Sunday, June 30, 2013

30 Shocking Photos Of Child Labor Between 1908 And 1916

The impact of these images, by photographer Lewis Hine, were instrumental in changing the child labor laws in the U.S.

1.
Date: June 1910
Location: Seaford, Delaware.
The photo shows Daisy Langford, an 8-year-old who works at Ross’ canneries. She helps at the capping machine, but is not able to “keep up.” So she places caps on the cans at the rate of about 40 per minute working full time. That was her first season at the cannery.
Image by Library of Congress / National Child Labor Committee Collection
2.
Date: August 1908
Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
Young workers at the Indianapolis Furniture Factory.
Image by Library of Congress / National Child Labor Committee Collection
3.
Date: September 1908
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Lawrence J. Hill, 17 years old, had four fingers mashed off by stamping machine in a lamp factory.
Image by Library of Congress / National Child Labor Committee Collection
4.
Date: October 1908
Location: West Virginia
Two boys working at Lehr glass works.
Image by Library of Congress / National Child Labor Committee Collection
5.
Date: August 1908
Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
Noon time at a cotton mill.
Image by Library of Congress / National Child Labor Committee Collection
6.
Date: November 1910
Location: Fayetteville, Tennessee.
Group of spinners at Elk Cotton Mills. According to Lewis, the youngest girl hardly knew her name.
Image by Library of Congress / National Child Labor Committee Collection
7.
Date: November 1908
Location: Location: Lincolnton, North Carolina.
A young girl, worked as a spinner in Daniels Mfg. Co.
Image by Library of Congress / National Child Labor Committee Collection
8.
Date: May 1911
Location: Tupelo, Mississippi
Inez Johnson (9 years old) and Lily, her cousin (7 years old), both regularly worked as spoolers.
Image by Library of Congress / National Child Labor Committee Collection
9.
Date: November 1908
Location: Gastonia, North Carolina.
Workers on their way home from Loray Mill. The smallest boy on the right end, John Moore, 13 years old, had already been working at the mill for 6 years as sweeper, doffer and spinner.
Image by Library of Congress / National Child Labor Committee Collection
10.
October 1913
Location: San Antonio, Texas.
Three brothers: Boyce (10 years old), Lawrence (7 years old), and the unidentified youngest brother (5 years old), worked as newsboys to support themselves, because their father was sick.
All three would start work at 6:00 A.M. and would sell papers until about 9:00 or 10:00 P.M
Image by Library of Congress / National Child Labor Committee Collection
11.
Date: May 1910
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
Newsboys taking a smoke break.
Image by Library of Congress / National Child Labor Committee Collection
12.
Date: August 1908
Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
13 Indianapolis Newsboys waiting for the Base Ball edition, in a Newspaper office.
Image by Library of Congress / National Child Labor Committee Collection
13.
Date: July 1908
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
Francis Lance, 5 years old, selling papers on Grand Avenue.
Image by Library of Congress / National Child Labor Committee Collection
14.
Date: August 1916
Location: Warren County—Albaton, Kentucky
Amos (6 years old) and Horace (4 years old), worked every day from “sun-up to sun-down,” worming and suckering tobacco plants on their father’s farm.
Image by Library of Congress / National Child Labor Committee Collection
15.
Location: Comanche County, Oklahoma
Date: October 1916
Jewel (6 years old) and Harold Walker (5 years old), both picked between 20 to 25 pounds of cotton a day.
Image by Library of Congress / National Child Labor Committee Collection
16.
Date: October 1913
Location: Houston [vicinity], Texas
Millie, a 4-year-old cotton picker, on farm near Houston. She picked about eight pounds of cotton a day.
Image by Library of Congress / National Child Labor Committee Collection
17.
Date: February 1913
Location: Bluffton, South Carolina
Rosie (7 years old) was a regular oyster shucker. It was her second year working a the Varn & Platt Canning Co.
Image by Library of Congress / National Child Labor Committee Collection
18.
Date: January 1911
Location: Pittston, Pennsylvania
Breaker boys (their job was to separate impurities from coal by hand) at the Hughestown Borough Pennsylvania Coal Company.
Image by Library of Congress / National Child Labor Committee Collection
19.
Date: January 1911
Location: Pittston, Pennsylvania
Breakers boys at work at the Pennsylvania Coal Co. A kind of slave-driver sometimes stood over the boys, prodding or kicking them into obedience.
Image by Library of Congress / National Child Labor Committee Collection
20.
Date: June 1911
Location: Richmond, Virginia
Two Newsboys’ Richard Green (with hat), 5 years old, and Richmond, who was “8”.
Image by Library of Congress / National Child Labor Committee Collection
21.
Date: March 1911
Location: Dunbar, Louisiana
Rosy, an 8-year-old oyster shucker, worked all day from about 3:00 A.M. to about 5 P.M. at the Dunbar Cannery.
According to Lewis, the baby in photo would learn to shuck as soon as she could handle the knife.
Image by Library of Congress / National Child Labor Committee Collection
22.
Date: March 1911
Location: Bay St. Louis, Mississippi
Maud Daly (5 years old) and her sister, Grade Daly (3 years old), each picked about one pot of shrimp a day for the Peerless Oyster Co.
Image by Library of Congress / National Child Labor Committee Collection
23.
Date: November 1910
Location: Pell City, Alabama
Doffers at the Pell City Cotton Mill.
Image by Library of Congress / National Child Labor Committee Collection
24.
Date: November 1910
Location: Birmingham, Alabama.
Donnie Cole worked as a doffer (someone who clears full bobbins, pirns or spindles from a spinning frame). When asked Lewis asked his age, he hesitated, then said, “I’m 12.”
Image by Library of Congress / National Child Labor Committee Collection
25.
Date: April 1913
Location: Columbus, Georgia
Phoenix Mill was a “dinner-toters,” delivering up to 10 meals a day to workers.
Image by Library of Congress / National Child Labor Committee Collection
26.
Date: January 1909
Location: Augusta, Georgia
A little spinner at the Globe Cotton Mill. Augusta, Ga. The overseer admitted that she was regularly employed.
Image by Library of Congress / National Child Labor Committee Collection
27.
Date: December 1908
Location: Loudon, Tennessee
Like many young workers, this little girl was so small she has to stand on a box to reach the machine.
Image by Library of Congress / National Child Labor Committee Collection
28.
Date: February 1911
Location: Port Royal, South Carolina
Josie (6 years old), Bertha (6 years old), Sophie (10 years old), were all shuckers at the Maggioni Canning Co.
Image by Library of Congress / National Child Labor Committee Collection
29.
Date: January 1909
Location: Tampa, Florida
Young boys working as cigar makers at the Englahardt & Co.,
Image by Library of Congress / National Child Labor Committee Collection
30.
Date: July 1909
Location: Baltimore, Maryland.
Young workers stringing beans in the J. S. Farrand Packing Co. Those too small to work are held on laps of workers.
Image by Library of Congress / National Child Labor Committee Collection

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