Images of Child Labor in the Industrial Revolution

Images of Child Labor and the Industrial Revolution

1. Faces of Lost Youth: Adolescent girls from Bibb Mfg. Co. in Macon, Georgia.

2. Faces of Lost Youth: Doffer boys. Macon, Georgia.

3. The Mill: A general view of spinning room, Cornell Mill. Fall River, Massachusetts.

4. The Mill: A moment's glimpse of the outer world. Said she was 11 years old. Been working over a year. Rhodes Mfg. Co. Lincolnton, North Carolina.

5. The Mill: 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. Bibb Mill No. 1. Macon, Georgia.

6. Newsies: Michael McNelis, age 8, a newsboy [seen with photographer Hine]. This boy has just recovered from his second attack of pneumonia. Was found selling

papers in a big rain storm. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

7. Newsies: Newsboy asleep on stairs with papers. Jersey City, New Jersey.

8. Newsies: Fighting is not unusual here. In the alley, 4 p.m. Rochester, New York.

9. Newsies: Where the newsboy's money goes (an ice cream vendor). Wilmington, Delaware.

10. Miners: View of the Ewen Breaker of the Pennsylvania Coal Co. The dust was so dense at times as to obscure the view. This dust penetrated the utmost recesses of the boys' lungs. A kind of slave-driver sometimes stands over the boys, prodding or

kicking them into obedience. South Pittston, Pennsylvania.

11. Miners: Breaker boys, Hughestown Borough Pennsylvania Coal Company. One of these is James Leonard, another is Stanley Rasmus.

Pittston, Pennsylvania.

12. The Factory: Some of the young knitters in London Hosiery Mills. London, Tennessee.

13. The Factory: Boys in the packing room at the Brown Mfg. Co. Evansville, Indiana.

14. The Factory: A boy making melon baskets in a basket factory. Evansville, Indiana.

15. Seafood Workers: Shrimp pickers, including little 8-year-old Max on the right. Biloxi, Mississippi.

16. Seafood Workers: Cutting fish in a sardine cannery. Large sharp knives are used with a cutting and sometimes chopping motion. The slippery floors and benches and careless bumping into each other increase the liability of accidents. "The salt water

gits into the cuts and they ache," said one boy. Eastport, Maine.

17. Seafood Workers: Manuel the young shrimp picker, age 5, and a mountain of child labor oyster shells behind him. He worked last year.

Understands not a word of English. Biloxi, Mississippi.

18. Field and Farm Work: Three boys, one of 13 yrs., two of 14 yrs., picking shade-grown tobacco on Hackett Farm. The "first picking" necessitates a sitting posture. Buckland, Connecticut.

19. Field and Farm Work: Eight-year-old Jack driving a horse rake. A small boy has difficulty keeping his seat on rough ground and this work is more or

less dangerous. Western Massachusetts.

20. A Variety of Jobs: A Bowery bootblack in New York City.

Source

• http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/index.html