All Photos

Frederick Banfill, 91 Winthrop St. Name without picture, Ernest Silvan: suspicious, wouldn't give name. Laughing face, short, may be in group No. 10. Location: South Framingham, Massachusetts.

Joseph Richard (head only), 26 Wheatland St., Castle Hill, works in Spinning Room #1 fourth floor; been doffing three years; gets $7.80 a week now. Location: Salem, Massachusetts.

Smallest boy is Philip Beaulieu, 36 1/2 Perkins St. Works in #2 Spinning Room; been working two months. Location: Salem, Massachusetts.

Boy is John Parent, 14 Congress St. Works in Spinning Room #2, Fifth Floor; noon. Location: Salem, Massachusetts.

Henry Fourner i.e., Fournier?, 261 Jefferson St., Castle Hill; has been sweeper and cleaner in #2 Spinning Room two months. Location: Salem, Massachusetts.

Smallest is Albert Valbert (or Vallee), 14 Park St. Next in size is Adelard Dion, 1 Palmer St., works in #1 Spinning Room. Both failed to write their names correctly in English. Location: Salem, Massachusetts.

A young boy, unable to speak a word of English. Working here. A boy said his name is John Krakowski. Location: Chicopee, Massachusetts.

Andrew Stefanik, (on right hand). (see label 2637). Arthur Asslin, (on left) 118 Front St. Been working here one year. May be 14 or 15. Location: Chicopee, Massachusetts.

Joseph Polchlopek (alone), 37 W. Front St. Says, "Been working here two years and a half." (See #2638). Location: Chicopee, Massachusetts.

Joseph Maslak (alone), 3 Depot St., or 34 Front St., (see 2637). Location: Chicopee, Massachusetts.

Tony Soccha, 65 Exchange St., a bobbin boy in Room #7. Been there at work one year. Location: Chicopee, Massachusetts.

Group of workers in the Dwight Mfg. Co. Sophie Motralske, (smallest girl), 3 Lawrence Rd. Works in spinning room. Location: Chicopee, Massachusetts.

Joseph Mika, (smallest), 80 Tremont St. Spinning Room. Said, "Two years working there." (See 2637) Joseph Ciosek, (young), 74 School St. Six months working there. Location: Chicopee, Massachusetts.

Long line of boys and men at Vaudeville Show. Saturday P.M. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts.

Thomas Parsomidis, Shoe Shinning i.e., Shining Parlor, 8 North Main St. Boy said business is bad. Place closed most of the time. He and another own the shop. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts.

The Flint Cotton Mill, Spinning room. Small girls are employed here but not in evidence this noon. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts

Jo Benevidos, 5 Merion St. Curled up in a doffing box, eating his lunch. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts.

Young spinners in Cornell Mill. Posed by boss. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts.

National Child Labor Committee. #3026 Johnnie Beam, one of the young workers in the Pelzer Mfg. Co., S.C. Been working here over a year. Appears to be under 12 years. Location: Pelzer, South Carolina.

Eb Karns been "sweepin here two years" couldn't write his name, couldn't spell it. Appears to be under 12. Pelzer, S.C. Mfg. Co. Location: Pelzer, South Carolina.

Some of the young girls working in the Pelzer S.C. Mfg. Co. Not the youngest. Some of them seem surely under 12. All in the photo work. Location: Pelzer, South Carolina

Some of the young boys working Pelzer, S.C. Mfg. Co. Some of these workers seem surely near 12 years. May 27, 1912. Location: Pelzer, South Carolina.

Mrs. Eugene Lampron, Reservoir Street, Leeds, Mass., putting the bristles into tooth brushes in the kitchen of her home. She has been doing it for 9 years, and showed the effect of it. See also Home Work report. Location: Leeds, Massachusetts.

A husky tinsmith who works 8 hours a day, much of it out-doors. Compare him with some of our adolescent boys and girls who work in close confinement of the cotton mill 10 hours a day. Location: Northampton, Massachusetts.