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Artificial flower making at 8 cents a gross. Youngest child working is 5 years old. Location: New York, New York (State)

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Artificial flower making at 8 cents a gross. Youngest child working is 5 years old. Location: New York, New York (State)

Artificial flower making at 8 cents a gross. Youngest child working is 5 years old. Location: New York, New York (State)

Artificial flower making at 8 cents a gross. Youngest child working is 5 years old. Location: New York, New York (State)

Artificial flower making at 8 cents a gross. Youngest child working is 5 years old. Location: New York, New York (State)

Artificial flower making at 8 cents a gross. Youngest child working is 5 years old. Location: New York, New York (State)

Noon. Girl entering the factory door, 526 W. Broadway, with artificial flowers made at home. Location: New York, New York (State)

Carrying the flowers back to the factory. Bleeker St., N.Y. Location: New York, New York (State)

Carrying the flowers back to the factory. Bleeker St., N.Y. Location: New York, New York (State)

Woman carrying flowers home, W. Houston St., N.Y. A short time ago she told me they were not going to make flowers any more. Location: New York, New York (State)

Artificial flower making at 8 cents a gross. Youngest child working is 5 years old. Location: New York, New York (State)

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Near Meloland, Imperial Valley. Large scale agriculture. Gang labor, Mexican and white, from the Southwest. Pull, clean, tie and crate carrots for the eastern market for eleven cents per crate of forty-eight bunches. Many can barely make one dollar a day. Heavy oversupply of labor and competition for jobs keen

Artificial flower making at 8 cents a gross. Youngest child working is 5 years old. Location: New York, New York (State)

Xmas baskets for the poor. Washington, D.C., Dec. 24th. Left to right: Lady Lindsey, wife of the British Ambassador, Mrs. Cordell Hull, wife of the Sec. of State, and Mrs. John Glisson, holding her daughter Leis, 5 years old. Lady Lindsey presented the the baskets to the poor at the Salvation Army today in place of Mrs. Roosevelt

Home work on tags. Home of Martin Gibbons, 268 [?] Centre Street, Roxbury Massachusetts. James 11, years old; Helen 9 years and Mary 6, work on tags. Helen said she could tie the most (5,000 a day at 30 cents). Mary does some but can do only 1000 a day. They work nights a good deal. The night before Helen and James worked until 11:00 P.M. See also Home Work report. Location: Roxbury, Massachusettsachusetts.

Mrs. Mary George, 74 Southbridge Street, Worcester, Massachusetts. Mother and Aaron, 13 yrs., and Elizabeth 12 yrs old, working on crochet slippers. The children work until 9 or 10:30 P.M. sometimes, and the mother later. Girl has so much trouble with eyes that she is very much behind in school. Mother has eye trouble, too. (See Report also.) Witness. F.A. Smith. Location: Worcester, Massachusettsachusetts.

Mrs. Larocca, 233 E. 107th St., N.Y., making willow plumes in an unlicensed tenement. Photo taken Feb. 29, 1912. License was revoked Dec. 19, 1911.Applied for again Feb 7, 1912, inspected Feb. 13 and refused Feb 14, 1912. Feb. 29, 1912 I found nine families (including the janitress) at work on feathers or with traces of the day's work still on the floor. Still other families were reported to be doing the work also, but were not home. When our investigator made her first calls here, she found the whole tenement in much worse condition (see schedule) Children had bad skin trouble, fever, etc. Grandmother was working the day this photo was taken. New York, New York (State)

Family of Louis Rizzo, a laborer who works some. The wife and four children (none could speak English at all) work on feathers and make about $3.00 a week. Been in U.S. five months. Do not go to school yet. Through an interpreter they said Peter is 15, Jimmie 14, Carbo 9 and John 7 years old; but those seemed to me too high. They were working in a very dim light. Location: New York, New York (State)

Girl - Baner? Carswell. Been in mill 4 years. 12 years old. Runs 6 sides = 60 cents a day. Soon will run 8 = 80 cents a day. Father said "the wife of neighbor made $7.40 last week, $1.40 more than her husband. Women and girls makes more than the men." Child 8 yrs. old helps sister. Location: Gastonia, North Carolina

Stringing milk tags (See 4916). Location: Newark, New Jersey

Mrs. Streety (a widow) and family. West Point, Miss. The four children on the ground work in the mill. Oldest makes 90 cents a day, - the next, 70 cents, - the boy 30 cents, ("He's slow," they said.) and Eva makes 28 cents a day. Eva is learning to spin. Can run two sides soon. She is 12 now (which is doubtful) but said that she learned to spin before she was 12. Location: West Point, Mississippi

Home Work, Somerville, Massachusetts. Crocheting on underwear. A common sight. 35 Horace Street. See also Home Work report about woman working here with running sore on limb. Location: Somerville, Massachusettsachusetts

Family of Louis Rizzo, a laborer who works some. The wife and four children (none could speak English at all) work on feathers and make about $3.00 a week. Been in U.S. five months. Do not go to school yet. Through an interpreter they said Peter is 15, Jimmie 14, Carbo 9 and John 7 years old; but those seemed to me too high. They were working in a very dim light. Location: New York, New York (State)

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