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Can't believe how young some of these child workers are! And the amazing way the construction crews worked so high up with no safety precautions at all…

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Lane Mill: 1913 high-resolution photo

November 1913. New Orleans, Louisiana. "Group of workers in Lane Cotton Mill showing the youngest workers and typical of conditions in New Orleans. Violations of the law are rare." Photo by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size.

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Part of a group of itinerant cotton pickers leaving a farm at which they had finished picking a bale and a half a day. They live in these wagons. Note how many children - all pick except the baby in arms. The four year old picks fifteen pounds a day regularly. Seven year old boy picks fifty pounds a day. Farm near McKinney, Texas. 1913

Sadie Singer: Boston, January 29, 1917. Sadie Singer, 15 years old, racking flowers at the Boston Floral Supply Co., 347-357 Cambridge Street. Said to be the only flower factory in Massachusetts. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine. Labor Photos, Child Worker, Flower Factory, Child Labour, Odd Jobs, Labor Union, January 29

Sadie Singer: 1917 high-resolution photo

Sadie Singer: Boston, January 29, 1917. Sadie Singer, 15 years old, racking flowers at the Boston Floral Supply Co., 347-357 Cambridge Street. Said to be the only flower factory in Massachusetts. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine.

two young boys standing next to each other in front of a brick wall and door

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"John and Floyd" November 1908. Chester, South Carolina. "Eureka Cotton Mills. John Madison, 11 years old; 53 inches high. Beginning to sweep. Floyd Root, 10 years old. 50 inches high. Helps cousin spin every day after school. Witness: S.R. Hine." Photograph and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine.

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Tifton: 1909 high-resolution photo

January 1909. Two of the "helpers" in the Tifton Cotton Mill at Tifton, Georgia. They work regularly. Photo and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine. I can only hope that these two precious little girls aren't barefooted, but fear they are. And, I can only pray that their later years in life continued to reflect their adorable smiles from the attention of the photographer.

an old black and white photo of many children in a room with flags hanging from the ceiling

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Bean-Stringers: 1909 high-resolution photo

July 1909. Baltimore, Maryland. "Workers stringing beans in the J.S. Farrand Packing Co. Those too small to work are held on laps of workers or stowed away in boxes." Photograph and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine. (Shorpy Historical Photo Archive)

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December 1910. "Shorpy Higginbotham, a 'greaser' on the tipple at Bessie Mine, Alabama, of the Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron Co. Said he was 14 years old, but it is doubtful. Carries two heavy pails of grease, and is often in danger of being run over by the coal cars."

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