills, Fries, Virginia, for four years. When I asked the smallest worker how old he was, he said, "Don't know," and looked at his father, who said, "Going' on 14." (but he did not say how near to 14 he was). Location: Fries, Virginia.

S.D. Ison and family. Father works some. Both boys on right of photo h...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

1 P.M. Family of Onofrio Cottone, 7 Extra Pl., N.Y., finishing garments in a terribly run down tenement. The father works on the street. The three oldest children help the mother on garments. Joseph, 14, Andrew, 10, Rosie, 7, and all together they make about $2 a week when work is plenty. There are two babies. Location: [New York, New York (State)]

1 P.M. Family of Onofrio Cottone, 7 Extra Pl., N.Y., finishing garment...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, economic conditions, children workers, exploitation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Part of RR (Rural Rehabilitation) family, now dropped, children have hookworm, mother pellagra and milk leg, according to nurse's report. Father works on WPA (Work Projects Administration). Coffee County, Alabama

Part of RR (Rural Rehabilitation) family, now dropped, children have ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Child of defense worker from Flint living in Edgewater trailer camp near Ypsilanti, Michigan, where his father works at new Ford bomber plant

Child of defense worker from Flint living in Edgewater trailer camp ne...

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New York, New York. Benny Romano, age one month. His father works in the Brooklyn Navy yard

New York, New York. Benny Romano, age one month. His father works in t...

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Three pickers going home from work. Anne Benotte, said 7 years old. Brother Vincent said 11. Vincent picked last year. Inez, sister said 6 years old, "and picked last year wid me mudder." Smallest one not quite large enough to work. Father works in Parker Mills. Location: Parker Mills [vicinity], Massachusetts.

Three pickers going home from work. Anne Benotte, said 7 years old. Br...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children, kids, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Part of RR (Rural Rehabilitation) family, now dropped, children have hookworm, mother pellagra and milk leg, according to nurse's report. Father works on WPA (Work Projects Administration). Coffee County, Alabama

Part of RR (Rural Rehabilitation) family, now dropped, children have h...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Four-year-old Mary, who shucks two pots of oysters a day at Dunbar. Tends the baby when not working. (See photo 2062). 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. Location: Dunbar, Louisiana.

Four-year-old Mary, who shucks two pots of oysters a day at Dunbar. Te...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Children in bedroom of their home, Charleston, West Virginia. Their mother has TB. Father works on WPA (Works Progress Administration). See 50129-D

Children in bedroom of their home, Charleston, West Virginia. Their mo...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a great depression era, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Log home of rural non-farm family. Father works in a chair making factory. Orange County, North Carolina

Log home of rural non-farm family. Father works in a chair making fact...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Mrs. Gay, 33 James Street, Attleboro, Massachusetts. and children: 5, 7, 12, and 13 years old, setting stones in cheap jewelry. There were 244 stones in this lot. She said they earned about $5 a week when all worked steadily. (One boy of 10 works, not there when photo was taken.) They work every day except Saturday (house work day) and probably not much Sunday. Work after school and evenings until 8 P.M. or after. The children were home with sore throat, but working industriously. Father works in factory. Photo at 4 P.M. Location: Attleboro, Massachusettsachusetts

Mrs. Gay, 33 James Street, Attleboro, Massachusetts. and children: 5, ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 3143. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photogr... More

S.D. Ison and family. Father works some. Both boys on right of photo have been in Washington Cotton Mills, Fries, Virginia, for four years. When I asked the smallest worker how old he was, he said, "Don't know," and looked at his father, who said, "Going' on 14." (but he did not say how near to 14 he was). Location: Fries, Virginia

S.D. Ison and family. Father works some. Both boys on right of photo h...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2151. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Lloyd McAbee and Walter Brown (in front) and the rest of the family except the mother. The parents said they couldn't find the family record, that the boys were 12 and 13 years old. The father works the farm 3 miles away. Sister in the mill. Mother wouldn't be photographed. (See family group 2989 sic?). Location: Spartanburg, South Carolina

Lloyd McAbee and Walter Brown (in front) and the rest of the family ex...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2989. No state or city recorded on caption card; based on captions for photos with neighboring numbers. Credit li... More

Family living in the "downstairs" part of a tobacco barn. Father works at Fort Bragg. Near Fayetteville, North Carolina

Family living in the "downstairs" part of a tobacco barn. Father works...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Verona, Wisconsin. Loren Mead, sixteen, from Soyer County, Wisconsin, was placed on the Fleming farm after completing the farm short course, at the University of Wisconsin and can do only light work for which he gets thirty-five dollars per month. He comes from a 160-acre farm which is nearly all woodland and his father works in a sawmill. He has three younger brothers and two sisters

Verona, Wisconsin. Loren Mead, sixteen, from Soyer County, Wisconsin, ...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Lloyd McAbee been doffing several months in the Spartan Mill, Spartenberg sic, S. C. His step brother, Walter Brown been working for one year. The parents said they couldn't find the family record, that the boys were 12 and 13 years old. The father works the farm 3 miles away. Sister in the mill. Mother wouldn't be photographed. (See family group 2989.) Location: Spartanburg, South Carolina

Lloyd McAbee been doffing several months in the Spartan Mill, Spartenb...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2987-A. City recorded at top of caption card as "Spartenberg." Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collec... More

Mrs. Gay, 33 James Street, Attleboro, Massachusetts. and children: 5, 7, 12, and 13 years old, setting stones in cheap jewelry. There were 244 stones in this lot. She said they earned about $5 a week when all worked steadily. (One boy of 10 works, not there when photo was taken.) They work every day except Saturday (house work day) and probably not much Sunday. Work after school and evenings until 8 P.M. or after. The children were home with sore throat, but working industriously. Father works in factory. Photo at 4 P.M. Location: Attleboro, Massachusettsachusetts

Mrs. Gay, 33 James Street, Attleboro, Massachusetts. and children: 5, ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 3143. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photogr... More

Log home of rural non-farm family. Father works in a chair making factory. Orange County, North Carolina

Log home of rural non-farm family. Father works in a chair making fact...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Housing conditions in settlement at Seacoast Cannery #7, Eastport, Me., not very good. This is the home of the Goodell family. They live here all the year in these temporary quarters. The father works in the mill nearby. Four or five of the children are in the canneries. Clarence, 8 years; George, 9 years; Lottie, 12 years; "Makes a couple of dollars some days"; Violet, 15 years, "has made four dollars a day packing at times," (see upper window). Location: Eastport, Maine.

Housing conditions in settlement at Seacoast Cannery #7, Eastport, Me....

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The Norton boys and father on the way home to dinner. Smallest boy Edgar been sweeping 3 months in Saxon Mill, Spartanberg. Makes about 40 cents a day. His brother makes 60 cents. Father works in the spool room . Mother and 3 children at home. Father said Eddie is a hard worker. The mother told me later when I had to see the family record "The bible's here but the record, hits done got torn up." She said the boys were 12 and 13 years old. Location: Spartanburg, South Carolina

The Norton boys and father on the way home to dinner. Smallest boy Edg...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2976. City recorded on caption card as "Spartanberg." Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Lib... More

Lloyd McAbee been doffing several months in the Spartan Mill, Spartenberg [sic], S. C. His step brother, Walter Brown been working for one year. The parents said they couldn't find the family record, that the boys were 12 and 13 years old. The father works the farm 3 miles away. Sister in the mill. Mother wouldn't be photographed. (See family group 2989.) Location: Spartanburg, South Carolina.

Lloyd McAbee been doffing several months in the Spartan Mill, Spartenb...

Picryl description: Public domain image of boy workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Family living in the "downstairs" part of a tobacco barn. Father works at Fort Bragg. Near Fayetteville, North Carolina

Family living in the "downstairs" part of a tobacco barn. Father works...

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Verona, Wisconsin. Loren Mead, sixteen, from Soyer County, Wisconsin, was placed on the Fleming farm after completing the farm short course, at the University of Wisconsin and can do only light work for which he gets thirty-five dollars per month. He comes from a 160-acre farm which is nearly all woodland and his father works in a sawmill. He has three younger brothers and two sisters

Verona, Wisconsin. Loren Mead, sixteen, from Soyer County, Wisconsin, ...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s US industrial development, Second World War, US war production, indusry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mrs. Gay, 33 James Street, Attleboro, Massachusetts., and children - 5, 7, 12, and 13 years old, setting stones in cheap jewelry. There were 244 stones in this lot. She said they earned about $5 a week when all worked steadily. (One boy of 10 works, not there when photo was taken.) They work every day except Saturday (house work day) and probably not much Sunday. Work after school and evenings until 8 P.M. or after. The children were home with sore throat, but working industriously. Father works in factory. Photo at 4 P.M. Location: Attleboro, Massachusettsachusetts.

Mrs. Gay, 33 James Street, Attleboro, Massachusetts., and children - 5...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a school, preschool, children, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The Norton boys and father on the way home to dinner. Smallest boy Edgar been sweeping 3 months in Saxon Mill, Spartanberg. Makes about 40 cents a day. His brother makes 60 cents. Father works in the spool room . Mother and 3 children at home. Father said Eddie is a hard worker. The mother told me later when I had to see the family record "The bible's here but the record, hits done got torn up." She said the boys were 12 and 13 years old. Location: Spartanburg, South Carolina.

The Norton boys and father on the way home to dinner. Smallest boy Edg...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

George Clendenon, 2807 Waverly Street, Columbus, Ga. Mother said he has just reached 11 years, (last month) and he has been working, off and on, for over a year at Massey Hosiery Mill. He makes $5.50 a week now. Father works in mill. Location: Columbus, Georgia.

George Clendenon, 2807 Waverly Street, Columbus, Ga. Mother said he ha...

Picryl description: Public domain image of boy workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Log home of non-farm family. The father works in a chair making factory in Hillsboro. They keep a cow and a small garden. Orange County, North Carolina

Log home of non-farm family. The father works in a chair making factor...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

S.D. Ison and family. Father works some. Both boys on right of photo have been in Washington Cotton Mills, Fries, Virginia, for four years. When I asked the smallest worker how old he was, he said, "Don't know," and looked at his father, who said, "Going' on 14." (but he did not say how near to 14 he was). Location: Fries, Virginia

S.D. Ison and family. Father works some. Both boys on right of photo h...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2151. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Three pickers going home from work. Anne Benotte, said 7 years old. Brother Vincent said 11. Vincent picked last year. Inez, sister said 6 years old, "and picked last year wid me mudder." Smallest one not quite large enough to work. Father works in Parker Mills. Location: Parker Mills vicinity, Massachusetts

Three pickers going home from work. Anne Benotte, said 7 years old. Br...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 2515. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Mrs. Gay, 33 James Street, Attleboro, Massachusetts., and children - 5, 7, 12, and 13 years old, setting stones in cheap jewelry. There were 244 stones in this lot. She said they earned about $5 a week when all worked steadily. (One boy of 10 works, not there when photo was taken.) They work every day except Saturday (house work day) and probably not much Sunday. Work after school and evenings until 8 P.M. or after. The children were home with sore throat, but working industriously. Father works in factory. Photo at 4 P.M. Location: Attleboro, Massachusettsachusetts.

Mrs. Gay, 33 James Street, Attleboro, Massachusetts., and children - 5...

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Lillie Robertson, a young spinner in Century Cotton Mills, South Boston, Virginia Runs four sides. Sister Mamie (with cup) helps her and is ten years old. Baby doesn't work yet. Father works in wagon factory. Cotton Mills work is slack. Location: South Boston, Virginia

Lillie Robertson, a young spinner in Century Cotton Mills, South Bosto...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2204. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Dependent (able-bodied) parents. Family of Robert Barnes, E. 15 Magnolia, Miss. Father works irregularly. "I supplies places in the mill when others are gone." Been here two months, Worked a farm near McComb, where the children worked in the mill and went to school. Note how the ages jump from(1) Children not in the mill; who are 2, 5, and 8 years old.to(2) Children in the mill, (front row), said to be 14, 15 and 17 years old. Location: Magnolia, Mississippi

Dependent (able-bodied) parents. Family of Robert Barnes, E. 15 Magnol...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2098. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Child of defense worker from Flint living in Edgewater trailer camp near Ypsilanti, Michigan, where his father works at new Ford bomber plant

Child of defense worker from Flint living in Edgewater trailer camp ne...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A black and white photo of a baby in a crib. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a baby in a crib. Office of War Information...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Lloyd McAbee been doffing several months in the Spartan Mill, Spartenberg sic, S.C. His step brother Walter Brown been working for one year. The parents said they couldn't find the family record, that the boys were 12 and 13 years old. The father works the farm 3 miles away. Sister in the mill. Mother wouldn't be photographed. (See family group 2989.) Location: Spartanburg, South Carolina

Lloyd McAbee been doffing several months in the Spartan Mill, Spartenb...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2987. City recorded at top of caption card as "Spartenberg." Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collecti... More

George Clendenon, 2807 Waverly Street, Columbus, Ga. Mother said he has just reached 11 years, (last month) and he has been working, off and on, for over a year at Massey Hosiery Mill. He makes $5.50 a week now. Father works in mill. Location: Columbus, Georgia

George Clendenon, 2807 Waverly Street, Columbus, Ga. Mother said he ha...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 3420. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

A couple of kids sitting on top of a bed, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A couple of kids sitting on top of a bed, West Virginia. Farm Security...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

1 P.M. Family of Onofrio Cottone, 7 Extra Pl., N.Y., finishing garments in a terribly run down tenement. The father works on the street. The three oldest children help the mother on garments. Joseph, 14, Andrew, 10, Rosie, 7, and all together they make about $2 a week when work is plenty. There are two babies. Location: New York, New York (State)

1 P.M. Family of Onofrio Cottone, 7 Extra Pl., N.Y., finishing garment...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 3255. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photogr... More