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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men and boys working with steel rods and belt-driven machinery to make bolts inside an annex to the blacksmith shop at the McCormick Reaper Works. The fact... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Workers, including some boys, threading bolts with heavy machinery in the Nut and Bolt Department at the McCormick Reaper Works. The factory was owned by t... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men, women, and children - likely tenant farmers or "sharecroppers" - picking cotton by hand. |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Andrew Chippa hired on with Markle & Co., miners of anthracite coal to pay off his father's debt of $54 to the company store since his father's death in th... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter view from rear of a young boy operating a horse-drawn McCormick corn binder in a field on the Bachand farm. The boy may be Mike Bachand, or t... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Jake Rascof using a horse-drawn corn binder in a field. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View across field towards a young man sitting on a horse-drawn dump rake pulled by a team of horses. In the background are hills. |
| Date: | 01 05 1907 |
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| Description: | A photograph of an "Age and School Certificate" for "Peter Stacloroski(?)." The certificate is filled in by hand and gives the boy's address as "399 N. 25 ... |
| Date: | 01 05 1907 |
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| Description: | Photograph of an "Age and School Certificate" completed by a mother giving her 15-year-old son permission to work. The form reads: "THIS CERTIFICATE NOT T... |
| Date: | 06 12 1906 |
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| Description: | A document for employing children. The left side reads: "EMPLOYMENT OF CHILD. AFFIDAVIT UNDER ACT OF 1893. Name of Child_ Residence_ Filed and en... |
| Date: | 06 12 1906 |
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| Description: | The inside of a document for child employment. The document reads: "EMPLOYMENT OF CHILD AFFIDAVIT UNDER ACT OF 1893 FORM NO. 117 Protection Legal Bank... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| 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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