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Elm Pool Room and Group of young loafers. (Outside.) Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Gold Day! Young workers running to work at close of noon hour at New Bedford Mill. Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Compare ages: Veronica Mikula, says 12 years old, 93 N. Front St., Steven Mikula, (in mill) says 15 years, appears less than 14. Photo taken in spare unused room too cold to warm. They crowd together in kitchen. Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Manuel Maderas (see 2733). Poorly protected from zero weather. Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Manuel Maderas . Poorly protected from zero weather. See 2733. Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Fred Arnold, standing at foot of steps at home of step-father with whom he lives. Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Flash light photo of John Sousa, his mother and some brothers and sisters. John is sitting. Crowded, dirty home. Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Adrian Lornager, 8 Bowditch St. (Apparently 13.) Has been sweeper in Grinnell Mill Nearly a year. Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Bad housing and congestion. Mikeal Wikbas or Wikras?, (about 14 years old) at doorway of home. 3 Hampton Court. Works in Wamsutta Mill. Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Jo Viera, Antone Mello. Same as 2744, 2746, 2747. Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Jo and Antone are standing apart from the school boys. Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts.

John Doyle (smallest boy in street), apparently 12 or 13 years old. Small and Wizened. Been sweeping for a short time in Wamsutta Mill in #3 spinning room. Lives at 3 Mt. Pleasant St. Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Main Entrance, Wamsutta Mills. Boy running is one of the workers in Wamsutta Mills. He is very small and appears considerably under 14. He has been dodging me for some time and did his best to avoid being photo'd. Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Boy in stocking cap (taller of two) is James Ryan, 89 Austin St. Has been working in Wamsutta Mills one year. The other is in photos I took inside that Mill recently. Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Boy in stocking cap (taller of two) is James Ryan, 89 Austin St. Has been working in Wamsutta Mills one year. The other is in photos I took inside that Mill recently. Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts

Main Entrance Wamsutta Mills. Young workers also indolescent i.e., adolescent and young girls running the gauntlet of vile-speaking men and boys. The remarks are sometimes beyond belief. Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Main Entrance Wamsutta Mills. Young workers also indolescent i.e., adolescent and young girls running the gauntlet of vile-speaking men and boys. The remarks are sometimes beyond belief. . Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts.

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

Joseph Lepage, 84 Boutwell St., (apparently 12 years old). Said he is a sweeper on first floor cotton mill, but I am not sure whether it is the Flint Mill or not. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts

General view of the spinning room, Cornell Mill, showing some of the young boys and girls employed there. Cornell Mill. See names on other photo. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts.

Manuel Miranda, 229 Alden St. Very young boy, has been doffer in card room of Cornell Mill for 6 months. Said, "I'm goin' on 16" (but didn't say when he would reach it). Cornell Mill. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts.

General view of weave room, Cornell Mill. Immediately after the photo was taken, the looms started up with deafening clatter. Cornell Mill. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts.

Cornell Mill. Smallest girl in group is Jennie Sylvia, 522 Alden St., a doffer in card room of Cornell Mill. I saw a girl, apparently as young, running a loom in weave room there. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts.

Killing time. Boys and men (many of them workers) hanging around Swifts' Pool Room. Saturday P.M. A common sight any day. Educational influences bad: stories and remarks will not bear repetition. Mill boys and men. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts.