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29 Heartrending child labor photos

photos such as these that remind us just how far we’ve come

By Nathan Johnson

Published 7 years ago in Wtf

photos such as these that remind us just how far we’ve come

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“Maud Daly, Five Years Old. Grade Daly, Three Years Old. Each Picks About One Pot Of Shrimp A Day For The Peerless Oyster Co. Location: Bay St. Louis, Mississippi”

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“Katie Kuritzko, 7-Year-Old Oyster Shucker. Has Mumps Now. Her 8-Year-Old Brother Also Shucks. Location: Dunbar, Louisiana”

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“Four-Year-Old Mary, Who Shucks Two Pots Of Oysters A Day At Dunbar. Tends The Baby When Not Working. Location: Dunbar, Louisiana”

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“Children Thrashing Corn During School Hours On A Farm Near Dublin. Many Such Light Occupations Fall To The Lot Of The Georgia Child. Location: Dublin, Georgia”

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“Bertha, One Of The Six-Year Old Shuckers. Began Work At 4 A.m. Maggioni Canning Co. Location: Port Royal, South Carolina”

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“Carrying-In Boy At The Lehr, (15 Years Old) Glass Works, Grafton, W. Va. Has Worked For Several Years. Works Nine Hours. Day Shift One Week, Night Shift Next Week. Gets $1.25 Per Day. Location: Grafton, West Virginia”

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“Small Boys Work At And Around These Machines Some Of Which Are Dangerous. Location: Baltimore, Maryland”

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“Frank P……., Whose Legs Were Cut Off By A Motor Car In A Coal Mine In West Virginia When He Was 14 Years 10 Months Of Age. Location: Monongah, West Virginia”

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“Daisy Langford, 8 Yrs. Old Works In Ross’ Canneries. She Helps At The Capping Machine, But Is Not Able To “Keep Up.” She Places Caps On The Cans At The Rate Of About 40 Per Minute Working Full Time. Location: Seaford, Delaware”

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“‘Basket! Five Cents Each!’ Antoinette Siminger, 12 Years Old, 10 P.m. Had Been Selling Since Morning. Location: Cincinnati, Ohio”

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“Greel’s Shoe-Shining Parlor, Indianapolis, Ind. Said He Was 15 Years Old. Works Some Nights Until 11. Taken At 10 P.m. Location: Indianapolis, Indiana”

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“Rhodes Mfg. Co. Spinner. A Moments Glimpse Of The Outer World. Said She Was 10 Years Old. Been Working Over A Year. Location: Lincolnton, North Carolina”

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“A. D. T. Messenger Boy, Indianapolis, 10 P.m. Location: Indianapolis, Indiana”

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“7-Year Old Rosie. Regular Oyster Shucker. Her Second Year At It. Illiterate. Works All Day. Shucks Only A Few Pots A Day. Location: Bluffton, South Carolina”

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“One Of The Small Boys In J. S. Farrand Packing Co. And A Heavy Load. Location: Baltimore, Maryland”

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“Callie Campbell, 11 Years Old, Picks 75 To 125 Pounds Of Cotton A Day, And Totes 50 Pounds Of It When Sack Gets Full. “No, I Don’t Like It Very Much.” Location: Potawotamie County, Oklahoma”

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“The “Carrying-In Boys,” Midnight At An Indiana Glass Works. Location: Indiana”

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“Photo Of Boys Working In Arcade Bowling Alley, Trenton, N.J. Photo Taken Late At Night. The Boys Work Until Midnight And Later. Location: Trenton, New Jersey”

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“11:00 A. M . Monday, May 9th, 1910. Newsies At Skeeter’s Branch, Jefferson Near Franklin. They Were All Smoking. Location: St. Louis, Missouri”

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“Young Doffers In Mollahan Mills, Newberry, S.C. Dec. 3/08. Location: Newberry, South Carolina”

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“Noon Hour In The Ewen Breaker, Pennsylvania Coal Co. Location: South Pittston, Pennsylvania”

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“Some Boys Were So Small They Had To Climb Up On The Spinning Frame To Mend The Broken Threads And Put Back The Empty Bobbins. Location: Macon, Georgia”

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“Arnao Family, Whole Family Works. Jo Is 3 Years Old. Boy Is 6 Years Old, Girl Is 9 Years Old. May 28th 1910, Before School Closed. Location: Browns Mills, New Jersey”

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“Accident To Young Mill Worker, Giles Edmund Newsom, While Working In Sanders Spinning Mille, A Piece Of The Machine Fell On To His Foot Mashing His Toe. This Caused Him To Fall On To A Spinning Machine And His Hand Went Into Unprotected Gearing, Crushing And Tearing Out Two Fingers. He Told The Attorney He Was 11 Years Old When It Happened. Location: Bessemer City, North Carolina”

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“Rose Biodo, 10 Years Old. Working 3 Summers. Minds Baby And Carries Berries, Two Pecks At A Time. Location: Browns Mills, New Jersey”

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“Newsboy Asleep On Stairs With Papers. Location: Jersey City, New Jersey”

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“Breaker Boys In Breaker, Hughestown Borough, Pa. Coal Co. Smallest Boy Is Angelo Ross. Location: Pittston, Pennsylvania”

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“5-Year Old Harold Walker. Location: Comanche County, Oklahoma”

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“Vance, A Trapper Boy, 15 Years Old. Has Trapped For Several Years In A West Va. Coal Mine. $.75 A Day For 10 Hours Work. All He Does Is Open And Shut This Door. Location: West Virginia”

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