Massachusetts Historic photos, documents, and people

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Eight-year old Jack taking care of the colt. See Hine Report, Rural Child Labor, August 1915. Location: Western Massachusetts, Massachusetts.

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Spooler Tender - 15 years Berkshire Cotton Mills. Location: Adams, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

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John Sims, 7 year old newsie, New Bedford, Mass. August 22, 1911. Evening. Richard K. Conant, Witness,. Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts.

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

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On board a fishing vessel out from Gloucester, Massachusetts. A Nantucket dragger, or New England type otter trawler, the "Theresa and Dan"(?)

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Boys "linking" bed-springs. 14 and 15 years old. Location: Boston, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine

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Boys "linking" bed-springs. 14 and 15 years old. Location: Boston, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine

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Woman's Union, Folk dancing. Working girls. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

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Vocational Printing. Math. class. See 4168. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.