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Beggar girl who sings and begs down town day and night. Witness E.N. Clopper. Location: St. Louis, Missouri / Photo by Lewis W. Hine., May 7, 1910.

Messenger who is on duty from 8 A.M. to 6 P.M. down town. May 7, 1910. Witness E.N. Clopper. Location: St. Louis, Missouri.

7 years old newsie selling at 7th St. & Washington, Saturday P.M. May 7th, 1910. Witness E.N. Clopper. Location: St. Louis, Missouri.

Team work. Older brother makes smaller boy do the work. Small boy said he was 9 years old. Appears to be 7. May 7th, 1910. Witness E.N. Clopper. Location: St. Louis, Missouri.

11:00 A.M. Monday May 9th, 1910. Newsies at Skeeter's Branch, Jefferson near Franklin. They were all smoking. Location: St. Louis, Missouri.

Dona Marchland, 1187 Pleasant St., at door of home which is on top floor. Has been doffer in Spinning Room of Cartwright Mills 5 mos. Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Boy wearing jacket and cap, with hand in his pocket, standing outdoors Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Katie (13 years) and Angeline Javella (11 years), 311 E. 149th St. 2nd floor front, making cuffs, Irish lace. Income about $1 a week. Said they work some nights until 8 P.M. Location: New York, New York (State)

New York, United States

Carmela Picciano, 311 E. 149th St., 3rd floor rear. 12 years old. Making Irish lace for collars. Works until 9 P.M. sometimes. Dirty kitchen. Location: New York, New York (State)

New York, United States

Antoinette Fazzino, ten years old, makes Irish lace for collars and waists, after school. Her younger brother (by the stove) said, "Lace is too dam-cheap." Antoinette wears glasses. 303 E. 149th Street, N.Y. Location: New York, New York (State)

New York, United States

Home of family of "Renters." 9 members, near West. Everything run down. See Hine report. Location: West, Texas.

Girard farm, near West. A well-to-do French family. Farm well-kept. Location: West, Texas.

Thirteen year old boy. Exposed to all kinds of weather picking out slabs from chute with a heavy moving chain that carries up the wood. He gets $5.00 a week. Miller - Link Lumber Co. Location: Orange, Texas.

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Delivery boys for Hammel Department Stores. Location: Mobile, Alabama.

Shaw Cotton Mills. Overseer grouped all the workers, and several of them are surely under 13, and several began work under 13 last year. Location: Weldon, North Carolina.

Tolar, Hart and Holt Mills. All the children went in when the whistle blew, and I saw most of them at work the next day when I went through the spinning room at 10 A.M. Some of them are surely under 12 years old. Location: Fayetteville, North Carolina.

Tolar, Hart and Holt Mills. All the children went in when the whistle blew, and I saw most of them at work the next day when I went through the spinning room at 10 A.M. Some of them are surely under 12 years old. Location: Fayetteville, North Carolina

One of the young wagon boys. There are a good many of these at certain seasons of the year. Location: Birmingham, Alabama.

Tolar, Hart and Holt Mills. All the children went in when the whistle blew, and I saw most of them at work the next day when I went through the spinning room at 10 A.M. Some of them are surely under 12 years old. Location: Fayetteville, North Carolina

Shaw Cotton Mills. Overseer grouped all the workers, and several of them are surely under 13, and several began work under 13 last year. Location: Weldon, North Carolina.

One of the young wagon boys. There are a good many of these at certain seasons of the year. Location: Birmingham, Alabama.

Lumberton Cotton Mills. I saw all the children in this photograph coming out and going in to work when the whistle blew, and they said they worked. Location: Lumberton, North Carolina.

7:00 A.M. Sells before school, after school and Saturday and Sunday. Begins at 6 A.M. Been selling 3 years. Bridgeport, Conn. Location: Bridgeport, Connecticut.