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Child Labor Scholarship. Boy securing his weekly allowance from the New York Child Labor Committee, that permits his parents in school. June 1913. Location: New York (State)

Newsstand. Location: New York, New York (State)

New York, United States

Eddie Grimshaw, 40 Stoney Hill. Has worked as doffer in #8 mill for 9 months. Makes $5.25 a week now, hates school. Location: Chicopee, Massachusetts.

George Barcome, Stony Hill, Ludlow. Been band boy three months in #10 mill. Location: Ludlow, Massachusetts.

Eddie Grimshaw, (see #2662). Location: Ludlow, Massachusetts.

Frank Shefjack (or Szewcryk), 49 Weston St. (An infant.) Office boy in supt. office mill #6 since June. Location: Ludlow, Massachusetts.

Antony Gourek (or Makuck), 10 Weston St. Works in #1 Mill. Location: Ludlow, Massachusetts.

Joseph Dryjowicz, 11 Joy St., (in shirt sleeves). Has been bandboy for 7 months in #8 mill. Group of workers. Location: Ludlow, Massachusetts.

Josef Szlosek, 10 Joy St., (alone) Has been doffer in #8 mill for six months. Location: Ludlow, Massachusetts.

Mike Juriewier, 28 East St. Been working as Creel boy in #8 mill, Ludlow, one year. Very illiterate, wrote his name with great difficulty and poorly. Location: Ludlow, Massachusetts.

Louis Zabawa, 33 East St. Has been a band boy in #10 Mill, two years and six months. He says. Location: Ludlow, Massachusetts.

Sophie, a young spinner. Working in Spinning Room #7 with a profane group of girls. Location: Chicopee, Massachusetts.

Stanley Cherpiak, 13 Gardner Rd. Illiterate, works in Spinning Room #7. See #2648. Location: Chicopee, Massachusetts.

Tony Soccha, 65 Exchange Pl. (young). A bobbin boy in #7 room: been working there for a year. See 2641. Location: Chicopee, Massachusetts.

Andrew Stefanik, 4 Exchange St., A bobbin Boy (works as a spare boy) in #7 spinning room. See #2660, 2637. Location: Chicopee, Massachusetts.

Group of 66 spinners in #7 spinning room. They were the most openly profane and vulgar I have ever encountered in mill work. Florida St. Cyr (smallest girl), 24 Cray St. Location: Chicopee, Massachusetts.

A group of workers in Jonas Glass Works, Minotola, N.J. These are typical of conditions in Southern N.J. although one finds, occasionally, a few younger workers. Location: Minotola, New Jersey.

Noon-hour. Cumberland Glass Works, Bridgeton, N.J. Smallest boy in middle of front row and one on right-hand end have been in this plant four years. See also #957 to 971. Location: Bridgeton, New Jersey.

General View of Wheaton Glass Company. Location: Millville, New Jersey.

Noon-hour. Cumberland Glass Works, Brigetonsic, N.J. Smallest boy in middle of front row and one on right-hand end have been in this pant four years. See also photos #957 to 971. Location: Bridgeton, New Jersey.

These boys work off and on in Cumberland Glass Works, Bridgeton, N.J. Smallest boy is Geo. Cartwright, 401 N. Laurel St. He says been working off and on since 11 years old. Location: Bridgeton, New Jersey.

Scene in Cumberland Glass Works, Bridgeton, N.J. A young "holding-mold-boy" on left of photo and young "carrying-in-boy" in middle distance. Location: Bridgeton, New Jersey.

Interior of Magnolia (Miss.) Cotton Mills spinning room. See the little ones scattered through the mill. All work. See also other Magnolia photos and labels. Location: Magnolia, Mississippi.

Herbert, a doffer, and Walter, a spinner (learning , but runs about two sides). Works steadily in Magnolia (Miss.) Cotton Mills. Location: Magnolia, Mississippi.