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Sunday, 17 April 2011

Lewis W. Hine: An Enforced Rest


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An Enforced Rest. Harry Swope, aged 15, 426 Elm Street, Newport, Kentucky. Carrying heavy bundles of paper for a News & Stationery Company: photo by Lewis W. Hine, August 1908 (National Child Labor Committee Collection, Library of Congress)


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13-year-old boy, Edgar Kitchen, working for Bingham Bros. Dairy. He gets $3 a week; is not working for his own parents. Starts on the wagon at 7 A.M.; works seven days in the week driving the wagon, and on the farm six afternoons
. Bowling Green, Kentucky: photo by Lewis W. Hine, May 1916 (National Child Labor Committee Collection, Library of Congress)

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Helper on a dairy wagon, Bowling Green, Kentucky: photo by Lewis W. Hine, May 1916 (National Child Labor Committee Collection, Library of Congress)

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13-year-old laundry boy driving
wagon, Bowling Green, Kentucky: photo by Lewis W. Hine, May 1916 (National Child Labor Committee Collection, Library of Congress)

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Delivery boy for paint store, Bowling Green, Kentucky: photo by Lewis W. Hine, May 1916 (National Child Labor Committee Collection, Library of Congress)

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