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Woodcut of a "trapper" boy working and a description of their required work
Woodcut depicting the work of a "trapper" and along with a brief description of their job.
Michael Mc Nelis, 8 years old, a newsboy
Michael Mc Nelis, 8 years old, a newsboy. This boy has just recovered from his second attack of pneumonia. Was found selling papers in a big rain storm today. Philadelphia, Pa, June 1910
Freddie the Newsie: 1915
An immature little newsie selling Saturday Evening Posts and newspapers at the entrance to the State Capitol.
Filling skins, sausage department, Armour's great packing house, Chicago, U.S.A.
Men and boys stuffing sausage skins at table
Trapper Boy in Turkey Knob Mine in West Virginia
Boy had to stoop on account of low roof, photo taken more than a mile inside the mine.
A group of child laborers at the cotton mills ready to begin their grueling work.
This photograph, taken by Lewis Hines, depicts a group of child workers at a cotton mill in North Carolina in 1912. It is from The Treasures of the Library of Congress. In a grander sense, this photograph represents child labor as commonality during…
A fifteen year old boy operating a dangerous boring machine at which he said a boy recently bored half his hand off.
To operate this machine (which bores a large hole in the spade handle) the boy has to throw his whole weight onto the lever which pushes the handle (and himself) up against the unprotected borer. A slip might easily result fatally. Boy earns $1.65 a…