Jo Bodeon, a back-roper in mule room. Chace Cotton Mill. Burlington, Vt, May 1909. Photographer: Hine, Lewis. Original… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8770023/photo-image-vintage-kid-manFree Image from public domain licenseNoon hour at Obear-Nestor Glass Co. All these boys are working at the glass works. East St. Louis, Mo, May 1910.… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8770111/photo-image-vintage-kid-manFree Image from public domain licenseSpinners and doffers in Lancaster Cotton Mills. Dozens of them in this mill, December 1908. Photographer: Hine, Lewis.… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8770033/photo-image-vintage-woman-peopleFree Image from public domain licenseAlberta Mc Nadd on Chester Truitt's Farm, May 1910. Photographer: Hine, Lewis. Original public domain image from Flickr https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8770011/photo-image-vintage-woman-peopleFree Image from public domain licenseSome adolescents in Bibb Mfg. Co. Macon, Ga, January 1909. Photographer: Hine, Lewis. Original public domain image from… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8770026/photo-image-vintage-woman-peopleFree Image from public domain licenseFour Young Boys with Foreman, Loray Mill, Gastonia, North Carolina] by Lewis W Hine https://www.rawpixel.com/image/14248721/photo-image-face-hands-peopleFree Image from public domain licenseSpinning Room, Flint Cotton Mill, Fall River, Massachusetts by Lewis W Hine https://www.rawpixel.com/image/14250365/spinning-room-flint-cotton-mill-fall-river-massachusetts-lewis-hineFree Image from public domain licenseLincoln Cotton Mills, Evansville, Ind. Girls at weaving machines; warpers. Evansville, Ind, October 1908. Photographer:… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8769810/photo-image-vintage-woman-peopleFree Image from public domain licenseTwo 7 year old newsies, profane and smart, selling Sunday. Nashville, Tenn, November 1910. Photographer: Hine, Lewis.… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8770005/photo-image-vintage-kid-manFree Image from public domain licenseSome doffer boys. Macon, Ga, January 1909. Photographer: Hine, Lewis. Original public domain image from Flickr https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8770024/photo-image-vintage-kid-manFree Image from public domain licenseMt. Holyoke, Massachusetts - Paper. American Writing Paper Co. Rewinding paper from reel, 1936. Photographer: Hine, Lewis.… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8803125/photo-image-paper-person-vintageFree Image from public domain licenseAt machine is Stanislaus Beauvais, has worked in spinning room for two years, October 1911. Photographer: Hine, Lewis.… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8769909/photo-image-vintage-person-factoryFree Image from public domain licenseThree pickers going home from work. Anne, 7 years old, and brother Vincent said 11, September 1911. Photographer: Hine… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8769740/photo-image-face-vintage-peopleFree Image from public domain licenseSome of the sweepers in a cotton mill. North Carolina, November 1908. Photographer: Hine, Lewis. Original public domain… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8770028/photo-image-vintage-people-kidFree Image from public domain licenseAbbe, 10 years old who picks 10 pails a day. Also two young Italian illiterates. Rochester, Mass, September 1911.… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8769917/photo-image-plant-vintage-womanFree Image from public domain licenseDoffers in Cherryville Mfg. Co., N.C. Plenty of others. Cherryville, N.C, November 1909. Photographer: Hine, Lewis. Original… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8769803/photo-image-vintage-kid-manFree Image from public domain licenseWoman pulling thread, 1936. Photographer: Hine, Lewis. Original public domain image from Flickr https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8770134/photo-image-vintage-woman-peopleFree Image from public domain licenseYoung band boy, and overseer. Yazoo City, Miss, May 1911.Photographer: Hine, Lewis. Original public domain image from Flickr https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8769889/photo-image-vintage-person-childFree Image from public domain licenseA mother hulling berries while she nurses her infant. Her other children sit beside her, also at work. Little Mabel Guthrie… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8770015/photo-image-vintage-woman-kidFree Image from public domain licenseAll these boys are cutters in a Canning Co, August 1911. Photographer: Hine, Lewis. Original public domain image from Flickr https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8769745/photo-image-vintage-people-childFree Image from public domain licenseMother and children hulling strawberries at Johnson's Hulling Station, May 1910. Photographer: Hine, Lewis. Original public… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8770120/photo-image-vintage-kid-manFree Image from public domain licenseBoys making melon baskets. A basket factory. Evansville, Ind, October 1908. Photographer: Hine, Lewis. Original public… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8769814/photo-image-vintage-kid-manFree Image from public domain licenseJohnston's Branch adjoining Saloon. St. Louis, Mo, May 1910. Photographer: Hine, Lewis. Original public domain image from… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8770123/photo-image-vintage-black-and-white-buildingFree Image from public domain licenseAll these pick shrimp at the Peerless Oyster Co., March 1911. Photographer: Hine, Lewis. Original public domain image from… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8769896/photo-image-vintage-people-natureFree Image from public domain licensePhotograph of a Young Shrimp Picker Named Manuel, 1912. Photographer: Hine, Lewis. Original public domain image from Flickr https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8770079/photo-image-vintage-man-workFree Image from public domain licenseCigar factory. Boys in foreground. Indianapolis, Ind, August 1908. Photographer: Hine, Lewis. Original public domain image… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8769898/photo-image-vintage-person-childFree Image from public domain licenseA few of the young boys working on the night shift at the Alexandria Glass Factory, June 1911. Photographer: Hine, Lewis.… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8769761/photo-image-vintage-man-black-and-whiteFree Image from public domain licenseArthur Roberts, shaftman on test drilling work at the Norris Dam site, October 1933. Photographer: Hine, Lewis. Original… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8770060/photo-image-vintage-person-sunglassesFree Image from public domain licenseScott's Run, West Virginia. Johnson family - father unemployed, March 1937. Photographer: Hine, Lewis. Original public… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8770072/photo-image-face-vintage-peopleFree Image from public domain licenseMaking dresses for Campbell kids dolls in a dirty tenement. The older boy, about 12 years old, operates the machine when the… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8769774/photo-image-face-art-vintageFree Image from public domain licenseMiner photographed in Scott's Run - As he dressed for a trip to Morgantown. Herb Venn, March 1937. Photographer: Hine… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8769975/photo-image-vintage-man-workerFree Image from public domain licenseEven the tiny one about 5 years old was picking. Some others picking regularly, September 1911. Photographer: Hine, Lewis.… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8769916/photo-image-plant-vintage-treeFree Image from public domain licenseYoung doffers in Elk Cotton Mills. Fayetteville, Tenn, November 1910. Photographer: Hine, Lewis. Original public domain… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8770008/photo-image-vintage-kid-manFree Image from public domain licenseMule spinning room in Chace Cotton Mill. Left hand - Leopold Daigneau, Arsene Lussier, Back roping boys. Burlington, Vt, May… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8769813/photo-image-vintage-kid-manFree Image from public domain licenseFrancis Lance, 5 years old, 41 inches high. He jumps on and off moving cars at risk of life. St. Louis, Mo, May 1910.… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8770132/photo-image-vintage-person-trainFree Image from public domain licenseGroup showing a few of the workers stringing beans in the J.S. Farrand Packing Co. Those too small to work are held on laps… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8769826/photo-image-vintage-kid-manFree Image from public domain licenseAndrew Stefanik, a bobbin boy, works as spare boy, November 1911. Photographer: Hine, Lewis. Original public domain image… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8769914/photo-image-face-vintage-peopleFree Image from public domain licenseMoulder's Helper, Baldwin Locomotive Plant by Lewis W Hine https://www.rawpixel.com/image/14256524/moulders-helper-baldwin-locomotive-plant-lewis-hineFree Image from public domain license8 P.M. and not yet finished. The little one on left is not yet 4 years old, yet she works on flowers all day and sometimes… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8769801/photo-image-face-vintage-personFree Image from public domain licenseScott's Run, West Virginia. Children of employed miners at Miller Hill, March 1937. Photographer: Hine, Lewis. Original… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8770082/photo-image-face-vintage-peopleFree Image from public domain licenseInformal group of Assistant Superintendents and Formen at the Norris Dam site, November 1933. Photographer: Hine, Lewis.… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8803119/photo-image-people-vintage-roadFree Image from public domain licenseMan rolling fabric, 1936. Photographer: Hine, Lewis. Original public domain image from Flickr https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8769965/photo-image-vintage-person-carFree Image from public domain licenseJim Waldine, 6 years old, been picking cranberries 2 years, September 1910. Photographer: Hine, Lewis. Original public… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8769806/photo-image-vintage-kid-manFree Image from public domain licenseA load of kimonos just finished. Girl very reticent. New York City, February 1912. Photographer: Hine, Lewis. Original… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8769789/photo-image-vintage-woman-personFree Image from public domain licenseAnother view of the interior of the home of Mrs. Jacob Stooksbury, Loyston, Tennessee, November 1933. Photographer: Hine… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8769820/photo-image-art-vintage-paintingFree Image from public domain licenseSalvin Nocito, 5 years old, carries 2 pecks of cranberries for long distance to the bushel man. Whites Bog, September 1910.… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8770125/photo-image-vintage-kid-manFree Image from public domain licenseAnnette Roy, the youngest worker, 7 years old. Picked last summer. Also Napoleon Ruel, 9 years old. South Carver, Mass… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8769741/photo-image-face-plant-vintageFree Image from public domain licenseButcher knife used by Ralph, a young cutter in a canning factory, and a badly cut finger. Eastport, Me, August 1911.… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8769743/photo-image-face-vintage-woodFree Image from public domain licenseOne Spigot for the Whole Tenement Floor, N.Y. by Lewis W Hine https://www.rawpixel.com/image/14256439/one-spigot-for-the-whole-tenement-floor-ny-lewis-hineFree Image from public domain licenseTeaching the young rider how to start. A common scene in Pool Room Branch. St. Louis, Mo, May 1910. Photographer: Hine… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8770121/photo-image-vintage-kid-manFree Image from public domain licenseThese little girls all work in Richmond Hosiery Mills. Rossville, Ga, December 1910. Photographer: Hine, Lewis. Original… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8770081/photo-image-vintage-woman-peopleFree Image from public domain licenseBelford Coldos, 8 years old, picking on Weeks' Bog. Falmouth, Mass, September 1911. Photographer: Hine, Lewis. Original… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8769758/photo-image-vintage-person-birdFree Image from public domain licenseRobert Black, John Black, Charlie Clark and Earl Lander, Dickson Mill, Laurinburg, North Carolina by Lewis W Hine https://www.rawpixel.com/image/14248635/photo-image-face-people-clothingFree Image from public domain licenseSome of the young girls working in the Pelzer Mfg. Co. Not the youngest. Some of them seem surely under 12, May 1912.… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8769912/photo-image-vintage-people-brickFree Image from public domain licensePayne Cotton Mill. Girl with drooping eyes and hands on hips has been helping one year. Macon, Ga, January 1909.… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8770029/photo-image-vintage-woman-peopleFree Image from public domain licenseScott's Run, West Virginia. Unemployed miner, March 1937. Photographer: Hine, Lewis. Original public domain image from Flickr https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8769973/photo-image-vintage-man-black-and-whiteFree Image from public domain licenseRose Biodo, Philadelphia, 10 years old. Working 3 summers, minds baby and carries berries, two pecks at a time, September… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8770064/photo-image-face-plant-vintageFree Image from public domain licenseSmall shack on Forsythe's Bog occupied by DeMarco family, 10 in the family living in this one room, September 1910.… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8770122/photo-image-vintage-kid-manFree Image from public domain licenseTwo women working with machines, March 1937. Photographer: Hine, Lewis. Original public domain image from Flickr https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8769804/photo-image-vintage-person-black-and-whiteFree Image from public domain licenseOne of the smallest apprentices I found in School Factory. Work being slack. Tampa, Fla, January 1909. Photographer: Hine… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8769987/photo-image-vintage-people-kidFree Image from public domain licenseMt. Holyoke, Massachusetts - Silk. William Skinner and Sons. Automatic loom (Skinner Mill), 1936. Photographer: Hine, Lewis.… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8769798/photo-image-vintage-person-black-and-whiteFree Image from public domain licenseOne of the young doffers working in Pell City Cotton Mill. Supt. of Mill is also Mayor of Pell City. Pell City, Ala… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8770070/photo-image-vintage-man-workFree Image from public domain licenseInterior of Wamsutta Mill, New Bedford, Mass. Wilfred, youngest boy, appears thirteen years, January 1912. Photographer:… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8769913/photo-image-vintage-people-childFree Image from public domain licenseYoung doffer in North Pownal Mill. North Pownal, Vt, August 1910. Photographer: Hine, Lewis. Original public domain image… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8769817/photo-image-vintage-kid-manFree Image from public domain licenseOrley Shrouce, 10 Years Old, 8 Ozark Mill, Gastonia, North Carolina by Lewis W Hine https://www.rawpixel.com/image/14248796/photo-image-horse-face-personFree Image from public domain licenseLacemakers (2 Women, 2 children), New York City by Lewis W Hine https://www.rawpixel.com/image/14250091/lacemakers-women-children-new-york-city-lewis-hineFree Image from public domain licenseAmelia Sousa, 12 years old, picks 22 measures. Balmeda, 4 years old. Children said she doesn't pick, but she was picking… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8769910/photo-image-face-plant-vintageFree Image from public domain licenseStreet Bretzau, who is a Tube bou in mule-room. Mule is apparently more dangerous than ring spinning. See bandaged finger… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8770078/photo-image-vintage-people-kidFree Image from public domain licenseBoys picking over garbage on the dumps. Boston, Mass, October 1909. Photographer: Hine, Lewis. Original public domain image… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8769815/photo-image-vintage-kid-manFree Image from public domain licenseFrances Frigineto, 3 years old, Marie Frigineto, 5 years old, latter been picking two years, September 1910. Photographer:… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8769874/photo-image-face-plant-vintageFree Image from public domain licenseGroup of boys working in Lancaster Cotton Mills. Smallest boy in middle said he has been in the mill off and on for 5 years… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8770003/photo-image-vintage-kid-cottonFree Image from public domain licenseAll these are shrimp pickers. Youngest in photo are 5 and 8 years old. Biloxi, Miss, February 1911. Photographer: Hine… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8770069/photo-image-vintage-man-workFree Image from public domain licenseMining equipment - conveyor, 1936. Photographer: Hine, Lewis. Original public domain image from Flickr https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8803131/photo-image-nature-vintage-coalFree Image from public domain licenseTony Soccha, a young bobbin boy, been working there a year, November 1911. Photographer: Hine, Lewis. Original public domain… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8769911/photo-image-face-vintage-personFree Image from public domain licenseSetting harness onto loom, March 1937. Photographer: Hine, Lewis. Original public domain image from Flickr https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8769966/photo-image-vintage-person-black-and-whiteFree Image from public domain licenseA part of the spinning force working in the Washington Cotton Mills. Group posed by overseer. All work, May 1911.… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8769894/photo-image-vintage-people-kidFree Image from public domain licenseForce working in West Point Cotton Mills. West Point, Miss, May 1911. Photographer: Hine, Lewis. Original public domain… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8769900/photo-image-vintage-woman-peopleFree Image from public domain licenseThree Young Coalminers with Mules, Pennsylvania by Lewis W Hine https://www.rawpixel.com/image/14257793/three-young-coalminers-with-mules-pennsylvania-lewis-hineFree Image from public domain licenseTextiles. Pacific Mills. Roving, a drawing-out process. (Front of machine), April 1937. Photographer: Hine, Lewis. Original… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8769818/photo-image-vintage-woman-peopleFree Image from public domain licenseA.D.T. Boys. They all smoke. Birmingham, Ala, November 1910. Photographer: Hine, Lewis. Original public domain image from… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8770077/photo-image-vintage-kid-manFree Image from public domain licenseTextiles - Wishnack Silk Company - A machine twister is shown being operated, June 1937. Photographer: Hine, Lewis. Original… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8769824/photo-image-face-vintage-personFree Image from public domain licenseJohn Madison and Floyd Root, Eurika Cotton Mills, Chester, South Carolina by Lewis W Hine https://www.rawpixel.com/image/14248660/photo-image-face-person-clothingFree Image from public domain licenseBoy plowing potato field with a mule and bull-tongue plow on steep slope on J. W. Melton farm on Andersonville, Tennessee… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8770073/photo-image-vintage-animal-horseFree Image from public domain license