Children picking cotton

Children working in a textile mill

Children in a spinning room in a textile mill. Fall River, Massachusetts

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Children working in a Pennsylvania coal mine

Children working in a Pennsylvania coal mine

Children working in an Indiana glass factory

Children working in a knitters mill in Tennessee

Boys in the packing room at the Brown Mfg. Co., Indiana

Young workers in a glass factory, Virginia

Shrimp pickers, including little 8-year-old on the right, Mississippi.

Shrimp pickers, including little 8-year-old on the right, Mississippi.

7-year-old Tommie Nooman demonstrating how to tie a tie in a store window on Pennsylvania

Avenue in Washington, D.C.

Bowling Alley boys. Many of them work setting pins until past midnight. New Haven,

Connecticut.

Young boys working for Hickok Lumber Co. Burlington, Vermont

Some boys and girls were so small they had to climb up on to the spinning frame to mend broken threads and to put back the empty

bobbins. Macon, Georgia.

Young mill worker, South Carolina

A moment's glimpse of the outer world. 11 years old girl who has been working over a year. Rhodes Mfg. Co. Lincolnton, North Carolina