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Children Working In Vegetable Cannery

Date: 1912
Description: Children working in a vegetable cannery as the supervisor with pipe in his mouth stands over them.
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Boy Holding Strainers

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Description: Child laborer standing barefoot near a pile of shells and holding a strainer in each hand.
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Smiling Miners

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Description: Group portrait of smiling miners, who are all young boys.
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Glass Factory Workers

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Description: Group of men glassblowing. The boy at right is working the mold for the glassblower.
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Child Workers

Date: 1909
Description: Caption on back: "Textile factory, girl spinner at frame, boy with a waste cart. (Child Labor in Cotton Mills, 1909-1913)."

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