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Addie Card, North Pownal, Vermont: The Search For An Anemic Little Spinner

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...]

Filed Under: ADDIE CARD: The Search For An Anemic Little Spinner, LEWIS HINE PROJECT, New England Textile Mills

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...]

Filed Under: LEWIS HINE PROJECT, Newsboys, Newsgirls & Other Street Trades

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...]

Filed Under: Coal Mines & Glass Factories, LEWIS HINE PROJECT

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...]

Filed Under: Farm Work, LEWIS HINE PROJECT

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...]

Filed Under: LEWIS HINE PROJECT, Various Trades

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...]

Filed Under: Lewiston, Maine, LEWIS HINE PROJECT

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...]

Filed Under: OLD PHOTOS PROJECT

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...]

Filed Under: Lewiston, Maine, LEWIS HINE PROJECT

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...]

Filed Under: Lewiston, Maine, LEWIS HINE PROJECT

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...]

Filed Under: LEWIS HINE PROJECT, Newsboys, Newsgirls & Other Street Trades

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...]

Filed Under: Mystery Photos

“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...]

Filed Under: Mystery Photos

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...]

Filed Under: Catherine Young & Family, LEWIS HINE PROJECT

Order CDs Online

Order CDs of I LOVE BASEBALL with credit card, via PayPal. Please fill out the form below and click Submit. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized

Stories From The Dowlin Block, Chapter Four: Evelyn Langois; and William and Harriet Alderman (December 2013)

While searching for articles about the Dowlin Block, I ran across this account of an accident at its construction site. I immediately wanted to know if young Evelyn sufficiently recovered from the mishap, and how her life turned out. According her official birth record, Helene … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Dowlin Block

Catherine Young & Family, Chapter Four: The Story Begins

All of the information about this family is based on a combination of official government documents such as the US Census through 1930, marriage and death records, family history summaries posted on various genealogy-related websites, city and town directories, newspaper … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Catherine Young & Family, LEWIS HINE PROJECT

Hazel Family, Bowling Green, Kentucky

Lewis Hine caption: Hazel family (very poorly educated). Children have not been to school this year although living within 1 1/2 miles of school 5-7. Bowling Green vicinity, Kentucky, November 10, 1916. Lewis Hine caption: Mrs. J.L. Hazel and children stripping tobacco. A … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Farm Work, LEWIS HINE PROJECT

I Love Baseball

I remember my Grandpa, his hat in his hand, The Star Spangled Banner being played by the band, The roar of the crowd as the pitcher took aim, When baseball was just a game. I Love Baseball is a collection of fifteen brand new songs about the grand old game, written by … [Read more...]

Filed Under: BOOKS & CDs

Gig at the Amtrak

In Gig at the Amtrak: Poems & Discoveries, Joe Manning plays words like a jazz musician plays the saxophone — edgy, earthy, blue-noted, a little behind the beat — like Hank Mobley, who inspired the title poem. And especially in the poetry born of his journeys in North Adams, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: BOOKS & CDs

Disappearing Into North Adams

"I can sit there and see where North Adams used to be," says Peter Cronin, from the deck of his hillside home. Author Joe Manning understands. He has been writing about North Adams for nearly five years, and he achieved wide acclaim for Steeples, his first book about this small … [Read more...]

Filed Under: BOOKS & CDs

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