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A 12 year old delivery boy for a Montgomery laundry. Makes $1.50 a week. Location: Montgomery, Alabama.

Table boy carrying out drinks from a Montgomery drug store. Location: Montgomery, Alabama.

Boy learning printer's trade. Location: Montgomery, Alabama.

Noon hour. Montgomery Cotton Mill. Investigator saw none under 14. Location: Montgomery, Alabama.

A 10 year old delivery boy for a small department store in Opelika. Location: Opelika, Alabama.

10 year old delivery boy for an Opelika drug store. Gets $3 a week. Location: Opelika, Alabama.

An 11 year old delivery boy for an Opelika meat market. Location: Opelika, Alabama.

Newsboy. Location: Mobile, Alabama.

Young delivery boy with heavy bundles. Location: Mobile, Alabama.

Young delivery boy with heavy bundles. Location: Mobile, Alabama.

One of Mobile's young newsboys who begins work at daybreak. Location: Mobile, Alabama.

2 of the young table boys in Burke's ice cream parlor. Location: Birmingham, Alabama.

Ollie Johnson and family. See 3844 and 3845. Location: Anniston, Alabama.

One of the youngest turners at work in the Crescent Hosiery Mill. Location: Scotland Neck, North Carolina.

2 of the youngest turners at work. The boy on the right is Joseph Allsbrook. Said he was 11 years old and been working steady for 3 months. Crescent Hosiery Mill. Location: Scotland Neck, North Carolina.

This group represents most of the workers in the Cape Fear Cotton Mills, except the very smallest. There were 5 or 6 apparently under 13. See North Carolina report. Location: Fayetteville, North Carolina.

Group of workers in the Shaw Cotton Mills going home. Several violations. Location: Weldon, 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.

Noon hour, Dwight Mfg. Co. This represents the average age of the children, not many of whom are under 14, and very few under 12. The mill has a good reputation. Location: Alabama City, Alabama.

Some of the youngsters in the Scotland Neck Cotton Mill going home to dinner. This mill has a number of children. One boy told me 10 years old, and one 7. Location: Scotland Neck, 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.

Workers in Victory Mfg. Co. See North Carolina report. Location: Fayetteville, North Carolina.

Young knitter in the Crescent Hosiery Mill. Location: Scotland Neck, North Carolina.

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