Massachusetts Historic photos, documents, and people

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Smallest is Anatole Gernon, Maple St. Apparently 11 or 12 years old. Doffs on top floor spinning room of Glenallen Mill. Speaks no English. Location: Winchendon, Massachusetts.

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Smallest is Anatole Gernon, Maple St. Apparently 11 or 12 years old. Doffs on top floor spinning room of Glenallen Mill. Speaks no English. Location: Winchendon, Massachusetts.

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James L. Long, 10 years old, 39 Market Street, Northampton, Mass., and his cousin Johnnie O'Brien, 6 years old who is learning the trade. Location: Northampton, Massachusetts.

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Going home Saturday noon, Jan 6., from Nashawena, Nonquitt and Manomet Mills. Many of these smallest ones said, "Working in these mills." Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts.

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Interior Wamsutta Mill, Wilfred Pepin, 42 Bowditch St. (youngest boy, appears 13 yrs. old). Has been working a few weeks in Mule Room #4. Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts.

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Lawrence Burns - Doffer - 14 years. Pocasset Mills. 43 Langley St. Eye defect. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

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A group of mill workers. Albert Duquette on top. Eclippse i.e., Eclipse Mills, North Adams, Mass. 1911. Noon. Richard K. Conant, Witness. Location: North Adams, Massachusetts.

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Lena Rose, 7 years old. Lives East Falmouth. Picks 6 to 9 measures a day. Manuel Rose, 9 years old. Picks 9 measures. Location: Falmouth vicinity - Swift's Bog, Massachusetts.

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Folding filing-folders. Boston Index Card Co., 113 Purchase Street. Boston, Mass. Location: Boston, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.