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Noon Hour, Bosse Furniture Co., Evansville, Ind. Oct. 1908. Location: Evansville, Indiana.

Noon Hour, Republic Iron & Steel Co., Muncie, Ind. A few go home to lunch. (Couldn't get inside.) Location: Muncie, Indiana.

Noon hour, Republic Iron & Steel Company, Muncie, Ind. A few of the boys go home. Location: Muncie, Indiana.

Boy making Melon Baskets, A Basket Factory, Evansville, Ind. Location: Evansville, Indiana.

A Basket Factory, Evansville, Indiana. Boy Making Melon Baskets. Location: Evansville, Indiana.

basket making factory or plant

Lincoln Cotton Mill, Evansville, Ind. Girl at Slubber. Location: Evansville, Indiana.

Boy Sweeper, Lincoln Cotton Mills, Evansville, Ind. Carding Machines: Floor Slippery. (See report for conditions.) Location: Evansville, Indiana.

A Basket Factory, Evansville, Ind. Girls Making Melon Baskets. Location: Evansville, Indiana.

basket making factory or plant

Bill, a carrying-in boy, Canton Glass Works, Marion, Ind. Gets $.80 a day or night. Others below fourteen, too. Location: Marion, Indiana.

School #9 and #12. Some of the boys who work in the glass works at night and go to school in day time. (See report for names, etc.) Location: Marion, Indiana.

7 A.M. Boy ("Bill,") carrying milk. In summer he works in the glass factory and keeps two cows too. Location: Marion, Indiana.

Lincoln Cotton Mill, Evansville, Ind. Young Girls at Spoolers. Location: Evansville, Indiana.

Lincoln Cotton Mill, Evansville, Ind. Boy sweeping small boy picking up and carrying away. (Bad light and shaking floors.) Location: Evansville, Indiana.

Lincoln Cotton Mills, Evansville, Ind. Girl at Spinning Machine, the slubber. Location: Evansville, Indiana.

Lincoln Cotton Mills, Evansville, Ind. Girl at Stafford Loom. Boys sprinkling floor. (See report of conditions under which they work.) Location: Evansville, Indiana.

Lincoln Cotton Mills, Evansville, Ind. Girls at weaving machine; warpers. Location: Evansville, Indiana.

A Basket Factory. Boys making grate bottoms. In summer, many more young boys and girls. Location: Evansville, Indiana.

factory or plant

Indiana Mfg. Co. Peru, Ind. The old and the new. Old man has been there 33 years. Boy starting in, working with a board saw. Location: Peru, Indiana.

Indiana Mfg. Co., Boy taking boards away from "double cut-off" machine. A Suggestive Name!. Location: Peru, Indiana.

Noon hour. Muncie Wheel & Jobbing Co. Most of the boys were gone home to dinner. Location: Muncie, Indiana.

Indiana Mfg. Co., Boy working at circular saw. A number of young boys here working around saws, belts, planing machines, etc. Location: Peru, Indiana.

Folding Paper Box Company, South Bend, Ind. About 6 young boys and girls here, but could not get photographs. Location: South Bend, Indiana.

Noon hour, Singer Mfg. Co. Boys work there: girls carry lunch. Location: South Bend, Indiana.

Noon hour, Singer Mfg. Co., The Boys work there. Location: South Bend, Indiana.