Massachusetts Historic photos, documents, and people

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15 year old sweeper - Spinning and Spooling room - Berkshire Cotton Mills. Location: Adams, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

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These workers went to work at 6:45 A.M. and many of them told us yesterday when we saw them go out at 6 P.M. that they "worked." Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts.

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Group of workers at Dwight Mfg. Co. Gottlieb Gasnick, (boy with sweater), 15 Gardner Rd. Worked in spinning room #4 for six months. Location: Chicopee, Massachusetts.

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Marian Viera - 101 Columbia St., Doffer - Says he gets $7.74 a week. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

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Antone Simmons, small boy in center of picture, 61 Katharine St., Ward 6. In the twisting room. Birth certificate makes him 14. Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts.

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Smallest boy in group is Duke Gray, 66 Coburn Street, doffs in No. 1 spinning room and has been there one month. Seems 13 years old. Location: Lowell, Massachusetts.

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Gloucester, Massachusetts. John Riberia, captain of the fishing trawler Old Glory, kissing his wife before leaving for the fishing grounds off the Massachusetts coast

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Going to School. About 14-16 years. Watson School - Flint Village. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts. / Lewis W. Hine.

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Going to School. About 14-16 years. Watson School - Flint Village. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts. / Lewis W. Hine.