Lewis Hine caption: Addie Laird, 12 years. Anemic little spinner in North Pownal Cotton Mill. Vt. Girls in mill say she is ten years. She admitted to me she was twelve; that she started during school vacation and now would "stay." Location: North Pownal, Vermont, August … [Read more...]
Joseph & Arthur Audette, Burlington, Vermont
Lewis Hine caption: All these small boys, and more, work in the Chace Cotton Mill, Burlington, Vt. Many of the smallest ones have been there from one to three years. Only a few could speak English. These are the names of some:- Lahule Julian, Walter Walker, Herman Rotte, Arsone … [Read more...]
Willie Tear, Washington, DC
Lewis Hine caption: 5 yr. old Willie, one of Washington's youngest news-boys. He is a kind of free-lance, helps other boys out, and roams around the city on his little velocipede, with all the recklessness of extreme youth. Gets lost occasionally. He was so immature that he … [Read more...]
Arthur Albicker, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
Whatever Happened To Arthur Albicker, the boy who was injured? According to National Child Labor Committee Investigation Report 480, housed at the Library of Congress, and reprinted in Child Labor: An American History, by Hugh H. Hindman, Lewis Hine wrote the following after … [Read more...]
Lillian & Sadie Bielski, Pass Christian, Mississippi
Lewis Hine caption: All are workers in a Pass Christian oyster cannery. Going home at 5 P.M. The youngest ones shuck before and after school. Two youngest are Lillie and Sadie Bilski, 8 and 6 years old. They shuck regularly. Location: Pass Christian, Mississippi, February 17, … [Read more...]
Joseph Velcich, Bay St. Louis, Mississippi
Lewis Hine caption: Joseph Velcich[?], seven years old. Beginning to pick shrimp for Peerless Oyster Co. Location: Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, March 1911. “My father once said: ‘People talk about the good old days, but Joann, there never were any good old days in my childhood. … [Read more...]
Sadie Kelly, Bay St. Louis, Mississippi
Lewis Hine caption: Sadie Kelly, 11 years old, picks shrimp for the Peerless Oyster Co. Picked 7 pots yesterday, 5 pots today at 5 cents. Picked last year. Location: Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, March 1911. "On my father’s side, about once a month, one of his siblings would … [Read more...]
Fugate Family, Hedges Station, Kentucky
Lewis Hine caption: Worming and topping tobacco. W.L. Fugate rents farm. Willie, 12 years old and Ora, 10 years old will go to Schoolsville School, Clark Co., Ky., but it has not opened yet. Location: Hedges Station, Kentucky, August 7, 1916. "I know he got through the eighth … [Read more...]
Marie Kriss, Biloxi, Mississippi
Lewis Hine Caption: Marie Kriss, seven years old, shucks oysters and picks shrimp at Biloxi Canning Co., when not tending the baby. Makes 25 cents some days. Biloxi, Mississippi, February 1911. “She said that when they first came here from Baltimore, they came on a train. She … [Read more...]
Alma & Joseph Alves, Biloxi, Mississippi
Lewis Hine caption: Alma Crosien, three-year-old daughter of Mrs. Cora Croslen, of Baltimore. Both work in the Barataria Canning Company. The mother said, "I'm learnin' her the trade." Location: Biloxi, Mississippi, February 1911. "It was hard times back then. That house they … [Read more...]
Newspaper Articles About Child Labor In Lewiston
Seriously Injured While at Work in Androscoggin Mill, Lewiston Daily Sun, April 19, 1906 Semi-conscious and his head banged and bruised, Master Russell, grandson of Cornelius Russell of Lincoln Street, Lewiston, was extricated from the machinery in the Androscoggin Mill where … [Read more...]
Claudine Abele, Seward County, Nebraska
Mona Lisa of the Plains I saw this photograph on the Library of Congress website in early December 2007. I must have stared at it for five minutes. I thought it was one of the most beautiful pictures I had ever seen. I still do. At the time, I didn’t know anything about the … [Read more...]
A Long Walk In La Plata (2015)
The clock behind the counter of the La Plata Diner tells me it’s officially tomorrow. The waitress comes over to my booth, refills my coffee cup and offers me a cinnamon donut. “It’s on the house,” she says. “Looks like you’re gonna be here a while. You’ve got a lot of pages left … [Read more...]
Sadie Mason, Lewiston, Maine
Sadie Mason: Research and story by Joe Manning Sadie Melva Catherine Mason was born in Maine, on August 12, 1892. Her father was John Peter Mason, who was born in Quebec in 1831. Her mother was Margaret Ann Walker, who was born in Nova Scotia in 1851. They married in 1866. He … [Read more...]
Lewis Hine In Lewiston, Maine
Lewis Hine caption: 6 P.M. April 23, 1909. A few of the young workers in Bates Mfg. Co., Lewiston, Me. Many more and younger. This mill is as bad as the average South Carolina mill in regard to child labor. In April of 1909, Lewis Hine took 13 photographs in Lewiston, Maine, a … [Read more...]
Eli & Morris Marks, Washington, DC
Lewis Hine caption: 9 P.M. Gum vendors still selling, near the National Theatre. Eli Marks, 505 4 1/2 St. S.W., (8 yrs. old, makes 25 cents a night.) Morris Marks, 10 yrs. old makes 50 cents a night. Harvey Schneider, 11 yrs. old, makes 50 cents a night, 209 -- 10th St. S.W. … [Read more...]
Oyster Shuckers, Port Royal, South Carolina
Josie, six year old, Bertha, six years old, Sophie, 10 years old, all shuck regularly. Maggioni Canning Co. Location: Port Royal, South Carolina, Lewis Hine, Febraury 1911. This is one of about 20 photos Hine took at this little hamlet in the South Carolina "low country." His … [Read more...]
“Livers,” St. Louis, Missouri
Who is this boy? Lewis Hine caption: "Livers" a young newsie. Location: St. Louis, Missouri, 1910. I was able to get a reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch to publish this photo and an article about my research. It appeared in the paper on Dec 28, 2007. No … [Read more...]
Catherine Young & Family, Chapter Fifteen: Final Thoughts
As I write the last words of this story, it has been almost 103 years since the Young family was photographed in Tifton. No doubt, it is the only picture that exists of Mrs. Young with her nine youngest children. We can thank Mr. Hine for that. With my research behind me now, and … [Read more...]
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