West Virginia Historic photos, documents, and people

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Tipple Boy and Drivers. Maryland Coal Co. Mine, near Sand Lick, Grafton, W. Va. Boy with mule was afraid at first to be in the picture: another boy said he feared we might make him go to school. Locat

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Carrying-in Boy at the Lehr, (15 years old) Glass Works, Grafton, W. Va. Has worked for several years. Works nine hours. Day shift one week, night shift next week. Gets $1.25 per day. Location: Grafto

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Girls, boys and men, polishing and wrapping, working together: morals in glass factory are proverbially bad. Union Stopper Co., Morgantown, W. Va. Several very young girls and many small boys working

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Tipple Crew, (see photo #146) Turkey Knob Mine, Macdonald, W. Va. Oct. 1908 Witness E. N. Clopper. Location: MacDonald, West Virginia / Photo by Lewis W. Hi

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National Child Labor Committee. No. 92. Main entrance Gary W. Va. Mine. Miners going into mine 7 A.M. Boy beginning career as "picker." Will be in mine over 10 hours consecutively. 7 A.M. to 5:30 P.M.

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Upton Stopper Co., Morgantown, W. Va. Plenty of Small Boys The one by the machine is a "catching up" boy He seemed about 10 yrs. old. Oct. 1908. See 183. L.W.H. Location: Morgantown, West Virginia.

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Machine used in Gary W. Va. mine that digs the coal and loads it on the car. With it 3 men can do the work of 50 in the old way. Yet they use boys to drive and trap. Location: Gary, West Virginia.

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Home of Ralce Young, a prosperous farmer on Mill Creek, near Charleston, W. Va. Location: Charleston vicinity, West Virginia / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

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Trapper Boy, Turkey Knob Mine, Macdonald, W. Va. Boy had to stoop on account of low roof, photo taken more than a mile inside the mine. Witness E. N. Clopper. Location: MacDonald, West Virginia.