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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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Child Workers

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Description: Young girls working with textile machinery. One girl is standing on a box to reach her work.
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Child Laborers

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Description: Group of boys in work clothes assembled outside a mine.
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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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Child Mine Worker

Date: 1908
Description: Boy dressed in work clothes and covered with soot from working in a mine. He wears a hat with a rudimentary lantern on top.

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